Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-18

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l. Special Correspondence of The start
HAGERsTowN, Nd, March IL. 1870.
:DIroR STAR:-It will be highly gratifying To
| tt many boatmen and Others interested in the
| Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to learn that an
| erly resumption of navigation may be looked
or. The repairs to the extensive break at
Blackford's Forcing were completed on Satnr-
day, and the canal is now in order to have the
water drawn on. In this connection it may not
be amiss to mention that the message of Cover
nor Bowie TO our Legislature. showing the enor-
nous Indebtedness Of the Canal Company, it,
Lavish expenditures and fragrant mtsmanaSe-
ment, has created quite stir here, especially
in political circles, the canal always having been
"bone OF contention between the opposing
political parties, on account of the great india
ence that could be brought TO bear from this di
rection during election campaigns. This mes
sage will, for the time being, afford food for tae
leading editorials i'm the various partizan papers.
The 2:35 ?. IN; train Yesterday, over the Wash
ment OF "sports, ito be present at the cockhghts
commencing to-day, and to which made refer
ence in my last. Among those from Washing
ton I recognize Sam. Brereton, j. III. Shrccye,
Pat. H. English, j. Stewart, Jacob Freer. Ned
Smith and Bill Washington, all of whom are
domiciled at the Washington House. Consider
able betting Is being made on the final res alt :,
and the representatives from the District app pear
to be abundantly supplied with funds u back
their claims of being able to produce the glmrst
chickens.
The proposition Of the Maryland Legislature
TO abolish the publication of the laws is meetu Z
with formidable opposition by the press Of this
section OF the Subsequently, on the part ot
those papers representing the Sins and this
opposition appears to meet with some favor
among large portion of our intelligent citizeu-.
who think il bad policy to hold our people amen
able to laws that they have had no opportunity
to make themselves familiar with, or even -
become aware of their existence. The Free
Press, the leading Democratic journal of West
ern Maryland, has been pouring "hot shot, into
the ranks of the Legislature i'm its several last
issues, and is out to-day again with no less than
four caustic articles upon this subject of pubi-
cation OF the laws, in one of which the editor
humorously saws that 1.-THE State of Camden
and Amboy' has been the butt of many joke.
but with all the mean things that has been said
of her, it was never said that she was too mean
to infOI m her citizens of the character OF the
laws they were expected to conform to-
Farmers who have been holding their last
years crop OF wheat for higher prices have AZ
last been compelled, on account of the scarcity
of money, to bring forward their wheat 10 mar
ket, and during the past week over fifteen
thousand bushels have been shipped from here
wheat now stored in this county, manv of our
farmers having in their granaries the products
of two years. Some of these holders of wheat,
who refused to sell when this cereal was com
handing 1928 per bushel, would now gladly
sell at S1.15; but the top of the market here is
only S1.1O for strictly prime wheat.
HOWARD.