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THE CECIL WING.
Rs Pub lished every Saturday.
In the Log Cabin,
BY P. G. RICKETTS,,

TERMS.-'rwo dollars year, in ADVANCE
two dollars and fifty cents at the end ofthe yea-.
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$ months IS. months Sc. year sl2 Frac-
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for one third of column. There will be in no
case, any abatement ofthese rates.
VoLNEY b. PALMER, Esq. is our agent in tho
cities of Baltimore. Philadelphia and Now York.
Advertisements left at his Country Newspaper
Agency" in either Of those cities will receive
prompt attention.
John c. Waters, Esq, is our agent IN Port
Deposit.
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FSNABlE COVERS.-A largo lot of Damas
Il Table Covers, ofassoreI colours, for saleo
may BROWN q Nc INTIRE
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LADIES DRESS GOODS.

Silks (Blk. and Fancy,) French Merinoes Par
amettas Sole D'Almon, Lustrea Alpr cas-, Cash
mercs, NJ DeLanes, sc. together with n large
and handsome OF of Prints from to IL l-2 cts.
per yds.
Shawls. Embroidered Thbet Terkeri, Cha
mellon Cloth, Oblong s Square Blanket, Plain
Cloth and Cotton.
Blankets, Flanncls from l2 2 cts to higher
prices Brown and White muslin from 4 to IA cts
per yd, 5 and 10 quarter Shooting bro. white and
cold. Canton, Striped Shifting, Iickings, Hos-
cry Gloves, Laces, Edgings, variety of Trim
ing Goods, sc. together with variety of other
articles all of which will be sold OH accommodate
ing tcrms.
Thankful for past patronage he respectfully
invites the attention of all believing from his ex-
perience in the Dry Good Business that he can
furnish Goods great deal cheaper than most per
sons and equally as cheap as they can be obtain.
cd anywhere. Please call and examine before
purchasing.
N. B. country produce taken in exchange fol
Goods.
One Door above the Court House, w. r.
Elklon, Oct %, '45.
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V7INEGAR.--BestP ickl..- Vinegar, onh
y and ser sale, by the gallon n sarr.L "a
Aug. 20, Wn' Sk4,,1
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Tanton Mattings, for sale by
" may BAewN NeIs1iRR.
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STEAM
Soap & Candle Mandatory,
Corner of Third and Orange Streets,


DUI.
Where may be found, all articles in the above
line Of business, as follows MOULD AND
DlPPED candles, Brosrn, Yc,lop, White
Palm, and Varifgaied SOAPS; Which will be
sold at Philadelphia Prices, with discount for
Cash Country merchants would find it TO their
interest, to call before purchasing elsew here
All orders thankfully rece ved: and promptly at
tended to. ENOCH ROBERTS.
Wilmington, April 7,-6mo. lS49.
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FALL AND WINTER GOODS.

William Torbert would respectfully inform the
public that he has received large and well Sc
Get stock Of Fall and Winter Goods, which he
now offers at very ow prices. They consist in
part Of English, French and Beaver Cloths
various colours 4 prices, CHssmers, Satinetts,
kerseYs, Vestlnrs, &c.
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GLOTES AND HOSIERY
A fine assortment Of Silk, Isle thread and
"A Md Gloves, also fine lot of Hosiery of all
descriptions Just received and for sale BY
April I, 49. BRowN & McIn,irc.
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LIVER CCMPLAIMT.
CNOLERA INTANTUTs1,

ARRAYS cured by this Balsain
THIS BALsAh is the best aso5yas In the world to
soohe and quiet cross retu children 10 stp, and cause
them TO rest quietly and yet it docs mol comia" amy
OPIUM LAupANum, or PAREGoRIc, and therefore, new.
erSniures Affects or disease tho brain preparations
of opium do Wsokiy children will become fLEsiiY,
HHALTHY and HEARTY, and grow rapidly by the use OF
this Bulsam. sac
No mother need ever mourn the death of her child
by Cholera Inautum while tccthing il BRaNT S
PULMONARY BALSAM be administered. 1t
should be- for such given III larger than the Or
diuary doses.
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NJ RE n EWS,

~ IONABLE, and the best assort-
k@ES 90 ment of mems, womans, and chill
S drens boots and Shoes in Cecil
county, is to be found at the sub
cribers BOOT & SHOE STORE, in Elkton.
Sign of the Big Boot.
opposite the Court House.
The subscriber would respectfully inform his
friends, and the public generally, that he has
purchased of his brother, (Enoch Crouch) his
entire stock IF Ladies. Misses, and childrens
boots and shoes, and has commenced manulac-
turing Ladies Shoes of every description. Hc
is now prepared to accommodate all who may
favor him with Il call, with mems women's and
childrcns boots and shoes ofthe best sort at very
low prices. THOS. G. CROUCH
Elkton, Feb. Goth '4s.
N. b. Country produce taken n exchange
for boots and shoes. Wanted boot and shoe
makers.
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SALT! SALIM SALIWy
Ground Alum, Turks Island and Dairy sa
usore and for sale by Wa. r)t Bhar !
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Rolls, Yarn, Cloth.
HsOnncts! EROnnets

Hsonncts Es0nnets
T. Z. LOTHROP, No 80 South Second
St. upper side mex: door to Sharpless s. Sons
PHILADELPHIA. ,
Respectfully invites the attention of the La
dies of Elkton, and It's vicinity, TO his very select
assortment of Spring * Summer
Straw BOnnets and Hats,
at extremely low prices. Merchants and deal
ers supplied. Altering Bleaching and Pressing,
done in u superior manner, and at short notice.
IT. 4. LOTHROP,
next door to Townsend, Sharp less & Sons, N
Sou SecondSt Phihla. 81
NOTICE.
The Subscriber being Constable and
residing in Elkton, respectfully informs
the public that be is prepe ed to attend
to the duties of that oifice--all Notes s
Accounts placed in his hands tor collec-
ton will be attended to promptly.
THOMAS I'HACKERY.
N. B. Merchants or others having
notes or accounts to present, wlthou
sueing, will be attended to, for small
percentage. T. T.
Dec. 2. '4S.
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Dried Boef & Canvasscd Hams. of excelcn
- quality just received and for sale e
Aug. 10, AS. VIM TORYaRT.
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For Sale.

A valuable horse-can trot his mile
in 81 minutes; warranted perfectly sound
and offered for sale, from want OF use for
him. Apply at this Office. If.
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NOTICE.,

The Orphans Court of Cecil county
hold their stated meetings on the end
Tuesdays of February, April, June Az
ust, October and December.
GEORGE r. HOWARD Re
April 18th lS45-
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lNEN LUSTRES.-Grecn, blue, n d
grey, Just received and for sale by
May 10 B.. MAY.
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, post and small motto pa
''ters, sc for ale by
MCINTYRE.
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CHEAPEST AND MOST CURATIVE,
~ ONE DOLLARS WORTH,

The first tease state ls the cure which effected
In Mr. J. b. Haskin, of Rome, Oneida Co.. N Y, and
risk not any of vcracty, when say that this
Ia md honeIess of the
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Most HOrrid ScrOfulas

TINT ever has been cured since the world created
and this was cured by TEN TINES LESS OF Brants
Purifier and at LESS Cost, than ever case hoJ us
revolving and hopeless was cured by TEN TIMES As
Mr. Haskin states that he had been con fined to his
bed One Year and not expected to live tpeny four
hours longer, when he commenced using the Purifier
hts neck was eaten nearly off from to hole
was eaten through the Hindpipe-his ear nearly eaten
out-the OF desiIOyedan Ulcer, as large as
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and Chosic Coughs, abuIdan,y prove its uafuiling
efficacy in such diseases, and its undOubtcd curative
power and soothing, healing properties in the following
mpsints and die. viz. Spiii.y Of Blood Bleed
iss Al tie Lungs, Pdil So The Breast and Side, NigAt
S@tsis, Nuposs Conpl0ais Poipiiaiios If The Heat
Chois,a i.51as, DyseEitry and Summer Complaints, ia
anil
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FEMALE WEAKNESSES and COMPLAINTS.

No remedy that has been offered TO the public has
been half and :G.etual i'll resioias ALL
the incidental Weokssysss and r'guiaiiss Of the sex,
US BRANT's PULMONARY BALsAM. 1t makes no der.
whether the arrangement be suppression 1Ecess,
Or other iucidssisi psakaess-it REGULATES ALL,
by Strengthening the system seuasing the oirc.lotion,
and SOOTHING aud ALLAYING NERVOUS IRRlTA.
BIIIVY, See oav pap,phlefs for proof
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I. L. LOTHROP, No 30 South Second
St. upper side mex; door to Sharpless s. Sons
PHILADELPHIA. +,
The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-03-09

BURNING CT TaE CoNyoY.-We have learn
cd the particulars Of this disaster from Mr.. G,
W. Dwight, of this city, who wasa passenger
on the Convoy.
At half past one O'Clock ON Tuesday, the
9th ult, while she was in the chute at Fair.
child's about Is miles above Natchez, the
Convoy was discovered to be on fire in the
hold Immediately after the discovery of the
fire she was steered towards shore, and in tho
meantime the hatch being removed, the flames
made such instantaneous progress as to cut
OFT all communication between the bow and
stern. Some of the passengers jumped over
boaTt and swan to the island others remained
until the boat struck.
A man named Prior, bound to Red River,
was drowned. He had several negroes and a
considerable amount Of money with him -
de jumped into the river with a bag contain
ing $500 in specie, and went down holding
it above his head, and offering a large reward
to any one who would save him. A German,
name unknown, bopnd for California, was also
drowned. No other lives lost.
The Convoy had a cargo of 5000 balesS of
cotton, which with the baggage of the pas
sengers, was lost. The boat is also q total
loss.
1t isa singular fact that nearly all the Off
GERS and crew of the Convoy belonged to the
steamer Memphis when she sunk, and to the
steamer 'Clarksville' when she was burned
Y. Whig,
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Tuck AND BRowN.-A Washington le,tsr
writer gives a full account of the recent diff
Guilty between Governor Brown, of This State.
and Mr.. Tuck Of New Hampshire. The fol-
lowing paragraph is sufficient to monopolize
all the room we can give the afFair.-V Whie.
"Ihe Misunderstanding between Mr., Brown
of Mississippi and Mr.. Tuck Of New Hamp.
shire, is not yet disposed Of. "Southern chiy.
airy" seems to be rapidly passing from a pro-
verb to, a %by-word. The insult offered bv
Governor Brown to Mr.. Tuck was somewhat
extraordinary, as we'll as the course the matter
has taken. Mr.. Tuck is a gentleman in eyerv
sense OF the word, always d~ignifed and cour-
'eOus, and gave not the slightest provocation
to the %sneering reply oil Ex-Governor Brown, to the
speaker, "that he 6eheUed Mr.. Tuck was a mem.
ber." 1t will be recollected that in reply to
this Mr., Tuck said-loOking Mr.. Brown dr.
rectly in the face-'it is possible for person
to take such a course as to put il out of his
power to insult a member upon this hror."
A message was afterwards borne by Mr.. Image
Of Alabama, from Governor Brown to the New
Hampshire member, demanding a retraction,
which was refused, with remark thathe was
ready to meet the issue wherever it might be
called for, This was rather firm language to
hold to a Southern member, whose honor is SO
nice-Probably much holder than was expect
ed from a Northern man. Mr.. Brown, it is
said, intends to bring the matter before the
House, which is certainly the wisest way it
can be disposed Of
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Corruption in the Treasury Depart
ment.

AASAN
The following paragraph is from the
Washington correspondent of the New Or
leans Bee. 1t gives specimen of Mr.. Walk
er's peculiar mode Of doing business. We fear
there arc startling developments to be made
concerning the transactions IN that Depart
ment, which will stamp the very questionable
honesty Of the Treasurer with an unenviable
and unquestionable shape, We sincerely hope
that such may not be the case; but the fear,
under the circumstances, predominates consid-
erObly over the hope.
Developments OF the mismanagement and
corruption Of the administration of the Treasu-
ry, are becoming frequent, since subordinates
have no longer motive for concealment and
are disposed to propitiate favor, by exposing
the corrupt dealings Of their present employ.
ers. Large sums Of money have been allowed
by Mr.. Walker to his partizans and instru-
ments, without the color Of law, and they have
been chargedto accounts with which they have
not had the remotest connection, A single
case will illustrate the system. During the
war, one Of the clerks in the Treasury was d.
rected TO conduct a million of dollars of specie
from New York to New Orleans. No insu-
rance was effected. He and his associates full
filled their important trust faithfully, and upon
returning to Washington received an allowance
Of travelling expenses in consideration of their
integrity and the danger which they incurred.
When this expedition was about to start, Mr..
Walkerin order to provide for one of his supple
sycophants, attached an individual named Nc
Farren as convoy, who performed no part Of
the duty, and shared none Ct the responsibility
He was allowed $4,000 and that allowance was
placed on the debt Of 1MOxican hostilities.>'
In This way, the public Treasury has been made
subservient to the most corrupt purposes, and
the Secretary has availed himself Of rewaruing
the INSCRIPTIONS instruments, whom he has
employed to manage his political matters
Whenever this Department can be thoroughly
probed, it will turn out that, since the founda-
ton of the Government, it has never been al
ministered with as little regard to integrity.
There are particular persons in N Orleans who
have shared these spoils,and who are fully cogni-
zant Of the modes by which the Secretary has
accommodated the power vested in him as q
high functionary, to their mutual advantage
The time is drawing near when all these frauds
will be exposed, or such of them as may b,
reached by patient and r%esolule investigation
y. Wing.
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In Coles county, there lived man named
Isaac Dodson, and his wife, who were both firm
believers in the prophecy of Father Miller; and
not doubling for q moment the correctness OF
their prophets calculations, they set about
making preparations for the %eventful day that
was to terminate the existence of all subluna-
ny things. After having d" set their house
in ORDER" the following conversation took
glaze.
Husband.-My dear wife, l believe l have
made every preparation for tomorrow !
have forgiven all my enemies, and prayed for
the forgiveness of all my sins, and feel per-
fectly calm and resigned. :
Wife We'll, husband, | believe | am ready
for the sound Of the trumpet,
HI rejoice to hearit. But, my dear wife,
have no doubt there are many little domes-
tic secrets which have been kept hidden from
each other, which, if they had been known at
the time Of their occurrence, might have pro-
duced unpleasant feelings, but as we have but
one day more to live, let US unbOsOm ourselves
freely to each other.
W.-Well husband, you are right; there are
some little things that | never told you, and
which | intended should remain between me
and my God but as we have but one day lett
| reckon it's right to make a clean breast to
each other, ! am ready; you begin husband
H.-No, dear, do you begin.
W.-No, husband, you begin-l can't.
H.-No; you know, my love, Paul says hus-
band, have a right to command their wives
/ is your duty as a Christian woman to obey
vcur husband and the father Of your children
So begin. love.
Win the sight of God l reckon it's right
So, will tell you, dear husband, our eldest sol
William, is not your child.
H.-Greal God! Mary! | never dreamed o
your being untrue to me! Is that so?
w. lin tears.)-Yes, God forgive me, it i
true. know that did very wrong, and an
sorry for 1t; but in an evil hourl fell, ant
there's no help for it now,
H,-William not nsine2 In the name Of Got
whose child u he?
W.--He,s Mr.. GrahatA's. the constable. -
The Lord be near your poor wife!
H.-so, William amt my child! Go IN.
W.-wcll, our daughter Mary, named al
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Question of Veracity.

We find the following in the Washington
Correspondent Of the Charleston Courier.
A curious development was made to-day by
Mr.. Wilmot, TO wit-that Mr.. Polk had some
time ago, consented to approve the Wilmot
Proviso in a modified form. The fact, if cor.
rectly stated by Wilmot, was tnis-lhat Mr..
Polk sent for Nilmot on the occasion of the
recommendation Of the three million bill. He
told Mr.. Wilmot that the Proviso would en-
barrass the government-that the bill would
secure a treaty of peace, if passed-that he had
information to that effect, &c. Mr.. Wilmot in
reply, stated his views, and suggested that a
joint resolution should be passed declaring that
slavery should not be extended into %territo-
ries to be acquired by the United States. Mr..
Polk eagerly embraced this offer, and remark
ed, that even Mississippi would agree to that,
Mr.. Stephens alluded to this matter in his
speech to-day, as one Of his long array of evil
dences of what he a~lledged to be the habitnal
d~uplicity Of the President.
The President was informed last evening Of
the revelations Of Mr.. Wllmot. He immedi-
ately took measures to authorize a flat denial
of the truth of Mr.. Wilmors statement. Mr.
Wilmot alledges that Mr.. Polk assented to,
and eagerly embraced his, Mr.. Wilmot's, sug-
gestion Of a joint resolution declaring that sla'
very shall not exist in the new territories. say.
ing that it would meet the appreciation eUen
Of Mississippi. Mr.. Wilmot suggested that, al
he says, as a substitute for his prOVisO. MI
Polk saysthat his assertion is falsely attributed
to him.
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spread Of the slavery Excltemet

A meeting of the ~c!tizens OF Madison coun-
ty was held at Canton on the 10th ull,, the
main object of which was to ratify the course
of a portion of the Southern Senators and
Representative in Congress, on the subje ct Of
certain "threatened aggressionS upon the con-
stitutional rights Of the Southern portion of
the Confederacy." AS the meeting was thinly
attended, it was resolved that an adjourned
meeting be held on the first Monday in April
without party distinction to.express their unit
cd sentiments on the subject matter Of tn
addresses of Messrs. Calhoun and Berrien /;
and also that our Senators and Representatives
be requested to attend, and address the meet
ing.
Several sets of resolution a were read, nd
notice given that they would be introduced
al the adjourned meeting, all OF which are to
the effect that the time has arrived for the pco.
pie of the South to speak out in their primary
assemblies through the press, by their Legis-
latures,& c,--their sense Of Indignation at the
injustice sought to be perpetrated upon them,
and their determination to resist, at allhazzards
any and every attempt tending to the depriva-
ton of their rights, as guaranteed by the con-
stitution, and Os the Major would say, to stand
fast and exhibit a bold front. +,
That there is some cause for action, and
determination on the part Of the South, we are
willing to admit; but cannot agree that 1t Is
suflc ent 10 Justify the bellicose and Provok
ing spirit which is manifested by resolutions
that are to come up for action by the patriotic
citizens of Madison, and we shall be greatly
mistake en- in our guess, if the projectors OF the
meeting do not find the rejecting and discreet
disinclined to participated in what we must de-
nominate their premature and precipitous pro-
ceedings. AT present We cannot see any i'm
mediate cause Of alarm, and until such a cri'
sis is at hand any movement, calculated to
goad the people OF the South to excitement
is in our judgment, unwise and mustbe fraught
with consequences that may hereafter be de-
precated. The people of the South are in nc
danger, and we cannot see the policyo OF fan
ming a aame,which may envelope us in a most
disastrous %Con1agratiou Lexington s4dVeT-
' tiSer,
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servation and analysis. Thisstep, that may be
undertaken by an uneducated man-may even
be the work of chance-but the grand result is
the product of cultivated mind, strained to the
highest tension of its powers.
We hear Of untaught men, of franklin and
Bowditch, and heaven forbid that in the city
where one was born and the other died, their
names should ever be pronounced but with
veneration. But in the first place, to argue
from the case of such men as franklin and
Bowditch to the case Of the generality ofminds
would be like putting a roguish boy apprentice
to a wool-comber. in orderthat when he grows
up he might write another Hamlet. But what
is a self-taught man, and what does he do
He is not an untaught man, nor does he go
blazing through life like a locomotive engine,
in a dark night, by the light Of his own intui-
ton.
Sir, a self-taught man is man of strong
mind and stronger will,who. under discourage
ments and in the face of obstacles acquires the
rudiments of learning +; and when he has done
so, carries on and completes his education by
placing his understanding in contact with the
cultivated intellects of other regions and Other
times. franklin is certainly a most favorable
specimen of a self taught man. He was o
great original interpreter of nature. The his
tory Of science has nothing more sublime thar
the courage with which he sent his armed kite
into the thunder cloud, and drew the electric
spark with his finger from the key at the enc
oil the cord. But Franklin was man of books
a studious man, a friend of academlcal train
ing;
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A correspondent Of the National Intelligen-
Ger writes:
"General and Mrs Taylor have no children
yougn enough to be "going to scholl" i'll Balti-
more or elsewhere They have there dangh-
ter married to DR.. Wood, of the army, and now
on that station. Colonel Taylor, the Generals
brother, whose lady is the daughter of the
Hon. John Mclean, is also in Baltimore and
attached to that station. The public attention
seems to have been won away by the General
entire from his better half; for his biographers
have not told us who she is. Now for the hon
or of old CGluert county in Maryland, be it
known that she produced the only person to
whom General Taylor ever has surrendered.
Mrs, Taylor comes not only from Calvert coun.
ty, but from, it is believed, the very estate on
which Mrs. Adams father, if not herself, was
born-on the shores ofthat river the Patuxent,
which naviga,ors have said was the boldest and
the most beautiful they have ever entered
Mrs. Taylor's father was Captain Walter Smith.
an independent and highly respectable farmer,
whose estate was situated on the right bank OF
ST. Leouard's Creek, in which Commodore
Barney's hotilla was blockaded in the late war.
She is the sister of the late Major Richard
Smith, of the arine Corps, well remembered
in Washington and New York especially, for
his gallant and %soldierly appearance and learn
ing, and his fine soldier qualities. 1t was in
Kentucky that the General, then a very young
man, saw her and was conquered. With that
reservation it may be said, to use the words Of
young Critenden to Santa Anna, "GeneraI
Taylor never surrendsrs."