The Portland daily press., 1871-04-22

Republican membership except two inconsid-
cradle Senators. Those who make an cutlery
against this bill as violation of the Consti-
tuition are those who have made the same
complaint in regard to all The legislation ne
cessary to crush the rebellion, abolish slavery
and reconstruct the Union.
The Republicans carried the first election
ever held in the District of Columbia under
i.snew territorial organization, Thursday, by
large majority. They elected Gen. Chip:
man delegate to Congress- and majority of
the members of the House of Assembly. Their
majority is much larger than the most san
guine anticipated, and their rejoicings are. cor
respondingly great. The Republican candi-
date for delegate was an officer In the Union
army duriue the rebellion, while his Demo-
cratic competitor was a rebel sympathixer.
SOME of the Washington ladies' who are
prominent in the woman's right movement
presented themselves at the polls in Washing
ton, Thursday, and demanded the right to
vote. The judges very politely looked over
their lists for the names of the applicants,
aud not 6uding them were obliged to refuse
the tickets offered by fair hands. These pro-
ceedings are to be made the basis of legal
proceedings in what the rejected voters will
endeavor to establish their right to the ballot
The Pertland and Ogdensburg Railroad.
Portland is presently to have two routes TO
the White Mountains, The Grand Trunk
Railway has fol twenty years been familiar TO
tourists and pleasure seekers, with its sinuous
track searching out pretty villages, skirting
romantic streams and plunging into the aw-
ful grandeur of northwestern Oxford, burrow-
ing in mountain basins, out OF which there
seems TO be no way of escape-to drop the
traveller at the door of hospitable inn by the
side OF the track. shut in by lofty hills, from
whose porch the energetic tourist departs to
lose himself in deep glens or climb with slow
speed the highest peaks of the mountain
range to get view OF the broad panorama or
catch the gleries of matchless sunset, and
find himself shut in by the merciless clouds
that dampens the spirit and increases the Bit
terness of disappointment.
The other route strikes the mount ain range
about half way between its northern and
southern boundary, and though it has not yet
penetrated that rugged region, it has reached
the foot of the lesser hills that form the spur
of the White Mountains, and from the pres
ent terminus we can get fair view of histor-
1c Kearsarge, Choeorua, Passaconaway and
others familiar peaks. Every mile of the way
is made attractive by the beauty and grandeur
of the scenery, and we stop for short time
at the gateway of country that is rich with
the traditions of thrilling events connected
with its early settlement; the once favorite
home of powerful bands of aborigines who
resisted foot by foot the progress of the white
mans civilization.
Before the traveller has got mile away
from the depot in Portland he will be favora.
bly, impressed with the appointments of this
new railroad and remark the almost wonder
ful smoothness of the track over which he
glides rather than rolls, with SO little lar and
noise that he can chat easily with his seat
mate or read his morning Press as comforta-
bly, as If he were at his own hearth-stont. In
passing over road for the first time one is
naturally curious TO become familiar with the
topography OF the country, note the villages
and points OF interest and catch the ever-va-
rying scenery as it is opened up to him. es-
pecially, if the road runs through an open and
.well-popuated county, as the Portland and
Ogdensburg does Tor the first forty miles of its
route. Skirting the edge OF Fore river where
1t forms the Western boundary of the city,
and shooting across the canal basin we strike
the land again and get glimpse on our right
of Libby's Corner, lying on the bound
airy between Portland and Deering, be-
longing to both and yet almost an independ-
entl village, with its pretty church, neat
houses and busy manufacturing shops and
outdoor industries.
Presently peeping over the shoulder OF a
billsck on our left the eye strikes naked and
unromantie structure, of too great height for
a farmhouse and yet having little appearance
of o hotel, standing as a sentinel over the
Cumberland and Oxford canal-that unclassi-
cal water course where poet never drew inspi
ration and painter neveIlstudied. And still the
Brewer House is local celebrity, and has
been familiar to Portlanders for forty years as
house OF entertainment whose motto has
emphatically been sans sOurci. 1t has seen
good deal of the phrases of humanity, but
nobody can write its full history. 1t has a
tame Tor al most everything but PRAYER meet
ines, and it is doubtful whether It would be a
good missionary station. The group of time
stained houses just beyond, and still further
from the track on the left, that has such
flavor of mild decay and air OF painful silence
was once, i've or six generations ago.
more important place than its neishbor. The
city we have just LETT. You can see no water
or signs OF commerce from the car.windov
but in the days we speak of Stroud water built
large ships and received on its docks valuable
csrgoes from distant ports. When you and /
reader, werellads tif you ale not too DID, the
thriving village which the train now halls at.
was called by the euphonc name of Consin.
the contraction or beautiful Indian word
but more practical people know it now as
Cumberland Mills. Here we strike the wa
tiers OF the lovely Presumpscot, along which
our route will lie Tor the next half dozen
miles. Here are fine water-T overs and an
energetic population who Manufacture hum
dreds of tons OF paper and hundreds of thous-
anus OF dollars worth Of other cOmmOd ties
yearly, and impncitly obey the divine pre-
Sopa, y ~ Tue sweat OF thy face shalt thou eat
" o. Sa iohder we get just enough OF view |
VI oaecatappa, higher up the river. to con-
Vfnce US that it is a place of cnnseonenca. |
put we can gam from here no preper ,lea ot |
Its Industries, which are varied apd valn.hIa
to the whole region. Our wav lies .,o'.n tI,o
bank-of the fresumpecot and we see If IN ito
s so between NOW bio creeping deep dark and
ing and sparkling as it winds rapidly amanr
the trees to meet the ocean. At MaIIison5s
Falls, five miles above the station we have iust
LETT, it tumbes eighteen feet over the rocks
giving power that is but partially improved
The large building near the track in woolen
factory, and yonder are grist and saw-mill. |
The place seems dumb with amazement at
The shrek and rumble Of the locomotive;
but one of these days it will wake up and ex- |
plore this new road to market.
A cluster of white houses, grouped upon
our right with no common center presently
attracts us and we wonder how they came