Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-01-20
(Corre5p5nience : the Beacon. J
Point II kou-.
Jan. 18th, 1870. ]

leading with oysters. and the query nat .
rrallv ergpests itself how long 1T such +
rate-wiich is OF every fitting day occur
rence-will the oyster beds Of the Poto- +
9mac continue prolific ? Turning toward
tie bay-side, an equal number pre- there
engaged, tor.e numbered. but the larger
portion without this mark Of license =
This array IS merely within easy range
Of eye-sight. and, as Capt. Davidson's re-
port shows, hut trifing criterion Of the
fleets ewarming the bav, and river, en-
gagged in the traffic. No matter how nu
merous, the beds Of our superior oysters
must, if dredging on such scale be al
lowed TO proceed, soon be so injured and
decreased that years will not remedy the
exhaustive damage. IF dredging is to
continue, surely we should adopt some
law BY which to confne its operations to
the people Of our own State, whereas now
the majority of vessels oystering in our
waters Cat least about herc) are from Phil
adelphia and other Northern ports. Capt
Davidson's suggestions on this very i'm
, portant Subject appear to me as arPaca-
Nble to its requirements, and | beg leave
to submit that little Of the Beacon's
| light on the subject may help our Legis-
lators to see more clearly the shoals and
bars of the present oyster law upon which
We are in danger of wrecking our State
revenue barque.
| Notwithstanding the prophecies of the
Swans, and the anticipative preparations
Of the beaver, and other lovers Of the coy
I thing in Winter, we have 50 far the Sc
/ quel Of the last, nor would it surprise me
if its continuance doesn't prove the prog
nostications of science in these matters to
be about as reliable as Almanac prQdic-
Iztions, and Ike such found correct by re-
verse calculation The truth is, that
of late years cur climate has been
just about as tickle zas a pretty girl
in love matters, leading Astronomers,
/ barometers, and thermometers, lively
dance up and down, bewilderiag to their
bald-pates and mercurial sensitivencss.-
Don't you think the merry sleigh-bell jin-
gle Of the oldcn time that old people tell
US so much about was more conducive to
health and pleasure than this open and
shut weather? My. what rousing Win
tiers they must have had if We believe all
they say. For instance, that big snow
storm in Is so-and-so, when the lanes
and fencing were all covered up, and
Zcke Brown had to crawl up the chimney
to get out Of his house and then c0uldu t
find it after he did get out. And that
"big thing on ice" when the Chesapeake
was frozen over and people "Iriy' their
eight horse teams to Baltimore. Al me.
I fear our horoscope had no such marvels
in store for US to relate so wo'ell have to
content ourselves with mud castles to daub
oar generation of listeners with.
Christmas has passed, and 50 has plum
pudding, mincc pies, fruit cake, and 9TH
err 'concomitants Of the indigestable king
dom, thank God. | do think we are the
quccrcst creatures that ever lived by con-
traries, and can't help sometimes enter
tanning the sly thought the Lord must
have put US here for the advertisement OF
the people in Heaven, for, even IN this
trifing privilege of our Christmas pass
time when we should cultivate health for
pleasure, we set to work as systematlcal-
" TO upset our abdominal regions as we'd
give strychnine to an old cheese eater,
and wonder at the train Of head aches,
dyspepsia, cramps and the Doctor knows
what not which we have pasted in our
stomachs.
And another year has turned up
in the hour-glass Of life, and with
its progress some queer denouements,
no doubt will occur in that God
forsaken collection called Congress
When they digest their goreed conseien-
ces over Georgia and Virginia's fate,
think you they wont have a dash at little
MARYLAND that darcs haunt her democrat
lie standard before their bloatod y;sage?-
Already thatprecious sheet, tie Chroni-
Gle, pretondS to copy It's own article from
an exchange relating to slicing off the
Eastern Shore" from US. and with the
Accomae counties Of Virginia and the State
-of Delaware, making new State under
the naufe OF Chesapeake. They hate US,
those same radicals, as the Devil does
holy water. However. with Gov Bowie
Fred Maddox and the Beacon We are all
right l suppose.
Lively Joings among the aristocracy
(ye ancient Danes forgive u.s. Of cosmo-
politan Washington, inluctions, abduc-
tons, and sedac;ions, paudered through
the columns Of its Republican Journals as
I palatable til-bits for the mongr1l apre-
tites otthe Sodonlites there fta>,ins upon
the rottonuess Of las decay. lea,-eveu
OF the dinners At the White House gran
t-ylv his Fxc,,leurv W, read 4 ynl.-sr