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THE DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND, MAINF,
Friday Morning, January 9, I8C3.
The Portland Daily Press has the larçeet
regular circulation of any daily paper in
the oity.
To Our Reader*.
The Governor's Message in lull, as delivered
to the Legislature yesterday, occupies our
columns this morning to the exclusion of
almost everything except local and telegraphic
news.
On the first page will be found interesting
details of the capture of Murfreesboro'.
Letter from the State Capital·
Acousta. .Ian. 8, 1861.
The following appointments have been made
since my last :
Edward Simon ton, Searsport, 2d Lieuten
ant Co. G, 20tli Regiment.
Ephraltn W. Baker, Bingham, 2d Lieuten
ant Co. H, 24th Regiment.
William Harris, Portland, 2d Licutenarit
Co. F, cavalry.
Eustis C. Bigelow, Portland, 1st Lieutenant
Co. F, cavalry.
Frederic R. Estabrook, Assistant Surgeon,
24th Regiment.
Henry Warren, Bangor, Captain, Co. G, 7th
Regiment.
Alden D. Palmer, Orono, Surgeon, 9th Reg
iment.
Albert W. Bradbury, Eastport, Captain, 1st
Battery, vice Thompson, resigned.
The 7th Regiment will shortly return to the
seat of war. It Is now in numbers above tliu
average of our regiments now in the Held.
Skirmisher.
The following is the address of Mr.
Dlnglev upon taking the Chair as Speaker of
the House of Representatives :
Gentlemen of the flou*e of Rrpri tcntatirm:
I tender you iny grateful acknowledgment for
this expression of your confidence. In accept
ing the position which you have so generously
assigned me, I am not Insensible to the value
of the compliment it bestows, and the weight
of obligation and responsibility it imposes—a
responsibility from which I might well shrink
could I not confidently rely on your indulgence
and cordial co-operation. In the discharge of
the duties of the Chair, It will lie my aim to
administer the rules of the House with fidelity
and impartiality, having in view the fundamen
tal principle of Parliamentary law, that the
ftreat purpose of all the rules and forms of a
egislatlve body, while they protect the rights
of minorities by guarding against the hasty
and irregular acts of majorities, is to subserve
rather than to restrain the will of the assembly,
to facilitate ami not to obstruct, the expression
of its deliberate sense. I am ready,gentlemen,
to proceed with the business of the House.
îyTUe January term of the Supreme Judi
cial Court for York county, commenced its
session at Saco on Tuesday last, Judge Davis
presiding. Hon. John H. Goodenow was a|>
pointed County Attorney pro tem.. in the ab
sence of Col. Kufus P. Tapley, now in com
mand of the 27th regiment of Maine volun
teers.
jyA correspondent informs us that an
ambiguous paragraph in the Press has given
rise to the impression that Geu. Howard is to
be relieved of his present command, in Sedg
wick's corps. The impression is erroneous.
fry*Vestenbtv's Argus hints that the Press
it for sale. If that were so, we should select
some other advertising medium; and we are
not to be "sold" at any rate by the Argus.
yyCol. F. D. Sewall, of the 19th Maine
regiment, Is at home on a brief visit to his
friends in Bath. ·
BY TELEGRAPH.
LEGI8LÀTUBE OF MAINE.
[SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TUE DAILY PRESS.J
Auocsta, Jan. 8,1863.
SENATE.
Mr. Milltken of Kenneltec, from the Com
mittee on Guliernatorial votes, reported :
The whole number of votes returned 88.534
Kecsasarv lor s choice 44.26S
Abner Voboru has 46,780
Bion Biadbury 33.H72
Charles D. Jameson 7,696
Scattering 86
The report was accepted, and Mr. Coburn
was declared electe l.
Messrs. Woods, Duran and Doc were ap
pointed a Committee to prepare Rules and
Orders for the Senate.
Messrs. Woods, Moore and Philbrook were
appointed on the part of the Senate to notify
the Governor of his election, and subiequent
ly reported that the Governor would meet
both branches of the Legislature in conven
tion at half-past 11 o'clock, lor the purpose of
taking the oath of olliee.
IS CONVENTION.
At half-past 11 o'clock, a Convention was
formed in the hall of the House ol Represen
tatives, when Gov. Coburu, attended by Gov.
Washburn, the members of the Council, and
other Executive '«flicers, came in. The oaths
of office were administered by President Kai"
. well, and the Governor subscribed to them.
Before the Convention dissolved, the mes
sage of the Governor was received through
the Secretary of State. It was read by Mr.
Miller, Clerk of the House, and was received
with applause. The Convention then dis
Ci/«I DUit
Bill, an act ceding certain territory in Kit
tery to tile United States, was read and as
signed.
One thousand copies of the message were
ordered to be printed for the use of the Sen
ate.—Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Speaker announced as Monitors Messrs.
Drummotid, Kent, Turner, Low, Kogers, Far
well, Jellison and Clark.
Mr. Kingsbugf of Portland offered a bill,
ceding the jurisdiction over certain lands in
Seavey Island, Kittcry, to the United States,
which passed to be engrossed.
The report ol the Gubernatorial Committee
was accepted, and Messes. Coney of Augusta,
rerkins of Kennebunkport, Grant of Ells
worth, Manson of ISangor, Hopkinson of Fort
Fairfield, Trundy of Searsport, and Buckuain
of Eastporfwere joiued to the Committee of
the Senate to notify Gov. Coburn of his elec
tion. The Committee subsequently reported
the Governor's acceptance, and a convention
of both branche» was formed for the purpose
of qualifying him.
[see senate proceedings.]
After the Convention dissolved,orders were
passed to faruish each member with copies of
the laws, &c., and to lurnish the llouse with
Webster's aud Worcester's Dictionaries.—Ad
journed.
Augusta, Jan. 8,18β3.
The Governor's message, was well received
and was considered a sound and statesmanlike
document.
There liai been no nomination as yet for
Councillor in Waldo.
The hearing in the Washington County
Senatorial contested cases coines off to-inor
row afternoon. The returns from the town of
Cutler are to be investigated. The election of
State officers aud Councillors will, probably,
take place to-morrow.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Itop
reientaUte*:
The political year which has just closed, and
the one on which we have entered, will be re
corded as the· most important anil critical in
the history of this Slate and nation. A war
ol' gigantic proportions has been raging for a
period of twenty-one months, with varying
fortune, with combatants constantly increasing
in number, and with a stake at issue whose de
cision may affect for weal or woe, not only
ourselves and the unborn generations of our
people, but popular right» and free institu
tions throughout Christendom.
In a contest of such maguitude, involving
such momentous results, our own State has
participated to the full extent demanded by
her patriotism and her duty. From the hour
that troops were firstsummoned by the Fed
eral Executive for the defense of the national
life, down to the present moment, our State
has been zealously engaged i.n filling the ranks
of the Union army. Within the entire period
we have enlisted and sent to the Held twenty
eight regiments of Infantry, one regiment of
Cavalry, six Batteries of Light Artillery, and
one company of Sharpshooters, besides fur
nishing lour companies of Heavy Artillerists
to man and guard the principal forts on our
extended seaboard. These several liegiments
and companies, including the recruits that
have been raised lor them since they entered
upon active service, present an aggregate of
33,137 men as Maine's direct contribution in
defense of the I'liiou. In addition to this large
body of volunteers, our citizens have enlisted
in the regiments of other Stales and lu the Keg
ular Army to the number of 2947 men, accu
rately estimated iroin the returns made by
towns in answering the demand· made upon
them under the late calls of the i'resideut l'or
troops.
The total quota of troops demanded of Maine
up to this time by the War Department,
amounts to something less than the number
we have actually furnished. The patriotism
of our State has even surpassed the demands
which the national exigency has made upon
il. We have not only sent all the men asked
of us, but we have sent good men and brave
men. In a contest where all the loyal States
have responded so nobly, it would be invidious
and indeed positively offensive for one toarro
\ gate peculiar and superior merit. We only
claim with others to have done our part, and
we recur with undisguised pride to the fact
that on every battleileld where Maine troops
liavu been called to participate, they have ac
quitted themselves with valor and with honor
—making a record of patriotic heroism which
it will l>« alike the pride and duty of the State
to cherish and per(>etuate.
In addition to the men which Maine has fur
nished to the army of Volunteers, we have
contributed to the Naval and Marine serv
ice more largely in proportion to our popula
tion than any other State. The habits and oc
cupation of a considerable number of our peo
ple tit them pre-eminently for this service, and
it is gratifying to know that our shipping ports
and coast towns have sent forth swarms of
hardy and well-trained seamen to maintain
the honor of our Hag upon the ocean. It is
greatly to lie regretted that the mode of en
listment in the Navy Department docs not ac
/•uritwlv if Mt all ovliihit tin» imtivil.v Hurl fit
izcuship ·Γ those who filler it* service. If it
Jiil we should Unci, according to our best esti
mates, the names of at least four thousand
Maine men enrolled in the Regular and Vol
unteer Navy since the war commenced. For
this large contribution the State has received
no credit in any of the calls for volunteers
for the army, and the result bus been that in
our maritime towns the call Ibr troops has op
I erated with peculiar hardship, though in al
most every instance it lias been responded to
1 with the most patriotic readiness. Should the
vicissitudes of war necessitate a further eall
for troops, it is resjiectfully suggested that in
apportioning the quotas of tin· various States,
' an allowance should lie made to .Maine for the
number of men she has contributed to the Na
val service.
I Very full and satisfactory details of all that
I relates to our troops, the mode of their en
listment. their numbers, their condition and
their achievements, will be furnished in the
forthcoming Report of the Adjutant General.
Among the most gratifying facts exhibited is,
that the immense host which has gone from
Maine, amounting in the aggregate for all
branches of the service, to is literally
an army of volunteers. The men have been
raised without resorting, in any appreciable
I degree, to the draft. Indeed it may l»e said
t with truth that every soldier from Maine is a
volunteer, for in the few towns where a dralt
! was ordered, a bounty was given to those who
were selected with which to procure substi
tutes, if they were reluctant to enter the serv
ice. The fact that our quotas have thus been
tilled, is an honorable proof of the patriotism
of our citizens, and will ever form one of the
proudest chapters in the history of the State.
In several of our sister States provision has
ι been made lor allowing those absent as sold
: iers In the Union army, to vote at the general
' election. I think Ibis practice is wise, expedi
I eut, and just. It would seein absolutely un
! fair and unequal that those who are periling so
1 much lor the common weal should be depriv
ed iu the slightest degree of the common l>en
eflts and the common privileges of the citizen.
We all owe an immeasurable debt of grati
tude to those who are battling in the Held for
our civil rights and our nationality,and it cer
tainly becomes us to manifest our appreciation
of tlielr heroic devotion anil patriotism, not
·' by jnere words of oniony or thanks, but by
1 substantial tokens of our sympaLhy and our
regard. 1 recommend, therefore, that ade
quate provision be made for allowing our sold
iers to vote while in service, and if the exten
sion of this privilege should even require a
change iu our State Constitution, it would, 1
• think, lie wise to make it. This necessity
I might involve delay, but it would have a cotn
: pensating advantage in the fact that the change,
' when made, would embody the direct will of
the people, and would have the stability of or
ganic iaw.
STATE FIN ANCES.
The condition of the Slate Finances will be
fully exhibited in the report of the Treasurer,
I soon to be laid before you. Our expenses
i have been increased in varisus ways by the
! existence of the war, but not in such a inau
j ner as to embarras the Treasury, oppress the
' people, or atiect our credit. Indeed at no pre
! vious period have our State bonds coininaud
1 ed so high a premium in the market as they
have during the past year. Let it be our con
j stant aim, by prudence and economy in our
] expenditures, ami by the most rigid observ
ance of iiublic failli, to maintain our Slate
: credit untarnished through all tin· mutations
; iinil trials to which we may be subjected.
At tin- outbreak of the rebellion, our State
; debt amounted to $699,000; of thin sum $850,
j 000 was on accouut of the Massachusetts
lauds purchased in 1853, and the remainder
was incurred during the Aroostook war and
in the years anterior thereto. During the year
1801, war loans were negotiated to the gross
amount of $800,000, while in March last the
maturing installment of the old debt, amount
ing to $30,00<f, was paid. The precise bonded
debt of the Slate at this lime, therefore, is
$1,469,000.
The total outlay from the Treasury on no
count of the war, up to the close of the past
year, amounts to §1,1*27,707.62. It is confi
dently asserted that these expenditures have,
been characterized by the most judicious eco
nomy, and the accounts have been kept with
accuracy and perspicuity, sustaiued through
out by the most amply authenticated vouch
ers. Primarily the whole sum thus expended
constitutes a claim against the United States,
and up to this time accounts in detail to the
amount of $1,001.0011.(11, have been presented
lor auditing and liquidation, leaving a balance
of $36,097.01 yet to b·· presented. <>n these
accounts the Secretary of the Treasury has
paid $320,000. He has further ordered our
State to be credited wilh the payuiment of its
share of the direct tax under the twenty mil
lion bill of August 5, 1861. This tax, after
\ the deduction of 15 per centum for the State's
assumption of its pay ment, amounted to $357,
[ 702.lo, and its credit to us, together with the
$320,000 just named, make an aggregate
payment to us from the Federal Treasury of
$450,065.42, to be farther increased, as ju^t
mentioned, #y the sum of $30,097.91. Of this
sum it is entirely probable that the amount
paid as bounties to the first ten regiments, viz:
; $1!*6,897.41. will not be allowed, and hence the
j amount expected from the General Govern
1 ment is $289.865.92. This will probably be
I paid to us in cash or its equivalent as soon as
! the accouuts shall have been audited by the
proper bureau in the Treasury Department.
The latest information we have as to tin;
accounts does not lead us, however, to expect
their payment in season to have the money
used for any of the appropriations you may be
called on to make at this session.
The exigencies of the past year in enlisting
I additional troops under the calls Irom the
President, compelled the raising oflarge sums
of money for the payment of bounties, which
it seemed not, ouly expedient, but absolutely
necessary to give. The amount desired was
advanced by various banks on the request of
my predecessor, in the lull faith that you
would legalize the transaction and assume
payment of whatever is due. 1 take it lor
grauted that there will be no hesitation In
adopting this course. The action of my pre
decessor was doubtless in accordance with the
wishes of a very large majority of our people;
it was dictated by the highest patriotism, and
it was done when the exigency was so pressing
that it was deemed impracticable to assemble
the Legislature for seasonable co-o|>eration
in procuring a loan. The total sum thus ne
gotiated, with the interest accrued, amounts
to some $340,000, and the details of its expen
diture will be fully exhibited in the Report of
the Adjutant General. I respectfully urge
that you provide promptly for its payment.
Λ further use ot the Slate credit will lie
called for in carrying out the provisions of'an
act in aid of the families of volunteers," passed
by the last Legislature. The act contemplates
the assumption by the State, within certain
prescribed limits, of whatever expenditures
towns may make to aid the families of those
in the ranks of the Union armn. Its object is
just anil beneficent, and its effect has l>een very
marked in inducing men to enlist who would
have been lo^i to go had they not, seen this
provision made for their support. In this view,
the act constitutes a species of eontracton the
part of the State with the soldiers, and we thus
stand pledged to its faithful observance. Its
repeal or any uioditlcation which would ren
der it less beneficial to those for whose advant
age it was Intended, would lie a breach of faith
on the part oftlie State. The maintenance of
the act in its full spirit and effect has, therefore,
passed from a question of legislative expedien
cy to one of public honor.
There is a change, however, which may be
made in it. entirely consistent with the views
just expressed. Ify the 4th section of the act
it i> directed that the amounts found due to
the several towns shall, on the llrst day of
March, lie passed to their credit by the State
Treasurer "in a book kept for the purpose, and
shall draw interest on and ultcrthat date. Anil
oil the said llrst day of March, rhe Treasurer
shall issue to such city, town or plantation,
in his capacity of Treasurer, his scrip for the
amount found due to each, respectively, made
payable to the order of sucil city, town or plan
tation, at the Slate Treasurer's office, at the
pleasure of the Stale, with annual interest."
I think this mode of paying the towns is
unsatisfactory, and for many reasons objec
tionable. It will prove inconvenient to the
towns to have running accounts with the
State, and settlements by small due bills,
while it will increase the labor of the Treasur
er and be derogatory to the State to have its
obligations floating about for small sums
which ought at once to be liquidated by cash
payment. I recommend, therefore, that the
section lie so amended as to direct the Treas
urer to pay the ascertained dues to these
towns in cash on the first day of March ; and
if the current funds In the Treasury are insuf
ficient therefor, that he be authorized to nego
tiate a loan lor the purpose. Not the least ad
vantage to the State in this arrangement is
the saving ol interest on all payments made
with current tunds, and the gain of the pre
mium by negotiating a regular loau when ex
tra funds become necessary.
'ΓΙ... t/,ι.ιΙ nf„ Inln flip Tri'twTit'V fpnln
all source» for the year 1802, amounted to
M50.812.03, and the expenditures were $033,
leaving a halance of i',14,353.54 ill the
Treasury on the flr-t of the present month.—
Full details under these heads will lx; found
in the Treasurer's Report. The State tax
was increased l>v the last Legislature to $413,
I 074.41, in view of the extraordinary expendi
I ttires entailed by the times. As compared
I with a large majority of the States in the
; I'nion, our tax is still a very moderate
one. and indeed of the total tax paid by our
! own people, it constitutes a much smaller pro
; portion than is generally supposed. It is
i now at the rate of two and a half mills to the
dollar, whereas the tax actually assessed for
' all purposes in the various towns and cities
I ranges from 0 to 13 mills—very few towns be
. ins: under the first named figure. It will thus
lie seen that the burdens imposed by the Slate
Government are in no sense oppressive. In
deed, considering the duties of the State Gov
ernment, its large and beneficent field of use
1 fulness ill its Executive, Judicial and Legisla
I live functions, it may well be affirmed that no
I other form of administration was ever main
tained at once so effective and so cheap.
1 have already alluded to the fact that with
in the past year the sum of $30,000 of the
State debt was paid. During the present
year fifty thousand dollars more will mature,
and I earnestly recommend that It be paid, in
1 «lead of l>eiiig renewed, as has too frequently
been our custom in the past. The policy of
liquidation, in my judgement, is the true, safe,
wisely economical one for the State to adopt.
; Whatever may lie the theory or the truth in
j regard to the advantages of a National debt,
I do not think that a State debt should re
main unpaid a day longer than the time when
j the people eau discharge it without specially
1 or unduly burdening themselves with taxa
tion. Our debt, other than that contracted
on account of the war, all fail* due between
this and the close of the year 1877, in annual
sums varying iu amount from 830,000 to $81,
i 000, averaging precisely $44,000 per year. It
w ill l>e evidently the pari of wisdom to pay
these sums as they malure. The annual pay
ment will be easy, and aggregate relief will be
great. The whole of the war ioau thus far
negotiated ($*00,000) matures iu 1871. At
present, therefore, we cannot do anything di
rectly toward its pay me ill, but a wise provis
ion may lie made tor meeting a large portion
of it when it falls due, by making a Sinking
fund of whatever sum may lie reimbursed to us
by the Federal Goveruiueut on account of
war expenditures. To the Sinking fund, iu
itself a stimulant to economy, might be profit
ably added any surplus which a rigid care iu
the administration of our ulfairs may leave at
the close of each year. Keeping the policy of
liquidation steadily iu view, and providing lor
it by such lucaus as your wisdom may sug
gest, we shull not only deciease the State ex
penditures willi certainty and rapidity, but
shall maintain our Stale credit in so enviante
a condition that we shall find Uavailable when
ever an uuloreseeu exigency may require us
to use it.
In authorizing the Treasurer to negotiate
such loans as may be necessary, I would sug
1 gest whether it be not expedient to tlx tlie
rate of interest at five per cent. In the pres
ent surplus of money seeking investment,
State stocks of such high character as ours are
regarded as specially desirable. I do nol
doubt that a five percent, slock will lie taken
at par, and if negotiated, as will be expedient,
1111 ii ι*»ιιμ |»ι·ι iwn, ι nia iair η iii ιλ iiiujc α«ι
vantageous La us than u six per cent, stock
at tin· highest premium we could hope to real
ize. 1 submit the matter to your most atten
tive consideration.
The appropriation for military purposes
the past year was not sufficient to meet the
legitimate drafts upon it—and there is hence a
small deficit which it will devolve ou you to
supply. So long as we have troops in the
Held,especially in such large numbers, the
Stale will have duties to discharge in regard
to them, on the score of humanity and of that
watchful interest and solicitude which Maine
will always cheiish for her sons. The health
and coinlhrt of the troops can be greatly pro
moted by this care on the part of the State,
and to enable it to be exercised with prompt
ness and efficiency the means must be supplied
by an appropriation, which X ain sure you will
not hesitate to make.
X cannot leave the subject of our State
finances without adverting to the necessity,
and enjoining upon you the duty of rigid care
iu all your appropriations. Public economy,
always expedient, lias become now a sacred
obligation upon us all. I ask you, therefore,
to curtail expenditure in every practicable
way ; to infuse a spirit of thrill and rigid ac
countability in all the departinculsol our Gov
ernment, and to do everything that enlighten
ed experience may suggest to ease the bur
dens of the people ami advance the general
prosperity, lu all measures having these great
objects in view, it will be no less my pleasure
than my highest public duty to co-operate.
Till: 11ANK8 OF THE STATE.
The general suspension of specie payments
in the country more than a year ago, included
of necessity tlic banking institutions in our
own State, and such suspension was tempora
rily legalized by the act of the Legislature, ap
proved February 10th, 1WV2. The operation
of the act expires by express limitation on the
10th of this month, and it may lie necessary
for you to take some further action in order
to avoid the complications and troubles that
■night arise from any attempt to enforce the
provisions of the forty-seventh chapter of the
Revised Statutes, which impose certain penal
ties upon banking corporations for refusing to
redeem their bills, checks and drafts in specie.
The question is of course affected, if not radi
cally changed, by the law ot Congress making
Treasury noU's a legal tender for debts—ap
plying, of course, to debts of banks as well as
debts of individuals—but it may at the same
time bu prudent, so long as actual payment of
specie hi not practicable, to make our own
statutes correspond in letter to the supreme
enactment of Congress, and the equally impe
rious law of necessity.
The specie suspension has not been fol
lowed lu our State by any of those evil
results which so many leared and antici
pated. Indeed our banks were rarely if ever
in a sounder condition than they are to-day. <
As compared with last year, their circulation
has indeed increased nearly two millions, but
the balances to their credit at the point of re
demption, have increased by nearly the same
sum, while their aggregate amount <>l specie,
notwithstanding the great temptations to sell
presented by the high premium, lets decreased
by only some forty thousand dollars. They
hold, moreover, nearly two millions of dollars
In government securities. Τ lie healthful and
prosperous condition of the community is al
so seen ill the fact that deposits have increased
by more than a million and a half of dollars, j
w hile individual indebtedness to the banks li:u>
decreased by a still larger sum. The Saving»
Hanks of the State exhibit all aggregate in
crease in deposits of more than two hundred
and fll'ty thousand dollars, while the total
amount of their deposits is well nigh two mil
lions. These facts, together w itli many oth
ers which will I»' pre-euted in faithful detail in
the Report of the Bank Commissioners, are
highly gratifying and encouraging. They as
sure us that our financial institutions are con
ducted with prudence and honesty; and they
prove that notwithstanding the many fears and
predictions to the contrary, our State has rare
ly bad a year of sounder prosperity iu business
atrairs than the one which has just closed.
PNBL1C LANDS—ΜΙΜΤΛΚΥ DEFENSES—Mlt.I
riA.
The Report of the Land Agent wil present
to you the condition of that Department. The
proceeds iu cash paid into the Treasury tile
past year amount to $25,777.27.
The State owns at the present time about
two million acres of land, of which only aliont
one-fourth at the most can with any propriety
be called timber lands. The other three
fourths pass underthe name of "settling lands,"
though a considerable portion thereof is rocky,
steriie and uninviting. The best portion of
the public lauds, including those sections iu
the counties of Penobscot and Aroostok, were,
with certain specitied reservations, granted to
aid the construction ot the Aroostook rail
road. by act of the Legislature of March 8th,
IStSl. The grant was made, however, by the
terms of the act, το "take etlect and lie in force
after the city of Bangor shall have voted to
loan the credit of said city, in conformity with
the act of March 20, 1S60, and not before."
On the 19th of March last, the question of
loaning the city credit in aid of the enterprise
was submitted to the voters of Bangor accord
ing to the terms of the act referred to, and it
was decided adversely to the loan. As the act
ceased to be operative by its own terms, on
the suececdiug day, the lands immediately re
verted to the State, and are now iu the same
condition as to ownership that they were be
fore the Aroostook railroad bill was passed.
It is greatly to be hoped that the effort to
construct this Important line of railroad is
not lie abandoned. The enterprise has not
yet had a fair trial, for contemporaneous with
itsinception cauie our unhappy civil troubles.
uilpili^ 111»»-» ^«;i MiniJ UUI LllllllllClS (II UUB1*
nets, and putting an effectual check upon all
enterprises Huit involved lime. labor anil the
outlay of money. lint while llie disturbed
t condition of the country has postponed the
, effort to construct the railroad, it has devel
oped and demonstrated a necessity for it in a
larger sense than was claimed when it secured
the favorable countenance of our Statu Gov
: eminent. For it cannot lie denied that the ex
perience of the pant year has shown that while
the road may be highly desirable and advan
tageous to Maine as an avenue of business, it
is absolutely essential as a great line of mlli
J tary defense. With the road finished to the
eastern line of the State, tapping the vsJley
of the St. Jotfti. our Government could easily
and effectually prevent the hostile and danger
ous movement of troops by the only nation
that possesses any special |w>wer to menace or
: injure us. Distant be the day when we shall
I Hi at open war with Great Britain ! and distant
it will lie, if we have the safeguards which the
exigencies of the times and the nature of our
position admonish us so urgently to provide.
I shall esteem it a privilege to co-operate with
, you in all measures that shall tend to bring
1 this very important subject to the attention of
j the general Government.
In tiie last annual address of my honorable
predecessor he presented with eloquence and
force the great national advantages to lie de
rived from the establishment of a naval and
military station at Portland, on a scale propor
tioned to the possible requirements of the fu
ture. I can add nothing to what was so well
said on that occasion anil lieg only to repeat
the suggestion, anil to urge upon you the pro
priety of exerting whatever influence the
j State may bring to bear, morally and materi
ally. io aeomplish an object so desirable. The
j commanding position of Portland, the expe
j rience, and still more, the menaces of the past,
to say nothing of the possible if not probable
exigencies of the future conspire to urge this
measure upon our Stale and upon our natiou
; with the most impressive earnestness.
Whatever may have been the differing opin
; ions among us, prior to the present war, in re
! gard to the necessity of au efficient militia
system, it may be sal'elv affirmed that our late
I experience lias produced a very general feel
j ing in its favor.
A movement in the right direction for reor
ganizing our forces was made by the last Leg
islature in the passage af "un Ac', to enrol the
militia of the Suite." How far and how per
j led I y the details of that act have been carried
i out, you will learn from the re|H>rt of the Ad
jutant General. ilow far beyond the provis
ions of that act it may be expedient to go at
this time, I do not myself leel prepared to say,
but respectfully leave the subject to your dis
cretion. It may lie worth your while, howev
er, to consider whether, if you should com
plete the organization of the militia at tills
time, you will not lose the valuable counsel of
those who are acquiring military knowledge
ι in the best of all schools, aud at the same
time ignore the claims of those who have the
highest title to whatever military honors the
! State may have the power to bestow. How
■ far considerations of public prudence and per
sonal justice may strengthen these sugges
tions, I leave to your unbiassed judgment.
SCIENTIFIC eCHVEY—AGBtCl I.TCHAL COL
I. KG F..
The Legislature of 1801 passed a resolve
providing l'or u Scientitlr Survey of the State,
and appropriated three thousand dollars in aid
of the object. Λ similar amount wan appro
priated by the last Legislature lor the contin
uance of the work. The practical value of
what has been done can be judged by you
i from the reports ol those who conduct the
j survey, shortly to be laid before you. It is
understood that another year's work w ill com
plete the undertaking as originally designed,
and 1 respectfully recommend that the amount
be granted tor the purpose.
Whatever tends to develop a knowledge of
; the capacities of the Slate, iscertainlv worthy
! of our highest encouragement. With our im
■ inense area, our varied resources, our unpar
| alleled advantages for commerce, and our
j boundless facilities lor manufacturing of all
1 kinds, our State should take raiiK for w ealth
1 and prosperity w ith the foremost of the Union.
Hut we are as yet comparatively In our infan
cy. Of our &2,UU0,U0U acres of land, not more
ι than one-lifth has been brought under even
nominal cultivation. Our mineral resources
remain almost untouched, while our manufac
turing advantages have been improved just
enapgh to show their unrivalled excellence and
unlimited capacity. Wise legislation may d >
much to promote these vurious iutcresls, while
unw ise laws may fatally retard their develop
I ment.
During the past year the Agricultural inter
est, the most important anil rapidly increasing
I one of our Stale, has secured a very valuable
recognition ill the establishment ol a Depart
; ment of Agriculture by the national Goveru
S meut, and also in the passage by Congress of
an act making donations of public lands to the
several Slates, lor the purpose uffoundiug Ag
( rieultural colleges. The amount of land given
is thirty thousand acres lor each United Stales
j Senator, and the same ijuantity for each Rep
resentative, under the apportionment made in
pursuance of the census of ISttU. The aggre
gate grant to this State, therefore, is L'10,000
acres. An authentic copy of the act is here
with transmitted, as it contains many details
proper lor your examination. There can bo
no doubt, I think, that vast benefits will flow
from this act, and 1 have no hesitation in urg
ing upon you the prompt acceptance of its
terms aud conditions. As noue of (he pro
ceeds arising from a sale of the lands can he
devoted to the erection of buildings, it may be
expedient, aud indeed absolutely necessary, to
allow some of our existing institutions to avail
themselves of the benefit of the grant, provid
ed satisfactory guaranties can be given that its
design will be faithfully carried out. Tho
amount to be realized in cash from tlie grant
will of course l>e very considerable, though
from various causes, not necessary to enumer
ate, it will be very lar below tile estimates
which many have been led to indulge. It is
rare that a question of more immediate or j
more far-reaching consequence is submitted
to the action ol a Legislature, 'l'he accept- !
«nee of the act imposes very considerable re
sponsibilities on the State, and I am justilied
iu assuming that you will exercise the sound
est discretion in any disposition you may make
of the inunitlcent gilt now placed under your
control.
nECIPROCITY TREATY.
On the eleventh day of September, 1854, our
Government entered into a commercial ar
rangement with Great Hritain, in relation to
the trade oi lier North American Provinces,
which arrangement is generally known as the
lleciprocity Treaty, ft was part of the agree
ment ih it it should remain m force for ten
year», "and further until the expiration of
twelve mouths nl*er either of the high con
tracting parties shall have given notice to the
other of its wish to terminate the same ; each
of said high contracting parties being at liber
ty to give such notice to the other at the end
of said term of leu years, or at any time af
terwards." .
The last Legislature by joint resolution ex
pressed the opinion that this treaty should be
terminated with the view of securing a more
just and equitable accommodation of trade
with the llritish Provinces. I recommend
that yon give expression to similar views, in
some formal and emphatic way, with the ob
ject of bringing whatever we can to bear on
Congress, loi' the accomplishment of the de
sired result. We have of course no direct
legislative power over the question, but the
deliberate and repeated expressions of the
government of a State whose people are pecu
liarly and largely interested in the question,
cannot fail to have a marked influence in set
tling the issue. It is neither my purpose nor
indeed my province to present any lengthy de
tail of the injurious workings of the treaty.—
Elaborate investigations made within the past
two years under the direction of Congress,
clearly establish the fact that the spirit of re
ciprocal trade, which was the basis of the trea
ty. lias not only been ignored by our Provin
cial neighbors, but oppressive duties with strin
gent and hurtful discriminations, have been
laid upon the products of our industry. In
deed the treaty seems precisely adapted to the
free admission of all the products of the Prov
inces which come into injurious competition
with similar product· of our own; while all
the articles which we might profitably export,
are met at the Provincial line with customs
charges which strip us of all possible advan
tage in their markets.
schools—prune institctioss.
The educational interests of the State are
fully and ably set forth lu the lieport of the
Superintendent of Schools. It is one of our
chief glories that we provide at the public ex
jieuse for the education of all the children of
the State. Our fathers wisely imposed it as a
constitutional duty, and we are reaping the
rich advantages of their foresight anil their
wisdom. While we may not l>e ill a condition
to make any extraordinary expenditure lor
educational purposes, it will 1m· one of our
highest duties to see that our schools are main
liiuiVLi tu mu «ι^υι ;uiu u^i'hiuics^iumi iii.u.
while other interests may suffer from the In
evitable effects of war, the culture of the
young shall in nowise he neglected or abated.
The annual lleports concerning our public
institutions will he promptly laiii before you.
and will exhibit to you their condition and pro
gress.
The Hospital for the Insane is in all respects
answering its beneficent designs, and its af
fairs arc managed in the most satisfactory
manner by its able Hoard of Trustees, and its
faithful and skillful Superintendent. It is not
belived that any similar institution in the coun
try is conducted with more devo'ed philanthro
py. or with more eminent success.
The Stale Kcform School is undoubtedly do
ing a good work ill the discipline and reform
ation of juvénile offenders. Its annual expense
has lieen very considerably reduced, as com
pared with a few years since, and its burdens
on f he Treasury are certainly outweighed by
its benefits. Those who have officially visited
and inspected the institution during the past
year, speak in the highest terms of its disci
pline, its general management, and its benefi
cent influence on those who are consigned to
its care.
The affairs of the State Prison are given in
more than ordinary detail in the lie ports of
the Inspectors and the Warden, and I respect
fully ask your most attentive consideration of
the facts presented. At no time since the
Prison was founded has it reached a condition
of self-support. The annual deficit lias of
course to be made up from the Treasury, and
Jis to that extents burden upon the people,—
Very strenuous efforts should l«" made to
change this condition of affairs, ami so organ
ize the industry of the convicts as to make it
pay all the expenses of the prison. To this
end I deem it absolutely necessary that the
labor of the convicts be leased to contractors,
instead of the State Itself attempting the busi
ness of manufacturing, as is now the case. It
will be ray earnest endeavor, aided by your
valuable co-operation, to devise some method
which shall permanently improve the financial
condition of the Prison.
V. 8. HKNATOR.
The term of one of the Senators iu Congress
from this Suite expires on the 3d ol March
next. It will lie your duty to elect a success
or.
XATTONAI. AFFAIRS.
While our immediate sphere of action is in the
administration of the State Government, I
cannot close without adverting for a moment
to our condition as a nation—our hopes, our
prospects, our duties. We are well advanced
iu the second year of a war involving issues
of the gravest moment to all of lis. The con
test was precipitated by those who, no longer
able to rule, were determined to ruin, the Gov
ernment of the Uuitfed States. The ostensible
reason lor secession, was one which, if admit
ted to have any force, would forthwith destroy
every element of Democratic Republicanism
which exists iu our institutions—lor if a con
stitutional majority of the people cannot have
the right to elect tile President of their choice,
our form of Government is at an end and its
attempted perpetuatiou is a farce. From the
day the Southern conspirators made open war
on the lliiitml States by assaulting Fort Sum
ter, the question passed to the arbitrament of
the sword, and not to have accepted the issue
would have been to basely surrender the life
Thus Tar we have, with patriotic unanimity,
sustained the President in all his efforts to
subdue the rebellion. Tlie people of the loyal
States have poured out their treasure and
their blood in unstinted measure, and in their
devotion to country men have forgotten the
prejudices of party. Upon a continuance of
this cordial co-o|>eratlon of all loyal men
liants the late of the nation, and hence with
all earnestness I exhort the people of this
Stale to maintain a patriotic unity in support
of the Government.
To the most superficial observer it has been
evident from the beginning of the w ar that
the insurgent States derived great strength
from the lalHir of their slaves, it is their work
that furnishes the rebel army with food and
clothii and ii.directly with all other supplies
—leaving the white population with trifling
exceptions free to enlist as soldiers. Any |>ol
icy which can detach the slaves Irom the reb
els ami make them a source of weakness rath
er than ol strength will prove a vital and de
cisive gain to the loyal side. It is with this
view, as a military measure clearly derived
from the war power of the Constitution, that
the President as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and N'avy issued on the tlrst of the pres
ent mouth a Proclamation declaring all the
slaves in Insurgent districts to be free.
The object of the war ever has been, still is,
anil of right ought to be, as the ('resident has
well declared, the "restoration of the consti
tutional relation* Mirent the L'nitcd States
and each of the States." It is for this that
the loyal States contend and with uothiug less
will they ever be satisfied, The nature or se
verity of the means necessary to accomplish
this end must of course be determined by the
extent and the character of the resistance of
fered by the rebels. It was hoped at the be
ginning of the war that the national authority
might be reasserted within a brief period and
witii little disturbance to the mass of society
in the revolted States. The conspiracy how
ever was too formidable to admit this result,
and the contest has steadily waxed more des
perate. It Is now deemed necessary, as a
means of speedily and permanently regaining
the ascendency of national authority, to de
tach the slaves from the service of tlmse who
use them to promote rebellion. Whoever dis
putes the right of the Government to do this
raises to the extent of his influence a potent
detense for the rebels. The alleged unconsti
tutionality of the proceeding implies the gross
absurdity that the rebels in' arms, trying to de
stroy our whole fabric of Government, are yet
entitled to the most precious immunities of
person and the most perfect rights of property
which our constitution can guarauty. Such
0
an assumption a* this needs only to be men
tioned to be ruluted. The rebel· are entitled
at our hands during tlie war to nothing more
and nothing less than the treatment prescribed
by the laws of war, and we can, and ought and
» ill seize every legitimate weapon to conquer
their military power and reduce them to obe
dience to the Constitution of the United States.
It is ou this ground that loyal men can
rally with enthusiasm to the support of
the President. And it will not abate the
force ol the new policy that its result is to
give freedom to a race long oppressed, and to
abolish an institution that has long been the
source ot evil dissension at home, and the
cause of shame and reproach to us abroad.
It will be clearly within the dispensation of
God's justice that a^eystem (,r oppression
which violates the natural rights of tnan,
which luis always stirred up ntrite ami conten
tion, and which was the direct cans·· of our
present troubles, should wither and perish in
the wrathful storm which in its rage it dared
to provoke.
The enlistment of the negroes for armed
service in holding Southern "forts, positions
and stations," will lie au immeasurable relief
to people of the North, as it will remove the
necessity in any contingency of a faither call
for troops to serve in the malarious climate of
the Gulf States. To oppose this policy is to
wantonly sacrillce the precious lives of our
young men by exposing them to an extra
hazardous service which the negroes can
perform without any risk. The testimony of
our revolutionary Generals and of Jackson
and Harrison in the last war with Great Bri
tain. conclusively establishes the fact that un
der good discipline negroes make good sol
diers. Let us give them a generous opportu
nity to prove themselves. The war is one
which in its incidents is to result in their en
franchisement, and they will be far better pre
pared to enjoy their freedom rationally and
profitably, by having participated in the con
test which results in its acquirement. No oth
er nation would have hesitated so long to use
this potential weapon, and we have endanger
ed our cause abroad, if not at home by the inex
plicable timidity which baa marked our course
in regard to it. Let us now give it a vigorous
trial. Those among us who have no sympathy
I with the result which this policy brings to the
' slave, may at least congratulate themselves
1 that its lirin enforcement will save the lives of
thousands of white men who might otherwise
lie exposed to disease, destitution and death.
As a loyal man, anxious only to do my duty
as a citizen and a Magistrate, 1 can see no line
of patriotism or of safety except in a cordial,
unreserved support of the policy enunciated
by the President. To resist or combine against
it is to ruu all the hazards of anarchy, if, as
a people, we stand firmly by that policy, we
shall conquer, and the nation will come forth
from the fiery ordeal through which we are
passing, purified, strengthened, invincible. But
if we divide into hostile factions and spend our
ι energies in fruitless, petty contests with each
' other, it needs 110 prophet to foretell the re
sult of the pending issue or to write the deep
humiliation and disgrace to lie forever associ
ated with a degenerate |>eople wlio had nei
ther the spirit nor the patriotism to maintain
the nationality be<|Ue4itl>cd to thein by a hero
I ic ancestry.
η t* enter upon puonc uuiy, isenueinen, ai a
time of unusual responsibility, when wisdom
alone may well be distrusted. lint relying
upon the guidance of that Gracious Being
wlio hath so bountifully blessed us as a uation
I and wlio chasiiseth but in mercy, let us, in hu
mility ami yet in confidence, address ourselves
to the conscientious discharge of the trusts
committed to us by the people of our lieloved
State. ABN'EB COBURN.
Reported Abandonment of the Siege of
Vicksburg.
New Tokk, Jan. 8.
The Itichmond papers of the 5th, contain
the following:
·' Vickeburff, .Wis*., Jan. 2.—To Hou. James
A. jjclilon, Secretary of War:—The enemy,
1 finding all his efforts unavailing to make au
Inroad upon our position here, has re-embark
ed, leaving a considerable quantity of intrench
ing tools and other property, and appareutly
has relinquished his designs upon Vicksburg.
(Signed) J. C. I'kmbkktox,
Lieut. General Com mauding.
[ BraKS Confesses his Defeat.—Probable Issue
of Letters of Marque.
New York, Jan. 8.
Special dispatches from Washington state
that to-day's Uichmond papers conlain official
dispatches from General Bragg, in which he
acknowledges that he found our forces too
I strong fur him anil was obliged to fall back to
i Tallahoma. The press dispatches to lUcli
i moud papers say that he lost very heavily.
The bill lor letters of marque and reprisal
against the rebels, referred to-day, will prob
ably pass, alter being amended so as to include
foreign enemies as well as domestic.
The Kepublican states that Count Mejan has
beeu dismissed l'roui his post as consul of New
Οι leans and M. Fauconnet has been recogniz
ed by our government. This was done yester
day by M. Mercier, the French Minister, after
an examination of the records of Mejan's act»,
I and without any other action ou the part oi
: our government, except the presentation of
; the case.
Richmond papers received by Gen. Dix at
; Fortress Mornoe to-day, admit the defeat of
Bragg at Murfteesboro', aud lament that the
Yankees would uow obtain possession of East
! Tennessee, from which ail army of 200,000
could not drive us.
Skb α woman lu another column pickiug Sambuc I
Grape·, for Speer's Wine. It is so admirable article
il ο111 in hoppi :*!*, ami by the first families fn Paris
l.nndou aud New York, iu preference to old 1'ort
Wine. It is worth a trial, as it give» great satisfac
tion. ilcc22dly
SPECIAL Χ Ο Τ ICRS.
Dr. J. Wkm.kv Kelley, Associate Focxder
of IhtAMiTTIUL 8vstkm or Mt.DK ΐϋκ, will be
iu attendance at bis Medical office. 2141 omjkiss st.
corner of I'karl street, duriug Tuesday and Wed
nesday, the 131 h and 14th inst., to give a<l>icetothe
sick. Ladies anil ticntlcuien are iuviltd to call.—
Advice Ibis. Dr. kellcy is the Aseociato Found
er of the system, aud is the only one entitled to the
• ppemlage Analytical i hysician, iu this city, though
imitation may be a source of solace to some if they
know of no oik' r liviy, and don't Jtruxr irkat to do.
Howard Drill Coure.—Tho member· of tlii·
Corps are hereby notified that their regular quarter·
ly meeting lor the election of officer·, and the trans
actiou of any other buOuess that may come before
them, will be held at the Old City Hall, this (Friday)
evening. at 7j o'clock.
A full attendance is requested.
Fer order.
Portlaud, Friday, Jan. 9, 18'J8. It·
DR. Γ. P. QUI MB Y. would give notice that he ha
returned to Portland, and can be found at hid Κουπί,
No. 13 International House, Tuesday, August
12th, where he will attcud to all wishing to consul
him.
First Examination at office S2 0C
' Each subsequent sitting at office, 5C
j City Patients, first Examination at residence,... 2 5C
: Each subsequent visit at residence, IOC
August 16, 18G2.—tf
NOTICE.—Internal Revenue Stamp·.—Α fall
j supply of all kinds of Stamps for sale at my office,
No. 92 Commercial street; aud the public will be
expected to use them ou aud alter this date.
NArU'L J. MILLER, Collector
dec31 dtf 1st District State of Maiue.
Physician and Surgeon.—11. A. LAMB, M. l>.
Office, corner of Congress and Chestnut Street!
Portland, Me.
Particular attention paid to Surgery, including
iseases of the eye and ear. aug7—dtim
Dentistry.—Dr.JOSIAH HKALD, No.241 Con
g res s Street, first door east of 1st Parish Church
Portland. Me. augTdly
Dus. LOCK F. & KIMBALL, Dentists, No. 117
Middle Street. Portland. Me. augl5—ly
BROKERS* BOARD.
Sale or Stocks.—Boston. Jan. 8, 1862.
5.000*United States Coupon Sixes (1881) 98j
28,000 do 9*1
1.O00 United States 7 3-10 Treasury Notes 102|
21.3U0 do UW
2·».75ο do 10W
5.0D0 United States Demand Notes 1884
10.000 do 133}
2.000 Unite*! State* Five-Twenties* 97
86.000 U. S. Certificates of Indebted noes 97 J
1.000 Uuited States Registered Sixes 97
22 000 U. S. Treasury Sixes, 2 years 134 *
1« do 1331
12.030 American lioid 185]
7.'JU0 do 13ô]
45.000 do 135}
8,000 do 136
7.000 do 1351
31,200 do 135]
NIA RRIE Ο ·
In Thomaston, Jan. 1. by Rev. Mr. Wadwell, John
Λ. Harjfi.'iit, ol Portland, and Mise Mary H. Austin,
of Thomaston.
At Peak's I«land. Portland, Jan. 5th, by Rev C.W.
Blackntan. John W. Γ re ft· then and Mies Mary A.
Sterling. both of Monhegan.
At Kent's Hill, Doc 24th, Hanson G. Barrows, of
Vassal bo ro, and Miss Martha E. Conant.
In Wayne, Dec. 25th, liezekiah Durpby, of Liver
more. and Miss Harriet E. Winthrop.
In Rockland, Dec —, Alphouso M. Prince, of Cam
den, and Miss .Sarah E. Heald.
DIED.
In this eity. Jan «th. Battle K., daughter S. D. and
Elizabeth P. Merrill, »*»·(! 9 yearn 8 month*.
n^Funerml on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, from
their residence, on Liucoln street.
In North Yarmouth, Oct '23d. of typhoid fever. Μ πι
Elien L , wife of John W. Ureely, aged 56 years aud
6 months. »
In Gardiner. Dee. 28th, Asaph Smith. aged 77 yrs;
24th, Mrs. Mercy Colbath, aged 72 years.
lu Fairlicld, I>»*c —, Mrs. Anna J., wife of Robert
At wood, aged 88 years.
MINIATURE ALMASIC.
F rid·,, Jmmmmrr ®.
HIGH WATER I SUN. I DAYS.
Morn » 113 Rim 7.® Length... »h 17m
Krvn'g l.n|8«to 4 4β I Inert»». «h 13m
MAMIN Ë Ν EWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Thnrulny· .* Jmmmnry β.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Montreal, Prince. Boston.
(LEAKED
Brig Minnie Traub, Mitchell, Matansas, by Chase
Bros & Co.
Ht'h D ishing Wave, Freeman, for Fortress Monree,
by J Harlow k to.
ι The following American vessels have been attach·
! ed and sold lor debt at Rio Janeiro: hark Ann Ε
! Grant. for rs21,<XX)#0QM; bark Fannie < reusliaw, ibr
rx25.(M>90UU; bark Abigail, lor r»2V,2U0*0lG.
Ship Joseph Fish, Young, sailed from Rangoon
, May 22* i for Falmouth E, aud as she has not since
been beard of, fears arc entertained for her safety.
The J F registered 1202 tons, rated A1J. and built at
Thomastou in 1868.
DISASTER».
Ship Naples, from Christiana for Bombay, put ihto
Southampton ou the 24th ult, leaking badly ; will
have to discharge for repairs.
Sch Friendship, from Booton for Harrington, was
blown off the coast and abandoned on La Have Bank,
Dec 4. The crew were rescued tnd have arrived at
Liverpool NS.
Ship Thos Jefferson (of Boston) Deshon, from New
York for New Orleans, struck on Turtle Rock, neaa
South 1'iiniui, on th»· 23*1 ult. She was tow«*d off
next day. leakiug badly, and will proceed to Nassau
for repairs. Thirteen of the crew mutinied and were
placed on board the L* S gunboat Tioga, where they
were put in irons.
DOMESTIC PORTS.
SHIP ISLAND— In port »th, ship Wizard King,
une, aud others. Going in. ship Moro Castle.
PORT ROYAL SC—Io tort 3d inst, shin Maria;
bark Marv Stetson; brigs Leni. and Danl Maloney;
sch s Ainy'tis. R S Miller, S II Sharp, Marietta; Ν Ε
Clark; Quickstep.
BALTIMORE—Ar 6th, brigs Wm Nichols. Triets,
from Alexandria; Susan Duncan, Mitchell. Fortress
Monroe; schs Mary Β Dyer, Purvere, Boston; R U
illiggins. Bsker. do.
Artlth, «ch Lookout. Thornton, Portland.
PHILADELPHIA—Ar 5th. ship Tonawanda, from
s KW YoRK-Ar6th, echs A Tlrrell. lllfgin·. fm
Philadelphia for Boetou ; Highlander. Mankin. fiom
Portland.
Ar 7th. iche Snow Squall, Shepherd, for Cardena·;
Wreath, rrandall. Newark for Pembroke.
Below «tli, ship Crowu Point, Kuapp, fm ( alcutta,
ria Cape Town.
Cld ith. ship Mary Ogrien. Hathaway, Pan Fran
cisco; barke Antioch, Gardiner, Marseilles; Monte
zuma. Hammond. Barbadoes; Damon, Bartlett. for
Philadelphia; Uen Warren, Hartz, and Comet. Mor
rison, do; brigsTho· Owen, Pettengill. for Neuvita·;
Benj Delano, Baxter, Port Royal 8C; C H Kennedy,
Haiti, Boetou; sch Su»an. Beane. Boston.
[By tel.] Ar 8th. «hip Crown Point, ftη Bombay;
bark Growler, fm Sew Or lean*
NEWPORT— In port 7th, kIu II LOrcnt.UopkiD·,
Bncksport tor Key Wwt; Mary Langdon, Pinkham,
Kdckland for Fortrea· Monroe.
Ar 8th, (by tel) sch Enoch Pratt, Gould, Cardenas.
DAN VERS—Ar 3d. «ch Pearl, Robinson, from
Koekiand. ,
FALL RIVER—Sailed 6th, set) Courier, Hopkins,
for New York.
SA I.KM—Ar 6th. ecjie D Β Newbomb, Higgms, fm
Taugier; F J Cummings, Bolan. and Rio. Fairbanks.
Elizebethport ; Admiral, Trefothen. do.
BOSTON—Ar 7th. bark David Kimball. Magune.
Palermo; *ch A Hammond. Hiffgfoa, Philadelphia.
Cld 7th. bark J C Nickel·, Blanchard, Cienluegoa;
•ch Princess. Loved. New York.
Ar 8th. sch Jerueha Baker. Barberick. Portland.
Below, brig II (i Berry, from Havann.
Cld 8th, bark Witch. Watson. Africa; brig LT
Κ η if ht, Park. Portland; sch· Juno, Smith, and A
Sawver. Boothby, for Washington; Adele, Snow,
Machiasport, to load for Cuba.
GLOUCESTER—Ar 3d, sch· Florence. Crockett,
Stockton for Boston; 8 J Lindsay, Ward, Boston for
M ill bridge.
Ar 6th, «ch· lie η J F Reeve·, Norman. Philadelphia ;
Τ Β Hodgmau, Prince. Bath for New York ; John k
George. Smallage, Mt Deeert for Boston.
PORTSMOUTH—Ar 6th. brig Reporter, Ginn, tm
Philadelphia.
FOREIGN PORTS.
At St Thoma· 15th ult, ship· Cbapln, Hall, from
Boston for Sau Francisco, repg; Globe, Baker, laid
up; barks Warren. Peters, tin Rio Janeiro. Juet arr;
Hamilton, fm Guadeloupe, dodo; brigs Vlaitham.
Clark, dieg; Addy Swift, laid up: sch Enchantress.
Devereaux, fm New York for Laguayra. with loss of
sails.
Ar at Cienfeegoe 37th ult. brig Bion Bradbury,MU
ler, St Jago.
Ar at Triuidad 16th ult, bark Casco, Gardiner, ftn
New York.
Ar at Havana 25th ult. brig· C Β Allen, Ray, from
Portlaud : Col W Coggin·, ( oggin·. do.
Ar!M(h. brig Rush, Babbidge, New York; sch ST
llaker. Price, do.
Ar 27th. bark Eventide. Partridge. Bremen; brig
J C Kennedy. Gayer. Ei Is wort h
Sid 2ôth, barks C A Farusworth. Hodsdon, Man
tau; Arlington, Crouton, Portland; 96th. shin Emer
ald Mr, (Br) Hunter, Philadelphia ; 29th. bark Al
bertina. nlmstead. Portland; brigs Geo Amos. Pratt.
! do; 31st; Wenonah. Dow. Baltimore; Baron de Cat·
I tine. Saunders. New York; let inet, J as O" Donahue,
Johnson. Matanzas.
Cld 31st, brig· Caroline Eddv. Pomerov. Ν Orleans:
Aladdin, Curtis, and Ocean Wave, Partridge. lor Ν
York.
Ar at Matansa* 25th ult. sclis Windward. Partridge
, Boston; Deimont. Giun. Portland ; 20th. Windward,
, fm do; 27th. Ocean Ranger, Lewis. Havana.
Ar 30th. brig· Stella. Lilley. Portland. 31st, Strom
ness. (Br) Marwick. and Fauuie, Rom. do.
Sid 26th. brig Ambrose Light. Stahl. Philadelphia.
Ar at Cardeua* &«h. brig Milwaakie. Brown, from
Sierra Morena; 1st in·!, «ch Fisher, Dean, fm Frank
fort.
[Per steamship New York, at New York ]
Ar at Liverpool 21st ult, Portland, Malien, Cardiff;
22d. Richard kobiii*ou. Lowrv. New York
Cld ®Wh, Emerald. Luce. New York; Sandoaky,
I Hall; Elleu Austin. Keuuedy.aud Yoang Sam, Mer·
! r y man. do; 22d, Manhattan, Dixen, do; F Pierce,
1 Brooks. Portland.
Ar at London 23d ult. Radiant, Mathews. Callao.
Cld 20th, Byzantium, Robinsou, New York.
Ar at Deal 22d, Kocliambeau, Snow, St John NB.
Sud sailed); Evaugeline. oregory. ftn Rangoon for
reinen (put in to repair sails.)
Passed do 20th. Golden Horn, Rice, from London
; for Melbourne (and put back 22*1, having loat bottv
j anchois olf Notth Foreland.)
Sailed from Falmouth 22d. Prima Donna, llarn·
ι den, (or llarriman) for Bremen.
Γίΐιι oui ιι .>cwct«iiO igiu, lonvoy, η wewira.
Boston
Sailed fiom Glasgow y>th. Γ η 1 ted Kingdom. (si for
Portland and New York ; Tbereee, Doaue, for New
York.
.sailed from Waterford 23d, Cbaa ▲ Farwell, Ame··
bur)'. New York.
Ar at Bordeaux 18th alt, Piscataqua, Smith, from
New York.
Ar at Cadis 9th ult, Elisabeth Lear it t. Brown, fm
Bo*tou.
Sailed from Tarragona 10th nit, rriscilla, Baxter,
fm ttio Janeiro.
Ar at Constantinople 10th nit, Edw llill, Sylvester,
and Amy. Hammond, Boston.
Sailed from Bahia. Nov 22d, Chase, Hamilton, for
Falmouth. L.
Ar at Kio Janeiro Nov 24th, Erie. I*reble, from
Liverpool.
Sailed from Rio Janeiro Nov 18tb, Kevere, <»ibbs,
Singapore.
Ar at Buenos A) res Nov 6th, Amy Warwick.Smith
fm Ht Abe*.
Sid 9th, Josephus. Fame, for India; 11th, Joaiah
Brad let·, Nichols, do.
Ar at Shanghae Oct 14th, Ringleader, White, fra
Fooebow; 33d. Mary Cap»m. Savory, Hakodadi, 34tii
(.olden ijate. Thorntou, Sau Francisco
Ar at do Oct lOtn, Old Colony, Berry. New York;
13th, Miners a. Ayers, do; 16th. Thnandra, Turner,
N»ija.-aWi; 17th, lien Morgan, Coogdou, do; 34th,
Julia (· Tyler, Cooper, do.
Sid t>ct 7th. Northland. Arey, — ; 9th, J Miller,
for Fooebow; 13th. Lizzie Bo*tgs, Dizer. do; 17th,
Pericles, Snow,Singapore; 23d. Kate Haiti η g», King
man Swatow; 24th. Kitty Simpaon, Mayo, for Foo
chow.
Sailed from Swatow Oct 18th, Andea, Spence, for
Sbefoo.
Arat Fooebow Oct 6th, Marmion, Wassan, from
llong Kong.
Ar at tlong Kong Oct 16th, Young Greek, Tavlor,
Nagasaki; 34th. Morning Star. F outer, fm San Fran
cisco (and sailed 31st for Manila); 37tb, Weetern Con
tinent, Lull. San Fraucisco.
Arat do 21st; Kagle Wiug, Keller, Sbangha*·. 31th
Hotspur. Beunett, New York; 89th, Surprise. Kan
let t. uo.
Sid Oct 28th. Kate Hooper, Johnson, Melbourne;
31st. Clarissa Bird. Bird, Singapore.
Arat Manila Oct 13. Hydra, «.ay, Hone Hong;
13th, War Hawk, Simmons, do; Carlew, Chapman.
Sau Srancisco.
Sid 17th, Avon, Howes. San Francisco.
Ar at Table Bay CtiH Oct *W, Time. Homer, from
Singapore, (and «ailed 27th for London )
Liverpool. Dec 22 The Orauada, for Calcutta, baa
put back with Iom of sails, steering gear out of order,
and several feet of water in her hold.
8POKEX.
Oct 25 off Cape of Good Hope, ship Contest. Jen
nines. I'm Bombay for Liverpool.
Nov 29. lat 28 N. Ion 87 W. ship Arno, Ν aeon, from
New York for San Fraucisco.
Dec y. lat 41. Ion 36. bark Heroine, Nickerson, ftn
New York for Constantinople.
Jan 2, lat 27 14, Ion 89 46, was pasaed brig Weno
nah, Dow, from Havana for Baltimore.
Jan 6, lat 37 28, Ion 74, was seen, brig U Means, fm
Cardenas for .