Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-15
correspondence or the Riehmsna Tin.es.

BALTIMORE. Jan. 1876, Pm.
Winter seems to have come at last. Snow N ow Gov
ers the ground alb woinches deep 1t is still cloudy
cold and very disagreeable No ice however, has yet
been formed.
The present week has been signazed with most in.
teresting event-the opening to Wheeling Of the Balt
more and Ohio Raro 3D. Those who went out to attend
the celebration stin Wheeling, having been de-
tanned there by land slide the road The party pur
pose leaving for Baltimore having abandoned
the project of visiting Cincinnati and Louisville as was at
first contemplated
Business on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will DO
fairly commenced next week. The communication
however, will not be perfect until the great tunnel is
completed, which will be probably in two months from
This date At present have to be drawn over the
inclined plane, elevation of 500 feet by machinery
which much retards their progress.
Baltimore builds large calculations upon the advanta
ges of this road to her trade and There
be doubt whatever that will prove Of vast import
ance in securing aud increasing Western trade
have an invoice Of $50 bales cotton already ship
ped from the West by this route. isthe first shipment
and bat the beginning ia promising end The expense
will be ouror five dollars less, than if shipped from
New Orleans The fact is applicable to flour,
baceo and other produce.
The city of Wheeling is also destined share largely
in the advantages of the opening of this iron highway
and profitable business. A commercial energy
must nfusesefino her citizens and they will begin
work up to the Onward progress ofthe age.
Tisis emphatically era of internal improvements
Men have ceased depend the ordinary channels of
Alone for their enterprises Electricity has been
called from the thunder clouds and given a tongue SO
that it speaks almost audible language, annihetng
time and distance. Steam has ploughed the mighty
main and made its pillows subsevient to the triumph of
h. 1IoIL H..
greater powerthat of Caloric. Whilst the iron sin.
of railroads stretching in all directions leveing
mountains crossing hills, valleys and streams these 9TH
err great triumphs give promise that continents will be
linked together and in the lapse of many years. the
whole world will become almost family circle
How stupenduous and submey beautiful and magniA
cont are the triumphs of genius and science And how
blessed are of the nineteenth century who enjoy the
privilege Of living tosee this glorious achievements
The time is now at hand for all the great commercial CT
ties to bend their energies towards the advancement
of internal improvements City is connecting with
city powerful rivalry secure trade and commerce.
Those that stand still and suffer others outsrip them
must feel the deeterous consequences An emulation has
been excited, which will not stop The great spirit of
go-ahead-a tveness is onward and upward.
Every day brings evidence of the advantages which
must result to Baltimore by the opening of this road
Merchants here receiving avices from the West
Produce, IN readiness to be forwarded, beyond prece
dent.
Business is steady. Flour is quiet at S. IS
SB5 %. Red Wheat I12 rs cents Corn So q 63
cents.
Provisions vary scarce. Mess Pork, new, $40 5O-
Beef ITO SIG. Bacon Sides 10a; Shoulders 81; Hams Is
49, cents for new. Lard in bbls 11a kegs l3
Coffee frm but unusually quet-Rio held ats ga
No sales. Stock on hand $4,000 bags. Sugar and Mo-
lasses very dull-no sales of moment.
Cotton has advanced cent during the week Sales Of
44a bales MddIng to middng Fair Uplands aud Gui at
81 104 cents-sx months. Stock on hand 1900 bales
Whiskey 24a 95 cents per gallon.
The Money Market very easy banks discountns
freely. J. w