The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-14
ORIGINAL AND Subjected.

~ A defaultings boekkeeper committed sui
eide in New York, on Tuesday, by jumping
overheard from Fulton ferry boat.
!, % A New York paperexpresses the opin-
ion that in consideration of the plea Of guilty,
entered by young Ketchuin, he will be SEN
fenced to only two years. and half imprison-
ment in the State Prison
WH-The New York Herayd's Fortress Mon
roe correspondent says jeff Davis expresses
himself greatly pleased with his change Of
quarters. .-.-.f ~..s-TyN
EB 1t is estimated that the Wirz trial win
cost the government at least one hundred
thousand dollars by the time it is concluded.
EB-The population of Paris is rapidly over
taking that Of London, and has increased more
rapidly. It's now over, 100000 whereas Lon
don must still be under 100000. Formerly
the difference between the capitals was much
greater. s n .i. y
81 B8@ Governor Bradford has notified Che
Freedmen's Bureau that he has given orders to
prosecute persons in Lower Maryland for COM
hitting outrages on the negroes. q 7a@
B8-The Concord Mo,sitor says the requisite
for clerltshio in Washington is to have no
fixed principles, and never oppose the hand
that feeds you. as q. a1.s .s3d2es u ils
Ruth Blay was hung at Portsmouth,
ninety7seven years ago, for child murder. She
was school teacher, and Mrs. Betsey East
man, of Salisbury N. H., now 1O3 years old,
was one Of her scholars, and still remembers
and relates the circumstances The teacher
was absent one day, and Mrs. E., then girl of
six years, while at play in the school-house.
saw a loose board in the floor, which she raised
from motives of curiosity, and there discovered
the remains of a dead infant. She told what
she had seen, and an investigation showedit to
be the child Of the teacher, who murdered it to
conceal its birth. She was tried, convicted and
hung There was strong presumption Of her
innocence; so much SO that an executive par
don was granted, but it arrived too late to save
her. "a s :. ~ 49, = II,
+ ,BF A copperheed orator denounces the
idea of a union with Canada. Of course. re-
spends the Tribune with cruelty. Where could
a poor body go in case of another draft.
"a Va Edmund Spangler sentenced to six
years hard labor in the Dry Tortugas for com
plicity with the assassinationsof President LIN
coin, has written letter to some friends in.
Baltimore, in which he reiterates his assertions
of perfectinnocence and entire ignorance of
that crime.
Vs. The climax of the ludicrous has been
reached. That inefable ass and notorious bore
and Sucker" George Zones, alias the sCount
Jeannes, has actually fooled the great rebel
Robert e. Lee into correspondence with him
|; SELF which appropriately appears in full in the
Daily Neaos. Precious trio-Robt. e. Lee Ben.
Wood and the Count Joannes What next?
According to the revelations in the Ban
ner6f Lightthe spirits of those who died in the
Andersonyiile pen arein hurry to get Wirz
on that side of Jordan, and threaten to @put
him through as hot hell as he ever dreamed
Of" -
BB The New York Herald says that the ex-
clusion of the emancipated blacks from the
civil courts viii not get the Presidents appro-
val, and viii certainly prove fatal to the re-
quest of the South for readmission.
Count Montalembert had made arrange
ments for visit to this country, which is. the
special object of his admiration, but un foreseen
circumstances obiige him to postponeft
"a In response to the earnest solicitation of
the former owners of the Sea Islands for their
restoration, the President has ordered General
Howard to endeavor to make such arrange
ments as may be satisfactory to all parties con-
cerned. The President recognizes the just ex-
pectations created in the minds of the freed
men that they would be permitted to retain
possession Of these islands,