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PROPOSALS.

For furnishing the National Home for u. V. with
icoOca lbs. Of fresh beefl
1910 lbs. of corned beef,
3nuUO lbs. of mutton, .
Sealed proposals in triplicae. subject to the condi
t,ons conia ned therein, with copy OF this adve-
rti..meni attached, wi be received until IL O'Clock,
ON Feb 4,h. 1883, at Togus. Maine, at which time
they will be op,aed.
The fresh beef shall be of good quality and
condifiop iii for immediate use on the block AT
Iogus and from and hind quarters meat p'oporc
tonally iuciud. .ng all the best cuts thereof. Beef
from bujIs stags dis asei CATTLE shall not De de-
Iixered The n cks of the cattle slaughtered Tor
b, ef shall be off at the fourth vere6iaI )on, tne
sbanks of fore quarters shall be cut on four inches
above the knee john. and OF hind quarters eign,
inch, above the hocK joint. Necks, shanks, ana
Kidneys. taIlow, shall BE- excluded from delivery.
, The corned beef shall be composed OF me iore
QUARTERS ana fanks of the hind quarters, excluding
,be necks and shanks of the tore quarters
a The mutton shall be of good markeiab quaiiiy
ono.als must BE- lnclosed in sealed envelopes
marked Proposals for Beef and Mutton aud addrs S.
ed TO the undersigned. ., - ,,H
cation .,,
Payments will be made monthly.
NATIONAL HOME FOR u. " s.,
Togus, Me-, Jan. -, lsss
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State Of Maine.
In House OF REPRESENTATIVES, }

In House OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 1853,
ORDERED, The Senate coBcurring, that the time
for reception of petitions for private and special leg
islaton except for the redress Of wrongs and grev
ances, te limited TO Monday, Jan 18th, and that all
next Legislature, and that the Clerk of the House
cause this order TO be published in the Daily keune-
bee Journal, Portland Daily Press, Eastern Argus,
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Lewiston Daily
Journal. Bangor Commercial, Bath Daily Times and
AroostOok Republican.
Read and passed. Sent up for CONCURRENCE.
ORANANDEL sMITH, Clerk.
In Senate, Jan. 10, 1883.
Read and passed in concurrence.
c. ". TILDEN, Sec'y.
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Hard Lumps I'm Rreast.

DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y: Dear
Sir-l wrote you some time ago that
thought had cancer. There was a large
lump in my breast as large as walnut, and
had been there four months. commenced
taking your Golden Medical Discovery"
"Favorite Prescription and "Pellets" in
June, and the lump is gone.
Yours gratefully, Mrs. r. r. CLARK,
Irvington, Mich.
jan23d&wlw4p
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Committee on Fisheries and Game.
The Joint Standing Committee Fisheries and
Game will meet at Committee Room No. l6, on
thursdays nj O'Clock 7. N.
j.. II. kIMBALL. Ch.irmen.
S.H. GOODWIN.
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Committee on Legal Afa'rs.
The Committee will meet in the Senate Chamber
at =. NJ, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
PHILIP II. STUBBS. T,h.;,o
CHAs. p. MATTOCKs. 'ha'ri"eh'
Augusta, Jan. 10, 1853.
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n. Star. pyisor.

The Committee on State Prison will meet In the
senate Chamber ON FRIDAYS at O'Clock p. NJ, until
further notice. G. W. MCALl>TR- h.;r,neu
ELIAS THOMAS.
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Csmmiffee on HdnnfdefUres
The Committee on Manufacturer viii meet In
Room l6 each Tuesday At O'Clock, r. M
JOSEPH SMITH, 4th, lCbsiymen
DAVID WENTWORTH
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Comn;tt.. nm Insane Hospital.

Committee on Insane Hospital
The Committee on Insane Hospital will meet q
the Sc nate Chamber on Wednesdays at ? O'Clock +.
M, until otherwise ordered
TOBI s LORD. iCh.;rmep-
70. j. :. HILL. ,
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EDeci0l Advertisements.

0spaa advertisements, not exceeding three line
eoMSaa under the head of WANTED, FOk SALf
TO LET, LOST, &C., UiA be inserted here one tim
Tor IS cents, three times for 40 cents and
for so cents.
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A1EMio Waneeu an. ssi;s Books E. Bibles
D in p,ce selling asst seedeA everywhere; Liberal ser4
HruAisy, : q n fsrlr'h 81, Pa'si<IaaA r.
DeslSfly
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Committee on Legislative Apportionmenf.
The Committee on Legislative AppOrtOnment will
meet at the room of the Committee on Railroads on
Thur day. Feb. l. 1885, at7A r. NJ.
rkANCIs L HEATH Chairmen.
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Committee on Congressional Apport,onment.
The Con mittee on Congressional Apporfionmeni
will mt ct in the Sc nate Chamber Tuesday. jan
Is, 1883 At 80 O'Clock p. NJ.
JAMES WEYMOUTH. chairman
HERBERT NJ. HEATH.
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Committee on Banks and Banking.
The Committee on Banks and Banking will meet
at their committee roe IN, No. IL, on Tuesdays at 2
O'Clock +. NJ.
HESk4 ss s4sbbE: r. bbEE:ARcE, chairmen.
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Committee Notices.

Committee on Judiciary.
The Committee Judiciary will meet at their
committee room on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
O'Clock, +. NJ.
aG A.G. aEsRokE' chairmsn.
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Committee on Agrieuifpre.
The Committee on Agriculture will meet at Room
No. ls, ,very tuesday afternoon at three O'Clock.
4. +. PARkHUkST. chs;,men
P.P. GILMORE.
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Com mittee on Claims.

The Committee on Claims will meet in Room No
l6, under seDate Chamber. on Mondays at O'Clock,
Z. NJ, until further notice.
e. LUCE, Sec'y of Committee.
Augusta, Jan. II, 1883.
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Committee on Indian Affairs

The Committee on Indian Affairs will meet at
their committee room No. ~, under Senate Cham
Der, on "wednesday at O'Clock r. NJ.
JAMES WEYMOUTH. Ch,,r
b. +. kILBY. S '
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Comm iffee on State Lands and State Roads.
The Committee on State Lands and State Eoads
will meet at the Land Office Wednesdays At o'clock
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Com nittee on Federal Relations.
The Committee on Federal Relations will meet In
the Senate Chamber at r. NJ. Tuesdays, until
further notice.
8 B.HUME. Ch.,,
}. M. SM TIL.
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ComMittee on Commerce.
The Committee on Commerce will meet at the ir
committee room, No. II, under Senate Chamber, on
1hur.day at O'Clock Z. NJ.
S6RN Sjn: RktSpGS' ). Ha9 E. ,Aairmen.
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Coms,itse on Mercantile Afnr-s and IN
surdnce-
The Committee on Mercantile Affairs and InsHr
ance sill meet in the Senate Chamber Wednesdays
at = ocleck,P. VI.
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COMMITTEE on Ways and Bridges.
The Committee on Ways and Bridges will meet at
the State House, Room No. 6, every Wednesday at
O'Clock, p. NJ, until otherwise ords red.
vi. COFFIN, ch;
&c. Kendall. Chair"eu.
Augusta, Jan. 10th, 1858.
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Committee on Interior Waters.
The Committee Interior Waters will meet at
room No. 6, Capitol Building, on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at O'Clock, T. NJ, until further notice.
NiEGl. y.Ta .HTrI Il GoNN1R; MS.t,rp Chairmen.
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Cemm;tt,. ON Manufactures.

lIL WIN; p. ? PENNELl- ESSEEl chairmen.
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Committee on Mines and Mining.
The Committee on Mines and Mining will meet in
he Senate Chamber every " Wednesday at 80 O'Clock
p. M, until otherwise ordered.
URIN 5. HASKELL. l,h;
WILLIAM FREEMAN. """"e"'
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Committee on State College Of agriculture
and the Mechanic A,fs.
The Committee on State College Of Agriculture
and the Mechauic Arts ill meet in the Senate Cham
Der Wednesday evenings at O'Clock.
GEO. T.. WEEKS. Cht
U. :. SANBORN. N"""e"'
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Committee on Military .4fairs.
The Committee on Military Affairs will meet at
the Adjutant Generals Office, Wednesdays, at Il
O'Clock, noon. WIN. G. FOSTER, Clerk.
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beaten, and, after falling in on color line,
stacked arms and went back to our quarters and
got our haversacks and eanteenS and filed them
and the relieved guard got their breakfast-and ali
this time before any shot whisting over
heads. don't believe any of the Forty-third
were caught in bed and the Seventeenth and
Forty-ninth should not have been, and If Mrs.
Major Belle Reynolds should see this she viii
bear me out in il.
few regiments on Sherman's left were no doubt
surprised for they Were not used to being fired at
and made tracks for the river bank without firing
a shot Some of them getting shot by
our boys, as they came rushing out of the brush
directly in front OF US, and taken for rebels,
but the vets of Forts Henry and Donelson and
ground till overpowered. and, when driven back,
fought so stubbornly that the JohnnieS found they
had caught Tartcr, and old Buell. to the contrary
Notwithstanding, they never could have driven US
to the river if he had been two weeks longer get
ting there. 1t was about O'Clock Sunday evening
when came back the line formed near the
river. The rebels attacked that line in succession
from one end TO the other hurting of troops
on every available point, but made no impression
except at one point, and that was the extreme
left, and the Gunbcat5 coming TO our assistance
they did not gain anything there. And all this
before we received any assistance from General
Buell..
With the assistance of General Lew Wallace who
came up that night. we could have easily retalSen
with all Buells hosts, for ss soon as our camps
were retaSen the pursuit was given up, and the
rebels were allowed to- retreat to Cornth at their
leisure.
As to that surprise that will never be settled as
long as two Shiloh soldiers live But one thing is
certain, camp fired before sunrise
unless it WAS farther out than either Generals
Sherman's or Prentiss' positions, for we were IN
plain sight of both, and saw the first rebel troops
pass through Sherman'S left and strike PTentiSs
right That was certainly after o'clock, and no
well man should have been in bed at that time.
Yours, fraternally, d. G. ANDERSON,
Co. l., 43d Ill. Inf.
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One Regiment that was Net Surprised.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
'As the manner in which the battle OF Shiloh
was fought is now under discussion, would like
with your permission, to relate what know about
1t. There at least one regiment, the Twenty
first Missouri, commanded by Colonel David Moore,
which was not surprised. On Saturday morning,
April 5th the day before the battle General Prem
tiss, commanding the division to which we be-
longed, held review, and ut that time rebel
cavalry We're in the vicinity In the afternoon
he ordered Colonel Moore to take five companies
of his regiment and reconnOiter on our 'front.'. We
went out about mile and found numerous traces
of the presence of rebel cavalry. The inmates of
house which visited told that the rebels were
in large force, and that we would be attacked the
following, morning. Colonel Moore reported this
fact to Colonel Peabody, who commanded the brig
ade and also to General Prentiss. but no notice was
taken of it, except that the piclSets were strength
eyed. The next morning found up early and
ready for orders, and presently Colonel Peabody
adiutant arrived with instructions for Colonel
Moore to take out five companies. The piekets
had been fired on in the meanwhile, and the Col
onei met them falling back They reported n heavy
force in front of them, and the Colonel sent back to
camp for the remaining live companies, and taking
the piclIets with him marched to the front We
had gone aboat mile, and were IN sight OF the
house where we heard the afternoon before that
we were to be attacked when the rebels fred on
u.s. Colonel Moore was shot twice. He disnlounted
and told me TO take care of him and keep sharp
lookout He formed his regiment in line of battle
and the boys began to deliver very rapid FIRE At
this time orderly arrived from Colonel Peabody
and wished 10 know whether Colonel Moore could
hold his position until he could re-enfoTce him.
Colonel Moore sent back word that he would but
no re-enforeenents came, however, and for about
an hour we held the ground alone, The Twenty
first Missouri never did better shooting than on
that Sunday morning 10 that field that
Colonel Moore was wounded for the third time. a
mimic bali broke his ie below the knee ana he was
taken back to the camp and afterwards placed on
gunboat on the river IL, afler ell the Sighting
We went through that Sunday morning any Of our
boys were shct down their tents, /, FOR one,
don't pity them. They had plenty OF warning.
Colonel Moore held his ground faithfully and
brayely and Justice indeed has never been done
S.. Of
WnI1AM FRENCH,
ATHENS, Mo. Co. +, 2Ist Mo.
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i Regiment without Fodder for Its Gums.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
was member of the Fifteenth Michigan vol
unteers, and regiment arrived at the landing
at 5 o clock on the afternoon of April 9TH. Com
pnnies and were ordered out to the front the
same evening" each provided with tents and rations
for breakfast the next morning 1t near mid
night when got our tents up and crawied IN for
the remainder of the night. The rest of the regi-
ment remained at the landing. Corporal Wallace
and myself We're up with the sun the next morning
to "chuelS u for the rest of the boys. While we
were still eating the rebels began te fire
As Comrade Leland j. Webb says, our Regimen
had no ammunition, and this the first expert
ence it had had of war, although the writer had
been present at the battle OF Bull Run. At the time
our company had no commissioned ofiieers-and if
il had had they would have been as green as the
rest-and the company looked 10 me for orders.
! formed it in line of battle and awaited the result.
The bullets came thick and fast, and as we had no
fodder for guns went over to the Sixteenth
Wisconsin to see if / could obtain some ammuni-
ton from that regiment. Their fodder fitted our
guns to dot. They refused, however TO let us
have any. Just then Lieutenant H. F. Wallace,
who came from the quarters OF the Twelfth Michi-
tents and told that terrible battle had begun
General Veatch says the Twelfth Michigan was not
surprised but / will take Lieutenant Waaces
word for it. Colonel Oliver finally came to aid
with the other eight companies OF regiment,
and formed on our left They brought enough am
an hour longer, when sent 10 General PTentiss
to know what to do. He instructed us to fall back
until we got more ammunition, and the order was
obeyed double-quiek. We fell back about mile,
of the day If the battle of Shiloh was not n sur
prise cannot help thinking the Government
wanted to get rid of the Fifteenth Michigan Com
rades God bless General Hoyey and The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. NILLIAd EAsLIcK,
Sergeant Co. l, 18th Mich.
IA x
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hIARcELLISE, II
Affar the Battle.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNr:

10 tio LtltOf NAIlONAL 1RlBUEE.
While we are all of US busiIy engaged in ishtina
over the battle Of Pittsburg Landing IL occurs 70
me that some incidents that took place after tbs
battle may be of interest to the readers Of TIE
TRIBUNE / was wounded in the Corinth road,
half a mile north of Shiloh Church. about 1890 a.
m on Sunday morning; was conveyed TO our regi-
mental quarters, mile more away TO the north
west. When arrived there. a portion of Nc
CieTnand's division engaged with the rebels
the side of cotton field probably quarter Of q
mile west of camp. The men Of my company
who were the sick list hitched UP the company
team and took me TO the river. When we arrived
there, General Grant the hill that over
looked the landing in the neigh5orhood of where
Lieutenant Chapman's S2-pOund guns were sit
uated. He had been 10 the front and had taken in
the situation. and had ordered to the rear every
battery that could be spared and Captain WebsteF
already forming that line OF artillery that four
FIVE hours later so effectualy checked the rebel
advance. We were carried aboard Of the STERN
wheel boat Hannibal, and assigned q berth in q
staterOOm- On Monday night, after the battle was
over, the chaplain of the Fourteenth regiment OF
Illinois volunteers and Rev. J. +. Jsynes came
aboard of the Hannibal, and their voices could be-
heard all night long talking in cheering strains to
the suffering, singing and praying for and with the
dying. How IL did exalt ones notions Of hu-
manity too, to see the forms of great burly men
bending over the prone forms of their wounded
comrades, and with tears in their eyes and SOFTEN
ed voices tendersss wOTnan's trying 70 aleviats
their sufferings. t. J. BRYANT,
Late Capt. Co. ID, 18th Ill.
La PRAIRIE. ILL.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo.
Facts that go to Show There was No surprIs,

Facts that go to Show There was No Surprise.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
General yeatch was my brigade commander st
Shiloh, and / have read his address delivered be-
fore Farragut Post, at Evansville, and printed in
THE NATIONAL. TRIBUNE. with great interest, as
also that of General Hoyey. L am not surprised
that the latter has taken up the cudgels for his
old division commander, whose slow march TO the
battlefield has formed a fruitful theme Of eriti
ciSn for every writer on the battle of Shiloh but
think IN the matter of a surprise ON she morning OF
the 9TH of April the former Is much more coEnpe-
tent to judge.
There are two points that wish to make: one is
that the presence of our dead and wounded IN the
camps of sherman, MeClernand, and Prentiss does
not prove surprise for their lines formed
several hundred yards in front of their camps, and
they were probably shot while filling back through
their camps were carried back 10 their tents
when they fell in the line. / have doubt that
General Neatch says, thousands of soldiers wrote
home that the army surprised. OF course we
were surprised; TO most of the whiz of bullet
was surprising sensation, and we knew nothing
at that time of the meaning, in military sense, OF
the term surprised - Newspaper correspondents
who had for months insisted that General sherman
was crazy caught at the term with no more knowl-
edge of its real significance than we had, and sad
died the whole business upon him, just as they
would have robbed him of the glory II army
had been successful that day. 1t was a bloody
fight and the men, as far saw did their best TO
hold the rebels at bay. suppose some ran away.
| never was present in any battle when they did
not. was wounded and carried to the rear at the
time when the hardest lighting of the morning was
going on-between twelve and one O'Clock. had
q fair opportunity to estimate the number OF men
who were on the fiat between the bluff and the
river at that time, and think there not more
than 5000 many of whom were wounded lay
wounded on transport not more than four hun
dred yards east of the left of Grants last line of
battle. II was said to- be four o'clock when the
Union artillery opened upon the advancing rebels.
As the guns opened the transports unoosed from
their moorings and dropped down stream half
a mile, and for half hour the roar of artillery
and musfzetry ineessant and very heavy. Then
all STILL except the firing from the gunboats,
which was kept up at intervals through the night.
IL was at this time that BreeSearidges attack
repused so completely that his troops fell back to
| ". II. l.. Wailaee's and Huribut's camps, a
mile and the other mile and half from the scene
of their last bloody repulse. Whether should
have been able if Buelrs army had not come up,
to retake our camps from Beauregard's army
have never been able to satisfy myself, but that
Grants army fully able to hold its last position
against the rebel army / have never had q shadow
| of doubt. Il. j. BRYANT,
| La PRAIRIE, ILL. Capt. Co ID, 18th III. Vols
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Either Surprised or Guilty of Criminal Negligence

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
With your permission would like to give a prf-
the statements of General James G. Veateh are
correct do not see how come to any other
conclusion but that our army was surprised on the
morning of April 8, 1862 First, General Wealth
tells US there was no comTnanCler-in-chief on the
field, as General Grant was at Savannah. ten miles
away. Does General Veateh any one else sup
pose that General Grant was anticipating attack
and he General Grant, ten miles away? Is that
not evidence enough that General Grant was not
anticipating attack; and if not anticipating an
attack, and yet attacked, was not he tGen Grant,
surprised? IL rather looks so to me- j, like Gen
Veatch will not undertake to define exactly what
is meant in military sense by "a surprise" But
Gen. Veatch tells us that one has ever charged
that the divisions of MeClernand, Hurlbut, and W.
II. l.. Wallace were surprised, as they Were III the
interior OF the camp and marched out IN perfect
order. Now, happened to belong to Gen. W. III.
L. Wallaee'S division, and was member OF one OF
the unfortunate regiments of the Iowa brigade that
was captured, and during all my sojourn in South
ern prisons never heard officer or private ex-
press himself otherwise than that we had been
very badly surprised. Now let us examine what
General Sherman says: On Sunday morning
early the enemy drove our pickets back on the
main body, when ordered under arms my diviS-
ion.' This, mark you, Gen. Sherman says was
after seven o'clock At eight o'clock he saw large
masses of the enemy moving to his left and front,
and all of his regmentswere IN line of battle Now,
| viii ask, who claim that General Sherman
was not surprised when he had been in camp there
from the 18th Of March until seven o'clock April
9TH and not a single thing had been done towards
repeiling an attack for the protection of his
army? Does any old soldier that ever followed
Sherman suppose that he made all of the prepara-
tons that he wished to in hour? If he did not,
was he not surprised? The same is true of all the
other divisions, and General Neateh does not show
th9t there was single move made by our troops
towards resisting attack until after piekets
were driven in on Sunday morning. Now, with this
evidence before US, no conmander-ia-ehef present
and, Gen. Veateh tells US, plan of defense,
leave ii with your readers TO foTTa their own con-
clusions of whether we were surprised or not In
conclusion, I will say, that much as our generals
may dislike to own that they surprised, it is
evident to every soldier who there that they
were either surprised were guilty Of criminal
negligence. and l. for one think the country ough
to know which it is. Yours, very truly,
F. c. CROMWELL,
Formerly Co. A, 12th lows.
OAKLAND VALLEY, Iowa.