Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1866-01-19
SARGFNTvILLE, Jan. g, 1856

| SARGFNTvILLE, Jan. 8, lSG6.
Mr.. EDITOR The old psychologists
were doubtless very apt fabulists as gen.
eral thing, but it strikes me that they
missed it a little in appointing January tho
'god of new horn infants" In this in.
stance they must have lost sight of the
''iitness of things" The relationship be-
tween human babies. and this month, i:
simply one of chronology. January is the
babyhood of that section of time called
year, and infants are the babies of that
measure of duration which we term the
human span. Here the very remote anal
ogy stops. January Is not a fit custodian
of tender and helpless babies. and there
fore to name him. the tough, rough, frosty
spirited rogne, after the god of newborn
infants, Was Il great missioner, and inn
peaches the wisdom of the poet or poets,
who perpetrated the blundcr. Pretty su-
pcryision, he, OF newborn babies why
had it not been for uncommon maternal
vigilance, every baby in New England
would have frozen to death during the first
days of the reign of this protector OF
young life. Whew! Why, sir, old AMI
case hardened as l am, l should have
becn with all my warmth and vigor of
spirit, piece of inanmatc ice, had l not
been in most proyidential quarters, clean
beyond the cold grasp of this remorsele.s
god of babies
SarSent,ille-you know where Sargent.
vile is--in the town of ,Sedgwick so
Called because here cluster quite a num-
Der Of families by the name Of Sargent,
very substantial and wcllto-do people, too.
With one of those pleasant and accom-
plished families am stopping during this
cold term" The room in which | now
write oyerlooks Eggcmoggen Reach, and
great and little Deer Islands. So cold has
it bccn the rast four days. that the yapor
has been rising from the Reach like steam
from boiling kettle. Far off on the
melancholy Main," this cloudy incense to
the frost-god is rising perpetually, inlica-
ting the most intense cold. Mr.. Sargent,
who is an ohseryant man, tells me lie has
not for years observed anything Ike this
as an indice Of cold weather. An open
winter indeed open to many objections, if
the cold begins to strengthen rs the days
begin to leRgtlen.
But let Us not look ut the future through
the present frosty atmosphere, for perhaps,
before this letter, appears in print the
weather will have a melting mood. But
to-day, and its circumstances, throws in
imagination, wide horizon over our ta-
morrows, lending to them, quite unwar-
rantably, a character that they may not
perchance bear. To- day is despotic and
absorbing, and takes too much liberty with
the future. Hence 30 many false prophets
For all the present cold, we may have a
pleasant winter, as whole. This current
cold snap, though it may be attended with
discomfort, will Kill bug. and yoracious in
sects, and tiee-e The srdmPs, so people can
get out their wood and lumber. The open
swamps, has heretofore been an objection
to great falls of SHOW. This objection now
removed, the SNOW can descend without
delay, and every body will bo prepared for
Observation-Disclosures incident to winter.
But our Sedgwici friends can be prepar-
ing their lobster traps and peggy nets,cven
this weather. Such preparation is going
on, and the Reach, and inlcts appertaining
thereunto, will be laid under large contri-
button next fishing season. There will be
but small slip-bulding the coming season,
hut some requisite repairing of vessels.
The knowing ones here, as perhaps else
where, are waiting for the currency to con-
solidatc, before they venture much in bust.
ness. While finance is in what old Goethe
would call a state of be coming, shrewd
business men will venture little.
This community is not poor; indeed, |
have seen no 81 gns of poverty. The poor
est in the town of Sedgwick, ere in the
enjoyment of LIES comforts. Widows, il
not known 10 he clearly aba2c want, are
here surprised by donating parties. who
leave behind them not only full purse,
but ample stores of good creature com,
forts in the shape of full flour barrels pori,
steak, and the like. Such q visit is to
come oil even tonight. Good community