Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-04-30

We do so, most heartily; and in the future
we shall hope to conduct our little sheet in
such manner as to win for it still more ex-
tended favor with the people of Charles,
among whom thirteen years of the brief
space allotted to us in life has glided away
as pleasantly, perhaps, as we could reason
ably have hoped. May we all, the Times,
its editor, and its patrons, improve as time
adds years to our existence.
The Spring Term of Charles County
Circuit Court will commence on Monday
next. s
RACING IN OLD V1RG1N1A.-The Broad
Rock races are near at hand, and according
to all appearances (says Po'te,'s Spirit a
most brilliant meeting may be expected
Nearly all of the superb cracks which have
been lately distinguishing themselves apon
the southern turf will be there; while from
the home stables of Old Virginia something
may be expected to come forth that will
challenge the utmost pride and power Of the
best of the recent victors. The Broad Rock
races commence on the first Tuesday in May.
Those over the Fairfield Course commence
on the second Tuesday.
MAIL LETTINGS. correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun furnishes partial list of
the mails let to contract in Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Virginia. AS likely to be
interesting to part of our readers we Sub
join the following:
4,O03. Upper Marlboro, by Hill's Bridge,
Bristol and Dunkirk, to Friendship-Rob't
H. McCleave-for three times week SER
vice.
1904. Piscataway to Pomonkey-R. Fl.
McCleave-three times week servicsi
1905. Upper Marlboro, by Groom; Mot
tingham and Horsehead, to Aquasco-ser-
vice six times week in two-horse buggy
let to George N. Orme, $3.50.
4,O06. Horsehead to Brand ywine-h three
times week scrvice-William F. Gaher,
800. ..sss.--<
The Hon. j. Thompson Mason, the new
ly appointed Collector for the port of Balti-
more, is making his arrangements to assume
the duties Of that position on Friday, LIST of
May. AS preliminary step thereto, says
the Sun, he has selected DR.. James S.
Owens, of Anne Arundel county, for the
position of deputy collector, in place of John
G. Van Wyck, Esq, the present incumbent,
the salary of which place is $4,000. DR..
Owings has filed many positions of trust in
our State government, among them that Of
State Treasurer during two terms.
F1sH.-Up to last Thursday the largest
haul of fish this season on the Potomac, was
said to have been made on the 22d inst, at
Mr.. James Dempsey's Fishery, below Indian
Head The haul yielded about 20, O0O.-
Since then we have heard of still larger
hauls at Maryland Point-from 40 to So
900 herring having been taken at one haul
on Saturday. A large haul of shad was
made few days before, at Mr.. Rennoes
Shore-some 100 taken.
ANOTHER MUN1F1cENr DoNAr1oN.-It was
only two or three weeks since that it was
announced that the magnificent gift Of
twenty;f ve thousand dollars had been made
to the American Colonization Society by
David Hunt, Esq, of Mississippi. The
National Intezzi;gencer of Saturday records
another splendid donation from the same
noble-hearted philanthropist of t'centy thou
sand dollars, check for which amount was
received from him by the treasurer of the
society last week. This sum makes grand
total of more than fifty thousand dollars
which has been contributed by Mr.. Hunt to
the philanthropic cause of colonization.
MoNrG oMERY County ITEMS The Sen
tieel says:
Great fear has been entertained that the
prospect for fruit of any kind was entirely
cut off by the rigor of the season. Within
the last two days we have examined the
buds of several apple, peach, pear and plum
trees. and found them uninjured. Our
opinion is that they were so far kept back
as to be protected from blight, and that there
will be an abundance of fruit of all, kinds
the coming summer and fall.
In passing through portion of this and
Cracklin District, one day last week, we
were struck with the gloomy prospect for a
wheat crop Large fields seeded early and
heavily guanoed, and which we were told