The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-09
BALr1xoRE, MARYLAND, NAV 1. 1882.

BALnAoRE, MARYLAND, May /, 1882.
Editor Ft0rIdsan After q pleasant stay Of
two weeks In Washington city, / came over here
last Thursday. / find Baltimore larger city
than l had expected TO see, it being much the
largest city in the Southern States It's harbor
is small, but filled with shipping. The half
dozen or more large elevators indicate the grea;
amount Of grain shipped TO foreign countries
from this port. It's railroad facilities connecting
it with the Eastern, Northern and Southern
states, and especially with the great West, assure
it as one of the most important sea-ports on the
Atlantic coast Having now q population of
over 100000, it is still growing the evidence of
its prosperity being visible on every hand New
and costly buildings, private residences and bus
mess houses, are going up in every direction
The mercantile interests are great, some of the
houses here doing an extensive wholesale busi-
ness It's churches, hotels, markets, parks and
street railways are numerous, but the exact num-
Der of each have moi yet learned The system
of streets is irregular, and to me not easily un-
derstood, some OF them very narrow, and but
/ ew running in direct line for any considerable
distance.
On Friday morning, the weather being favor
able, went by steamer to Annapolis, the Cap
ital of the State, distant from here thirty miles
1t was for a time the Capital of the United
States 1t is pleasant little city, with a popu-
lAton of about 5000, and the objects OF most in
terest to the visitor are the Capitol and the o. S.
Naval Academy. II was in the Senate Chamber
of this Capitol that General Washington re-
signed his commission as Commander in Chief
Of the Army of the Cniied States, December %,
1888. What q spectacle The man, who could
have been king, resigning his exalted position of
power and influence, and retiring to the shades
Of Mount Vermont Bot man Of such rare viz
tue and patriotism could not be dispensed with
in the formation Of our civil government Twice
he was called by the popular voice TO be Chief
Magistrate of the United States. then positively
declined the third term" Having taken
birds-eye view Of the city and vicinity from the
dome of the Capitol, / went next to. the Naval
Academy, which ID situated Immediately to the
north OF the city. The grounds are spacious
and beautiful, the buildings elegant and sub
stantiAl, and the workshops and other appursen-
ances in harmony with the order and general
good taste prevailing. There are about 400
and elective. One ct them, the day before, had
brOken his neck, while exercising on the gym
naseum- There are . number Of statues on the
grounds, that q Gen Andrew Jackson being the
oaly one could recoenize. About the esutrs OF
the eouapas ID . eenotaph erected 70 Captain
Herndon, Gthes-in-lsw Of President Arthur
Captain Herndon vas lost with thsstsamer Gen.
tral America, while On in WY from Aspinwan
to New York, in 1851. BE could hays saved hin
LIE, buf he chose to put the passenger In the
boais and remain with hin ship. Thus he last
hb life. and henes wss erected % hin memory
this granite monument, With this laeonic inscrip-
tion: Hsrndon, Septembes u, 1851"
AT 40 r. n ve went aboard the steamer Cor
Halfi@ns. Had . Hne visw Of thin pas Of
the Chesapeake Bay, . glimpse q The EASTERN
shore Of Maryiasd, and of ths PssApseo from iis
mouth % the city. Had also N excellsnt river
visw e ed Fsst NsH@Fy. IL was IN sigAt of
this - shas BAaeis key, shsB prissusr of
ths i.sadisg Assk izspisd - ths slgha e. tAs
Amegicmn nng flying oyer this f0rt. wgwee . Tho