The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-04-13
GENERAL SUMMARY.

card was Issued which wound up with the usual
"God save the Green" Some parties with an
eye tn the truth pasted the word "horns' after
the "Green." thus making it read; "God save
the Greenhorns !"
ay-Gas made from peat Is said to be every way
superior to that made FROM the best coal.
FY-At meeting called in Portland, Oregon,
to endorse the President, Gov. Gibbs, who was
present, arose and denounced it Us meeting OF
copperhcads.
~. A soldier, late or the lGtl, Maine regt,
who has lost u leg, Travelled round Boston Conn
mon--nnc nil. and IN cigtll--in lille less
than fifteen minutes, going upon IN artificial
limb Of his own construction.
~ English papersstatc that it has been as
certaned that the free use of salt, say ut tho
rate Of q pound per day for each animal, il q
preventive of the cattle plague. Farmers
| make u note Of this.
II Complete returns have been received
from all the towns in Rhode Island The total
vote for burnside was Sl07 for Pierce, 2SlG !;
scattering, lGj. Burnsdes majority over all
il 52lG. The total vote cast was III lis, which
is less than half of the full vote Of the State.
n Some newspapers undertake to say that
there was never 80 much crime in Vermont as
now, and tho officers say that four.llfths of 1t
ia TO he attributed to liquor. Ono county has
fifteen criminals who will be sent to State
Prison.
- Tho Pennsylvania Legislature has passed
an net DISTINGUISHING all belonging in that State
who deserted from the army or navy during
tho latc war, and for tho punishment OF in
spectors who, knowing them to have been dc
scrtcrs, allow their names to 80 upon the vot'
ing lists.
- The committee on railroads OF the New
York assembly, have reported bill for tho con.
struction of subterranean railway under
Broadway. The project is regarded ~ entirely
practicable. and the tunnel could be completed
in ten months.
General Nyc, IN his speech at tho late Rcrub.
lican meeting in Baltimore, said very aptly that
the rebels, five years ago, dciicd the government
to keep them in the Unon-now they defy the
power OF the government to keep them out OF
tho Union.
TT Senator Sherman, of Ohio, dcnounccs
the President for his course respecting the Con.
necticut election. lie regards him as u traitor
to his party.
TT Bcnj. II. Wilkins, mn Englisllman who
had committed forgorics tn the amount of So 4,
900, and then fled to this country, was sent
back to England for trial by tho Australasian,
whicl, sailed ON Wednesday of last week. lie
arrived in this country only two days before.
II The body of n lad of Is, tho only son OF
Perry Gilct Of Waterbury, Me-, was found, u
lew daysago hanging by the neck To u rein splice,
which was over u beam in the shed where llr
had gone to tie mp the cows. Tho boys neck
was broken. IL is supposed that tho circum-
stance of the death was accidental.
t. A Cork paper speaks Of 1000 persons
having left that port for the United States with
in tho previous week.
E1j- Governor Hamilton is on his way from
Texas To Washington, tn announce that the
rebels lavo taken possession Of the State.
~ II now APPEARS that Stephens, the head
Of the Fcnian Brotherhood. embarked, after
his escape from Richmond Brilewcll, in Dub
lin, from Galway in small sailing vessel, and
after being out some time was driven into Bel.
fast, where he was detained by stress of wealth
cr for two or three days. From Belfast he
sailed to Scotland, and from thence 10y public
conveyance to Dover, and on to Paris, where
he arrived on Sunday, tho 18th of March.
Y Parson Brownlow, Governor of Ten
ncssoc, in n late speech, says: "Our State Leg.
lslaturo il u l0ck-twenty. ono members boltcd
They all endorse President johnson. They
have left 900 lunntics and 800 cOnvcts to starye.
have provided money to feed them: if the
next Legislature refuses tn refund the mOnoy,
| will turn the crazy and the convicted loose
on Middle Tennessee. Ii will be the best phys
ic they ever had"
| SA Washington dispatch says it is gen
orally expected that in n few days tho Prcsi-
dent will release Jcl Davis and Clement Clay
on parole.
~ Information from Now Orleans states
that extensive crevasscs are occurring all along
the river. and that fears Of a devastating flood
are entertained.
CT The street contractors of Now York have
made formal complaint to tho Mayor Of the
interference Of the Board OF Health with their
business. 1t seems tho Board are doing their
duty. They have renovated the half cleaned
streets, and forbidden the Commissioners to
dump their garbage and dirt anywhere within
tue CITY llmiH. lho Dohru nave summary anu
plcnary powers, and if their orders are not
obcycd they arrest the parties forthwith.
" A workman in n paper mill at North
Bennington, VI, named Wilbur, was 30 dread.
fully mansled by being caught in the machin.
cry that he lived only till the next day.
II The march of events seems TO indicate n
clash OF arms soon between Prussia and Aus.
tria. Tho former is pushing troops forward to
the Silesan frontier.
II All Pctrolia might have been bought n
few years ago for 100000. and 1t is now con.
sidered worth S250,0OO,000.
n Business in the oil regions OF Prnnsyl.
vania is entirely stopped, owing to the dulncss
OF the markets and tho failure Of several
banks.
II At Panama, March 9th, one hundred
andffty negroes attempted revolution. They
were surrounded by troops and shot down like
sheep. Twenty-Five or thirty were killed. and
one hundred made prisoners.
| WASHINGTON GossIr.-The Washington cor.
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial in
giving the positions of prominent men outside