New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-10
Baltimore Correspondence.

Baltimore Correspondence.
MEMPHIS CONvENTION-OCEAN STEAMERs-sT4TE
LEGIsLATURE-sHIP CANAG-QUAKER PgTLAN-
THR0PY, ETC.
Correspondence Of tbe grfstrnt.
BALTIMORE, June 2
1t is now matter of certainty that the repre-
sentation from Baltimore and Maryland in the
Memphis Convention will be but a sparse one as
to numbers, and in weight und influence entire
ly out of proportion to the interest which we are
supposed to have in the deliberations and con-
illusions Of that body Some two or three gem
tlemen have left here for Memphis within the
last few days, but the efforts to send numer-
GUS and influential delegation have entirely fail
ed. The Hon John P Kennedy, Brantz Mayer,
Esq, editor of the American, John G.. Brown
Esq, the President Of the Board Of Trade, and
other gentlemen Of ability, who could have pro-
perly represented Baltimore, were seyeralIy So
hcited to attend the Convention, but on various
grounds declined. The whole affair, so far as
Maryland is concerned, has been badly man.
aged, and it is not likely therefore that Balti-
more will receive any advantage from a move
ment to which she stood godfather, hat which
she has now let slip beyond her control Not
withstanding, however, this failure to secure a
proper representation, the proceedings of the
Convention will be watched with interest here
The contemplated establishment Of a line of
steamers between this port and Liverpool has
already met with degree of encouragement
that will be effeetual in inducing its early de-
velopment The way has been judiciously pre-
pared for the enterprise, and Baltimore will not
have to depend entirely on her own capital in
the matter Sufficient will be raised (S1 ,O00,-
000) in this county to build and equip two
steamers, and parties in Europe who take an
interest in the project will furnish two others to
run in connection with the line. subscription
Of S25 900 has already been pledged by New
York house, and if $500, 900 of stock is taken in
Baltimore it is believed that the remainder can
easily be obtained elsewhere. 1t is designed to
make the line as far as possible the preferred
line for Southerners visiting Europe, and each
of the ships will touch at Old Point (not Nor
folk for mails and passengers before going to
sea-
see, by the way, that NewOrleans is also
moving in the matter of ocean steam connec-
tions, and that the splendid steamer Star of the
South, built entirely by New0rleans capital,
will ere this probably have started on her first
trip to NewYork. A line to Liverpool from
your city is also spoken of rs among the proba-
blities hope it may soon be a certainty II
is worse than useless for the citizens of this
country to be jealous or envious of the pro
gress of the commercial centres of their re-
spectiye State. The business of the world is
open to our grasp, and the field wide enough for
all without interference or collision. Let
enterprise and progress be every where encour-
aged, and the general good Of all parts Of the
country will be best promoted thereby
| Our State Legislature finally adjourned last
| night-haying done more real and practical
work in the last week of the session than during
| the previous months through which it extended
Baltimore has been more than ordinarily sue
| cessful in securing the Legislature she wanted
and, with the exception of the refusal to in
crease the capital Of her banks, has obtained all
the privileges she needed for the prosecution Of
her various schemes of internal and marine Inn
provement.
The Maryland and Delaware Ship Canal Com.
| pany will accomplish great desideratum for
Baltimore, without exhausting her means, as
the project is to be carried through entirely BY
foreign capitalists The Canal which il is pro
posed to build will commence on the Chesapeake
Bay, at or below the Sassafras river, and run
ming through the peninsula formed by the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware, will
enter the Delaware Bay near Cape Henlopen
| The canal is to be one hundred feet wide, and
capacious enough for ocean steamers of the first
class. The company has 50 600 600 of capital
with the privilege Of increasing it to any re-
quired amount The object of the canal is to
AVOID the circult0us navigation of the CheSq-
peake, and the passage around Cape Charles,
| by which our commerce now seeks the northern
ports. It's completion will bring Baltimore $50
miles nearer to Newlork and Boston than she
now is by sea- and will shorten to the same ex-
tent, the voyage of a vessel bouHd to Liverpool
or eny part Of northern Europe. New York
capitalists have the enterprise in hand, and its
consummation is regarded as entirely certain
Moses Shepard, II rich Quaker bachelor Of
this city, has devoted the sum Of $500 900.
nearly his entire fortune, to the building and
endowment of an insane hospital in this vicn-
ity. The necessary act of Incorporation has
been obtained, and active measures TO put this
magnificent charity into operation are to be
Immediately taken. The affairs Of the Hospital
will he managed by Board of Trustees com.
posed of Friends, but its doors will lie open Il
the INDECENT insane Of all sects.
The brig Oneeo, which arrived at this pert
yesterday from New Orleans, has a handsome
block Of marble, the contribution of the State Of
Iowa to the Washington National Monument
Nessrs, Adams s. Co.'S Express transferred Il
" wsthir5ten frss Of chsyss QssaKrks