Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-07-13

BAIrrnoRE. July 0. 1855.

what impaired BY much wear and
tear Of body and mind, aided BY, to
him, an entirely abnormal method Of
living, but you know full well that
the incest plans Of men and mice Of
tentimes come to grief, and this has
been his experience Of late. He is re-
minded Just here Of q remark that was
made to warm admirer Of the great
Irish patriot and crater, Grattan. who
was expressing the utmost surprise
that this gifted son Of the Green Isle,
since the amalgamation Of. the two
Parliaments, had not become the Lead
ing member Of the hybridous assem-
bly,. A cslsbrated wit, towhom these
lamentations were poured out, OBJ
served, that you could not transplant
tree Of forty years growth and ex-
pect it to thrive and branch out as Il
had done upon the spot where il sprung
into Existence. If this il true Of the
fruit of the acorn, it i eminentIy 90 Of
the man, who, born and reared in the
country, lived there for forty odd
years, luxuriating on corn bread, ba-
con and cabbage, oysters, fish and
crabs, is forced BY stress Of circum-
stances to become an inhabitant Of a
city, with not even the opportunity Of
a yearly trip to the place Of his birth.
The weather permitting. and the
Fates being propitious, on Tuesday
next q poor exile from home and
friends will launch out upon the bosom
Of the noble Chesapeake to makea pill
grimage hehasso long yearned for. and
II the pious zeal that burns within his
bosom, lacks the intensity and fervor
Of the holy devotee Of religion, who
wends his way to some sacred shrine,
the deficiency is fully supplied by the
warmth Of pleasure anticipRed, even
though the end in view is confessedly
Of an inferior and more selfish nature.
He hopes in a short time to visit you
in your sanetum, to make ample apol-
ogy to your compositors for the fire.
quency Of his lucubrations and the
length and lack of real interest which
have characterized them. This duty
being performed, he then contemplate,
with much pleasure, q trip through
and around your burg. to see for him
self whether the great improvements
you have so often spoken Of through
your columns are real and substan-
tial, or whether it was all bluff to
make the enforced residents of Port
Tobacco feel more miserable than they
naturally would Among the mate
rial objects that viii be missed, the
old brick Office, which stood its ground
when your correspondent was last in
Leonardtown, during the Court term
of March, 1876, will be conspicuous.
Old familiar faces have disappeared
in the last decade, which formed a
part and parcel of the ancient town,
prominently among them, that Of an
old college chum, G. Fred Maddox,
Leo Spalding, your quondam mer-
chant prince, and the writer,sesteemed
friend, Jim Downs, the liberal, large
hearted child Of fortune; and clev-
er fellow; Dillow, the silent but
social, ever wide-awake to catch
joke or participate in innocent frol-
ic; and Col. Jim Blackstone, always
genial, cordial and generous to fault.
While not of your town, there was
one 80 long and closely identified with
it, that he seemed almost to the "man-
ner born"-the late Judge Brent
your correspondents beau ideal of a
dispenser of justice, q gentleman and
patriotic citizen. When will South
ern Maryland ever possess his equal
again, in all the qualities that 90 to
make up q man, who came so near to
perfection
The rush TO watering places and TO
visit country cousins has served to
make business here very dull, which
will scarcely revive before September
sets in. The people who had Guiteau
strangled to death are getting up a
lively squabbls over his brains, but
he must be a man of small cerebral
force who thinks their report will not
fully justify the legal strangulation |
A truce seems to have been brought
about between the Sun folks and their
enemies, or the profound quiet that
reigns may be the result Of exhaus-
tion--n6 more powder and shell. Mr..
G. @. Fulton has sailed for Europe,
and we are promised many intertain-
ing letters from him. Many of your
readers, especially those in the decline
Of youthful vigor, will regret to hear
of the extreme illness of the estimable
wife Of Jno. b. Welch, both natives of
st. InigOes' district. of your county.
They were married fifty years ago, on
the first of last May. by the late Rev.
r. Fl. Mitchell, and the maiden name
of the lady was Ford, her grandfather
having settled in the lower end of the
county, moving there from the vicin-
ity Of Society Hill. FIVE or six miles
from your village. She has been a
great sufferer for months past, and
hes the warmest sympathies of very
many dear friends she has made in
this the home of her adoption. 1t is
to be hoped that the grave apprehen-
sions of those who know and esteem
her best will not be realized, but the
chances Of recovery are thought to be
very small.
The presidency Of the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal seems to have gone a
begging, and its condition is such,
with the prospects ahead 80 gloomy,
on account of the unsettled condition
Of labor in the coal regions. that few
men Of real character and ability care
much to be given charge Of the ele-