The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
Notes by the Way.
4 VISIT TO tsTORIC PEMAQUID AND VICINITY.
[COrrespondence of the ,JournaI1

South Hope and put up with Decatur Fiske
who is well known to the travelling public
Here we have pleasant home during the re-
mainder of the storm and kill time as best we
can by reading and writing. Comfortably Ell
sconced in the parlor we pick up the first vol
ume of personal Memoirs" by U. S. Grant
and are soon deeply interested in its contents
Late at night we reluctantly lay aside the boob
only to finish il the next day. From a perusa
of this memoir we are led to look upon Gen
Grant in different light than ever before. The
book is written in very plain and simple style
with no attempt at self praise, but we get here
the reason for many of his plans which wer,
at the time not only discountenanced, but seri
ously condemned by his associate officers. Hi.
successes in the field were not the result OF
blundering luck, but the fruit of thoughtfulll
considered and well matured plans. One i'm
mense advantage he possessed was i'll the fac
that nearly every general whom he opposed il
the field had been a Schoolmatc at West POM
and an associate in the Mexican War. A,
Grant was acquainted with their various per
sonal characteristics he knew where and how
W Nlllht III OlNtl " HttNC tlt HlOSl tllttl. liz
knew them a> men and estimated them at theil
real worth from military point of view. IIt
had no exaggerated ideas regarding their PROV
eSS but detected the weak points in the defense
many times from the personal knowledge he
had of the character Of his opponents. lie say:
that early III the war he learned that the enemy
dreaded to meet him as much as he did to NEE
them, and this point kept well in view led even
tually to success in many desperate struggles
But we have no time to undertake a criticism
of the book. OF to analyzc the character of tn,
man. The few hours devoted to its pcrusa
We're protitably employed.
'rhs last evening here we were pleased to see
our friend j, o. j. of the journal drive up
and we discussed themes both salt and frcsl
until late hour. The next morning we pro
cured Il carriage to take the place of our sleigh
and drove over to Warren and thence to Wal
dohoro' where we meet 5. l.. Miller of the
News"
At Round Pond we meet Rev. W. W. Ogier
who is well known in Waldo CO.,. having mar
rcd his wife in Linconvillt. We also meet
Mr.. Thomas Couch, the representative from
thi, town in the Legislature. He came from
New York few years since and is engaged il
the granite business which is a great help to the
place. We find Mr. Couch Jealous Methodist
and superintendent of a sabbath school mum
herring nearly one hundred members. We also
have the pleasure of meeting Mr.. Benz. +
Brightman, who has recently returned from
IL, l,
engaged in business. We are much interested
in his description Of the country and the habit,
Of the natives. He finds them Very good hand,
to work by the day but like the Indian every
where they are unreliable. He thinks there
are great possibilities for wealth in that coun
try as it abound> in mineral productions. II,
says that Uncle sam did not make bad trad,
when he bought that farm.
From New lIarbor we drive down to Pema-
quid Point, place of historic interest whicl
We have long wished to visit. We inquire fol
j. W. Partridge and find him down ON tn,
shore collecting rock weed. He carts the >tut
off at low tide and dumps it into heaps On til,
beach where it lays until wanted for use, He
says he finds liberal dressing of this will keel
up the fertility Of his soil year after yysr cvel
ON land close to the shore, and some farmers
there cart it three or four miles, believing tina
it pays them to do 50. Looking along tht
beach we see that sheep are scattered in little
groups for Il long distance. all busy eating The
sca-wced. On inquiry We lind the sheep be
long to Mr.. Partridge and that he keeps 4 lar@,
number of them in this way. He neither feed
nor shelters them. They obtain their Twin.
from the sea weed and the browse which the,
obtain on the shore, and lind shelter in thu
thick black growth which covers most of til,
Point. The sheep Were looking very strong
and thrifty and sell At good prices. Thi
is truly pastoral m, thol of sheep husbandr,
a. they obtain their own living the year round
Mr.. r. claimed to have been offered ninety
dollars for eighteen of them this winter
Walking back from the shore we look about
us little and find that we are in primitive
little fishing hamlet. We see the nets upon tn
shore, the boats upon the beach, and on ever,
| hand are to be seen shells of the clans and lot,
,tcrs and other evidence of booty capture
from the sea- If bind-folded and taken to tn
| place our olfactory organs would bctray TO Il
at once the character Of the locality. There i
| little evidence of any business except that per
| tanning to the sea in this immediate locality
| We 90 down the point, where the old fort i
located and which has probably in the pas
| sheltered many Il trembling refugee. The onl
| visible evidence of the fort now however, is tn
| general outline as traced by the carthwork
! still remaining. Enthusiastic psychologists hav
! been cXcaVatng here Is at other points i'll tn
| vicinity, however, and well laid walls for tn
foundation are now plainly to be seen. W
stand by The big rock at the northeast con
ner and think that it may have been tower {
refuge to many a pioneer as he fled from tn
savages who inhabited the wilderness in the il
terror of the country. For il is now we'll III
derstood that this is 4 Very old settlement il
we rate things ancient in America. Its hiStor
is said to antedate that at Plymouth Rock b
some wears. This is also claimed to have bee
once very much larger settlement than
now is; in fact TO have been Il populou
village with paved streets. 1t i said that tn
remains of many cellars are now to be foun
along tlt toitSt anu on llt 1 Ollll. anu HtN CIV
tlence is bein. obtained in regard to the matter
| We had but little time to investigate, however
and so made visit to the graveyard which
probably one of the oldest in Maine. 1t wa
with much reverence that we examined tn
crumbIing tomb>tonc> and lccphered the nearI
oblitcrated Inscriptions, for we remembers
| that here Were laid the remains of those VIII
braved the dangers and hard>hips incident t
the settlement of a new country filled wit
savage men. Much interest ha, been taken O
| late in this place in connection With others 0
the coast, and authentic history is being oil
| tanned in regard to it. Many of the Storie
told are doubtless mythical, but interestin
nevertheless. And after listening to our frienC
the Captain, for some time as he rchearScd til
tales his grandmother told him when he was
little boy, we Went to bed with our head file
with these old stories, and in imagination W
| 90 back nearly three hundred wears when TIL
whole country was Il bowling wilderness col
tanning savage beasts. hunted by savage men.
The light of civilization was set on this Poil
time Il place of Importance to the early settlers
BRUSQUE.
In BRIEF Mr.. T. G. IIersey, prominer
business man of Portland. was killed Saturda
by falling from window in the Aldine Hal
Philadelphia. He was a native of Gorham an
was "A years Of age. He leaves a widow an