Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-08-10

bills neatly executed and - tItyp rices
sea rnnning, which every Minute
Threatened 10 sink The irAil craft.
lie had not forgotten 4 detail IL
that msmorabis night. ana Mr.
Seward stood dumb lisksn;ne 10 i
rehearsal q daring ia Which Is IIe-
ared = the principal character.
The past came before hin moro
sividly than ever, sid be was sEruc.
Cling 70 eive expression to the marsy
memories that uefe crowaing about
him.
Il uaz hard q leave. / took !
picture Of John Hewitt and anolh-
= y &C - - IN -
bis hand pIsced el|ectiousksly uIsn
the head Of his preserves Of thirty
sir years ago. sCast .yoar bread
upon the waters. Yes, that was
the text. and, hiding from the rest
OF as what he was doing. Mr.. Sew
ard placed . goodly sum in tho
hand OF John for bis poor aged
mother, aud another for himself.
And what Of John ? He hesitated.
looked in wonderment at the mon-
ey, protested, bot finally accepted.
de had not expected any reward;
he would have been satisfied With
that embrace. And so, with many
good-byes and God bless yous, we
departed.
1t was getting dark as We APP
preached Point Lookout, and 20
hurried on, reserving for the NOR
row an investigation Of the Rich
srdson house, where James Rich
srdson, with singular generosity.
gave the fugitive food. clothing and
money.
The Confederate xsnumsat.
just before the road leading to
the light house was reached we came
in sight of the monument erected
BY the State of Maryland TO the
confederate soldiers who died in the
prison at Point Lookout. tisa
plain shaft Of white marble erected
in the centre of well-kept lot, and
bears The following Inscriptions
s1sy6. Erected By the state Of
Maryland in memory Of the confed-
crate soldiers who died prisoners Of
war at Point Lookout from March
l, 1864. to june 30, 1866" On
another side "Total, 5000. OF
Virginia, GAO; of North Caroline,
962; South Carolina, PAS; George,
249; Alabama, 75; Tennessee, -63;
Louisiana, 3S; Mississippi, AZ; Flo
rida. 81; Kentucky, Is; Texas, 8;
Maryland, @; Arkansas, 4, Nilsson.
ri, 4. Total, 1856; confederate
States not designated, 61S." "At
the call of patriotism and duty they
the perils Of the field,
endured the trials OF prison and
were faithful even unto death.
lyon will notice" !" said Mr.. Sew
ard, "that this monument repre-
ssnts only those who died from
March /, 1864, to June 30, 1865.
Before that time there were many
more deaths"
A short turn of the road brought
us in sight Of Point Lookout, that
narrow strip Of Maryland pointing
its nose out into the Chesapeake
bay. was at once impressed with
the sdsptability of the place as
prison. With the bay on one side
and the Potomac river on the 9TH
er. nearly eight miles wide, IL be-
came necessary only to guard the
land approaches to insure the safe
~ Of the prisoners. Year By year
the .bay has been gnawing at tho
land, taking . little strip of every
big storm, until more than mile
Of the shore an acre deep has been
carried away within the last twenty
years. On the other side the Po-
tomac has not been such eour-
mand, and has taken comparative
lY little in comparison.
! Night at the psins.
Uncle Sam owns but very little
of the Point, only enough to hold
. light house and accessory build
ings, where buoys Of different kinds
are kept, to mark channels snd dan
gerous places. The remainder Of
the Point is used FOR farming pur-
poses By the sons Of Capt. William
IL. Yeatman, the veteran light
house keeper. II was only after he
had consulted long and earnestly