Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-03-15
BALTIMORE.

ness.
BALTIMORE.
This is emphaticalIy brick city, contain
ing, according to my recollection, about two
hundred thousand inhabitants, and having
many splendid private residences, and not
few costly churches and cathedrals George
Peabody, native of Baltimore, but now
private banker in London, presented to the
city authorities, some time since, five hundred
thousand dollars for the erection Of scien-
tifc and literary Institution. The building is
now in progress, the material is marble. The
most attractive object, however, to a mere
guest for the hour, is Washington's Monu-
ment. This memorial to the illustrious dead,
stands upon elevated ground is $50 feet high
Surmounted by marble statue, of the Great
Man, l6 feet in height, and weighing, as |
learned, over three tons. This huge image
was raised by hand with the aid of puleys.
The city contracted with an individual to
raise this statue to the top of the monument
for eight thousand dollars The work was
accomplished with such skill that they gave
him premium of an extra thousand.
On the different sides of the base are the
following inscriptions, the boys can copy and
remember the facts:-To the memory of
Washington, erected by the State of Mary
Iand-Born Feb. 23d, 1882 died I4th Dec.
799-Commander.in Chief of the American
Army, Jan. 18th, 1865. Resigned commits
sion at Annapolis, Dec. 23d, l683-York
Town. Oct. 10th, l7Sl-Trenton Dec. 18th,
h1776,-Inaugurated President, March 4th,
1889, retired to Mount Vernon March 4th.
1897.
You may say to youa readers that Repub-
lcanism is discussed freely in this city, and by
many openly and fully avowed, but Amcrican-
ism is the popular political currency. You
know III. WINTER DAVIS voted for PENN1NG
TON, for which the Legislature of Maryland
have censured him by vote, and the Medical
Students of Alexandria, ID. c.. have burned
him in effgy-But the leaven of better princi-
pies is working among the people.
WORN OUT LANDS
From Baltimore to Washington there are
| few attractive features. The whole face of
the country wears an aspect of sterlity and
deSoatioD, if in years past some terrible curse
had swept over the land leaving barrenness
and poverty in its train whole broad fields
are covered with stinted growth of shrub
oaks ard dwarfed pines, which have sprung
up sirce the plow was withdrawn and the cul-
tivated interstices present the promise of
lean living to the laborer. These barren and
| forsaken fields read to the nation this solemn
lesson: the tears and footprints of slavery ac-
curse the very earth and violated by so foul
an outrage upon humanity, nature herself re-
Dukes the system by withdrawing her products
To reclaim these lands would seem to me
hopeless task. l should much sooner carve
out farm from the woody hiil-sides of Brad
ford, and if any man should exchange hun.
dred acres of new land in your county, for the
same number of acres in this wasted region
| should think the exchange long stride to-
wards the poor-house. The fact is the very
fiber of the soil is worn away, and to reclaim
it, requires new creation it can be reclaimed,
and so can good plate of soup be made from
stone by adding suficiency of other in
gredents. What this region needs is an abun-