The Portland daily press., 1872-01-29

entertainment was passed and the meeting
adjourned.
THE REBEL GENERAL EwELL.-Gen. Ewell
whose death was announced in Fridays issue,
was born in the District of Columbia, about the
year 1920. He entered West Point as cadet
in 1886, and graduated in 1910, thirteenth in his
class. He was assigned to the Dragons as
Brevet Second Lieutenant, the fnll rank of
which grade he attained the LIST of November,
in the same year. In September, 1916, he was
promoted First Lieutenant, and served in Mex
leo as Senior Lieutenant of Colonel Mason's
Dragons. During the contest at Churubusco
he commanded a squadron of cavalry, and OBJ
tanned Captains brevet for bravery, Ito the
full rank of which grade he succeeded two
years later, when he commanded Company G,
First United States Dragons, In 1S47 he great
ly distinguished himself in conflict with the
Indians of New Mexico. In 1858, he took COM
mand of the troops garrisoning Fort Buchanan,
in New Mexico, where he remained about a
year. AT the commencement of the war, in
May, 1861, he resigned his connection with the
United States army, and Immediately joined
the rebel armies in Virginia. where he was ap-
pointed Brigadier General of the provisional
forces He commanded the Second Brigade of
Beauregard's army corps at Bull Run, on the
21st of July, 1861. He was afterward detailed
for operations in the Shenandoah Valley, and
occupied Front Royal He participated in the
battle of Cedar Mountain, in August of that
year; in the subsequent operations against Gen.
Pope, and in the Maryland campaign. At the
battle of Charlottesville, then MAY, 1869 a
Major General, he commanded division of
Stonewall Jacksons corps, and on the death of
Jackson was promoted to the command of the
CORPS with the rank of Lieutenant General
He led this corps in Pennsylvania during June,
1868, and fought it at Gettysburg in July of
that year. General Ewell, during one of the
battles in which he was engaged, lost one of his
legs above the knee, and afterward had to be
strapped ON the horse when in the field On
QUE occasion his horse was killed under him,
and the iajuries he received caused him to be
relieved from active service during the latter
part of 1863
In PRESENTING an appropriation bill in the
House the other day, Mr.. Garfield analysed the
statement of the Secretary of the Treasury with
respect to the nature and origin of the expenses
Ioi OAO PuI pOcc VI ouOWlllS W Wudb eAC6uG we
feel the burden of the civil war yet and the
prospect of getting back to what may be called
the normal rate of expenditures. Setting in
one group all the amounts paid during the year
ON account of the late war, he found them to
amount to $175, 543, 40 27. Making a second
group of the expenditures for the military and
naval establishments, he found these amounted
to S45, L, 551 49, A third group includes all the
items of the civil service, and all the remain
ing items of expenditure for the year, except
payment of the public debt. These amount to
$70,9O6, 749 TO- the total being 1921, 564, AL 49,
1t will thus be seen that last year over sixty
per cent. of the amount expended by the
country was directly for the late war, fourteen
per cent. was for the support of the army and
navy, and twenty-five per cent. for the other
departments of the government.
Judging from the effect of wars upon the ex-
penditures of our own and other countries in
the past, Mr.. Garfield thinks the American
can look for a steady reduction of the govern
ment expenses until 1876, when he thinks we
shall reach 125,000,000 for ordinary purposes
and $95,OO0,000 for interest on the public debt.
1t is now stated that evidence has been found
showing that JEFF, Davis, instead of being born
in Christian county, Kentucky, in 1908, was
born in Stockbridge, Mass Persons who claim
to be well informed say that "Jeff" was born
in old Stockbridge, Mass, in 1908, and removed
to Kentucky with his father, when a small
child. His father is said to have been wheel
wright by trade, and the house where he lived
on one side of the road, and the shop where he
yad -: a.
ed by living witnesses. After all, the illustri-
GUS rebel comes from plebeian stock.
COMPULSORY ATTKNDANCE-The following
is the full text of the bill providing for COM
pulsory attendance on thepublic schools report
ed from the committee on education:
Sec. 1. Every parent, guardian, or other
personin the State of Maine having control of
any child or children between the ages of eight
and fourteen years inclusive, shall be required
to send any such child or children to q pnblic
school for period of at least twelve weeks in a
year, at least six weeks of which shall be con-
secutive, unless such child or children are ex-
cused from such attendance by the school Off
GERS of the town in which such parent or guard
ian resides, upon its being shown to their Salts
faction that the bodily or mental condition has
been such as to prevent the attendance at
school or application to study for the period re-
quired, or that such child or children are
taught at private school or at home in such
branches as are usually taught in primary
schools, or to have acquired the ordinary
branches of learning taught in the public
schools; prouided in case a public school shall
not be taught for three months in the wear with
in one and one half miles by the nearest trav-
elled road OF the residence of any person with
IN this state, he shall not be liable to the pro-
visions of this act.
SECT. 2. In any case, any parent, guardian.
or other person shall fail to comply with the
provisions OF this act, said parent, guardian. or
other person, shall be liable to a fine not ex-
ceedlng five dollars, for the first and each Of
fence, to be prosecuted in any court comnetent
to try the same. Said fine shall be collected
by the school officers of said city, town or plan
tation, in the name of the same, in an action of
debt or on the case, and when collected, shall
be paid to the treasurer of the town in which
the defendant resided when the offence was
committed, and by him accounted for the same
as money raised for school purposes.
SECT. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the school
officers OF every city, town or plantation in this
State, to cause to be posted three notices of
this law, in public and conspicuous places in
said city, town or plantation, or published in
one newspaper in the town for three weeks
during the month of March in each year the
cost Of each publication to be provided for as a
current expense Of said municipality.
SEC. 1t shall be the duty of the superin
tending school committee or town supervisor.
to enforce the several provisions of this act.
and such school officer or officers negecting to
prosecute the fine within ten days after a writ
ten notice has been served on him by any tax
payer in said town, unless the person SO com
planned of shall be excused by the selectmen of
towns or the mayor and aldermen of cities. shall
be liable to fine of not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars, which fine shall be prose-
cuted for in the name of the treasurer of said
city or town, and the fine when collected shall
be paid to the treasurer, to be accounted for as
in section two of this act.
LUCKY FELLows.-This is from the Maine
Standard: