The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

The Pope declined to bless the coffin of Mar
shall Magnan as it was decorated with Masonic
emblems.
The University Of Virginia, foundedby Jeffer-
son, is soon to resume its duties with encoura-
ging prospects.
Governor Brownlow announces that his
paper, the Knoxville Wing, is shortly to be en-
larged. VT ,-.~-,~~- !
eDespitesthe continued denials in foreign OIL
cial journals it is evident that the cholera is
moving westward. s''.,..,-.-..-.--
An extensive bed of pure white marble. capa-
BILE of taking fine polish, has been discovered
in Sank County, Wis., sss i os..
A bill has been presented to the United
States Of rent for the Libby Prison, since April
g. 1865 1t is suggested that the next thing will
be the representation IF am account by the owner
of the land near Andersonville, where 1900
murdered Union soldiers lie buried. 1oaslA
Our news from Buenos Ayres, by wav of
England, is to the 9th of May The Salem
Register has "Buenos Ayres .Stapdard' of the
10th of that month, which it says contains in
telligence of the end of the American war, the
fall of Richmond, &c., dashed out in Yankee
style. When the news was received the Stan
dard issued a supplement, or extra, irnmedi-
ately, and boosted of being ahead of every
other paper in South America" .e ial5aya
The Ndtioaa-the new politico-literary Jour
nal in New York, is taken to task by some of
the Boston papers for saying, nowhere is me-
diocrity more successful than in America"
The Nation should have prudent1y made an
exception infavor of Modern Athens" and its
enyirons. 49, $780,.
ANorfolk paper denies thesreport that the
yellow fever is in that city or Portsmouth. g.
The whole amount of loss by the fire which
CONSUMED Barnum's Museum and other. build
ings will be about 100000. Insurance will
amount to $15O,OOO. Isl "a, s. 1..-se- KS X
The Portsmouth Steam Factory is badly en-
barrassedb by mortgage, and if the stockholders
do not take measures to redeem the property
by the 9TH of August, it is to be sold \ II s ",
Dea John Knowlton of Portsmouth. has
been connected fifteen years with the same re-
ligious society in that city, and has failed only
on two half days to be in his place on the Sab
bath, unless when absent from town or too i'll
to go. astawsI seaa p i8 l3as 9df sfs
The Louisville Journal says the rebel armies
dro suDuucu Duu perhaps tnere Is yet an u1SuD-
dued army of devils in Southern hearts.
The sale of 7-9O bonds on Saturday exceeded
ten million dollars. Who will say the conf.
dence of our people in the stability and good
faith of their government is less than bound.
less
A numberof rebel Generals, including Mar.
maduke, Pottle and jackson, have been re.
leased from Fort Warren. tsT8s9 etl-e
The conspirators Dr.. Mudd, Arnold, O'Laugh.
in and Spangler were on Saturday transferred
from the arsenal in Washington to a steamer
and started for Albany by the way Of Fortress
Monroe, the object being to avoid the crowds
and excitement that would attend their passage
by railroad. aA % ssl9 91sss sdI 81 aiHc.l
General Howard is about establishing gen.
eral freedmen's intelligence Office in Washing.
ton, and in connection with it Colonel Eaton
the assistant commissioner for this district will
initiate measures for the general benefit, of the
freedmen of this section. 5l3e sd9aJI
Major Charles Hamlin of Gen. Howe's staff
sonof Vice President Hamlin has received the
deserved compliment of being breveted Lieut.
Col, for faithful services. islFlJ g sAsiaaeA
A grove of mammoth trees has Just been dis
covered in Santa Cruz county, Cal. The larges
tree is fifty-four feet in circumference, and two
hundred and fifty feet in height - the first
hundred feet from the ground without
limb. g