The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-04-12
Letter from Baltimore.


BALTIMORE, Aprn 9tn, Il
MeSSrS. Editors The weather durin
present week is so springlike that ever
around US seems to catch the inspiration.
pie move around with such alarity, and e.
where such activity is shown that one can
imagine that the Monumental City, has Awa..
ed from her Rip Van Wrinkle slumber and SRI
ard is himself again" The heavy, dull looki
garments of the winter are giving way to
brighter and more pleasing fabrics of sprii
The ladies are beginning TO don their spring
and new head-gear, thus giving to the eseI
appearance of the thoroughfares a very attr
appearance.
The ways and means committee o. th
Council have submitted the ordinancsS /.
the tax levy for 1873, which is the So
year, ST. SO per 500 of assessable pcs
State tax is II cents, making a. ~
The direct tax is assessed upon =
OPT, 3l6 and all other taxes upon :
1913, 1873. The whole amount required L. t
the necessities of the city is $3.50, 1868.
The ordinances have passed the first bran<
the Council as also has the appropriation bill
on which the levy is based Some dissatisl
ton was expressed in the branch at some of
appropriations, for instance the large sum4fo.
support of the State police and the Sic, 900 t.
ice boat, over neither of which the city has
-
provisions of the State law. 1t was urged at
in order to have such matters remedied the ut
kind of men should be sent to the Legislatui I'd
| not men who have nothing to loose, but
gain. The members do not seem to like the
that no matter who dances, the city has
| the fiddler.
| Candidates for the mayorality Of the se
increasing and now no less than sevenar N
| are named in connection with the poe' {:
Mayor Vansant, the present incumb =.
Banks, immediate predecessor of Mr.. Mt;
James Hodges, wholesale dry goods N
merchant; Brig. Gen, R. II. Carr, { r.
chant; Henry War6eld, another mere
Ferdinand G. Latrobe, lawyer, and
of Congressman Swami, and Herr
several years a, member of the
Now.-ae only
I to be laid upon the shelf for tn.
course each of the candidates and their.
hopeful of success. The contest seems &c be priu-
cipally between Mayor Vansant end the ore OF
the other six, upon whom the friends Of eacl may
unite, il such necessity should occur.
The resolution appropriatng $4, 600 TO con-
struct an iron steam marine fire engine, WAS re-
jected in the first branch of the City Council on
Monday by vote of yeas I, naysll. Sorae of
the members of the branch are of tie opinion. that
the fire department is already efficient enough
Prof. N. R. Smith, who left Baltimore about
the middle of November last for Kingston, J3.mai-
ca, in company with his wife and daughter, arriv-
ed home on Friday night last having comefrom
New Orleans by rail via Cincinnati. 1t is stated
that the doctors health is very much improved.
There is considerable stir among the base ball
men here and great things are anticipated from
the newly organized Baltimore club. The man
ayers have secured a nine that will certainly be
hard to beat. The club played practice game
with nioknd nina On Catnrdav offarncs,u at
Newington Park, and came off victorious by a
score of l. to 3.
Extensive preparations are being made fpr the
observance of Easter Sunday in the CathGlic and
Episcopal churches in the city. The Lutheran
churches will also observe the day. The floral
decorations in some OF the city churches will be
magnificent.
The church formerly known as the Central NJ
b. Church South, of which Rev. DR.. Munsey was
for time pastor, located on Lexington street be-
tween Pearl and Pine, has been purchased by a
Hebrew congregation and has been fitted up and
decorated as Har Sinai Mount Sinai) Temple
The congregation of this synagogue formerly
wrshiped in the synagogue on High strees near
Fayette, but that ediice becoming too small fol
their purposes the building on Lexington street
was purchased.
The "new party formed in the 7h ward Of
this city have appointed committee con lacts'
whose duty is to collect information in regard tc
any maladministraton in the city government
statistics in regard to taxation, &c, in order to
lay the "facts' before the public. Won't thi:
committee have their hands full?
Thomas Hughes the young man who was in
dicted for manslaughter in killing Joseph Iier
at Coates rolling mill, on the 18th OF November
last, has been convicted Of manslaughter alter thC
jury had remained out about four days
Sheriff Kane formerly known Marshal Kane
has petitioned the City Council for the payment
OF ST. ,0O2 81, salary and interest due him as com
persation while holding the office of marshal o
police from the 9Th of September, 1861, to thu
18th of February, 1862, while he was confined il
a military prison. Will the Council shake hand
over the 'bloody chasm?"
The Chesapeake Presbytery connected. with tn
Presbyterian Church South, which was ia Sessiol
in this city last week, adopted resolutions in an
swer to letter from VIM. o. Roby col1eSed,
licentiate of the Presbytery who had wind fN'r
from the body and was received into tie NashiAlg
ton conference of ,be A. NJ E. Church, stating IA
Mr. Roby was entirely mistaken in his apisaehen
sion that the Presbytery would be'tMoairasset
by an application to ordain a colored nesp 10 thC
full work of the ministry on the contrTy tht
Presbytery would be devoully tnapktn1.o the
Great Head of the church if he would raise up tG
them a large number of qualified coloref Den fol
the Christian ministry, and would gh ,ordair
them to the holy Office by prayer and laying
on of the hands of the Presbytery.
The Presbytery of Baltimore, whose jurisdic
ton extends into Baltimore county, is in session
in the Broadway Presby terian church. Rev. Chas
P. Glover of Mount Airy has been elected mod.
orator; Rev Robert H. Fulton Of Baltimore, re-
cording clerk and elder S. NJ Rankin of .Balti.
more county, reading clerk W.