The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-01-27
GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Signcd) u. 5. GRANT, Lieut.. Gen.
/. GENERAL SUMMARY.
The assessed valuation Of Pennsylvania !,
$685., SOL ,994.
The Savannah Post Office Is opened for resu.
lar business.
At sunrise, In Bangor, Wednesday morning,
the mercury Was 70 degrees below zero. Quite
o sharp mir.
The Charleston, 8. C f, Mercury states that q
large number Of reinforcements had arrived IN
that city.
y Mosby is at his fathers. and Is said to be
"doing WE'LL" He should stay there, for he
does badly everywhere else. He'd do better
still II no were with his fUrefsthers.
Senator Chandler pays taxes on the income
Of $50, 1886, the largest, with one exception,
paid In Detroit. The income Of MIR. Cas- ID
put down at s22, 700.
The U. 8. monitor Patapsco was destroyed of
Charleston at 2 A. NJ, 18th inst, while doing
picket duty, by n torpedo. Forty or fifty Of
the crew went down with her.
The hull Of the gunboat Indianola. sunk In
the lower Mississippi By the rebels, two years
ago, has been RAISED, and found to be In excel.
lent condition. She will DC rebuilt.
It Is estimated that not less than four hun.
dred newspapers have been discontinued IN
consequence Of the high prices Of material
and labor. ......
Deacon Charles Davis, sabbath school su.
perintendent In Beverly, has not been absent
from the sabbath school single sabbath In ff.
teen years.
Official returns show that the rebels have ov-
or 43 900 Union prisoners in their hands, while
we have over IS, 200 rebels including Il general
officers,
jackson Haines, the American skater, has
made $3.50 by his skating fsats at London,
and has gone to Paris ut the request Of Lou.
Is Napoleon.
The Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Patriot
says that two of tho largest cotton mills in
that place are to change their machinery and
make wooden goods. .....
1t is semi. officially announced that the to-
bacco captured at Savannah, by order OF Gen.
Sherman, ia to be reserved for use Of the sol.
diers, the General remarking that their valor
won It. The soldiers accept 1t with rejoicing.
Can't. Robert Small. who surrendered the
steamer Planter to our forces. and who IL now
IN command Of United States gunboat, was
turned out of the cars in Philadelphis, o few
days ago, on account OF his color.
stephen Fellows, soldier of the war ofiSl2.
died In Levant, Me-, on the 10th inst, at the
age ofsi years. He was a good man and .
brave soldier-was in the battle OF Lundy's
Lane, where be was wounded by q shell.
Probably the largest salary paid to any
church singer in this country, Is received by
boy but twelve years old-Master Richard Co.
ker of Trinity Choir, New York. This salary
Is one thousand dollars per anuum.
Valuable copper ore has been found in Croy-
don. N. H., In large quantities. There are ma
ms copperheads In New Hampshire. and per.
hans Frank Pierce and his friends have been
looking hard at the land in Croydon, aud 30
infected 1t.
A young woman Of Newcastle, N. II. named
Decoff, was making her bridal dress one even
ing last week, when her clothes were set on
fire by the overturning OF kerosene lamp,
and she was 30 severely burned that she died
on Tuesday.
IL
mt Fort Fisher, the agents Of the United States
Sanitary Commission effected landing on the
day Of the battle, ard were on the hospital
ground with ample supplies several hours be.
fore the wounded arrived.
The Heralds Fort Fisher correspondence says
the Tooth and ll5th New York and 4th New
Hampshire regiments we're near the magazine
which exploded In Fort Fisher. Between 100
and 200 lives were lost. No list has yet been
furnished.
A young woman living in one OF the into
rior towns Of Pennsylvania, swallowed pin
one day last week. which lodged somewhere
In her throat. She suffered excruciniing ag-
ony, but could End no relief, and died few
days afterward.. ,..1.. a7.
The first decision of Chief Justice Chase.
in the Supreme Court Of tho United States.
was that West Virginia il legally state.
The decision was given on the question plac.
ing the name of the state on tho list when
calling the docket. h.f .a-a ''. =.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was asked to write .
short poem for IN inaugural exhibition held In
St. Croix. Hall Calais He excused himself.
but sent two copies Of his works, with bis por-
trait and autograph In each. These books were
sold and rcsold until they brought finally $40,
aud his reply brought $40 more. ,-
The Richmond Wing reports destructive
Ara at Augusta, Ga, on Sunday night, burn
inn over four hundred bales OF cotton. II On
Monday evening another fire occurred nc Ham.
burg. opposite Augusta, burning from 1900 TO
1000 bales Of cotton belonging 10 the rebel Gov
eminent.
The resolutions Of the rebel Senate creating
ths Office OF Commander in-Chief OF oil the or.
mics OF the rebel States and recommending
Gen. Johnston to DO re.instated, have been
paused In that branch Of the rebcl Congress
This will, II carried into effect, mako Lee the
Commander n.Chief Of oil the rsbel armies.
Mr.. Blair Is on . second visit to Richmond,
which increases tho Impression that peace will
come with spring. The rebel Congress seems
inclined to make war on Mr.. Davis but We
must not found too much upon the remarks Of
some members OF that body, as they may not
speak its sentiments.
Gen. Mcclellan will sail for Europe on tho
steamer China in February, having declined
the offer Of private vessel from his friends.
lie expects to remain two years. and will de.
vote himself to the study of military science.
II, during the prosecution Of his new stud.
lee, he can discover the point at which Gen.
eral has men enough'to advance on the enc
my. no will have acquired valuable informa.
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