The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-06-23
MXINE.
General Summary.

A special dispatch from Lexington, KY,
10th, states that John O. Breckenridge had
reached Cuba, but how no got thera his
friends refuse to say.
A man in Pennsylvania aftor living -
days without eating or drinking, concluded
hc had better die. and died.
Tho Hemld's Savannah correspondence
saws tho rebel Secretary Of War. Seldom,
Judge Campbell and Il. NJ. 7. Hunter have
been taken to Fort Pulaski for confinement.
Tho foreign diplomatists in Washington
aro much exercised about the corps OF obser-
walton sent to the Rio Grande.
A few days since returned soldier pur-
chased new pair Of boots Mt store in But
falo, and left his old ones, but soon after re-
turned and called Tor them. When they
were brought to him ho ripped open the
lining and took from beneath $3.50 in green
backs, in denominations Of $50. $500 and
$1,000, which no had placed there and Tor
gotten.
The Haytian rebellion Is suppressed.
wormwell and Moore. arrested for the
murder Of Chapman at Lewiston, on the ties
timony ofMrs. Wallia. have been discharged.
Chapman's body has bcen found about two
miles below tho Falls.
Tho English government have withdrawn
bclligcrcant rights from the Conisdcrates'
Franco has done the same.
Incendiary fires are breaking out fast. In
Saratoga tho United States Hotel was burned
on Sunday.
Hon. Ben. Wood hos been arrested by tho
government. Brig. Gen. Shepley has resigned
his commission.
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, will please accept
our thanks for bound volumes OF the Con.
gressional Globe. They are invaluable to IN
editor.
The President has directed inquiry into the
alleged treatment Of negroes at Richmond.
Hon. Manassch II. Smith died in Boston
on Thursday of congestion Of the lungs.
Al. Hamilton of Texas, and james John
son of Georgia, have each been appointed
provisional Governor Of their respective
states, under precisely similar instances rs
those given in tho case of North Carolina.
It now looks as though tho Democracy"
of this State will not have any State conven
ton this year, It being universally understood
that when tho rebel army capltulated in
Virginia, tho Democritic party became de-
funct. and that the same terms were awarded
to them, rs were given to Lee-"Go home
and behave yourself in future, and you will
not be molested." II they are wise, they
will look out how they violate their parole.
Government is dismantling the Notifications
around Petersburg and Richmond; an i'm
mcnse amount of war material is thus added
to our superintendent store.
John Neal, Esq. is out with another dis
sertation. this time arguing against the pro-
priety and Righteousness Of capitally punish
ing traitors. Magnanimous is John! he
writes great deal, and his writings are in
IN inverse ratio to their quantity. Mems
thoughts 1.-Two after thcm," but VIC arc afraid
Johns will provo an exception.
The railroads of Missouri arc indebted to
that State about $50 100000.
Intelligence from northern Georgia, and
on the line OF Sherman's late march. states
that many people are dying for the want OF
food, and general starvation Is unprecedented.
Tho memorandum hook OF stakeholder
on tho Mississippi, named Cockerell, chroni.
Giles an instruction issued to his Overseer one
season, that the plantation must produce 30
much corn, such quantity OF cotton, a GER
tain number Of hogs, and ten negro children.
A flash of lightning entered n house in
Rockville, Conn, lit an oil lamp and retired
leaving It burning. No damage was done.
Polite 'strcak," wasn't it?
Tho Tribuno's Washington dispatch says
that there Is n secret combination among the
rebel real estate owners in Richmond not to
sell to any Northern purchaser. This exc
plains why property is held from 100 to 300
per cent. higher than before the war.
The Richmond Wing of juno 18th says
Richmond is infested with thieves who ply
their neiarious vocations with immunity.
Burglary and robberics are announced every
day in the very centre Of the city. Tho Pro-
vost Martial is doing all in his power to put
stop to these operations.
Mrs. VIM. II. Seward is dead.
Lewis E. Parsons has been appointed Pro-
visional Governor Of Alabama.
Mrs. Lincoln has written letter to the
National Monument Association mt Spring
field, notifying them that unless tho monu-
ment were erected over tho Presidents 70.
mains at Oak Ridge, and deed given to her
OF the plot on which 1t is to be placed, she
would accept proposition for the removal
OF the remains to Washington.
John Stuart Mill. the ablest thinker and
writer on political economy living, in answer,
to some interrogatories recently put to him
by the electors OF Bristol, gave the following
views upon the question OF suffrage which
place him in the advance rank OF true democ.
rncy upon this point: 81 would open tho
suffrage to all grown persons both men and
women. who can read, write and perform