Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-07-06
COM M u NICATION.
For the Port Tobacco Times.

Mr.. EDITOR: am much gratied to learn
that those truly liberal and en,erprising mer-
chants, Messrs. F. s. A. H. DODGE, of
Georgetown, D. c., have determined, if suf-
ficlently encouraged, 10 run their steamer
Salem, regularly, once or twice week, for
passengers and all kinds Of freight, between
the District and Port Tobacco and Mamie
moy creeks. This enterprise has strong
claims upon the favor and patronage of the
public, and, if successful, there can hardly
be doubt will prove greatly beneficial to
the people of that part of Charles county,
particularly the Farmers and Planters.
The Salem is better calculated for this
trade than any boat that has yet appeared
in the waters Of the Potomac She will 90
with ease twelve miles an hour, and draws
SO little water, (only 3 IL to 1-2 feet,
sha. she will without difficulty navigate al
most any part of the above creeks. Her
decks are remarkably ample and convenient
fcr boat OF her tonnage, and she will car
~ safely under couer from 9 to 800 bushels
of grain. Her commander, Capt. BAKER, a
steady, experienc edman, is in every way we'll
calculated to give satisfaction. Indeed, in
my opinion, he deserves we'll of our entire
community, for it was 10 him, together with
the spirited owner and gallant volunteers in
this very boat, we are indebted for the prompt
and vigorous pursuit and capture, and bring
ing to Justice of the recent Abolition abduc-
tors of between 20 and so slaves from the
District and adjoining counties of Maryland
and Virginia-an invasion of our domestic
peace and interests never before equalled in
boldness and audacity in the disgraceful
History of abolitionism.
will venture, Mr.. Editor, to mention
some Of the advantages Of this movement,
which. If successful, may be reasonably ex-
Pec.ed. The price of the principal agricul
turaI prodsc,s of Charles county is nearly,
il not quite, as good in the District of Co
qumbia as in Baltimore. The prices cur
rem. OF Wheat, Corn and Tobacco prove
that. Then there will be the difference in
freight, and the farmer will not be obliged
10 employ commission merchant to sell
his produce as in Baltimore. The Captain
of the Salem, in whom every confidence is
to be placed, will undertake to dispose of it
in the best manner, either in Alexandra,
Georgetown or Washington, all the Wheat,
Corn, Oats and Tobacco that may be sent
by him. In Georgetown there are now five
regular milers, having control of as many
FIGURING and grist mills, that can manufac-
ture 800 barrels of -four per day, besides
cornmeai, and the demand for Wheat and
Corn, besides that in Alexandria, is always
active, and the supply frequently below the
demand, so that the miilers are sometimes
obliged to charter vessels to bring up wheat
and corn by the river from Baltimore; and,
besides the advantage Of quick return, the
farmer who ships by the Salem will nett as
much for his wheat in the markets Of the
District Of Columbia as any other. Again,
il the boat should run regularly, once or
twice week, all the mich cows, (and bye
the bye experience has shown those from
Charles county TO be better for town than
any other, calves, lambs, shoats, timothy,
potatoes, melons: &c., things for which there
is now little or no market, will find very
ready one at good prices by the steamer
Independent of this the dealers and traders
use such things, the hux,ers and butchers
will speedily avail themselves of this new
source from whence they may be convent
emily procured, and will no doubt come
down and purchase from the producers at
their oacn doors: Goods of all descriptions,
J confidently believe, may be had on as good
terms in the District as elsewhere. Those
spirited merchants, Messrs. Dodge, of
Georgetown, and Lambert s, Mckenzie,
Fowle & Co., and others, of Alexandra,
with their briggs and schooners, carry on
constant trade with the West Indies and N
Orleans; from them sugars and other groce-
ries may at all times be purchased upon the
best terms. The last cargo of beautiful Porto
Rico sugar, per the fine new brig Ana,os,an,
was sold by the Messrs. Dodge, the owners,
at only $4 to $4,75 per 100 pounds; and i.
is we'll known that dry goods, by retail, can
be purchased as cheap in the District as any,
1chere in the United States.
As laudable spirit of agricultural i'm
provemens has recently been manifested in
Old Charles county,-lhe birth place, feel