New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-27

BALTIMORE RiuMPHIHG-sorTHERN BAPTIST cox
EENTGOS--oBsCENE ADvERTfsEMFNTs-s STRIKES
AND POLITICS, ETC
Correspondence OF tbs grssetnt.
BALTIMORE, May 10, 1873
Our goody city having, after quarter Of
century Of incubation over her railroad connec-
tons with the great West, produced an offspring
that israpidly proving its ability to keep her
larder well supplied with the golden eggs OF
trade and commerce, is disposed to indulge in
some triumphant cacklings that sound musicaly
to her, though they may be dscordant 10 some
of her neighbors who do not enjoy the benefit
Of the aforesaid eggs, but rather consider them
as something Of which they have been wrong
fully deprived. After Il few years when the
Crescent City raises the shout of triumph over
the completion Of her great railroad enterprise,
and begins to feel the impetus that is thereby
given to every branch of industrial and com
mercial pursuits, she will understand the feel
ings that are now manifested by the press and
people Of Baltimore, and which break out in
assertions and predictions that are slightly dis
agreeable with exaggeration. But with all due
allowances, there is good foundation for the
views and feelings which our people entertain in
their city. The bulky and weighty evidences
Of cur close connection with the West are
brought to our doors, and appeal convincingly
TO our senses, the wheat of Ohio, the -four Of
Indiana, the cotton Of Tennessee, and the tobac-
co Of Kentucky, are now daily arriving, and we
welcome them as evidences that at least one of
the cities of the South has thrown down the
glove to the North, and in all amity and good
will announced her readiness to enter on the
Ct,-if ,sal,
been the blood and thews of Northern progress
and power. Baltimore will be glad to welcome
her sisters Of the South into the contest
The Southern Baptist Convention, which adj
-journed yesterday, resolved to make NewOr-
leans the central point of mission which is to
bear on the whole Valley of the Mississippi, and
$4,000 is to be raised for the purpose Of givi4 e
the project vitality-S4000 of which was imme-
diately pledged by the members of the Conven-
tior. The mission is especially designed to
operate against the progress Of the Roman
Catholic Church in that section, and the Rev
DR., Fuller, one Of the most distinguished Baptist
divines in the Union, and the pastor of a -four
lshing congregation here, was recommended as
particularly calculated for the charge of the
mission; but the report, at Dr. f.'s intercession,
was finally adopted without this recommends
ton.
Our Legislature have passed wholesome law
ments published by some Of our papers, and
which not only render these sheets unfit for en-
trance into the family circle, but actually offer
inducements to hcentiousness in the lures which
they hold out The American and the Patriot
have always vigorously excluded this class of
advertisements from their columns, and the Sun
has of late years followed their example. The
Clipper and Argus, however, have still allowed
themselves to be made vehicles for the dissent
Da tiaD 1f ort Oft 10 ol-ae
their publication a misdemeanor, punishable BY
fine and Imprisonment The charlatans and
quacks will hereafter have to be more modest
in the description of their wares.
/ The strike movement here has worked
itself into the political arena, and a meeting o
| the mechanics is called to take measures to con
| centrate the support of workingmen upon those
| candidates for office, in the coming municipal
and State election, who are of their own way OF
thinking. This movement is bombshell among
the working politicians, who had already
portioned these offices out among themselves
If it were not for the sober second-thought
that SO largely governs the people, these demon
strations, which have for their object the array
ing OF one class against another, might be pro-
ductive Of fearful consequences, Fortunately
the great mass Of the intelligent and steadily
employed workmen take but little part in them,
and after they have been worn out by the dis
contented and indolent, they are dropped and
soon find the oblivion they deserve
Our Legislators have refused to interfere with
the system of obligatory inspection laws as they
now exist in this State, and our merchants will
have to put up with the ancient regime of re-
strictions until growing sense and the impetus
of modern progress sweeps them away
Some of the minor offices in the Customhouse
have been distributed among the impatient ex-
pectants, but the fortunate Recipients, like the
lucky dog that secures n bone thrown among
the pack, have to fight for their prizes