Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-20
Trade Of the District.

Trade Of the District.
1.-THE citizens of the District are right
ia drawing all the trade and travel they
can within their limits. They know how
to take care of number one; but it seems
that our legislators were not endowed
with the same wisdom. With an enor-
nous debt bearing heavily upon the peo-
pie of Maryland for internal improve
ments, they have thought it expedient to
pass acts to cripple those improvements,
and to concentrate trade in places out of
the limits of the State. baltimore Gin
per.
We thank the Clipper for its we'll
merited compliments to the good sense
and enterprise shown by the citizens of
this District in their efforts to construct
and work the Metropolitan Railroad. So
far as this great public improvement is
concerned, they certainly show that they
do g know how to take care of number
one" And we have no doubt they will
show the same zeal and industry in pa
tronizing other local works, as much
needed and as promising for the future as
this.
Our sea wall is to be built on the Poto-
mac, from the Long Bridge to the Ar
senal.
James Creek is to be converted into
ship canal, to conduct the coal trade from
Cumberland, through Georgetown, to
depot in this city.
The Metropolitan Railroad is to be
built, by means of which the national
metropolis will be profitably connected
with the great West, and it's trade and
travel led on to the Sacramento Valley
and the Bay of San Francisco.
In addition to these leading improve
ments, the city is to be better lighted,
supplied with more convenient markets,
with more eligible and higher class of
public schools; and, well nigh to crown
the whole, it is to be visited by cooling
and healthful streams Of pure water.
Iire la Uashmgton!
Now if the Clipper would lessen or re-
move that enormous debt bearing heavi-
ly On the people of Maryland" let it not
stand aloof, like pouting child, with its
chubby fingers in its puckcred mouth.
Let it, on the contrary, manfully put it's
shoulders to the wheel, and help roll off
the debt of Maryland by encouraging
judicious local enterprises in adjacent
parts ofthe country. Instead Of carping
and carking at the Legislature, let it
second the well-timed cnactments of that
body, to develop and bring to market
the res ourccs of large portion Of the
State.
What if Washington and Georgetown
shall reap some advantages from this
will not Baltimore reap them
in like manner? Or is it intended that
Baltimore, under the influence of such
blind guides as the Clipper, is to give us
a practical illustration of the dog in the
We would fain hope better
things of the beautiful and thriving mon
city. Let her lengthen her cords
and strengthen her stakes in this direc-
ton. Let her afford generous encour-
agement to the increasing trade of the
District of Columbia; and, instead of
her improvements, or those of
other portions of Maryland, her citizens
will find that they have increased them,
''some thirty, some sixty, and some an
hundred fold"
q Numbers Of our subscribers COM
plain of not being served regularly with
the Star. We are now making arrange
ments, which, when completed, will ena-