The daily gazette., 1878-08-21
letter from NIaryIand.
Correspondence OF the GAZETTE.
CECIL AND KENT Co., Md,


August ID, 1878.
We started this morning from E. G..
Irice, ESD, the Napoleon of Sassafras
Neck. We bad delightful morning ride
IN company with two ladies and gentle
men, behind two spanking sorrels. We
passed by. the General Forman properties
celebrated In their day, for theirirnprove-
mentss superiority Of their lands, lawns,
yards, gardens, and great variety of trees,
flowers and fruit; exhotics from almost
an hatfons, horse race course, carriages.
livery and attendants. We passed through
the Spanish chestnut road, beautiful and
shady, distinguished for its large nuts and
numerousness. Its annual crop finding
its way to Philadelphia and yielding a
spIerhiid income, Ne 8I
Mr Geo Hessey Is the .present owner
OF the Chestnut Road and part of the pro-
perty connected with it. Mr.. willard
Ward isathe owner of tie Mansion and
Home property, it has all passed out of
The hands 'of'the Formans, and is in the
occupany OF tenants andvery much de-
iapldated. Time. has passed its eflacing
fingers over it, and it is an illustration OF
the truth of Solomon, "AH Is vanity.n
The Cassidy or Reybold property we
passed; most beautiful lands of great
notoriety as peach farm, paying for it,
sell over thirty thousand dollars in one
year, and afterwards considered worth
one hundred andtwenty thousand dollars
but in the uncertainty that attaches to all
earthly things, it has greatly lessened in
the yield of peaches and deprecated in
value. This year the forest Of trees hav.
inc pqTcQlU q f1u m cIa 81 all ID 81 |
the steamboat Trluppeter, at the Cassidy
wharf, Capt. J. F. Wilson, coming down
fom Fredericktown, plying to Baltimore,
and taking on the way excursionists to
colchester Beach, new place in Kent
Co, Nd, that has suddenly sprung up
into quite notoriety. 4" -an-"Hi .fT -
~The boat was crowded TO its utmost
capacity and at Betterton refused to take
on any more passengers. There was !
goodly number Of ladies and children on
board and our Eastern Shore ladies from
this specimen is entitled 10 be considered
fair and beautiful as well as noted Balti- |
moreans. tjlt- ,c ,. ..,..,.
Arrived at COLCHESTER Beach we found |
the grounds newly fitted up---a variety of /
woody hillocks---with orchestra, flying |
horses, swinging seats, tabernacles, eating |
houses, &C., there were fishing, Grabbing,
bathing and running to and fro to set ma
ture in its liveliest moods. 1t was inter-
esting, and when the place shall come
under the increasing hand of art and cul-
ture shall be still moro. numerously fire.
luented. .NO-4T .Ys
The Baltimore boats run there twice a
day and carry great many passengers.
We are pleased Mt the efforts of the chief |
Mr.. Eliason and Mr.. Taggart,
both of Philadelphia, to make this a
moral place and keep away drunkenness
and whiskey. Temperance can only be 1
It's safeguard. At this place we met with
an old friend, Col. George Gale, whose
name is a household word in Kent, and
affectionately by the descen-
dents of its Oldest families. He Is a
walking encyclopedia and reminded me
that the farm above this was where the
British landed in the war of 1914, and
Corksfield, where on the same moonlight
night, General Philip Reed encountered
The British with hundred and seventy
five raw militia, and from rising ground
poured fire upon and repulsed them. 225
British landed, and left forty-two killed
and wounded. Gen. Reed had three men
Sir Peter Parker was killed,
and his slipper was found next morning
on the field, but his body was born away
N the mist of smoke and put in hogs
head Of whiskey and buried in England.
Sands with twelve others
we're buried on the field, he had gold but
tons on his clothes but Gen. Reed would
not allow them to be cut off and they were
buried with him might take watches or
4
10 be mutifated. ----..-.---
The writer Of this remembers forty |
years ago to have ridden across this field.
On our return on the excursion ON board
The boat, we were annoyed by some un-
and hilarious young men. The
boat should not charter to excursions un-
less the bar was shut up. We landed
safely at Fredericktown at o'clock, our
horses and carriage met us there and we
returned joyously TO our host.
.t- t .aI TRAVELLER.