The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-31
aRrgfNAL AND sELEOa1ED.

reported anxious to take the cath of allegiance.
He has been referred to Washington.
gT-The rebel Gen. Bruce has delivered an
address to the Kentucky troops, advising them
to return to their homes
gg-The total funded and floating debt of Con-
necticut, on account of the war, amounts to ten
and half millions of dollars
EEA London cabman was lately fined half
crown in London for wearing shocking bad
hat while on duty.
Eg-Three large owls were taken from single
nest at Alton, N. H., last Monday, and sent to
Boston. ssrF
g A boy, Eve years old, son of William
Fl. league, was drowned ON Monday at Dover,
Nh.
R-Numerous petroleum springs are reported
to have been discovered in Western Missouri
and Southern Kansas. t0t &tsl
BThe friends of Rev. N. Butler, pastor of
the Baptist Society in Camden, have pur-
chased for him fine residence as parsonage.
B-The barn belonging to the Shaker family
| in Harvard, Mass, was destroyed by fire on the
Goth inst, with fifteen tons of hay and ten cows.
Loss about $4,000.
gThe Democrats all over the country seem
to have Joined with one voice to praise President
johnson. We hope it bodies no evil to the cause
| of the country. ssv fs tass66H
~ Major General Banks is relieved from the
command of the Department of the Gulf, and
will report in writing to the Adjutant General at
Washington. f.t 800 rMat5
| HA Dutchman, while admiring the review Of
Gen. Sherman g army, was heard to exclaim -
"Mine Gott mine Gott how glad am dat
| am an American" "a BTE ~ YwaE
! RThe annual drive of logs from the PENN
gewasset has passed down the Merrimack by
Manchester The logs measure o 900 900 feet of
lumber.
RA committee. Of ladies is being formed in
Paris by Madame Laboulaye, to manufacture
and export clothes for the liberated slaves Of the
United States. e1
HThe Houlten Times says the stars and
stripes were raised on the old flag staff at the
garrison in that town, on Monday, for the first
time since the troops left there in 1886 twenty
| years ago.
B-A Chicago paper suggests that as Wash
ington is known as the father of his country, SO
JEFF Davis will hereafter be known as the mother
of the Contederacy. That may be SO, although
the mother should die Of the abortion.
| The Democrat says Dung child o. Mr.
Brooks living on Maine street in Saco, fell out of
window, distance Of Is feet, to the sidewalk
1t was picked up considerably frightened and
| but little hurt. asi tea9
IS The new Republican journal in Chicago,
Of which Mr.. CA Dana, formerly manager Of
the New York Tribune, and latterly Assistant
Secretary Of War, has assumed the editorial
chair, hasa paid up capital of $35O.OOO.
R Matilda Heron has arrived in New York
from California. She Immediately left for Phil
adelphia on business concerning the win of her
brother, who has, it is said, left her legacy Of
$4,000 1855 e Ae3
R Mr.. Vallandigham appears to have ex-
perienced conversion. He rejoices in the down
fall of slavery, says the South will be great
gamer by it, and urges his friends to lend asup-
porting hand to President Johnson's admins
tration.
R-The title to celebrated Congress springs
at Saratoga, after long process of litigation,
as1snlfy Gan ativas IF
the Clark and White estates, having accepted
an offer of $4,000 for their entire interest in
the spring ssa 81
RA special dispatch from Washington to
the Boston Herald says it turns out that Gen.
Sherman's official reports have not yet reached
the War Department, and hence the complaints
of official refusal to have them furnished are un-
founded. sss
RThe Bangor Times says the body of an
unknown man, apparently 26 years of age, was
found in the river at Hampden when, not
stated. He had evidently been in the water sew
eral weeks. He is supposed to have been a lum-
| herman. In rgH g5sgsfCa ava ~
y VAlexander II. Stephens, the rebel Vice
President, is described as about five feet in
| height, and almost as slim as a skeleton. He
appears to be nothing but skin, bone and earti-
lage, and is SO feeble as to be hardly able to
move about. His face is entirely devoid Of
beard, and his lips extremely thin.
EThe Gloucester Telegraph states that not
withstanding the large number of men who
have served in the army and navy, from that
town, during the past four years, the loss of
life from the casualties of war have been far less
than the losses at sea, for the same period of
time. tw
The New York .Ns,Os-Ben. Wood s paper
suggests Gen. Sherman as the most available
candidate OF the Democrats for the Presidential
nomination in 1868. How readily an individual
commends himself to the copperheads by doing
some act or committing some blunder that dis
satifes and chagrins all loyal men. 1sfsa
E The Wateryille Mail SAYS about two hun
bred dollars worth of liquors, OF various kinds,
were seized at the Williams Fouse. in that town,
by the Selectmen on Tuesday. 1t seems to be
the de erminationof the present board to reduce,
as far as they can, the popular tide of drunken
ness, whether in high or low places.
- Calvin s. Morse, native of Maine, Pay
masters Clerk on board the United States re-
ceiving ship North Carolina, committed suicide
on board that vessel on Sunday morning, off
Brooklyn Navy Yard, by shooting himself in
the right breast with pistol. From letter
left by deceased, it appears that his mind had
become deranged. 49,
a gentleman who called On General Scott in New
York the other day found him in excellent health
and much rejoiced at the successful termination
of the war The conversation turning on jeff
Davis, the old General very pointedly and en-
phatically remarked: 81 hope he will be hung
by the neck, sir; hope he will hang by the
neck, 70 2af sss ii as q $1,000 a
% Last Friday in New York.an affadavitwas
made BY one james Donohoe, alleging that Er
rick Nassau, captain of the ship Victoria Mel
vile, endeayored to obtain his cooperation in
abducting and combining Mr.. A. T. Stewart, the
dry goods merchant, in a house up town until
he should pay the sum of one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars TO the chief conspira-
tor for his release. The police have arrested
Nassau.
% The Saco Democrat learns that man in