Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-05-16

dead or an .uishing tree in it, Looking d wn
III aisles OF blossom. one felt like an insect in
bouquet. And how the young robins chirped
the meadow larks were running down the rows;
red bird with b)nnet on was futtering in th-
white blossoms, the reddest thing thOdsat |
ever saw, staining where he alishted, like az
artists winged pencil. Said 1: "This Il not
Maryland Ii is the south of France!"
1t is related that during the second war with
Great Britain the British passed by this spot,
and one young officer Of very gallant bearing
stopped awhile, and won the heart OF besuti-
fnl lady at this place. After the retreat from
Washington this lady and the officer were mu.
tuslly pleased with each other, and an under
standing was concluded tn at at the termination
OF the war they would communicates. and If
each continued to think highly of the Other,
mouIu marry. Some letters did pass, and many
more failed to come or go, and the young la Nv.
IeeHng time creep along, cepted for her hu =
band a worthless and dissipsted scion of 4
nelghboring estate. She had scarcely married
him and fixed her mind sobeYly upon the ineyi
table II passing her life in a nope, like all her
friends and Rcquaintances, when, behold, her
English snitor, who had, meantime. served \
while In India, arrived in Prince Georges 70
claim his bride. With the constancy, If the
sadness, of one whose word had been pledged.
she babe adieu to the Briton aud spent the re-
mainder of her DAYS badly mated, near the
home OF her childhood.
Buffers March.
Clement q. Hill relates that when the council
of war was to meet at winder's building. at
Washington, General Scott sent for him, as the
&c neral knew Mr.. Hill to be DESTROYS of trans
fsIring the war from Maryland to the South.
Inc General said, as he entered-"Mr. Hill,
want 10 consult with YOU about moving the
national troops from Annapolis to the capital.
We must have troops. General Butler is at
Annapolis with large number of men ant !
old military road from Annapolis to Queen Ann
and Marlborough"
General" said Hill, ait will be fatal for rs
IN maryland, who have any property, and,
IN m hat h., n
slave holding, Unstable, embittered elemsnr
lives along the Patuxent. You have to fear n II
the proprietors, so much as the impoverished.
rough class. From Annapolis to Queen Aun the
road is almost continuously through the pin.
forests, and narrow aud bad. DO not move your
tro t that way, or you will have trouble"
"Ihen," said General Scott. "tell me what |
could DO If ] had the troops sent some other
way, say by the Patuxent or by the bay, and
got the IN TO Marlborough"
General" SAID Hill, Gin these exci'in
times, Marlborough, which is of no accom- i'm
itself, nils up with a crude class of rustics and
there are three kinds of whisky in Marlboro oh
whlch we call lighting, quarreling and bio ID
thirsty, according to grade. II you have small
force, and it gets into Marlborough at present
OF course the whole region would be aware OF
lts coming, as every lad is a horseman down our
way, ana Knows all the paths. You would n ave
the first battle OF the war right at Marloor
ough."
General Scott thought short time and said !:
FRIEND Hill, can you give m some letters 60
union people between Marlboro i gh and Annap
oils, ard provide man who will ride for IN l.,
over that road pr
MT HUI FURNISHED - Morris, who filled his
toots with de, patches, and took letters 10 Hits
frlt nos at Marlborough. lie found M4rlbor
ough, as anticipated. full OF drunken fellows.
and they all carousei, while, meantime, one
Coentes. formerly or the navy, took Morris a.
a prisoner to Butler, at Annapolis, to be eK
changed for -, whom the Butler forces b Al
captured. These dispatches instructed Butler
10 move his men by the Annapolis and Elk
1nf
seeking to go across country through a hostile
population. ARCTTPTS GkDABOVr.