Saint Mary's beacon., 1883-08-16
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passages. I helI bfeskiass At Her.
heFk Moore's house. of spots. rock,
soft cEabs. dsvilsd arabs and oysters,
al fresh. al iast out 81 The water,
and besides there werg enps, chickens.
steaks. chops aud bread and butter,
al perfect. II VS. eli Mnryland fare.
cooked IA tbs plain Maryland style.
and served on clean and simple tshls
furniture. GOT no such breakfast
last summer either at the Continen-
tai At NarraeAnsotE nek the Ocean
House at Newport. and | do not BE-
lisve such IN one can ~ either fur
nished or cooked there.
The lavaxns eka flled with sunmoz
visitors, mostly from Washington,
though few Baltimoreans are there.
They sleep and eat, and boat and crab
and fish. and 90 On watermelon par
ties, and are as happy as can be.
The charges are S25 per. moath. Ik
is not swell, however, and Is actually
questionable. and 50 when we want
to ape foreign fashions and initiate
foreign ways we 90 to Saratoga aud
Newport and Mount Desert and pay
S. per day. Chacssn a sOn 0Osst.
From Leonardtown the road keeps
pretty much the high land until it
reaches Great Mills, IL miles of,
where Hon. Jos. Aston, the present
Senator from st. Marys, has lovely
modern residence, wherein he dis
penses generous hospitality. Thence
Ia seven miles TO Sc. Mary's city, on
the st. Mary's river. There 10 no
place on the continent of such beauty
Of its kind. All scenery impresses the
beholder with pleasures Of different
degree and variety. The mountains
and the ocean have each their partic-
ular delights; but for woodland and
water, for bill and vala; for the glis-
tening silver Of the waves and the
varying shadows of the Of forests for
the dashing of the tide on the shore
and the breathing Of the wind through
the trees. no spot that / have ever
seen anywhere has the charm Of st.
Mary's.
The st. Mary's river il broad arm
OF the Potomac, reaching probably
fifteen miles inland, with water so
bold that vessels carrying % feet
come to q short wharf. It is q sue
cession Of lakes or bends stretching
out in broad sheet, and then half
divided by promontory protesting
into it first from the one side and
then from the other. The site Of the
old State House is one Of thess little
capes, aow known as Church Point.
After the removal to Annapolis tho
old State House was used for . while
as an ordinary" bat was soon turned
over to the parish Of William and
Mary as the parish church, and in
1907 the point. together with thu
building and circnmjacent land, was
regularly assigned to it for church
and glebe land.
Just below Church Point, probably
mile and quarter of, is ChanceIly
Point, where Leonard Calvert landed
March q. 1854. and marched with
bis comrades in procession by the In
dian town TO the end Of Church Point,
where q cross was erected and under
great mulberry tree mass was cele-
brated. Hethen purchased the town,
wigwams and all, and moved his set
tiers into it--thns forming the first
government in Christend0m where
the policy Of religious toleration was
preached, and where the principle
was first proclaimed. The site Of the
city is now owned by DIR. Jno. NJ.
Bronze, a gentleman Of wealth and
culture, and full Of the local traditions
which sanctify the place. The Gov
ernors house was . brick building,
surrounded by brick wall, built near
the Governors spring. OF il the lines
of the foundation can be traced. Tho
mulberry stood until the last year or
two, dead and dry, and some time
ago having been blown down by q
storm, it has been cut up and lodged
IN the gallery Of Trinity Church for
preservation.
The old State Honse was built soon
after the restoration in 1860. II was
a building in the form Of q cross, with
four equal arms, rising to q fair eIe-
walton from the ground, and was di-
vided into separate rooms for the Cen
ersl Assembly, the Governor and
Council, the provincial court and pro-
badly the register Of the land Office.
It was used a. the church Of William
and Mary parish until Trinity was
laid off to it, and thence-forward bs-
came Trinity Church. DR.. Bronze at
tended it as a lad, and recollects it
perfectly. The partitions were all re-
moved and the whole building thrown
into one. There was @ negro gallery
on one side, into which they got By .
steps or ladder placed on the outside.
In 1929. the church needing repairs.
the then rector advised the vestry 20
use the material in building q new
one, which was done. and plain brick
building erected in its stead. The
walls og the cid church were 20 firm
that sometimes the bricks had TO be
broken to get them down. The pre-
sent church is mainly constructed Of
the old material. and the rector, yes-
try and ladies are making strenu-
ous effort to raise funds 70 repaiE and
embellish the present plain building.
They hope 20 use the old mulberry
for part Of the woodwork Of the new
chancel. Behind the church tradi-
/ tion locates the va1lk IN which lie kha