The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-18
Letter from the State Capital.


To the EDITOR Of the Press
The following commissions have been issued
since my last, viz:
First Regiment Heauy Artillery-He kiah
a. Lane, Bangor, LIST Lieut.. Co. G; Charles j.
HOUSE, Lee, I'd Lieut.. Co. G; James F. Robin
son, Bangor, ID Lieut. Co, D; Stephen G. Wal
aron, Hainpden, I'd Lieut.. Co. F.; Daniel o.
Bowen, Morrill,. I'd Lieut.. Co. G.; Isaac J.
Durham, Bucksport, 1st Lieut.. Co. ID; Je-
than L. Buzzell, Harrington, I'd. Lit. Go. d
Thomas G. Spratt OroRo, 1st Lieut.. Go. L;
Frederick o. Talbot, East Machias, I'd Lieut..
c.. K; Edward L. Worcester, Bangor, LIST 1t.
Co. L; Arthur P. Bulge, Springfield, I'd 1t.
Co. NJ; Charles L. Haywood, Ducksport, 1st
Lieut.. Co. A.
First Regiment Veteran Infdntry.-War-
reu 7. Ring, Oldtown, Capt. Co. K; Warren
P. Frazier, Calais, LIST Lieut.. Co. I; Walter B
Jenness, Oldtown, LIST Lieut.. Co. A; Silas
Smith, Machias, I'd Lieut.. Co. 81 James Phair,
Presque Isle, I'd 1t. Co E.
Fourteenth battalion Infantry - Albion
K. Boan, New Sharon, It. Col.
Sixteenth Regiment Infantry. = David P.
Bolster, China, Assistant Surgeon; John Nit
chel, Fairfield, Chaplain.
Seuenteenth Regiment Infantry.-William
Il. Copp, Waterville, LIST Lit. Co. I !; Horace B.
Cummings, Portland, I'd 1t. Co. Fl.
Ttoentieth Regiment Iafantry.-Wiliiam Il,
True, Freeport, Surgeon; William A. Went
worth, Hope, I'd 1t. Co. K.
Thirty first Regiment Infdntry.-Sullivan
D. Wiggin, Bangor, Assistant Surgeon.
Recruiting. is progressing rapidly. One
hundred and one men were mustered in yes
terday at the headquarters of volunteer re-
cruiting service here, and more than a full
company week is being raised and sent to
the front. A good class of men are being Sc
cured too, as good perhaps as at any time dur
ing the war. Bounty Jumpers are become
exhausted or else they find this State an I'M
favorable field for their operations and SO keep
at proper distance, and the consequence is
that good men are coming forward and in large
| numbers too. 1t is more than probable that
the quota of the State will be raised without
resorting to draft and tits certainly desirable
that it may be. Adiutant Gen. Hodsdon has
gone to Washington to ascertain by what
method of computation surplus on any
previous call can be properly added to towns
quota on the last one, and many other ques-
tions in relation 20 the contingent OF the State
and sub districts, of which there is almost uni
versal expression of complaint not to say indig-
nation from our towns. He is expected to re-
! g.. 5o,,e o,,I ho
able to present the whole matter in satisfac-
tory light to the people. An examining and
revising board, consisting of the Attorney
General, judges advocate and other officials, is
in session ia Washington to investigate the
whole matter, and will undoubtedly very soon
arrive at Just and satisfactory conclusion in
| the premises. Meantime the draft will be de-
layed, and towns thus be afforded few days
more in which to fill their quotas by volun-
teering.
Hotels here are full, and everybody is salts
fed with them. 1t seems to be admitted on
all hands that Augusta surpasses any other
town in the State in good public houses. The
Mansion and Stanley Houses are better than
they ever were before, and the Augusta House
pleases everybody except those who cannot at
ford to stay there. A large number of mem
bers have their wives and daughters with them
there, and thay are a gay and beautiful com
pany. The ladies at the house propose giving
party this evening, and no one who is invit.
ed will fail to be present.
Yours truly, HELIos.