, 1874-09-13
THE CHESAPEAKE.
Catholic st. Mary's---Visit to
the Old Shrine.
Remains and Renin;scences-..Lit-
eratura and Criticism
Thereabout.

I a4~a NAAS~NAs
From Our Osrn Correspondent
/ POINT LOOKOUT, Nd, August 1871
When m:n has looked through an iron fence
at bit Of Plymouth Rock, caught chill OF
! jamestown Island, doundered in the e.ud a.
Swedish Iewcs, read Watson's Annals undo,
| Penns trcatY-tree, looked in v&in through Prov.
idence for man like Roger Williams, regarded
with small degree OF the eye Of faith the
| Aorthman's windmill at Newport, and hungered
! iko Marius in tho ruins Of French Louisburg,
it is necessary for the reposo Of his sole that he
| cat IN oyster at old St. MaEy's.
Boss, said the yaller man who stored the
canoe,-he called himself yaller, and ought to
know the color, r,-"Td Ike to
wRAsTLE YE ZOE THAT WATCH"
The ysllor man had seen this watch Is he
turned from st. Mary'a River into 1T. 1nieoe's
Creek, and his remark WIS unfortunate,-partic-
ularly when, On landing 4. the head Of q deep
inlet by piece Of woods, he exhibited desire
to follow me into tho woods. Said to nyaelf:
'perhaps I shall sleep amongst the early
Catholics, and tho yallcr man will go array with
my time-piece-" 1t seemed to mo that the old
church lad got q great way into those woods,
and, when I swung open the gate, and stood
amongst tho gravestones and crosses, the yaller
man leaned On tho cato and watched mo as the
pony watched O3 Mortality. cut a big cudgcl.
looked bold as sheepsl,erd, aud canvassed that
graveyard; but every now aud then tho yal1or
man obtruded himself into my mind, and he Was
acsh-and-blood ghost in thct solitary nook OF q
solitary part of the world. Doubtless he WIS
very docile, well-meantng darkey; but he had no
business to want to wrastlo me for that watch.
Here, before me, YVES tho only vestise of the
faith in which one OF the Thirteen Colonies nas
established, March 81, 1854, within miles from
this spot. An English Catholic courtier Of
James I. nnd Of Charles l., himself Yorkshire
mnn, and neighbor to the Waslingtons, Went
worths, md Fairfa,es, had lis colonial grant
Il foased" from Newfoundland to the Chesa-
pcake, aud crept in between the Vugini2ns and
the Swedcs and Dutch. For sixty years the
city" OF ST. 1Ia1y's was the Provincial Capital
and seat OF the courts. To-day there is nothing
left OF its sixty houses, its fort, windmil1s,
Governors house OF stato-Hoase, except some
bricks Of the latter, baked in 1G14., which are
now. part Of a Protestant Episcopal Church.
Tho patron-saint OF the Catholic settlement was
st, Ignatius, OF st. Inigoe; and this Catholic
church, now fifty years old, bears his name, aad
is in tho vicinity OF q village poz;erior to St.
Mary's, called also St. Inigoe's.
ST. 1S1GoE's cuCrcu
is small brick edifce, with be,;-cupola sur
mounted by q ball ana cross, and 8 priests ad-
dition in the rear. There arc but three eide
windows, ard in front only q door, dominated
by q slab and inscription. md gable-window.
Iu tho oak trees, aud amongst t,rcve-mounds.
vau!t-stopes, and slabs Of wood and
sandstone, tho little chapel looks lonely enough.
Family-namos around old St. Inigoc's Catho-
lie Church arc thus recorded at random:
Col William Coad. James Feawick G. He was
q worthy man, candid, honest, and genuine, and
truly attached to the liberties OF his country.
His forefathe1s were amongst tho Oldest settlers
Of this ancient country. Died 1906, aged 5C,"-
born, therefore, 17J0), Brady, Davis, Langley,
Duulinson, Clarke, knul1, Mckay, Roach, Bean,
Fish, the Rev. James Carber1y, Society OF
Jesus, born 1775, died 15io.
Over the main door is the inscription, in |
brown stone Slab: |
I. Il. S. .Ilr
IGEATTCS |
D. O. n.
,acricc and sac,iacd i. that my nsme may be
here forever aud my eyes and heart remain there per
A.D. 1928 H. s. 2Paralip
V.D. 1a-lG. V.
Other names on St. 1nGoe's gravestones are
Joseph jenkins, Walter Leigh; the Rev. James
Walton, Society of Jesus (died 1903, aged IS;
IL servea H15gda in Ms hn m
lied 1924, aged G3; Smith daughter Of Joseph
md Aun hIiburn) jeremiah Taylor, Robert |
Iarlton. Eleanor Coad, Richard Fenwick, George
Crane. Peter Cough (very old elab):
unction Of st. Inigoe'8 Greek and st. Mary's
River, is Priests House, on Priests Point,-the
parsonage for the Jesuirs.-a red building. with
sheds, colonnadcs. tisa-reels, etc., |
bout it, Here have been kept Cannon, some
'iate. and various tribes admonitory Of the
}arons OF Baltimore.
Tho Catholic settlement chose
\ s1SGULARLY-EEAu11fCL s1TE
or miniature city.-"a spot SO charming"
aid Father % White, ;le; who who s saw it's 5 original
ituation to surpass it." The River st.
farys, called for tho Virgin. leaves
he Potomac about 8 miles from the
aouth of tho latter ut Point Lookout, and flows
rom i to miles from the bay, whose creeks
ise close to those OF the river; and tho penin-
ula is thus indented with coyes Of IN
rborescent shape, sometimes deep, apd always
lied with fish, crabs, and oysters The st.
Iary's is miles wide ut the mouth, and di1nin-
'hes to less than q milo At st. Nary's City, 6 |
lilies up, with 81 feet CT water nearly all that
istance. 1t has low bluff shores, rising higher |
3 VIC 20 up the tide; md, after passing st:
nigoe's Creek on tho right, the bluffs are bold
lem Of loam-soi1, abundant in clover and ]
ut, undulating according to tho gulhcs,
I'd a1ording view Of St. Georges Island, /
,ross the river at tho mouth. Tho Potomac ID .
ute d great ba; here, Q miles wide. In the 8
oninsula Of the old Capital ive sbova 800 per-
,ns. r
Aa We sailed OF toward tho city landing, both
Ills Of the canoe blown full, and tho yaller man
zily steering with scull, ne saw the Episcopal t
sminnry OF st. Mary's raising its red roof over q
10 mulberry, locust, and alianthus trees around
10 church. Hero my companion, Chffaimmons, Z
ho is GreeE poet Oh the half-Rheu. read me i
10 following description he had been writing in | c
lr fayorite book OF the Psalms Of David: r
OLD ST. MARY5- y
This is the river Like Southampton water :
1t opens broadly In the woody iand7, =
As Ii to break continent asunder,
And, sudden caosing, ths.e tho city stands; =
st. HaTy'a, stretching forth its yellow hands / 6
vi beach, beneath the h.u1 where 1t commands | t
In vision only for the heids ere green r
Above tho pilgrims. Pheasant is the place; I
10 rriu1 i1lar it, i.nIae.1ortzl face,
AZ young MS in Ti-kiDisy renewed,
It's wto3L nc without b7c%
Ant}S ryfu,-y al /