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The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Letter from the State Capital.

AUGUSTA, August 3, 1868.
To the Editor Of the Press:
Col. Smith of the Cavalry regiment has sent
to Adutant General Hodsdon, all that re-
mains of the regimental flag which was carri-
ed from here when the regiment left the State.
These colors are so badly worn and rent as to
be totally useless, except as a momento to be
placed in the archives of the State.
Col. Smith says they we're with us in the
hottest of the fight at Brandy Station. at AL
die, Middleburg. Uppervile and Shepards-
town, in all which engagements this regiment
did most honorable aud valuable service"
have been permitted to copy the following
extract from letter from Col. Chamberlain
of the 10th regiment. The letter is dated
July 2lst:
within month, this regiment has been
engaged in the most active and honorable
service, taking a conspicuous part in three
fights, in as many different States within that
time, and in all Of them doing as well as the
best. At the great battle OF Gettysburg, how
ever the regiment won distinguished honor.
We were assigned 10 the extreme lett of our
line of battle, when the fiercest assault was
made. whole rebel brigade was opposed to
this regiment. charging on us with desperate
fury in column Of regiments, so that We had
TO contend with n front of fresh troops after
each struggle. After two hours fighting on
the defensive, our loss had been so great and
the remaining men were so much exhausted,
having fired all our sixty rounds and all the
cartridges we eould gather from the scattered
boxes of the fallen around us, friend and Toe,
saw no way left but to take the offensive
Accordingly, we charged on the enemy, try
ing cold steel on them. The result was, we
drove them entirely out of the field, killing
and wounding one hundred and fifty of them,
and taking three hundred and eighty prison.
ers and two hundred and seventy five standsIof
arms. The prisoners taken were from five
different regiments, from Alabama and Texas
twelve of the number were officers, some OF
the staff of the General commanding the
brigade. They admitted that they had charg-
| ed on us with a brigade, and said that they
had fought dozen battles and never had
been stopped before.
| We were afterwards ordered or asked to
carry height which afforded the rebels a
very advantageous position. and was consid-
| cred by our Generals, Il strong point to carry
| aud exhausted as we were, the one hundred
and ninety eight bayonets, had left after that
| days fighting, charged up that hill, and CARR
| ed everything before them, taking many more
prisoners and arms, but what is better, taking
the heights and holding them, the darkness
which had now come on, deceiving the enemy
as to our numbers. -
Our services have been officially acknowl.
edged, though no partial friend has published
our praises In the State, whose name we are
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
The Louisiana Planters, Committee.

In the Press of Monday we took occasion to
notice the claims of Messrs Malhoit, johnson
and Cottman, who recently addressed letter
to President Lincoln, claiming to be COM
mittee chosen by and representing "the plan
tiers of Louisiana" We expressed doubts OF
their authority to speak in any such behalf.
Since that article was written we have read
communication in the New York World, fiom
its own correspondent, lanti-emancipationl,
dated New Orleans, July 23d, in which the
authority of this committee and their mission
are carefully considered. He says:
That Mr.. Lincoln had refused the application of
these gentlemen well known in this city by pri-
vaie letters received by the mails OF previous
steamer gave you last winter a full report Of the
planters meeting and conference with zen. Banks,
aud do not wish TO refer to ii now, more than TO
say that the meeting was composed of fifteen or
ttcenty planters from Ldfourche, and the committee
making the application TO Nj Lincoln say they were
appointed to negotiate by the planters Of the state
OF Louisiana meaning these fifteen or twenty men
from Lafourche.
The correspondent of the World is acquain-
ted with two members of the committee, says
they are Union men and planters, while the
third man of the committee is a physician, not
planter, but politician of some eminence
in years past. In relation to one of the COM
mittee he makes the following interesting dis
closure:
Mr.. Bradish johnson is the inhcritor of the Wood.
lands estate and his brother who devised the PLAN
tatioD to him, made condition in the will that in
manumitted, outftted with fifty dollars each. and a
free passage to Liberia and the time the perform
ance of all this was last October. Meanwhile Gov.
Sbepley has issued order that ANY person held
slave, and legally entitled to freedom may bring
suit for his her freedom in any conrt of record,
against the person claiming or holding him or her
a slave" Ii is said the Woodland negroes have
brought suit for their liberty. OF course they will
he freed, not under the provisions of the will
quring their outfit TO Liberia, but by Shepley's
order.
Says the same correspondent, and we invite
the Argus special attention to the statement:
II is creditable to Mr. Lincoln that he should dis
miss the application of these gentlemen claiming 10
represent 1.-THE planters of the State of Louisiana
He does not subscribe to the reasons given
by the President for dismisng this self-con-
sthuted committee, ut-an.i-emancipations
as he undoubtedly is, and writing to an anti
emancipation paper-he approves the dis
missal itself. He also says that "flteen out
of twenty of the voters in the state are in
armed or avowed hostility to the United
States government"
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Morgan and the Indiana ..Bu,ternu.s."

The "butternuts" of Indiana appear to have
learned wisdom from Morgan's recent raid.
Their voice, for once, was Tor war and not for
peace.-None hold back, debating whether IL
would be constitutional to shoot a rebel in In
diana. The contempt with which they were
treated by the rebels probably had sonthing
to do with this sudden change OF views. n cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial says:
The guerillas did not attempt to disguise
the contempt they felt tor their cowardly half
way friends. Lieut.. Adams, of Morgan's band,
with squad, after burning bridge north of
Salim, went to a Quaker farmers house hard
by and asked for some milk. The Friend de-
murely accompanied the lieutenant to the
spring house and told him to help himself and
men. While drinking the milk the following
conversation occurred:
Lieut.. Adams" You'er Quaker,ain you?
Friend livery soberly )-"Yea."
Lieut. A.-"Then you'er an abolitionist"
Friend ditto Yea"
Lieut.A. fercely) IA staunch Union man?
Friend (emphatically Yea"
Lieut.. A. later usel-"Got any butter
nuts around here?"
Friend-"iea."
Lieut.. A. -"Then why in--don't yon hang
them? We have way Of choking such peo-
Pile down our way"
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Conditions of Peace.

Rev. DIR. Ellis OF Charlestown, Mass, the edi-
tor of that excellent bi-monthly, the Christian
Examiner, and himself one of the ablest men
in the Unitarian denomination, delivered
very interesting discourse at the First Parish
Church on Sunday evening last, taking as his
text that appropriate and significant passage,
the last clause of the 32d verse of the 18th
chapter of st. Luke's gospel: HE sendeth an
ambassage and desireth conditions OF peace
We are precluded by want of space from Civ
ing full report of the sermon as we should
like to do. He said that the war now raging
in our country was waged at the beginning
and still is, as a conflict primarily between
right and expediency or religion and policy.
But now after two years of duration, with
varying fortune, but slow and steady gain
upon the side OF the government, victory begins
to side with our arms, and the horizon is bright
with prospects of returning peace. Now what
shall be the conditions of the peace which
seems to be so near as that we may now dis
cuss its terms. While disbelieving that the
pulpit ought to interfere with politics there
are positions which it ought TO take. Expe-
diency declares that the terms of peace should
be so and so, and absolute right as firmly de-
clares the opposite. Neither can be explicitly
followed to the extent of their declaration;
there must be such a compromise as the peo-
pie will sustain. Politicians understand this,
but will not heed the party of principle unless
it gives forth the decided average sentiment Of
the majority of the people. In view of the
awful loss of life and the consequent sorrow
thereby in thousands of homes, he would not
fear to allow the dead, including those OF the
rebels, to say what should be the price Of their
sacrifice. And there are ways in which such
views could be obtained. But as all treaties
Of peace are matters of compromise to some
extent, and as nations advance in civilization,
and especially in their conception of the genius
and spirit Of christianity, the work Of settle
ment between what is right and what is expe-
dent is rendered all the more difficult. Aud
without going further to trespass upon the
domain of what he considered the purely
polite, he urged that We should take decided
stand upon as high position of absolute right
and religion as we think the people will sus-
tain us in, and let the war be settled by-he
almost hoped-a new set of men who have
never made speech or written letter, fresh
from the people, unknown, perhaps, but none
the less competent to do the work. as his in
tercourse with all classes of men daily con-
WINGED him. There should be no compromise
of principle, but of policy there might be.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
BY Telegraph to Evening Papers.

The dispatches Monday, to the Evening pa
war.
The Washington dispatches TO the New
York papers state that a party had been ar
rested, en- route for Richmond, upon whom
had been found very important documents
from that city, addressed to Juff Davis, among
which were accurate maps of all the fortiica-
tons and delenses Of Washington, and de-
scription of the works, the number of guns
and the strength OF the garrisoDs.
A fire was communicated to the hay in the
government sheds, in Washington, Sunday
night, by an incendiary. About $50 bales OF
hay and 1000 tons of ice were destroyed.
A Morris Island letter OF July Both, Elves
the follawing casualties:
9th Maine regiment, July goth, Musician
Amos Hanson, Co. K, killed; oath, Moses
Goodwin, Co. l, killed.
The Port Royal South says Savannah is de-
serted of troops. The people are in a panic.
They have batteries and guns, but no troops
to make them available.
The prize steamer Planet, captured off Mo-
bile by the u. s. steamer Sackawanna, arriv-
ed at New York Sunday. She is 400 tons
burthen, has 675 bales of cotton and l25 bbls
turpentine on board. Vessel and cargo are
valued at S250,000.
The British ship Bansher, prize to U. 5.
steamer Niphon, arrived at Boston Monday
She was captured on the 10Th uit, off Viii
mington, n. G. She cleared New York on
tine 10th ult, in ballest, for Matanzas. and was
making her way into Wilmington, probably
with a view to obtain cargo OF cotton.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
GEN. GRANTS PoLrrIos.-The Galena (Ill.)

GEN. GRANTS PoLrTIcs.-The Galena (IlL)
Advertiser clears up this matter as follows:
Some papers, sympathizng with the rebels,
having claimed our iellow-citizen, Major Cen
eral Grant, as a democrat" it may be proper
for us to say word touching his politics,
speaking by the best authority. Being in the
army up TO within a few years before the war
broke out, and being a military man, he never
cast vote in his lie. In 1860 he was friend
ly TO the success of the late Judge Douglas,
though he often expressed himself as having
great confidence in the honesty and patriotism
of Mr.. Lincoln. His father, the venerable
Jesse X. Grant, now residing in Covington,
Kentucky, is a stauneh Republican, and voted
for Lincoln and Hamiin. His brother, Mr.. o.
III. Grant, now in charge of the business house
in this city in which the General was engaged
before entering the service, is one OF our most
active and efficient Republicans and Union
men. The General himself is now thorough
and devoted supporter of the Administration
and its whole policy, without qualification or
evasion. In 1862 he was one of the signers TO
the call on Mr.. Washburne to again become a
candidate for Congress for this Congressional
District. He looks with horror upon the "peace
party" of the North, which is instituting 'fire
in the rear" of our gallant army which he has
led to victory and glory.
All his friends and supporters in this city
are Republicans or War Democrats, while the
Copperheads are cordially hostile to him. In
the late splendid celebration here, got up in his
honor, as the hero Of the Mississippi and the
capturer OF Vieksburg, the leading Demo
Gratis" utterly refused to participate In IL, and
while the dwellings of our loyal people blazed
In magnificent illumination, the houses of the
others mentioned were closed in darkness, and
were as black as midnight. To those interest
nH xpa fhar tl..t <hnr nj no
litical status OF Gen. Grant is not matter OF
doubt.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Notice or Foreclosure.

NOTICE is hereby given that Anderson Brewer.
~ Jnnor.by mort age deed dated September 14fh
A. ID. 1851. and recorded in Cumberland County
Registry OF Deeds book 3Os. page 40s conveyed I'M
TO the undersigned Gershom Bliss and Charles Bliss
certain parcel OF land situated in Freeport in said
county. with the buildings thereon. bounded as iol-
lows: Beginning at the easrerly corner Of aud of
William j, Collins, on the shore of Maquoit Bay:
thence running northwesterly by land OF said Col
Inns to the road leading TO Flying Point thcnce MOI
therly by said road TO land of Isaac Mann; thence
southeastery BY said Msnns land TO the shore aofe-
said; thence by said shore southerly 20 the hrst
bound-excepfing out OF the above premises grave
yard rs now enclosed aud occupied that the eondi-
ton of said mortgage deed has been broken; and
closure of the same.
Dated this LIST day Of August, A. d. 1853
GERSHOM BLISS.
w3wI CHARLES BLISS.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

sB- The Southwestern rebels have been
exceedingly unfortunate in their means of To-
comotion. Com. Porter captured all their
steamboats, and Gen. Grant has captured the
locomotives and other rolling stock of three
OF their principal railroads. The Richmond
papers may well mourn the loss of the forty
locomotives, and say that ii is irreparable.
The rebels could build an iron-clad ram more
easily than a locomotive.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

LARGE LOT OF NEW PARASoLS for sale
at haJ price. Also new SUN UMBRELLAS rs cents
to 81 under old prices, at
G0wELL & MoRRELL'S
Mrs. Toys Patent Corset and Skirt Supporter,
the best article of the kind ever inv nted for sale at
wholesale and retail at les, cost than other kinds,
at GowELL & MoRRELL's. agents for Portland.
One hundred Striped Cashmere Shawls. new pat
tern, just opened at
GOWELL & MORRELL'S.
Also large assortment of Dress Goods and other
articles selling cheap for cash.
jy2S eod&wti
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Notice or ForecIosure.

DUBLIc NOTICE il hereby given that Elizabeth
u Dyer conveyed TO the undersigned 6ershom
Bliss and Charles Bliss BY mortgage decd dated Oc-
tober 9th. A. ID. 1858, aud reeord-d In Cumberland
County Registry OF Deeds. book 2ss page 423 GER
county. bounded as follows: Commencing in line
with the Point road adjoining land Of Anna billing
ham, thence running westerly by said Dilling CHAINS
land ono hundred Feet. TO land Of Elizabeth Pool;
thence southery by said POOLS land fifty feet; thence
easterly BY said Pools land hundred feet said
road: thence norhely by said road fifty feet to the
first bound: that the condition in said mortgage
deed has been broken. and that by reason whereof
the undersigned claim foreclosure of the same.
Dated this LIST day Of August, A. d. 1868.
GERSHOM BLISS.
w3w 7 CHARLES BLISS.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
SIP ECIAL TICES s.
Editor offbe Prose

Editor Of the Press:
DEAR SIR :-with your permission l wish to say
to the readers of your paper that will send by
turn mail TO all who wish it, (reel Recipe. with full
directions for making and using simple Vegetable
Balm. that will effectually remove, in ten days Pin
piles, Blotches. Fan. Freckles and all Impurities of
the Skin. leaving the same soft, clear, smooth and
beautiful.
will also mail free to those having Bald Heads or
Bare Faces, simple directions and information that
will enable them TO start full growth OF Luxurant
Hair Whiskers, or a Moustache in less than 30 days.
All applications answered by return mail without
charge. Respectfully yours,
TH0S. +. CHAPMAN, Chemist
aug3 3md&w7 No. s3l Broadway, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

proud to bear, and which we believe we have
not dishonored. protected my men in every
possible way, but I grieve over the loss Of
thirty-two gallant fellows who fell on that
field, which their courage helped to make
field of honor and regret to lose the serv-
ces of one hundred and two t102) who were
wounded there. Besides this, in our other
fights, we had loss of three killed and six
teen wounded and missing"
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

strife? Is 1t not cheaper to pay for SLAVES
than to fight their mastersa No person, it
seems to US. can oppose this suggestion ON such
grounds, unless he thinks less of blood than
of treasure; more of slavery than Of honora-
BILE peace.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
DIED.

In this city, July %, Nellie S. infant daughter of
&. r. and e. A. Hitchings. aged weeks days.
In this city. July 81. at the Aims House. Mr.. Jos.
Harrington. aged 30 years.
In westbrook, Aug 2. Louisa D., youngest child of
Geo. II and Lucy Ellen Bailey. aged -.
lR-Funeral this Tuesday, afternoon, at ~ oclk.
from the residence of Henry Bailey, westbrook.
In saccarappa, Aug 2, Mr.. Thomas Jordan. aged
IS years.
In Yarmouth. July 20, Capt. Samuel Perry. aged
90 years.
In Andover, Mass, July 26, Mrs. Elizabeth W.
Hitchngs, aged 10 years.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Veronica Quinquefolia.

TUyHIs new and never falling Purifier OF the Blood,
u far surprising ssrsaparilia, efadieaies every
hind Of serof la Mercury. Cancer, Drofsy, Rheum-
atism Cont. Leprosy late and recent Consumption.
Packare with directions. So; double. 80 Paerorf.
.,ssas T,sls.-nrompt reiief-S5. Send per mail Cir
s c',,sr traits. send stamp. w.R. PRINCE.
augS d&wlts tiushlng, n. FORK.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
SPOKEN
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
AND
I'd Senatorial District Convention.

The Republicans and all theirs who are uncondi-
tionally loyal to the Government of the United
States. and who support all its measures for the sup
preston of the Rebellion. and resolved TO spare
no endeavor to maintain our National Union. both
In principle and territorial boundary; and who are
willing 10 postpone all differences of opinion in rea-
tion TO former political questions and preferences
It'll have achieved the objects for which the war
on our part is wagcd-to wit. THE usDisPUrED sU-
PKENAcY OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN Irs An
Client AND EiGHTFUL LIMITS" requested to
send delegates TO meet in the
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
MARINE NEWS
PORT OF PORTLAND.


Monday. .....................Aug 3.
ARRIVED.
Brig ID Lincoln, Weber, Boston.
Sch Welcome Home tBr Hatfield. Hillsboro NIB.
Sch l. A May, Baker, Boston.
Sch olive Elizabeth Hamilton Boston
Sch Young Hume Portsmouth
SIGNAL Is p mi for a bark, showing winslow's
signal.
Sch Flying Cloud. Hardenbrook. Philadelphia
ii White
Sch Harriet Baker. Weber. New York; York
& Son.
Ship United States. 1022 tons built at brunswick
in 1854, rating All. has been sold at Dundee. Scot
land, to go under the British flag
Az ship Leopdas $50 tons, built Mt Warren In lSsS,
A herm brig of 352 tons. called the Olga" built
by master Daley, recently launched At Camden.
She is owned BY parties in New York. Mr. Daley
laid the keel for schooner OF about 200 tons, which
he intends to complete this fall
Master Cary has on the stocks at Camden, a bark
OF $50 tons, which will be finished in October, and he
will another Immediately after this one is
finished.
DOMESTIC PORTS.
SAN FRANCIsCo-Ar LIST inst tell ship Linda,
NEW ORLEANs-Below 25th brig Ella Reed. I'm
Philadelphia
BALTiMORE-Cld 3lst. schs Typhoon Treworgy.
Boston; Loduskia. Call Bath.
PHILAUELPHIA-Ar 8lsf, ship Wallace Reed,
Key West; brigs Carver. Meyers Matanzss; Nan
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
Maine Historical society.

FUvHE annual meeting of the Maine Historical Soci
i ETY. will DO held at the rooms of the Society, in
Bowdoin College. Brunswick, on
THURSDAY, August eta. 1853.
at O'Clock. A. NJ.
EDWARD BALLARD. Secretary.
Brunswick, July 20, 1868. dtd
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

rR-Consumption aud Catarrh and all diseases OF
the Throat and Lungs successfully treated by IsHA-
LArIos, By c. MoRsE, NJ. D.,
aul6 % cod Corner Smith aud Congress SITS.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
NEW CITY HALL.


On Thursday, August Goth, 1868,
at 10 ococs in the forenoon the purpose of NOM
inatin g candidates Tor
JUDGE OF PROBATE,
CLERK rHk COURTS,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
Co MY TREASURER,
-FOUR SENATOR'S
Also to elect n County Committee for the ensuing
year.
Each city and town win be entitled to send
delegate, and an additional delegate for every hye
hundred inhabitantsi fraction OF three hundred
entities town to additional delegate-as follows:
Baldwin North Yarmouth
Brdgton New Gloucester
brunswick 10 Otisheld
Zane Elizabeth Portland "a
Casco Powna
Cumberland Raymond
Falmouth Standish
Freeport scarborough
Oorham Sebago
GRAY Westbrook ii
Harpswell Windham
Harrison Yarmouth
Naples
The County Committee will be i'm session at the
Hall. August Goth. at 8 o clock A. NJ.
requested forward the of their delegates TO
the chairman of the County Committed, IS soon a.
they may be chosen.
BY order of the Republican County Committee.
LEWIS b. SMITH, Portland,
Chairman.
Portland, August g. 1863. eod&wtaugD
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
NOTICE.

MIR. HENRY LoRING. having this day retired
ANA from the firm Of Loring. Ross Co, the bust
ness hereafter will be continued by Geo. T. Ross and
Wra. Ross Jr., Mt 70 Commercial street. under tho
name of ROSS BROTHERS, who will settle tho
affairs Of the old firm
August l, 1863 au< dfwiss
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
DuNE Ar THE

MERCHANTS Exchan ge Eating House, II 4 II
MI Exchange ST. A Free Lunch every day rom
~ = 70 .ns sm LIS TWOMBLY.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

GEORGE L. GO0DALE, N. D.,
CORNER OF CONGRESS AND TEMPLE STREETS.
Opposite First Parish Church.l
jy1 DIV thenM&wtf
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
FOREIGN PORTS.

Ar at Hong Kong June I'd. ship Don Quixote.
johnson Honolulu FE
AT Laguayra sth ult. bark Thos Dallett, Duncan.
for Philadelphia IL days.
Sailed from Havana oath ult. barks Sarah Nick
els. for Portland. Ne.4
Ar at Nassau MP 18th ult. sch Nile Hill. Bath.
Cid 18th. brig Clyde, Ceayes, New York; 2lst, sch
Express. Perry, do.
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

SEE woman in another column picking Sambuo
Grapes, for Speers Wine 1t Is an admirable article
used in hospitals, and by the first families in Paris
London and New York, in preference to old Port
Wine tits worth trial, sit gives great satisfac
tion dec22dly
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

DEsrIsTRy.-Dr JOSIAH HEALD No .24l Ono
gress street. drst door east OF lst Parish Church
Portland. Me. ugIdly
The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04

A LOT, about 300 600 feet. Hemlock and spruce
N Logs-will be sawed into dimensions TO suit the
party contracting for the same If applied for soon.
Apply at Nos. 50 & "a Exchange street.
WALTER COREY.
Portland, July %. 1868. Swed