The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-14
Wiscasset Letter.
WIscAssET, March -, 1873.

| The seaside is bleache and blocked with
drifted rows. Headlaad and plain, high
land and shore-the whole face of earth-is
sheeted with CHASTITY white to the very sea-
weed, whose dark green fringe waving in the
tide, traces the line between the life and death
of nature
The thoroughfarcs are impossible, except
the great highway of waters. Not an ice
skim or cake embarrasses our ingress or egress
to the sea, or impedes our harbor navigation,
which has been free and open during all this
bitter winter. Generations have seen no
such hills and valleys of snow, as now bur-
den our landscape; and packed with the hui
nudity of our open sea surroundings into
semi-frozen masses between the old stone
walls, our roads are nearly solid avenues.
The plows of the Knox G. Lincoln Railroad
are often baff1ed in clearing the track, and
the U. S. mails are more or less out o. time
ian unusual exper ence heretofore); but the
only impediments from accidents in off-track
episodes, in the running of this line, have
been in the drifts and depths of snow.
RAILROAD SPECULATION.
Not at all appalled, by the rigors of nature,
nor by the frauds and features of railroad
rings, nor by the phase of the times, Wis
casset resolutely and hopefully marched with
solid front to the polls d converted her loan
of $150,000 into $4,000 stock subscription
to the Wiscasset & Moosehead Railroad
st. Adams had led the way to the stock sub
scripton of this road to the amount of $40
600 few days since, and now Wiscasset has.
seconded the movement in the same amount
additional to the sum subscribed for stock to
this road under its former style of Kennebec
d Wiscasset r. R. Co. The several towns
along the projected line are said to be alive
for stock subscriptions, and it is believed the
funds necessary to the construction OF this
interior and shortened route to the sea
through the heart of Maine and to the COM
mercial centre of the New Dominion of Cana
da will be forthcoming, not on loans OF credit,
but on stock subscription. 1t is understood.
parties in New York stand ready to should
err the job, and it is decided that the road
shall be narrow gauge.
FOUR MILLION MARGIN.
1t is further surmised that freight and
passage may find new opening to YOUR CITY.
lrom Bangor, via the Knox C Lincoln, in
part, at capita cost of seven millions of dol
lars, which is now done, via the Maine Gen.
trail at capital cost of eleven millions. Let
the war be waged, so long as it will cheaper
transportation and facilitate intercom-
muncation, between thu centres of trade
and the undeve.oped resources of the State
LOCAL MATTERS.
The surveys and contracts for bridging and
opening Middle street, by its extension over
tide-w tiers, across "Hobson's Island" to
the delta of ''Woods brook" called "Birch-
point''-the site of the purchase for the
Sturgis manufactories-are all completed.
and at a cost of less than $4,000: and as soon
as we can dig out or into the snow. so as to
be sure OF football on the solid face of
mother Earth once more, and work will be-
gin.
Amid the quickened forces now stimu-
lating the business energies of Wiscasset a
social and religious resuscitation is obvious.
The earnest and faithful Bolster is attracting
interesting listeners from all grades of social
and religious standing, to his Sunday even
ing lectures to young men, and it is believed
with hopeful and telling effect on the future.
The ladies too are being called to their most
responsible duties of our public educational
interests.
Here we would second the call of Pres.
Bourne of the Maine Historical Society to
the ladies' OF Name, to come to the rescue of
her history in contributions to the archives
of the Society. They have leisure and capac-
ity, and it is hoped their busy and elo-
quent and racy pens will hereafter move in the
direction indicated land which Judge Bourne
so happily inaugurated at the Bath session OF
the society. The accomplished Mrs. Maria
W. Hackerton, of Bristol, has entered as a
pioneer, whose beautiful and touching verses,
are embalming / +, our literature tar tic events,
which have Furnished the history of Pema-
uuid, that earliest and most noted landmark
Of the beginning of New England.
THE LOST.
1t is understood that the humane and be-
nefcent provision of last winters legislation,
relating to "Prison discipline, is to be re-
dueed to practice in "Old Lincoln"
She is out of debt and in condition to do
her borders.
wort Ibe'y mas been negligent and is blame
becon,yo' IN IN relation to its members who have |
has b;th outcasts by law, if not bv WRONG. and |
s,.;,;. ion N5 acted IN coptravpnt;on 81 tho |
sslpi,i. anu example of Him who can,n " W a en
Sinhers, not the righteous ), ~ no " can
whose NE, vas Ito seek and To e MISSION Oh
ana VINO delighted to be know, save tne lost,
OF sinners. Let our prison ds,o; as Inc friend
once reconstructed and upon the pni be at
Christianity. The barbarian p pr;,, OF
revenge, has long enough been tried. OF