The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-09-12
Pom ,em again !.--That Celebration

mESSRS. EDlIOhS.-oUt WOTG IL YOU please
The reputation of our State is in issue. Yon
publish no less than three different commune
cations, charging me with injustice" and
substantially with untruth. You 90 a little
out of your way to endorse the charge, by de-
claring that the Statement" in type, "exoner-
ates the committee and Mr.. Dcris from all
blame" And then you finish off by saying,
1--WE trust all parties win be content to let the
matter drop Can't do it gentlemen. To hit
a fellow a clip and holler enough" lie not the
way to stop controversy.
! Let us see how the matter stands now. My
charge is that Mr.. N. J. Davis furnished invit-
| ed guests from all parts of our country, and
| all British America, at the Popham celebia-
ton, with unwhoesome food-with garbage
and carrion - with what was called 'can
| chowder," which had been kept till it was "of-
fensive," a 81 IL cents head. All the rest
was but "inducement' and aggravation. And
what is the answerp Let me begin with Mr..
Gilman, "the Hon. c. J. Gilman, Chief Mar
shal,' a gentleman, should be sorry to dis
parage in any way, though he does attribute
opinions to me that l do not entertain, and
marks with inverted commas, language new
er used. did not accuse the Managers"
but was determined to find out who was an
swerable for the loathesome abomination
complained OF.
Mr.. Gilman's answer to the charge against
Mr.. Davis, for selling unwholesome food to
distinguished guests" is manifold. He says,
LIST. "We did the best we could for convey
ances." Granted. But what has that to do
with the clam-chowder?
I'd. Instead of 1000 persons in attendance,
the highest number estimated three times
that number took part in the celebration"
said nothing about those who took part in
the celebration;" l only spoke of those who
took part" in the rotten-egg soup. If there
were more than guessed so much the worse
for Mr.. Davis; and we rather think there were.
because we are assured that 500 tickets were
sold in Bath. But, whether 5000 or 1000, what
has that to do with the clam-chowder?
Sd. "As TO the collation., the Committee
were content to leave this to the management
of N. j.. Davis, Esquire, OF the Commercial
House" OF course therefore,i it being called
collation., and provided by N. j. Davis, Is
qnire, of the Commercial House," we are fully
answered, however troublesome and offensive
may have been that clam-chowder and can
have nothing more to say
4th. "The tent blew down, and 81. n,
knew it." Ergo the clam-chowder must have
been good-equal to the reputation of Mr..
Davis at least-or if tainted. the fault was in
the high wind.
9Th. The Committee paid for their tickets
and gave ''weeks of unremtting labor without
CHARGE and therefore, admitting the defence
to be true, and we do not question its truth. the
clam-chowder must have been well worth CON-
ing from the British Provihces--to smell Of
that being all that Mr.. MCGEE got for his
money.
9th And the Committee "sympathize with
Mr.. Davis, who did all that ,ras possible un-
der The circumstances" Ergo J. N. is 'uJust,'
and the complaint is 'uncalied for" and the
clam-chowder of piece with other entertain
ments and "colations," at the Commercial
House. But how happens it, Mr.. Editor, that
while Mr.. Case of the Advertiser declares that
tiit StuHh anu OuttfS CHI IL
''nasty,' and "rotten,' and you yourself say,
1--WE think the Committee Of arrangements
trere quite as much dissatisfied as our cor
respondent" that Mr. Gilman is ready to GER
tify that n. j. Davis Esquire ibid all that was
possible under the circumstances"-ss if he
couldn't have owned up-tipped over the ket-
ties, aud refused his 81 l-2 cents head for
the cam-chowder!
But enough, in reply to Mr.. Gilman. Next
we have the Mayor of Bath, Mr.. Bailey, who
had nothing at all to do with the clam-chow-
der, and is not charged with participation or
completely in any way. So far from this in
deed, is the fact, that he offered me the key of
his house, and invited me and my wife to 90
there and take possession, if we should arrive
first, and we will venture to say he, if put upon
the stand, would 60 as far at least us we do, in
relation to that clam-chowder.
Next, we have the reply of N. ]. Davis
Esquire, of the COMMERCIAL HOUSE, who,
after repeating the arguments of Mr.. Gilman,
AYERS that he gets from so cents to $3.50 Il
head for his cottations, dinners, &c; that the
kettles were new, which might have given
the chowder an odd taste,"-but how about
the sDteuf l said nothing about the taste:
and that the bowls came back to be filed with
what he calls 'stinking chotcder"-for did
not.--which only proved what l said first
about iamished wolves; that zone kettle full of
the potatoes was not sufficiently done to suit
the taste of alr'-admitted and finally, that
/ seem determined to throw the blame on
him that the multitude were kept Gagged in the
hot sunshine" which is great mistake, for l
do no such thing; and that "Me committee
hare not expressed one ,rord Of dissatis-
faction, to his knoctedge." To which, if
true, have only to say, the more shame for
them! With the reputation of the State of
Maine, of the Maine Historical Society, at
stake, they well deserve to be gibbeted afresh,
on their own account, if they know what
have said TO be true, or even if they know it
to be false; for they haze not denied-and
therefore have admitted-all that | have had
to say about the feast of shells and the faint
ed CLANS. jim.
Proper Rebuke of a SecessiOnist.
We learn that on Wednesday last a well-to-