The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-05-12
General Summary.

A sculptor of some notoriety and no OK
cess of loyalty applied to Secretary Stantpr
Tor permission to take cast OF Booth head
The blunt war minister replied -" Bette,
take care OF your own head" ..
The Times Washington disp,tch says the
Government has information Of over half q
million bales OF cotton being in the State o.
Alabama, which will soon be brought to Mo
bile by the owners.
The 3lst and 32l Maine regiments, viii cf
were consolidated some months ago, have
been ordered home on sixty days furlough
with hall ply and half rations.
A correspondent says the confession Of Har
rold, and documentary evidence found on
Booths body, fastens beyond cayil the plo
and its full sanction upon jeff DAVIS and hi:
Canada Commissioners.
II is curious fact that Montgomery, the frs
rebel capital, and Richmond the last rebel cap
ital fell into our hands within ~ hours OF each
other. r. .r.. r.
Four millions Of certificates of Indebtedness
were redeemed In April.
BENJAMIN G. Harris, Representative in Con.
grcss from the Fifth Maryland District, has
been put upon his trial in Washington, for aid.
ing and abetting the rebellion.
Alargc number of designations of the army
and navy oth;e are now daily being resolved
at the War and Nrvy Departments. which are
being accepted as fast rs received, the Govern
ment having deoiiel to reduce the land and na
val forces as speedily as possible.
A dispatch from Knoxville states that jeff
Davis was in Yorkville, s. c., on the 2Sth ult.,
aud only left one day before Slonemans caval.
ny entered the place. lie IL said TO be accom-
panied by a guard OF 1000 cavalry and sever
al of the Rebel learjers, and hardened by a
train of IL wagons.
The steamer Hamilton, from New Orleans,
with the I'd Michigan Cavalry on board, was
sunk by the explosion of torpedo In the Low
CIR Gap channel entrance to Mobile. Thirteen
were killed and wounded by the casualty.
Stoneman's cavalry Is now In the Valley OF
the Saluda, with headquarters at Anderson, 8.
G, scouting towards Augusta, In hopes OF find.
ing the fugitive head Of the ex.Confederacy.
Tho captain and 90 of the crew of the ram
Webb we're captured by the 10th Illinois Caval-
~, and brought into New Orleans, on the 18th
ult.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has been invited oy
Committee Of citizens OF Bangor, TO deliver q
Eulogy In that city on the life aud character OF
President Lincoln ut some future day. Sod.
Senator Sumner has accepted an invitation to
deliver Eulogy on the life ani public services
Of President Lincoln, In Boston, on the first Of
June. .f s n
Applications for National Banks at Richmond,
Petersburg, Savannah anl Charlerton, have al.
ready been made to the Treasury Department.
Sergeant Corbett. the man who killed Booth.
writes from Washington that his life has been
threatened "in the most bloodthirsty manner"
Tho Presidents mansion Is to be rcpaintcd
and refurnished throughout before II will DO
taken possession Of BY President Johnson.
The death Of John Bell, OF Tennessee, who
Was In 1860 candidate for the Presidency,
with Edward Everett for the Vice Presidency,
Is reported by tho Nashville Times as having
occurred In Alabama about three weeks ago.
A farmer from near Point Lookout has been
carried to Washington under the charge Of hav-
Ing paid fellow rebel 800 for numbering .
Union soldier. Tho wretch seriously asked per.
mission TO take the oath OF allegiance and arm
ncsty and he dichargcd. Tho provost-Mar-
tial holds this phi q In abatement under consid-
Grafton, aud, the criminal IN irons. +; sae6 i.
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