The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-02-10
General Summary.

The Portland, Ssco and Portsmouth rail.
roads receipts for the year ending May 81.
1855, were $3.50. s42, expenditures sl62,73l.
net income slSs, l2l, and surplus s95, 237.
There u said to DO o detect In the city
charter OF Burlington. W., which renders Il
null and void. add . the people have voted
the town out Of existence there are no local
authorities to enforce the laws.
In his late address before the Tennessee
Convention. Andy johnson said "If Mr..
Lincoln and JEFF. Davis were to sni,s their
powers, they could not prevent the universal
emancipation Of the negro. It blike hugo
avalanche half on its oourse-is destiny 10
certain and irresistible.
Tho Missouri State convention. In the CON.
stisution which |. Is framing for .ha, state,
has excluded from voting all persons who
have been in armed rebsllion aided the rebels,
expressed hope that they would succeed, or
claimed exemption from military duty on the
ground Of alienags.
Mr. Blair. 81 In Q conversation with
New York representative, admitted that tho
rebels no conferred with in Richmond. cheat.
cd him in their professions Of willingness to
sond Commissioners to arrange for tho return
Of the South to tho Uuiou.
Numerous arrests Of recruiting officers,
mastering officers, substitute brokers, inter.
nal revenue assessors. and Others connected
with the enlisting business in New York,
have been made within the past faw days.
Major.Gsn.. John Pope has Issued an order
dated tho 4th inst. assuming tho command
Of the Military Division Of Missouri, embrac.
ing the departments OF Missouri, Kansas and
the North. West.
The army appropriation bill ns passed by
the House, appropratos about five hundred
million dollars.
Ut tho 10 cotton mills In Woonsocket. R.
l., II aro entirely still, 8 in partial opera
ton, ind 4running full time.
It Is understood that military rulo 10 Ma
ryland will soon be abolished altogether,
there being no necessity for its continuance
since Maryland has become free State.
The new income tax bill, reported in the
House Of Representatives in Congress on
Monday, provides for an assessment Of ten
per cent, on all incomes exceeding three thou
sand dollars year.
Gen. McClollan's friends gave him $50 900
in gold before he sailed for Europe. They
say he goes out to prepare himself for the
future. Undoubtedly 10 was prepared for
the present.
About seventy hockading vessels have
been relieved by the capture Of Fort Fisher,
and the blockade at other points will In con-
sequence be strengthened.
Fort Caswell. which was on Oak Island,
was built by the United States at cost Of
S57l 900. It was Of massive granite mag
onry, with two tiers OF guns under bomb.
proof casemates, and one en- borbele. ltwas
calculated for eighty-seven guns In oil. II
was n frst.class fertilization, surrounded BY
ditch and outworks.
The Chicago Evening Journal states that
tho bulk Of the army Of Con. Thomas has
been sent down to Tennessee 10 engage In
active operations in moro vital field. Tho
same journal announces that an immense eI-
petition of 10000 cavalry is soon 10 DO sent
to destroy the remnant Of Hoods army, to
open the Alabama River, and TO seize and
hold Montgomery, Selma and Mobile.
The Senate has passed IN amendment to
the Enrolment Act which ioricits tho citisen-
ship Of any person liable to draft who shall
remove beyond the jurisdiction Of the United
States.
Tho New York Assembly 10 just n'w ngi
tated by bill to remove the Capitol from AL.
bany. A majority are in favor OF II. only
they don't know whore to 60.
General Lee has been mado General.in-
Chief of the robel armies.
A negro lawyer, John s. Rock, has been
admitted to practice at the Be, Of the su.
prene Court.
A cavalry scout Of Gen. Sheridan''encoun.
tered the force OF Maj. Harry Gilmore, on the
5th inst, near Moore6cld, and whipped II
handsomely, capturing upwards Of twenty
officers and men. Among the officers captur.
ed was the noted guerrilla chief and robbcr
Harry Gilmore himself.
Within tho past fortnight II has besu dis.
covered that there 70 . large bed Of hard coal
In Windsor, Connecticut, and oil hunters have
already begun their labo,s.
The New Hampshire State election 10 near
at hand, and the Concord Monitor, with an
earnestness and reason worthy Of IL name,
calls on the party to organize. II justly
says: "Organiration Is the first duty; con-
centratiou the second; and victory the
third"
The Legislature Of West Virginia on Tuesday
last reelected Hon. waitmsn T. Wiley TO tho
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