Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-02-21

Hke Inc Legislature Oh Virginia has passed
the following bill for the protection of the fish
cries on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay
A BILL for the Protection Of the Fisheries on
the Waters Of the Chesapeake Bay and its
Tributaries.
l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly.
That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall be unlawful for any person, not Il resident
Of this State. to fish with trot lines in any of the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries,
within this State
2. That upon complaint being made on oath
by any competent person, before any justice of
the peace of any county in this State, that any
person or persons who do not reside in Virginia,
have set trot lines for fishing in any water lying
wholly partly in such county. contrary to the
provisions Of this act it shall be the duty of
such justice to issue his warrant, directed to the
sheriff or any constable Of such county, COM
handing him to forthwith take possession Of
such fishing lines and to summon the owner or
owners thereof to appear before him. at some
time and place to be designated in such warrant,
to answer the charge of such unlawful fishing
The said justice shall examine such witnesses as
may be pro luced, ether by the party complain
ing or the party complained of, and if it shall
satisfactorily appear to such justice, that the
c 'mplaint is true, he shall cause the said trot
lines to be destroyed, and adjudge the offending
party to pay the cost of such proceeding. fit
shall appear that such complaint was improper
y made, the party complaining shall be al-
Judged to pay all costs occasioned thereby, and
shall be further liable for damages to any party
injured by any such seizure.
g. Any party offending against the provisions
of this act, by such unlawful fishing, shall, in
addition to the penalties and forfeitures prescrib-
ed by the proceeding section, be fined not less
than fifty, nor more than FIVE hundred 'llars.
f. This act shall be in force from its passage.
[CoMMUNIcATED.]
Mr. WELLs,-Su l notice in your issue of
the 31st ult., communication from your very
worthy correspondent, WALTER HANSON STONE
TAYLOR, Esq, of Georgetown, D. c., in which
| he furnished for publication very interesting
Renaissance Of the men and doings of HIS
am sure, sir, that the worthy descendants of
those men, whose names are so honorably men,
toned, now living in our county, as we'll as the
balance of our citizens, will feel much gratifed
that Mr.. Us antiquarian zeal has enabled him
to furnish for their perusal page of our coun-
trys history, which, up to the time of its publ
cation, had been supposed to have fallen vic
tim to a!ldcstroying Time. And | certainly
think that Mr.. I. has placed them under obi
cations to him, not only for the document, but
| likewise the fiattering terms employed by him
in bringing it to their notice. 1t cannot but be
pleasure to those who have read Mr.. Us COM
munication to find that an absence embracing
SO many long years, which has had theseffect o.
making him a stranger almost IN the land of his
birth, has had no influence in cooling that eneo'
patrioe, which, according to him, so honorabiy
distinguishes the absent sons of the land ocake!
Al
though he has wandered off and been so fortu-
nate as to find green savannahs, shady and plea
| SAINT places, their allurements have been unable
to wean his love from old Poynton Manor, which
is still the Mecca to which, in his terrestrial pill
grimage, he so devoutly turns his eyes. It is
| pleasant to trace in his communication the evi.
dences Of the high qualification and pride which
imbues his soul, that Providence had so favored
him in giving him Poynton Manor for birth
| place, Charles county for a country, and many
of the honored actors mentioned in the remnis-
cence as1fQcestors. For sure it is, that next
to the xclaiming with old Eneas, when
describing ne sack of ancient Troy, quorum
| magma p0rs fai. is that of saying my father
grandfather, or great grandfather, rendered
such and such orious and patriotic services to
their country. All honor then, Mr. Editor, to
the memories of these patriots Of 1875! Altho
Mr.. II. remin;sc does not exhibit them on
the sanguined field, yet it does show them up
in light as honorable to them as if it had des-
cribed them as victors in a hardly contested
battle. Peace has its victories as we'll as war,
says inspiration What nobler victory could be
achieved than to see these men, while counsel
ing together to make provisions for carrying on
stern war; yet to see their hearts open to the
appeals of the poor and distressed, and deter
mining that during their public distress no cit-
zen should suffer for his inability to pay his
debts. This was certainly blending the first
christian virtue, charity with the most devoted
patriotism. 1t is not strange that men acting
under such hoy and lofty inspirations should eff
| feet their noble purposes. Theirs was the proud
mission of rescuing their country from the grasp
| of proud oppressor and tyrannical foreign gov
eminent, aud well indeed did they execute the
task; and when that was completed we see
them calmly, dispassionately celebrating as to
the best form of government they should adopt
to secure to themselves and their posterity for
ever THAT liberty for which they had struggled
with such rnfinching constancy in the fied.-
We find them calling on their ablest and best
men, with the father fof his country at their
head who, after mature consultations and deli
berations, submitted the Federal Constitution as
plan of government best calculated to insure
the great ends they had in view.
How nobly, Mr.. Editor, has it responded to
the hopes of its immortal founders? How large
an amount of prosperity and happiness has it
been under Providence the happy instrument of
securing to the people of these United States for
three-fourths of a century. by maintaining peace
at home, and protecting and defending the rights
of our citizeus when and wherever assaulted ?
Now, sir, it may be old-fashioned in me to say
nerate and ardently hope that our Federal
Union may be preserved almost upon any terms
that would not be absolutely dishonorng to our
section of the Union and at the same time /
must take the liberty of saying that the pleasure
derived from the perusal of NJ. rs commu-
nication was considerably diminished from the
fact that one or more of his paragraphs looks
rather to war and violence in settling the I'M
happy difficulties which now threaten our be-
loved country, than to Cancellation and negotia-
ton, the nstrumcntalities by which our fathers
were in the habit of composing their domestic
differences. And, sir, it appears to me as little