The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-05-09


South street, and Hosea Johns, at the head o.
Frederick street dock, had for sale cloths
NC. The auciioneers of the period, in Bali
more city, were w. G. Hands & Co., G. o
Muller, Joseph Clark, Sen, and r. Lawson
Contrasted with the daily papers of Balti
more city of the present lime with theil
endless variety of local and general news
only few hours old from all parts of the
world, a vivid view is obtained of the gigan-
tic strides that journalism has made in the last
half century.
Railroads.
JAY GoULDs New Project Jay Gould's
great "amphibious" railroad from New York
to Baltimore, it is stated by the New York
Times, has been put under contract and will
be ready for the travelling public by the list
ofJuly. Two steamers Of immense carrying
capacity are being built, to run in connection
with the railroad. The Times gives the fol
lowing description of these vessels and the
part they are to play in this grand enterprise
The steamer Metropolis, designed to run
from New York city to Sandy Hook, is built
to carry thrty-three loaded cars She is $40
feet long, 81 feet wide, and has tracks and
switches traversing every part of her decks
for the accommodation of the cars. The Del
aware is about of the same dimensions, and
will carry twenty-four loaded cars from
Bayside across Delaware Bay. Thence con-
Meeting roads will carry the passengers to
Baltimore, Richmond, Washington, or Nor
folk. To the West, by the Baltimore and
Ohio road, Cincinnati will. be brought sew
enty miles nearer New York than by the
Erie or the New York Central. Branches
diverge from the main line to all important
points in New Jersey, Delaware, and Mary
land.
The same paper also intimatcs that the
Baltimore and Ohio Company is closely inter
ested in the projected road.
RUMoRED RAILROAD CnANGE.-A rumor
IS In circulation, with what foundation we
cannot say, that the management of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail
road is about to be transferred to the Penn
sylgania Central Railroad Company; that ar
rangements are now being made, and will be
completed for the transfer about the middle
of May. Messrs. FELTON, and Kenney, it is
said, are to be elected directors of the Penn
sylvania Central.
The fact that Mr.. Samuel FELTON,, former
President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad, has already been
elected director in the Pennsylvania Central
would appear to lend the color of probabili.
ty, at least, to the paragraph noted above
The event thus forcshadowed might possibly
q ion nc t1,o
land, and Pennsylvania Railroad, in which
we of Hartford are so deeply interested. We
have reason to believe that the latter road is
indirectly under the control of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Company, which would scarce
ly need or desire better connection between
Baltimore and Philadelphia than that afford
ed by the P, w. and B. Railroad.
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NEWSPAPER IMPRovEMENT-Our valued
contemporary, The Baltimore Gazette grows
more vigorous with increasing years. The
publishers announce that on the 10Th of the
present month their paper will be enlarged
and changed to quarto form, after the man
ner of the New York journals In politics
THE Gazette will remain unchanged, and while
maintaining position Independent of party
cliques, it will fearlessly advocate, as it al
ways has done, pure Democratic principles
Mr.. Henry Taylor, who has been associated
in its management for year past, has sole
his interest to Mr.. Charles j. Baker, a well
known and highly esteemed merchant, O.
Baltimore city. This step has been rendered
necessary, on the part of Mr. Taylor, by thu
pressing cares of his large and increasing
business The firm, as now constituted
consists of Messrs William II. Welsh, Chas
j. Baker, and William II. Carpenter. Mr.
Welsh has had long and varied cXpericnc,
as a newspaper editor and publisher Mr.
Carpenter has been connected with the pa
per since its establishment as The Erchange
and is gentleman of ripe scholarship ant
rare journalistic requirements. In such abb
hands The Gazette cannot fail to achieve com
plete success, for which it has our mos
hearty good wishes.
PEACE AND WAR.-Wehave received from
the author, Mr.. John Monroe, of North Caro-
lima, tract on the prevention of wars on The
earth and the securing of the incslimablt
blessings of universal peace The author
quotes some of the most eminent writers tc
show the evils of war, and sums up his meth
cd ofpreventing the same as follows:
l. Gods Moral Law incorporated in ever,
national constitution. 2. Sound correct pub
lie opinion. g. The people placing in thu
high places ofpower the unseltish, the pruden
and the truly wise 4. Making it the duty
OF therulers and representatives of the peopl
to take the field, in cases of unavoidable wars
8. Arbitration, by Il Congress of nations. 6
Just and adequate compensation to the pri
Yates of all armies.
All of which may be successfully accom-
plshed when the millennium shall dawn upon
earth, but not before.
The PORT TOBACCO TIMES commenced
its thirtieth volume on the first ofMay. Tt
accomplished editor, Mr.. E. Wells, in an ap
preciative retrospect on the mutability O
earthly things, acknowledges his growth into
the 'sere and yellow" a fact which no on,
could possibly discover from reading TIL,
articles which sparkle from his facile pen.-
The Times displays the freshness and vigor o
youth, with the experience and wisdom O
maturer age Long may it wave"
Lnna1 "A Mairu