The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-08-23
A LETTER ABOUT OUR COUNTY.

A LETTER ABOUT OUR COUNTY.
UrC. LITTLE, ESQ, formerly our county and
now Junior Editor Of The Pohsriils (Pa.) Jour
nal, has lately been on visit to the upper part
of Cecil. We extract the following from one OF
his letters to The Journal, dated Kirkwood,
Aug. 10th.
"The crops in this State have suffered much
in consequence Of the prevailing drought. l
found the same cause of complaint in Bcrks,
Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties,
and also in Delaware, as passed through them.
In many places the corn is literally burnt up.
The Dysentery has prevailed 10 an alarming
extent in the upper part OF this county. 1t as
sumcd peculiarly malignant character and pro-
| we'd fatal in a great number of cases. 1t is too
early vel for the fever and ague. This disease
is altogether confined here to the river shores
other parts of the country seldom suffer; and for
some years the cases have been gradually de-
creasing. In time it may disappear entirely.
1t is remarkable that the Susquchanna and its
tributaries grow peculiar species OF grass, not
found in any other rivers of the United States.
The Chester Co., Chrome Mines, an account
of which which our readers will recollect we
published lately, continue in the most successful
operation A continuation ofihe same vein is
the Susquehanna. The lands in both counties
are owned by the same operator. He has an es-
Enlistment in Baltimore, where the crude ma
terial il ground up and prepared for shipment to
Europe. The whole business is a monopoly.
Several meetings have lately been called TO
adopt preliminary measures for the building OF a
Plank Road to connect these mines and the Hope
well Cotton Manufactures with the Philadel-
pla 4 Baltimore Rail Road. 1t is an important
enterprise and will no doubt be undertaken with
out delay.-TEe people OF this county are only
beginning to appreciate it properly.
The lands in this neigh borhood are much i'm
proved within few years. A number of gen.
llemen from Jersey and Pcnnsy lvana have pur-
chased property here, and bya liberal applica-
ton Of Guano, Bone Dust and Lime, are now
converting many sold ficlds,' hitherto thrown
out uniencrd and considered good for nothing,
into capital farms. There is plenty of such land
here in the market, that can be had cheap. The
soil is naturally ola goodqua!ity and with prop
or treatment can be made highly productive"
The CosDEN;MURDEnERs.-The Kent
News closes its account of the execution,
with the following remarks
$50 ends the closing scene of this
terrible tragedy, the details ofwhlch are
unparalleled in the records of crime, and
have astonished and alarmed the entire
country. True it is that the wretched
culprits have gone into the other world
assevcrating their innocense, in man
ner revolving to every mortal instinct IT
they are guilty-and yet tie HHsm con-
viction of their guilt, which had taken
possession of their mind after the yevela-
tons made Ivy Stephen Shaw remains
undisturbed, while the clergymen who
have attended them since their convic.
ton, have found nothing in their con-
duct to shake their confidence in the
righteousness OF the verdict and business
of the execution. Some powerful mo.
tive, perhaps, shame at the commission
of ideed so atrocious, so unprovoked,
so cowardly, so destitute Of every manly
ingredient as the butchery of defenceless
woman. united with callousness, which
either in the guilty or innocent, was
almost incredible, have enabled them to
appear in the presence of God, with
falsehood upon their lips"
TALBOT COUNTY PoLlT1cs. inject
ing fine Wings ofTalbot county have
resolved unanimously to present no NOM
mated ticket for county officers this fall.
The Easton Gazette learns that many of
the Democratic party favor the same
policy, that the people may select these
innortant officer REGARDLESS of party.
KossUrH. Letters from Constantine
pie, in Berlin Journal, states that the
Turkish government had again been de-
fered from setting kossuth free by the
protest of the Envoy of Austria.
A BED OF MARBLE, said to be equal to
Italian, has been discovered near Jones'
town, Lebanon county, Pa, by work
men employed in the widening of the
Union Canal.