The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-16
For The Cecil Wing
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, June 7th, 1877.
BUSINESS
in this city continues brisk, especially in
the fruit, vegetable and grain market; al
though the spectators in corn and wheat
are not realizing such immense fortunes as
they anticipated few weeks ago, when the
first news of the foreign war produced such
a rise in the market. Farmers pretty gen.
orally have disposed of their grain, which
has produced scarcity in the market; but
the truck growers are receiving good prices
for their vegetables, and strawberries of
fine quality are still bringing good prices
The general prospect for business seems
more hopeful for gradual improvement, and
along Pratt street the noise and hustle of
drays and wagons denote lively trade in
all kinds of merchandise. All the
LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOCIETIES
connected with the different city churches
have dried up, and will be torpid until the
return of cool weather, in the Fall. The
readings, the recitations, the solo and
chorus singing, the intermissions for social
gossip, the pleasant walk homeward-all
are suspended. The young folks would be
distracted if there were not pleasant antici-
pations of excursions to Walkers Pavilion,
or other places down the bay; of gudgeon
fishing at the Relay House; of Sunday
school pic-nics on the Western Maryland
railroad, and of pleasant rambles in Druid
Hill and Patterson Parks, and the numer-
Gus public squares which now adorn every
section of the {" Monumental City, Such
things will fully compensate for the more
aesthetic pleasures of literary and musical
reunions. No residents of this city need
60 away from home for amusement this
Summer, as the attractions are greater than
ever for real, rational enjoyment. The
splendid steamboat excursions to Annapolis
on the steamer Samuel j. Pentz, will com
mence next week, and will continue during
the season.
EVERY LITTLE TOWN
on the Eastern Shore which is convenient
to visit by water, will be visited this Sum-
mer by our citizens, and among the most
notable places will be the pretty little town
of Cambridge, on the Choptank river
Easton, Oxford, Chestertown, Queenstown,
Havre de Grace, and your own little town.
which is destined to have, some day, daily
communication by water, when the channel
of the Elk river has been deepened all the
way up to the bridge. Why should not
Elkton have the same water communication
that Easton has? The Tread Avon. or
Third Haven river, only runs to landing
one mile from Easton, where the water is
not as deep as the Elk river one mile from
the town. Why is not a regular line of
passenger and freight steamers kept up
between Elkton and Baltimore? The rail
road advantages of Elkton are far superior
to those of any other town on the Eastern
Shore, but cheap freights would be estab
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road. The failure of the old Eastern Shore
railroad, which was graded from Elkton
several miles, was a great loss to Baltimore
as the Delaware railroad, built afterwards,
carried away great deal of trade to Phil
adelphia, which might just as well have
been carried to Baltimore. Want of enter
prise among the capitalists of this city,
and want of perseverance among the citi-
ZenS of your town was the cause of the
failure of the old Eastern Shore railroad,
and Elkton has not improved much in con-
sequence. Baltimore is making an earnest
effort now towards improving her
COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES,
and the sooner our people realize that
Baltimore is not superior to Philadelphia,
Boston, or New York, in the extent of its
manufactures, the gorgeousness and mag
public buildings, the general intelligence
of its people, the extent of its trade, the
excellence of it's city government, the num-
Der and efficiency of its public charities.
the perfection of its public school system,
nor in the piety and philanthropy of its
people-the sooner may we expect its
healthy growth and prosperity. Baltimore
conservatism deplores the fact that the
trade of the South does not all come to our
city, that the trade of the Eastern Shore,
and Of Delaware, as we'll as of Northern
and Western Maryland, has been diverted
from Baltimore to Philadelphia; but it
makes very little effort to open up new
channels of commerce or to regain the old.
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
in this city has just commenced, and pro-
misses to be very lively from now until the
municipal and State elections in October
and November. Politicians, both large and
small, are zealously at work for their re-
spective favorites. The City Convention
has lately been chosen, and is composed of
one hundred members, five from each ward,
and twenty of whom form the Executive
Committee, who superintend and control
the municipal campaign on the Democratic
side. This Convention has lately fixed
upon the days for holding the convention
to nominate a Mayor members of the City
Council, Sheriff, and members of the Leg
islature, and the chief interest at present
is over the nomination for Mayor. Politi-
clans say that the friends of Col. George
p. Kane, ex-Sheriff, have a majority in the
City Convention, and that their influence
will nominate him for Mayor by large
majority. Col Kane voted the Reform
ticket in 1915, with the exception Of one
candidate on i'll. Morrison Harris-and
this of itself will give the Reformers an
immense advantage in favor of their candi-
date the Hon. Henry W. Warfeld.
THE RING
will need all its strength in the approaching
campaign, and in point of fact there is but
one thing that can save it, and that is to
inaugurate kind of Hayes policy, to turn
over new leaf in all matters political, and
reform itself ard its ways altogether. This
is the only way in which the Democratic
party proper can maintain its aScendancy,
either in this city, or in the State at large
In addition to the causes which operated
against the Democratic Ring SO powerfully
in 1915, there are yet others at work which
will contribute to swell still further the
ranks of the opposition. The example set
by other cities in this matter of municipal
politics has done much towards educating
the people of Baltimore up to a practical
and common sense view of their own politi-
cal affairs. In nearly all the large cities of
the Union, where municipal politics alone
are concerned, party and party ties are get
ting to be almost totally disregarded, and
the peoples candidates have taken the
place of the party's candidate.
ANOTHER CAUSE
which will make itself felt in this campaign,
and which will operate to the detriment of
regular nominees is the broad and being
nant policy of President Hayes. In less
than three months, his policy has made
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