The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-12-28
aUistellaneous.
Correspondence Of tie Georgia Constitut,onalist.
Letter from Baltimore.
BARYUM's HOTEL,

bhltimore, alu., NOV. Il, 1906.
Mr.. EDITOR As the calm succeeds
the tempest, and the waters of the swollen
stream subside within its channels when
the foam of the mountain torrent has
swept forward to the sea, so the streets of
the Monumental City resound no more to,
day to the martial sound Of trumpets and
horns, the jamming of vehicles and the
tramping of men aud horses upon the over
crowded streets and thorough res.--
The imposing pageants with gorgeous
flags, gay uniforms and the glittering re-
gala and Insignia of the various grades
and orders Of the "Mystic Brotherhood"
have passed, and so, also, the occasion of
their assembling-the laying of the cor
ner stone OF the magnificent Masonic Tenn
pie, to be erected ON North Charles, near
Saratoga street. All Of yesterday was "a
gala day, and thousands of fair ladies for
got home and its erjoyments, lending
their approval Of the grand ceremonial by
their presence, aud as needed little of
"the sunshine" which their smiles are
said to intuse into the hearts of the
sterner sex-even thong h they should not
smile on or at me- concluded to add a
unit to the assembled thousands which
filled the streets, doors, windows, house
tops and even trees i'll the neighborhood
of the site of the temple. Now | would
not be understood as meaning that either
the ladies or myself occupied any of the
trees or house tops. But they could be
seen on the eligible sta nds erected for their
accommodation; in the doors and windows,
some Of the latter Of which approached
very nearly the house tops President
johnson and Governor Swami, and many
other prominent officials participated in
the ceremony of laying the corner stone.
The city papers will give you full pa,ticu-
lars and vii ithercforo refer your readers
to them for details.
Ristori, the renowned tragediennc, is to
perform here short engagement, III
few days, but | am happy to say that the
people DO not seem to act as though nun
dane affairs were soon to terminate on
that account.
The Philadelphia merchants, with great
disintereStcdncsS, aud desire merely to
shorten the time Of travel from the South
to that city some few hours, have opened
up a new route from Norfolk, by which
Richmond apd Baltimore are given the
go.by. Very considerate this in the mer-
chants of the Quaker City, thus to take
so much trouble and incur so much ex-
pense for the comfort and accommodation
of the poor down-trodden Southson 1t
is difficult to reconcile suca attentions
with the daily fulminations from some of
their leading journals, Of ISLANDERS, abuse
and hatred, which such representative
men among them as Forney, Greeley,
Philips, ct onane gcnus, bestow upon tie
unrepresented Southern rebels" and
their expressed determinations to make the
poor negro occupy a position for which
natures God never designed him. A
short time since line of travel was OPEN
ed from point upon the Chesapeake Bay
across the State and river Delaware, and
through New jersey, to New York, by
the enterprising people of that city, which
left the city of Brotherly Love out in the
cold, and ignored Baltimore of COURSE
But the RhladeIphians, thinking half of