Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-07-03
Republican Nomination
Fer Governor,
LOT NJ. MORRILL,.
OF AUGUSTA.
Editorial Correspondence.
AUBURN, June %, 1857.

f Dear American -
Friday morning started for home from
the State Convention ola Bucksport.
/ thinking that few hours would find me
at my post, among exchanges gathering
tens of news. But business, when at
Bucksport, ordered me to countermarch.
and night found me at Bangor again
ia the morning took the cars for this
village, a city in embryo, and the shire
town Of the new county of Androsccggin.
Tbs county was established in March,
1854, and made up of the towns Of Lew.
iston, Lisbon and Webster. in the County
If Lincoln; Auburn, DanviIle, Durham,
Mn / ana Poland Of Cum berland Liv-
ermorc and Turner of the county OF Ok
ford; and East L.vermore, Greene, Leeds
and Wales, in the county Of Kenncb:c.
By vote Of the inhabitani. of these
towns Auburn was made choice of as the
shire town By the attention Of an old
Trend. J, D. palsifer, Esq, the Clerk OF
the Courts, was shown over the new
County buildings jus, being completed,
for the us Of tn County. This pile OF
buildings. fer thcy are all connected. has
al imposing e2 ior appearance, eombin-
jig much architectural beauty. with So
Iidity and Durability 1t is said by COM
petent jndg 5, tha, the arrangement of
these buildings is superior to anything
n New England From careful and
thorough inspection, we give it as our
opinion. .hat they combine all the advan-
iases. and convenience that human skill
can tJgesee and provide for. Ten thou
sand dollars ks len expended to make
them perfectly .rs-proof. The plans
were DR. wn b. 6. j. F. Bryant, Esq, of
Boston, tie Architect of the State Re
form School at Cape Elizabeth. The
contractor is Hon Albert Carrier of New
burypor,; aad tie contract sum is S69,-
! -63 90. 1t is estimate, that the whole
cost for land and buildings, with all the
fixtures, grading, foundation and exca-
walton, will amount - about SIS, 000.-
/ obtained an Introduction to the gentle
manly and worthy Sheriff, ard was per-
mittcd to 90, where m4ny others ought
to.-ia:o the jail The chief object of
attraction Of thosg who are cons family
besiey;ng tie jailoF for admission, is to
see Knight, the murderer Of his wife,
Ny friend Palsitcr, who reported the
trial, and who seems en- good terms with
the criminal, entertained him with an
account OF wha. WIS done TT the rec. mt
sittings Of the Court 1T Augusta. on his
case. knight was very much interested
and inquired when the decision would
be male on the motion by his counsel
for new trial, saying he though; it
mus, be in the papers as they had pub
lishcd every thing else abou: hun that
was true, and some things that vas not
true
have used up some horse flesh, and
more shoe leather, in examining the chief
points OF attraction Of the two thriving
and widely extended villages Of Lewis.
ton and Auburn. These villages, or chi :
bryo cites, are after my own plan Of what
sach places should be, blessed with am
pie breathing places. The houses are
not like those OF tie dead, huddled to-
gether closely and compactly, but there
is ''>cope and space for Ornamental gar
Idening, and morning exercise. without
jjostiing a neighbor. Saturday Evening
in company with fair cousin whom
had Ii seen for long years, and who has
been SO busy in making up scrap books
Of poetry and tending canary birds that
, she has fairy turned two corners on the
ROAD to that interesting period in tie life
; Of woman. when she is entitled to be
designated an "old maid, without think
ing of marriage Give visited the cish-
borhood Of the huge piles of solid mason
ry, the factory buildings. l, was Satur,
day afternoon. and the girls that work in
, the mills, were ont in tuli biaom.
think ! never M in the same distance,
AMI in place of the same size, larger
quantity of rattan and whalebone in
motion. Pedestrians will have to ex-
claim, when ample sidewalks will per-
: nit more than one Of the two sexes, 10
keep step to the music of the Union,'
; on their smoth way, as Sancho Panza
did of sleep, blessed be the man that
/ invented it,'-not circular rattan and
e whalebone. but wide ways"
From business directory published
: last winter, we learn that there are two
banks, one on each side Of the ri err, with
total can;tal of ao75 0o0 the Lewis.