The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-01-26
GENERAL SUMMARY.

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terprising publishers Of the Portland Daily
Star. by special dispatches, present each eve
ming the substance of the proceedings OF Con-
gress, for the day, with other Washington
items Of interest. Those who wish to take an
eastern daily, especially during the Legislative
sitting, can not do better than to get the Star
Terms, sc in advance.
~ Sam Adams said in 1887 "ln monarch.
les, the crime Of treason or rebellion may nj.
nit OF being pardoncd or lightly punished, but
the man who darcs to rebel against the laws Of
srepublic ought to suffer DEATH"
ex-senator Douglass property 10 Chicago In.
creased 90 much 10 value during the war as to
pay his debts and leave large surplus.
Ex Generals Heath. Pillow, Hood, Long.
street, and other ex.rnbels, have been in Gin.
cnnati, and engaged 1000 white laborers, and
bought 800 cotton ploughs. This looks like
business.
q A Southern gentleman announces in the
Mobile Register his intention to emigrate to
Mexico. He is "ready to fly from land dark
ened by the power Of New England supersti'
tion." Let him fly.
~" Perley" writes to the Boston Journal
that "a private letter from nm army officer in
Kentucky, announces that the Legislature oil
that State will elect John @. Breckenridge to
the United States Senate in place of Garrett
Davis, whose term Is about to expire.
81 The Now York dressmakcrs say that the
revenue tax is absolutely destructive to the
whole business. The tax is six per cent. on
tho gross value OF the materials, and as the
dressnakers do not usually furnish the materi-
ais, they have to pay tax on goods from which
they gain no profit.
II The House of Delegates of Maryland has
passed resolutions endorsing General Grants
recent letter, opposing the withdrawal of Fed.
cral troops from tho late insurrectiunary dis
tricts, aud opposing tho ar,ning Of militia in
those States.
~ In his speech in tho House on Monday.
Mr.. Julian stated that there were $4,000 900
acres Of unsold lands Of the South, which, un.
less prevented by legislation, will DO open to
rebel Spectators. His bill contemplatcs the
setting apart of these lands rs homcsteads for
both white and black loyal men.
~ Al tho recent torn of tho S. j. Court at
Machias. Thomas Tracy was sentenced to fifteen
years in the State Prison for highway robbery.
~ A Portuguese soldier enlisted at Ports
mouth, N. H., over two years ago, got $500
bounty, and was sent to Concord. lilo hid his
money in the barracks there, and WIS sent to
the field lilo was lately discharged, but did
not know where he enlisted or where he was
encamped. a friend found out tho facts in tho
case and took the follow up to Concord, and no
found his $500 just where he hid it in 1868.
y There arc 273 Baptist churches in Maine,
with 1867 members. The number of ordain.
cd ministers is 160. The number of admissions
to churches during tho year by baptism have
been 400. and the decrease by deaths 34S.
Many of the churches are small, but there are
ak with more than 800 members each eleven
having between 200 and 800, aud forty.four
with from lQD to 800 members.
~ Carpenters wcll.known pictures OF
f" President Lincoln Reading the Emancipation
Proclamation to his Cabinet" is TO be employ.
cd as the decoration of tho blacks of some Of
the new national bank notes.
ETA couple who had been married only
eight days, were divorced in Chicago last week
on tho ground of incompatibility of temper.
The wiz Was less than sixteen years old.
~ II Is said that there is young man not
yet out Of his teens. in Rochester, N. Y, who
has made about million Of dollars by specu.
lations in oil stocks.
~ A Chicago paper says that IL those who
arc in possession of the Lincoln medallion. sold
for tho benefit Of tho late Northwestern Sani-
tary Fair, will examine it closely, they will dis
cover that by strange coincidence line nado
by an accidental crack 10 the die marks the ex.
net course Of tho bullet which deprived tho
President Of his life.