Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-05-05
Dead Of J.mes N. Mason.

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ia .sDeath Of James N. Mason.
The dsatho james Murray Mason, Of vir.
sinia, i snpoupeed to have taken place at BIZ
residence At Cl.rehs, near Alexandra, on Fri
day night. For some time his health had
been failing, and within the last month b.
bad lost his eyesight. He died Of general de
bility, his nervous system being generally de-
hanged. He bad ban unconscious for . day
or two, and died very peaceably. Mr.. Masor
was born on Analoston Island, Fairfax coun'
ty, Va, November 8, 1898. He received ,
good education aud graduated at the Univer'
sity of Pennsylvania 10 1913; he studied Law
81 the College Of William and Mary, and OBJ
tanned a'1icsnse to practice in 1920 in 1926
he WAS elected to the House Of Delegates, and
twice rs-elected was . Presidential Elector il
1888; he was Representative in Congress
from 1887 to 1889 in ls47 he was elected .
Senator to Congress, in the place OF Senate,
Penny hacker, and reelected 10 1S49, 10 which
position be Continued until 1851, having fol-
several sessions been Chairman Of the Com
mittss on Foreign Relations. He took par,
To- the war againss the South of 1851 went
to England Is . Minister of the Confederate
Governnsnt. in company With Mr.. SIidelI.-
The steamer in which be sailed, the Trent
while in the Bahama Channel, November 8,
1851, was captured by the United States
ssssmsr San Jacipto, Captain Wilkes, and
taken to Boston harbor; where they were i'm
prisonsd 10 Fort Warren. The affair created
the greatest excitsment at the time, and 8
correspondence took place between Mr.. Sew
ard aud the British Government, which re-
suited IN the surrender Of the prisoners. Mr.
Mason was expelled from the Senate in July,
1861. His term would have expired 10 1868.
. The Inntsr.tfoa Fever.
The following from the Baltimore Sun en-
bodies just what we would say to every young
a.an il Southern Maryland, and we trust it
may have the effect Of convincing those who
read It, that after al the good things said Of
the great West, this sectionof Nary and offers
tho best ENDORSEMENTS to those who have a
mind 70 work for ! living: - 49, :.
RE OLD HoMEs.. ~ - =.
On. Of the best things YET ret. published BY the
New YORK Fafmers CIpb is comm unication
from acitixsp Of iowa, who, after many years
OF residences ID The most desirable portions Of
the great West, gives Ills judgment as to the
place to lisaaasa fsri4 10. We wish it could
% e READ b. every young man east Of the
While ~ are issising diligently
the means Of bringing within our borders i
foreign population, ~ lose iar too many Of
our Own psoYlsss1hs,i I'D the very prime aud
vieor of skfss bgtakies lhsansslYes to- distant
States under the false impression that there
AZ, Nnickf and, better gays thers to fortupe,
and 70 M6ef i called success 10 life. This
writer tslls 4 plain esie, md, while giving bis
pYn exp{6S6as; Sisss Also, We do not doubt,
~ isl, ts.a4 -. y = !.
He wa born al DsidMstfs, md Ut nineteen
ysaas OF aks smigratsd 10 the State Of Ohio.
LAser hsttSnt furthsr west, II He went into
and thence into Wisconsin, where
he Armed dozen years..1 By, this time; he
Day,. he began to, consider, what he bad made
By thee change 70 be sure be had large
crops ID Wisconsi1, 6dt hel learned that .sman
cannot live BY bread alone" and be sighed
for the Assh poss 81 Egypt. He began to re-
I1ect how psar be had once lived to Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Nsy York; and that to
consider what grain, be bad 70 sell then could
90 to market for Eve to seven cents bushel,
while in Wisconsin be must pay 28 cents to
g i e Assp a sd t hers about 40 t.
But this vas not al .hs had left also ths
peaches, aPFls1 1eaisse hesfiesj N6,, with The
6nny tribesAthes mjchslovedesu d fonged-for
oyssss, yea ,:and ali the privileges Of the At
lantio epast. From Wisconsin be goes into
middle Iowa, and after three years there, be
says: ..eThis is q eeed country; T think much
better than northern WISCONSIN,. ! think Iowa
l. n good a. any other Of the Western States.
| have no fault to find with the State or eli
mate but do not lie to work 20 hard as
do tp build up this railnad and warehouse
If / was where I once was !
should pc clear Of them. aud do believe that
thss neck Of land lying between the Delaware
and the ChesaP eiks bays Is just as good a
country a. there il, on this american conti-
nent. Ishould recommend every Industrious
yosug man thss has the privilege Of staying
on the Homestead to stay there, or If he can
get hold ,ef one Of those old worn-out Mary
land or Virginia. farms, to take: it in prefer
sncs 10 any Of those ' prairie farms would
rather build up one Of those old Atlantic
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