New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-23


Correspondence of tbr Grtserut.
BALTIMORE, June 10.
| The warlike tone of the European news has
broken in upon the general dullness, and its
discussion gives zest to conversation that is
invaluable to gosspers. Predictions as to what
will be the complexion of the next news are as
plenty as blackberries soon will be, and as va
RANT as those making them. No one seems to
fear that the United States will become en-
broiled in the difficulties of the powers on the
other side of the water, while it is taken for
granted that in the general confusion that must
follow in the footsteps of war we should secure
to ourselves the trade of the world; so that while
Europe was fighting for the balance of power,
we will add a weight to our end of the scale
that must fairly up-tip them all.
| The splendid new steamer building here for
the Charleston line is rapidly approaching COM
pleton, and will be ready for launching in the
course of a few weeks. She is of some 1900
tons burthen, and in power, model, and general
excellence of interior arrangements, is designed
to rival the 6rst-class steamers Of the New York
| lines
| The warfare among the cliques of our city
| and State democracy continues to be carried on
with q virulence and bitterness that has no
parallel even in the contests of the hunkers and
| barnburners of New York The Custom house
clique, who rule matters in our city, are the
common point of assault, and the war against
them has'at last eliminated in series of charges
fory-two in number, brought against their rul-
ing spirit, Mr.. John Kettlewell, and which have
been forwarded to President Pierce, with the
view Of inducing him to displace kettlewell from
| his post rs Naval Agent, to which he was re-
Gently appointed. These charges are understood
to include all kinds of moral and political dis
honesty and treachery, and have been formally
sworn to by their originators in order to give
them proper weight. Such state of political
ferment and wranglng have never before wit
messed and if the party here can be brought to
unite on any Of the many candidates for public
| public favor, it will furnish an example of the
" cohesive power Of public plumber" such as
even Calhoun never imagined when he uttered
that celebrated phrase.
Full power has been given by the Legislature
to our city authorities to provide for the intro
duction of an abundant and pure supply of
water, and arrangements are being matured to
at once secure this great desideratum for our
city The waters Of the Potapsco or Great
Gunpowder rivers will probably be selected as
the source of supply, and brought to the city by
an aqueduct similar to that used by the New
| Workers in introducing the Croton to their city
| Till this can be done we must be content with
the impure and deficient supply furnished by
the Water Company from Jones Falls
Another important municipal reform has Just
been sanctioned by our City Council in the con
solidation Of the present lay police and night
watch into an efficient body Of policemen, on a
plan similar to that now obtaining in New York
and Boston
| | am sorry to see, from remarks that appear
in the Bulletin, Picayune, and other Of your
| att Hat No. I+I-t
timore is especially the rival of NewOreans,
and that the Memphis Convention was gotten up
| by the business men Of Baltimore especially
with the view of attracting from NewOreans
| the trade she has so justly enjoyed This is, in
my opinion, entirely an erroneous view, and, 50
far as the Memphis Convention IS concerned
| those papers are probably convinced Of it by the
knowledge of the action Of that body and by
| the fact that Baltimore took SO little interest in
| it as not to have one man there who would prop
erly or efficiently express and enforce her views
| Baltimore, in her struggle for the tlade of the
West has had no thought Of riyallng or injuring
| NewOrlcans. She has, in fact, active and I'M
firing rivals so much nearer home-in Philadel-
| phia and NewYork-thAt she has not tine power
even il she had the wil- TO look 50 far away as
NewOrleans. The true state Of the case IN
| doubtedly, is, that all the Atlantic cities are
striving for the trade of the West, and that
! Baltimore having now completed her connec-
tons with the West, is for the first time able to
| assume a prominence in the struggle that has
| for the moment given her nOtoriety over those
| cities that have done more, and who, from their
capital and enterprise, are likely to still do
more in working that change in the current of
trade that is operating to the injury of New
Orleans. 1t is an obvious injustice, therefore,
and one which Baltimore cannot fail to feel in
her anxiety to cultivate kind relations with all
her sister cities Of the South, TO designate her
as especially arrayed against New Orleans,
Charleston, or any other of those cities
! Much feeling has been occasioned here to-day
| by the report by telegraph Of n threatened SER
| vile instruction in your city. 1t is hoped that
rumor has magnifed the danger, and that you
may be spared the alarm and necessary rieor
that must result from even an unsuccessful at
tempt Of the kind OBSERVER.