New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-28

THE EQUINOX-LIyELY TIMES-BALTIMoRE FAIRS
MAINLAND AND DELAWARE SHIP cANAL-GU-
ANO EXCITEMENT -EoCLEsIAsTICAL--A VEL
COME HOME.
Correspondence Of tbs Grfstfnt.
BALTIMORE, September 20.
The Equinox with its vicissitudes of storm and
calm, rain and sunshine, is upon us, and the
falling of the leaves admonish us that autumn
is passing and winter will be quickly at hand.
The extreme and continued heat of the summer
has, however, rendered any change grateful,
and even sudden transfer to surly November
a modicum of grumbling
With the lassitude of the warm weather has
fed the dullness that hung so heavily over our
city during the summer, and l have rarely
known Baltimore more animated or attractive
than at present. Signs of business activity and
of prosperous progress are every where mani
fest, and the pursuit of pleasure and of wealth
are alike calling out the full exertions of their
votaries. Every avenue of travel is thronged,
and our hotel keepers have the extension capa-
city of their accommodations fully tested 1t is
true that most of the throng are mere birds of
passage, en- route to New York and the Crystal
Palace, but still our city derives animation from
their transient presence, and our business men
profit from the supply of their wants. Our an
nual Fairs--the exhibition of the Maryland In
stitute and the Cattle Show of the State Agri-
cultural S0ciety-commence early in the coming
month, and hold out promise of unusual inter-
est and success. Extensive arrangements have
been made with our railroad companies for the
adoption of such rates of fares as will induce a
lar IF VII IL
their continuance The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will issue round trip tickets at low
| rates for points far West as Louisville, by
which the holders will be enabled to visit Balti-
more, Philadelphia and New York. The address
before the Agricultural Society will be deliver
ed by the Hon. Caleb Gushing, Attorney Gen.
eral, whose rumored Young American proclivi-
Tres will make an address from him on any sub
ject matter of much anxious interest.
| The ship-eanal which is to connect the waters
Of the Chesapeake with those of Delaware Bay,
Will probably be constructed without delay. An
old charter granted by the State of Delaware in
| 1888, the grantors of which are still alive, has
been revived, and the friends of the enterprise
are thus relieved from the necessity of waiting
the action of the State Legislature. The books
VIII be opened on the 9th instant, and as par
ties In New York are prepared at once to take
the entire stock, every obstacle to the immediate
L
tlmore will then be twenty miles nearer to Cape
iienlopen than Philadelphia, and the distance
| between Baltimore and New York by sea will
he reduced two hundred and fifty miles, or less
than half what it now is
There has been considerable of a guano ex-
citement In our city for some weeks past The
| demand for this compost so far exceeds the re-
cepts here that on every arrival the office of the
agents is thronged by an excited crowd, who, in
their anxiety to secure their purchases, make
sundry exhibitions of bad humor towards each
other, and join in general chorus of denuncia-
ton against the monopoly by which they are
made to pay double prices for. an insufficient
supply OF this important fertilizer.
| One Of the recent Bulls received from Rome
| elevates the Very Rev. II. d. Coskery, Vicar
General OF Baltimore, and chief Pastor at the
Catholic Cathedral, to the Bishoprick of the
newly created See of Portland. Mr.. Coskery is
great fayorite here, uniting the most urbane
and pleasing demeanor with great talents and
piety. He was a particular friend of the late
Archbishop Eccleston, and seems to have formed
his manners after the mode that made that Pre-
late SO highly respected even by the most ultra
Professionals.
The last steamer brought back quite a throng
Of Baltimore absentees, among them Mr.. r. Bar.
mum, the popular and every where known host
of the hotel that bears his name. His friends
were on the qti pire to welcome him back. and
one of the rooms at Barnum's last night no.
echoed to the good wishes and merry Thoughts
Of the throng that surrounded their returned
friend and companion. Poor Mcllhenny. who.
if alive and present, would have been foremost
in the fun, was not forgotten, and many remem
brances were recalled Of him OBSERVER