Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-12-09

4 Bkg"A meeting of the friends of the Baltimore
and Potomac Rail Road was held at Carriers
ltStore in Anne Arundel county, on the 2Sd of
November. The meeting was called to order
by Robert Bowie, Esq, by nominating John S.
Sellman for the Chair, and Basil D. Hall for
Secretary The Chairman, John S. Sellman,
then introduced the>Hon. A. G.. Brown, of Mis-
sissippi, who made an able, eloquent, and argu-
mentative speech, occupying about an hour
i Upon concluding the thanks Of the meeting
were rendered him.
DR.. Joseph I. Duvall and John G. Mitchell,
also addressed the meeting in felcitous speeches,
after which the Agent concluded with an ex-
PLANTATION of his labors, and the. meeting adj
journed.
We copy from the Gazette the following re-
port of the speeches at this meeting as furnished
by its correspondent, "Collington':
| After few remarks setting forth the object
and Importance of the meeting the Hon. A. g.
Brown of Mississippi, was introduced and said:
1t may appear to you strange that citizen of
| of another State should undertake to enlighten
you upon the subject of your local affairs, but the
interest he felt in the prosperity of the whole
| Union, would induce him at all times to con-
tribute his mite, to her success and perpetuation.
His heart yet yearned to Massachusetts,, which
he once so fondly loved, but in the proportion
as he felt himself estranged from her just in the
same proportion was he bound closer and yet
closer to the South.
| Twas but few years ago when Marylanders,
tired Of the worn out soil, went to Mississippi in
quest of lands. They, with citizens to the manor
born, built Railroads which have quadrupled the
value of that section. You, too, remaining here,
with laudable enterprise have turned your at
tention to the improvements. of your soils, but
you have still much more to do, in building
! Railroads to send your productions to market,
to bring back fertilizers Of different kinds. Then
4 why hesitate? Sloth says it can be done; but
to accomplish anything, energy and enterprise
must say it shall be DONE Daniel Boone, with
what was denominated frantic temerity, cross
ed the Alleghanies, pitched his tent amid the
savages, whipped two or three tribes single hand
ed, and invited others to help him whip the rest.
Columbus persevered in his search for another
continent in the face of formidable opposition,
and 10! America was born. Later-Fulton con-
ceived and applied steam to navigation, and
later still Fields with a Spartan few connected
! the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. Then
why doubt the construction of this road? If
you take the average value of the land for six
miles on either side of the road through the
length, then add twenty per cent to it's value
when the road is completed, it will amount to
from five to eight hundred thousand dollars
Thus the increase in value nearly equaling the
cost of the road. It must be a profitable road.
| Time, which is money to business men, will be
saved both in travelling and shipping Of mer-
chandize; and in less than five years you will
see cotton bales passing over this road from the
same sections that now send it twelve hundred
miles on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and
then to Baltimore. Baltimore city will encour
age it when understood, because it will be her
interest. Merchants from the South viii pur-
chase their goods Baltimore, or if even in
New York or Philadelphia, and in four Or five
days have them upon their counters for sale,
while it now takes them as many weeks. The
Speaker then referred to roads in his own State,
connecting Mobile, New Orleans and other
places, which had been finished, and which had
perfected those parts of the State by their civil
izing and moralizing influences-others were in
progress, and in few years he looked forward
with pride to see her second to none in the
Union. He sat down amid deafening applause,
having received vote of thanks.
DR.. Joseph I. Duvall, of Prince Georges
county, was introduced, who spoke at length Of
the advantages Of the road, it was the wanting
link in the great chain of communication be-
tween the North and South, it would draw the
inhabitants of the two sections of the Union in
closer proximity, fraternise them, and by know
ing the feeling and sentiments of each other
excite and foster the kindest emotions Of their
natures and thus prove another bond for the
perpetuation Of the Union.
The unimproved lands in lower Maryland re-
quired fertilizers which could not be applied on
account Of the distance from Steamboats, and
Railroads. 1t had been said that he who made
two sprigs of grass to grow where there was
only one, or one sprig where there was none,
was justly entitled public benefactor. By
constructing this road, with the proper appli-
ances which you might then employ, hundreds
Of acres would be made to grow fair crops that
by urging each one, according to..his means, to
subscribe literally. After a recess to wood and
water, John G.. Mitchell, of Prince Georges
county, was called out, who said, if after the
powerful arguments advanced by the gentleman
who preceded, after so full an exposition of the
subject the enlightened intelligent and respect |
full auditory refused to subscribe, he despaired |
Of any sympathy in that region. After a gen.
eral review of the subject, he concluded by
powerful appeal to each and every one Those
whose Golfers were filled to overaowing and
those of less limited means, to contribute his,
though it were the widows mite, to this COM
prehensive work. After which the Agent made
a very lucid explanation Of its present conditiar
and prospects. the ,aoo+-s .Hsreu sae po'lio'-
ton of the proceedings and adjourned.
Speaking of the Department of the Interior,
at Washington, the Union says 1.-THE largest
material interest-the richest and most compli-
,,+od +ruct in the whole wOrld-We mean, OF |
course, the management of the public lands-!s