New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-06

AND CLEANLINESS.
Correspondence Of tbe grfsttnt
BALTIMORE, July 90
There is nothing, perhaps, more Characters
tic of Americans, and especially Of large Ameri-
can cities, than the fondness displayed for ex-
citement. Baltimore is just now passing through
one OF those periodical spasms which are gotten
up on the most serious as well as the most triv-
ial causes
The case with us is this: Anitinerant preacher
known as Blind Johnny, who has been for years
past using our market houses for his church, a
butchers block for his pulpit, and depending on
the attractive qualities of stentorian voice for
his audiences, has lately given offence both to
Catholics and to tavern keepers by the violence
with which he attacked the religious tenets of
the one and the every day practice of the other
| Riot was threatened therefrom, and complaint
| made to Mayor Hollins, who adopted the sum
mary, though, as it has since proven. uppopuIar
eXpedient of ending the difficulty BY ordering
the arrest OF the preacher at his next holding
forth.
This was accordingly dOue on Sunday last.
when Blind Johnny was suddenly interrupted
by the police in the midst Of his exordium and
the courage Of those who would have defended
him cooled by the exhibition Of the reyolyers in
the hands Of the police. This, however but in
creased the excitement, and the embarrassment
OF the affair The next day a selt-consttuted
committee visited the Mayor, and demanded his
reasons and authority for the arrest Of Blind
johnny, alleging that this act was an interie-
renee with the blessed right of free spcech a
destructive blow at the free institutions Of the
country etc. etc, The Mayor allowed himself
| to be drawn into a controversy with the dispu-
tants, IN which he made the most ridiculous and
untenable answers to the questions proposed.
and gave foundation for the very serious excite
ment that has since grown out Of the matter.
Meetings were held on the two following dovs
which were attended by large masses Of people.
lntammatory speeches made and resolutions
adopted denouncing the Mayor, and the princ-
| pie on which he acted, rs an invasion of the ripht
Of free speech, and requesting him to resign rs
unfit to occupy the position Of Mayor an Amer
| lean city. This latter request the Mayor hns
declined to accede to, and where the excitement
will end cannot now be precisely seen On next
sunday Blind Johnny is to assert his rights by
ag4in preaching in one of the markets and If
any interference is attempted riot will doubtless
ensue
The project of issuing the Cotton Plant
as daily hrst class commercial paper has
: hzzIed out The parties who were backing
Mr. Z. & Baylor IN the enterprise became auy
lous to know what it would cost to set the paper
| hrihly up, and ON hearing that thirty or forty
ihousahd collars would probably have to be
eAIehuca before II became self. sustaining, even
II proved eventually successful, they backed
out Ia alarm, and will hereafter be very wayy
Of engaging IN anything so unpromising as
newspaper speculatioh. Inc Cotton Plant it.
sen Is nor very Wen supported, and viii hardly
live to celebrate its hundredth anniversary.
The Medical and Chisurgcal Faculty OIL
haty anu nave recently Illuminated an cdict
ceIia practlceS which they consider not
p ~ correct dhey eAeommuneote
az "pualvoitIiea VINO WIN not cease Offering
9 T, Feniga.gs am quack medicines for sale
tuey d $50 ueclare 'he giving Of certificates as to
s se e.ieenoy VI quaeH medicines to be unIro
"n' threaten expulsion from
~, ~ "sa'hsl any physician guilty Of do
ny ~. lhe uaklng ana eompounding Of any
s,ai VIZ 'Ie we" TO IT'S helng sold rs
eo ,ne rg f p per eent3ge or any
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