The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-17
Letter from Wiscasset.

full, and the orchard and vine, the copse-wood
aud shrub, earth and heaven, everywhere, ma
ture is swollen with fresh and budding hopes.
| H. EsTHETICAL.
The Lincoln and Sagadahoc Conference of
Congregational Churches has just closed high
! ly interesting session here. Within the bounds
of this ecclesiastical body Congregationalism
| asa system of church polity first found lodg-
ment in Maine. "Robert Clutch" brought its
first shoot, from original stock, the first
church in Salem, Mass, to the banks of the
Sagadahoc and planted it beside the still waters
of "Long Beach," May 29th, 1860, and the roots
of this ancient planting have in fairness and
verdure and fruitfulness spread out into the city
of Bath and continue to bud and blossom in
healthful fragrance. sfl ,ar r--a
The session presented an interesting grouping
of the pillars of society and of Christian civ
ization in these parts, in a highly cultivated,
intellectual, self-denying body of clergymen,
among whom the intelligent but overworked
Fiske of Bath, and the clear-minded and phil
osophical Mason of Thomaston filled this fore
ground. The younger members of this conse-
Grated body in scholarly bearing, attainments,
and piety, make good showing of hope to the
future of the Congregational churches of this
section. As torch bearers they are leading socie-
ty to higher planes of Christian cauilization-the
only civilization fruitful in its highest develop
ments of humanity, here, or hereafter, as seen
on earth and in history l .A $3.50
Indeed, old Lincoln, since the days of the
venerable Bailey of Newcastle, and the found
Or of Lincoln Academy, the grave and CLASH
cal Packard, and the circums pect and judicious
Fleetwood, has not been more favored than
now in an able and devoted clergy. = zast
The Ordaining services setting apart the
youthful, independent but earnest and pungent
Bolster, to the work of the Gospel Ministry in
Wiscasset were performed on Wednesday even
ing, and more intelligent and perfect curricu-
lum complete and faultless in all its parts, i'm
pressve and instructive in all its incidents, your
correspondent never witnessed at the hands of
an ordaining council. a +
The discussions, the subjects matter of
thought and investigation in the sessions of
this conference, showed that the representative
men in this body-ministers and laity-are
earnest workers at the foundations of the great
interests of humanity, of law and order in the
land. as. -7EG arg -r.rueE
| i... woMAN's SPHERE
This was the subject of special and pro-
gressive consideration. Her sphere, as build
er in the social structure, her superior facilities
and adaptabilities as such, tending to show in
her the handiwork of the Great Master Build
er in the design and continuance of her
eminent fitness to an obvious design, in this
respect, was most ably, valiantly and lucidly
presented, and with philosophical precision.
| Like the polypus in the foundation of CONT
tho, e IL
skill in the millions of plastic homes reared in
the oceans waste, SO woman in the homes she
makes, Pounds, shapes, rears, expands the entire
social structure into states and nations, and SO
adorns the wastes of humanity, and has col
ored all the phases it has presented in human
history. .ia .asr-a tea "a
PEMAQUID AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
| The Monumental Association called special
meeting yesterday, and amid the surroundings
of the ancient Jamestown" of the Virginia
OF the North, selected site for the proposed
historical monumental shaft, hereafter to be
erected in memory of the incidents and to
mark the place of the first vestiges of English
life, law, commerce and civilization on the
shores of New England. .4s ..
The ancient Fort HIP at the harbor's
mouth of Pemaquid River, armed and castled
before the Castle of Boston harbor" stood
guardian to the ''Shawmut Neck" where Bos-
ton now stands and where Forts Charles of
the Ducal State" civilian Henry" of colonial
dependency, and Frederick of Scotch-Irish
immigration and of Gen. Dunbar's pre-reyolu-
tionary administration have defended successive
eras in the history of New England coloniza-
ton is understood to have been selected; and
the foundations of the ancient Martello tower
of 80 fit. height in the S. W. bastion, will be the
monumental spot. aI sE EGa fFe S.
The Nation is one of the papers which sup
ported the so-called "Liberal Republican"
movement at Cincinnati, but it could not stand
the nomination of Greeley, and has not hesita-
ted to express its opinions pretty plainly. The
following remarks are from it's edition of last
week: e
"He Greeley is neither revenue reformer
civil service reformer nor any other kind of re-
former that the people care about; and, as to
uncertainty, the very wind has, since the estab-
lishment of the Weather Bureau, become more
reliable than he. The result is, and the history
of the last month shows it, he has not only not
drawn to himself any of the reputable discon-
tent of the Republican Party, but he has driven
it back into the ranks repentant and Inundated.
He stands surrounded as far as the Republican
NOrIH is COHceTneu, III tue Indln Dy SOreneauS
and blatherskites. His great, and, indeed, only
reliance is the Democrats of the North and
South, but especially of the South, and he
therefore presents himself to the Republican
Party as simply the visible sign of renewed
attempt on the part of the old Copperheads and
rebels to get possession of the Government. n
What are honest men to do now? Well,
if there is nothing else offered, if the Demo
cratic Convention commits the absurdity of
raising the old white hat as its standard at
Baltimore, the only thing for Republicans of
our way of thinking to do is to choose the less
of two evils, and vote for Gen. Grant. We ex-
pect no improvement in the Administration
from him; we do not look at his hands for the
removal of any of the existing abuses; we
know of no answer to any of the weghty and
reasonable objections made to his Adminstra-
ton; but we do know, as near as may be, what
he will do; we know, at least the worst he will
do The probabilities are that, the temptations
connected with denomination over, he will on
many points change for the better. Moreover
and this is the most important point of all-if he
is reelected, there will be no general redistribu-
ton of offices, and no financial disturbance
What Greeley will do, and what the motley
crew whom he would lead to Washington would
d. nobody knows"