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Baltimore Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Picayune.]
BALTIMORE, Feb. 4, 1852.
Messrs. Editors Picayune—The mild weather noticed in my last has happily continued, not only ensuing a resumption of navigation, but a gradual passing off of the mountains of snow and ice in the interior, the sudden melting of which it was feared would cause such a series of disastrous freshets as had never been experienced before. The danger is now deemed over, however, and its effect on the internal improvement stocks is apparent in all the Northern markets.
Gov. Lowe, of Maryland, who belongs to the Young Democracy, has declared his intention of removing all the Old Hunker Democrats appointed by his successor from office, to make room for the younger applicants who are seeking the reward for their services in the last campaigne. He has adopted the rotation doctrines of Gen. Jackson, intending, like him, to rotate his particular friends from one office to another in carrying out the sweeping rotation doctrine. The axe is expected to fall daily, and great is the excitement among the victims and the expectants.
The pardon by Gov. Bigler of the venerable slave-catcher, Alherti, who had served one year of the ten for which he was sentenced on the charge of kidnapping, meets with universal approval in Maryland, and, so far, little or no objection has been made to it in Pennsylvania. The setting free of the Christiana traitor and murderers required some propitiatory net on the part of the new Governor; and none could have been more fitting than this, as Alberti was guilty of no crime according to the laws of this or any other Southern State.
The negro Williams, who gave the Christiana murderers notice of the coming Mr. Gorsuch and the officers, was tried at Philadelphia to-day and declared not guilty; thus the last of the murdering crew has escaped all punishment.
The temperance men in this vicinity have renewed their war against the use of the ardent, and have petitioned the Legislature to adopt the Maine liquor law, which prohibits not only the manufacture and sale of the article, but provides for its immediate destruction when found by the authorities within the limits of the State. There is no prospect of present success in the movement; but they expect to be able, by securing the pledge of some two thousand votes in the city, to hold the balance of power and cast their votes for which ever party will nominate a temperance ticket, or select a ballot of their own from the two tickets placed in nomination by the two parties. The tavern-keepers, on the other hand, threaten to bring the brandy bottle to the polls also, so that there will be a warm fight of it.
There is signs ahead of another church trouble among the Methodists. A convention has been called in Philadelphia for the purpose of considering the propriety of so changing the church discipline as to allow lay delegates seats and votes in the conferences. The Washington Methodists have elected delegates, and a meeting is called in this city to-morrow night for the same purpose. The movement has caused great excitement among the old time Methodists, but the young Methodists advocate the revolution and the reduction of the power of the ministers and old thinkers.