Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-03-22

Fn the BALI. Daily sun Of Tuesday.
ks ky cayszes 81 MAer-
esIl. 4 - q Sles1 Ieaisrr.I sdv.n. 8.
ssses q p eopnlM shs climate 20
happy ID neilhef 10 81 ner too
cold" u 61spted = he srovfb q
eeFsals. eaceo and ffosts, cot essv cul-
sure, - epscepible Of . high state Of
cuaoselto gbo9 wafer power, and
"eonneo1s4 ~ rail and water with the
eatirs os1side world" The Indepen-
oent complains somewhat querulou.ly
that u people Of Charles county are "a
.w, csn. plcdding people. "who. with
~ hceescble exeeptioes, Dig out ~
1891 slf6te6ce. pehst ve need,
says the Independent. sis new life and
HnesU - come ia among us and make
- a eur sdvsatagss.'' There may be
some bitterness in The reproeehes that
the lndepeDtent casts on the rood peo-
pie Of Ckpries county. but there il IN
eseneut Of truth in them that applies
with equal force to al the four lower
COMMITTEES Of the Western Shore. II
must be admitted that in many things
they lag behind the people Of most Of
the ether counties in the State, partlv
BY reason Of the great losses they have
sustained BY the radical change that has
been wrought in the labor system and
the imPosn eishment caused BY il, and
partly beesuse these counties, OCCUPY
ing . long peninsula between the Poto-
mac and the Chesapeake, have been
cut OF for two hundred years from all
the direct lines Of travel. With no
towns, with scarcely single village Of
any note, the people under the old re-
gime lived patriarchal life in the midst
Of their dependents, and were broken
up everywhere into planting commune
ties having little intercourse with the
outside world, cultivating their planta-
tons negligently. and leading free and
easy hospitable life upon lessening in
comes drawn from soils that were grad
ually wearing out. When the shock
came and they were no longer the own
ers OF the labor that tiled their fields,
hey felt q helpless q other men any.
where would have done who had not
themselves been bred to habits Of ac-
tive industry. II any Of them have be-
come chronically despondent and end,
a. the Independent phrases it, ''all lite
and vim destroyed" these things NAV
be pleaded in extenuation. Not OF
course in justification, for all men
should endeavor, as far Is in them lies.
to overcome untoward influences and
make tie best they can of whatever sit
uation circumstances may have placed
them in. The natural quality Of most
Of the soil in Prince Georges. Charles,
Calvert and st. Mary's was good. II
can still, with care and good manage
ment, be restored to its original fertili-
ty. The potash and phosphates that so
many crops OF corn, and especially OF
tobacco. have taken from it can be re-
turned to it by degrees. Mari Is to be
found in many localities, shell banks
abound on the borders of the great riv-
ers and inland streams, and there are
deposits Of green sand, rich in potash,
on Port Tobacco creek, and at other
points in large quantities. and SO situa-
ted as to be worked very cheaply.-
These, with green crops turned under,
would, in the course Of a few years,
make the deep black soil Of St. Mary's
and the fine sandy loans of Prince
George, and Charles, and Calvert as
productive as they were when the coun-
ties were first settled. he new con-
ditions of the people should inspire new
energies. Additional population i.
doubtless needed, and it is probable
that men from other States will gradu.
ally drift hither and buy up the old plan
tations, and set an example of what thrift
and industry can do where SO many ad-
vantages Of soil and climate, with new
railroads and I'D water ways, present
themselves.
The NEW SENATOR FROM OHIo.-
The following IS sketch Of the Hon.
Stanley Matthews, who will succeed
Hon. John Sherman as SEE ator, he hav-
ing received the caucus nomination {:
Hon. Stanley Matthews who has fig
urged very prominently in the political
Of the past year, now as
sumes a permanent place in the public
eye. MIR. Matthews was born at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on January 81, 1924. He
graduated at Kenyon in 1910, and at
once began the study Of law. In 1912,
he emigrated to Tennessee, where he
was an assistant teacher in Seminary.
Soon after, he began the practice Of his
profession at Columbia, Tenn, and also
assisted in editing a weekly newspaper,
the Tennessee Democrat. Returning to
Cincinnati. Mr.. Matthews established
himself in the practice Of his profession
in his native city. where he has con-
tinued to reside. He became disciple
Of the great anti-slaverv agitator, DR..
Gamaliel Bailey. then editor Of the Cia-
cinnati Herald, and when DR.. Bailey re-
moved to Washington to establish the
National Era. Mr.. Matthews succeeded
him "A editor NJ the Hrroh holdino that