Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-31
Editors Correspondence.
From our Baltimore Correspondent

BALTIMORE, July 80, 1852
The only business transacted in our goodlie
city at this time save and except the purchase
and sale of the necessary household provisions,
| is altogether Of political character If, in
passing along Baltimore street, you should meet
a business friend or acquaintance and should
accost him with the usual question, elbows bust
ness to-day" he will raise his head, look and
stare Mt you MS if he had lost his WITS and, after
somewhat recovering from his astonishment, you
will hear coming from between his lips an ex-
preston something like the following: "Yes,
think we shall carry New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Massachusetts, Louis" but stop, my
good friend, say you, asked you not how Gen
erals Scott or Pierce were going to run for the
Presidency, but simply how is trade. Your
! friend will then open and rub his eyes as if he
had just awoke from Rip Van Wrinkle nap, and
reply, "Well, l had really forgotten that any
business expected of US until after the Presi-
dental election. How matters and things have
been going at the store for the last few weeks,
I am entirely ignorant you must so and ask my
clerks"
This is no joke; for such is the life we are now
leading, and such it will be until the ides of No
vember show us that the people--the masses
the honest, sober, thinking men-the men who
will not pin their coatsleeve to the collar of mere
politicians-have rolled sufficient number of
unbought votes to place the hero of hundred
battles in the Presidential chair.
You, Mr.. Editor, know something about the
politics of Baltimore; you know that our loco
friends are in the habit, when well organized and
united, of rolling up their fifteen hundred and
two thousand majority for their candidates. This
| say you know; but, not being in our midst at
this time, you, Of course, are not aware Of the
curses cloud and deep" that are hourly made at
the course and result of the late Democratic Ma
tional Convention. Baltimore city,-nay may
say nine tenths of the Democracy of old Mary
land were in favor of the nomination, and firmly
welded to the fates, of the statesman of Michigan,
Hon. Lewis Cass 1t is hard for them to give
him up for man of yesterday; they will not
give him up.
Although they seemingly acquesce in the decis-
ion of the Convention they will not support Gen.
Pierce at the ballot-box. A great many of them,
enough tc secure majority in Baltimore, will
either slyly vote for General Scott, or will stay
home and not approach the polls. The prediction
| am about to make you may think wild one
you will think so, because you are not upon the
spot, but make it fearlessly The prediction is
this, "Old Fuss and Feathers q adopt the SOU
briquet) will carry the City of Monuments.
The locos are moving all above and below to
help them, but their ward meetings so far have
presented beggarly account of empty benches
none of the old familiar war horses Of the party
can be found there. Where are they? is the ques-
ton. The only answer is, they will not consent
| to throw aside wel-tried man for one whom
they know nothing about They wW not UOte.
Tomorrow we expect our boys home from
Lundy's Lane. They will have good account
to give of that glorious gathering, full partcu-
lars of which will furnish you.
The announcement by Telegraph of the loss of
our well-known and distinguished fellow-citizen,
]. ]. Speed, esq, by the sad accident which oc
CURED yesterday to the steamer Henry Clay on
the North river has cast gloom over the entire
city. Mr.. Speed was lawyer of eminent ability,
and, independent of his profession, had become
worldwide known for his mastery letters against
reputation. To Mr.. Speed are the citizens of
Maryland in a great measure indebted for the
high position she holds at this time as solvent
State Upon his excellent and forcble arguments
the State legislature acted in resuming the pay
ment of dividends to her foreign bondholders
Mr.. Speed had been frequently spoken of as the
next Wing candidate for governor Of the State
and, had he lived, would doubtless have received
that distinguished honor He was aged about
fifty years, and was never married. The fortune
he leaves (the result Of close and attentive app-
cation to business) is ample. PATAPsCo.
North CAROLINA ELEcTIoN.-The elections in
North Carolina for governor, members of the
legislature, and county officers, take place on
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