The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-23
From our Travelling Correspondent.
Troy, y. Y. April IL. 1870.


Mr.. EDITOR Since my last I've visited
the cities of Hudson, Albany, and this
point, and have no cause to change my
I opinion as to this section. Albany now
numbers $4,000; this city, 1000; [very
doubtful the former strikes 4 stranger with
its similarity TO Washington City-the lat
ter to New Orleans, in style, only that the
streets are more clearly, their Nicholson
pavements being swept every night at the
expense Of the city.
| The river at both points has been for
| days and is now, six feet over proper level,
causing great loss and Inconvenience to
merchants and shippers. Steamers cannot
load or discharge freight because of the
water being over the wharves and in the
warehouses. Ferry boats cannot land pas
sengers so everybody wears froMn here,
excepting myself. who am as happy as
though the wind blew not. or the freshet
had not come. Just think of it what a
consolation to own no steamboats,. no
wharves, no Notwithstanding to cause
| a frown, while these poor fellows under
water are wailng their losses, I'm looking
| forward to n good time coming, (dianer
time J and thinking not of high water
excepting that in milk Your beautiful,
placid Bohemia, lake-like as she is never
takes freaks of this kind. The highlands
drained by her are seldom burdened with
three to four and a half feet of snow, as
is the case here. No. she is as passive as
though she could not afford to boast of her
wealthy boundaries, and variety of her fish
and fowl; while this oft quoted stream is
hurying to destruction the interests of
those who have adorned her hills with their
ebbng and flowing with the sameness of
ages past-so with the people of these re-
spective sections. Your people go forward
in the even tenor of their way-build no
towns or factories, the steam whistles of
which might wake the slumbers of your
neighbors. You go on tilling and toiling
from day to day, in the old style of fifty
years ago-corn, wheat, oats, potatoes and
rutabagqs, producing scarcely rifle on
the tidal commerce of the country In.
deed, your State would scarcely be known
in commercial circles, were it not for the
city of Baltimore, which is indebted, not to
her own State for her wealth or prominence
as 4 business point, but to the sister South
crn States. Why will your people remain
blind to their interests, advantages and
facilities, SO abundantly thrust upon them
and their forefathers, by nature, when they
see before them, daily, growing pictures of
these palace homes. in region which can
boast only of its deep. swift, destructive
river, bounded by its lodges of grim mon
stcr rocks and scraggy underground, of a
cross between pine and old field cedar?
And these homes. these towns and cities
are the fruits of what? Nothing more or
less than enterprise, hartl-handed toll and
nerve. a determination to do, to 80 forward
On and upward have these people gone in
their good work. till these once desolate
hills and rocks reseund to-day with the puff
Of the steam engine, the whir of the spin
/ ulc. ana tilS Idltic OF the ncaNenly- laden
dray. from New York to the Canada line !
Oh why will not your capitalists be shamed
out of their lethargy? Wake them up -
Your natural facilities for transportation
are greater than those of any other State.
from Maine to Texas. Possessing, as your
State does, every variety of soil. you have
not only all that can be wished in other
points, water, &C.. but can produce every
thing, excepting luxuries, common to the
extreme Southern States. Get together :;
build your machine shops at Elkton. a rail-
road down the Peninsula-thcn will the
good people say Maryland is beginning to
be resurrectcd.
More again. Yours. CONSERVATIVE.
[Will our correspondent please take a
little more pains with his MSo The COM
positors declare it is so bad the devil :"
can't read It'd.