The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-22
OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.
BALTIMORE, January 18th, 1876

BALTIMORE, January 18th, 1876.
Notwithstanding the asserted stringency
of the times in business circles in our midst
there is certainly no dearth of interest and
vigor in other directions.
The witches (or somebody else have kept
the political cauldron boiling over ever since
the late election, by all sorts of hurly- burly,
and there is no immediate promise of an
early subsistence. This Kilkenny strife is
the not likely, in any event, to bring the GOV.
eted reliefto the sovereign people. No such
hope is cherished till new and better meth
DDS are adopted, by which the primary
iunket. shops are disinfected, and the prvi-
leges of the franchise are guaranteed to the
legal voters.
Religious circles are uncommonly agi-
tated. 1t looks much more than usual as
if they were really in earnest. The tend.
ency of all this is to impress the Gentiles
with the genuineness of spiritual regenera.
ton, more than by all the rant and cant of
the easy going, respectable, (?) better than
thou policy adopted too largely by our city
churches of all denominations. Evidently,
just as the churches come out of their shells
of pious exclusiveness, and reach warm
helping hands to men, they become factors
in elevating and saving the race.
The Business Mems Prayer Meeting,
held every day, from -! to 1 o'clock p.
NJ, in the Rialto Building, is a grand sue
cess, being thronged with some of the best
men of town. The whole affair is in the
hands of the laymen. The singing, pray
ing and speaking are evangelical, inteli-
gent, and full of enthusiasm. 1t augurs
we'll.
Protracted meetings, of unusual inter
est, are in progress in many of the churches,
specially those of the Methodist persua-
sion. The Evangelists, Revs. John S. In
skip and J. A. Wood, have been operating
in several of the parishes, with consdera-
BILE success, and are still here.
Our Methodist brethren are also begin
ming active preparations for the forthcom.
ing General Conference, which is to assem-
BILE in this city, the list of May next There
will be about four hundred delegates and
others in attendance upon the session.. 1t
is not yet determined in what building the
Conference will be held. Mrs. Grundy told
me yesterday that Ford's Opera House will
be proffered for that purpose; but size does
not always tell the truth. However, it
wonld be good strategic movement on the
part of the management of said establish
ment. BY the by, you needn't say any
thing about it; but l am told this is to
be sort of antipresiding elder session.
Hardly!
At their last meeting the NJ. E. minis
tiers gave the B. & o. Railroad an overhaul
ing, for what they termed the illiberal and
exacting Interpretation the officers of said
road give to the conditions upon which they
propose to issue clerical tickets of travel
over that great highway. A resolution was
passed, indignantly declining any such quasi
favors. Amen.
DO your numerous constituency know
that our temperance brethren have opened
a restaurant at No. N. Charles street, on
strictly teetotal principleso We'll, thus it
is; and, strange as it may seem, it has
stood the ordeal of friendly fears and op-
posing hopes for over three months. 1t
seems now to be an established fact.
The Lecture field is well occupied. Til.
ton, Woodruff, Claflin, ct id genus omne,
have come and gone, with little flea in
their ears, and empty pocket books, as sub
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