Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-09-30


raj Advantages q our Section aud sug-
gests tina; Oyster-Cul;nre in our Land
lock Creeks Offers Tempting Inducements
To wes;ern misunderstanding About
the People of Tidewaier Maryland and
the Country They Inhahii-Milwaakee
Complimented.
Gen BradleyT johnson, Of Baltimore.
is now on visit 10 his friends and relatives
in this city, ON his way 10 the Pacific coast.
4 reporter Of the WTxconsiR called on him.
this morning. and requested him "a give
ANY views that he considered interesting to
the Milwaukee public. Il do not know
that know anything that would interest
them" the General remarked. "bat l do
know something that they could make very
profitable 60 themselves You have the
most beautiful city ON the continent, with
out exception. Yoar climate Is perfect,
and your people are hospitable, cultivated
and patriotic l know no such collections
of magnificent dwellings anywhere as are
On Grand Avenue and Prospect Avenue
in fact, cn almost every street in your city
The architecture is remarkable for its varie-
~, and for the skill and genius OF which it
Is the exponent; and the interior decora-
ton Is far superior tai anything usual among
" in the Sonth. Some Of the houses here
are the finest have ever seen. aud the PEG
pie are worthy OF their hahitationS You
must know that knew Milwaukee when
it was a small town, and when the HIii~oH.
81" was an infant. | have seen the one
grow into this magnificent city, and the
other develop into ono Of the political ami
intellectual powers of the Northwest en-
tirely by the devotion, integrity, force and
pains of its editor in-chief and owner. and
| am So much pleased with the progress of
Milwaukee that would like TO secure some
of il for my own people.
For generations all the ambition, enter
prise and energy of the country has been at
tracted to the Virgin West, and the men
and means of the East have built it up into
the great power it at present is. But in
our country there are as great undeveloped
resources as are ia your Gogebic region, or
your forests, or your agricultural lands.
In few years, when this country mas been
fully occupied, the more enterprising spirits
among you will begin Ia turn your faces
southwark. The movement has already
commenced, and in Virginia there are set
Elements of Michigan farmers who are
making that country blossom as the rose.
Land in Virginia and tide-water Maryland
in many places is cheaper than here, and is
more profitable investment. | know
magnificent estate on the James River of
l 200 acres, bottom land, with castle of IA
house on it that in 1855 cost 100000 Ia
build, which can now he bought for S4O,-
900: and all through that section similar
opportunities exist for investment and i'm
provenent.
TIDH-wATER MARYLAND.
The peninsula formed 10y the Chesapeake
and the Potomac, consisting Cf the counties
of st. Mary's, Charles and Calvert, in Mary
land, is, in my opinion, the most heaven -blest
country in America. ST. Mary's County is
a particular illustration of what | mean.
II, hes between the Potomac, ten to twenty
miles wide, on the south AMI west, the Pa
tuXent, five 10 ten miles wide, on the north
and east, and the Chesapeake. Bay on the
east-a long, narrow peninsula from ten to
fifteen miles wide, and at no place more
than five miles distant from navigablc
water. The climate, tempered by the wa
ter in the summer, is cool and salubrious,
and in the winter the waters of the bay
and the rivers, warmed 10y the Gulf stream,
prevent any extreme cold. Roses thrive in
the gardens until Christmas, and violets
open in February and March. The waters
afford oysters, crabs, every variety of the
| finest fsh-the sheephead, the Spanish
mackeral, the rock, the white perch and all
the water game-the canvas back, the NAL
lard, the red-head, the blue-win teal. geese
and swans; while the lowlands give You
wOodcock and snipe, the uplsnds, quail and
pheasants, and the marshes sora and ortn-
lands by the million. The land has been
exhausted by two centuries aud a half nf
merciless cultivation, but its quality l.
proved by its endurance for so long time.
Money. labor and fertilizers will make il
better than your very best prairie. We can
raise So bushels of wheat and 20 barrels Of
corn per acre, and 30 bushels per acre Of
wheat on land properly cultivated and fer
tilted is fair crop. Every farmer can
send his product 10 market in his own boat
/ if he pleases, and the rivers and the bay re-
main bulwark against monopoly as long As
the tide ebbs and flows and wssgr runs This
country is more secluded from the world than
! the more secluded parts Of ynn-ssnte. Its in
habited by race of people pure, high
| spirited, honest, honorable and patriotic
This original Maryland stock from tide
water has furnished all the great men that
/ the state has ever produced.
"ln:St. Mary's is the seat Of the foundation
of Maryland, the first state in all the world
founded on the basis Of free speech and free
1 thought The principles offhe fathers are
held and pracsiced by their descendants.
and every decent settler win be received
with that degree Of respect that his character
and his department entitle him to. This
section Of the country possesses mines II
wealth which are inexhaustible, and which
grow by being taken from The Chesa-
peake and its tributaries is ihe home of the