Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-11-24
Our Interests.

and private duty. The hard headed, every
dag Plo,lder, that ties rock in one end Of
his bag to balancc the grist in the othel
end, that fears innovation, enterprise, nov
,Aty, new anything and everything, thai
goes tQ Boston in an old sloop to make hi
Purchases. tina. won't recollcct anything
except tina: his father ciphered in Adams
Aritlnnatic and his mother read in n 81,
weeks school in Diiwortl's Speler, are
very good men and citizens, and are n.
necessary in community as ballast is to
II balloon. But on the shoulders of an
other class of men rests the burthen o.
developing the resources of our State and
each particular section of it. The forty
mIles in fifty hours brigade is too slow fol
E the pending service.and the pressing wants
of This age. Live men have Il big work be-
fore then in the coming fruitful years ol
this country, and the race will he to the
strong. the vigorous, the hopeful, the am
bilious, and the public spirited.
II Maine intend, to take the place in
the great family of States which her natur-
nj position, her unsurpassed water power,
AMI her lon. line of sea-cnast entities her,
then her citiz MS must go to work at once
to develop those resources, and thereby
find employment for all the thews and Sin
ews, as we'll as the brains of all the people.
'Irha legislation of the State should be en-
trusted to the care of the best minds in it,
TIE active. wide awake but indicious, edu-
eatet. cool headed business men should he
sent to make our laws, and also to devise
ways and means to put Maine on the high
road to prosperity. We should not ''go to
New York to mil" always, nor to Boston
for all OF our purchasablc articles for home
consumption. to an indefinite time in tho
future, when AroostAok county can raise
all the grain we need in the State. and
Bangor and Portland offer as good bar
guns to country merchants as Boston,
What We need now, rs before rcnarked.is
active men Of public spirit at the helm.
Capital will conc along quietly and sure
", show it the opportunity for gain, and
sure investment
But what Of our own county. Let US
see. We haven't mile Of railway in the
csanty, nor so much We think as a marine
railway, nor ton Of navigation in steam-
bna.. unless the last few weeks has changed
ta;s. Bucksport for the few past years has
taken the lead i'll business enterprises, aud
has been rapidly gaining in property.
More navigation has been built in the town
than IN all the rest Of the county, for the
past ten years, we think. Ellsworth bust
ness is almost exclusively. that Of lumber.
Her citizens will not devote a moments
thought to any other interest, save few
Insp. who do more or less in building and
in sailing vessels. So intent are our lum.
bermen in following the beaten paths III
THIS line, that one of the most important
and to them. advantageous Improvement,
rat Of a railway to transport their lumber
IT, the wharees from the mills. receives NJ
encouragement from them. Sn. the rive'
is fast filing up with refuse lumber. nnt
ehc navigation to the wharyes from tho
bay is so difficult and dangerous. that cap
taius dislike to come here for business, ant
soon cannot. Nothing is done or is ever
pronosed to clear the river or to prevent III
further obstruction.
We arc content to ride i'll stages. in
simmer twenty miles to take the Boat al
Bucksport for tho West, and twenty eigli
miles III winter to reach Bangor for the
cars, and don't propose to ever do any
thing different Soon we shall he left so
lated. and our trade crcumscribcd, because
a boat has been purchased to run in tho
eeasen of heating. from Rockland. Bella at
so Castiiic, Deer Isle, Scdywick, Brooklin
Surry and to South West ilarbor, Mt. Dc
se7..
Our more enterprising neighbors at Ma
chias. have held meetings, got the peopl,
aroused To the Importance of having steam
communication with Portland. have sub
scribcd for stock in such an enterprise
have got the Portland business men Ell
listed also, and the enterprise to day, is I
fixed fact. Another year will witness /
good sized and handsome steamer running
twice weekly between Machias and Port
land, touching at South West llarb"r, ant
a, some other points on the shore towns il
this county. The tendency Of this will III
to lesseu the amount of summer trave
through Ellsworth, lessen the amount o
hrr-ceuntry trade, and make the towns or
Aft. Desert Island greater place Of sum
iner resort than now, and more completed,
sli-connect them from the shire-town. fol
ii the route indicated is SO firmly estab
lished that the trips of the steamer are
laked upon as certain. it will he about al
we'll for Ellsworth people to 6" to Boston
or Portland, via, South West Harbor, al
via Bueksrert and Bangor.
Soon VIC shall hear the stcam whistle al
aro6nIus. and the busy hum Of the spin
ming Jenny in some Of the surrounding
towns, and witness small mannfactorie'
si.ihg up by the river side VI other streams
aud ina the men of ncighboring town
leading usliu erecting building for carrying
a., al