Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-10-28
LETTER FROM MAINE.
[ Correspondence Of tie Richmond Enquirer.
porTt.yp MAINE. Oct. 20, 1859.


Dear Old Enqurer-Being on short visit
down East, thought that it would not be taken
miss bv YOU to drop few rcmarkS-eSpecially
as You have, upon one or two former occasions.
done me the honor Of acknowledging, in due
orm, my poor contributions
Well, in regard to my trip, must, with all
candor. saw, that ! am decidedly, sOmcrhdt
pleased. The principal places | have visited,
after leaving New York. are New London, Bos-
ten, Portsmouth, and this place; but also con
,inued my trip as far East as Eastport. where
>oiourned only couple Of days. This being
the most Eastern city in the Union, one must
not grumble Mt being, for two or three weeks
at the time cnvcopcd in fog dense enough TO
cut with a carving knife. and help you to any
part YOU may desire. 1t is by no means pre-.
possessing to 4 stranger; and with It's fog and
fish was heartily tired. Ii is also very noted
for It's tides which rise and fall from IS TO 50
feet At high tide nearly onc.hali OF the town
(,hc lower part) is inundated, and at low water
sou can walk across the river to the Island OF
Campo Bello, which belongs to Great Britain
Mr. Webster permitting Lord Ashburton TO get
at lcast that much the advantage Of him in the
famous Ashburton treaty. On account of this
extreme rise and fall Of the tides, they have
peculiar way of making fast the vessels to the
wharYes, which they do by rope from the
mast to the wharf, (Which will slide up and
down according to the rise of fall and not
from the hgN of the vessel, as is the case III all
other scaports--thus, at very low tide you see
vessels made fast by 4 rope from the topmast to
tho wharf, and when the hull is some thirty or
forty feet down, and frequently on the bottom.
ihis PortlandD is Z very pretty place indeed,
being beautifully and somewhat lottiiy situated,
well built with many most charming residences
and tastily arranged grounds, wide and COM
mod;ous streets, and one Of the finest harbors
in the world, which is soon to welcome the
monster Of steamers, the Great Eastern, and
which. Of COURSE is. at this time, quite sub
icct of conversation and excitement. There have
been already built for her accommodation, two
immense piers, with two large store houses,
and also erected (but which is not quite CON-
pleted) by the late representative from tins
Congressional District Hon. Mr.. Wood very
fine and large Hotel, instigatcd BY the an:
ticiratcd crowds the leviathan will bring and
be the cause OF bringing TO the place. Having
made longer stop here than in any other town
in New England, have, Of course, made more
acnuaintanccs, and am much pleased TO say
that have not only found them 10 he eN-
tremcly social. hosptable, and agreeable gentle
men, but great many oil them Ia large ihaJori-
" whose acquaintance have msdc) good mag
mum bonum Democrats; just such as you ahd
Ike TO mix with and they tell me that q
very large majority OF the most rhsPect"btc
classes are the same 1t is only some few who
lead off and influence the unsusplclons and
ignorant; thereby creating a political capital
out of the eternal niger question:, leading
them TO believe that the Democrats tespecia!iy
the Southern oncs) arc opposed to the Tree
white labor of the North. and would, II they
could. introduce negro slave labor amongst
them to compete with them which, oi course
is only for political effect. but which they are
too dciuded 10 see the fal>itv Of such al arg'l.
rncnt
| am happy to sec that our great and So-
rious Wise has many ardent admirers IN tins
section: they look upon him as the cmbodI-
mcnt Of Democracy as taught by the Constitu-
ton and Bill of Rights; the genuine thing II
self with 10 adulteration no lukcwarm3c>s, no
backwardncsS, but with the letter, as well as
the spirit. which does not possibly admit OF
two interpretations. They say here that they
had rather have man Of that kind in the Pres-
Dental Chair, $50 rs they would know when
and where to find him, when wanted) than n
man who is one thing to-day and another to.
morrow; who is for the protection OF all ktHds
of propcrtv in the Territories to-day and OPP
posed to it tomorrow, or next week, and ready
to catch at any political cats-paw which
NAV for moment spring up. ] have no
doubt from what | see and hear in this vi
c;nitv, that Mr. Wise is stronger here than
;,,, ,Ga 4;
stand as good a chance OF carrying any Of the
New England States in 1860; for | assure you
that the good and true men Of this section o.!
country, and, especially, about here, are
as much in favor Of having all species OF
property projected, in all places. const'-
tutionally and lawfully, as any other men,
but where neither law or justice ihter-
venc they themselves, arc, Of course, not
disposed to do So There is no doubt That
Gov. Wise has, by far, the inside track OF MI
Douglas, and is gaining considerably every day
for the nomination at Charleston; and if their
claims arc carefully examined, and looked
into with an uaprcjudiccd eye, (Which there is
no doubt they will be at Charleston.) cannot,
,or nv life. sec what possible chance Douglas
has. for the South cannot and will not touch
him with forty foot pole and Gov. Wise will
hayo in the Convention just as many friends
from the North and East do not ask to see
,he man who has done more within the last
five or ten years for the Democratic party than
the gallant Wise, but ask TO see the men (and
tn ir names would have 10 embrace thousandS)
who have done as much. His election as 20,
vernon OF your noble old State, i'll. lsj5-and
which am convinced was caused by his own
brillian: talents, indomitable cxertions and her
culean labors both physical and mentai-"as