The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-09-03
Dume GorrfsgonSente,
OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.

rlt, twenty HlleS ulStdHI. 1uo spoI WIFI
he has chosen is upon the brow of noun
tain, overlooking all the surrounding coun
try. By the side of his house plays ;
clear and beautiful stream from the noun
tain's side, sufficient for culinary and othe
purposes. A small amount of money in
vested, he could have a splendid bathing
establishment Although the soil is EN-
bedded with stone and rock, he supports &
large family, and has something left fol
maeket. He raises corn, wheat, potatoes,
besides an abundance of other vegetables.
The ladies love flowers, and have in that
direction displayed their taste. They
feel as another has expressed it:
| But methinks that my sleep will be sweeter,
| Down close by the home that l love,
| With the voices of kindred around me,
| And the songs of the birds above.
| Yes, bury me in the garden,
Under the blooming of flowers,
Where the spirit may love to lmger,
| In the calm of the evening hours"
The lover of flowers always indicates a
generous and kind heart. A friend truly
said that he feared no danger, if travel
er in lone and distant forest, should he
espy, by the side of a humble log cabin, a
garden of flowers" Why should heI If
one object more than another evinces the
infinite love of God to man-HiS wish to
draw out the finer feelings of the soul
that object is found in flowers; and we
may not appropriately exclaim;
ooh for the expanded mind that scars on high,
Ranging afar with meditatiOns eye;
That climbs the heights of yonder starry road,
Rising through Nature up to Natures God"
Pardon this depression. l had no inten-
ton of writing an essay on the beauty OF
flowers, nor will l do SO. The second
Tuesday of each month has been set apart
by the friends of Sabbath Schools for con-
sultation. So important is the cause to
Sabbath Schools that the pastors and Sab
bath School instructors, many years
ago organized an association known as
The Colored Sabbath School Union
of Baltimore" The preamble of their
constitution will more clearly set forth their
object / will therefore give it.
Whereas, There seems to be great negligence
among our people, both i'll their mental and moral
condition, and vice and immortality seem to be
l.I,o 6 Of
we. the ministers of the gospel, Sabbath School
superintendent, teachers, missionaries managers,
and agents, do hereby pledge ourselves to oppose,
suppress, and discountenance, all the evils that
exist among us, every possible way, IN accord
ance with the laws of God and the State In which
we reside and also to aid and assist i'll the mental
moral and religious, instruction of our people in
every way and manner, which we think VIII con-
tribute to best interests both for time and eter-
mtg.
This association has done vast amount
of good amongst our people, and is still
doing much good. The Rev. John Forte,
Sen, has from its commencement, been an
active member, and much of the time its
faithful President; but they learned, to
their regret, that he was no more The
old gentleman died full of years. | will
say more of him in subsequent letter.
The faithful pastor of the Saratoga
street Baptist Church is preparing for the
press an autobiography, which he will soon
put to the press, of which / will speak
hereafter
We had supposed that with the death of
Gambrill, Crops, and Corrie, would end
rufianism Not so, as the following ex-
tract from one of our dailies will show:
R1or ON CAMp-MEErING BoAT-BUTCHE-
RY AND OUTRAGE-ARREsT OF Four OF
THE PERPETRATORS.
On Saturday night the steamer Express lert
this city for Lloyd Springs camp-meeting, on the
Choptank River with between three hundred and
four hundred passengers on board Shortly after
passing Fort McIenry it became evident that there
would be trouble on board, and alarm took hold
of the passengers. Before reaching the Bodkin
party of disorderly men, who rallied under the
cries of Eubolts, Ranters, and Rip Raps, went
forward and made an attack on the colored people
who occupied that part of the boat. At first they
amused themselves by knocking down the males
anu IeLndIeS OF tile cOlOTed pdsSebbels, WITCH "P
plication was made to the captain to take some
measures to put q stop to such proceedings. Moth
ing was done, and after time the dlsorderly DIS
posed went down into the forward saloon, where
several colored men had taken refuge The as
sailants approached man, and one OF them stab
bed him In four places, In the SIDE ana chesV
They then blew ont all the lights in the saloon,
and began an indiscriminate attack on white ana
colored Mr. jeremiah Slaughter was robbed OF
| S28. Mr. William D. Glass was robbed OF so
and another party was robbed of valuable gold
watch and chain
There being no prospect Of any more booty IN
| the saloon, the disorderlies again went on deck,
and. blowing out all the lights, went to the for
ward part of the boat again among the eolored
people. One man and his wife were standing to-
gether near the bow, and thought they would es-
cape observation. The man, however, was
knocked down, and he was held while his pockets
were rifed of all they contained. He was then
stabbed several times, and his wife, who had wit
messed the whole proceeding, was outraged in bis
presence, while she vainly cried for help. Some
of the passengers again called on the officers Of
the boat and the committee who had chartered