The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-05-24
Fer TIE Cecil Wig.

PORT DEfo5IT, May lilh. 1851.
M, Editor-Enowing you take an interest
IN all our movements shout this place, have TO
inlor,n you that our town presents quite bust
ness aspect. We have had, and still have q
large quantity Of of!utaber aloa,, (although moi
the usual quantity,l which is being shipped and
tioaled oh, except what our lumber merchants
are plllne. The Stone business is quite brisk
indeed all the departments Of business ere quite
lively, and everybody who wants EMPLOYMENT
has plenty to 10 at good wages.
MIR. j. Times large granite building is pro-
pressing very we'll also another orthc same ma
tsrial, which is being built by Mr.. REYNOLDS for
Samuel Rowland, Esq, which is intended as a
residence. You may think our town is looking
up, when | tell you these two houses will cost
! hon 200 TO $40, 600. Such buildings and
snch men are just the things we want. mean
IN N Of capital-we have the business to do and
have the men to do it, as far as their means &C.
| We want some attention paid to MANUFACTURE
ing, and ought TO have Cotton Factory and
Rolling Mill; no better situation for both or
either Of these. hope another year will not
pass off without TN effort being made TO start
one ifnot both.
Our Bank is doing admirably. 1t hos been in
Operation just one year On Monday last, during
W1'ch time has not lost one copperin bad debts.
II has paid all expenses, State bonus, plates,
books, salaries, Sc; and declared dividend Of
! three per cent on the capital stock, for the last
Twelve months. which is payable on or after the
lst day Of June.
| No Bank could have commenced under more
untavorable circumstances than this hank did.
The remembrance ofthe failure ofthc Port De-
post Bridge Bank AMI the Susquehanna Bank.
IN this place, 1t but too fresh in the memory of
many of our citizens Of the county and State.
In addition to this. Havre lie Grace bank exp!ol.
ed soon after the commencement Of the Cecil
Bank, which had its influence on tie public mind.
All these things had an injurious influence
against the Bank But amidst them all its course
has been onward, permanent and safe to itself
and the public, and so long as properly conduct
ell, will continue to be so. While il remains in
the hands it now is and has been in. neither the
Bank or public have any cause 10 fear. AT the
annual meeting held on the 10th inst. the fol-
lowing gentlemen were elected officers Of the
Bank for the ensuing year: J. J. Hcckart. John
Carson, J. II. Rowland, T.. Wilmer, L. d. Nc
Clenahan, David White, J. p. Ianneu.un, An
drew Lyon and j. W. Abiahams, Directors.
After being sworn in. the Directors elected Jacob
Tome, Esq, President of the Bank.
sUsQUEHANNA.
G>During the pr esent week and since
the reception of the above letter, we
passed through Port Deposit, and IN the
brief stay we made there, were struck
with its busy, buatling air, and the evil
dent onward steps of improvement. The
ring of the stone cutters hammer is con.
slant, from early light to dark, except
when silenced occasionally by the thun-
der ola powder blast in some ofthe i'm
mense quarries. Teams loaded with
stone, lumber, grain from the country
or merchandise from the city, crowd the
streets. Acres of lumber-rafts lay
spread out on the river, with whole
fleet bishops and schooners lying around
and loading from them, and an occa-
SIGNAL steamboat b. way Of variety.
We cannot enumerate the improve
ments in progress, for We had but
glance at few. The granite houses OF
MeSsrs Tome and Rowland, referred to
in the above letter: will be magnificent
buildings. Tones will far surpass any
thing in the county. 1t is of large d.
mansions, Of hewn granite, and will be
three high stories in height. In one
part of the basement, intended for the /,
bank, he is having vault built at cost
Of $1,000. Tome, Heckart, Wilmer and |
Nanneman have greatly improved their
wharves; Mr.. Marshbank has an extern.
sive foundry, where he is prepared to
do all manner of casting; Mr.. Max
well has erected steam machinery to
grind bark and facilitate the operations
of his tannery, and here and there along !
the street we observed new buildings, !
the builders and owners of which we
did not learn. Mr.. Wilmer has bought
and fitted up the old bank house till
without and within it is almost palace.
Port Deposit is filled with business
men-it could not be otherwise; the
trade and resources of the place demand |
such men and create them. With
mighty river rolling beloreit down which !
millions Of dollars worth of lumber
comes, and up which twenty sail, or
more, of vessels often arrive in aday;
with immense betting crags of granite
heaved up in its rear, from the quarries
In which hewn stone are shipped to all
parts of the country, its trade is extern
sive and must increase. Beside, the
steady and rapid agricultural improve
mentsin the surrounding country, afford
great deal of business. Wages are
high; common hands receive from 81 to