New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-16
Baltimore Correspondence.

COMMERCIAL. = GUAN0 NEW COAL CAR - QUICK
TRIP SHORT TOBACCO CROP - THE PRINTERS
AND THEIR EMPLOYERS - ADJUSTMENTS, ETC.
Correspondence Of the grfsffnt.
BALTIMORE, May Z, 1858.
The commercial transactions of our city during
the past week have been on a fair scale, and all
branches of business have been animated The
foreign exports of the week amount in value to
$312, S32, exclusive of a valuable cargo shipped
coastwise to California The imports have been
correspondingly large Though the breadstuff
market is dull and inactive, the exports have
comprised IA, l25 barrels of -four, 1896 barrels
of corn meal, II ,997 bushels Of corn and 6,30S
bushels of wheat Cotton continues to arrive
freely from the West by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, but is mostly sent coastwise to New
York and Eastern ports, the local demand here
being well supplied. The coffee market has he
come sensbly sitter since the receipt of Rio
| adyices by the Victorine. Tobacco sells as fast
as it can be inspected at satisfactory rates. The
inspections of the week have been I43 hhds.,
nearly all Maryland and Ohio
The Maryland State Agricultural Society has
appointed committee to urge upon the Secre-
tary of State the adoption of measures which
may induce the Republic of Peru to open the
guano trade to unrestricted competition This
in our States, and the high price at which it is
kept by the present monopoly is felt to be highly
oppressive as well as unjust.
rather curious and newly invented railroad
coal-car has been exhibited here during the last
| week, and excited some degree of attention. 1t
consists simply of large iron cylinder, on the
| outer rim of which are fixed the wheels The
interior is divided into two parts, and will con-
tain three or four tons of coal The whole cyl
inder moves with the wheels tn which 10 inn
movably fixed. When moving at a slow rate
the coal will of course shift about in the cyin-
der; but when the usual rate of speed say ten
to twelve miles hour, is attained, the centri-
fugal force produced by the rapidity of the mo-
ton holds the coal perfectly motionless The
objects sought to be obtained by the invention
are the saving of loss to the coal by the shakey
motion which causes it to crumble in the ordi-
nary cars, and the prevention of the friction of
axles, journals, etc., that now has to be over
come The bituminous coal of the Cumberland
region being soft and easily disintegrated, it is
supposed that the new car will prove specially
adapted to its transportation
Some of the passengers who left your city
little over week ago in the steamboat Reindeer,
reached this city the day before yesterday in
eight days by the Mississippi and Ohio river
route. The Reindeer took them to Louisville in
five days, where they went on board the Thomas
Swami, of the Union Line, and connecting with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Wheeling,
arriving here in the time mentioned above. 1t
is evident that this route from your city to the
North and East will be preferred by many
travellers during the coming season
The papers in the tobacco growing counties of
our State generally complain of the rayages of
the fly on the young plants. From this cause a
generally short crop is anticipated.
Notwithstanding the prohibition passed by
our over-wise legislators, the small notes of our
Maryland Banks continue to circulate as freely
and as largely as they ever did. No prosecu-
ton has yet been made under the law, and it is
to ll.intents and purposes dead letter.
The hard feeling occasioned by the tyrannical
conduct of the operative printers society has by
no means abated. The Argus continues to hold
out against them, and publishes its sheet daily
with very nearly the same amount of matter
Mr. Sherwood, against whom their attacks have
been partiularly directed, has established a
school to learn boys the art of type-settng, and
boasts that he will soon be able to supply the
offices with workmen. The result will be the
permanent establishment of offices opposed to
the society. The malcontents, it is rumored,
design striking on all the papers on Monday
with view of forcing the proprietors of the Ar
gus to terms
Amusements are mt a shocking low ebb with
us. The French and Spanish dancers have been
showing their limbs and agility at the Holiday
street theatre, but even their prurient exhibit
tons failed to prove payingly attractive. Mrs
Bostwick, | am sorry TO say, was but poorly
She deserved better. A new the.
atre is spoken of in the fall, but it will take
capital as well as talent to again put the drama
ialriy ON ITS legs IN Baltimore. OBSERVER.