Show hay day characters itis it is an interesting revelation of character to alie nort northerner berner to go down tile the chesapeake bay by any one of several steamboat team boat lines running from baltimore to points in maryland and vir on each shore of the bay the boath beat are of very different quality and speed from those that ply the east river and the hudson and the pas en et cr are usually bouth southerners outher erners ners or border state folks there is much talk of polities politics and huntin hunting gunning is the more usual term a great deal of tobacco chewing and an easy familiarity among the passengers and between them and tile the officers of the boat the voyage 0 aage on the chesapeake if talen taken by bj moonlight no or by day is as a s charming and varied as one could wish and the steamboats run up half a dozen tidal rivers that arc beautifully clear and lined with an all abundant semitropical semi tropical lr jr roith th of trees and shrubs here and there one catches a glimpse of the grounds rounds attached to a house having what rilanders Mii landers call a water sit situation U 11 ti 0 n and there are arc occasional stops stop at private wharves to receive as freight the products of one or more farms |