The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-07
THE TRADE OF BALTIMORE.

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The 'Monumental City" has always been prOmi-
nent a commercial town. We have before us the
Ninth Annual Report of he Board OF Trade of Bal
timore, for lS5S-a document which embraces many
facts of general interest The report has been pre-
pared with than usual care, and it furnishes,
perhaps better exhibit of the business of that city
than any paper yet given to the public upon the
subject. Here we have not only a full account OF
the proceedings of the Board but very valuable
review Of the markets for the past year and
synopsis of the ''inspecton laws" In regard to
accuracy of information, this report is second
only to the annual statement of the Boston Board
of Trade. Baltimore has larger foreign COM
merce than is generally supposed. The harbor
is excellent, and the merchants are indefatgable
in their eXertions to improve its accommodations.
The construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road has rendered the city magnificent service
making it the rival of New York and Phila-
dephia in competing for the trade of the est
Under the circumstances the report mentioned
above has especial value. We notice that
the Baltimoreans agtated upon the subject
of establishing a mail line of steamers between
that p )rt and South America. The same idea has
been received with much favor in this city. Our
increasing trade with that section of the continent
seems to demand such an enterprise, and we are
astonished that our neighbors of Manhattan, with
all their energy and commercial daring, have not
endeavored to compete with those Europeans who
now enjoy monopoly of that traffic. 1t would
not surprise if the of this southern port
attempted to realize what we have merely dreamed
would be advantageous. The "hoating school of
seamen," receives strong concentrations in this
report, and it to deserve less. 1t is admi-
rably managed and is calculated to supply the
country with such mariners as those who won our
battles in 1872, and who are capable of insurlng
us the supremacy of the Baltim ore is great
flour market and the statistics upon this subject
contained in the report will be found to be very
valuable and worthy of preservation. Upon the
whole this report shows that Baltimore fully main
tans her reputation of the principal COM
mercia cities of the United States, and affords good
grounds for believing that the city has before it a
splendid destiny.
GILFILLAN.-A correspondent of the the New
York Chronicle writes from Dundee, Scotland, as
follows:
''In the afternoon we heard George Gilfllan, a
man not unknown in America. and who has done
much to show the capacity of the English language
for the illustration of the beautiful in art and mo-
rails. And yet saw nothing beautiful in George
Giltllan. Very unlovely in his look. | know
nothing of his eyes, if he has any such common
things in that rusty-looking head of his. Hands
he had, and voice, and gown, and bands, and a
good-sized head covered with terrier-like hair
But how stately and sour, and almost contemptuous
in that otherwise easy and flowing rhethoric of his
| the Gilfllan who in books had made me stare
with the rich eIluence of his pen. Yet all was in
| keeping. The church was large, double-galleried
| narrow -pewed, unpanted, dingy and ugly. The
| pulpit was an orthodox eggcup, with long, solemn
stem, narrow blackboard, and dusty, superincum,
| bent canopy. The egg Of this sublimey exclusive
passed hour of conscious refrigeration. | have
heart, think, for its beatngs often trouble me-
and there is therein some charity in 'ts own little
| way but am not able to reconcile the George
| Glfan of my books with the man who flung out
his proudly spoken language to me from these dis
dainful lips, he stood in his black silk acerbity
in that egg-cup pulpit. in the big, grim, joyes;
! church in the town Of Dundee.
| "Nether do find that | am alone in my new
! formed opinion of the man who writes the lives o.
| other men in such seas of wOndrOus language. He
| is the stern, fierce champion of Scotch wbiskey
punch and the social habits that have done much
to injure by their excess nation gloriously strong
in intellectual vgor in spite of its abuses of convv
hate There is little ovelipess in his characterN, %
hog intellectually, and grand knowledge
of the dictionary, with dash of beautiful imagin
| ing which passes through him as CLEAN of sun
shine through Melrose Abbey, Druid's al
tar, not his, but passing DER him, is what nov
think to be the component parts of George Gil
| fillan."