Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-07-06
Editorial correspondence-No. 8.

Few cities in the Union have advanced more
rapdly in the past few years than the city of Bal
timore Hsr advancement has not been of that
chance and casual kind, which is not unfrequent-
~ seen in other cities, dependant upon ADVENT
t:ous circumstances, and terminating when the
breeze which has waited them into existence, has
ceased 10 blow. On the contrary IT is the result
of long continued and unremitting effort, of de-
gree of foresight and vigilance aided by energetic
action, which has seldom been surpassed, and
never fails eventually TO produce its rewards
More than twenty five years ago she embarked
alike her individual and cooperative capital in the
great enterprise, whose completion to our city we
have SO recently witnessed. Scoffers laughed, and
the sounlest and mot mature iudI ments regard
ed the enterprise as wild and chmercal. The
project of uniting the Chesapeake with the Ohio,
by means ola railroad, which should pass through
the almost UNEMPLOYED Businesses of the Alleghe-
MES, was proposition so magnificent yet so diff
cult, and novel that the cotemporaneous
mind may we'll be excused for not having the re-
quislte amount of faiths and sceptcism itselfwould
hardly belong to the not venial faults. Not So
with the city of Baltimore. Her leading minds,
chief among whom stood the venerable Carroll, of
Carroilton, saw in the inevitable commercial re-
SutLS VI SuSu TIC SudIdlllGS
of its ultimate completion, and the result has
than justified their most sanguine expectations
Unexpected difficulties. ii is true, long delayed the
completion of the great work. The conflict for the
right of way with the canal company, extending
through period of many years; the imposing
fnanc ial troubles of the Van Buren, Administra-
ton, eecting eve;y great interest of the country
and the want of what the company deemed the
CO..
Pennsylvania may be mentioned me of the
incidents which long delayed the accomplishment
Of the great design. Some ten or twelve years
ago the road reached Cumberland, and since that
period the good effects anticipated by its founders
have been felt by every interest in the city Of Bal
timore. Her commerce has been trebled, her area
and population widely extended, and every por
ton of the city presents air of activity, energy
and vitality. Her railroad connections are ex-
tendingia every direction, on side tapping the
Central Pennsylvania railroad at Harrisburg, and
on The U'ht reaching south through Washington,
Richmond and Charleston, to New Orleans, and
NoTthwart. 10 Philadelphia and New York-while
these great routes extend, by lateral roads in ev-
cry direction, through the regions which they
pass, thus uniting every section of the country
10 participate in the fruits of her labors. Balti-
timore is the third city in the Union in population
and commerce, and we presume that as point OF
purchase for Southern and Western merchants it
presents attractions in respect inferior TO those
presented by Philadelphia and New York. Her
importing faculties equal to theirs, willie She
possesses advantages in being nearer TO the pun
chaser, which they do not She is now actively
enrage in arranging for first class line Of steam
erS for Europe, and we doubt not that the same
success which has thus far crowned her efforts on
land will crown her efforts TO unite by steam the
Ohio with the Messy; and with the combined in
duccments which Baltimore will then offer 10
Southern and Western merchants, she must be
moi only the powerful, but the successful rival OF
her Northern s'Sle:s. We are deeply interested in
the success Of this enterprise, asst will furnish
additional and enlarged inducements 10 trades
men TO pass through our city, making necessarily
many purchases here OF our manufactures. No
one seems to doubt for 4 moment the speedy con-
summation Of this movement.
WASHINGTON AFFAIRs.-rhere has been several
l:sgnations in the departments, and among them
is one $500 clerkship, and one 1000 post.
The classifying OF the clerks in the General
Post-offce, in such Mariner that they will stay
classified, proves to be no easy matter, and it is
now doubted whether the job will be completed
under several weeks.
H. H. Heath, of Michigan, has been promoted
10 the chief o! the division of the General Land
Office, under the acts of 1850 and 1852. Salary
$500
8J-The Memphis Express Sthe case of Spald-
ing VS.. the Corporation of Baton Rouge, for dam
ages laid at 50 800, for the seizure of their Float
ing Palace by the authorities of said Corporation
last winter for refusing to pay the usual circus
tax, was decided by the U. S. Circuit Court, at
New Orleans, last week in favor of the Corpora
lion. The license set up by the plaintiffs TO navi
gate the waters of the United States, giving
security that the revenue laws would not be VIC
lated, was considered by the Court as extending
to vessels engaged in commercial business.
G~The New York Express notices the death OF
Mr.. ElrLu Townsend, of tat city, who d.
rector IN the New Haven Railroad Company, and
who was so much Effected by the dreadful accident
at NoIwalk, that he made sick. He contin-
ned sick with occasional changes for the better
until he died on Sunday evening last. lie
man greatly esteemed and had been leading man
in business aud in the public affairs of New York
city.
10. o. FAT the Annual Communication of
the Grand Lodge, he'd in Richmond, on the llth
OF Apul last, there were in Virginia 100 Lodg s,
and 6sl9 members. The Lodge receips for the
previous year amount to sS5,157 &c. limitations
79s. admitted by cards 1911. Deaths, 20. Num-
bsr ufbrothers relieved, S94. Number of widowed
families relieve', SO. Amount paid for relief
SIZES %. Amount paid for the education of or
phaus, sI,79s 80.