The Portland daily press., 1865-06-05
oRIGLNAL And SELECTED.

I'd from Nashville Wednesday night.
u The crowd at the conspiracy trial grows
sTger and larger each day.
RProf Chadbourne has closed his connec-
4 on with Bowdoin College Il
R Unable to impart the information sought
II byrsQaerist''
% Gen Sherman was in New York on Friday,
IN his way to Chicago.
90 The New York "Round Table"-a politi-
so-literary psper-is TO be revived f
81 grand temperance celebration is TO take
lace N Boston on the 18th of June.
RThe indications are that the expected i'm
,iense grass crop of this state, win be entirely
atof!
TThe annual meeting Of the Portland,
iaco & Portsmouth Railroad will be held at
North Berwick to- day.
II The people of Connecticut propose to
make Gen. Terry, the hero of Fort Fisher,
present of $25, 900 ii Seven-T hirties.
% II is proposed to change the name of one
Of the most noted thoroughfares in New York
Fifth avenue-to Lincoln avenue M
| R Boston is to be sited this week by dele
cations from the Boards of Trade in the princi-
pal Western cities.
TBrThe 18th, 18th and 10th Maine Regiments
have gone to Savannah, Their term of service
expires on the ist of October, or thereabouts IS
~ Sheridan was at the Cincinnati Opera
House Tuesday evening, and I, B. Read read
his poem ''Sheridan's RIDE
gB Gov. Smith of Vermont, has been appoint
| ed delegate to the Congregational Convention,
soon to be held in Boston.
~ Mr.. Seward, for the first time since the
brutal assault upon him, attended cabinet
meeting on Friday.
RDr. Manning is to be the new Roman
Archbishop of Westminster, England, in place
of Archbishop Wiseman, deceased.
| O. The Boston .adcerfiser says the atten-
dance at the Anniversaries in that city this year
was better than expected under the circum-
! stances. vi
IT, The new school Presbyterians, in general
assembly at Brooklyn, N. Y, voted unani-
mouslyin favor Of giving suffrage to the freed :
men of the South.
| GR The Calais -Adreytiser has made severe
attack upon the L. & N. A. Railway enterprise;
probably because the line of the road is SO far
north Of thatci as to divert trade from it,
| - Because our beautiful shade trees were all
ieaviag three weeks ago, it is not to be inferred
that the city is left without its usual protection
against the scorching heat Of summer.
Who ever saw the red clover in full bloom
on the 1st day of June, in thus locality, before
this year! The truth is, the season is two or
three weeks earlier than usual Ag4 b as
% few days ago two cargoes of sugar
were.landed at ST. Louis direct from Cuba. The
duty, fifty-one thousand dollars, was paid in
| gold. - !. &
| gR The annual meeting of the American In
stitute of Homeopathy will be held at Cincin-
natl on tina 7th day Of June. and that Of the
Homeopathic Association at Columbus, Ohio,
June l3. tAsrfsra.
The ceremonies in Boston, on the occa-
SION of the National Fast on Thursday were of
the impressive description. The procession was
nearly three miles long occupying an hour and
half in passing.
SR One James Burke tried to rob couple of
paymasters at Richmond the other night by
shining up lamp post and getting into their
room. AsbulIet nearly ended his career, and
his recovery is doubtful.
81 harmless looking mattress, ON its way
out from Canada, was ripped open at st. AL
bans, VT, by the inspector, and found to be
crammed full of broadcloth, hosiery, and other
dutisble articles. g -
ETA witness at the assassination trials in
Washington, describes George N. Saunders as
''rather low, short, thick set, curly hair, NOUS
tache and goatee thickly sprinkled with grey,
very burly FORM
81 Maine is now in her gala dress. No where
this eide of the tropics. are finer landscape views
to be had; but unlike those of the tropics shey
may he enjoyed without the annoyance of pois-
onousinsects or reptiles, or malarious swamps.
.EYrIt issaid that leading rebels-men who are
excluded from the terms of the Presidents re-
cent amnesty proclamation are swarming about
Washington, their business being reconstruction,
with themselves at the top of the heap.
The Rev. G. Holmes, an aged and respec-
table citizen of Stoniugton, Conn, wasinstantly
killed in Westerly, R. l., on Wednesday evening
last by the engine of the Shore Line train re-
turning to Providence from Groton. MI
81 New Orleans advices to May 81 say anoth-
eegreat land slide had taken place below AL
giers,- and a fearful crevasse was impending,
threatening immense destruction of crops and
other property.
- Lost overheard last evening, from schoon-
er Peru, a seaman, named Charles Overlook, of
Waldoboro, aged about IS yrs.~Ho ssiI oser-
board in DIT just as The vessel was cast OF from
the steam tug at City Point. His body has not
been recovered.-[ Bangor Wing. Sd.
~ The Jersey City Times says porpoise
recently strayed up the Delaware river close TO
Trenton, where he held levees for the benefit of
the delighted Trentonians for a day or two FL
nallysom ungrateful chap shot at him, and his
porposeship departed for the sea.
R The Lewiston Journal, referring to the
COMMEMORATIVE celebration at Auburn on Fast
day, says ''the Grafton by Mr. Bodies was a felt
tribute to the lamented President, and kept
the crowd spell bound three quarters Of an
shoar.o N'A3 tAAlN}al A5II6 via I
% Gov Brown of Georgia has been released
from the Old Capitol prison on parole, and is
parading the streets Of Washington, says an
exchange, as leisurely and dienifed as though
the horrors of Andersonville did not take place
under his especial jurisdiction. a.
B-A Washington dispatch of Friday says the
first passenge err steamer of the season visited Mt.
Vernon that day with about three hundred pas
gers, including many ladies and officers of Sher-
mans army. This is the first regular boat from
here to that place since May, 1851.
B-The Bath Tines learns that Josiah B.
Rogers, son of Mr.. John ]. Rogers of Phips-
burg, was drowned from the United States
Steamer Magnolia, . off Tampa Bay, Florida,
on the 18th ofApril. He enlisted in the 10Th
Maine. ,ln As-ssA1 & oeAt3
% The Hartford Press don't admire the taste
OF those who are offering to furnish ropes to
hang JEFF. Davis with, and are forwarding them
to Washington for that purpose, and suggests
very properly that the government can attend
todetails VIXEN it shall find it necessary to exc
cute the laws upon the traitor.
Eve have received the pamphlet edition OF