The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-16
ORIGINAL AND SELEUTED.

R-The gospel of the day-The Gospel accor-
ding to st. Lucre
Rlt has been discovered that in the ''last
ditch" the inhabitants wear pettiooats.
RTheoluck has just issued at Berlin work
entitled, History of Rationalism,' which is
attracting much attention among foreign critics.
RFive barns belonging to Randolph Linds-
ley In Meriden, Conn.,, were burned. with their
contents, on Monday, May 8.
- The chiyalry on its muscle JEFF. Davis
trying to escape to the woods in his wife's petit
coat
BJef Davis is likely to do what he has been
unable to accomplish for the last four years
reach Washington.
Win our fleet. footed vessels of war over
take the Wsbb. footed Rebel steamer that run
down the Mississippi We poDs for reply
mobile News.
% When Mrs. Jefferson D. gets to Washing
ton 1t is hoped the elder Blair will repay that
kiss bestowed on him at Richmond. 1t may
serve to console her.
Cd The terms of amnesty to deserters offered
by q Proclamation of President Lincoln will
not now ayail,as the sixty day s expired on We'd
nesday last.
q One large mechanical establishment in
Springfield has already received orders for three
large cotton presses, to be sent to three different
States in the South. nieea
80 They have an OK weighing 22O0 pounds at
Pressure Isle, on the premises of Mr.. G. F. A.
johnson. The Pioneer thinks if he keeps on
growing, he will be rouser.
B Renan, the French skeptic, is exploring
Egypt, and thinks he has found works of art
and records that make the human race much
older than the Mosaic records represent it.
BThe President is said to have prepared .
proclamation declaring all vessels sailing under
the Confederate flag, pirates. They are to be
pursued, and if captured to be treated as such.
RIt is hard telling which was the more dan
gerous to the Union troops when they entered
Mobile, the torpedoes or the whiskey. Both
would kill when touched.-[News.
THE bill to aid the E. s. Ma. Railroad has
been rejected by the Massachusetts, House of
Representatives by vote of Yeas Sc, Nays Ill.
The bill now goes to the senate.
The copperhead chief having donned the
petticoat, we presume that article of female gear
will hereafter become the emblem Of the party
the flag under which they will do battle.
R The subscriptions to the 7-30 loan ON Sat-
urday amounted to 3O,45O $50; for the week
to sos, 3s4, $50. The Secretary of the Treasury
has decided to issue the balance of the loan au-
thorized, amounting to $3.50, 900.
VA queer cityis New York, says the World.
Less than two years since, for one entire week, it
was as much as a nsgro's life was worth to be
seen in the streets, while now they are on the
very topmost wave of fashionable favor
~ For four years JEFF. Davis has played the
braggart and bully; now he has shrunken into
the smallest kind of coward. Henceforth his
name will be the synonyme of meanness as well
as of treason.
~ Elijah Perry Of Frankfort, has been COM
mitted to Jail charged with shooting George
Moore of that town, man 68 years of age, on
the 9Th inst, the ball taking effect in the shoul-
der and subsequently resulting in death.
% The Mobile Wews says: ssThe Rebel lead
ers maintain that they are no longer fighting for
independence, only sfor the best terms they
can get" If they keep on, they'll get 'slong
terms" some of them
H-As the national fast falls upon Thursday
of the anniversary week in Boston, the Ameri-
can Board, which usually holds its anniversary
on the evening of that day, have decided to omit
the meeting this year.
81 According to the record, the number of
deaths in the Andersonville prison, for the year
ending March 10th, 1865, was 1854. The
highest number of deaths in single day was
1877.
81 Referring to the change OF location of a
certain Maine editor, the Waterville Mail says
s'We hope that his new location will work q
change in bis political opinions that will make
his labors more acceptable to loyal communi-
ty." Who can he refer to
EPostmaster General Den Ason has ordered
that the post Office in Maryland known as Sur
rats, be henceforth called Robeysville, thus
expunging the name of the assassin from the
books of the department.
R The Oil Nsws and Mining Journal says
of the petroleum business, ''There is much &C.
tivity at the wells, but the production is proba-
in proportion to the number of wells worked
We no longer hear of the s'big strikes
The Catholic Priest at Lewiston has adver-
tised for proposals for building the Catholic
Church edi6ce in that city. The edifce will be
built Of brick and stone, and will be 176 feet in
length and sol width, and the main building 80
feet high. A graceful and snowy spire, LAG feet
in hight, will adorn the front of the edifce. The
ceiling of the audience room will have an arched
roof of 46 feet curve.