The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-10
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.

EThe end of the rebellion-an awful end, as
the jackass said when his tail was bobbed.
UThe wife of Gen. Lee remains at Rich
mond; SO does the wife of Gov. extra Billy"
snith, and the redoubtable General Roger A.
Prior.
20 Grants army, after the occupation OF
Richmond, unlike McClelan's after Antietam'
were not delayed for want of shoes; nor was
shooting necessary to hurry up Lees men.
EAt Haverhill, Mass, Charles Z. Good
speed had his hand blown off above the wrist
by the premature discharge OF a gun WINE nrlng
a salute in honor of Grants victory.
sEThe Journal says that a lad named FIRE.
mont Whittemore of Auburn, had his hand badly
| crushed in the machinery of the Hill Mill at
Lewiston on Friday.
ETne report that General Russell, of the
25th Corps, was killed in the battle on Sunday,
is untrue. General Ord telegraphs to-day that
General Russell is not even wounded.--[ Dispatch
Boston Herald.
RM Mr.. Stanton has again insulted the chival-
airy" He has invited VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the
editor of tie Liberator, to visit Charleston and
take part in the celebration of the 18th inst,
and Mr.. Garrison has accepted the invitation.
The Lewiston Journal says Jonathan
Davis, Esq, of Webster, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Androscoggin county, and well known
in that section, died on Thursday, at the age of
about so.
R Kings Lady's Book for April is before us,
"a sparkling little gem; when mixedwith the or
binary magazines not unlike delicate pink in
the midst of bed of hollyhocks and sunfowers.
The little "Kings'' have become an institution
in our city.
The probability is that most of the cotton
mills in Lewiston viii shortly temporarily sus-
pend operations, as the rapid decline in cotton
and cotton goods renders it very unsafe to con-
tinue mills in operation, unless they are running
on contracts.
BThe Waterville Mail says Gen. Conner,
though still in hospital at Washington, is con-
stantly improving, and has good promise of
being again able to walk. He might now return
home with safety, but remains in hospital for
better surgical treatment.
GT The session of the National Unitarian
| Convention in New York, has not been perfectly
harmonious. 1t is evident that a large degree
| of latitudinarianism prevails in the body. The
| opening sermon by Rev. James Freeman Clark,
gave offense, and vote to publish it was carried
by bare majority, after long discussion.
VThe .dduertiser's appeal in behalf of dis
comftted rebels reminds us of that of the grace
less lad who having been convicted of the wilful
murder of both father and mother, when asked
by the Judge what he had to say why sentence
should not be pronounced against him, replied,
that she hoped they soould haze mercy upon
poor orphan"
EA gray eagle with bell, (every tapping
of his wings the ringing being heard) was seen
| by Mr.. Lewis P. Alexander of Topsham on Tues
day, flying over that part of the town nearest
the poor house. When the eagle crossed the
river, several others were seen in his company.
Mr.. Isaac Foster saw the belled eagle again, on
| Wednesday. Is he commissioned to ring out
p@ans, in honor of late glorious victories p
brunswick Telegraph.
u Mr.. E. N. Perry, Deputy Sheriff at Cape
Elizabeth, has laid upon our table boquet of
full bloom May flowers, fragrant as the breath
Of an early June morning 1t is but fair to say,
however, that they were collected by his daugh-
ter while in the bud, and have blossomed under
the genial influence of the sun as it came through
his parlor window.
RT The town of Oxford in 1860 had male
population of 643, and at the commencement of
the war had but l65 persons liable to do mill
tary duty upon her rolls. Since then, says the
| Democrat, she has promptly filed every quota,
with her ncitizens and furnished the army
and navy with 1856 men, from her population.
Within two or three weeks sixty more men have
been raised in this town; making more than two
hundred in all for the armies of the Union fur
nished by this little town up among the hills of
sold Oxford Few towns can show prouder
| ,ooord