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The Portland daily press., 1865-06-21
EFrom the NOyoM Old Dominiom.l
The Punishment of Traitors.

We published in our columns yesterday
communication from Gen. Gorden, to parties
interested In the laws and proclamations re-
lating to conAscation OF property-de1ning
the modus operdndt of deciding who are ca.
cepted ia The Presidents proclamation, and
who are exempt from the exceptions Of the
proclamation. =
This is the commencement Of the practical
workings of the Presidents proclamation, and
of the confl.cation laws. While it may seem
hard to see persons driven from their homes,
from wealth and sffiuence, to gain their bread
by the sweat of their own brow, no Union
man, that loves his country, can for moment
feel that it is anything but retributive justice.
These men were not content to live In the ei :
ioyment of all the rights Of citizenship--they
wanted more than pure Democracy could give
they wanted to establish their pet theory,
that few favored ones should not only do all
the thinking, but should do all the voting,
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ern pa Of the city, good rent Of eight or ten
rooms, jor ,amilY W { out chi drt n, 80 f.,f
4 Address BOX 155 Portland p o. inpslsdtf
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Diarv containiDg quite amount of mon ey, and
ever will lease said Diary at this Office viii be ber.
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"A GOOD House. centrally loo ted. to be occu.
~ pied By gentleman ID wife, tno chiIdrenl; pos.
ses ON to De had before tn feat september,
1865. q Addrr rss rE ENANT, Box 2ll7, Portland P o.
juueldtf
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ExxR The sDove Hotel Is he largest IN q . low
er Provinces and Is first clifs In all its de-
EE{tla #partmelt-; Il convenient TO the nued
MStates and Nova Gotta steav hoat lar dinAs.
l-Atl 31t JAMES MctNTOsH, Prop ietor
ST. John N, b. IsCJune, 16fS--dBm
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4 Pf an experit need practical BOOB keeper, sit
II nation IN som Ftspfctat le business. !. g'Ir n
y isia Tory Recommendations producsd,
Address Il 4ifi8a iJ.2W. RA kNEN SO sutl
Junei6ilw* Commercial House.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Wholesale Desertions from the Rebels
Reported.

WAsmNGTON, Feb ~ Information
nom the Army of the Potomac as late as
Yesterday morning, reports all quiet
Deserters are constantly coming III, and
are more numerous than for a long time.
They have averaged over 10 day the
past week, among them several officers.
The utmost despondeucy prevails in
their ranks. Since the late fight they
seem determined TO keep the field no
LONGER. as they claim they can never
uain their independence, and see no rea-
son why they should remain and all be
killed. They also say that deserting ID
% general to the rear Of their own lines,
that Lee has issued an order TO arrest ey-
cry man found half mile away from his
camp or post. One man said his compa-
nv was thirty strong week ago bnt
that Is had disappeared since the 10Th
20 the United States, and five 10 their
homes Many of the deserters bring In
their arms with them.
A flag of truce appeared Ill front OF
the second corps on Saturday, asking for
tbe bodies of some rebel officers killed at
the late battle of HatcheT's run Their
REQUEST was finally granted and the
bodies carried 10 the rebel lines.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Prss Nsr,h Carolina.

NEwBERN, n, C-Tho fall of Fort Fish
er is working revolution In the mind of
the people of this State, which, if there
is any meaning in half of the threats
enlanating from the State Capitol, naast
result in the separation of North Caro-
lima from the Confederacy soon sfter Ra
leigh ia occupied by the Union forces,
which is the necessary protection no
quired by the conservative party, a
majority of whom, says rebel paper,
favor return to the Union, even with
emancipation,
The enemy are removing then sup
plies from Wilmington, with view, il is
thought, of evacuating the city Ii is
estimated that there are sl6OOoO worth
of cotton stored from Wilmington along
the line of railroads running into South
Carolina aud the southern part of North
Carolina, which the enemy will order to
DO burned as soon ~ our force approach
Shermans movements are regarded
with much alarm by the rebel papcrs of
this State, which predict that he will al
tempt To hold Goldsboro and Raleigh.
The Raleigh. n. C.. Standard, tho Rs-
leigh Progress, and tho other couservs.
tive papers in this Stats, arc paying high
tributes 10 the military genius of shor-
man, whose approach they welcome with
open manifestations of joy.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
REBEL REPORTS.
Rebel Views of Nr. I.incOin's A ccoupt
OF the Peace Conference.
MR. LINCOLN's STATEMENT-THE RADICAL
"HYENAs" THE ENEMIES or PEACE
FAILURE or NEGOTIATION \ POLITICAL

Mr. LINCOLNs STATEMENT-THE RADICAL
"HYENAs" THE ENEMIES or PEACE -
FAILURE or NEGOTIATION 4 POLITICAL
NECESSITY.
From the Richmond Sentinel Feb. Is
The statement of President Lincoln, OF
his connection with the late negotiations,
reflects deeper discredit upon him than
the report of our own commits iOners.-
Il confesses that the interview which he
took SO much pains to invite, he after
wards took equal pains to obstruct and
to render abortive, as if Yankee pertidy,
worse than Punic faith, must be display
ed on this a. upon every other possible
occasion. That the meeting was held at
all, is due only to accident and General
Grant 1t is serious inquiry whether
Nj Lincoln. when he dispatched Mr..
Blair to the Confederate capital, intend
ed the yoie which he has since played
We scarcely suppose he did The expla-
nation OF his deeply pelidiOus and dis
honorable conducts probably 10 be found
in the party necessities that press upon
him We pass over the quibble, the di-
plomatic prevaTiCation, the Pickwlckian
denial with which he attempts to discon-
meet himself with Mr.. Blaif's mission
here Such nonsense will impose OH no
one Let the next man who wishes to
o South and return" apply for pass"
to Mr. Lincoln, and see whether he will
be gratitied, as he tells us Mr. Blair vas,
without any instruction of his object OF
of hat he proposed 10 say OF do" Nj
Blair was As much All agent here as
Me<srs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell
were our agents-infOrmal the whole of
them. but yet agents the whole OF them.
The news of what was transpiring
had meanwhile given great dissatisfac-
tion to that portion Of Mr. Lincoln's party
which is hostile 10 him, and which num-
bers a very large majority i'll the United
States Senate, besides being extremely
formidable III the House These 'radi-
Gals" so-called, OF which Sumner aud
Wade are types, were Mortified AT the
thought Of peace. Their hyena instincts
are yet unappeased They love to sit
i'll their safe places and bid blood flow
Hence an assault was prepared upon MI.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
From
TIE Position OF the United sinies
Towards Mexico.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20-The foreign mails
have the following:

NEW YORK, Feb 20-The foreign mails
have the following:
The Nord says there was a meeting OF
the Privy Council on the 4tb in Paris,
and we are informed that the affairs Of
America and the connection they may
have with the Mexican empire form the
principal objects of the meeting. France
isnot without some uneasiness as to the
attitude the United States may assume
toward the new empire when the conclu-
sion of the war has placed AT the dispo
sal of the republic large and tried army,
with numerous and skilled officers, and
four years struggle has changed State
hitherto exclusively devoted TO CONNER
cial and maritime interests into a militia
~ State disposing of immense folces.-
The recent resolution of the Washington
Senate must have assisted in increasing
this uneasiness Nevertheless, accord
ing to our correspondent, the discussion
in which the Privy Council was engaged
ended in the resolution that for the mo-
ment it would be wrong to give way 10
exaggerated fears, and that i'll the face
of the pacific aud conoiliating assurance
which American diplomacy continues 10
give, the best course to adopt Is 10 ab-
stain professionally from all movements,
without, however, indulging in false Sc
curity
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Military Items from Richmond Pa
pers.
Press Dispatch. |

WAsHINGroN, Feb 20.-Richmond pa
pers of the 18th have the following
Deserters state that Grant has sent
5000 men to City Point recently. and it
is supposed they are to be sent to New
bern to reinforce Sherman or Terry.
A Kingston North Carolina, CORES
pondent learns that tho Yankees are pre-
pairing an expedition against Weldon
Five locomotives and railroad iron have
certainly been landed at Moorehead by
the Yankees.
Jones City, North Carolina, was visited
last week by Yankee raiders, and all tho
provision carried off
BY the blowing up of the rebel truce
boat on the James, two negroes and five
men We're killed and two soldiers drown
ed. Two soldiers, together with eight of
the ambulance committee, were saved
Moseby was in Lynchburg Wednesday ,
and would soon join his command
The Augusta Chronicle advises citi-
zens to rerist the burning of cotton
there The paper is denounced as a
Yankee concern
The Richmond Wings East Tennessee
correspondent says many rebel soldiers
are falling into the hands of the enemy 5
scouts. SiXty-seyen North Carolina
home guards were recently captured
near Taylorville. No resistance was
made The rebel reserve forces along the
muontains, the correspondent says, do
not seem to amount 10 much, a. they are
constantly gobbled up Much dissatis-
faction exists among the grain growing
Shareholders at the order conscipting 50
many negroes for tho service, aud it
seems cruel TO demand the few slaves
left out of vast number Though
they were held two years since this de.
mand was made, at least three-tourths OF
the negroes have gone over to the enemy
Farmers are now without means of Cul.
tivating their farms The enforcement
of the conscriptiOn act in East Tennes
see placed 10000 fighting men in the
Federal army, who would otherwise have
been IT home good citizens
Two years since probably 1000 men
were dragged into the Confederate ser
vice who have generally pr, ved nui.
saHce The negroes daily running away
will come hack in short time armed
and in the encmy's ranks This is the
policy OF our weak and silly Congress
To have armed negroes should have been
the policy of the government.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Columbia

Columbia, the capital of SouthCaro-
lima, is pleasant city of $4,000 or IL, 600
inhabitants 1t lies on the east bank of
the Congaree river, just below the
confluence of the Soluda and Broad
rivers, one hundred and twenty-tour
miles northwest from Charleston. The
place is situated OH broad plain, is reg
ularly laid ont, with wide streets, boz
dered with ornamental trees, and con-
tains many elegant residences Among
the public buildings are the state gov
ernment buildings South Carolina Col
lege, the State Insane Asylum, &c. Co
lumbia is the head of steam navigation
and has direct railroad connection with
Charleston, Wilmington and Richmond.
1t is the terminus of railway branches
from Yorkville, Laurens, Spartanburg,
Anderson and other points i'll the north
western part Of the State, and its cap
ture by the federal forces, from its cen
tral position, will give General Sherman
the control Of the eutire state. With
both Florence and Columbia in the hands
of Sherman, they become important
bases for movements to the interior Of
North Carolina and Virginia, and by cut
ting off the main sources of supply TO
Charleston, will compel the speedy capt.
ulation of that city, if it does not fall
before the advance of Gilmore.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
FROM THE SOUTH.
Popularity Of Gen. Hampton
Latest Southern Newspapers
The Force Landed at tNewbera-Rebel
Rejoicing over Hampton's Appoint
ment TO OCommand-The Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad 10 be Repaired.
Press Disnateh.

New YORK, Feb. 20-The Richmond
Examiner says the force landed at New
bern is greatly exaggerated Only few
Yankees have landed there.
The Mobile Register says the Southern
people are not whipped. but cowed-
Their souls and not their hands are dis
armed Our strength is not sapped. but
our curage is GOzing out at onr fingers
ends
The Columbia, South 7Caroluia, Caro-
linian says the appointment of Genera;
Hampton to the command of such divis-
ions as those of Gen Butler and Young
is ali earnest of success He is once
more at the head of the DIeh he has 50
often led to victory in Nirginia's fields,
the men in whom both the country and
himself can depend, aud We may there
forefore look for a repetition of the gal
lantry which has been bulletined from
every battle in which they have had IA
place The fact that Hampton is iii tue
saddle, the cooperation of Gen. John
ston, who although for the present be
hind the scene does not withhold his
skill and experience whenever demand
ed, together with scores of other facts,
may we'll give our people great joy.
The Lynchburg Republican says the
Virginia and Tennessee railroad, it is
thought, will he open for travel TO Bri,-
to by the first of March Repairs are
being pushed onward with unusual ener-
gy. Some idea Of the magnitude Of the
work To be done may be formed from the
statement that all tllG bridges, 30 or 90
i'm nuiuh,r tnr a distance nf ~ mill =
have to be rebuilt, and much of the track
to be relaid, besides other repairs to be
made of minor consequence
Gen. w. Martin has assumed command
i'll place of Gen. Gardner, of the Depart
ment of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
with his headquarters at Jackson.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
OficiaI Dispatch from Columbia-The
Abandonment of BrnnchviIIe Ger
taiu-Tbe Situation ON the Santee-
The Battle TO be ought on that Riv-

From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb is.
An official dispatch, received from Co
lumbia yesterday, states that in conse-
auence of the enemy having occupied
Grangeburg i'll force, our troops have
abandoned Branohville. This is, in ct.
feet, the same statement as made by us
yesterday Our troops have, by this time,
no doubt fallen back to the Congaree riv-
er, which, with the Wateree, forms the
Santee Columbia is situated imme-
diately on the right bank of the Conga-
rec, thirty miles aboveits confluence with
the Wateree. If our troops fall back
behind the Congaree, the enemy will be
able to shell Columbia from the south
bank of that stream. We also learn that
the Congaree and its tributary, the sa-
luda, are both easily fordable above the
city. This disposes us to believe that
our troops will seek to give battle before
crossing the Congaree.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Meeting of the 9th Sub District at
America Hall, Center Wheeling.
MONDAY EvENING, Feb. 20, Il

MONDAY EVENING, FEB. ~, 1900.
The meeting was organized by the
election of John r. Hubbard, Chairman,
and John Z. Chandler, Secretary.
The various collecting committees
made report, and on motion the follow
ing resolutions were passed unanimous
ly:
ReSolred. That this meeting concur in
the resolution of the Fourth Ward meet
ing, refusing the citizens bounty to sub
stituteS
Resolred, That John McNamee, John
Bauchman, John Hoffman, Louis Koch,
David Kuhl. Daniel kreiter, Andrew
Long. Charles Rust, Chester d. Hubbard
aud NJ. b. Reid be added to the present
collecting committee of the Fifth Ward
Resolred, That this meeting adjourn to
meet in this Hall tomorrow evening at
30 P VI
john h HUBBARD Clmn.
john G CHASpLER, Sec'y.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21

PROFIT OF SoRGHUM.-The net profits
On four acres of sorghum, grown in Ohio,
last year, were s24e %, the cost of pro-
ducing the same being 1921 IS In the
cost is included plowing, planting and
Sultivating; barrels for the syrup; interest
on cost of mill, and wear and tear of the
same; cutting, hauling and boiling; wood,
and interest and tax on land. The syrup
was sold at seventy-five cents per gal
Ion, which was low figure, 81 being the
ruling price. At this latter price, the
four acres would have netted s42s 26, OF
little more than lac per cent.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Finamcinl.

NEW York, Feb. 21---The gold market
is weak and prices lower The news iron
Sherman has produced u panicky feeling.
and the short sales are large. Up to now
the price huctuated batween s2O3 aud
SOL. .,I
The Posts special says the loan bill
would have been reported to-day, but TOT
the illness Of Mr.. Stevens.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21

STORAGE OF PETRoLEUM-An ordi-
nance has been introduced into the New
York Common Council, providing that
crude petroleum shall not be stored with
in the city limits in greater quantity
than one barrel. and that it shall be kept
in metallic packages; that manufacturers
and reiners shall not carry on their bu-
siness in any building less than fifty feet
distant from all other buildings, nor be
located below Fifty-second street; that
refined oil shall not be kept on sale that
evaporates below l40 deg. Fab, and that
nahtha, benzino, &c, shall not be kept
IN store in greater quantities than fifteen
gallons.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21

the Edisto. twenty miles above that
place, are marching upon it. This is not
confirmed by any official intelligence
The last that has been heard from the en-
emy authoritatively left them at various
points ON the Augusta branch of the
South Carolina railroad, west of Branch
vile, as nnounoed several days ago In
due time, no doubt, General Beauregard
will inform US where they will have
turned up next.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21

stead of winning back the people to 10y
atty, would have the effect Of alisnatias (
them. r'I1iLJ etE Bt-llsth
He expressed an earnest desire that
the government should be re-established
by loyal citizens, and not placed at the
mercy of the aggregate people of the
disloyal States. The bill proposed was
based on an erroneous policy, that there
could be no government unless formed
by the majority. The loyal people of
the Southern States should DO left to
work their organic law in their own way.
Mr.. Schenck sent up to be read dis
patch enclosed to him 10y the Secretary
of War from Lieut. Gen Grant, saying
the-Richmond Examiner Of to-day states
that Charleston was evacuated on Tues
day last. The reading of the dispatch
was succeeded by applause in all parts
Of the House.
At 5 o'clock the Hsuss adjoarned.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
Arrival from Havana.

New YORK, Feb. 2O.-The steamer Lib
erty brings Havana dates to the 18th
There is no Mexican news.
Several more blockade runners have
returned to Havana, unable to make en-
trance.
The rebels intend purchasing small
schooners to run to the coast Of F lorida
The eoolie trade is opening again. So5
arrived on fhs 18th.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
A Mexican Example for the People Of
CharIesion-What IL is Proposed 10
do IL Columbia IL Auackcd-EaCh
House 10 be Fortress and n Tomb.

tlOm lne OOluInUld
We have had no London, no Derry, no
Saragossa, as yet Nay, we need not go
any further than our contemporaries of
Mexico to find an example of herOism
which, at least in the defense Of our
towns, we have not yet displayed. Few
can have forgotten the events which be-
longed to the taking of Puebla. The
MeXicans, according to an authentic re-
port, defended their citv inch by inch.
They piled barricades in the streets, and
fought behind them till the ground was
covered with their dead They convert
ed each ef the square blocks Of the
houses which composed the city into a
separate fortress, and defended it till it
fell and buried them in the ruins. The
French were utterly unable to take some
of these blocks, and therefore blew them
up, defenders and all Some Of them
were blown up by the desperate defend
ers themselves At last Puebla fell; but,
as British wiiter remarks, the desper-
ate courage of its defenders went far to
redeem, in the eyes of the world, the
many faults of their national character.
Where have we anything to show like
thisl So far, indeed, as she has been
tried, Charleston has done WELL and it is
impossible that, under the same circum-
stances, she might do as much; but the
fact remains, however it may he explain
ed, that, until we have fought in defense
of one city, at least, as the Mexicans
fought at Puebla, we shall not be able
to deny that we have been surpassed in
heroism by people of whom we have
been wont to speak as a degenerate of
shoot of the degenerate Spanish race
Shall this reproach be made perma-
nent one. Here, at least, in South Caro-
lina--here, above all, in Columbia-if
the occasion should come, let the answer
be, no!
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
REBEL ACCOUNTS
Phe Battle Ground of south Carolina
-Beauregard Falls Back from
Branchville 10 Cover COlumbia-The
Great Struggle to Take Place there
Strength Of the Rebel Forces.
From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. Is. ]

(Frcm the Richmond Examiner, Feb Is.
Among the multitude of reports at
taching to Sherman's movements in South
Carolina, we are as yet certain OF only
few general facts According to official
advices last received at the War Depart
ment, Sherman was moving on the upper
branches of the Edssto, evidently intend
inc to flank Branchville, and strike the
railroad to Columbia north of its june
ton with the South Carolina railroad;
and as. since the date of these advices
several days ago, there has been no news
of any interruption of this movement,
it is concluded that General Beaaregard has
fallen back from Branchrille to take up a
new line to corer Columbia, and one better
calculated for defensive purposes. The
opinion appears to obtain in official quarters
that battle is imminent that Beaaregdrd
wiH fight it on ground Of his ogn selection,
aad eith a force adequate .for ofensice or de-
teasire purposes, as either may become
necessary; and that the general situation
is encouraging for us. 1t was currently
reported yesterday that column of the
enemy was moving on Augusta. But the
War Department has no confirmation of
this, further than a dispatch received
some days ago referring to the appear
ance in some force of the enemy near
Aiken, which is eighteen miles from Au-
gusta.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-21
The 1-5O Lean.

PHILADELPHIA, Fell ~. The sales OF
: -3O's by Jay Cooke, during The week
ending Saturday, were twenty-six mil,
lions Ave hundred and twenty thousand
two hundred dollars AT this rate the
of the loan viii be sold before
the end of March. All banks and bank
ers supply the loan at parito immediate
applicants