The Portland daily press., 1865-05-09
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siders Napoleon more of an Autocrat than an
Author
% The Emperor Napoleon has given orders
for an entire revision of the Pilots Francais, or
charts Of the French coast
HThe total number Of men surrendered BY
Gen. Johnston, including those lately opposed to
Gems. Stoneman and Wilson, it is seid, will
amount to AZ, 900.
50 The Buffalo Express suggests as the Pres
idential candidate of the estate Rights Demoo
racy" in 1868: Gen. Robt. E. Lee,-unless pre-
viously hanged.
"Perley,' Of the Boston Journal, ex-
plodes the silly story that Booths head and
heart were placed in the Medical Museum at
Washington. His body was unmutilated.
80 Strawberries from Norfolk were sold at
Baltimore last week at seventy-fve cents per
quart. In the New York market, strawberries
were sold at one dollar and half quart.
EVA lately received English journal contains
an advertisement for plain cook, in which it is
stated that ''one who can neither read nor write
ispreferred."
~ By recent telegraphic extensions al the
White Mountain hotels have been put in COM
munication with "all the world and the rest of
mankind.''
81 The prospect for large fruit crop in
New Jersey is extremely good. The same is
true in Ohio, where the prospect for fruit was
never better.
"a The cheap edition of Mr.. Dickens works
promises to be great success. Between TO-
600 and 10000 of the 'Pickwick" have already
been sold.
@Pittsburg, Penn, is on the way to prog
ress. Hotel keepers in large numbers, have been
arrested recently for selling liquor ON the sab
bath.
EFT is said that Secretary Seward will pre-
sent sad spectacle to his friends; his face 10
cut and gashed, and his broken jaw disfgures
him.
9-It is reported that torpedo among the
coal, prepared to represent lump of coal, was
the cause of the explosion of the steamer Sui
tana, near Memphis, and the loss Of about 1900
| lives.
Harriet Hosmers Zenobia, to which more
than $4,000 persons have paid delighted homage
at Boston within the past few weeks, is to be
one of the attractions of the Chicago Sanitary
Fair.
1Iu Illinois wag advertises on behalf of
certain famous accident railway, that ssan ex-
perienced coroner and six jurors will follow each
train in special cars; also few surgeons and
reporters
RIt is reported by telegraph that George N
Sanders and Beverly Tucker have disappeared
from Montreal, and have probably gone to
Halifax; - to take the English steamer, per-
haps.
RThe President is said to be preparing q
Proclamation declaring all vessels sailing under
the Confederate flag pirates. They are to be
pursued, and if Acaptured to be treated as
sush.
81 Mr.. Bracket w. Clark was suddenly
killed on Tuesday week in J. W. Waldron's mill
in Pennington, N. H.. by falling on to the
machinery, or by being caught in it while
oiling. He leaves a widow and three chill
dren.
Some fuss is being made over s'the views
of the rebel General Robert E. Lee" The Con-
cord Monitor imagines that the incest ssyiew''
he ever had was that of Washington City from
Arlington Heights, which has become to him .
"dissolving view"
Enforcement has on hand several thousand
condemned cavalry horses, many Of them fit for
farm work, although unseryiceable for military
purposes. Sales are to be made by auction in
Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, Carlisle
and Pittsburgh.
R The Ken. & Port. Railroad has been fur
nished with four new cars of the most approved
monitor pattern and of elegant finish. One Of
them is ON the Bath route. The car from Bath
comes through now, and passengers from that
city do not have to change at Brunswick.
VWe are indebted to Col Hyde, of the LIST
Maine Veterans-noW in command of brigade,
We think-for copy of the s.Sirth Corps''-a
small paper issued at Danyille, Va, since the
occupation of that place by the Union
troops.
~ Col. D Cheney was buried at Lewiston
few days since. Four years ago, says the Jour
nal, his family consisted of himself, wife and
three children. Now the whole of them have
''passed through the valley of the shadow of
DEATH" They all died of that fell destroyer,
consumption. gc
~ Capt David Albert Patten Of the Bark
Sarepta, died on the 14th of Feb, at the early
age of % years. He was young man Of strict
integrity and high promise. but his first voyage
as master of a vessel was his last, and he is
buried in the sea. He was the son of Capt
David Patten of Bath.
R Says the Philadelphia Press, ssthe threat
ened and real evils from which we have suffered
in the last few years have been sufficient to dis
organize any government but the strongest, and
to dishearten any people but the bravest, while
the triumph has been SO complete as to madden
any but the most prudent"
@r The closing up of the Provost Marshals'
offices throughout the country, will stopa great
many leaks in the public treasury, and remove
almost countless running sores on the surface Of
the body polite. While some of these places
have been conducted in accordance with econo-
my and honesty, it is feared the usjority have
been no better managed than they should be-
EThe loyal men of the country demand the
Acknowledgement of all the rebel leaders. The
copperheads demand their restoration to all of
their former rights, as an act of cancellation.
Why notcompromise, by sending the rebels out
of the country and allowing the copperheads to
go with them The rebels might object to this
arrangement; we are sure no loyal man would. 5,
The Houlton Times says that gentle
man of that town in attempting to exhibit his
skill sin driving" mounted log in the mill
pond, when it rolled, and precipitated him into
the water, and he was barely saved from drown
ing by some person catching him by the hair Of
his head as he went down. His drive was soon
in. and he came out wiser and wetter man.
EThe Bangor Times speaks in terms of
high praise of Mr.. Murray's company in that
city, and says Murray himself is simply irresis
tible. Last evening Mr. and Mrs Claude Hamil-
ton, from the Western theatres, appeared, having
been engaged for short season BY the enter