Daily American telegraph., 1852-03-13

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lision - -Death--Theatres- Macalister-
Business, and the Markets.
BALTIMORE, March l2-l0 D. IN.
There is quite an animated movement now
making in our city with reference to extending
or building railroad from the terminus of the
York and Cumberland road at Harrisburg to
Sunbury and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. An
other meeting, in conjunction with a committee
from Pennsylvania, will be held in, this city to-
morrow. This is an enterprise altogether worthy
Of earnest attention. and am inclined to the belief
that something definite will be accomplished.
1t is full time that the citizens of Baltimore
should awake to the Importance Of encouraging,
! more energetically, the system Of internal i'm
! provements The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
was, believe, among the first roads of the kind
! commenced in the United States. This was over
twenty-five years ago; and yet not two-thrds of
| it is completed. We are much to blame
for being 30 slothful. We have stood shame
fully in our own light. In the North,
works of three-yes, ten times the magnitude,
have been projected, long since completed,
and almost forgotten. We have been lying
dormant, as it were, until our moro enter:
prising neighbors have almost circumuavigated
US with railroads, canals lines of steamers, pack
cts, &c. Though favored by nature in location,
other Cities by means of their superior enter
prise in the great work of internal improvements
have already taken away large portion of trade
naturally belonging to Baltimore ALI this, too,
results from want Of energy, and the true spirit
of enterprise in not completing, long since, our
railroad to the Ohio. The matter has now be
come serious, and we are only pushing the work
forward as means Of absolute self-defence. 1t
should have been done long ago. The increase Of
trade and the improvement of the value of real
estate in Baltimore, as certain result, would
have been enough at the present time, to pay for
constructing the entire road. In the city of
New York. it is not at all uncommon to see
small basement. not much more than large
enough to turn round in comfortably, rent for
twenty five hundred dollars per annum while a
room of the same dimensions in Baltimore, at
this moment, will not command more than one
hundred dollars. To what is this attributable :?
Nothing more nor less than the fact of the de-
mands of an enhanced and increasing business
and commerce. In the Northern cities, the ques-
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vestment in internal improvements railroads,
canals, steamers, &c., yiold, in the way of direct
diyidendsf but, How much will it enhance the
business of the great commercial emporiums, and
the value of property therein? If Baltimore capi-
talists had taken this view of the subject, they
would now be better off. They would not be
heard complaining of the cheapness of rents, and
the deterioration of business. 1t is never too late
to do good. Action, action, should be the motto.
1t appears that the infamous telegraph hoax
by the last steamer which arrived at Halifax, has
been pretty clearly traced to the individual and
party to whom alluded in a former letter. The
affair reminds one of McFingul's gun, which
"When aimed at duck or ployer,
Kicked and knocked Its over"
The party has been caught in his own trap.
The one who could perpetrate so pitiful an ut
tempt, deserves the full punishment of guilty
conscience.
collision took place tonight, short distance
below Canton, between tho express train going
out and the train coming from Philadelphia. The
cars ran into each other and several of them
were broken, but l believe no personal injury
sustained. The passengers walked into the city.
Mr.. George Williams, one amongst our oldest
and most respectable merchants, died yesterday,
in his seventy-fourth year, from heart disease.
Mr.. Murdoch is performing at the Holiday
street Theatre. He is superior actor
The Front-street Theatre is very fully attended
to witness the admirable spectacle Of the Three
Guardsmen.
Mr.. Macalister, the great magician, is perform
ing to full houses at the Mechanics Institute.
Business steady. Flour frmer. Sales to-day
1900 bbls Howard-street -four at $4. lS(DS4.25
Grain firm, unchanged Whiskcy, 2l@22c. No
change in other articles of commerce Provisions
firm Money easy. CHEsAPEAKE.