The Portland daily press., 1865-05-20
ORIGINAL AND SELEo1.ED.

VIZ W Y. " everett OF Bangor, 10 10 denver
tneeplogy on the late President Lincoln in that
city on the lst of June.
20 GOV. Brown Of Georgia. is reported
among the latest arrivals at the Old Capitol
prison in Washington.
9The Legislature Of Connecticut proposes
to have portrait of President Lincoln painted
for the Senate Chamber. III y ssI
20 The Lewiston Journal says John F. Rich,
Esq- of New Portland, formerly of this city,
has been rendered Consulship to France.
New Portland observes the coming Ma
tlonal mourning day, with an grafton by Rev.
/ K. B. Howard of Pennington. s NN
20 First page-"The Lost child,' editorial.
and sour New House." Last page Hard on
Jefferson D., and .'The Extremes both poeti-
cal; also miscellany. aS s4e3a88h4
ID Since JEFF. Davis donned the petticoats q
suspicion has been awakened thathe is woman.
A wag suggests that his approaching confns-
ment gives confirmation to this suspicion.
80 Five young men of Biddeford, were CAP
sized in q sail-boat while going to the "Pool''
the other day, and were rescued from drowning
by a boat from the shore, s a.ss gef
#-A man by the name Of George Weymouth
Of SkoWhegan, died at the Williams House,
Wateryille, last Monday, from the effects of a
quantity of Saltpetre which he had taken.
BThe Mobile Daily .Nsws = Mr.. Hailes
paper-comes to us enlarged and in every way
improved, printed on good paper, and with new
type 1t makes very neat appearance.
II By invitation of the Mayor and City
Council of Bath, Rev. s. F. Dixie, of the Swe-
denborgian church, will deliver an eulogy on
the late President Lincoln, in that city, june 1st
% Rev. D. T. Stevens of Auburn, Universe
list. has been engaged to preach at Livermore
Falls one half Of the time during the ensuing
| year. 1858 ass4M
20 Rev. Selden Gilbert, pastor of the UNI
yersalist church in Norway, has received and
accepted an invitation to take the pastoral charge
Of the Universalist society in Melrose, Mass,
and viii remove there about the 1st of June.
I R One of our soldiers sent some Confederate
money to friend in this city and requested him
TO subscribe for the .4rgus, but the money was
refused and the soldier must get along without
that journal.
80 The danger of getting out of guns in this
country is not imminent There are six hun
dred and thirty-thFee Thousand nine hundred
and twenty-four new rifed muskets in the ar
Emory at Springfield, Mass. .eEiF
Gen. Howard, Commissioner Of Freed
mems Bureau, closes his first circular letter With
this remark " The negro should understand
that he is really free, but on no account, if able
to work, should he harbor the thought that the
Government will support HMM idleness.'
RA contemporary says it has been satisfac-
torily demonstrated that sixteen Maine regi-
-ments, twice as many from Massachusetts,, all
the negro troops, were severalIy, by regiments,
the first to raise the Union flag on the capture of
Richmond $50 vFay4~Fr
81 Speaking of the lately adjourned Massa-
chusetts Legislature, the Haverhill Publisher
says it is considered to have been, as whole,
one of the most useless Of any of its class which
has ever assembled, and that the State and the
world would be no worse off If it did not con-
j vene again for ten years to Gene. agTY
% The .advertiser winces under the repro
duction of its record, and suggests that the
perusal of its files can afford but small comfort.
That's SO. In searching the records of copper
head editors man is something like detec-
tive on the track of big rogue in the purlieus
of St. Giles. snssEa
4A recent Washington dispatch says A
long cabinet meeting was held again to- day.
The question of negro suffrage at the South
i was the topic of discussion. 1t is asserted that
President johnson favors extending the cleo
tive franchise to all loyal citizens, and with
drawing the privilege from every traitor.
20 The Democrat says that Rev. VIM. Beavins,
lately pastor of the Baptist Church, at North
Paris and Bryant's Pond, has accepted an invi-
tation from the Baptist Church at Wayne. Also,
that Rev. Carleton Parker has become the pas
tor of the Baptist Church at Canton Mills. and
that Rev. Mr.. Whittemore, formerly of Canton,
has removed to West Auburn.
When the news of the assassination of
President Lincoln reached London, the Times
issued an extra which readily sold at half
crown each 1t was also read aloud in the streets,
in doorWays and the portcoes. of public build
ings to rapidly increasing crowds of eager and
excited listeners. There was tremendous excite
ment and all this in "undemonstrative London"
T. 80 The Biddeford Union says P. 7. Barnum
has written Mayor Shaw of that city, offering
him fifteen thousand dollars and expenses for
one years services as manager of an exhibition
he is about sending to Europe. Biddeford is
the only Democratic city in the state, and it is
just like Barnum to try and get hold of its
mayor .aAA9
~ The Massachusetts legislature has ad-
journed, after session of four and hall
months. 1t did not adjourn, however, till it
voted its members q compensation of four dol
lars day, amounting to an aggregate of $780,
600. The Boston .Aduertiser says: 'sThe in
trepid resolution with which both houses chung
to the idea Of four dollars per diem is by all odds
the most vigorous manifestation of the sessio a. "
B Riding two horses at the same time is a
dangerous feat that few can safely perform. A
gentleman in Brunswick has recently attempted
this masterpiece Of horsemanship-us wild
Secession nag in that town and a Union colt in
this city, and the result is severe fall with terri
BILE damage to his-temper. Atleast SO we judge
fromthe last number of the Telegraph We
would recommend bottle of Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup. a ,f.7 Ege 50
+ % Referring to the anti-slavery amendment
of the Constitution the Manchester, N. H..
Union says: sThis question will come before
our Legislature next June. We hope every
Democrat viii feel just pride in recording his
name against measure so subversive of the
principles upon which our government was
founded" Democracy in the year 1865, oppos-
ing the march of Freedom, and consenting to
be the guardian of slavery Shade of Thomas
Jefferson peg
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i Letter from the State Capital.