The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-16
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY l6 1915.
PINEY PoNr, PoToMAG RIVER,
June II. l845.

PMEY Pomr, PoroMAG RvER,(
June ~, l845. s
The Potonsac-Hsstoric Spots and Historic Incl
denfs-E6ecfs Of the Tobacco Crltwe-Arisfo-
cratic Popiars on the Virginia Shore-Pinsy Point
Described, &C., &c.
After no uncomfortable travel---afer the annexa-
tlonof Texas-after the UNDERSTANDABLE right OF
the inaugural, and the proposed compromise to the
40th parallel by Mr.. Buchanan-after The certain con-
vctlon, notwi hstanding that the plantations Of I'm
Gle Sam are soon to occupy the habtable continent
Of North America, the selfevident deduction is in
evitable, that this Is great country, sir great
country
Resolved to hazard for one blessed Sabbath an
escape from the dust and torrid heat Of Pennsylva
MIA Avenue for the searbreezes and salt water this
fine Saturday evening finds your memorialist at the
Pney Point Pavilion, near the sdebouchure of the
Potomac into Chesapeake Bay.
Left Washington At "A. M in the commodiors
and fast-moving steamer Osceoa, Capt James
Mitchell, an old salt, used to the water from boy.
The Potomac river at Washington, hundred mi es
from the bay, is one and qus.ser, miles wide, at
Alexandra near two miles, gradually widening TO
its mouth, where, from shore p shore, it is some
seven miles and quarter It's certainly one Of
ing, as i does, IN oysters, herEings, and canvass
! back ducks. ssr $1,000.
The first point below Alexandria worthy Of note
is Fort Washington, the MARYLAND shore, forti-
ficaton looking down into the channel of the river
and properly armed and defended, capable of resist
ing the passage Of feet Of fifty steamers with
Palxham guns. In 1914, however, i was blown up
British fleet without the discharge OF single gun;
most inglorious transaction in any emergency
But it would not be done again, let John Bull make
the herghts, the opposite or Virginia shore stands
the sacred mansion Of Pater Patrla, God bless him.
Mount Vernen Is a most beautiful site for such a
residence. A grove of oaks and other forest trees
clothes the front Of the hill up to the house, where,
upon the summit Immediately fronting the edifice,
line OF SIX or seven arlsocratic Lombardy poplars
stand out IN fine and striking relief above the num-
berless native trees around and below 1hem. Just
as we were passing this hallowed ground, hallowed
in the heart of every lover of mankind, gentleman
accidentally opened the National ftfen,gmcer Of
this morning, and read the toast at late meeting in
the North OF the Hon. Mr.. Winthrop, Of Massa-
chusetts, a toast which does honor to the man and
to the State, to wt-Substantally, that however our
ton Of Texas which he had so strongly resisted )it
is still country, and is therefore sacred in all our
hearts, and should be defended by all our hands,
/ Why, sir, the majestic and august figure of Wash
ington, appeared in the minds eye to be visible
among the trees of Mount Vernon, bowling in appro
baton OF the sentiment. Near this place broad
creek puts in to the river IRON the Maryland side,
rejoicing IN the euphonious appeatlve of Piscata-
way, which, being interpreted from the Indian
nacnar, signifies we presume, the river of ducks
The next point below is the White House, the site
the river, adjoining the, lands Of Washington, be-
longed to Lord Fairfax. Here is the spot where
Commodore Porter gave The British fleet, in 1874
as Ge s % s, pss
below. tes ieGs s sst
The river continues widening, and wherever
creek puts In on either side, a large bay has been
formed ,gvng constantly to the stream the aspect of
a broad and picturesque lake. The Virginia shore,
nearly the extent Of hundred miles, is bold and
picturesque, with frequent princely mansions, gray
with age, the relics of the ancient regime, nvaria
bly, fanked with line Of tall and aristocratic pop
lars. Half dozen Of these homesteads of the old
arstocracy Of Virginia at some points visible to
the view, strkng!y dstingMe, though from three to
| the heights The Maryland shore is fiat and mo
notonous, poor as Jobs turkey the lands having
been exhausted fifty years ago, from the cultivation
Pause bit, the ladies are screaming in the
water, and common galantry aemands that we
should go down and see what's the matter. The
squat has blown over, and no lives lost Far more
comfortable communing with the millions of read
sand.]
and shanties. Here and there, along the flat, sandy
coast of Maryland, is half wigwam and half cabin,
where large family is slowly starving to death,
until the return Of the fishing season The fact is,
the whole length Of the Potomac, we want an nfl-
sion Of northern men, northern industry, and north
ern skill, in the resusctation Of the worn out SOIL
And these are all that is wanted to redeem the two
States. We have endless deposits of mari, a fair
climate, soil easy of cultivation but have not
the industry, the system and the economy Of the
hundred miles along thy oldest settled region in the
Union, and on the sh0f1 Of one of the most magni-
icent rivers in the world, there is not single
town, village, nor even hamlet of half dozen
houses You nothing Of human energy--except
the ruins of a past ,age-a waste-a wilderness,
grown up on the foundations Of old tobacco fields
/ Yellow naked banks, bare fields, tumble down
houses, and stunted pines the peculiar features
of the scenery on the Maryland shore, and to a
greater extent than is perceptible on the hills in
sl1rglnla. !. .,,u, g. .Nor,,,.x. -. 40
that there is opening from the annexation of
Texas for the transfer Of slaves, shall still
| have more and more inducementsto offer 10 new
substantial White colonization OF the old sol, to fill up
| the vacuum created BY the drainage of the West
upon native white population. This is a sugges-
ton which will ,one day, ere long, fulfilled with the
Pnsy Point Pavilion IS situated on near ~ mouth Of
the Potomac river, which is here full miles
wide, and salt as the bay OF New York: The Pa
von T. on a., pGhnt OF land deriving It's
| neghborhood. The buildings present regular UNI
broken front Of five hundred feet of two stories,
with colonnade and gallery running the whole
willows, &C.. The beach is not more than so yards
from the buildings. The other fixtures usual at
watering places, bar, ballroom, bathing houses,
in these regions and the finest of soft crabs, and
salt water fish II is sport to great strad-
dle-egged crab siding up to bacon rind tied to
has been put under him. and that he is tossed into
the sand before he can say Jack Robinson.
We have now many visitors at the Point, chiefly
from Washington, from which place it is only halt
days steaming
| BLOODY ATrRAY AT INpIAsAPoLIs.-We find the
following in the Indianapolis Sentinel Of the 9th
instant ION the afternoon Of yesterday the 4h af
fray occurred In this city between negro and some
whites, in which the negro finally killed outright
The Of the negro said to be John Tucker about
fortyve years old and previous to this incident he Is
said to have been of quiet and nofensve disposition
He was, are told. formerly slave IN Kentucky but