Lewiston Falls Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 2

JVttBBat Ilouieundilbroad Ireeale 1 Brief- AIfI(MtJ8plcndidicton Tennessee qaIred23dajrpwqwttonGenPojwis momentarily expected to arrive with his army at thii point he having successfully crossed the river yesterday under a heavy ire which bo doabt led to the hasty abandonment jof deaths of their de pended upon this great straggle their Gene ale atilljirged them on in the face of destruction hoping by flanking ns onthe right to tnrn tbe ef battle-jThciri aaboess was a again for a time cheering a they began to inpenonationof Its deadliest cnemyand gtap-riesits Bu ti twiUdoit yet That daymuat bomb When it does the last gnat straggle wQl be near For such a struggle wecanaffbrd to wait tor waknowwhat will bethaY weWyetspend os and Mood '-Ict patriots then have' a bops that waits for Sts fruition and a love country tbKt will not erase tor glve and to Suffer till is the fullnese of time comes the delireranoetha shall he tor all time Let then tbe end of this war come only when the danger and tbe possibility of another like it ball have passed away forever Ellsworth American says that (' formation is wanted of tbs whereabouts of Tim- othy of Ellsworth Ha left that town about the 18th of last October and may hav gone to sea or enlisted hath army Is of maBsiat fight complexion fight hair ko Be was anxious to enlist In the1 army but failed to obtain the oonseat of his parents Any information of said Timothy will be gratelUly acknowledged by his mother now residing fa Ellsworth Mrs Joanna receivers of Sanford Bank giro notice that all claims aad demands against said bank most be presented to them before the 19th of AngnaL All tha Banks fa Portland with the exception of the International and Mechanics have declared a semi-annual dividend of 4 pa cent The former declared a dividend of 3 percent "-Mr William Alexander had an arm and gr2UtggtonSotirnai THWIPAl' inL i6 FastDsy The National FMtln oat tbs country than anyother within oar remembrance Tbc people felt the preesare of a great emergency Store and shops wen closed The ordinary pothiof industry wen deserted Unaaoal number Tinted the aanctaary Praying men' prayed with' an unwonted 1 or The day was a marked one not only fiv what it was in itsdf but as standing lor many days of prayer ana a generally prevail-ing soon of dependence on God and of the need of his interposition Snee then the tide of national afihirs has tOrned The dead that was gathering on the ether tide of the Atteatie has dispersed Saeeess apon saooess has crowned oar arms Day after day brings tidings of victory Sm while we write oomes the joyful yet terribis news of the moet decisive battle yet and the most disastrous overthrow of the rebels Today is last Day a day solemnly se apart for the acknowledgment of the God of oar fathers fax the recognition of oar own dependenoe on him and to implore his Messing on our oo on try Now shall it be observed? Shall it not be made at least as much account of as the Fast Day which came in darker times? Shall not thankfulness for the successes al- ready attained join with our solicitudes in respect to the contingencies of the future to gather us as a people in the sanctuary for fervent prayer? Never had a people greater reason to pray than the American people have at this day Even though every rebel army were broken up and every State brought back againinto the Union them ere still problems before ns and great questions connected with the reestablishment of our institutions and the per-jnanent prosperity of our country which no human wisdom is adequate to meet and for which we need if ever a people needed divine guidance Let this Fast day let all our dSys of prayer be kept as unto God and in the spirit of the Puritan Fathers and we are very sore a divine blessing will follow Scio Parson Brownlow A letter from Nashville gives the following of Parson Brownlow oo noted a mi as tbe panoa all most have formed some idea Moat persons have doubtless pictured him as a stoat dark and terrible looking perso whose frame would intimidate a mob end crash a common man Brave and daring as He has proved himself one would not having seen him picture him as a giant capable pf singly and alone achieving the during deeds which his mind might plot But fancy would in this esse he much at fault Parson Brownlow is a man of perhaps 60 years and 125 pounds not more He is of medium height but his extreme spareness gives him a taller look His arms axe long and ungraceful His countenance is far from being band-some being as broad as it is long and not Scshily filled out High cheek bonce thin chin end a bugs month are tbe prominent features about a countenance which is strangely interesting and attractive even when it ia not known whose soul looks out of the little but expressive eyes that give this life to the countenance The Declination of Gov Washburn The Kennebec Journal is authorised to say that Gov Washburn declines without reservation to be a candidate for re-election We regret to hear of-this determination and hope with tbe Journal that he may be induced to change his purpose There is a very general desire that the State should have the benefit jf the experience and ability of Gov Washburn another year Tbe people understand that under his administration the affairs of the State have been managed with consummate ability and that every department has been held to the strictest accountability Since the commencement of the present war he has labored most assiduously and with a success which compels acknowledgment from all It will be difficult to fill his place Gen Burnside Bishop Clarke according to the Episcopal Recorder in a recent sermon thus refers to the hero of Roanoke Island has bowed before the powers of that noble man who has been followed thro' all his trials and perils by the grateful and earnest prayers of every loyal Christian in Rhode Lland God has been with him test- ing severely his faith and bis courage but all the while holding tho winds in the hollow of his Almighty hand so that the storm and the tempest should never overcome him Wmle Iqws planning his magnificent expedition it was mv fortune to occupy the same room with him in Washington and I shall never for- get how every morning and every evening That blessing ensures his success Tho Lord of Hosts is with him and the God of battles is his A Fleet of Monitors It is stated in the New York papers that a contract has been made by the Government with the builders of tbe Monitor (Mes Bushmill Griswold Window Co of Albany and Troy) to construct six more vessels of similar character with all practicable rapidity Important improvements will be introduced into the forthcoming each vessel the works last tdghtll am formed that the taro gunboats which wo gal ist lantlyran the fire of tbe rebel batteries the tori of the enemy opposite dismounting eight gone vT YThs following is a espy of the' order vf Gen McCall on assuming of the rebel forces 7th fast: Wo are atrangers Commander and commanded each to the other Let me teli you who I am I am a General made by Beauregard a General selected by Beauregard spa Bragg for this command when they knew it was in peril They have known me for 21 yearn together we lave stood in the fields Mexico you have given them your oonfidenoe Now giro it to me when I lave earned it: Soldixu The Mississippi Valley Is entreated to your courage to your discipline Exhibit the vigilance and coolness or last night and hold it cCall I regret that the painful condition of my feet still require me to use cratches 'and pre-vdhted me from making a personal examination of the work I was therefore compelled to delegate Lieut Cdmmandfag Phelps of the Benton (Signed) A FOOTE Flag Officer Tha Kill Ml at Tsrktews New York 9 th A Fortress Monroe letter gives the following additional names of the wsonded Geo Field Cyrus Baily McBarrett Frank Smith John CaJligill James and Corporal 'A Emerson all of the 22d Mass Lieut Morris 22d Mass Charles worth 4th I Battery Six gunboats are anchored off the mouth of Worn ley Creek Official War Bulletin Washington April 9th 1861 Orders giving thanks for great victories over the rebels and traitors Ordered First that at the meridian of Sun-lay next after the receipt of this order at the head of every regiment in the armies of the United States there shall be offered by its chaplain a prayer giving thanks to the Lord of Hosts for the recent manifestations of His power in the overthrow of the rebels and teuton and invoking the continuation of his ail in the delivery of £his nation by the arms of the patriotic soldiers from the horrors of treason rebellion and civil war Second That the thanks and congratula tiensof the War Department are rendered to Jlij Gen Halleck for the signal ability and success that have distinguished all the military operations of his department and for the spirit and courage manifested by the army under his command under every hardship and against every odds in attacking pursuing and destroying the enemy wherever he could be found Third That the thanks of the Deportment are also given to Generals Curtis and Siegel and the officers and soldiers of their command for gallantry at the bloody battle of Pea Ridge and to Major Generals Grant and Buell and their forces for the glorious repulse of Beauregard at Pittsburg in Tenm and to-Mor General Pope and his offi-' ccrs and soldiers for the skill and bravery displayed against the rebels and traitors intrenched at Inland No 10 in the Missisaippi River Their daring cdurage diligent prosecution persistent valor and military achievements are unsurpassed Fourth That there shall this day be a salute of one hundred guns fired from the Arsenal at Washington in honor of these great victories Stanton Secretary ef War By order of the President Rnuell Has Cornel-tided He's Hot Weeded Nkw York 9th The steamship China sailed for Europe to-day with 621000 dollars in specie Dr Russell of the London Times was among her passengers Si Toma Bth Floor Kata aad Wrtin declining -eSdlwi 4000 barrel Superfine State 6 10 CP 6 Kxtra do 6 SO 6 30 Hoop Ohio 6 OS 6 Superfine Weetern 6 16 Extra do 69006 Southern Sdlee OOO barreli mixed to good ittCI 86 Taney end Extra 6 0007 36 Seles M0 banela Superfine 6 4ME4 60 extra 6 3006 60 Wheat unchanged Corn Salea 16000 bnihele mixed to gouil 5V 0 Beef unchanged 8a lei fork Sales mess 13 66 0 131 Lard uuiet Salea 600 barrels at 7 0 8 Cotton quiet but steady ealea small at 87) 0 00 for middling uplands Mr 'Oilman on Parties Our Augusta correspondent referred some time since to the able speech of Mr Gilman of the Bath Times delivered in the Ilouee when the confiscation resolves were under consideration Wo find tbe speech fully reported in tbe last Kennebec Journal and select tho following extract which gives the opinion of prominent Union democrats to the course that the republican party should take in the present crisis We fully concur in the views of Mr Gilman and se far we know there was not a dissenting voice among the-republican members of the Legislature While the organization of tho republican party should be preserved intact that it may stand as a wall of fire ia defence of tho administration it should exorcise a spirit ol liberality to true Union democrats and in issuing calls for all its conventions should rt i if liOCAI AMP ST ATM FMWS Mvate Iditm fraa Itk flsMsrltom amsmberc friind fa town has been kiadlyplaosd at osrdie-poea XJka most of the fetters from the army it illustrated Over the date Away downJ South fa Is prfatedln porptob and underneath is a- plantation wagon loaded with' ootton The Mains 10th arrived at Harper's Ferry the aoene of the John Brown fight the last of March The Band was -quartered inn fins building with the Colonel and bis staff which is but a few steps from the engine house where John Brown resisted his captors It stands just as he bft it Nothing hut heap of eharead ruins indicate where the extensive Government works stood The terrible efisets of war are painfhlly visible on' every hand On Bolivar Hights where the 1st Vermont Cavalry is quartered are six or seven large brick residences in style of architecture resembling the new residence of Dr Garealon though larger There are finished in elegant style mantis pieces of the finest marble aad other indications of the refinement and taste of their original occupants Die spacious parlors and finished drawing rooms were converted into stablee by the rebel eoldier for Cavalry When they were driven from here by Gen Banks his Cavalry took possession of them The Band and one Company remain at Ferry The promixity of the rebels forbids much liberty Mr 8 Mitchell a member of the 8th Maine stationed at Dawftxskie Island 8 writes un-da date 27th March that Co 'a A and have been for six weeks detached from the rest of the Begiment at Hilton Head for special rviee at that plaoe and the adjacent Islands With the New York 48th they have erected a battery on a marsh whichwith the battery on the Georgia aide of the river commands its mouth When the rebel gunboat started on its regular trip to Fort Pulaski the mud fort on Is-lantfaluted them with shell from a rilled eannon Supplies and reinforcements were both euteff from the fort by the erection of this battery The cannon were dismounted and dragged for a mile through deep mad in the night to mount on the Jones Island battery One of these guns is a six ton oolnmbiad cast at Charleston and captured at Hilton Head Two deserters reached Dawfuskie from Fort Pulaski They stated that at least 100 of the 400 in the Fort were Unionists and ready- to desert Thousands of the rebel yoldiers are similarly situated The location of the camp is healthy and agreeable it is in a pine and cedar grove on a pleasant island The health of the Regiment is geod and the soldiers are contented War Notes from a Xlalne Boy Through the politeness of Mr Albion Pierce of Greene we are furnished with interesting letters from Mr Kimball a Maine boy and a native of Greene in this County now a member of the 13th Indiana a veteran corps many of whom were in the Mexican war under the same Jeff Davis whose unfortunate person would now be a happy target for their guns Mr Kimball hM a brother in body guard and his father is now in the 7th Maine So do father and son take up the sword in defence of tho liberty prised alike by both Mr has been in no less than seven important battles and a number of skirmishes since the war broke out and lias not been wounded or injured thus far His regiment wm in the battle of Winchester and lost sixty-two men in killed and wounded Mr writes that ninety of the rebel dead were recognised by eitixens of Winchester as residents of that town lie saw one oldnan go over the battle-field and turn three dead bodies over and found them to be those of his own sons He saw mothers and sister looking over the fallen dead to find perhaps some son or brother a saa and heart-rending sight The scenes in the hospitals were sad commentaries on the horrors of war Mr Kimball describes the chare of his regiment at the Winchester battle as terrific They marched up receiving three rounds from the rebels never flinching and with a terrific yell at lost charging the enemy face to Thdy were immediately put to flight and pursued ten miles In our advance to Btrasburg and beyond there were sights sad ns Well others ludicrous Mr writes that some of the women were crying some cursing some look sad some look spur some would spit in the Sum of our troops and some would vt faces at in we went The letter adds: have passed through many towns where there were ne male inhabitants while the women run through the streets distraoted with anger and grief! Some of them would take our lives if they dared Some of them I pity but others are so brutal and so ignorant that they excite The letter speaks in high terms of Gen Banks and represents the troops as in the best of spirits and anxious to win more victories Farraers take Notice I At the late session of the legislature an im Portent act was passed in relation to obtaining certain statistics connected with the farming interest "As the assessors will soon be round we' publish the following extract so the farmers can see what is required of them and be ready to give the information It is a highly important movement and should be carried out as aocurate-y possible Section 1 The assessors of tbs several cities towns and plantations in the State on or before the first day of in each to4Vf hay also the number of of wool and dressed flax and the number of poultry and eggs hones of four said city town of colts under of April Androscoggin of Grand several towns in on the eeuiux 3 PARTICULARS OF THE 1 PITTSBURG AT I Part lenl are mt tk Battle ef Plttibarf Nxw You 9th A special dispatch to the Beralif dated Pittsburg via Port Henry April 9th 320 A says one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of modern days has just dosed resulting in the oomplete roift of the enemy who attacked at daybreak Sunday morning Tbe battle lasted without intermission daring tbe entire day and was renewed on Monday morning and continued until 4 in the afternoon when the enemy commenced their retreat and are still flying towards Corinth panned by a force of oar cavalry Tha slaughter on both sides is We have lost in killed wounded and missing from 18 to 20000 men that ol the enemy is estimated at from 35 to 40000 It is impossible in the present confused state of affairs to ascertain any details I therefore give you the best acoount possible from observation having passed through the storm of action during tbe two days that it lasted The fight was brought on by a body of 300 of the 25th Indiana Regiment of Gen Pren- Division attacking the advanoe guard the rebels which were supposed to be the enemy in sight of our lamps The rebels immediately advanced on Gen Division on the left wing pouring in volley shot and onr forces soon' formed in line of battle and returned the fire vigorously By thetime we were prepared to receive them their heaviest fire came in tbe left centre of division drove oar men back from their camps and bringing up fresh force opened fire on our left wing under Gen McClernand This fire was returned with terrific effect and determined spirit by both infantry and artillery along the whole line for a distance of four miles Gen division was thrown forward to support the centre when a desperate conflict ensued The rebels were driven back with terrible slaughter but soon rallied and drove back our men in turn From about 9 the time your correspondent- arrived on the field until night closed on the bloody scene there waa no determination ol the result of the struggle The rebels exhibited remarkably good generalship At times engaging the left with appnrently their whole strength they would suddenly open a terrible and destructive fire on the right or centre Even onr heaviest and most destructive fire upon the enemy did not appear to discourage their solid columns The fire of Major Taylor's Chicago artillery raked them down in scores but the smoke would no sooner be dis I ported than the breach wbuld again be filled I The most desperate fighting took place in the afternoon The rebels knew that if they 1101 "ucoced whipping us then thftt I their chancel would be extremely doubtful as a portion of Gen force had by this time arrived on tho opposite side of tho river pMf riwr I rom Savannah They became aware that we were being reinforced as they could see Gen troops from the river bank a short distance above us on the left to which point they had forced their way At 5 the rebels bad forced our left wing back so as to occupy fully two-thirds of our camp and were fighting their way for ward with a desperate degree of confidence in l-: 1 i the same time heavily engaged our right Up to thia time we had received no reinforce ments Gen- Lew Wallace failing to come to their effort to drive us into the river and at Gunboats Lexington and Tyler which lay I a short distance off kept raining shells on the nhei hnrdrtii opened at day- light simultaneously by Gen Di-1 vision on the left Mqjor Gen Di-1 I vision on the right Gen force I the previous day fighting still maintained tbmr honors vrenat Fort Donelson but tbe reiistanoeof therebell at all points of attack was terrible and worthy of a better cause I following Is the list of town offioers elected in Danville--'p Moderatorl-Osman' Jordan Sm Jordan Jr Jacob Larrabre awl Wm Bobfaum ft a Treasurer Wm Woodbnry Town Agent Ingereoll QCJF Vc-- Crmax t--Oor readers will recollect the circumstances which we mentioned nt the time of the three involuntary impriaoiqnent ef Mr pig under his barn and of its ultimate recovery in good health and spirits alter the snow embargo had been removed Tbe ond chapter in the somewhat erentfol oareer of Mr t) 'Don nell's porker waa tbe giving birth on Wednesday night to fourteen large healthy pig-gies Onr informant says that and family are doing season for maple sugar has oome aad Cook fully appreciating the needs ofthe public has provided a bountiful supply of maplt candy which we would recommend to be taken in large quantities as it is bsalthfol fine flavored and remarkably pleasant -The edit i tor of the WaterviUe Mail is fmdn of discernment as the following from his last edition dearly proves: must have that Lewiston Daily Journal! It posts ns up in war news twelve hours later mind the for while everybody else has it we must if ws swap our supper for it Send it on friend Dipgley and put it in the eh dropped hank-chief ia the refrain of every other urchin on the street to-day while the little rogues fatten their ribs by filing somebody with the stereotyped Osculations ye April Those in pursuit of good bargains should give 8 Winslow a call llis winter goods are going at great bargains S3 Lisbon street Pedestrians make loud complaints of the nsettled state of tlio streets The sun aad wind are gradually freeing our streets from the unsightly piles of snow rendered familiar by their long continuance Plank sidewalks are invaluable at this season Matters in Maine T-l'be manufacture of maple sugar and candy is probably being carried on this season to a greater extent in this State than ever before The only inoonvenience experienced by the manufacturers is from the extraordinary depth cf the snow preventing the usual ease of access to the woods The weather hM thus far been quite as favorable in past seasons The town of Brunswick had up to the first of the present month distributed among the families of volunteers $395077 The largest number of families aided in sny one week is eighty-four The town also paid for the sup-rt of the Poor the past year $330043 and port or tne roor tne past year ua for schools in the same time $41601 (Bath BeutincL 6 John Neal in the Advertiser gives a sorry account ofthe Temperance Reform in Portland We happen to know that Mr statements are true in some particulars What he says of the use of wines and other liquors at fashionable parties is notoriously true A gentleman informs us that he knows of one belle in Portland who drinks whiskey ad libitum a weak tonic! We see it stated in tho Herald that squadron of the Maine Cavalry hM been ordered to W'arrenton Junction 30 miles beyond Manassas on the road to Gordonsvillc The likelihood is that we shall have no more complaints about the Cavalry being a superfluous piece of war furniture It will undoubtedly have Borne dashing and daring work to do within the next few weeks In the late naval conflict between the United States Ship-of-war Cumberland and the rebel Steam-ram Merrimac Thomas Taylor Francis Cousins and Win Uainbridge all belonging in this oity seamen on board the Cumberland were killed There were two other Portland boys on board the vessel John Canard and Frederick Wiley who escaped liuftis Joy a seaman on board tlia Hinnesuta a native of Portland was killed during the engagement Advertiser Three Presque Isle Field Drivers vis: Copeland Geo Curtis Jr and A Johnson give notice through the Herald that they will be in session on the sixth Satuolay of each month for the purpose of transacting official business Editors and other are notified to keep out of the highway The Times of Iloulton under date of April 4th says that the snow crusted fields ia tliat i gion afford an excellent opportunity for an early ramble and every pleasant morning large numbers of our village people assemble on the hill sides to enjoy the fine sliding and exhilarating air Rev Hayward lias been invited to supply the pulpit of the Univcmlist church at Paris s- non Goddard Consul General to Constantinople passed through town Thursday on his way to visit his family in Kcadfield We learn that he will remain until about tho 1st of June when he will return to Constantinople with them He appeared in excellent health Mr John Bryant of Pleasant street brought into this office yesterday a small live picked up in front of his grawbopiier which be house Mr Bryant says it is a sign of a dry aumirer and plenty of urasxhoppcra Sliould the prediction fail John will make good all damages Bangor Times lot of Salmon Trout and Pickerel were recently caught in Union River tho Bangor Times informs us The salmon weighed from three quarters to six pound tho trout about four pounds and the pickerel but little lew A pro occurred in Augusta on Monday evening as we learn froiq the Farmer on Water Street which destroyed several buildings of email value Total Ions buildings and stock $2600 Tne city of Gardiner appropriated for the fire department last year $1650 this year $800 Samuel Elliott of Portland a member of the 8th Maine who wit on his return home from Port Royal in the steamship Oriental died of consumption on the 30th ult while off Cape Batteras he Bath Sentinel say Company II of the 16th Maine -Regiment has made a monthly allot ment of $1089 being the largest amount allotted by any of the infantry companies from this State A letter from Port Royal informs us of the death by congestion of the Inngs of Corporal Edward Pinkham of Co I 8th Hs wm a native of Us died the death of a Christian Maine Farmer Tho death of Capt Lunt of Brunswick is reported on board his vessel off the South Carolina coast loaded with troops for Ship Island The Bangor Whig and Courier is onr authority for tlw following The paper is dated the fourth not the fibst of understand that in Orrington and Hampden at tbe lata flirt of snow the flakes or rather masses wars large as a barrel It came down in large heaps and a hot sun failed to separate the particles so firmly were they fixed The Patriot says that business is reviving at the Farmington Depot and the freight house is foil of freight although constantly moving to and from the station Last Saturday forenoon double aad single teams nearly all loaded both ways were present in crowds Th number of horses employed in hauling freight to and from the depot that forenoon waa found to number fifty-three by actual pretty good or war times A letter from Monroe Co 8th Heine informs ns of tho death of Henry larretl Jr of Coj who died at Daufoakie stead March 29th of typhoid fever Also of thp death of Tafts Sergeant Co who died at Daufoakie Island March flOth of typhoid fever MQta in Oxford is in a flourishing condition Four large boarding houses bt-sidesa number of private dwellings and buildings will be pat np the eoming sssson Jibe woolen mills are vanning both night and day 2be appearaao of wagons in our streets ere Among other evidences of the certain -de-parturs of winter and the approach pf bright klea and milder Of- joint ground on us appearing to havs been reinforced bat oar left under Gi Gen 'Nelson wonderful rapidity was driving thorn Wlth and by 11 forces had in fiankihg them and capturing their batteries of artillery Tbey however again rallied on the left and ro-erossed and the right forced themsrivos forward in another desperate effort bat reinforcements from Gen Wood and Gen Thomas were eoming ia meats which were sent to Gen Buell had aggin commenced to drive the enemy About 8 PM Gen Grant rode to the left where fresh regiments had been ordered and finding tbe rebels wavering be sent a portionof hie body guard to the head of each of tbe five regiments and then ordered a charge across the field himself leading as be brandished his sword and waved them on to victory while the eannon balls were flying like haul around him The men followed with a shoot that sounded above the roar and din of the artillery and tbe gebels fled in dismay as from destroying av lanehe end never made another etand Gen Buell followed the rebels driving them in splendid style and by half-past five the whole rebel army was in full retreat to Corinth with onr cavalry in hot pursuit with what further result is not known they not having returned up to this hour We have taken a large amount of artillery also a number ef prisoners We lost a number of onr force prisioners yesterday among whom ia Gen Prentiss Tbe number of onr force taken has not been ascertained rot it ia reported as several hundred Gen Prentiss was reported as being wounded Among the killed on the rebel side was their general in chief 'Albert Sidney Johnson who was track by a cannon ball in the afternoon of Sunday Of this there is no doubt as the xe- port is corroborated by several rebel officers taken to-day It is further reported that Gen Reauregard had hie am shot off This afternoon Gens Bragg Breckinridge and Jackson were commanding positions of tbe rebel forces There has never been a parallel to the gallantry and bearing of our officers from the commanding General to the lowest officer Gen Grant and staff were in tbe field riding along tbe lines in the thickest of the fire during the entire two days of battle and all slept on the ground Sunday night during a heavy rain On several occasions Gen Grant got within range of the guns and was discovered and fired upon Lieut Col McPherson had his horse shot from under him when along side of Gen Grant Capt Caaaon was between Gen Grant and your correspondent when a cannon fegU took off his head and killed and wounded several others Gen Sherman had two horses shot from under him and Gen McClernand shared like dangers and also Gen Hurlburt each of whom received bullet holes through their clothes Gen Buell remained with his troops during the entire day and with Gen Critten-don and Gen Nelson rode oontinually along the lines encouraging their men Our loss in officers is very heavy It ia impossible at present to obtain their names The following are among the number Brig Gen Wallace killed Lieut Col Ellis killed Lieut Col Canfield 2d Ohio mortally wounded since dead Lt Col Kyle 14th Ind mortally wounded Col Davis 46th 111 mortally wounded Gon Sherman wounded in the hand by a eannon ball Col Sweeney Acting Brig Gen wonnded He received two shots in his only remaining arm having lost one in Mexico Also a snot in one of bis legs Col Sweeney kept the field until the close of thc fight and excited the admiration of tbe whole army Col Dave Stuart 55th 111 Acting Brig Gen shot through the breast on Sunday but returned to the field on Monday Col Chascrafts 31st 111 Acting Brig Gen shot through the right shoulder not dangerously Col Hayne 4th 111 wounded slightly Col McKenncy 17th Ky wounded slightly Lieut Col Stout 18th Ky wounded slightly Lieut Col Morgan 25th Ind wounoed mtJlv lu lira lend Col Maaon 71t Ohio wounded olightlj Major Eaton 18th 111 Acting Col wounded Major Nevins 11th 111 wounded I fatally 1 slightly Capt Curran Gen Gran' j10 off by a cannon ball Capt Preston Godon wounded mortally since dead Capt Dilson 18th 111 killed Cspt Mace 5th 111 killed Capt Cor ter 11th 111 1 killed Major Page 57th 111 killed k-Island No 10 April 8th To IIos GnntMI WtLLa have toinform the Department that since heavy guns turned adrift by the rebels is said to be lying on the Missouri shore below New Madrid The to have cmy npon the main fend appeared ted with the highest engineering skill and are of great strength ana with their natural wouldhare impregnable if leg broken la the plaster mill-in Topaham on Monday afternoon Us had out just gon to work aad through some mismanagement met with tbs aorident referred to Brunswick Tel A fire in Bangor Friday forenoon destroyed a two story house on Parker St owned by Owen McCann Loss $1200 About twenty-firs young men have recently left Machiaa and that vicinity for Puget Sound Washington Territory Th Farmington Chronicle says us it appears quite certain that the most profitable investment that ean now be made in our region of country is in setting oat young orchards Old orchards are dying out rapidly and few young ones are eoming The Gospel Banner acknowledges the re ceipt of a $2 subscription from Ship Island and ays: our few scattered subscriptions in tbe South were out off months since we were cares looking for returns from that region so David Drinkwater ono of the oldest shipmasters in Portland the Argus oafs died at his residence in that oity Thursday afternoon lie hM boon for many years a director in the Bank of Cumberland see by the Portland paers that Thursday's Express brought 51 packages of money from the 9tli Maine Regiment Col Rich at Hilton Head The amount received wm $4118 The heaviest remittance wm $700 The Kenncbco Journal any Gov Wash- bum declines without reservation being again candidate for Governor The West Washington Agricultural Society has funds in Treasury to tho amount ef $34130 BepJ Sawyer Esq been appointed Postmaster at Seal Cove Tremont to a dispatch in the Bangor Whig all reoruiting for Maine Regiments is topped after April 3d steamship Nova Sootian sails from Portland for Liverpool this afternoon We would oall attention to the advertisement of Mitchell Co in our columns They have a seloct stock of family and their supply of maple syrup and sugar ia very superior in quality and flavor as all must admit who have tried them Families in that part of our village will do well to give them a call Their prices accord with tbe times There is a report current in the newspapers that the snow is gone so that one can see the of the Wc wish to contradict it as a frlfcnd from out of town assures us that the snow has only melted to the eaves of the house-roofs! The Temperance Journal says tho attendance at the late Tempera nco Convention at Brunswick wm small We suppose that the distracting excitement of tho times is the cause If we 1 mistake not the country needs a tenqicrnnce re-or in more to-day than it did a year ago The Temperance cause in Bowdoiu College in a cheering condition Wc notice that Mr Temple of the Senior Class mails an clmiiieut address at the late Convention in Brunswick Tho number of deaths in the city of Bangor for the month of March wm 22- The funeral earemonies over the remain of Hon Little took plaee at Portland na Friday The impressive services of the Episcopal Church were oouductcd by Bishop Burgess The remains of the deceased were deposited in the Western Cemetery The Brunswick Telegraph states on the authority of a correspondent that on the 14th of April 1843 there wm quite ns much snow on tho ground as there was on the 20th March 1863 and that on tho 22d of the month he drove to Brunswick in a sleigh If we mistake nol a rcHuliiiiontaH8ed at the late Temperance Convention at Brunswick that is a part of true hits somebody in the Brunswick locality a stout rap! At a joint meeting of the companies composing the Shoo Fire Department held on the 36th ult they authorised their offioers to deliver -up their engines and apparatus to tbe town This action was taken on account ofthe small compensation voted the depurtuiuut at the town meeting vis $750 Frank Dickerson only son of J0 Dickerson Esq of IMfio has been appointed Lieutenant in the 5ih regiment Cavalry attached to Geu McCirll'in command In the burial ground near the Episcopal Church at Centerville is a grave with the following inscription upon the headstone: MKUT RICHARDSON Company 3d Uegiuient Maine UIKII ala 4th 1H01 Lieut Richardson went from Bangor lost s'- leg at Bull Run and vm Liken prisoner Generalities Solomon Sturgis a prominent Chicago Quaker writes to the Chicago Journal that Commodore Foote is not fighting the rebels with one-tcntli of his power from day to day He is probably wuiting for the troops sent np the Tennessee river to get in ilie right position Mr Sturgcs believes that the commodore is merely playing with the rebel batteries as a cat handles a mouse that it has completely in its ower When the proper time arrives lie doubts not the commodore capture every rebel on or about tbe island and all their The following is told of a Nashville lady Her relative sn officer in the federal army called to see her She showed her patriotism by the bitterest remarks toward the Lincolnitcs Nothing conld reconcile her to the Union or appeus' her temper conic you talk said tbe officer must tie a Unionist now sooner or latter you will be said she will not be for a while auyliow It took me six montbs to turn secesh and I will not turn Union in less time u6l alroid of you not talk Union just because you are -j It seems to ns that it should be regarded piece of nood fortune that Yancey wm not caught while running the blockade IlqhM evidently returned from Europe a and wiser and his forlorn speeches if the arch traitors at Richmond permit him to go on delivering them cannot fail to have a good influence for the Union upon tbs publie mind 25th Missouri acted a most glorious part in the Pea Ridge battle Thia regiment is commanded by Col Phelps who wm struck thrice by spent balls one of them cutting a hole in his coat and slinging him considerably His hors had seven bullets in him six received in th conns of ten or fifteen minutes Col Phelps moved from New England to Mo soms twenty-five years ago Hs is a member ofthe present House of Representatives Directors have appointed Cspt Wal-' ter Patton of Liverpool th fatoreoommand-of the Gnat Eastern His salary will bo a year with ether contingent advantages Tbs stock market eontinnes to move firm- ly upward thanks to th growth ofthe "mob the London Times has denominated the American people in tbe Christian graces of faith and pattens j-- Largs nnmbsrsof slaves arelfreed as our army antrates Virginia and fornlshad with' avideno of their freedom ky the officers in obedience to the confiscation act of which will be about forty feet longer than our support till the day was over having ta- the Monitor with proportionate breadth of PJ j- bcm other quliBcatioM (hr he- amament thui tbtoi the -iUuMrlo pw- wthoot taport other thn Xh abatitution of to qortorajLter Md oonm stores which were too heavily laden to ferry any considerable number of Gen forces across the river those that were here having lgraph is up to the been sent to bring up the troops from Sevan- progressing satisfacti nah I within a day were therefore oontending against I The Battle at TorktowB-Tlvt Mcrrima to the correspondence between the Secretary I fearful odds our force not exceeding 38000 and her Rshei Fleet of State and Ex-President Pierce relative to I men while that of the enemy was upwards of I Baltimore -The steamer Rancocaa is alleged connection with the secession or- 60000 Our condition at this time was ex- Jhioh went "iV known as the Knights of the Gold- LpLw nnmKlM nn day Merrimac lying off Cwney The reaMutinn that the Ftufoml I trcBev critics! as large numbers of onr men I inland en Circle The res6lution that the Federal The Yorktown Jamestown Teaser When Will this War End! Ihia question is asked by almost every one and everybody feels a very deep interest to find' an answer It is a question which I suspect any intelligent man in any part oi the country can answer as well as any member of the Cabinet No officer of the government at Washington or in the field can give definite answer One thing however any pan can see to be true that the length of the straggle mast bear some proportion to the nature of the causes which produced it and the magnitude of the forces engaged The rebellion was a long time in maturing It was skillfully planned The whole South in itself a great and powerful people with all its energies and resources and with a most unexpected unanimity has been enlisted on one side No matter whether by truth or by falsehood by fairness or by -fraud by force or from choice all its men and all its money are enlisted sincerely earnestly desperately The rebellion with such force holds a vast territory and positions of great strength and is net without its friends and powerful friends abroad Then there are great issues at stake On the part of tbe rebellion there is the question of the establishment of a national existence to take rank among the first nations All the pride of national feeling (for this the South certainly has) is aroused and lends its power All the love of liberty and freedom falsely and wrongly indulged to be nre yet all this indomitable-love of liberty and rights supposed to bo invaded is called into exercise to excite the enthusiasm and strengthen the endurance of a people born and bred to believe that death is preferable to the loss of liberty and rights Added to these considerations is the fact that the leaders of the rebellion the men who originated It and direct it know that their all is involved and that the only alternative before them is suooess with its great personal rewards or defeat and annihilation Such a power with such impulses will struggle with the enthusiasm of a fanatic or with the energy of despair Against siich forces is arrayed the Federal Government In all desirable particulars it is the equal and even the superior of its enemy It is fighting for its existenoe and for the prestige of its place among the nations It is fighting with the eyes of the world upon it It goes oat to battle the champion of civil liberty and law and right It has every thing to save or all to lose The struggle must end in the destruction of one of the two powers Foreigners talk about an adjustment of difficulties leaving two distinct powers to go on their separate and different ways Men in America know foil well that there can never be any compromise between loyalty and rebellion The ntter destruction of the power of one of tbe two is the only possible result of the conflict A struggl i between such forces dispersed and eitnatet as they are chnnot be any other than desperate and we fear prolonged One two or ten victories in this case will not end tbe war Tbe number of tbe forces and the extent the territory over which they are scattered are too great Driven from one position another will be taken Advances of victorious armies most be slow and when leaders armies know that death or disgrace is their only and last portion they will pat off their warning retribution to the most distant day Between two independent nations the' war would be a different matter and would be by different means and peace secure on a different basis Tbe power of the one or the 'other in this ease most be hopelessly broken This war has not been wholly by the inoompetenoy of military leaden it was inevitable that the two contending parties should hays accumulated great power before they ooald meet in dicisive conflict Now that they have matured their strength and stand like Roman gladiators ftce to face the straggle will end only when one hall fall covered with wounds and bleeding at every vein There Is another consideration which prom-ini to protract the war It moat find itsfnd in the destruction of the cause of it Few now will deny that the slave power was that cause Slowly but sandy all classes are maohinj this oonviction Slowly bat sorely tbe Government is approaohing this the strong hold of its enemy A few months ago it carefully avoided the slavery question as one mast dangerous -to touch Now tbe President proposes a very inoffensive means tor the emandpationofalaves But this does not famish tha remedy--thtedqe not deal the fatal blow fit will be- some months before the Government comas fact to face with the I I A i vite the co-operation of all eitixens who sup- I returns to the effie of SMretaryo? State the port the administration the same basis on I number neat stock sheep and swine in their which republicans and Union democra 8 unit- ed in organizing tho State Government in I animals and their various kinds according to I the direction and intent of the blank returns fur January But here the extract of Mr Lj8hed for that purpose also the facte they speech exist in each city town or plantation on the first republican but as a loyal citizen ready and I raised in the year ending on caid April the num-anf10aB 8trike bands with any man who her of bushels of wheat rye barley oats buck-will give his best efforts to the causa of his I wheat potatoes turnips beets carrots apples country and who will unwaveringly sustain I number of tons of upland hay and the our common flag under the circumstances 1 tons of boj or salt hay and the num July intervale I out by hard fighting witb the average per Lentageof sculkers who had straggled to- the Jlerrimac Them'pres- Co-1 Ision aboard the Ranoocas was that the whole I warda tdl riTer an not rallied fleet was on its way down when the flag of Gen Grant and staff whs had been reek-1 truce appeared The weather has moderated lessly riding along the lines during the entire there ia some prospect of clearing up The day Bmid an un0ea8ing BtOTm of bullets grepe Btorni haTe ar I army advancing up the Peninsular they be- I shell now rode from right to left incit-1 jng deprived of tbe shelter of tents and com- t16 men tend firm until our reinforce- peiled to Constant watchfulness in the face of ments could cross the river enemy The roads were none too good bc- Col- Webster chief oi the staff immedi- 1)9 ofGoluin-l ble condition and the public must not be too ateIy tho heaviest pieces of I impatient expecting early results We have Mtillepy pointing toAhc right while exaggerated reports of the strength of the a large numSer of batteries were planted rebels the formidable character of their for-amendment Jon tha entire lino from tha rife bunk tificatione number of guns Ac It is safe to I Jme irom tne river I deduct ono haif of whatever the force may bo to our extreme right some 21-2 1 However they will bo overcome me- distant I r-rs About an hour before day a general can- 1 Telegraph to Kuope nonadine smud nnnn mmw Nxw York 9th Advices per Hibernian fed tho state that Mr Field has returned to England our enire a perpetual crack from Paris and leaves in the Ania on the I musketry Such avjror of artillery was 29th His telegraphic--scheme was favorably I never heard oq this continent For a short I received and the laying of a cable to New timB the Tehela pUed but their return shots were lees frequent and destructive while ours grew more rapid and terrific I were rnia stricken while others were worn I out by hard fighting with the average per I and 4 small tugi were in company all under I steam There is no particular change in the Official from Com Foots Flag Ship Benton I operate with the i slaves was taken Bayard Carlisle Davis Kennedy If ham UcDougal NesmUh fgrilL Starka Willey Wilson of Mo Wnghi There wm applause in the galleries when chair declared tho vote So the Senate tho finutnuMui ought to oo States In emancipating the slaves was taken 3r2to 10 The biil abolishing slavery in the District of lumbiaVrgs considered In th- bill was considered and a section adopted tax- ing express companies 2 eta duty on every re- ceipt givenfor a puckagp In tbe Senate Thursday $25000 were op- propria ted to' test flouting batteries Davis ef Ind offered resolution relative to tha conduct of the war to the effect that it BiU to abolish slavery in the District bia was taken up and on motion of Mr Sum- ner amended so as to admit the testimony of colored persons by a vote of 25 to 10 An requiring a master claiming any reoompense to make oath that ho has borne no part in tha rebellion waa adopted A motion to submit the bill to tbe vote of the inhabitants of tbe District was rejected by a vote of 10 to 25 An amendment apprupria- ting $100000 to aid the voluntary emEcra- tion of negroes liberated was adopted The bill was then passed as follows Tm SlfNi Anthony Biovniny Chandler Clark IHxpp DooUUta Wmmeum Ifoota Foatar and the faoe of everv neril ever dial I Kpu61icMhooHgiTup their orgtotio I so understood the gentleman from Ffestport misunderstood him I to counsel you stand corrected Mr Bradbury I did so distinctly advise Mr Gilhan I beg to dissent from such counsel I adjure you not to abandon your organization fn an boar like the present Appertii By all you hold sacred I urge you my republican friends to keep your oamp-fires brightly burning to keep your armor on to keep your I powdfer dry and yourselves ready for instant County arranged autj There is too much latent treason in the state to jastify any loyal party or iassod-ation in laying off their weapons Loyal democrats alone are not sufficiently powerful to control this evil element You should stand ready to vindicate our common rights to guard our common honpr to- avenge our common wrongs I oonnsel yon to keep np your organisation not for mere party purpos-i but for purposes of patriotism making wool skins also the value of produced also the number of yean old and upwards owned in or plantation and the number four yean of age on syd tint day of Jar an Canntjr The following is the apportionment and Traverse Jurors for the of 1860 heretofore the refuge of the slave power declares that slavery shall no longer blot tbe na-1 xu" woa muoa tne ene-j the surrender to me of Island'No 10 tional capital In the House the tax bill wm mJ and ere dusk had set in firing had nearly ion hM been taken both of the felandand considered and insurance policies patent ceased when night ooming on all oombatants works upon the Tennessee shore by the gun-medimnes aud fegal instruments taxed All the boats and the troopTunder Gen the sections of the bill except two were acted 01 Wood Seventeen officers and 368 privates fr 100 sick and 100 employed on board trans- Ia the Senate on Friday Mr McDongal rc-1 Our men rested on their arms in a position ports in our hands are unconditional pr is-ported a-Pacific Railroad and Telegraph bill I they had at the close of the night until foe I oners of war After considering some unimportant businea foroca ander Nelson arrived and tek a 1 haTe mU8cd 7 examination of the the Senate went into executive sesssion In nimi ana teox a the House the notorious Yaliandigham mode on md Gen I tide of the van nah were 1 100-pounders rifled The a statement concerning the deinocretic caucus I now being conveyed to the battle ground I well supplied with powder and there held a few nights since in which he wm a Ufa entire right of Gen Nelson's division quantitire of shot shell and other mu burning light The tax bill wm considered ord nitTons of war also great qfiantities of pro- and taxes laid on iron machine belting Ac I WM ordared to form on thf right and the I vJuooa pour Bteamere afloat have flTU A proporitfan to tax slaves $2 per head wm forces under Gen Crittendeb were ordered to into onr bands and two others with the reb-rejected by47to The bill was then re-1 his support early fa the morning Gen Buell gonboat Grampus are sunk but can be having arrived easily raised The floating battery of 16 ported to the House for final action A bill to establish branch mint at Denver Thiilut ffir(iratoo -chfc th a was Both branches then adjourned to paaaed Monday Tho 'Senate on Monday considered the Confiscation Bill Mr Trumbull spoke in not belonging to your ranks I Mk no flowering of your lag I only ask that you shall inscribe upon its folds so much of catholicity and of a generous liberality that those who Improper motives and witb-J out being compelled to wear party badges I fens StiSSTStotL" I Tke Navy Department reorivsd a dispatch on Monday stating that the Merrimso in harlots fight at Fewport News with th Monitor had a I shot through bar port dismounting two gnnsL- Ons ball Went through her boiler and several I men werssoalded to death She retarded to Nor-1 folk with 7 feet of water in her hold One shot from the Cumberland riddled her ft aesme that I after all th Iterrimae was not yerjr Stoutly dad I From Jan 1 to March 31 1862 2J)68 bbls of sperm oil and 3625 bbla of whafe ofl and 29700 lbs bon haro been imported into th United States For sun time last yaar 10262 bbls lbs i sperm oil 18679 bbls whale oiIand 306950 1 ef bonsw I i I fevor In the House Mr White of Indiana opened a most galling fin on the rebels and dark last night leavme inmany half offered a resolution providing for the appoint-1 advanced rapidly they fell back The fire prepared meals in their quarters There ment of yi special committee to inquire wheth-1 soon becamognwal along the whole line and I seems to have been no concert of action beer a plan can be recommended for' the grad-1 began to-teu with terriMe effect on the enemy I tween tbe rebels upon the ual emancipation of the slaves in tbe Border I Generals Sherman's and on tho shore bat the latter fled leaving tha States The Tax BiU havlnbeen reported men though terribly jaded from former to their fate These works were reported Uorlburt'a naen snouga terribly jaded from fimner to their fate Holm Horses far England Last fall Mr Pompilly of Aoburn pur- fine part Mor about 15 hands hbh and weighs 1000 pounds She has trotted her mile in 2:50 Li January lart Capt Melcher ofBrunxwtak bought her white at th stable of R- Jordan in Lewiston for Mr John De Costa of Liverpool for 800 8he is know the of and is considered an animal of good promise for speed and endaranoe Mr fL Alexander of Branswick left with 'her in the Anglo Saxuii flwfLirotpool on Saturday week 'Ttewiiiin Ths ifaief of artillery in Gen army Is we understand Mqjor Lothrop of Auburn in tins ooanty'Wlien fh vrar brok out hs wm a Lieutenant in tha regular lnny Ha aeted a gallant part in ths batti at Wileon Creek'' By hisf bravery wod liis majority and now oe- supies rf most responsible position in Gen from tbs Committee of the Whole yesterday the House concurred in the chief part of the amendments suggested One dRy more will probably finish the job Id the Senate on Tuetdfiy the Confiscation I Bill wm taken up In the Honse tbe Tax Mfl wps disposed of and now it comes to the Setef to hs doctored We hope that the paJ tient wll beimproved Wd but they were not enough for onr undaunted bravery tad tbe diwulful desolation produced by ow rtiUq7 which was sweeping them to-morrow moroing b-id not the rebels so I hastily abandoned their stronghold To ma- de6ftt tariwHh thejtarTthe plansof attack haf absolutely advances men fighting in a better cause A combined attack of naval and land foro-wonld have taken place this afternon or v-'i i H-V 'fer 'a M- i-v i riltlf-bsq- 3 i isr-f I ele 1 "1 i I.