THE DAILY PRESS. | ... -- POBTLAITD, MAINE Tuesday Morning, December 16, 1862, ——* »»*-— The Portland Daily Press has the largest regular circulation of any daily paper in the oity. The Distress in Lancashire. The suffering in the cotton manufacturing districts of England shows no signs of abate ment. By this time it is estimated tliai 300, 000, representing more than 600.000 persons, are dependent on charity for daily bread.— These 30O,OQOhauds earn, when at work, some- \ thing near $815,000 a week; these figures j measure approximately the gross sum of want ( which appeals to the world’s bounty, but give no hint of the pain and shame, pain of hun ger, and shame of beggary, they represent. A clergyman near Manchester says he found in one house nine persons, who had been with out Are for seven days, and whose only food tor that time had been six pounds of oatmeal; in another were ten persons, who had lived a week on eighty cents; in the next were eight grown persons without food, or the means of procuring it; the wife had just given birth to twins, and one of them had died. Close on the heels of famine creeps pestilence. “The true spotted typhus fever,’’ says the London Lancet, “the famine fever, a dire concomitant of prolonged dearth, is slowly but surely ex tending its ravages in the Lancashire district.” This fever is caused by long exposure to cold or moisture, nnd by irregular or deficient diet. It can only be subdued by attacking and re moving these causes. Such is a faint outline of the bare physical facts which characterize the Lancanshire fam ine. The temper of the operatives is admira ble. For a time they were very unwilling to receive assistance; but since the vast calamity has enveloped the whole community this nat ural repugnance has given way. Jo ask aid is no longer a private and |>eculiar disgrace.— A correspondent of the London Times for Nov. 27, thus describes the patience and cour age of these poor people: Many of them were dejected, indeed almost prostrate. Many showed in their faces the terrible struggle through which they had pass ed before consenting to accept relief. One, a decent shopkeeper, showed me his books to prove that his whole profits fora week hail on ly been 6d., and asked il'I thought he had done very wrong to come on the committee. Anoth er spoke cheerfully, as he hoped that an Eng lishman might feel justified iu accepting chari ty to save his family from starving: but while he spoke he turned pale, a spasm crossed his face, and he rose suddenly and left the room, while his wife burst into tears. Everywhere I met the marks of terrible mental suffering. But nowhere did I find any complaint against the upper classes, any sense ofinjustice, or of having been hardly used. Never was there seen a nobler simplicity of endurance. The ordinary legal provision for the main tenance of paupers cannot be expected to meet the necessities of so great a disaster. Lanea shireseems to be doing all that could be ex pected of her in her corporate capacity. The rates could not tie advanced much further with out ruining the smaller ratepayers. The man ufacturers are doing more than any other class for their workmen. One large firm distributed food and money among them at the rate of $600 a week; another has spent in provisions, coal, and soup very nearly $3000; several have furnished outdoor labor for a part of their hands; one young man just beginning business (and doubtless others not reported,) having nothing else has given his time and energy without stint; another is working up cotton, which he could sell without trouble at a profit of ten cents a pound. “Nnw,” said a small manufacturer, who had bought yarn lor his weavers, and was ofi'efed an advance of $1500 on the lot, “Naw, I bowt it to keep ’em going, and they shall have it.” It has been a general opinion that this dis tress is occasioned by the American war. That is not the case. Since the visit of M. Felix Foncon to England, and the publication of his article in the Paris Presse, it has become more and more apparent that nothingcould be worse for England than the raising of the blockade, and the free importation of more cotton. This view is adopted by English newspapers. The Liverpool Courier says: Of the cause of this lamentable distress we think that the non-supply of American cotton is not the proximate one, though it is popular ly assigned to be such. The closing of many mills was, we apprehend, a necessity laid upon their owners, in consequence of the diminished demand for their manufactured goods, all available markets being glutted by the heed less energy ol excessive exportation during the last four years. Under these circumstances, if. mnnnt trnlv nlliurmi flint flu* diffli'iiltiou connected with the non-exportation of cotton from America have as yet fairly commenced. “We don't want cotton,” said an eminent Manchester salesman, "we want markets for the goods that encumber our warehouses," and ho S|K>ke out the exact state of the Manches ter case, probably up to the present time. The misfortune which lias befallen the op eratives would equally have teached them through the ruin of their employers, had this continent remained at peace during the last year. The war, which is the financial salva tion of the manufacturers, is so far from being a cause of the suffering of their workmen, that without it the miiiowners would no longer l>c in a condition to relieve the misery which would no less have come upon that district. These people are our friends; they are our kinsmen. The English hatred of America is only political; so far as the hatred of de mocracy pervades the English people, there is little hope of sympathy in our national troub les, but the working men as a body do not share that hatred. They are consistent in their opposition to slavery, which has never presented itself in the daugerous guise of an ally to their political hopes. One employer called together his hands, told them ho- could no longer give them work, ami referred to the American war as the cause. “We don't mind suflering a bit,” was the reply, “if we can only set the poor slaves free.” We cannot let these men and women starve. Something, however little compared with their needs, we can do. On Saturday $100,000 had been raised in New York. One firm offered a ship of 1800 tons burden to carry the supplies—an offer equiva lent to $20,000. A. T. Stewart gave $10,000; Gerritt Smith, $1,000; a gentleman, who did not communicate his name, 1000 barrels of flour and $7000 in money. Similar move ments are in progress elsewhere. It chills the warm heart ol the nation to learn that the T. B. Wales, offered by her owners last Wednes day to a committee of the Boston Board of Trade, for the purpose of conveying a cargo of provisions to the poor of England, has been burned by a Confederate steamer sailing from an English port and manned by Englishmen. But the sufferers of Lancashire are not respon sible for this. We are blessed with full har vests; we have been used to helping the fam ine smitten poor of the British Islands: ev en In tne midst of this terrible contest which now absorbs our energies, we can hut turn aside and listen to that cry. It is our duty, our pleasure, our pride. The general complaint against the land owners of Lancashire seems too well founded. Dr. Frederick Temple, Arnold's successor at Rugby, and one of the authors of that theo logical firebrand, the “Essays and Reviews,” thus writes to the Times : The landowners have not yet, as it seems to me, appreciated the greatness of the need. The landowner, like the millowner, has been enriched by the presence of the men who are now in want. But the millowner has risked his capital, has given his time and the labor of his brain to make hi- money. The landowner may have spent his time in social enjoyments, may have lived at I’aris or Italy, and yet, with out costing him an effort or a care, his prop erty has steadily Increased 111 value, because busy men have come near him to work. If the riches of the millowner are liable to the de mand of the operatives, much more are those of the landowner; and this terrible crisis has seriously damaged the former, while it has left the latter almost or quite unscathed. That the property of the county is well able to bear the burden there cannot be the slight est doubt. If Parliament is to interfere, the interference should consist in putting the bur den on the right shoulders, not in transferring it to the shoulders of the nation. If this be true, and the amount and nature of the evidence is conclusive, it is to be hoped that the burden will find the right shoulders; and so long as the shoulders are unprotected by this just burden, may the lash of a world’s scorn descend upon them. Let us not howev er hastily infer that we are discharged from all obligation liccause the property of Lancashire is able to bear the burden. The sufferers are not thereby relieved; and, remember, they are our friends. Time also must elapse before the resources of the county can be brought into full operation; and meanwhile the American contributions may save many lives even. The London Times and Gen. McClellan. It will be remembered that when Bull Run Russell, the “special correspondent” of the London Times, with Gen. McClellan’s consent to follow his army to the Peninsula, had snug ly stowed himself on board a government transport, with his carriage, bis horses, and servants, by order of Secretary Stanton he was directed to “walk the plank,” taking his traps with him, and was thus refused the priv ilege which he sought of hanging upon the HKins ui our uruiy uprrttuuup, umt mipii disparage ami traduce us before tile world in the columns of the Times. It is remembered, too, how he went off suddenly to London, dis gusted alike, of course, with Stanton's dis courtesy, and with republican notions of civil ity to swaggering attaches of the English press. From that time the Times, as was to lie ex : pected, fell to abusing our government in general, and the Secretary of War in particu lar. and to lauding nobody oil this side of the water—if we except the rebels—but Gen. Mc j Clellan, and those who have thought, through the weight of his name and influence, to break down the administration, and raise to life up on its ruins a dead and defunct party organi zation. But if any man ever had reason to pray, in relation to foreigners as well as na tives, “save me Iroin my friends,” that man is Gen. George B. McClellan. Not more dis creet than have been John Van Buren, Fer nando Wood, and the Bellast Journal, lias been the London Times, in its attempts to exalt McClellan a head and shoulders above all the rest of his countrymen; and not more trans parent have been the meanness and unworthi uess of the motives in one case than in the other. In the Times of Nov. £5th is an article in re ’ lation to Gen. McClellan, which is interesting i in showing how this European mouth-piece of slaveholding secession agrees with its sympa thizers on this side of the Atlantic. In the first extract we ask the reader to notice Hie statement that McClellan is the only Northern General w hom the enemies of the North re spect, and that he is the foremost man of a party coming into power: He (McClellan) is the foremost member of a party which is coming into power. He is the only man among the Northern Generals whom the enemies of the Iforth respect; and perhaps we may even say that he is the only man among those Generals whom the world at large respects. Vet, w hile lie is in camp surrounded by his friends, late one night a missive is put into his hands from a President who seems to have lost all influence, and from a Government w hich is sinking daily into con tempt, and immediately this powerful Gener al lays down his command, sinks into a private individual, and with a short farewell to his men, goes aw ay into retirement, and almost in to exile. In the following see how adroitly allusion is made to a coup d'etat, and how easily it might have been accomplished if American soldiers had been the ignorant, passive, unpatriotic hirelings that the Times imagines them to be, judging, probably by what it knows of the merceuaiy troops of its own country: He (McClellan) appears to lie the only man in America who admits that the law has any force. If McClellan had wanted precedents or pretexts for tossing his official dismissal in to his camp fire, neither was difficult to And, nor far to seek. If it w as proper to resist by IIIIIIUM j IUIVC lUf pwc'8 Ulc OU|mUUL‘ Courts, and to deny tbe halieas corpus writ in eases of arrest of American citizens, surely a great necessity might have beeu pleaded to firevent the action of a mere State Secretary's etter; and if the whole municipal laws and individual liberties ol'America are rightly sus pended under the plea of military exigency surely a similar plea might have justified a res olution of Gen. McClellan not to leave his ar my leaderless while in the face of the enemy. The Times seems to understand the feelings of the Democrats in this country; a'any rate, it speaks for them, and intimates that they would have applauded an attempt on his part to subvert the government: j To strike down this party then even at the head of the Army of the Republic was an act of vigor which might have had important con sequences had the General's ambition been equal to his opportunity. If Gen McClellan lull! refused obedience there is great reason to believe that the army w ould have stood by him, and that a large party of the Democrats tcould hare applauded him. Here follows more of the same kind, mingled with twaddle about “saving the Constitution” from the President’s violation; but the reader will probably agree with us that the Times’ respect for our Constitution, and its fear of its violation, are paralleled only by the demonstrations of Messrs. Van Ruren, Wood, «fc Co., in the same general direction. The Times says: ! To save the Constitution by force from the i forcible violations by the President would I have Ia?en a fair party cry. But McClellan has preferred to play the part of the model constitutional Democrat; he yields obedience even to Mr. Lincoln, that he' may show his zeal for the Constitution, and, with a smoth ered complaint of “doubt and coldness” in some quarters, he turns aside from the possi ble dictatorship to till his New Jersey farm. In the following is a very distinct intimation that McClellan has more confidence in Jack son and Lee. than lie has in Burnside, and that the latter's failure to cope with the rebel gen erals will afford gratification to McClellan. This is the kindness of the Times for the late commander of the army of the Potomac: A bold, patriotic man might have lieen daz zled by the glory or Impelled by the duty of daring everything in order to put an end to the present outporing ot blood and arresting the present rush to ruin; but so far as the world knows Gen. McClellan he was likely to I see things in a different light. While matters are going so well for him and his party there j is no need of any great coup. No doubt Gen. McClellan has confidence in Lee and Jackson j it we have not in Gen. Burnside, and he nat ! urally thinks that operations w hich lie did not believe to be wise to attempt himself could not be successfully carried out by the General who has superseded him. The Times, In the following, but too clearly I reflects the feeling of a class of disloyal persons ' in the free States, who would welcome nothing I with so much gusto as a defeat in Virginia; ! but that McClellan has calculated upon being re-called with augmented power, to “finish up the present decaying government,” we are not prepared to believe, though we do not doubt j “the thought” is “shared by a great many | others” with whom the “wish is father to the i thought A great defeat in Virginia would bring hack McClellan with augmented power and reputa tion, and would finish up the present decaying Government. Such inay be the calculations of the obedient General who formed the army of the I’otomac, and if such be the thoughts that swayed him they seem to be shared by a great many others. The Times goes on with a long rigmarole about panic in the New York stock market, the creeping up of gold and exchanges, all of which “uneasy feeling is doubtless complimen tary to McClellan, and must be (unsatisfactory to Lincoln”; flings at Gen. Halleck for his “long letter ofindictment against McClellan,” and finally winds up with the following some what ambiguous but pregnant language: Some of flic Americans evidently looked wistfully to Lord Lyons, who is just arrived at Washington; but it is clear that what Mc Clellan dares not soy. and Seymour dorrs not soy, would not he prudently said by foreign ers. 11’ it be true, as the Southerners boast, that they are massing their forces on the Rap pahannock to fight the greatest battle of the war. the fortune of such a battle may change all things; but in default of some fuel of this kind, the fire seems to lie sinking, and perhaps McClellan may he out of fashion and forgotten before the next Presidential election comes oil'. We have never desired to believe a word adverse to the strict integrity of Gen. Mc Clellan, nor do we uow believe that he can lend his countenance to the vile use that is be ing made of his name, or that he can be other wise than annoyed by such desperate men in the furtherance of a desperate cause. But if we are mistaken in this, if McClellan is satis fied to have suggestions of usurpation and in which such a course oil his part would tie hail ed by his soldiers and the members of a great party, then his removal did not take place a moment too soon. We go further, and say that were McClellan as pure as an angel, and as patriotic as Aristidcs.so long as he is young, possessed of the ordinary feelings of ambition, bas human passions and weaknesses, he would be a dangerous man at the head of an army, if for a moment he would give ear to the coun sels and suggestions daily made in his hearing, and evidently intended to corrupt his heart,to lire his ambition, aud to make him the instru j ment of wicked and designing men. New England Soldiers' Keliei Association. II. R. Warriner, President; J. B. Alvord, Secretary; K. Houghton, Superintendent.— Head Quarters, S. E. corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets. This Association, formed for the purpose of assisting the sick and wounded soldiers from the New England States, in the U. S. Army Hospitals in this city, and such as may need aid while pussing through here on their way to the army or their homes, desire that those who are interested in the subject should fully understand the method adopted to carry out this purpose. Our plan is to appoint one or more visitors to each hospital, whose duty it is to see every New England patient, and by means of a prop er blank, get his military history, sanitary con dition and home address. We then endeavor to supply his necessities, ami as far as possible promote his general comfort. The names thus obtained are reported at our “Head Quarters,” with the name of the hospital nnen for public inspection, any person, by application at our rooms, may readily ols tain the exact location of their friends from New England. If a patient is very ill, and not likely to re cover, the relatives or friends are notified, and the necessary instructions obtained as to the disposition of the body in case of death, in the event of which, if desired, we have the body embalmed and forwarded according to the in structions received, provided the family or friends defray the ex|>euses, which vary ac cording to the distance from $30 to $45. No charge is ever made for the services rendered by the association. The number of soldiers whose names are on our registers at the present time is about 2000, a large proportion of whom we have aided in in one way or another. The donations of money and clothing, thus far received, have mostly been contributed by natives of New England, resident in this city; but the daily increasing demand now compels us to ask aid from other sources, and we (eel that we have but to make known our wants to New England people at home, to so till our treasury, and stock our storeroom, that we shall be enabled to supply every worthy applicant. We there fore respectfully solicit from individuals and •Aid Societies” donations of money, hospital stores, and clothing ot all kinds, especially flannel shirts and drawers (red or gray), and woolen stockings. The demand for these lat ter articles is much greater than ice can sujt vly, yet the necessity fur their be inn sumdied in too apparent to need stating. All urticles of clothing tee give directly to the patient. Wines, jellies and preserves we mark with the patient's name ami give them in charge of the “Lady Matrons” of the hospital, to be given out under the direction of the surgeon of the ward; therefore donors may feel assured that no article is misapplied, but that the sick or wounded soldier for whom it was intended gets the full benefit of every article sent to us lor distribution. Articles lor hospital use, such as Shirts, Drawers, Dressing-gowns, Slippers, Lint, Bandages, etc., are also solicited, and they will be distributed to such points as our visitors find most needy. Donations sent to us for general distribution from other than New England States, will be gladly received and faithfully given out, accor ding to instructions, or to those most in want. By the term “General Hospital” being ap plied to each one, the impression has obtained throughout the country that we have only one immense hospital here. The fact is, however, that we have about twenty, accommodating from 150 to 2000 patients each; therefore, a letter directed to the “lT. S. General Hospital, Philadelphia,” rarely reaches the patient to whom it is addressed. Those who do not know the exact one to which to direct their letters should send them to the care of this associa tion, who will have them promptly delivered. We cannot close this circular without add ing what we feel sure will afford comfort to those who have relatives or friends in the hos pitals in this city, viz: The assurance that the medical treatment and nursing which they re ceive is generally good, ami that in most in stances the latter is almost equal to what could be given them at home, (in many cases even better,) excepting of course the soothing care of the affectionate mother, w ife, or sister. Yet the absence of even these is in a great degree supplied by a noble band of truly Christian women, “Lady matrons,” whose vol untary devotion to the care and comfort of the invalid soldier commands the admiration and approbation of every benevolent heart. Dur ing his severe illness they sit by Ids bedside and endeavor to releive his pain or soothe his anguish, They w rite for him, read for him, and, if requested, pray for him. They also prepare for him those little delicacies so essen cial to his condition, and during his conval escence cheer him with their smiles and guide him by their counsels. The term “Lady mat ron” will hereafter be a syuonyme to many for “Angel ot Mercy.” Communications may be addressed to the Superintendent. Correspondents should in close a return stamp. Philadelphia, November 1,1802. ” Jp 'The printers of Paris have printed on vellum the orations of Bossuet. and have pro duced a book in a style of magnificence quite unequalled for typographical excellence. This volume they have presented to M. Berryer, in aeknowlegeinent of his defence of the body at a recent trial arising out of a strike. In order that no other copy should exist the forms were immediately broken up, and the volume will naturally become a treasure to the bibliomaniac. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. j tJ” We are indebted to D. 1). Akcrman Esq., for late New Orleans papers. jy Col. John S. Phelps is dangerously ill in Arkansas, where he was sent as military governor. £yCapt. Ayer, with his battery, was in i the fight at Fredericksburg Saturday. He came out of it uninjured. ty The Bangor .Whig regrets to notice that dihpthcria is again prevailing with much fatality in many parts of the State. The report that the non. Edward Ev erett is seriously ill proves incorrect. He is however obliged to keep within doors, and un able to keep bis lecture engagements. ^y James McCulleu of SulBeld, Conn., who was awaiting trial for the murder of Jas. Drake, committed suicide in the jail at Hart ford on Saturday morning. Vallandigham the notorious was in N. York on Friday, and was complimented with a midnight serenade by Capt Rynders, Ben Wood, and other Democrats of the same gen us. jy Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, pastor of a Unitarian Church in Watertown,—a very gift ed man,—and Chaplain of the Mass. 16th reg- j intent, was one of the killed at Fredericksburg, i on Friday last. jy A fine new' bell weighing 1700 lbs., has ; been hung in the belfry of the Methodist j church in Bangor, to take the place of the , old one which had been broken while being rung. y The city council of Bath have refused to issue fractional scrip, aud they have also elected Washington Gilbert, Esq., a director of the Androscoggin Railroad on the part of the city. ^y Captain C. H. Smith of the class of ’57 Waterville Collece. is Provost Marshal of Frederick, Md. The Mail says Mr. S. was j formerly Principal of the Waterville High School. IStu Maine Regiment.—By order of the Secretary of War, the 18th Maine Regiment has been changed to "Heavy Artillery.” This ! change w ill require two new companies to be raised, and the old ones to be brought up to the artillery standard. Death of the Editor of the Adver tiser.—A dispatch received in this city yes terday announced the death of Eliphalet Case, Esq., editor of the Portland Advertiser, at Patriot, Indiana, on Sunday night. His dis ease was pneumonia, with which he was con flued about ten days. Et. Col. W. B. Sayles of the Rhode Is land 7th Regiment, was killed by a shell at Fredericksburg, on Saturday last. Col. Sayles was formerly editor of the Providence Post,, and will be remembered by many ofour read ers, as making one of the party that attended Mr. Douglas when he visited this State. The Bangor Whig learns that Gen. ; Sami. F. Hersey of that city, has paid up the w hole of the indebtedness of the bondsmen of II. D. Peck, the defaulting State Treasurer, amounting to about twenty thousand dollars, j Only about one-half of this amount is now due —the balance becomes due in about one year from this time. “If” That “everlasting fire” near Bath, In the peat meadow, is still burning. Yesterday we saw quite a volume of smoke issuing from the ground, and a spot not more than two ; yards across was bare, while the surrounding snow appeared to be nearly a foot deep. This tire, we were told, has been burning ever since last spring. jyBenj. F. Flanders, one of the Repre sentatives to Congress from New Orleans, is a printer by trade. He is a New Hampshire man, and graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1842. Shortly after, he went to New Orleans and was engaged in teaching, and was subsequently on the editorial stall' of the Tropic. ^Jp-The following cases of hospital stores were sent forward by express this (Tuesday) morning to our soldiers; 1 barrel to J. W. Hathaway, Washington ; 2 boxes do do; .*! do Sanitary Commission, do; 1 barrel Mrs. Eaton, do; 1 do Mrs. Usher, Chester Hospital; 2 cases Capt. Waldron,16th Maine Regiment; 1 do Capt. H. C. Little, 23d do; 1 do Mrs. McKay, Frederick City; 1 do Miss Pearson, Annapolis Hospital. The Progressive Age publishes from a private letter the particulars of the murder of Leblieus Moran, a Maine man, on the 21st of October, in Oregon City. Moran was stab bed w hile unarmed, by a cowardly secession ist named Strickland, w hose dislike for him seems to have been grounded on political rea sous solely. 1 he assault was quite unprovoked Moran was a cooper, and iormerly worked in Belfast. rar-we are informed that a new Sugar House, for the purpose of re-hoi ling molasses, similar to that in this city owned by Messrs. J. B. Brown & Sons, is about to lie erected in Brooklyn. New York, to be under the charge of 1). II. Furbish, Esq., formerly of this city, who has had many years experience iu Mr. Brown's house. The drawback allowed on the exportation of Rum and Alcohol, has greatly increased the demand for the residium left" iu manufac turing West India molasses. £y*Complaiuts have been made by privates of the 7th Maine Regiment that they have not received their pay for six months ; that their rations are neglected—some days having none at all, and Sunday night that they had no supper—and that they have not been sup plied with vegetables at all. since they have been here. We know not whether there is j any truth iu these complaints or not. If true, they should be remedied immediately. If not true, they should be contradicted by authori ty, as the complaiuts have been made rather public. We publish to-day the circular of the A'etc England Soldiers’ Relief Association at Philadelphia. The Superintendent wishes us to call the attention of the community and especially of the New England Aid Societies to the fact that all articles of clothing sent to this association are given directly to the sol- ■ dier. Woolen shirts and stockings are now greatly needed. It is our duty here at home ' to devise and put iu operation some speedy method of supplying these wants. We have also received from this association a list of Maine soldiers iu the hospitals of Philadelphia and vicinity, which will appear to-morrow and every mouth herealter. Restoration of Liuut Houses.—We are glad to learn that the United States Govern ment is taking the preliminary steps for the restoration of Commerce with our Southern ports, by an evamination of the present state of extinguished lights on that coast; and for this purpose have detailed Win. A. Goodwin, Esq., Acting Engineer in charge of the Maine and Massachusetts Eight House Districts.— If Mr. Sumner ever publishes a new edition of his well-known speech on the “Barbarism of Slavery,” we think he can find a new and striking illustration iu the fact that, iu the slaveholders’ rebellion, they destroyed no less than 128 Light Houses, Light Boats, and Bea cons ; which was the otUcial number so re ported by the Light House Board. ]?Y TELEGRAPH ! -TO THE ETEKIMG PAPERS. -- The evening papers yesterday contained no later telegraphic intelligence from Fredericks burg, and, in fact, not so late intelligence as we gave yesterday morning. The telegraphic reports were accounts of the battle on Friday and Saturday, sent to the New York papers of Monday by special corresjiondents. These rejiorts do not vary from the dispatches we have before published, though more particular in the details. Thu correspondent of the New York Herald sjicaking of the battle of Satur day gives the following account of General Franklin’s attack: Stonewall Jackson occupied the right wing, Lougstreet the centre, Gen. Lee and Stuart the lelt, while Gen. A. P. Hill's corjis acted as the reserve. * Lee’s reason for occupying the left was lie cause he could be on his guard against Sigel, who threatened to outflank Him by way of Culpepper. The entire rebel force was estimated at 200,000 men, and occupied a front of not less than 20 miles, The troops were tor the most |iart veterans who hail fought through the pe ninsula campaign, while the officers were the ablest the South could produce. The disposition of the Union forces occupied the whole of Friday night and Saturday morn ing, and Gen. Burnside was anxious to com mence the attack at as early an hour as jiossi ble. Saturday morning came with a dense fog; however, the disjiosition of the Union forces had been made, and Gen. Burnside de termined to commence ojierations, fog or no fog. On the left Franklin moved his column, consisting of the 1st and tith corps, just before sunrise. Skirmishing commenced a few minutes after daylight on the extreme left. A rebel battery opened on our troops, and the Uth New York State Militia regiment was ordered to charge and lake the cannon at the point of the bayo net. The order was obeyed with alacrity, but after a tierce struggle they were compelled to fall back. At this critical moment Gen. Tyler came to their aid with a brigade. Assisted by Tyler's brigade, another attempt was made to storm the rebel batteries, but without success. — The tight now became general on the efl ireme ten, atm another desperate enon writ made to capture the rebel battery by General Tyler’s brigade, but the fire of the reltels was so withering in its effect our brave fellows were unable to gain any advantage. By noon, the whole of Franklin's corps en gaged the enemy, and a desperate effort was made to turn the enemy's position and drove him beyond the creek. Gen. Franklin com manded tin; movement in person. The reltels maintained possession of some small hills, but gradually fell back. During the afternoon the reltels came to a stand, and for a time assumed the offensive, but were bravely met and repulsed with heavy loss. It was at this time that some 300 of Hill's command fell into our hands. The enemy contested every foot of ground, and it was only by the hardest kind of fight ing that he would be compelled to change his position. Tlie obstinacy with winch the reltels held possession of their ground rendered General Franklin’s task a very difficult one. He bad to cope with Stonewall Jackson, hut the Union commander was- not discouraged. He had driven the enemy back several roils, and old Stonewall met his match this time,and at sundown Franklin had succeeded in driving the enemy nearly a mile, and his troops occu pied the Held during the remainder of the night. The movement on the left was a com plete success. Z A special correspondent of the Boston Commercial Bulletin took passage for Eng land on the same steamer with Maury and other rebels. SPECIAL NOTICES. Special Notice.—The Annua! Meeting of the Portland Society of Natural History will be held at its Hall ou Congress street, Wednesday Dee. 17, at 3 P. M. II. W BRYANT, Dec 14 —til Recording Sec’y. Deafness Ccekd.—Mrs. M. G. Brown will be at the Preble House for one week. A remarkable case of deafness cured in twenty four hours by Mrs. M. G. Brown, Professor on the E e and Ear. and proprietor of Poor Richard's Eye Water. ‘‘I, Bartlett J. Decoster. No. 2 Hall's Court, Port land, give this certificate, to codify that t have been deal from a child, and for twelve years past bate been quite deaf. 1 have spent hundreds of dollars, without receiving any benefit whatever. Last Sat urdav I went to the Preble House and made arrange ments for Mrs. B. to treat me for deafness. In 24 hours after her first application I could hear every voice in the bouse. I can uow stand in the cellar and bear the clock lick in the parlor. Grateful to God for his great deliverance, I heartily commend her mode of treatment to all who sutTer as I have done.” Every kind of diseased and weak eyes, also Catarrh, healed, and a cure warranted. Charge* moderate. MRS. M. G. BROWN, Nov. 18—tf 410 Arch St., Philadelphia. A Good Spring Bed has become an almost Indis pensable article, not only of comfort and necessity, with every family, while the united testimony ol Physicians has placed their healtliftiluess beyond question. No invalid should be without one. As an evidence of the superiorty of COREY'S "PREBLE" SPRING BED overall others, is the fact that the demand for thii Spring Bed is quadruple that of auy other kind. October 1. 1862. tf SOMETHING NEW.—Please call and examine Mrs. Toy's Patent Corset Skirt Supporter, which is a new and very desirable article. It is a Corset, Skirt-Snpporter and Jlithop combined. La dies and Misses using it need no other of either. Price 91.25, which is cheaper than the Corset alone, and serves the wearer as both. For sale only by II. C. LOVELL & SON. Agents, novll edtf 129 Middle Street. DR. P. P. ql'IMUY, would give notice that he ha returned to Portland, and can be found at his Room, No. 18 International House, Tuesday, August 12th, where he will atteud to all wishing to cousul him. First Examination at office.9200 Each subsequent sitting at office,.50 City Patients, first Examination at residence,. . 2 50 Each subsequent visit at residence,. 1 00 August 16, 1862.—tf Physician and Surgeon.—11. A. LAMB, M. D., Othco, corner of Congress and Chestnut Strecti Portland. Me. Particular attention paid to Surgery, including diseases of the eye and ear. augT—d6m Dentistry.—Dr. JOSlA11 HEALD, No. 241 Con gress Street, tirst door east of 1st Parish Church, Portland, Me. augTdly Dus. LOCKE & KIMBALL, Dknti&tb, No. 117 Middle Street, Portland, Me. augl5—ly BROKERS* BOARD. Salk op Stocks.—Boston, Dec. 15. 1862. 3.000 United States Coupou Sixes (1881).1041 7.600 .do.104J 1.700 United States 7 3-10 Treasury Notes.104 6.000 U S. Certificate of Indebtedness,. 97} 700 United States Five-Twenties. 99} 13,000 .do..100 5.000 United States Demand Notes.126} 14.13. lou 75 10, bark Northwood, from j New York fur Vera Cruz. Dec 10. no lat, Jtc. w as leeo, bark Oceau Home, from Matauzas for Portland. KJWr OF LETTER! REMAINING in the Portlana Post Office Decern tier In, uncalled lor. 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