The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-07-14
General Summary.

ever known.
There are 10000 acres Of abandoned lands
in Virginia. n WI
Tho Augusta Ago has resumed publication
under the editorial charge Of Mr.. ID. Clay.
It is said that the guerrilla, Champ Fergu-
son, now in prison at Nashville, has com.
mitted no less than 100 murders. o.,
Ex.Gov. Vance has been released from the
Old Capitol Prison on parole, and Is to re-
turn to North Carolina. IN FF.fT
A beautiful young English lady while on
her bridal tour in Switzerland was struck by
lightning and killed.
The National Democratic Association has
issued an address taking strong ground against
negro suffrage. ....... -.r
George F. Robinson. the bravo Maine sol.
der who wed the life Of Secretary Seward
has been given clerkship worth 81 200 a
year.
The Hon. Henry Winter Davis delivered
an eloquent address in Chicago on the 4th
inst, and took strong grounds in favor OF
negro suffrage and the Monroe Doctrine.
1t is estimated there are now q, 900 Amer
leans in Europe who spend on m average
so per day in gold, or nearly one million
and a half per week.
The people Of Charleston, s. c., notwith-
standing the presumed scarcity Of money,
have paid into the United States Treasury
over $50 900, on account of the direct taxes
for which they were in arrears. Mp. .r
Fourteen clerks. with Copperhead procliv-
tiles, were dismissed from the Interior Dc
partment on the lst instant, and their places
supplied by wounded officers and soldiers.
President Johnson's brother says he has
not seen Andy since he becme great man.
Hc is n plain, Woodworking, sensible old
man, perfectly plain in his manners and de-
mean0r. ....... ...
Wendell Phillips dissraccd himself some
DAYS ago by calling President johnson "a sy-
cophant of JEFF. Davis The man is an ass
that thinks he can accomplish any good end
by such malicious slang rs this.
The late Admiral Dupont has bequeathed
all his prize. monsy-S175 ,0O0.--to assist in
founding National Asylum for the relief
and education of tho orphan children OF de-
ceased soldiers and sailors Of the Republic.
The extensive Jarvis Steam Tannery with
Nil its stock of bark. &C., was destroyed by
fire in Gardiner on Friday noon loss, 500
600; insurance, $1,000 II was with great
difficulty that the adjoining mills and facto.
ries were saved.
There is scheme on foot in Richmond for
emigration tn Eucador and South America
Thoso who can are expected to pay tho cost OF
emigration, and it is expected that the Gov
eminent of Eucador will donate the nccessal.
ry lands to emigrants.
The cash balance in the United States
Treasury is more than ten millions greater
thanit was Mt the end of the last fiscal year.
The department now has gold enough on
hand to meet all interest accruing previous
to next February.
The Fourth was periodically celebrated in
New Orleans, Gen. Banks pronounced an elo-
quent grafton, in which advocated negr SUI
frage. and Frecdman's torchlight process.
sion winding up the ceremonies. H..
0llendorts the gramnarian whose death
has been already noticed, died in the fifth sto.
~ of great chocolate factory in the Rue
Richelieu. at PARIS. One OF his pet means
of economising was to buy his nswsp .pers
day old. Hv died wealthy. TT0 .a
Hon. John Sherman, who has examined
the matter, says the South will gain fourteen
now members Of Congress. and as many cleo
toral votes by emancipation. This comes
from counting all the blacks in the basis Of
representation, and not three.ffths as before.
A novel accident happened on the N. Y.
Central Railroad few days since. A hogs
head of molasses burst on a freight train and
besmcared the track for four miles, between
North Branch and White House. to such an
extent as to cause the following train to stick
fast in the glutinous mess. .r."
Judge Bingham reaches this conclusion in
his great argument in the assassination cases.
"that Jefferson Davis is rs clearly proven
guilty Of this conspiracyas is John Wilkes
Booth, BY whose hand Jefferson inflicted the
mortal wound upon Abraham Lincoln"
The Washington Chronicle asserts that every
man whose wish is not father to his thought
will emphatically accept Judge Bingham's
conclusion.
Now that tho conspiracy trial is over and
the sentences of the military commission ex:
ccuted, there will soon be some definite nc
ton concerning jeff. Davis. II 1t should DO
determined to try him for treason the pro-
ceedings will Of course take place before q
civil tribunal. but from present indications
it Is more probable that he will he tried by n
military commission as the leader or instiga-
or of the ,'pir,,y, Tor il is said in gov
eminent there is newly discovered proofs
against him in that connection.
Senator Sherman, in late spe'ch, is said
20 have made the following statement: "A
friend OF mine whose daughter is now Mt
Rome, received letter from her written
while General Sherman was visiting North
Carolina. She wrote: .Oh, father, how
fortunate YOU are; you know where Sherman
has gone but we are in deep distress. for our
next-dosr neighbor, General Mcclellan, is
croakinc. and saying that Sherman and his
army can never march through that country,
ard will be destroyed rs the Roman legions
were destroyed under Varus.'" .i''" ''
The Belfast Age says that On Friday morn
ing week, Mrs. Gnce White, wife OF Mr..
job White, went into the mill near the
house, and passing near an upright, revolv'
ING shaft, her dress caught in tho coupling.
and rhe was instantly drawn around 1t, and
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