St. Mary's beacon., 1857-09-10

zen was required 10 hang lanternA
lamp on The trees ABOUT bis dwslsin}zsrh
ces >5n hpur u i 6
ore !bey appearance OF an ilIuminate'
4 park. The merry laugh from meriie
groups of promenaders and loiterers mln
gled the social graces witt t5c re hAaniie
of an Arcadlan scene. An outdoor rs
semblage of the people of an Englisl
town at this period presented brilliaE
and picturesque. e.appearance. Both sexe
wore the scarlet cloth or brocade which
England forced her colonial children Il
wear by prob ibitor, duties upon French
and Italian silks and velvets, now 50
plenty. Bridal dresses of white satin ol
silk were family heir looms for genera,
tions. x
Coade. leaning heavily upon his staff
gazed long and wi=tfully, upon the scene
| before him, and then with sigh which
seemed to come from the depths Of /:
crushed and broken spirit, mingled with
the bitterness of blasted ambition, he
muttered in sell communion, Sic 20
non voJis,' the poet hath truly said, die
the work, another bears the honors.-
Yes, | who raised the standard of revo
luton, or rebellion as it may be callet
4 according to the issue of the case, agains
James the Cd, when the crown of Viii
liam the Sd was hanging upon hair
when the non-juring prelate Of Canier
bury was corresponding with the exiles
court of ST. Gerinain's; when Marlbo
rough was bargaining with Louis the 14th
when the nobility of England were jeal
Gus Of Dutch peers, and her stout yeo
manry we're regre;ting Catholic jane
in CaIyanistic William when Irelant
had risen en- n,asse when James wa
making his triumphant entry into Dub
/ lin, and the English famishing behin'
the walls Of Londonderry, I, at tn hea'
of handful of men, with halter aroun'
| my neck, I may truly say, descende,
! sf0u yuu heights anI. srlclaimed Wi
liam and Mary. Nine ,sohths only hay
gone by, and I return beggar like Be
lisarius to beg aims from those have
seated IN high places. What has tha
Il secretary blrd of passage, Sir Lyone
II Copley, done that hE should bear all th
honors so thick and blushing upon him
/ While was in exile and beggary, dur
, ing The days of Catholic restoration an
ascendancy, hewas bearing Nell Guynn'
I train or lacing Barbara Palmer's slip
pers. While was in the field he ga
eating sour crouf with William or o.
ange or compiling theological tracts Wit
, Burnett. Truly, pos non uoJis. ;"
} With these words passed on tha
lonely wayfaring man until he came t
! the road turning off to the south and ma
king a right angle with what we sha
{ hereafter call the ''avenue." Then h
5 halted and paused again. He was o
the verge Of the lighted part OF the town
To pass the groups of both sexes VIII
were enjoying the Sabbsth evening pre-
| menade, by most of whom he would b
recognized in any disguise; to enter e
: ther of the inns, so often the scene {
his uproarious revelries; to ask in th
F. name of charity supper and bed, h
scorned and shrank from it.
: "Thcy say" said he after pause
? s'that Marius 70 and a shelter amid th
!, ruins of Carthage. For this night, a
7 least, the old Catholic chapel shall b
/, my Carthage"
. He turned South. and following th;
: road until it reached the marshy head
4 3rent's creek, which il crossed by 10
I bridge, he inclined to the right, an
: stood within the shadow of the old ch;
t pei which had been built within a fe
ns6es of the road he had just left.
Re chapel had been erected at th
head of Brent's creek just where th
F. banks of that stream begin to sink into
e level with the plain around, and its be
: 10 form marsh as usually seen at th
q head Of salt water streams. The cleal
: ING and cultivation Of the land around j
! after times and the accumulation OF san
I al its mouti, gradually reduced it to th
dry ravine as we now see ii.
i The, chapel lad been closed by an a,
, of the colonial legislature 10 1642, an
] declared forfeited to the commonwealth
} The Catholics had been permitted |
build another chapel on Saint Ihegoe'
manor, for which they had some speci,
} grant or privilege with which the purita
Legislature either did not or could NOT in
terfere.
. Occasionally during the s'reign of tel
= ror'' from 1912 TO 1860. when Casholi
Maryland wore cypress wreath. an
J moistened her soil with The fears Of he
children. IN the dead of night, lights wouI
be seen flickering about in The close
chapel, but when the town constabi
1 with an armed posse would Fusia 10 ID an
force open the door, not . light or YES
; tige of human presence coulI be seen
J These incidents, in that snperstiaiou
! age, were sufficient to give Il The repnfa
J ton of being hanniesl by COLLINS, ghost
and witches. 4 uns carefully avoide
after saRapwn nd silently permitted I,
! 90 10 ruin. a5sgs,
i CioseI 'or IS years, Il was. IN 160e
. thoEoah and complete ruin. The win