The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-15

hooPoi VI Ct"h, SaiCu vi lieu ClOuu " pay
their respects last Friday. The Senator as
sured Red Cloud of lis profound sympathy |
with him and his race, and that Congress, tne
"Great Council" the President and the PEG
pie would deal Justly with the indians. FOR
his mart he ,vas convinced they had been too
mrcb peo,ected and abused, which operated
m the injury of the whites as well as the red
49,, " Wy Of The West. If Red Cloud were TO go
10 The North he would find multitudes of
friends who would be glad TO take him by the
hand and stand by him and his people long
after he had left them. The country neeus
peace alike from the good of the Sioux nation
and our own, and he hoped Red Cloud would
be convinced of this when he saw with what
warm hearted interest he would be received
by the people of the land.
Red Cloud thanked him, and said he had
received much kindness while here from the
big chiefs, but he could not forget his people
at home. He was sent here to care for their
interests, and he thought of them sleeping
and waking, for they were ON his heart. He
had asked for the removal of Fort Fetterman
because it was a curse to his people, and in
stead Of protecting them as the Great Father
had told him, it had only brought mischief in
to his country by whisky drinking, abusing
squaws and other bad work. He hoped there
would be no war; and there would not if the
whites waited for the Sioux to commence it.
His people, having no food, have to hunt, and
when they do that they were told they were
off their reservation and were shot at. This
made trouble, and the Indians get the blame,
as they have no writer's or papers.
Delegate Hooper was introduced, and said
his people-the Mormons-had crossed and re-
crossed the Plains for the last twenty-five
years through the Sioux country, with their
women and children, cattle and goods. In all
that time, though more than $4,000 persons,
they had never LOST a life, an animal or bale
of goods until the railroad was built; since
which they had lost some property on the
trains. He felt it his duty to bear this testi
mony to the good conduct of Red Cloud and
his people toward them.
Red Cloud thanked him and said he knew
the Mormons; they had always talked straight
and dealt fairly with his people.
A GIGANTIC SeHEME.-There is bill be.
fore the Massachusetts, Legislature for the in
corporation of the Boston and Portland Rail-
way Trust Co. The scheme, as described by
the newspapers, is no less than the consolida-
ton into four RailN ay Trust Companies of all
the railway corporations whose lines now
traverse the State. A beginning is made with
the Eastern and Boston & Maine, because, it
is said, these present the lewest obstacles to
The execution of the project. All the roads
are to be ultimately owned by the State and
run by it at such low rates as will pay the cost
of operation only. From this first corpora
ton the State is to have a free present of t1ir-
ty thousand shares in the outset, and these,
with the dividends accruing upon them, are tt.
constitute a sort OF sinking fund by means of
which the State is expected, within twenty
years or thereabouts to be able to acquire all
the shares in the corporation. In the interval,
dividends are to be paid at the rate of seven per
cent. In 1890, when it is calculated that the
sinking fund will suffice to make the State
sole stakeholder, it twill take" all the shares
at their par value, and "will" make up any
deficiency which may heretofore have &C.
Cured In the established rate of the divi-
dends. If the Boston and Portland Trust
Company succeeds, then the plan is already
sketched, and the bills are already drafted, for
the establishment of the Boston and Albany
Trust Company; the Atlantic and Ontario
Railway Trust Company; the Northern Rail
way Trust Company, and finally the Boston
Railway Clearing and Depot Company. This
last is to own all the local freight railways in
the vicinity of Boston, and all the stations,
depots, .wharves and elevators, in Boston and
Charlestown.
The bill is simply permssive in character,
but it appears destined to meet with consid-
cradle opposition as its scope and ultimate in
tentions are developed by debate; and its
progress will be watched with considerable
interest in this State, as Maine and New
Hampshire will be affected by the result
The following pen and ink sketches of the
gubernatorial candidates is an extract from
the Augusta correspondent of the New York
Tribune:
GEN. SAMUEL F. HERsEY
is native of Oxford county, but has been for
many years citizen of, and thoroughly iden-
tilted with, the city of Bangor. Personally he
is one of the most popular men in the State.
In stature he is just be- ow the medium height
square built, and inclined to corpulency. His
head is large and well shaped; his face frank
and handsome. His manners would not be
| called polished, and he paver says or does any
| thing for effect. His address is nevertheless
exceedingly captivating, and what he lacks OF
| polish" is mere than made up by a certain
warmth and heartiness OF greeting and ex-
preston which makes one feel as though ''he
/ thoroughly manly man@one having a greater
contempt for sham, clap-trap and humbug-
| whether in society, business, politics, or reli-
| gion, it would be hard to find. The General
has great contempt for what is ordinarily
mistaken for dignity, and don't know how to
put on airs" but whether seen at his own
hospitabe home, in the Streets at his place OF
business, or in the halls of legislation, he is
the same natural frank man. He is distin-
guished for rugged honesty and practical COM
mon sense. 1 ought perhaps to have mention
ed before that he has the heartiest and jolliest
laugh in Maine! L would certainly be sin of
omission not to mention that. Let it not be
understood, however, that it is a vulgar and
noisy guffaw, nor a rough ragged and bolster
Gus haw- haw, but genial jolly, robust and
catching-iust such laugh as one likes to hear
and equally adapted to the drawng-room or
caucus. Gen. Hersey is a Down East lum-
herman, and owns largely in the timber lands
OF this and several of the Western States In
this business he has accumulated fortune and
is one of the rich men of Maine His proper
y is variously estimated at from $3.50 600 to 81
0OO, 600. He is leading man in the Universal
list denomination of the State and contributes
freely toward its various funds One of the
buildings of Westbrook Seminary is called
"Hersey Hail." He has had considerable leg
isiative experience in both branches of our
State Legislature, and has practical knowl-
| edge OF the various interests of the State
| HON. SIDNEY PERHAM
| is a native of Woodstock, Oxford county. He
was farmers boy, and early Injured to toll
He knows by actual experience what manual
| labor is, which may account for the almost un-
bounded capacity for work which b., has dis
| played since coming into public life. The com
mon school education that he received has been
| supplemented by an immense amount of hard
study and reading since arriving at mans es-
tate, SO that he is to-day one of the best-in-
formed men in the State. His personal ap-
pearance is good, but not striking. His man
ners are mild, cOncilatOry and pleasing No
body could be more unOstentatiOus and uuas-
Stunning than he. His countenance is open,
and invites CONFERENCE.-The general appear.
ance and conversation impresses one with the
idea that he is perfectly sincere. While il is
not claimed that he is brilliant, it is generally
| conceded that he is souLd thinker, and a
| speaker of more than average merit. His
public life has been marked by the most labo-
rous and painstaking attention to every duty,
and an inhexible adherence to the principles
which he has advocated. His six years resi-
dence in Washington wrought no change in
his principles, life or habits and he returned to
his old home among the hills of Oxford with
the same pure tastes and simple habits of his
early life Mr.. Perham never lost his interest
in the soil, and his love for agriculture and
huspandry for fiocks and bords, aud his desire
to improve the condition of the farming popu-
| lation, and to make farming more profitable,
rational, and scientific, amounts almost to en-.
thusiasm He has been a lifelong and consis-
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