Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-09

quit the country, Of which he directly avail
ed himself in full view Of fea,her-beds and
hot pitch.
1t appears that in 1857, when General
Lafayette was about to return to France, an
act of the Maryland Legislature invested
him and his heirs forever with citizenship
in our State. Hereafter matters of momen,
may arise out of this enactment.
Here is something Of different charac-
ter, appertaining to the olden time, and oi
legal record, as the writer above states:
CAT the county cour! held here on Tues
day the 9Th July, Miss S. C. was fined the
sum Of one penny for whipping the Rev.
Mr.. N. w. with hickory switch, i. being
imagined by the court that he we'll deserv-
ed it,"
We Marylanders have good reasons to be
proud of our location, and the incidents of
history that cluster around US. For the fu-
ture novelist, poet and historian there are
matters of mark in our ancient city that
may we'll arouse their attention and call
forth the high and patriotic exercise Of their
faculties.
The writer concludes
The presen, State House was built in part
before the revolution, and completed subse-
quently. 1t stands on high grounds and is
two hundred feet to the top of the spire.-
From the platform at the base of the dome
about 40 feet up, the spectator has one of
the finest panoramic views TO be found in
The United States. II commands sight of
nature in all the beauty Of poetic scenery
the ancient city, its environs and adjacent
coun,ry-lhe noble Chesapeake and the
Eastern Shore beyon it for an extent Of
thirty miles around, are exhibited in full
view.
The Senate Chamber is memorable as be-
ing the spot ON which was consumated The
greatest Of all the great deeds of Washington,
for here he stood when he returned his COM
mission. after placing his country on the list
of nations, TO the hands from which he re-
ceived it. And in this room too, was ra,-
fed the treaty of peace with England in
1888, recognizing our independence.
From about this time Annapolis ceased to
improve. Baltimore, by favor of circum-
stances, began TO attract a great part Of the
business that previously was concentrated
in the ancient city. At a much later day
steam on land aud water has contributed
much more than did nature 10 widen the
difference. The one has now probably l5O,-
900 inhabitants, while the other is where
she was two-thirds of a century ago. She
has no. re.rograded, i! is true, bu, has rather
advanced within a few years, though al a
hardly perceptible pace. She is perhaps the
oldest city in our broad land, and deserves
respect and affection from her antiquity, if
no. her size; here still live brave and intel
ligent men, and refined and beautiful women,
and here is still to be found elegant luxury,
and all that adorns and graiies the social
intercourse of polished men with each
other. She has nothing to hope for in the
future but to be permitted to remain in sta,u
quo, and that in these days of progress in
wolves a constantly increasing relative dmi-
mutton of size and consequence, but while
our revolutionary history and the men who
there and then did congregate to devise
means to rescue our country from oppres-
sion shall be remembered, the ancient and
venerable city of Annapolis will not be for
gotten.