The Placer herald., 1855-09-22
The Landing of the Pilgrims.

"h'iCht CiIy vi ~ MAJ ,, upon IlNcT Oh
that name 1t is now more than two hun
dred years since these Catholic Pilgrims
landed from the ARK" and the Dove" in
which they set sail from Cowes, November
22d, 1858. The colonists, it will be recol-
lccted, came out at the expense Of the second
Lord Baltimore, (Cecclius Calvert,) who had
obtained from Charles |, the patent, Gntend-
ed for his father, who had died before it was
passed in legal form,) from the Potomac to
the 40th degree Of north latitude The emi-
grants were some 200 i'll number, and had
for their Governor Leonard Calvert, the
brother of Lord Baltimore. Having come in
sight Of Point Comfort on the oath of Feb
ruary, 1854, they stopped in Virginia till
the Sd Of March, when they sailed for the
Potomac, their promised land, where they
found the aborigines hostile, but soon by
calm and ust treatment, established conf
dence among them when the required land
was peaceably purchased. Here the first
landing was effected on St Clements Island
(now Blackistone's) for the purpose Of secur-
ing themselves against dangers by the erec-
ton Of a fort and where the sign Of their
faith, cross, was solemnly set up with at
tending ceremonies.
Subsequently, Iiscatawa, on the Potomac,
was visited and treaties made, &c, but it
was not till after this that st. Marv's city
was founded, by the whole colony proceed
inc thereto from st. Clements, purchasing
thirty miles of territory on the main land,
along the st. Marv's river, including the
Indian settlement of Yocomico, calling it st.
Mary's and the territory Augusta Caroline.
| OF this they took possession on the 9th OF
March. 1854, and this is therefore considered
the date Of the settlement of Maryland
Both the friendship Of the Indians and the
tolerant disposition of the colonists in religi-
Gus as well as other matters, under the ibe
raj charter which had been granted, served
to increase the prosperity Of the colony, at
tracing emigration from other colonies in
the New world as well as from the Old
Under various phases and the trials which
afterwards afflicted the colony, the city Of St.
| Mary's continued to flourish until the seat
of Government was removed thercfrom to
Annapolis which place was raised to the
rank Of a city. as the ancient capital was
sinking down into a deserted village
Catholic Maryland, it will be remembered,
was the first of the colonies which established
the rules of liberation and received cxiles
from persecution from Massachusetts, from
which they fed to escape the relentless fury
OF Purtanism. This celebration was at
tended by three thousand persons. The fol-
lowing was sung upon the occasion:
ODE BY NARY A. FORD. OF FPHILADELPHIA
AIR-".7ra6y's Daughters
c. 10 tby NH
For footsteps are crowdng thy late lonely plain;
Its silence is broken by music's sweet slumbers
Awake thee and listen to the patriots strain.
There rest on my bosom no ruined old towers,
No relics of pride that have batttled with time:
But the low simple hearts which the waving grass
covers,
Have beautiful mem 'res of virtue sublime
For here breathed the spirit of ardent devotion,
With freedom OF conscience apriceless bequcst:
Thy Calvert and pilgrims for this braved the ocean
Then offered to Others a heaven of rest
And planted the crop in its glory outbursting
The pageant that herald a colony's birth
Beneath its blest shadows the Indian reclining
Then fancied the spir-land nearer to earth
His own loved Yocomico' still smiled at even,
Unharmed was his wigwam that rose by the
stream;
The strangers bright faith, while it guided to
Heaven.
Yet gladdened the pathway of life with its beam.
And still round their memory a halo is glowing.
That lights with mild lustre our countrys first
page.
Like the beautiful waters that pass there are flow
ing
Their virtues glide on to more distant age.
Then. listen thee st. Mary's-thou art not for
saken.
Though long years have flown DER thy sleep by
the wave,
For patriot hearts have now come to awaken
| The glorious past from haowed grave
| Now cities have risen, in grandeur and splendor.
In the beautiful land where thy dwellings first
But dearer the memry, more thrilling, more ten
OF thee, on this spot of thy dreamless repose.
*Youcomco was the name of an Indian village
and tribe found there by the settlers of Maryland
PRoTEcrING Corn FROM BIRDs.-ln the
Country Gentleman of the 18th ut., we no
tice the following remedy, given by Ii. U.
Foote, Esq:
take one pound of tobacco, soak 1t IN
four gallons of rain or river water day or
so; then llnnerse the seeu III 'iio ,iI"'"
twenty-tour hours, or, if the farmer please,
until the corn sprouts, and he can plant with
the assurance that his corn will be better for
the process, and that whatever men do birds
wW not chen tobocc0."
Cola OIL.-This beautiful oil, which Is
used in all the French lighthouses, and
which is superior to sperm for such purposes,
should arrest the attention of our oil dealers
and farmers The plants from which it is
obtained, we have no doubt, can be cultivated
with success in various parts of our country,
and if this can be done it should be attended
to,