The Daily Herald

[Correspondence of the Boston Atlas.]

Augusta, Feb. 26, 1839.

The military force now here engages almost the entire attention of all. The troops are in good order and fine spirits. They are to be reviewed by the Governor at 2 o'clock this afternoon, after which a part of them will take up their line of march for the East—the residue will march tomorrow.

Annexed I send you a resolve authorising the enlistment of a Division of Volunteers, reported by the committee on military affairs. I have no doubt the Resolve will pass. Maine is in earnest in this business, and she will put a force into the field that must be respected. This Division of Volunteers, (if the Resolve passes) will be filled up in a very short time. The people of Maine, almost to a man, are united in sustaining the course taken in this matter by our State Government. They will not any longer permit the subjects of a foreign government to trespass with impunity on their soil. If the General Government does not come to their aid, they will alone and single-handed, maintain the North Eastern Boundary line of the State "as they understand it." defined by the treaty of 1783, until driven from it by superior force.

Maine does not admit that there can be any doubt or dispute where that line is. Her Commissioners established the fact beyond a doubt last year, and up to that line she claims and will exercise jurisdiction.

I learn that Gov. Fairfield last evening received a letter from the Secretary of War, saying that an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars will probably be made to commence fortifications on our frontier, as recommended by Gen. Wool, and that two Regiments of the United States Infantry would be sent, as soon they could be collected to this State. This letter was in reply to one from our Governor, written previously to our present difficulties.

We learn from good authority that Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott of the U. S. Army reached Portland on Tuesday, on his way to the theatre of hostile operations on the frontier. He must have made a very rapid movement, as the papers which reached us by the Southern mail yesterday, state that he took the cars from Philadelphia for Washington on Saturday. Certain it is, however, that he took breakfast in Saco on Tuesday morning, and proceeded with the greatest despatch for Bangor.—Boston Atlas.