Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-21

| war, superb state house and washington CHI am
| Der, Carroll and Plnkney mansions, Severn
| water and Round bay, steeple view of the East
| ern shore, beautiful governors house, state Ii.
! brary and archives, St. Johns college, Puritan
| and Catholic battle ground, etc. A short fer
| risge across the bay, here much contracted.
| Will, with the Eastern shore railroads give
| Washington an ocean beach at Rehoboth by a
| short SIX hours ride. The oysters of the Ches-
apeake, over such road, would reach US the
| day they were taken from the Chester, wye
and Choptank. No man can look at the map
| without seeing that Annapolis is the deep water
| roads of Washington, our nearest bav port with
81 feet OF water over the bar and for eight mites
inland. By the present conveniences 1t is far
| ther away than New York city.
FRAGMENT.
Young Jesus, full of flame,
For wisdom won much name
In all the synagogues OF Galilee;
And quicker came his breath,
Approaching Nazareth,
Where all his whilOm townsmen he should see,
There lay it, dull and dim,
To all the world but him,
Who knew each palm tree and each camel-track
Sweets 1t to leave home
In towns moro grand to roam,
But with good fortune sweeter To come back
And so his face was flushed,
While, skeptical and hushed,
The Nazarines around their thresholds stood,
And in their hearts replied
No municipal pride
Unto the plaudits of the multitude.
Oh beautiful indeed
IL was TO hear him read
Before them all, tall in the preachers place.
He felt his mothers look
Come trembling DER his book,
And father Joseph's as delighted face.
And so. by fate or lot,
His fingers touched that spot
Where old Esaias writ it long before:
SCOTS Spirits in ne:
''AHOlHted I shall BE-
"4o preach tie Gospel to The blind and poor"
WHO WAS Mr.. VERNON?
"SOme men have greatness forced on to 'em, -
said Artemus Ward. Such was Vernon. We
have recently torn down our old market house
IN Washington city to call it Mount Vernon
Place. Every town has something to keep the
man in memory Who was he?
This celebrated survivor of his memory died
IN 1857, at the age of 10, and was embaImed sole
~ III the Mount vernon estate, which Laurence
Washington acquired by marriage with the
Fair fax family. Laurence named it for Yer
non because, much earlier, or in l7il, he hao
been under the command of Admiral Vernon In
the West Indies. The Admiral was probably
the greatest man Laurence had ever seen, a
terri BILE fellow TO curse and wear feathers. His
name OF Vernon probably comes from tbs
French, signitying fowery or poisoning,
circumstance TO be recalled by surprising "A
similar state for the warm blOoded AQmirais
nose.
The admiraps name was Edward, son OF
James, Who held an Office and pigeon holed him
liz the navy. Here, of course, he developed fast,
and in los was rear admiral. At the age of
forty three this old sea dog ran for Parliament
and distinguished himself there for fourteen
years by growing loudly, until, when Sir Rob
ert WalpOle determined on war with Spain he
also got rid OF Vernon by putting him in com
mand of the expedition. The object OF the war
on the part OF the English was to rob the Span
sh mines, colonies and towns The English
colonies in America were called upon for a regi-
ment OF $500 men, and Virginia levied tariff
on the importation of slaves TO raise funds, and
impressed-not dratted-idle people. Money
being short, the planters were called upon to
make advances, and Laurence Washington
probably received his captains commission in
this way, carrying along with him several OF
his neighbors. 1t was a great lark for a young
Fellow OF twenty-iour Campbell says 20, and
educated in England.) The regiment under
Governor Spotswood,-who lived near the site
OF Joe Hooker's subsequent battle of ChanceI-
lorsyille,-lay in camp at ANNAPOLIS and EN-
barked there. Ia the West Indies, saws SmoI-
let, who was with the fleet of Vernon and wrote
part VI hGaefIek RaAd2a about it, they were
Zee On ''salt pork of New England, which
though neither fish nor flesh sayored OF both,
and bread from the same country every bis
cult whereof. like piece of clock work, moved
by Its OVID internal impulse, occasioned by the
myriads Of insects that dwell Within it," Alto
gether there were assembled at Jamaica Il5
shlps 1000 sailors, and II 900 soldiers. At this
ume vernon was the popular idol Of England,
having attained some small success az Porto
Bello, commemorated in Richard Glover's cell
eDrattd ballad OF "Admiral Hosier's ghost"
GAS near Porto Bello lying
On the gently swelling hood,
at midnight with streamers flying
Our triumphant navy rode:
mere while Vernon sat, all glorious,
From the Spaniards' late defeat;
And his crews with shouts victorious
Drank success to Englands tleet,"
appeared the ghost of Hosier's expedition, la
mentlng that on previous occasion the Admi-
rally had ordered them not to fight
AZ THIS was the first expedition in which the
Pfitish C9lonlsts we're called Oh to take part in
me foreign conquests OF Great Britain, it
exclted the young men terribly, and might
nave had Its influence to make young George
w ashlngton, then nine years old, soldier.
They saised for Carthagena, the strongest forti-
ned place in South America, and while block
AIDING 1T the yellow fever broke out, killed
Spottswood, and left Benning Wentworth, a
british native OF Massachusetts, in command.
lie quarreled with Vernon, whom Charles
Knight describes as ga vain man, Indifferent to
any success in which he should not have the
chief honor" Smollet describes the naval
officers he saw as brutal and efeminate. Car
thagena was attacked, the storming party in
which was Laurence Washington lost six hun
dred men, the expedition drew OFF and after a
i 10 ATTACK upon Cuba, the Yirginian returned
10 hampton 1.-The colonial troops" saws Hill
deth, chad been condemned to the hardest
ofudgery OF the service, and out OF four thou
sand men not tenth part even returned" The
consequences OF the expedition were a Spanish
invasion OF America and the overthrow Of Sir
Robert WalpOle, partly the victim of Vernon's
pluster ana popularity. Some time Afterwards
vernons name was struck from the list Of
Admirals He took TO writing pamphlets, the last
resort OF the belligerent and unhappy, and
nnally retired to his seat Of Nacton in Suffolk,
years.
Vernon, therefore, was well aware of the
honor the virginia Captain had done him in
naming the estate on the Potomac, and he lived
to hear or George Washington as well. The
latter obtained the ests te by the death of Lau-
renee from disease of which the seeds were
sown In Vernon's expedition.
ARCTURUs GADABoUr.
The OFFICIAL VOTE In CECIL COUNTY, Nh.
The Elkton Cecil county, Wing gives the or
cial vote of Cecil county on Wednesday last in