Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-14
NEWS BY MAIL.

An indictment has been found against the
Eastern Railroad Company in causing the
death of Edward Sanborn at the Revere dis
aster in August last.
The boast of MIR. Greeley's friends that he
has so great strength in the South does not
seem TO have any sure foundation in fact.
The Louisiana delegation will certainly be
against him. This is pretty sure indication
that Virginia is not with him.
The French commissions OF capitulations
think that Jules Favre is resp .nsible for the
surrender of Paris and exculpates Trochu
and Vinoy from all blame.
The Havana students, sentenced to the
chain gang for desecrating Castanon's grave,
have been granted full pardon.
The supplementary apportionment bill,
which recently passed the House, and which
gives an additional Representative to New
Hampshire and Vermont, will be reported
upon favorably in the Senate this week.
Secretary Boutwell, recently remarked that
he believed President Grant would receive a
greater relative vote than any candidate since
Monroe, and many more democratic votes
than Greeley in the event of direct contest
between the two.
In the Senate, Saturday, an investigation
into the election OF Senators Pomeroy and
Caldwell Of Kansas was ordered. The ma
jority and minority reports of the French
arms investigating committee were presented.
The enforcement bill was considered. In
the House the tax and tariff bill occupied
nearly the entire session.
The Herald states that Saturday our gov
ernment Unexpectedly received telegram
saying that Great Britain had reconsidered
her action, and decided to hold supplementary
| treaty that neither nation shall ever be liable
for consequential damages in case of breach
of neutrality. Our government is not to
| withdraw its indirect claims, but leave the
| whole matter to the arbitrators with the two
| treaties before them. The Senate is to bt
asked at once to approve new supplement
| tary treaty.
Thomas Buchanan Reed. the American
painter and poet, died on Saturday. He was
| born in Chester county, Penn, March 12,
1922. AT the age of seventeen he went to
| Cincinnati and entered the sculptors studio.
but soon after devoted himself TO painting
In lS4I he removed to New York, and little
later to Boston, whe continued the study and
practice of his art, mostly portrait painting
lie took up his residence in Philadelphia in
1916 and visited Europe in 1850. He re-
turned to Cincinnati, but in 1858 he took up
his residence in Florence and remained there
until 1858. Then he again made Cincinnati
his home, but in 1866 he went to Italy and
until a month ago lived in Rome. Early this
spring he was seized with the malarious fever
and finding that there was no hope of recov-
cry, came back to die in his native country.
Ten days ago he arrived in New York, but
was unable to proceed farther. MIR. Reads
first volume of poems was published in Bos-
ton in lS47. His first long poem, THE New
PASTORAL" was published in 1855. OF bis
pictures, the Lost Pleiad," the "Water
Sprite," and "Longfellow's Children" are,
with one exception, the best known. The
war of the rebellion inspired both his brush
and his pen, and he made Sheridan's famous
ride to Winchester the subject of a large
painting, and also of poem which is perhaps
the most stirring and best remembered of all
the war songs written. 1t was written in the
short space of two hours, for James f. Muir
doch to recte at an entertainment for the
benefit of the soldiers given in Cincinnati.