Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-02
Baltlmore's Beginning.
Extracts from J. Thomas scharf's Grafton.

Extracts from j. Thomas scharrs Grafton.
One hundred and fifty years ago
how brief page to turnl-this Balti-
more Of ours possessed sixty acres of
ground, worth 40 shillings per acre in
Maryland currency. Nineteen hogs
heads of low-priced tobacco free on
board ship, would have bought the
whole tract There was one ship that
came to these waters once year,
from London or Bristol. There
were three dwelling houses here, mill
on Jones' Falls, some tobacco houses
and barns, one wayside tavern perhaps,
an orchard or two, some middling fer
tile patches Of ground, and in the whole
countryside about, a population of forty
three people all told. That was our
beginning! From that small seed this
goodly sheaf Of ripening corn has
sprung, a harvest for the nations.
The seed soon began to sprout and
send up shoots. In 1862, when
Baltimore was incorporated, its COM
merce exceeded that Of Boston; its eX-
ports were worth more than ST., 100000
a year; it owned 100 vessels Of $4,000
tons, and its annual shipping amounted
to 10000 tons. Its population was al
ready $4,000; there were GO merchant
mills near by, with numerous other
manufactures, and, as the New England
geOgrapher confessed, it contained "a
larger proportion of men of wealth and
probity in commercial affairs than any
Of the seaport towns" and its exports
were greater in proportion its popnla-
ton than those of either Philadelphia
or New York. When the city celebrated
its first centennial, in 1929, the popula-
ton had increased to $4,000 and the
area to $500 acres. Now, in 1880. in
the same area, Baltimore has 100000
people, in addition to 10000 whom she
lends to Baltimore county, without get
ing a thank We for them, much less
tire legal interest which such loan should
.e1rn.
All this in a century and half-all
this growth, all this expansion, all this
Development
The seed,
| The little seed they laughed at In the dark
| Has risen and cleft the soil, and grown
bulk
OF spaulcss girth, that lays on every side
A thousand arms and ruShcs TO the sun,
There must be reason for such n
growth. There must be cause in the
subject itself for all this vital energy,
all this tremendous expansion, all this
symmetrical development. The cause,
which has inspired the rise, progress
and development of Baltimore, is three
fold: ii is TO be sought in the location
Of this city, the men who seized upon
and utilized that site, and the institu-
tons which they nodded for our gov
enment and guidance. Site, men, in
Stitutions Upon that tripod the glory
and greatness Of Baltimore have been
erected, and willie these foundations
rest, nothing can ever shake the arch or
unselIle the superstructrrc; while these
rest the earth may quake, the winds
blow and the foods come, but all in
vain, for our house is built upon 4
rock. held TO the solid center Of things
by anchors Of adamant and links of
steel.
Let us not initiate those who are dis
pose to make light of the Judgment
which planted Il city on this very spot.
They huildcd better than they knew, il is
highly probable, but we can not too
highly praise their unconscious wisdom,
There are grumblers who are even dis
content with such site. who would
have us, as Norfolk is. at one end Of
this Chesapeake Bay-this Mcditcrrm-
can Of America-inStGad of ut the other;
who would prefer us to be on bold
water and bounded by east winds and
Newfoundland fcgs like Boston, or
sandwiched and nattcned out between
two riverS-a second New York, or
above the head of tide like Phladc-
phia. There are some unreasonable
cavilers among us who regret that Bal
timole was not founded on MOale'S
Point or Milestone Point; that ii does
not lie upon the Spring Gardens, or
climb those bolus-hued slopes of Anne
Arundel, which continue TO he the ber-
ry-pickers' JOY. There are even those
who make light of the turbulent floods
of Jones Falls, and are disposed to
turn up their noses at the Basin! 1t is
well for us that these carping and rail
ing critics did not have the planting Of
Baltimore.
Let us not contemn our debts to ma
ne. Let us not forget that four Bal
pores were established and only one
survived; that fifty hopeful cities start
ell in the race to become the metropo-
is of Maryland and only one reached
the goal. Nor was it chance or acci,
dent that did this, but, on the contrary
the nice discrimination of the founders,
who planted Baltimore, as Tyre and
Alexandria were planted, at the head of
the inland sea which combined the
shortest land route with favorable sea
route between east and west-the point
where the Atlantic Ocean pierces near
est to the heart of the continent-where
north meets south, and both fraterni2e
and affiliate; where climate aud rainfall
are most equable. Here where like
wise tide and fresh water meet, the
basin gave our little shipping its needed
snug harbor and Jones Falls supplied
water power for milling.
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Plenty of Money.
Plenty Of money secures leisure and