The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-10

aon ana communication have gone
nano IN hand: In July, 1928, when |
8Eouhu was INST broken on the Balti- |
more and Ohio Railroad, It was consid- |
cred n great event for the CITY Of Bald.
more, and the project bore upon its
lace such promise of almost immediate
result, that even the least sanRuine were
But, forty years have since elapsed,
during great part of which the pro.
Eress OF This work has been retarded by
DAD management, by hostile leRisla-
ton, by want of means, and by every
other Kind ofhindranee by which lines
OF railroad. running through different
states and in competition with power.
Jul rivals, are too apt to be hampered.
II Il only within the past few weeks, Il
may be said, when the last Obstacles to
the completion of the Connellsville
Road have been removed, and arrange
ments have been entered into to take
railroad possession of the great and fer
tile valley OF the Shenandoah, that the
grand scheme, which was inauRurated
SO long ago, Is really placed fairly
on It's way toward final COM
pletion. Since lS2S Baltimore has
10000 Inhabitants to n city numbering
oyer 900 people. The amount of It's
taxable property, which was then but
S25,OOOiOOO, has increased to nearly ten
times that sum- and the value OF its
foreign exports and Imports, the small.
est part OF us trade, alone nearly
equals in amount that OF the total real
and personal property forty years ago.
What this trade Is going To be whom
the Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad, which
now virtually runs to Cincinnati. has
completed it's branch roads to Pitts.
burghi on the Ohio, and to the Central
tailroad, IN Virginia; when 1t not only
RnVNNTfNNVea AZ
with rich and fertile regions, but al
fords TO large thriving and populous
districts nearer route to the seaboard
than any they have yet had, It Is not
prudent TO attempt 10 predict. The
proba bility, however, Is that It will be
far beyond all expectations, and that IL
VIII, in comparatively short time, re-
store Baltimore at least to its old
standing, as the third city In America,
What the Baltimore S Ohio Railroad
has thus been gradually and silently
accomplishing, during long years Of
Vtctssttude, would still, however, be in
complete without connecting lines of
ocean steamers to bring US into COM
municaIion with the marts of the Old
World, and to enable Baltimore To
avail itself OF Its peculiar geographical
advantages, and to establish its posi-
uon as great natural depot for the
rich products of the West, the South-
west, and the South, where they can
be advantageously exchanged TOR the
manufactures and productions of Eu-
rope. Baltimore, as consuming town,
was only a village. Baltimore, as a
trading and distributing port, is rap
IDLY growing to be great commercial
centre.
No greater proof of this fact can be
h9d tnRn the success which has attend
ed the opening of the Bremen line,
0nal1ed by legislative bounty, unas-
sisted by State subsidy or corporation
privileges, 1t has been inaugurated by
private capital and has demonstrated
at the very beginning the soundness OF
the Judgment and the correctness nj the
foresight OF its projectors. Although
the Baltimore started from Bremen at
season OF the year which was hardly
favorable to a maiden voyage, the re-
ception and the encouragement she has
met al The city whose name she bears,
nave been In every way sAtisEactorv
she sails 10. day on her first return trim
win cargo OF 400 bales of cotton, go
hhds. Virginia tobacco, 500 hhds, West-
eTn tobacco, 100 hhds. Maryland to-
oAcco, lO4 brls. resin, 800 boxes canned
goods, corn in bulk and other smaller
articles. Besides this, she takes ont
nearly hity passengers. The impor-
lance OF The cargo cannot be over estI-
mated. We have here cotton, Virginia
ana western tobacco and naval stores.
which would have certainly gone TO
NeW YORK had there been no Bremen
steamer. We have the commencement
OF trade in canned goods, which Is a
growing one in Baltimore, and which.
with proper steam facilities, will doubt.
less be greatly increased. we have the
foundation OF a large and important
commerce with one OF the principal
S SssP sII, OF Northern Europe, itself
11IlsItioutinG port for large portion of
Northern Germany. The imports nj
cotton alone into Bremen from Amer
icai from the lst day of January to the
oth OF March, in the present wear. were
olro=y bales, and the total sales of cot
Ton from all quarters, during the same |
period, amounted to T8, $50 bales. Asa
tobacco market, It Is TO Baltimore the |
1nost Important one in Europe; and a |
port where one hundred large ships are |
frequently loading at one time must |
necessarily be large market for naval |
stores.
But this is not all. The contents Of |
this cargo will teach to the shfppers of |
Germany that Baltimore offers them |
port OF entry which Is at least two hun.
ureu miles nearer than New York. the |
only other really available one on the
atlantic coast, TO most or the great |
western markets, and TO all the mar
kets OF the Southwest and the South.
Already are the ship brokers of Bre-
men trying to inculcate this idea into
the minds of their merchants, Hands
bills are being distributed noticing this
TACT, and also the fact that steamers are
landing at the wharf of the BalIImore
ana ONO railroad Company, and that |
B0ods can De shipped at once into cars.
Mlthout being subjected to heavy char
ges Tor storage and drayaRe. The ad. |
Vantages which Baltimore offers are |
OWING principally to the establishment |
OF ths line attracting attention in Bre-
men, ana by last advices there were no |
less than twelve ships loading there for
TINS port. For New York there were
only fourteen. There were none n
Boston, one to Philadelphia, and two
to New Orleans.
The future OF this line, and the beue.
hts to be derived from 1t by every mer.
chanL ana property owner in this city |
cannot De properly discussed in the |
units OF newspaper article. It is
SAFE, however, to say that since the lay
ing OF the hrst stone of the Baltimore
sL onio railroad to the present day,
mere never has been project which
Souiulehded itself so heartily to the sun-
b pI OF the people of Baltimore as This
Tloheer Continental European Line.
i.. VIII De gratifying TO every one 10
k no" mat there is full complement
ts OF passengers and freight already
Seoute9 Ior the two succeeding VOYAGES
rom Bremen. Indeed, so faySrafIe
are aLe the prospects that 1t is anticipated
t il WITHIN very short space OF time
:. ran eInents Will have to be made Tor