The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-02
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EB- Mrs. Jane G.. Swisshelm, pretty we'll
known throughout the country as newspaper
writer and editor, was dismissed from her posi-
ton as clerk on Monday, by the QuarteEmas-
Iter-General, with the approval OF the Secre-
tary Of War, for disrespeetful language against
the President of the United States 4
EB- A dispatch to the Boston Advertiser da-
ted Tuesday says: Gen. Howard to-day rec
ceived the painful and startling intelligence of
the death, last Thursday, at Tallahassee, Fla,
of Lisutenant-C Colonel II. M. Stimson, of his
staff, who was out on general tour of inspec-
ton into the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau
He was from Hallowell, Me-, entered the SER
vice at the beginning of the war at the age of
eighteen, was wounded at the first Bull Rum
taken prisoner, sent to- Andersonville,: finally
exchanged, and then severely wounded again
in front of Atlanta. He was young man of
much promise and held a confidential position
ON Gen. Towards staff. -'se.--7I f,s1sM
U.s. Philadelphia is cheerful over tho SUBJ
scripti0n 5000 600 to establish line of south
| ern steamers and the determination of the
Pennsylvania railroad to establish az line Of
stAamers between Philadelphia and Liverpool.
va Ine executive 2 svot---.t4AA of tha nnion
members of Congress, consisting of General
Schenck, chair man, Senators Henderson and
and CONFESS, and Representatives Rollins Of
| New Hampshire, Hart of New York, Brooman
| of Pennsylvania and Moulton of Illinois, met
and organized ON Wednesday and chose as
their secretary Thos L. Fullock of Ports.
mouth, N. II. ab-ss4-A a
EV- The custom House at Toronto, was
robbed on Sunday night of some $1,000, Ameri-
can money. The vault was entered by means
of its own key, which had been carelessly. left
in the building. At present no trace of the
burglars can be found. s.
| iEY Major Gee, atone time in the charge of
the Confederate prison at Salisbury, North
Carolina is on trial at Raleigh, on the charge of
cruelty to the prisoners under his charge DUR
| ingthe war. The commission decided against his
ploa that his taking the amnesty oath deprived
the court of jurisdiction
EY The diary of Capt. Musgrave, who, was
wrecked on one of the Auckland Islands and
detained there with his crew for twenty months
is about to be published in London. Much of
it was written in seals blood. It is said to be
as wonderful as Robinson Crusoe and yet per-
fectly true. 81 " 10 piz'7 ii'e 1908 athE
| EY-A boy at Ossipee, N. H., fourteen years
of age, has been sent to State Prison for six
years, for DEMONSTRATING. s9Isgsn aeS @
EI-A young man obtained a divorce from
his wife in the Litchfeld County (Ct.) Supe-,
rior Court, last year, on account of "incompati-
bility." A few days since the lady, who resides
near Mortified, fell heir to $4,000. - =
EY- Thirty thousand pounds of fine wool
have lately been purchased in the vicinity of
st. Adams at 81 Coo per pound.
The motion Of Roscoe Conkling to post
pone the consideration of the Bingham amend
ment until Tuesday, the I'd day of April, passed
the House by a vote of 112 to 81. Dixon" of
the Boston Advertiser, says: An analysis of
the vote shows that Kerr of Indiana, was the
only democrat who voted in favor of the post
ponement, and that Messrs. Davis of New York,
Newell of New Jersey, Sloan of Wisconsin,
Window of Minnesota, and Williams and VIII
son Of Pennsylvania were the only republicans
who voted against the postponement. What
the state of the amendment will be when it is
again taken up depends onissues and consid-
erations that cannot now be foreseen.s es.g
Three young ladies were lately frozen
to death near Chain Lake, Minnesota. They
attempted to return home from singing school
in snow storm with an OK team, and although :
the distance was only one and q half miles,
they were out two night and one day. -Four
young men with them we're badly frozen.
20 The Newburyport Herald comes out at
last in support of President Johnson's policy.
and says, General Banks has prepared an
| elaborate speech in which he will sustain the
President. The takes this position it will
again give him the political leadership of New
England" ..f.7s..s 4lae d. ~. ,
ETAt the late exhumation of the bodies of
Beethoven and Schubert from their graves in
Waehringer Cemetery in Vienna, the delicate,
almost female head of Schubert was great
contrast to the massive, thick, bony, and inn
mense brain basin holding head of Beethoven.
The signs of musical talent were missing in
| both, at least in those places where they are
supposed to be. Schubert had still thirteen
teeth, and Beethoven fourteen. Schuberts
skull showed the most perfect proportion Of
the human head much more than Beethoven's.
successor to Judge Catron. .s.l5
GTMajor- General Custer, in command at
Austin, Texas writes to friend in the North
that "the hostility and opposition to the gov
ernment in that State ON the part of the, ex-
rebels is as strongly and openly manifested now
as at any time during the rebellion" aud Cen
eral Chetlain, now in command at Memphis,
but recently in Alabama, writes as follows ::
"The majority of the people in Alabama are
still very bitter, and opposed to Northern men
coming into the State, and I am satisfied that
were the troops withdrawn, Northern men
would be compelled to leave some localities,
secret organizations to drive them out having
been already formed in some Countless" n
| EB- A cotton factory has been established
near San Francisco. The State Legislature
has offered large premiums for the encourage
ment of cotton manufacturing and the Bulle-
tin believes that at no distant day California
will raise her own cotton and manufacture all
that is needed for domestic use.