The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-11-13


Col. Cullen Sawtelle of Norridgwock,
Hon. Nathan Clifford, now Judge Cliff
ford, and Robert Rantoul, Jr.. ESQ.,, Of
Boston; and in the evening by Wyman B.
S. Moore, ESQ.,, of Waterville. At noon
a free collation. was provided on the
Common.
At the Presidential election the whole
number of votes thrown was TAI. OF
these 443 were for Polk, 29l for Clay,
and seven for Birney.
The first noticeable local event of the
year 1845 was a Concert at the Unitarian
Church for the benefit of the poor in our
village; the amount realized from it was
about eighty dollars.
On the fourth of February. Benjamin
Wiggin, ESQ.,. of Bangor, now residing
in Boston, took possession of our Gus
tom House, having been appointed Collec-
tor of this Port in place of Col. George
Thatcher, resigned. The following SUBJ
ordinate officers were appointed for this
place; Ansel Lehman, now residing in
Bangor, Deputy Collector, Capt. D. d.
Pinkham, Deputy Collector and 1nspec-
tor, Bradford S. Foster, Weigher, Gauger
and Measurer. The officers appointed
by President Tyler did not find much
favor with the new Administration; Mr..
Wiggin shared the same fate with others
occupying the same status, and in the
month of April he was removed and Ma
thaniel M. Lowney, Esq, was appointed
in his stead. No changes were made in
the subordinate officers.
Early in the year portion of our
territory was taken from US by act OF
the legislature and made component
part of the town of Searsport, which
was incorporated February 18th and held
it's first town-meeting on the third of
March.
On the 4th of March our Democratic
townsmen fired twenty-seven guns in
honor of the inauguration of President
Polk.
Railroad was again called up, and the
time allowed by the original charter for
its construction having expired an Act
was procured from the legislature ex-
tending the time for building and COM
pleting it to December 81, 1860.
We were not deficient in the matter of
TO
the year. In the month of February
came the Augusta Glee Club and gave
two Concerts at Washington Hall, and
the Harmoneon Family, who gave us the
same quantity, although not of the same
quality, as portion of their minstrelsy
was of the negro type. The same FAM
lily, or another under the same name,
was here in September. In the month
of March we had series of moral and
Dramatic Entertainments" at Washing
ton Hall; in other words theatrical
company was there ''doing" Richard
I'LL, Damon and Pythias, and other feats
of the same character. The "Ameri-
can Olympiad" again made its appear
ance, on the 18th of June; but this time
with its refined Grecian athletic and
equestrian exhibitions" and the Sub
lime Spanish spectacle, with splendid
steeds gorgeously caparisoned, called the
Andalusian Entry
Neither We're we without instruction
bo 10
bert Merrill, Esq, delivered very in
teresting lecture on Photography on the
18th of February. John Coffin NaZro,
Professor of the Divine Art of Ora
tory" lectured on the evening of Fast
day, April 9TH, on Temperance, taking
the scri plural standpoint. as he styled it.
He concluded his lecture by advising his
audience to drink good liquor only and
put their trust in the Lord!' In the
same month DR.. George W. Ellis gave
course of lectures, with practical illus
trations, on Phrenology.
The steamers on the eastern route this
year were the Portland, Capt. Thomas
Rogers, the Charter Oak, Capt. S. H.
Howes, and the Penobscot, Capt. T. G..
Jewett. The Portland made her first ap
pearance for the season on the 18th of
March. The Charter Oak soon followed
and made her last trip on the 9Th of De-
cember. ThePenobscot came for the first
time June 25th and left on her last trip
to the west on the 28th of November.
The new steamer Bangor, propeller,
touched at our wharf on the 14th of Au-
gust with party of excursionists from
Bangor. On the 3lst, while on her pas
sage from Boston to Bangor, she took
fire when few miles from Castine and
was entirely destroyed, with the exceps
tion of her hull, which was iron, and
portion of her machinery. She was run
into harbor in lslesberouGh ana hef hill
was Afterwards towed to Bangor. There
were about thirtyfve passengers on
board all of whom were fortunately
saved, large quantity Of freight, most
of it for parties in Bangor, valued at
thirty thousand dollars, was totally lost.
At the annual spring meeting Thomas
Marshall. Benjamin F: Blackstone and