The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-10-27
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which every stream pours its Living wa
tiers and at which every man may come
to drink. 1t is the newspaper that gives
to liberty its practical life, ls constant
observation, its perpetual vigilance, lis
unrelaXing activity. The newspaper in
forms legislation of pubic opinion, and
forms the people OF The acts of logisIa-
tion. And this is not all. The neWspa-
per teens with the most practical moral
ity; i'll its reports of crime and punish
mcnts you find a daily warning against
temptation; not case in police court,
not single trial OF a wretched outcast
or trembling felon, that does not preach
to us the awful lesson imprulence leads
to error, how error conducts to guilt
how gilt reaps its bitter fruits Of anguish
/ and degradation The newspaper is the
familiar bond that binds together man
and man-no matter what may be The
distance Of climate or the difference of
race, Here it isthat we have learned
how TO sy mnathlse with the slave, how
to battle for his rights-how to wresl the
scourge from IFS task-master.
The GoLD DoLLAR.- The Philadelphia
Ledger thus describes the coming of those
beautiful and convenient specimens Of
American money.
"Although about a hundred pieces can be
coined minute, when every thing !. in
readiness, ten Or twelve thousand per day
is as many as can be prepared for the die,
as each piece has to be weighed before it
is stamped, ard if too heavy filed away to
the proper weight, and iftoo light thrown
aside for melting, casting into bars, and
cut into dollars pieces again for coming.
This care is necessary, the pieces being 50
small and the metal 80 valuable. in order
to prevent injustice to the mint CT the pub
lie. In large coinage, and in silver, the
labor of weighing each particular piece is
not done, and therefore is much more rap
id. The minis have now nearly or quite
caught up to the demand, and as Il general
thing, four days after deposit of gold the
coin may be obtained. The officers observe
the rule of 'irst come, first served" except
in cases where the deposit is very large
STEAM ON THE CAHAL.-Ihe Washing
ton News, of Saturday, says:
eve are informed that preparations are
making to test fully the important ques-
tlon, whether steam can be successfully
and cheaply used for the purpose Of nayi-
cation on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
A special partnership has been entered
into between gentleman living in the
neighborhood of Williamsport and the Ca
nal Company, with the above object; and
we understand the necessary machinery
will soon be ready to apply to the boat
chosen for the experiment. IF this should
succeed to the satisfaction Of the company,
other boats will be built on the same pril.-
ciple; and the ordinary method of towing
by horses in a great measure superseded.
"lhe trip from Cumberland to the Dis
trict, it is thought, would not occupy more
than two days, and with sufficient power
ofcngine, half dozen coal boats could be
easily lowed"
LAMEvTAELE STATE or HuNcARY.--
The condition OF things in Hungary is
lamentable. The currency has almost
disappeared Men who We're rich find
Themselves without the means of support
Ing 'heir families. Deb,s are not paid.
The sons of many of the nobility have
been forced to enlist as private soldiers
in the Austrian army. The aged and
venerable Bishop ofNeusohl has been De
prived Of his Office, a.ld sentenced to five
years solitary confinement. Women
are punished for having aided their hus-
bands; and daughters for having conyers-
ed with their fathers who are rebels. In
Pennsylvania the %axons and Romans, he
reditary enemies of the Magvars, have
hunted them down like wild beasts
shooting them al srghte. Enormiies of
this kind were SO frequent, that the Aus
trian authority has been forced to de-
clare the state of siege in one part of Hun
gary. Radetzky, the Austrian general
has become disguised at their BAR arity,
though he had considerable experience
in the same thing in Italy. Iaynau ap-
pears anxious TO keep the infamous repu-
tation he has acquired. Eleven young
girls have been imprisoned for strewiEg
flowers over the graves of those executed
by order of thesCourt Marital. The reck
oning for all this viii one day come.
| MUTUAL CoNsaL,rloN.-An old clergyman,
! who had un old tailor as his beadiG or officer
! for many years, returning from n walk where
| Thomas was III the constant habit of attending
him, thus addressed his fellow traveller, the
minister's man
| "Thomas, cannot tell how it is, that our
church should be getting thinner and thinner
for am sure preach as well as ever did,
and should have more experience than when I
first came among yon."
! " Indeed" replied Thomas L" old ministers