The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-11-19

been Marylanders, viz, Robert Smith,
William Pinckney, William Writ, Roger
b. fancy, John Nelson, and Reverdy John
son, four of them very celebrated, and
fancy held the Chief Justiceship for nearly
a third of the whole period of existence
of the Supreme Court. Maryland has
never had a President nor Vice Presi-
dent
Among Eastern Shore celebrities was
| Charles Wilson Peale, of Chestertown,
! Kent county, saddler, clock-maker, dem
tist-having made the first sets of enam-
elled teeth in America-an animal preserver
AT the age of 30 he went to London and
studied portrait painting under Benjamin
| West, and afterward established himself at
Annapolis and in Philadelphia. He was a
soldier, an Abolitionist, and the father of
museums in America. He lived to the age
of 50, and left son, Rembrandt Peale, to
further do service in portrait painting.
The Eastern Shore never had Governor
until twenty years after the State seeded
from England, when John Henry, of Son.
erset was found available. Another inter-
regnum then occurred between 1898 and
1906, when, with one term intervening,
Eastern Shoremen, Robert Wright, of
Cecil; Edward Lloyd, of Talbot, and Levin
Windsor, of Somerset, ruled continuously.
Other Eastern Shore Governors have been
Charles Goldsborough, Samuel Stephens,
Daniel Martin, Thomas King Carroll,
Thomas w. Weary. Philip F. Thomas, and
Thomas Holiday Hicks.
Governor Winder's relative was the law
yer-General, and father of the late execra-
bic rebel, Provost Marshal John Winder,
and he it was commanded the Maryland
militia on the race track of Bladensburg.
BACK TO THE LIGHT OF THE WEST.
l left Snow Hill, in a carriage, before
daylight. My companions were a young
lawyer, who had been an officer in the
rebel army, and his chent, a man of bust
ness in the new county of Wicomioo
political subdivision which has recently
increased the eight counties of the Eastern
Shore to nine. We passed small settle
ment called Newark, little place called
Poplartown, and at Berlin, which is as
handsome and well-built place Of 800 peo-
pie as can be seen anywhere in the North
we were pointed out the house where
Stephen Decatur was born. Berlin stands
within few miles of the great inland bay,
variously called Chincotegue, and Sinapux-
ent, and st. Martins, which was formerly
navigable sound, nearly fifty miles in
length, and full of the best oysters in
America; but of late it's inets have been
filled up with sand, so that the oysters can
no longer live in the fresh water; nearly
all navigation is suspended, but with the
decline of maritime consideration Berlin
has gained renewed Importance as little
capital of agriculture. The cypress swamp
which covers about thirty miles square at
this point, dividing Delaware and Mary
land, has been drained, and from its heavy
slime some of the best land in the Middle
States has arisen. Two brothers named
Showells, who live near Berlin, are the
richest inhabitants of the Eastern Shore,
one of them possessing $780, 900. Their
father left them some MEANS and with it
they have improved the border of the cy-
press swamp and built railroad from
Salisbury to Berlin. The locomotive which
drew us over this road was called "Lemuel
Showells.' Salisbury is the brightest bust
ness settlement on the Eastern Shore, con-
tanning about 5000 people, who have
made their money mainly by packing oys-
tiers and trading in grain and lumber.
here, is said to have 100000, which he
acquired in lumber and land speculation
Todwin was also alleged to be rich, with
$150,000. The richest man at Princess
Anne, very old county seat in the county
south of Nanticokc, is James W. Dennis.
When | asked how he made his money, the
answer was. He married it." At Sal
isbury, which is rather uninterestng
place, full of negro shanties, / waited for
train to Seaford. We passed two consider
able places, Delmar and Laurel, and found
Seaford to be fiat town of Delaware, on
on the banks of the deep and navigable
Nanticoke River few miles distant from
Georgetown, where the subscriber had the
fortune to be born, and where the illustri-
Gus Senator Salisbury now resides. A
great business at Seaford is packing,
and the principal oyster packer entertained
me considerable time by describing how
he had been swindled by the oyster dealers
of Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago. 1t
seems that, owing to the perishable nature
of the oyster, the Western sellers have the
producers at a disadvantage. They first
telegraph to these unfortunates to draw at
sight, and then, protesting their drafts,
write that the money has been mailed in
check. Meantime the poor oyster pro-
ducer has sent about dozen cargoes, and
found a decidedly bad feeling existing
on the Eastern Shore toward Northwestern
customers of shell fish.
From what have observed of Lower
Delaware, | judged that my birthplace
was about the most uninteresting part of
the earth. l consoled myself with tho
reflection that l was born there only acct
IDENTIFY. The land was perfectly level, sandy
and hot, except where the rivers from the
Chesapeake cut deep, wide assures in it,
and the sluggish streams flowed through
acres of splatter docks, and rank marine
vegetation, while the streets were hot, the
landscapes without interest, and the peo-
pie possessed only with dull negative
hospitality which never warmed to diff
ference of opinion nor rose to the compre-
hension of a general principle. There was
political meeting in the town that after
noon, addressed by an indecent Democratic
politician named Biggs, now member of
Congress. This Biggs, some time ago,
referred to Senator Revels as a nasty niger
preacher, combing his lousy wool in the
Senate of the United States. For this low
exhibition of Biggs' manner of speaking
of gentleman in the coordinate house of
Congress, it is to be hoped that he will be
expelled after the recess. \ Pennsylvania
inn-keeper has put up good hosiery at
Seaford, which | left without regret in tho
early evening, and, after passing through a
pretty part of Dorchester county, in Mary
land, found a steamboat waiting at CAM
bridge to carry me by tortuous route to
Baltimore City. Cambridge is the hand
soonest rown for its population in the United
States, built chiefly of bricks in the old
style, with several hotels, magnificent for
est shade trees, broad, green spaces, a most
noble river sending up inlets behind and
through the town, and the streets are
promenaded by many very beautiful ladies,
and by a grave and steady class of fine
looking and self-respecting old men. l
have never seen in New England, New
York or Virginia, as pretty town as Cam
bridge, and the ride down the Choptank
River, in the gray of the evening" was
made wonderful by glorious sunset and
an exquisite twilight. The sun seemed to
retire upon bed of molten gold, and all
round about it there were tapestries of
gorgeous clouds. We assembled Thread
Haven Creek, passing the quaint old set
tiement of Oxford, to the town of Easton,
neal by, by which lives part of the fami-
ly Of General Boynton, your efficient
Washing ION agent. At Cambridge lives
Mr.. Dug yYallack, long the Editor the
of Washington Star. Night fell upon
the Chesapeake as we sought our state
room and smoked serenely by the open
window as we roved among the lighthouses,
and at dawn we were safe at our pier in the
o;.,- Of Raltimore 7 had purchased 200