The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-07-12

pied every evening nv week WIN ueudte
ON tho doctrine Of eternal punishment.
Senator Morrill's term expires March 4th,
1869. Upon tho Legislature nexs year will
dsvolve tho duty Of hlling his place.
A Richmond letter says that tho progress
of registration makes Il a foregonc conclu.
sion that tho city will give minority In the
peiQbborhood Of two thousand for the
blacks. $50
Gen. Francis Thomas Meagber, secscia'
~ and Acting Governor Of tho Territory %
Montana, fell overheard from tho deck ofs
steamer a, Fon Benton, on tho lH inst
and was drowned. He was ono oftbe Irish
patriots oflS4s, and fought bravsly on tho
Uniosi side in tho late rebellion. ~ -
Tho report tina. tho Kins-ef I'aly would
bsye resort to a coup d sias, In order to nc.
comprIst, cerain ends at which he was sup
posed to aim, d now pronounced 10 DO un.
founded. He has been q constitutional king
for eighteen yean, and unconstitutional king
he means to live and die. " '' |
A church is to be erected In London to
commemorate the abolition ofslavery, and
10 DO at the same time memorial Of Pres
ident Lincoln. - ,r'n q
Senator johnson Of Maryland, and Davis
OF Kentucky, have arrived In Washington,
making the whole number Of Senators now
In session thirty.nine. ."7' %
At q recent ball in Paris tho richest toll.
e.s were covered with natural flowers; the
most aristocratic robes were plain white,
and nothing is moro becoming when worn
with the costliest jewels. Nothing but
Jewels were seen In the crowd, and another
feature was tho broad sash. a.. .,r d.
The Republicans of Maryland, without
distinction ofcolor, have signed memoria
earnestly praying Congress at it, present
session to pass bill abolishing all distinct.
ion in suffrage on account ofraee or color
throughout the Union. a,vn,..a.
A young man from St. Louis, who Ind
recently fallen heir to an estate worth a
quarter of million ofdollas. was drowned
at Oconowoe, Wis, while attempting to
save boy who had got beyond his depth.
A Justice oftl,e Peace, in Ohio, lately
solemnizcd tho marriage of John FILTER and
Tidy Jane sophroney Phillomela Merida
Massin Anderson Smith. .....r ..
The corn in Kansas has been injured
about ten per cent by grasshoPpers, and ten
per cent. by the floods; yet there will bc
an abuDdan. yield. Wheat is harvesting,
and oil through Southern Kansas there is
an unusually large crop. n 49,
They tell of the uuterided at Bridgeport,
Ct, who was especially eager to sec the
Presidential party, exclaiming, as he rushed
up to the car, al don't caro- shucks about
johnson; it's Panon Nashby that want
to see" ..,.,. ',....
A, dinner to Gov. Ward of Hudson. N.
J. last week, Brig Gen. Oakley. in respond.
ing for aThe Army" remarked that fthe
noble Phil. Keamey had lived he would
have been appointed Commander Of the
army of the United states after tho
second battle of Bull Run. This know
from official documents now on record"
II Il remarkable that the State authorities
should be required to destroy seized alcoholic
liquors. BY the simple process OF distiliation,
the worthless parts could DO separated from
the alcohol, and that obtained In pure stats
FOR use in the arts. Poor whhkey and bran
dies usually yield from 30 to 10 per cent. Of
Alcohol. the market price Of which Is $500 per
gallon. Probably the State loses, by this wan
ton waste Of alcohol, more that $4,000 pei
annum.-JournalQ Of Chemistry. ......
In Utah tho gulls arc making vigorous
campaign against the grasshoppcrs. The
Mormons say that they were once before
saved from famine in the same why.
The Secretary of States Office at Augusta
shows the report Of the School Committee
of plantation in Aroostook, in which each
member signed "his mark -F-.
Butler Evans, tho leading Shaker ut Leb.
anon, N. Y, says that no forcsaw trouble
few weeks before Mr.. Lncoln's DEATH,
and wrote to him to. como and stay among
the Shakers a few weeks. Tho letter ]:
on filo in tho State Department, and had
tho invitation been accepted Mr.. Lincoln
would not have been murdered. ..
Within the last three months upwards o
sixteen thousand emigmnts have lcn
Queenstown, ireland, for the United States
being two thousands moro than during the
corresponding period last year. -rgr
Five state prison convicts confined In the
Augusta jail, escaped on Sunday morning
by saving of tho bars Of their windows.
They have not yet been captured. or the
event the Boston Advertiser thus very
clearly speaks: - ~
Five ofthe convics in tho Augusta, No.,
Jail, while temporarily confined In the com
ty jail 10 Bangor, escaped early on Sunday
morning.
The wheat crop Of California for 1866
| amounted to si2.0O0,0O0. Two hundred
and fi1y thousand tons of wheat have been
exported during tho past harvest year, val.
uod at $4,000, 900. -c.r,
Judge Underwood Of virginia says that
the registration In that Estate" shows Ro.
publican majority Of $1,000. II seems th at
the oopperhesds have concluded thss the
'nigssr" knows TO much 70 vote With thsm,
and they have osteusib!y ceased tho bidding
for black mems votes which they commcoo.
cd . fox months ago. ... .. b.
Gen. Sickles has addressed long letter
10 Senator Tumbull, in which he states