Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-11
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE. June y, lSS5.-Eyeryb body in
Baltimore is complaining Of dull times, and
it is only necessary for one TO walk around
our once busy wharves 10 see the great con-
trast hetwecu rDw aud four or five wears
ago when the harbor was crowded with
shipping and vessels had to lie out in the
stream ul,l await their turn to load or un-
load. At the Custom House the large force
of clerks were then kept busy from morn
ing 10 nighS--now they have abundance of
time, and il hangs rather heavy on their
hands. What the cause of this depression
is, is hard to say, but it is generally at
ributed to the general dulness throughout
the country, and also to the fact that New
York, the great metropolis, is now the
grand eptrepot Of the country, and, with
its trunk lines ramifying through the vast
regions Of the West, is slowly but surely
''gobblng up" in detail the business of the
smaller cities. There are those here who
fear that when the B. & o. r. r. gets its
through line to New York things will be
worse. This, however, can hardly BIZ so IS
TINT corporation has too much at stake in
Baltimore and Maryland to discriminate
against them, and with the advantage of
probably hold her own in the foreign trade.
Despite The dullnrss Of the general trade
the ubhing trade is quite brisk, and as to
The matter Of building there are now in course
of erection more houses dwellings, than has
h. en- known at any previous time Balt-
more has now, with her 100000 population
b. Ell built up almost entirely to the county
lines, which the legislature stupidity, through
the Influence CT the country members, re-
fuses to enlarge, and hereafter the increase
will necessarily he in the suburbs III Balt!-
more COUNTY. The population there has all
the advantages Of city iI. in the shops, OF
street cars, gas, waller, ETC., and also only
have To pay about one half Of the tax that
is imposed III the. city, hence it is not TO be
wondered III nat they are averse TO being
TAX ~, ia ne cl.y i!:n!:S, as FOR all lntentS
and purposes, eXcrp; for the benefit OF the
city, they are thee Low.
A ph.uomelIui success has Eeen witnessed
in new>papard"In iicre in the last few weeks.
The Sunday Times, Il democratic organ con.
taiuing all the news Of the day up TO $3.50
Sunday morning, was started about u month
since a.d has now a circulation equal to that
ofuuy oft, sunday contemporaries. So great
indeed has been its success that it is con-
tempia:cd la the near future to run in con-
ncalIur, with it Il daily afternoon paper.
The Potomac river steamer Jane MoselCy has
been chartered and will during the summer ply
between Baltimore and Bay Ridge, summer re.
sort on the Chesapeake, near Annapolis Apropos
OF this it may be mentioned that it is the inten-
ton Of the company to run trains daily from
Washington to Annapolis and Bay Ridge at the
low price Of 81 per round trip. Many Alcxan-
drians will doubtless avail themselves OF the OPP
portunty of visiting the ancient capital of Mary
land with its historical buildings, tho Naval
Academy, Bay Ridge, etc. The trains will be
so run that parties from Alexandria and Wash
ington can return home at seasonablo hour.
The Alexandrians here, of whom there are not
few, were delighted at the election of Hon. John
3. Smoot, and tho entire democratic ticket. They
wore, however considerably surprised that SO
many Virgnians should so far forget tho bitter
of the past rs to almost allow q defeat and the
city government to be remanded to the hands OF
strangers. Alexandria aud her sons have too
proud n record to permit such thing and it is to
hoped that such contingency will occur
again.
Tho steamer Armenia is undergoing repairs and
will soon leave for the Potomac to take her place
on the Cedar Point route.
In the coming fall, the election hero will be
for Mayor, Councilmen, Clerks OF the Court,
Sheriff. members of the Legislature, Sc, and the
contest is expected to be 4 most exciting one.
Mayor Latrobe is candidate for reelection after
having already served four terms, and expresses
his confidence in his success 1t is said that he
has the support of the leaders. but there is much
talk of an independent movement if he is nomi-
mated, so it is by no means improbable that the
leaders will see the necessity of putting some one
else forward to satisfy the popular feeling, not
withstanding that Mr. Latrobc has mado an OK
cellcnt mayor. NIX.