Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06

are names any city may be proud of; and thus
we might illustrate every department Of
industry by citations Of the highest order.
Still, we insist that Baltimore has not done
herself full justice. We are gratifed to see a
change passing over the city. Everything indi-
Gates new order of events. Foreign com
merce, hitherto so much neglected has re-
ceiyed fresh impetus in the establishment OF
a new line of steamers to England. Trade Is
seeking new channels, more expanded, hb-
eral spirit seems to animate our whole bust
ness community, and those hitherto timid and
distrustful are confidently predicting glorious
future for the Monumental City" Among
the noticeable features of the new era is the re-
turn of Southern merchants and their appear
ance in our wholesale houses, as purchasers.
Nothing can be more humanizing, nothing will
more effectually break down the barriers of
prejudice which the late war has interposed
between the sections as the friendly inter-
changes of trade. Everywhere the Southern
merchant meets with generous and liberal
spirit on the part of the dealers. His demands
are courteously met, and he leaves with the
kindest feelings and most favorable impress
sions. A Charleston letter writer, referring to
the gentlemanly and magnanimous bearing
Of our Northern merchants, says;
Il asked for sixty days credit, and got it, with
out word of objection. Another told me that ne
asked for four months was given three and treated
like gentleman everywhere. Another showed me
the receipt for debt Of about fifteen n hundred "a dG
ful and he asked for four months on Dill OF eight
thousand dollars, which was readily given Still an
other settled his old Indebtedness with one third cash,
and eight and twelve months notes for the balance
while he got ninety days on threefourhs of his new
bill One man said he had many friends in the
| North, and they all knew he had been a thorough
rebel. He expected some tauns but tried to carry
himself like gentleman and was cautiously re-
This is as it should be. Let us meet our
Southern brethren as friends, and if by accom-
modations or indulgencies we can assist them
| in the praiseworthy effort to restore their for
tunes, shattered by the war, in the name of
| Heaven, let us do so without hesitation. Our
city is evidently looking up. Keener eyes and
| more elastic steps are busy in the marts of
trade, and we have only to be true TO our own
| interests, to open our hearts and our purses
| to exercise liberal enterprise towards every
industrial agency designed to advance the city,
| and Baltimore instead of being the third, will
soon take her rank as the second city in the
Union. Public spirit in the individual and the
corporation must seize upon the elements of
prosperity and convert them to their true
logical purposes and results. Have Bal
| timore capitalists in the past looked anx-
iously for and seized the golden opportu-
mites presenting; or have they been shame
fully neglected? Has the merchant wrapped
himself in the robes of his own contented
selfshness, and grudged any displays of en-
terprise for the public advancement? If this
blind and stupid policy has retarded progress,
let it be corrected at once. "Cities,' says a
Pittsburg contemporary, ''have, a natural
growth, but like children, cities may have the
''rickets, and become dwarfed from the care
they receive and attention that is given by
those whose duty it is to develop their
growth This is true. Let it not apply to
us. The favorable crisis in our affairs is
pending. Let us take the tide at its
flood. Energy, enterprise, and an expanded
Gbcrality are alone needed to constitute our city
as great in all her commercial and industrial
channels as she is attractive in other respec 5.