The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-04-05
Letter from ygnsbi,l0ton,

WASHINGTON, D. c., April |, 1873,
About the only thing that disturbs the peo-
Pile here since the Senate adjourned is their
debts, and the safety OF their lives. The fire.
quent murders during the past two years have
greatly alarmed them. In olden times the mur-
ders were mostly confined to those in the high
er walks of life, among M. Cs and their peers
the murder of Barton Keys by Sickles for in
stance. But latterly (since the war; there
seems less regard for life. The internal com
motion sequent to the late war has caused an
influx of population to nearly double, so chang
ing things, that the old resident population are
but small portion of those now, actual boaG
tide citizens here. The fugitive slave immedi-
ately after the breaking out of the rebellion
found refuge here, and after the closing of the
war when the South was anything but inviting
to immigrants from the North, and still less to
the freed slaves, hundreds of ignorant negroes
hocked to this city, and the result is that one
third of the population is colored.
Of course the colored people direct from the
plantations are ignorant and inca pacitated to
com pete with the much more intelligent They
arc consequently iorCed to work in abject pov
erty or resort to plundering and numbering,
which many are doing most elfectually, as the
ste brutal murders, the details of which your
readers are cognizant, clearly indicate =
Our Misunderstanding statistics show that iron
production is rapidly advancing in the West.
Pennsylvania is yet the foremost State in the
production of all kinds of iron. In pig non,
Ohio stands second, and in railroad iron Illinois
occupies the same position. The Western
States have but just commenced their new race
Of industrial development and it grows daily
more apparent that soon they will become the
great productive centre of the Union. Theron
famine now threatened in Europe can not fail
TO stimulate American enterprise to such an
extent that protection for manufa ctures will no
longer be required.
The idea hat we can dispense with either
army or navy even in our remarkable position
in this con tinent isolated as we are from the
cntanglcments of European politics, can not
force itself upon the popular mind although
there have been some considerable efforts to pre-
sent that side of the question. Congress, how
ever, appears to have been impressed with the
necessity of providing for the naval arm of na
tonal defence by ordering the construction of
eight new steam sloops of war. The battle for
the practical work under this appropriation
lies between the iron and wooden shipbuiding
firms who have got up lively competition
IL is question which material'iron or wood is
the more eligible Tor naval construction
Meanwhile European nations are encumbering
themselves with great mass at naval material
which increasing discoveries arc constantly
sHperceding,
Our production of the precious metals, west
of the Mississippi amounted to $62, 1862 or 8
millions more than in 1871. The increase is
attributed especially to the increased produce
ton of Nevada and Utah. The production of
statosSaud territories was as follows; Nevada,
$25 ,5StS7l; California, $l9,0l9,O9S; Montana,
$4,4I2, fSas Utah, $s,52l 900; Colorado, $3,OOl,
$50 Idafo, 81, 5l4DS9j Oregon, $l,0O5, 1904;
british CoI1tnbis, $Iy350,064 west coast of Mex
leo, Si35,O7l. This enlargement of gold pro-
duction has an important and fortunate bear
ing upon the present developmentofth the worlds
resources. We in our present financial predic-
aments, will have special reason to congratu
late ourselves upon this fortunate increase.
The comptroller Of the Currency is "going
for" all parties who without proper authority,
assume to do business under the National bank