Daily American telegraph., 1852-03-05
The Scene on Board the Baltic.

The following occurs in the letter of 90 W. G.
S." in the Baltimore Republican and Argus"
of yesterday afternoon: i
at is evident Collins made q hit amongst
members of Congress by his noble ship 1t was
an argument that could not be resisted. All
theories vanish before things, where theories are
the opposite of the things. They who may argue
that the British could have been beaten in the
ocean steam-race by steamers of less power, less
cost and less expense than the Baltic, will speak
to closed ears, because the eyes of those ears
have seen how the great task was achieved. Look
out for Speedy and certain passage of bill
granting the Ajax of Atlantic steam navigation
what he wants to sustain his line against the
British treasury"
If the writer is correct in his predictions, 80
be it. The Collins steamers are worthy all praise
and encouragement, and their acknowledged tri-
umph over the British Cunard line is to us a source
of great qualification Congress is wise, and of
course win act with wisdom in the premises
and if it shall give bonus to this line, we may
thereupoG look for much more munifcent bonus
to new line to Africa, that the glorious designs
of the colonizationists may be efficiently pro-
noted These are subjects for statesmen and
politicians-not for us.
But a succeeding paragraph in this letter may
come within the scope of our comprehension. 1t
is as follows:
The scene of yesterday, however, on board
the Baltic, was dsgraceful in the extreme to the
six hundred unlimited guests who had the indeli-
cacy to rush in where they were not hidden.
They not only violated all the rights of private
hospitality, but outraged the ordinary decencies
of society. To see them seize upon and deyour
the dehcacies to which they were not invited
to witness their demolition and absorption Of
champagne bottles and their exhiirating con-
tents, intended for others--to behold the excited
mass making free with what they had no right
to, without blush Of shame-men and women
Observation-Disclosures one of French sans
culottes socialist scene of the I'd of December
with this difference in the present case, that the
actors belonged to the euloted gentry, or what
Bennett felicitously styles the Goldfish aristoc-
racy!"
We assure the writer Of the above that, how
ever the unlimited may have acted, it was the
invited, male and female, and the most respecta-
BILE of them, whose conduct was most exceptions
BILE. We are able TO prone this assertion. 1t was
not an irresponsible herd of nterlopers alone but
people who we're specially favored; and the
stigma shall not rest upon our city of having, in
mob-fashion, taken possession Of the ship. The
tickets of invitation we're very numerousy circu.
lated, and not demanded of those who had them
1t was therefore intended that the company
should be numerous and promiscuous. 1t was so
and it was to such a multitude that an immens
magazine Of 'ome was freely opened. The people
should not have drank it, to be sure but they wer,
men and women, and men and women do not al
ways resist temptation. We think we speak t.
the praise of our city when We say that, in the
midst Of n very extensive 6oosiment, the slightest
exhibition of strife or angry feeling was not
evinced.
Now to the point. The "big treat" Of Mr..
Collins was too bacchanalian for the cause OF
good order, too indicative Of a willingness to use
improper means Of promoting his objects, and
too munifcent in its costliness for one asking
aims, and is condemned in terms decided and Sc
we're by thousands in this community. 1t has not
promoted the cause upon which he is embarked.
nay" II is said that private party of hun
dred persons is not held in Paris without the
presence Of an agent Of police He comes un-
hidden by the host and when Intercepted, pri-