The Portland daily press., 1863-04-29
COMMUNICATIONS.
Let ter from New Hampshire.
CONCORD, n. II. April "a. \

Ae you, Mr. Euitor, as Wel as you, MT. Sc
nior Proprietor, are both sons of the Granite
State, having each many relatives and person.
al friends and acquaiutances here, and as
many of your readers are from the same State
and have near relatives and friends here Also
will occasionally furnish brief article for
your paper, giving some facts of local char
acter, now and then, which l trust may be of
interest to you and them.
The SHOWS OF winter have entirely disap-
peared here and hereabout, and the farmers
are ploughing their driest grounds, have COM
menced sowing wheat, rye, oats, DC, and are
preparing their gardens to receive the variety
of seeds usually sown therein, and next week
the many acres of corn and potatoe lands
will receive attention. The farming interests
in this State are improving much; not one
third part so many farms are under mortgages
as were so cramped thirty years ago. Wool
growing is greatly on the increase, and few
days ago farmer In this county sold two
sheep out Of his flock Of eighty-four, for $50,
ten more for $500, and was offered $500 for 90
more, making $3.50 for "a sheep. Great i'm
provement has been made in neat stock and
horses in this State within the last ten or If
teen years. Much attention has also bee n
gwen to fruit trees of almost all kinds, and es-
pecalyto apple trees. In all our cities and
villages, and in the towns around them, more
attention is paid to the raising of garden veg
etabies. Very little money is expended for
the productions of Maryland, Delaware or
New Jersey gardens. We choose TO have our
first early potatoes, squashes, tomatoes, &c,
de-, fresh from our own gardens, and that too
when the season of the year has prepared
our constitutions and physical systems for
them. Indeed we are trying to live more
within ourselves, truer to nature, and to study
health more than to crafty vitiated appetites,
and posterity will be better for all this
Business, generally, has been good, the past
winter, in all our principal cities and villages,
and plenty everywhere exists in all the rural
districts of this State True, we miss many of
the sons of the Granite State, now in the ar
my, and they will be missed much upon the
farms upon which they used to labor; but our
villages can spare more or less men TO go and
take their places on the farms. We have some
five or six hundred men about our city now,
who should be where they can do some good
for their country, or else be allowed to go to
their quiet homes away from the temptations
Of city life and city vices. allude to the I'd
N. H. regiment, the old members of which
have been here ever since last February, and
the new members, as the 1Tth regiment, since
last October.
dare say you Pine State men now, but
formerly Granite State men, felt a deep inter-
est, last winter, in the political contest then
raging in this State, as we were the first, in
1853, to meet the political tide of the autumn
utionized Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Ohio, in the West, and New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and New York, in the center of the
Union. We met 1t boldly and successfully
and gave good example to Rhode Island and
Connecticut, and our victory had its influence
evidently upon city and town elections In the
West, that occurred this and last months. We
are now feeling deep interest in your Sep
tember election, as you are to open the au-
tumn campaign OF the contested States. True,
Vermont precedes you, few days, but she is
not close State. The Democrats of other
States will be very busy the coming 20 weeks
in aiding their friends in Maine to the extent
of their power. The men of that party are
tired Of being out Of power in the general
Government, and they talk here as though the
coming election in Maine will exert
great influence upon the Western and Mid
die State elections, in October and November
next, and, OF course, upon the Presidential
election, then soon TO follow. We in March,
had to meet and overcome the depressing in
fuences of the do-nothing policy of the Gov
ernment and army, from the close of the cleo
tions last Autumn until we were to vote. and
we pray you may not be oppressed by similar
inaction from now to the I4th of September
next. Two or three splendid victories would
have aided us much and greatly depressed the
spirits of the sympathzers with JEFF Davis
and his subjects; but everything seemed to go
as our opponents could desire, SO far as war
matters were concerned. The capture OF
Vicksburg, the taking of Richmond, the re-
demption of Tennessee, and few more sue
cessful movements OF our troops, would make
Republican victory easy in Maine in Sep
tember next, as it would then be evident that
no draft would be needed, and that the re-
bellion would be nigh its end. We had a few
deluded Republicans who had not lost all faith
In Mcclellan, who acted badly; but the report
OF committee on the Conduct of the War has
opened their eyes, as it has also the eyes of all
candid Democrats, and now Mcclellan is
among the men that have passed away, to be
remembered fayorably no more in the Granite
State, to the end of time.
We are hoping here that Congress will be
called together in July or August, and tha,
there will be action taken at once to relieve
from Office all high salaried officers whose sery.
ices are not permitted to be recognized in any
department of the government or army. il
Fremont, Mcclellan, and Butler, and host Of
the newly made Maj ior and Brigadier Generals
are to have no positions, let them and theil
staffs be at once dismissed; and it would bs
well If some thousands of drunken officer:
could be at once relieved from duty, and theil
places filed by sober officers OF lower rank
and by brave privates who have not sough
Office, but are hundred times better fitted t.
occupy responsible stations than those who
have obtained them by intrigue and corrup
ton 1t is to be hoped that the time is a
hand when office will be made to seek the man
and not the man the office. The land is full
OF intrigue, management and chicanery. ant
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