The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-23

the Board of Trade, and JOHN W. GARRETT, Esq,
on the part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
met at the old City Hall TO receive Mr. H. Z.
JARRETT, deputed by the Directors OF the Great
Eastern, to endeavor to make an arrangement by
which visit of the Leviathan to the Annapolis
Roads may be secured In the written PROPOSE
ton submitted by Mr.. JARRETT it is stated that it
would cost the Great Eastern between thirty and
forty thousand dollars to go round from New
York to Philadelphia, and that the Philadelphans
would probably have raised that amount cheer
fully, but that the Directors, rejecting seriously
on the dangers of the navigation of the Delaware,
declined to take the risk, even at that figure.
Entertaining, however, not ''a mere visionary
ssthought, but a strong practical idea of employ
cling the ship as a permanent packet between
Norfolk and au European port" requiring. only
"a knowledge of the locality, an assurance of its
"utilty and belief in its success they prefer to
come into the Chesapeake, and will do so, and
exhibit at minimum prices, on consideration of hav-
ing twenty-five hundred tons of our Cumberland
coal put on board free of charge. Upon this
hint the President of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad declared that he would recommend an
appropriation of one-third of the whole expense
(about Sl0,0OO) by the road; the President of
the Board of Trade announced that he would call
meeting of the Board to-day, to petition the
Council to make an appropriation of the other
two-thirds, and the Committee of the Council
agreed to have an informal meeting of the men,
bers of both Branches this evening, and ifa major
ity assented, his Honor, who was present, agreed
to spend the money now and get the appropriation
next August At the risk of being thought slow,
and unenterprising, we beg to enter our protest
against the spending of collar, for any such
purpose, by the city. We have already enter
tanned the Japanese and we shall soon have the
Prince of Wales on oar hands when we are sure
Mr.. SWAMI would like to put his best foot foremost.
We can imagine what excursions of Getty faith
'ers'' and city and country cousins would be
made up and come off, to the great improvement
"of the commerce of Baltimore" for the time
being, should the ship arrive. We can see how
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad would make a
good thing of it, with round-trip tickets, and
lose nothing except, perhaps, the net profit of
the freight on the twenty-five hundred tons
of coal. We can further understand that it
may bring many strangers to the city, who will
leave some money behind them; and FIVE were
hush--if, for example, Mr.. GARRETT had paid us
the whole back interest on the extra dividend,
as The american stated he had done, instead
of only the half of it, and if there was not any
immediate prospect of the English "heir-appar-
cent being 'here apparent (Shahs) so soon,
we should not object to our Council indulg-
ing themselves and the town with froIic after
their virtuous and laborious and economical ses-
sion. But rs to the Great Eastern in Annapolis
Roads, bringing us one day nearer to direct trade
with Europe, we beg with Difference to say that
it is all the merest moonshne We are told,
in the correspondence-that the Great Eastern is
looking about for some permanent employment
In the language of Mr.. CARNAGE, chairman of the
Committee of Directors, at needs very little TO
Connect the previously cratic course of the great
steamship to any one point not for one voy-
Gage, but for many"-so that she is to be
brought as it were, on tour of personal inspec-
ton into the Chesapeake, as if she thing of
life, and could acquire reliable information only
by experiment. We are sure we do not envy Nor
folk any Of its advantages, present prospective;
but what if the visit of this monster vessel should
result in making that city of the termini of
steam ferry between EUROPE and the UNITED
STATES? In what degree would that benefit Balt-
more? On the contrary, would not such an ar
rangement raise for US, upon the South, more
dangerous rival than any we now have in the
North2 Although we might rejoice in neigh
boris prosperity, we do not see that we need spend
our money TO promote such an event. But the
idea of the Great Eastern being used for any such
purpose is simply preposterous She is clearly too
big for the commerce of New York and SO the
Directors seriously think of trying Norfolk. They
have had the Elephant on hand for years, and yet
it appears they have not yet the slightest concep-
ton what to do with him. They are now starring
it with her great show, but the genius of BAR
MUM himself, let alone that of Mr.. JARRETT would
we fear, fail 10 uake money thereby. Our cores
pondent, who so graphically describes her in to-
day spaper, suggests that she be made receiving
'shp, like the Pennsylvania, and the suggestion
is worth attention, seeing that she never be
made ''paying one" 1t was Prince EsTERHAzY,
we think, who had ball dress so loaded with
brilliants that he never took dance that did not
cost him thousand pounds in the loss of dia-
monds' This vessel, it appears, cannot get up
steam and come round Cape May, from New York
without an expense of from thirty to forty thous-
and dollars. The Prince could afford to dance.
but whether the direct Norfolk trade would
be likely to pay, under such circumstances,
can only admit of one answer. The whole
stock in trade of that village might be slowed
in the hold of the vessel, and its whole
population be taken on board as passengers sat
stone voyage" and then what would be left for
Mr.. CARNAGIE's s'many2'' IF the President of the
Board of Trade be correctly reported, in saying
that if the Great Eastern be brought into Annapo-
lis Roads this year, he is very sure she could get
up to Baltimore the next we must be permitted to
observe that we fear he is over sanguine. 1t has
taken us years to get depth of twenty-five and-a-
half feet in our channel, and does not seem at all
probable that we shall reach some twenty-seyen or
eight feet in another year, with all the stimu-
lus which the'arrival of the Great Eastern in An
napolis Roads might impart. Regarding this whole
matter therefore, as nothing more than another
municipal jollifcation, and having had enough
of that sort of thing for the present, feel bound
to object If we are to have direct trade with
Europe we wish to have it from Baltimore, and not
from Norfolk or anywhere else; and, witha manage
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, honestly
giving us the full advantages of our posi-
ton, and with reasonable degree of energy and
commercial enterprise on the part of our merch-
ants, we may have it, But this Great Eastern, if
she ever comes, will go away again, and that will
be the last of her. We, of course would not be
understood as not wishing to see the great ship in
our waters we would cheerfully, as individuals,
cohriou'e towards Offering her the very small in
ducement which seems to be required We think.
in view OF what the Baltimore and Ohio RAILROAD |
owes the coal trade of Baltimore. it MIGHT hiring
down the whole twenty-five hundred Ton. e.
particularly as it is making clear fourteen no.
profit on its operations, while the city is 80 ~.
as to submit to be hribed with its own mona. =.
receive, what in bette times it refused. We b.ro
no doubt that if Mr.. GARRETT casts this bread upoo
the waters it will come back to the Road in excur-
sion tickets and popularity, but we beg the MAYOR
and City Councils to remember the Prince of
Wales, and not break themselves on the Leyiathan.
TEE Hon. REyERDY JoHNsoN.--We are authori.
zed to say that Mr.. johnson, who sailed from New
York on Saturday in the North State, goes to Cali
fornia exclusively on professional business con-
nected with the title of the new Almaden quick