New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-08
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
.y,,p-r.Nn NY MARYLAND"

suoRF or MARYLAND IN WAR TihEs-iNANAN"
THE FLIGHT or BOOTH TO THE VIRGINIA 'roisi,,
This week | take to the magnolia swamp az"
rather the true pond lilies IN the depths Oh opSoi''o
parts Of Maryland. 49, q. .oo,,s
S;x,een years ago in this April weather 1T seems
o. mo Inf vesterday-a man killed a magistrate III
the nr.sence of "A thousand people, and vanished
beforc their eyes into region of country lew nav
over visited; region springng from the suburbs %
our ancient and nunihcent Capital hko t"ine'-'
from throne unknown, unguarded' VSRue'
snlated For a single week that lonely Euoih HAM
xitb ten Thousand chaotic torches, borne py '"o
disconsolate furcs seeking the flying Nain ~ ~
The whippoorwill resumed its note the oW "0V'o-
Cts ancient interrogatOry, and the Mary i'hu
mined awhile in memory of the SOLDIERS ouei'e' V''
.hado,y fell AGAIN. az il forever. upo the pilgrim
land of the Calverts. like the black curtain OF the
tbeotre behind which the actor stole with MS up
lifted knife.-ncycr to roll up again never 10 DC
living stage.
TWO p1oTs, go YEARS APART.
Tho ,,,nuovder plot of Guy Fawkcs ana INC
,,atre nlot of Booth make the frame OF the couh-
trv south Of Washington City between the fo'ori"1
and Chesapeake. 1t was settled by the hhe"'"
C,,holic refugees of the time of Guy Fawkes; II Is
To-day the only original English Cathohc settie'on'
of any extent in the United States; the huil'"e
down Of Fawkcss comrades sixty miles rom L'i,-
don seems repeated III inc Chdsc III D'"'''
Catholic MARYLAND and the determination Oh MS "s
soc,atcs Perhaps hundreds of years VIII come an"
ro over that segregated population, and neitner
So, will arise nor an occurrence illustrate anything
,bere again. The people arc dying who remcmoereu
tlc events Of 1868 many OF them are aHe""S
dead. | talked TO well grown youths oven ~
voters native in the region, who could not reeoncct
,,i,g of that greatest crime in the modern world,
and had heard il muddled in tho hreslue talA %
their parents that they did not now complehchu
II. A voter in 1881 only five years ola III 800
Taking advantage of the brief spnng season III
This hot latitude, gathered few friends together
,mr;nr the week mast. and we sailed for the mouth
sf tho Potomac River and thence rode up the "hoie
AZ th, peninsula TO Washington City again by car
,ogc Tho features Of this ride will make news
naner chapter new in the long annals OF
Inv Tp,prxr: for there is hardly piece OF
country to lie found in America so little visited
At POINT LOOKOUT.
The steamer Jane Moscy, leaving Washington
AZ : o'clock D. H.. landed us at Point Lookout AT
m the morning Had we not been awaited by some
body We should not have known where TO sleep
Low marshy ground and water were all around U.s.
lantern led the way TO one of the only TWO houses
where our beds were ready. Point Lookout Is q
spit of land running between the Potomac anu
Cbcsarcoke about quarter of a mile wide at a
house is at tho head of the sand spit, and was
erected in 1890 1t is a brick house one story and
basement high with an iron inclosed Frcsncl llght
of the fifth class above outside Of the lighthouse is
a fos-ben put up in 1860, and run two hours OF
more al y SPELL by an apparatus governed 10y
weights descending into well. The Point Is cul-
tivablc at the lighthouse, and the keeper has a
pood garden nclosed. and keeps chickens and birds.
The land is not more than two feet above the beach
in all this quarter: the beach is narrow and con
tans few small pebbles and affords good bathing.
PIRACY FIRST MURDER FINALLY
Here June 3Oth Sunday morning, Sol, the first
net of piracy in the war was committed by Mary
landcrs led by Zarvona Thomas, called the French
Iady.p a native Of this county of St Marys as
sisted by George n. llolns late captain IN our
navy native of Baltimore. Thomas took passage
MT baltimore IIollins at Point Lookout having
marched nj the head Of band of men, led by a
forced guide. pointing the way along the roads
These MARYLAND pirates seized the steamer ran 1t
ovcr to the Virginia shore, and taking troops on
hoard there proceeded 10 capture inonenNve
Nnrfberu merchant vessels. Soon after Thomas was
capured at one of the bay ports, impudcntly going
TO Baltimore lie was confined and Is said to have
become insane
In this expedition was y man named Martin
MarClandcr who kept "A lquoT store IN Baltimore
On account of his connection with tins piracy ne
fled To Canada aud engaged III blockade runhihg'
His partner was the famous Ihoiadssen' or heiih'
,,bo blew nm the German steamship at Bremen
about 1879 Marshal Kane. of Baltimore. told me
that he Ind no doubt Keith blew up Martin, too, III
+bo closing wear of the war; having put Martin on
.hin loaded with goods to run the blockade and
heavily insured which was never heard OF again.
Martin. according to the testimony was the very
man who gave Booth letters of Introduction TO TINS
n.pion of Maryland, where he was native, and
Masbal Kane said that while he was flying with
Jefferson Davis from Richmond at the close OF the
war and heard of Mr. Lincolns being killed by
John Wilkes Booth, he exclaimed 81 have lettcr
IN that man Booth from Mr.. Martin IN Canada, 90
and hc hastily destroyed it, The internal CLOCK
,,sod hv Keith or Thomassen, was invented during
our war. and used to blow mp Union shipping at
Citv Point and it is proof of the general correctness
of Judge Advocate Holts prosecution of the assas-
aims of Mfr. Lincoln that lac put in his general
consniracyD the episode of the theological Tor
nedop without being aware of any OF the facts
have stated aud ten years before Ihomassen Die"
himself up.
Ilcre at Point Lookout began in 1861 the crime
which led 10 assassination in 1863 and IN 1879 To
the denoniac warfare upon the steamships ana IN
offensive passengers Of the whole wOrh NOT hn-
probably Martin gave Booth the suggestion OF these
Lower Maryland countries as Easy I" 0Sc"Po 'i' A.
Hollins died in Baltimore in 1875 at the age OF sew
eutv.nine-three years ago-a miserable creature
ON THE ROAD.
We left Point Lookout before noon on thursday
In a cramped carriage, driving ourselves ROM
Lookout is 40 miles from Washington Guy 10y
water and is popularity said to be equidls'ah' from
xvaohinoton Norfolk and Baltimore By land it it
scventv.eipht miles from Washington, and thirty
five miles from Charlotte Hall. We were all the
afternoon, stopping an hour for dinner in gong 10
California. a distance of about twenty miles Can