The Portland daily press., 1866-01-10

Va The awards for the capture OF Booth
and his confederate assassins have at length
been determined in the War Department Line
names of those adjudged to be entitled 10 por-
| tons of these rewards will be made pubhc In
| few days.
Ey- A great meeting was to be held in Fan
| eull Hall, Boston, last evening, presided ovor
| by Gov. Bullock A large array of titled gem
| tlemen was announced to be upon the plat
form, but for the life of US from the notice, we
couldn't tell what the object of the meeting
was, or what was to be done.
D9- The cattle plague in England is called
the Rinderpest
GY The Canadians are boiling over with in
dignation at the act of our Government pro-
hlblting the importation of cattle. The Toron-
to Globe thinks it designed to show their people
how dependent they are upon the States, with
| view to secure better treaty of reciprocity
The Globe is simply silly. 1t remains to be
seen if our Government will concede any re-
| ciprocity arrangement at all.
| EY- Mr.. Graham, in closing the defense OF
the Strong case in New York, said:-"The
plaintiff is man forty years of age, educated
to the law, but without practice, or the desire
1Or praCtlCc. w Hell u HAL udS tuO ohACWo AASoS
of lawyer, but without industry, he is an I'M
comfortable member of any family. You
might as well have the plague of Job in your
house. When man has been sharpened by
| the hone of the law, he needs something to cut,
| and if he don't cut the world he will his fami-
| ly."
ET A national cemetery is to be establish
ed in the Shenandoah Valley, so often passed
| over by our armies and the field Of SO many
battles. The graves of Union soldiers are scat
tered through it from Harper's Ferry to Staun-
| ton, but wherever found the bodies will be ex-
humed and removed to a common resting place,
which is likely to be located in the vicinity Of
Winchester. .-.l-A -A.l 81 .#
ER- We are told that the President had no
right to say who should vote in the South on
questions of fundamental interest to the ma
ton. When every white man there, by trea-
son, had forfeited all his rights under the Con-
stitution, including the right to life itself, and
the President pardoned them, did he not thus
| qualify them to vote; did he not convert them
from inimical aliens into citizens And would
it have required any more stretch of Executive
power to make citizen and voter of loyal
black man than of a disloyal white man; of
4 virtuous patriot than of criminal traitor; of
Robert Small than of Wade Hampton
VS. The late King of the Belgians was a
shrewd man. A contemporary relates the fol-
lowing of him: when the great Mr.. William
i Cornell Jewett went to Europe on his indepen-
dent peace mission, he fatteringly offered to
Leopold to make him umpire between the Uni
ted States Government and the Rebellion.-
"And what did the King say ?" inquired the
person to whom Mr.. Cornell related the fact
Gle said," answered the independent peace
missionary with singular candor, "that he
wouldn't put his fingers between the bark and
the tree" III lLfJLttkAlZ GNU
EY- Sunday morning, at s o'clock, the
mercury was reported at II IL below zero
in Boston; in Cambridge and Charleston at "a
below; in Alfred and Exeter, N. H., at 20 be-
low; in New York, 4 below; in Washington 8
below; in Buffalo 10 below; in Chicago II be-
low, and Louisville, Ky, and Richmond, Va,
10 above. In this city it was about 14below.
EB- There is regular competition for
freight between Buffalo and New York, which
promises well for consumers. A decline has
already been experienced of thirty-two cents
on one hundred pounds. .71r1T ltyt
EY- Gov. Bullock's address to the Legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, is LITTLE more than half
as long as Gov. Cony's, and contains but q sim
gle paragraph not relating to State matters.
BB The new fifty-cent notes are to have a
| portrait of Gen. Spinner. sae