New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-08


form of go-between were on Che road nave
lnou,n them 70 come across tn, Potomac here, SIX
or eight miles wide. on nothing but plank Ohe
dav the people saw coming into Smiths Creek TWO
contrabands apparently sitting on the water anu
gliding along pretty fast it looked MIRACULOUS ~
they appeared TO be sailing on nothing We louhu
that they had got plank and hal htt'u upon IL a
couple of seats just propped mp a. II on ia'hS anu
sitting there and reaching down into the wafer
they had padded themselves across the Io'oinao'
the plank itself being under water All inc t'ho'
After awhile regiment of Indiana cavalry was
brought down here, and they put stop 10 Some "
the worst blockade running. The iaNorle IouVo "a
these people was to come into Saint Mary's County
about Smiths Creek or Saint Mays. ana "o'h
across through the woods 10 Cai'eI' Oo"''''
then up by Annapolis" mt.
Mr.. Jarboe, an old farmer who gave me Il nv -
his buggv when had been crampcd hiding ID
close carriage with three other persons saul
r,.oJ riobt ot home during all the war ana never
had mucb trouble / made IL a rule 10 r'luSo nv
bodv food whether It was right OF wrong VIZ
Trpion cavalry was campcd all over TINS country
bu,,,i,, snies and they often came 10 0ur house.
Int never did anything out of the way Inc" ~
night have had fleeing fellows from Ice : army ~
awake ms and beg for something to eat Al'h""t'
il was AGAINST the rules couldn help giving II 10
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county below Booths escape, to know almost noun
inc of Il He said that Mrs. Surratt had he'h
honc,od and that was all he knew about H. An
otb., Gentleman prominent in that country s.iu
at . while there was considerable pity tor MIS-
Surratt her dignity had been much cNaRSei"'"
that while her husband was yet h'inR al l'l''''
nr;est who ministercd in that part OF the country
got in such a Irritation with Mrs. Surratt that II
raised n commotion and hc had to be sent 70 bos'ou
TO get him ont Of the scandal"
The beautiful waters came close mp 10 inc mus
ON the shore of which one or two were huilV % i'
nortcd bricks. Dense pine forests were on the
ridges and wood cut per cord costs only - o' o''
less and railroad ties about 40 cents apiece Two
railroads are graded side by side through the couh-
trv rather discouragng each other. motive
;rit in ono was the brother of John A. Nindcr the
rebel nroyost-marshal. whose fathers gcneralsmp
lost tho city Of Washington IN tins very region
Ranhael Scmmcs who burned honest men NeSSolS,
was also n native of this part of Mary iahd Ono %
the railroads | have mentioned was mainly eiAoou
in 1873. and involved debt of two millions, III
other therefore felt cmbodencd to grade b'Su' It,
The peope who are IN want OF lime Tor thclI I'""'
say between 80 many railroads We SHAH nav
none The roadside frequently showed most hon'o
and symmetrical holly trees each IKE H'hS'S
IeoVcd and gigantic orange tree. The swccigum
negro canoes. 4 windmill or two without HANS Dor
dercd the bays
AT OLD ST. MARYs.
Ten miles above Point Lookout Till crossing the
road led into ST. Marys Greek, arm Of st. Mary r.
River in whose forks lay old 81 Mays city, the
ca,ital Of MARYLAND from 1854 TO 1904. period 81
sivtv years. The situation is beautiful, upon
Linz of yellow tlav where clover hrld. noN undn-
loto and the river broad and deep is bor'crcd hy
islands and old FARMS and strongly md'hl'"
The site of the city proper which never hah
| above few hundred residents. IS uo" occupied IVY
| an old Epscopal church and graveyard ana &"
| female seminary Of the same denominations tA'
church said 10 have been built of the bricks OF the
,Id Assembly House. which cost 10000 pounds OBJ
tobacco worth now nearly 5000. and at that uhc
~ 600 private boarding school is close b'' ana
few miles away on 81. lnico- Greek, Is iAr N'Hi
able Catholic church OF that name. surrounded F"
colonial tolnhs IN the midst Of the Woo"'. ."iX
farmhouse harn-hke buildinc. ON "a cape oil ~
N,rv's River near at hand, is the celebrated
Priests hous, where after the suppression of public
catholic worship in Maryland from 1900 TO thc
Revolutionary war. period of scycnty-h'c y'ais.
| the PRIESTS lived and held private masses:
| Their private chapcls mcokly grow
| Beside the mansions of the few,
| And there they atc the mystic feast.
| And sbcltcrcd. aye the hunted pfe,t
| The chalicc hid beneath his gown,
| The English father stole To town,
| Ills vcstmcnts IN q bcggarsack.
| The altar plate upon his hnok.
These pricst.-houscs existed throughout Mary
land. and were the only churches. ST S. lingo IS
arc kent some relics II the Lords Of Baltimore
Al 81. Mary's was published the celebrated act Of
religious liberation in 1919, the work Of polite
Protestant acting for tho Catholic propriciors
| crpor Stone. Although the Lords Baltimore ulti-
| matcly became Protestant. the seeds of Rcmaui-n
were well sown among the slaves and household
servants in all this part Of Maryland and nnr-cd by
| imported priests There were 10000 Catholics 90
| MARYLAND nj the close Of the Revolution and only
$500 in all the other States. During all the Ecvo-
| lutlon Bishop Carroll no farm near Washington
CITY was rcorglnkiug the churches. and he was the
| son Of a MARYLAND woman who had been educated
| at French convent Priests and nuns poured into
| MARYLAND from the French Revolution. and before
| Washington City was occupied 10y the Government
MARYLAND Catholics had started college and
churches and converts there The visible Catholic
Church of Maryland has been raised in the past
century; but the seed hereof it came was so"n los
the Calvert family going counter to their times and
! coputrv ANY anachr0nisin or creation against the
| cour.e of ones epoch remains foreign and disturb
inc, cnu.c "To be useful 20 ones age. keep ln tho
channel Of its progress" Therefore, to say no more
Catholic MARYLAND has never been fully organic
with the country and often slow. riotous or rrac
tionary. The Protcstants revoluionizcd IT, and pni
an Established English Church upon it the Caiho
lies hailed the Revolution rs their dcvcrancc; The
| French and Italian priests no then poured IN had
no belief in popular institutions, and knownothng
ism bloody followed the election Of Catholic
Governor ten years before the rebellion. For ycan
Baltimore City was governed by rioters whose
murder of the Fedcralists in 1872 was followed it
1886 by numbering the foreigners and IN 1851 by
numbering the Union sodcry, and in 1868 by muir