Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-25

fu grounds of Mount Clare This old mansion, which ye
survives is monument Of the past time. Is aspect il
lemn and scrupuousy arsocra'cand magnificent too 10
view Of the Of that day. One may fancy the Tuy
Veolsn Of Wveey in its amplitude and grave dignity Of
terror with the old lions carved in that stscd rampant
on the pillars Of the gateway reminding Of the Baron of
Bradwardnes avoe bears II is bot few years since these
disappeared. And there fine overlooking the
town. picture myself the Barser there-no unlike the
old Baron, gather in many points Of charace-wakng
to and fro upon this terrace with bis arms behind him, in
mediation
"Stately step he east ava,
And stately slept he west"
Doctor Stevenson, also, built his house on the bill
the York Road, which is still to be there This
house, account of its elegance, called by envious
townsmen of that time Sevensons Follyn II was not
elegant costly. however, be converted by him
into smallpox hospital supported at his own expense,
when the stood in need Of it, noble act worthy Of
honorable commemoation now Of man whose genius was
equ, to his generosity.
The multiplied meet these new demands Of
business. We by this time recount some five or
bad index 10 the increase both Of the number and ova
habits of the inhabitants
In the year 1861 there is an irfux of inhabitants sent
bither by event which belongs melancholy psse
Of hstothe expulsion Of the Acadian French from Nova
Scotia upon the conquest Of that province by the British
You may find their story sung n the but sweet
and pantive strain Of Longfeow's Evangene. There is
nothing in human chronicle tender or more touching
than the fate Of that little colony, Of which fragment like
frightened birds driven by storm, lit down, weaed and brus
ed, at hearthsones. nation Of simple, vrtuous pea
driven from the homes consecraed them by the
affections of than century, and thrust almost pen
niess upon the world
/" Far asunder separate coasts the Acadians landed
Scattered they like fakes Of snow when the wind from
Strikes asant through the fog, that darken the banks of
Newfoundland.
Frendless homeless hopeless they wandered from city
From the cold lakes of the North to sury Southern
vannahs"-
Not iendess homeless, hopeless however, they
in Baltimore. Those who came here were received with
ready and generous hospitality They were at lodged in
private houses, and in that building Of Mr. Fotteras with
" the freesone corneso which alluded before-which
now empty Here they had quarters and established their
little chapel and il not long before these frugal and in
dustrious exes able construct small but
Portable houses upon South Charles street, giving to that
quarter it's designation of French Town. which preserved
within the memory of my boyhood. The names of Guro,
Blanc, Dashie Gould and others still remembered in the
descendants of that emigration Some years afterwards
catastrophe OF much revolving nature brought num-
Der Of kindred eIies from ST. Domingo, vho by natural
affinity, planted themselves in the district and enlarged
the limit Of this old French town.
have said that Baltimore had already begun throw Elk
Ridge Landing into the shade And now another triumph
awaited her, The days Of that other rival the doughty
Of the twothe days Of Joppa-began to be numbered
pa tor nearly fifty years the seat justice for Baltimore
county, which then, and for time afterwards included
the present Hartford within its limits. Baltimore town be-
coming the customary and avoe place Of business the
pie grumbed being obliged go to Joppa for their law
There was struggle of course, but ended in transferring
the county records to Baltimore and the first opening Of the
court held until better accommodation could be provided
in the great the markethouse. Thenceforh the
glory of Joppa departed with the magsers bench, and the
town has become but memory.
This event bears date l76S The triumph of city is
illustrated by concident fact of distinction. s1he
Mechanical Fire Company, the first company formed in this
city, the leader in long line Of kindred associations which
from that day this have devoted themselves truly beue
Iaptvv
disineresedness which be only found in the highest phi
anhropy An engine purchased, conjecture in Phi
adepha and. in order to be particular in weighty INST
er am enabled to say that it cost niney-nine pounds Ma
Tyland currency.
In due Of development get poor-house and
workhouse, thus aordng the world goe. in the appar
ion Of beggay and crme ndspuable sgus Of increasing
civilization.
Our public bridges a, this period begin to grow osena
tous The townspeope are wont to brag Of them. We
have several the Fahe chief one now, at
foot of Market streeto reach which, in ha. day. the
marsh undrained and deep, causewsy built from
Harrison street to the bridge.
In 1873 we get our first newspaper through the enterprise
u, Mr. Goddard, who then established The Maryland Jour
,al and Baltimore Advertiser. But fear not yet
,ery much of reading community for find what am
shamed see, that Mr. Joseph Rahel utterly failed in bis
emp to get up circulating library. Ten years afterwards
Mr.. William Murphy was more fortunate.
Is another evidence Of progress up to this date that
heatre for dramatic exhibitions now established in Bal
imore. Messrs Douglas and Hallam having made the ex
pertinent Of the public support first in warehouse the
corner of Market and Frederick streets, found sufficient
,ouragement to build playhouse Abemarle street.
rom that time down to the present. through many fuctua
ions in the public patronage, this city has been constantly
upPled with or theatres, in reference to which
nay be said that the Baltimore stage, its earlier day,
sustained with an amount of talent and managed with
rey very much beyond that which it exhibits to the later
generation. We have lost In the multiplication Of theatrical
companies much Of the higher qualities which gave excellence
the more limited NUMBER and which, Of old, commended
hem to the merited favor Of a refined population.
In the growth Of Baltimore, between 1852 and the date of
be revolution may observe that quite decided tendency
vas manifested in favor of settlements east Of Joness Falls
here parts of Old Town and Fels Point which the
present day retain the outward character of the oldest por
ions Of the city, The there indicate by their
he colonial era to which they belong. York and Lancaster
Exeter and Albemare, Queen and CRANKY tell their
history. The growth on the west Of the Falls though Of
aer period, much rapid AT the date of the
luton Market street offered to view respectable thorough
are, along which double line of houses struggled far
Liberty street, where Mr. Jacob Fe had built house su-
,eny large accommodate the Continental Congress which
hed its session there in December 1776. This building
still known Congress Hall, yet conspicuous survivor
many contemporaries which have long since sunk before
he march Of modern improvement The Streets after this
period, equally indicate their We have, in contrast
hose have before mentioned, the of Conway and
Barre Fayette and Greene, Lexington and Eutaw, fragrant
with the recollecons Of the Revolution of Bal
more taken IN the ITS showed the whole population
FIVE thousand nine hundred and thirty -four persons. and
the number Of houses to be FIVE hundred and sixty
in the war of the Revolution, Baltimore rendered good
service No population Of the extent throughout the
colonies contributed nobly that quarrel than
little town. We had men Of mould in those days who have
left he memory Of manhood behind them which proudly
perpetuated in the annals Of the nation You will allow
designate the head of these one whose name
familiar to your essJohn Eager Howard-,he young SOL