Year: 1874

BALTIMoRE, Nd, Aug. Oath 1874.


Dear Transcript May we hope, with
out fearing the charge of presumption be-
ing imputed to us, that an occasional
epistle from our good old ''monumental
city," may be endured by your many
readersl We are solely unable 10 express
the precise amount of interest, said docu-
ments. may prove to contain; for notwith-
standing the fact that we are in the midst
of city containing three hundred thou
sand inhabitants, they are of cast, poor
ly calculated to keep aaoat sensational
matters, sufficient to render the art of in
teresting and pleasing the public, an easy
duty to a correspondent However the
most irksome and uninterestiug season in
City life, is the one from which we are
just about to immerge, and as the Fall APP
proaches the whole city seems to loom up
with renewed vigor. Indeed it was uni
versal comment that the whole city seemed
under the influence Of protracted slum-
Der, but even at this early period sufficient
vitality has returned to insure that, the
drowsy influence under which she has been
held, was but ephemeral in consequence
of major part of her population, being
off, at the various watering places and
every species of business or pleasure, en-
joying an annual rest


Many days-yea, even weeks-since
the mind of certain class of our vast
population was centcred upon certian
indefinite something in the future. Not
indefinite however, as to its object, its
place or its time, but only as to the gran
deur, the sublime extent to which they
could make it aspire, and doubtless are
now well satisfied it has attained This
long anticipated, and much talked Of OBJ
ject was the event of the great Inter
national Schuetzen Festival" held at the
Schuetzen Park, at the north end of Balti-
more. Long did we hear it spoken of,
and for time it seemed to threaten the
utter annihilation of the Beecher-Tilton
Scandal, and even the Ross child' was
lost for a while, in the vast confusion of
the Schuetzen movement But time NOV
ed on Gas is its custom) and finally the
day for the commencement of the weeks
festival arrived, which was the 18th inst.
and gala day it was. Never was a
greater concourse of human beings seen on
the streets Of Baltimore, than on that
turnout and parade of their Teutonie
brethren. Attired in such snowy para
phernalia, as their German ideas suggest
ed, they marched through the principle
streets, accompanied by Schuetzen delega-
tions from nearly every City in the Union
and keeping time to the music of several
full bands. From hence they proceeded
to the Park, to which there has been a
daily rush, to so great an extent that many
extra cars were put on that route, and
was then unable to carry them all So
| great was the travel that several of the
cars broke down under the weight of their
loads. In conclusion of this subject we
will but say, that trip to a Schuetzen
festival, is worth tho trouble it may cost
anyone to get there, as every species of
amusement seems combining to show that
the German population are much given to
tho pleasure of life.


Our theatres all remain closed as yet
with the exception of the new Holiday
street, which was just completed two
weeks since, and which is most perfect
house for drama. 1t has many improve
ments over the old one which was burnt
about year since The house since its
opening has been devoted to sensational
dramas, such as "After Dark" Griffith
Gaunt," &c.,


Business in our city has been unusually
dull but our merchants hope for brisk
fall trade The peach supply has been
very slim here, owing to the scarcity of
them in Cecil and Kent counties which
usually supply our market. Some how
ever have been coming in, but the most
of them are consumed by the Gamers, and
do not find their way into our markets.
Hence the existing scarcity, never was the
supply of other fruits larger than at pres
ent. Watermelons and cantaloupes have
been perfect drug-seventy-fve pungy
loads having arrived in one day. City
folks can talk of "verdant countryman, u
"Greenhorn," Eastern Shoreman," and
many other such praisworthy epithets may
be applied to him whose home is beyond
the limits of brick and mortar, but mark
these same satircile characters, how readily
they turn their significant smellers country
ward as the summer approaches, glad in,
deed to escape for while that much adored
City, and sniff some pure oxygen surround,
ing the home of these much criticised
countrymen.


Well now dear TRANscRTpT we will moi
make this our first communication from
the monumental city too yoluminous, know
ing as we do that the most valuable good.
comes in small packages. Hence we viii
say adieu for the present, promising tc
keep you posted with events of interes
that may transpire from time to time


Very respectfully yours,


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