The Portland daily press., 1873-01-04
PERIEY gives the following account of q
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Letter from Wiscasset.
= Wiscasset Jan /, 1873,
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b. ~F'I .4II fFJIi OF LltfDU ST. ief-afsl
r THE COLD SNAP.
The great frost wave of the atmospheric
ocean, which has swept down upon us from
England and the Atlantic sea-board, has
left our harbor and the Sheepscot waters
unskimmed with ice, although the surface
has smoked like mighty furnace and filled
all the headlands with impenetrabe vapor,
like tog banks, to the sea, and spread I'M
usually deep and early SHOWS upon the earth's
surface, impeding travel along the highways,
excepting the track Of the Knox G. Lincoln
r. R., which suffers no embarr assment and
is not INSTRUCTED in its travel. - -,
1t certainly is suggestive of; remarkable
thcrmometrical pheno nena when our ship
owners in Wiscasset receive letters from their
masters. complaining of detention and the EN-
barrassment o. their voyages by ice in Bos
ton harbor, where their vessels are shut up
while the harbor of Wiscasset. and the
Sheepscot to the, sea are entirely free and
open. But such are the facts. Wiscass set
too has suffered from the negligence of the
Boston authorities in relation to the spread
of small pox. The Boston small pox is Pc
cuiarly fatal in type and has the character
istics of the plague, and the press and the
authorities of that city seem utterly reckless
of the waste of human life, if by conceaIment
they can save their trade. The ,ublic are be-
ginning to appreciate Boston humanity in
this particular. -. II.
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The ferment of the late political agitation
has subsidized here and the fervor of partisan
strife abated, leaving civil life in Lincoln
county in a remarkable state of placidity,
indicative of unusual satisfaction with the
result. -t
There is doubtless vivid recollection of
the ''fuss and thunder" in Whitefeld, threat
e1ing to fatten old Lincoln, Democrats and
all into liberal pancakes for Molusk uses, but
the clearing up has shown ola Lincoln with
sharp tooth and a preference toeat rather
than to be eaten when Molusks are about.
The ancient bottom has evidently rotted
away, and dropped out of politics here mo-
lusks, copperheads and all, and the political
stretchers are bearing partizans to their long
homes, but no mourners 60 about the streets.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
Present indications are prophetic ofimpor-
tant prospective business developments the
coming year along The Sheepscot waters.
The command has gone forth, and in the
air the sound is heard calling to Wiscasset
rom its ashes and saying ''resargiteP In |
| -ha2st business transactions now completed,
SturgiSsn announced, in which the Messrs.
place as ySsrague & Co. have selected this
manulaetorSpot for most extensive lumber |
the trace OF tSsd export, as an outlet to
TIMBER lands abosSte extensive purchase of |
Aenne6ec. In We head waters of the
see. indications, that ssse BEGINNINGS we |
ind laws of trade, are an natnraI relations
timately find and fill the Me, and must nj
the exchanges essential to N canters for
and will sooner or later, maniS@s ef;c;encv
cumstances and incidents of time y M ~
resources, so as to secure the natursSNy ~
gitimate results thereof 'Wiscasset M ~
was the ancient center of trade and VT,
merce, to the Kennebec and its tributari%s>
Prior to the embargo, timber and Iumbs,
from this p section found an oI,tlet
to the trade of Europe and the West Indies
supporting a direct trade witt Liyarpool
England, and the deep coves and inIets of
WIscasset harbor, were full of mast and spar