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BALTIMORE MARKET, March 25.-
The Europa's news has had no spe-
clal effect on the Flour market. Sales
to-day of 500 bbls. Howard st. brands at
S4,O6t, and 800 bbls. City Mills at $4,-
l24. Rye flour 1854. and Corn meal
So 3.124 per Dbl.
GRAIN.-Sales of red Wheat at SO a
81; white do. 50 a $l,O2, as to quality.
Rye 10 cts. White Corn Sc 81 cts.
and yellow Sc 81 cents. Oats 80 a
81 cents. Cloverseed has declined, and
is in less demand. We note sales at H.
70 80, as to quality. Timothy 2,75
50, and Flaxseed SLIT per bushel.
WILMINGTON, Ma. 25.--Flour $3.50
w heat SO cts; Corn 80 cts; Oats 33 cts
Cloverseed 1925.
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Enthusiastically a week but witnesses the
advent of some book agent in our town. Now
we are decidedly in favor of the dissemination
of useful knowledge but we beg leave most
r:sTecliully-as the committee men say-to en-
Ter our protest against the miserable trash usu-
ally yended by these agents. Generally they
are the confessions Of some murderer, or the
revelation ofthe acts ofseducers, counterfeiters,
burglars and incendiaries. The effect of all
these is demoralzing. No geol can result from
reading such books, and the man who takes
them into his family, runs risk of vitating the
morals Of his children, and beyond doubt their
tastes will suffer.
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Correspondence Of The Cecil Wing.
Letter from, R0yvGandsyiEle.
RowLANpsvlLLE, March %

ho" LANDSElLLE, hldICH ~ ~.
Mr.. EDlToR:-Rumor says that our
Port Deposit folks are somewhat star
tied by the unceremonious disappear
ance of one Of their citizens. He is
said to have been specializing considera-
bly, OF late in live stock and to be a de-
faulter to some extent.
Our neighborhood appears to be in
tested with thieves of all grades. Corn
houses, meat houses, granaries, spring
houses &C., are almost nightly broken
open and robbed ottheir contents. Yet
it appears hard to detect them, and
much harder to convict them after they
are detected. We feel sometimes like
recommending Judge Lynch's lar.
The Susquehanno is in fine rafting
order; and but for the high winds, the
lumber would come down rapidly.
There have been numerous arrivals this
week in Port Deposit. The farmers
generally are busy blowing and prepa-
ring to plant and SOW their spring crops
Yours in haste, p.
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GopEY's LADy's BooK.-The April number
of this popular periodical is upon our table.
Watts first conception of the "Steam Engine"
and "The Old Farm Gate" are very expressive
pictures. There are a number of other good
engravings, among them portrait of James
Watt. In his editorial remarks, Cooley pleads
"not guilty" 10 the charge l"light literature"
which some critics have laid against him, and
IN this number we think the demurrer is clearly
made out. The reading matter is generally
from the pens Of standard Amcrcar~ WI tiers
"The Saxons''-decidedly the GEM ofthe No
is by 7. Hampstead, who is fast gaining the
position among the American literati, which be
is so eminently qualified to sustain.
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CONCERT OF SACRED MUSIC.
AR. sIsHVV ARD LANCASTER,

TliE united Choirs Of the Presbyterian and
L Methodist Churches intend giving a concert
OF Sacred Music, in the Presbyterian Church of
this place, on TUESDAY erening The 1911 of
.4pril meet; for the benefit of MIR. Edward Lam
caster, Or@anst. number of fine pieces of
music have been selected for the occasion. The
:ollowin, gentlemen have consented TO act as
managers:
Rev. James McInlire, John C. Groome, F.
A. Ellis, II. Mccullough, DR.. J. Wallace, VIM.
Tcrhcrt, Benz. F. May. J. T. Mccullough, S.
b. Foarl, Andrew McIntirc.
Tickets % cts, to. be had of either ofthe above
managers, and also at the stores of Messrs,
Brown & f'oard, and J. I. Wells.
ElkIun. March 81.
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Eoeal "cinlall Talk."
[Reported for The Cecil Whig.]

This Column.-We hope to be able 10 find
time to keep up the column of "small TALK" for
though some may say Of it, as they do of Ora
hams small talk, "that it is small-very," we
know that 10 many ofour readers it is interesting
Small things make up the sum total of the
worlds joys and cares; and many things about
which ''big fuss" is made are decidedly small
in themselves. Small are the strifes that rend
asunder social tes--small the calousies that
make men other than brothers-small all the
cares of life, except SO far as they tend to the
improvement of our social condition, and fit US
for eternity.
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Moring Oay.-Thursday last was moving day
IN Eikton. Somebody has exercised their
rhymng talents in detailing the.miseries of the
'washlns day." but it has never entered into
the heart of man to conceive of the worse than
babel-coninslon, which reigns the house over
on moving day. This is emphatically day of
"woman's rights" We suppose when the
ladies get to voting, and being Presidents, Sen
ators, Governors, Legislators, Constablcs, Law
yers, Doctors, &C., we chords of crea,ion'' will
nave to take the lead on moving day. And
with blue domestic kerchef tied around our
heads, go from garnet TO cellar sweeping, dust
ing and 'fixins things to rights
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Tie Treee.-Mr. PurnclI has planted the
trees around the Court House and Jail, and the
boxes have been nicely painted. All we want
now is the sun to shine out warm and bright, to
set the trees to growing and show them to adj
vantage. In the mean time the boys must be
careful not to injure them in any way. a few
years hence, when they've mean the boys
grow to be men, they will be glad 10 rest awhile
under the shade of these same trees, from the
toll and turmoil of business.
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EXTENSION OF TELEeRApH.-M1.
OReilly, of telegraphic celebrity, is
now earnestly engagedin promoting the
project Of extending the telegraph west
ward TO the Pacific, and is sangune of
beng soon able to have it in operation
to San Francisco. He asks the aid of
the government only IN protecting his
lines, by establishing stockades, twenty
miles apart, each of twenty dragons.
He proposes that two or three soldiers
shall ride daily, each way, from each
stockade, SO as to transport daily er-
press letter mail across the continent,
while at the same time protecting and
comforting emf grants and settlers along
the public domain, and thus incidental
ly furnishing all the protection which
the telegraph will require. Seemingly,
this is very ingenious and practicable
mode OF securing great national object
with comparatively small expense. The
distance between Missouri and San
Francisco is about $500 miles. The
mail service, conducted with military
precision, therefrom, ought to be ac-
comPhshed in from tw elve to fourteen
days.
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How TO MAKE TEN THOUSAND Dor.

How TO MAKE TEN THOUSAND DOL
LARs.--A few weeks ago, six illusrious
individuals, one Of whose number is a
disciple of Blackstone, purchased from
responsible firm in this city, the same
number of through tickets to California.
After proceeding on their journey to
Panama, they found no vessel to con-
vey them, according TO agreement. to
the land of gold. Here was crisis in
their destiny, and a most perplexing one
at that. But in the course of few
days sailing vessel put in, destined
for San Francisco, and after brief con-
sul'atlon among themselves, it was
agreed that the party, except the law
yer, should proceed to their destination
aboard the sailing ship. The lawyer
was to remain and proceeds in another
way. He was to institute an action for
damages against the Aspinwal line of
steamers, and for this OBJ iect was duly
commissioned with power of attorney
to act for his associates. Before the
latter were two days sail from Panama,
he had compromised with the Company,
on the receipt of $4,000 which sum
he quietly placed in his breeches pocket,
and returned to Gotham, where he is
perhaps awaiting another opportunity to
realize similar amount, without the
hazard ola through passage. Oh, Cali
fornia, how inseperably thy very name
and destiny is identified with gold
Public Sentiment.
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1--we received letter from our
Newark correspondent too late for in
sertion. 'FRONT.' we learn, that the new
M. E. Church, which was dedicated on
Sunday last, cost $4,000 all of which
had been paid, except 5000, before the
dedication This sum was promptly
raised from the congregation on Sum
day. The letter says that the Elkton
choir not only sustained their reputation
but gained for themselves new laurels.
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Tho true Wing Platform.

The following articles, laid down by
the Central Committee of New Hamp-
shire, embrace not only the soundest pc.
litical doctrine; but the wise and pru-
dental policy to which our country
owes its present greatness, and by the
exercise of which it can alone maintain
its high position.
1. The Wing party knows neither
North nor South, and endorses no ultra
opinions of any type. A political tri-
umPh by the aid of any new local ques-
ton Or ephemeral measure would be
worse than defeat in defence of estab.
lished principles.
2. Union among the several States
and peace with foreign nations. Ours
is a high and noble work to cultivate the
arts OF peace.
3. The union of the States, one and
inseperable; the harmony of the whole
system is dependent upon the proper re-
lations of the several parts. The delu-
sive doctrine of the State rights finds no
place in the system of Wing principles.
4. The government being for the
benefit of the governed, is bound to
provide for the interests of all its mem.
bers. A tariff for protection as well as
revenue has ever been the policy of the
Wing party. The improvement ofriv-
ers, and the harbors upon the lakes, our
great inland seas, is as much the duty of
the General Government as the improve
ment of the sea-board.
S. The liquidation of the national
debt; the Limitation of expenditures
within the average income: the faithful,
economical discharge of official duties
by officers of all grades, at home and
abroad, and a decided stand against
dsmagogueism and faction, and entang-
ling alliances with foreign nations, are
primary articles of the Wing creed.
Let these repudiate them who will, or
slight them as of no Importance compa-
red with some modern notions of Dem
ocralic origin and fanatical growth: but
as for us we will walk in the path of
our fathers, and give at least respecta-
able hearing to their last words of warn
ing and advice.
6. A scrupulous regard to the reserved
rights of the States and prompt exer-
else of the prerogatives of the Govern
ment against any and all, whether at the
North or South, who combine to violate
the Constitution and laws of the United
States. A government that intlicts no
penalties upon evil doors, invites the pi-
ty OF the wise and scorn of fools.
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PUBLIC DocuMENTs.-H Hon. Alexander Evans
will accept our thanks for a copy of the pro-
ceedinss ofthe Congressional Banquet, in honor
OF Washington's birth day; and also report Of
the thirty fifth anniversary of"the American
Colonization Society. From the latter we ex-
!, tract~he following statistics: Whole number
sent TO Liberia during the year 1851, GIG. OF
whom, 405 we've free born, 232 were emanci-
pated and 80 purchased their own freedom.
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INTERESTING FROM FRANcE.-A Lon
don letter to the N. Y. Commercial
gives the following rumor in relation TO
matter in France:
"Rumors are spreading on all sides
that the Empire OF France will be decla-
red on the Goth day of March. On
that day the Eagles are to be distributed
to the army, the present Senate and dep
uties and the garrison of Paris, and re-
port says that, by an unanimous shout,
Louis Napoleon will be declared Empe-
ror.-A new appeal to the nation will
then be made to ratlfy the declaration,
which will no doubt be carried"
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ED.

On the 18th INST, after long and painful
Illness, MARTHA JANE KIRK.
The deceased was resident of the Rising
sun village, and a member of the Methodist L.
church. Her disease was pulmonary consump-
ton, and necessarily painful and prolrac,ed.
Her sntlcrings were borne with true christian
loril'ndc. and she died as she lived, CONSTANT
and worthy christian, in full hopes ola blessed
immortality.
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LOLA MoNTEz.-The New York Her.
aid thinks that the popularity of Lola
Montez will even outlast that of Kos.
suth. In solid cash proceeds, we con.
lecture that Lola is now ahead-having
cleared up to this time, $12, OSO to SIS
900, while Kossuth has not yet paid for
all his two dollar muskets. The Her.
aid speaks of her quarrels with her
agents, one after another, and quarrels
with her landlady, which did her no
good. She went to work, however,
with the assistance of her friends, and
wrote her agents, her landlady, her en-
emies, and all, completely down. Her
famous pronunciamcnto on her life, ex-
perience, and transactions in Bavaria,
silcnced the whole of the press, and pa
we'd the way for her subsequent popu-
larity in the South and in Boston. Her
progress is very singular phenomenon
more so than Kossuth's.
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AN AMEA1cAN In PR1soN AT HAVANA

AN AMEAlcAN In PRIsoN AT HAVANA.
1t is stated that an American engineer
has been in prison at Havana since Sep
TENDER last, because a locomotive, of
which he had charge, ran off the track
by coming in contact With an OK. No
one was hurt, and the passengers at the
time fully exonerated him from blame.
Bali. San.
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Snow STORM AT THE SOUTH Snow
fell throughout nearly the whole day on
Friday the 18th, at Wilmington, N. c.,
entirely covering the ground. Fears
are expressed for the safety of the peach
crop. At Alexandria, Va, the ground
was covered with snow on Saturday
morning.
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NaarlipI.

BY the Rev. T. A. Fernley, at Chesapeake
City on Monday, the 22d inst, Mr.. CHARLES A.
BRYAN TO Miss ANNA M. BENNETT, both of
Cecil county. Del Gazette please copy.
On the 23rd inst, by the Rev. J. d. Curtis,
Mr.. d. S. Cook, of Wheeling, Va, to Miss
CLARlNDA REYNOLDS, of Port Deposit.
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New Goops.-Messrs. Brown & Foard ad
vertise their new stock of Spring Goods in our
paper this morning. 1t is our intention to direct
notice to advertisements as they appear.
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NOTICE..

THNHE Commissioners of Cecil county will
l. meet at their Office in the Court House, on
TUESDAY, the 9th of April next, TO attend TO such
business as may come before them. Delinquent
Supervisors are again called npon to appear and
settle their accounts, this meeting being more
especially for that purpose.
By order, d. SCOTT,
Mar 20 TIM Clerk.
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MISUNDERSTANDING the Cadets appoint
cd p the Military Academy at West Point for
~ year 1852; we find the name of Benjamin
Ricketts,, brother OF our senior Editor.
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RoBT. j. WALLER AND THE TARIFF OF
46.-We cut the following in relation
to Mr.. Walker and his runous tariff
policy, from an article in the Republic
Of Thursday.
mo one has right to accuse him of
acting from corrupt motives; but every
one has the right to say that no paid
agent of England could have promoted
her interests more etfectually than has
Mn. WALKER. She owes him much,
and the hattering reception her traders
and manufacturers have awarded to him
is justified by his devotion to their inter-
ests. He has done more to cripple our
spinning jennies, TO quench our furnace
fires. to render valueless our coal-beds,
and to blight our wheat and cotton
fields, than all the English statesmen
combined. But while the representa-
tives of English interests are in duty
bound to welcome him as their "next
best friend" we may with some pro-
priety ask what sort of greeting is due
to him from our farmers, whose crops
are burden on their hands, from our
cotton planters, whose crop of l951-52
will show falling off in the proceeds
OF its sale of many millions of dollars,
compared with the crop of 1950.51
from our iron-masters, whose furnaces
and FORCES have passed under the ham,
mer OF the sheriff; and from our manu-.
facturers generally, whose operations
have been either crippled or suspen-
ded 7"
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The HEIREss IN DILEMMA.-A
wealthy heiress from one Of the princi-
val German cities, was recently placed
in sad dilemma in Paris. 1t seem
that she arrived in company with
young man several years her junior, for
whom she had conceived a most violent
passion, and that they took up their
abode at one Of the princir al hotels as
man and wife. On Sunday morning
last, to the great CONSERVATION and hor-
ror of the love-sick heiress. she found
that her lover had abs]uatulated, and
what was worse, that he had not only
taken with him all her money, a consid-
cradle sum; but her Jewels and every ar
tice of value she had. At first she gave
way to the most violent despair, during
which it was difficult to say which she
most bemoaned, the loss of her lover or
her property; but she finally went and
laid complaint before the police. No
trace of the runaway could however be
found, and the erring woman was final
ly compelled to apply to friends of her
family who happened to be in Paris, for
the means to pay her hotel bill and re-
turn home. The faithless lover had rep.
resented himself to her as an officer in
the Prussian army, but it is thought he
is only common cheraiier dlndustrie
or sharper. The woman will not soon
forget the lesson, that is certain.
CAUTION TO CANDY CONSUMERS AND
CoNFEcrIoNERs.-Within the last few
weeks new style of confectionery,
such as Banana, GargoneNe, Pear and
other drops, has been introduced, and as
now consumed largely, but which is said
to be very injurious to health. A wri-
ter in the New York Tribune says:
"Many, if not all, Of these drops are
favored with the Hydrated Oryde Of
.dmyle, known in our Pharmacopinias
as tussel oil, combined with Nitric, Ace.
tic or Citrc Acid. This poison is pro-
duced in the distillation of whiskey
from corn, and probably the manulac-
turers OF the confectionery in which it
is used, as we'll as the consumers, are
not aware of its poisonous properties.
have just made some experiments with
myself in the use OF thus poison, and
find that in the state probably used by
the confectioners, the mere odor is suf-
ficient to cause headache, coughin Z,
ETC."
DEATH OF MEMBER OF THE MARY
LAND LEGIsLATuRE.-Henry McElfres|,,
Esq, member of the House of Dele.
gates, from Frederick county, who was
elected few weeks ago at a special
election to fill vacancy, died at An
napolis yesterday morning, after about
a weeks illness. By reference to the
proceedings of the House; yesterday. it
will be seen that appropriate tributes OF
respect were paid to his memory, after
which that body adjourned until Mon
day next.-Bah. San,
AMERICANS IN CuBA.-A private cores
pendent ofthe N. Y. Times, writing from
Cuba, under date of March Ia, states
that the government there Is ingenious
in devising petty and serious annoyan-
ces 70 make residence intolerable to A.
mericans-
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TWO FARMS
At Public Sale.

DY virtue of a Decree of the High Court of
IL Chancery Of Maryland, the undersigned, as
Trustee, will offer at Public Sale. at the Court
House door in the town of Elhton, on
7uesday, the 9th dug Of .April, 1852
at , O'Clock p. NJ. the real estate OF the late
Robert Weir, lying and being in Elk Neck, Ce-
ell county, on the public road leading from Elk
ton to Turkey Point This Real Estate has re-
Gently been divided into two farms.
No Cont,ins
15l Heres, l Rood md 10 Perches, -
EseszR more or less. The improvements J
SfTTf> 4. thereon consist ola Frame Dwell
$HissE ing House, with few out
g q houses.
No. =. Contains
155 .7cres, Rood, and 81 Perches,
mere or less.
The soil on these arms is of good natural I,
quality, the timber is abundant and valuable. q,
The location of each property is advantageous, i,
being about three N lies from Ekton and about ,
one mile and hall from the Railroad and Steam Z.
boat depot at Fro achlown- The commnnica-
ton with P'lladelp ha and Baltimore, fran the
above points is direct, there being daily convey
ances by Railroad or Steamboat line. Manures .
OF any kind can be landed, and grain delivered ,
on the Elk river, not far distant from either
farm. Persons wishing TO purchase can exam ,
Inc he premises; and an accurate plot rnay be
seen at the Office of the subscriber, in Elkton.
TERMS OF SALE.
One fourth of the purchase money in Cash on ,
the day of Sale, and the residue in equal install
ments, in one and two years from the day of sale;
the credit payments to bear interest from the
day of sale, and to be secured by the Bond or
Bonds Of the purchaser, with surety on suieties
10 be approved by the Trustee; al the option
ofthe purchaser, the whole, or larger part
than one fourth of the purchase money, may be
paid in cash on the day of Sale, or on the ratf-
cation thereof by the Chancellor. =
GEORGE EARLE, Trustee.
| March 9th '52-ts.
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They ale the first choice of the season. which
is always the best. Their stock Of House keen
ing goods is very extensive, such as Be.t Tick
ing, Reached and Brown Shecting, pillow case
Mus ms, bleachcd and brown table diaper,
crash. diaper, &c. Aexandcr's best XII! Gloves
g., s., I, Il, y. BROWN & F0ARD.
March 81 If
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WINTER D'LAIkES going off very cheap a,
w Feb7 VIM. TORBERT'S.
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CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE
We shall endeavor to keep our readers
advised of all that transpires, of import
ance, either in Congress or the Legisla-
ture of our own State.
The House of Representatives has
been engaged the past week principally
on the Deficiency Bill. Various amend
ments have been offered, among them
one to reduce the appropriation for the
existence Of the army, which of course
was only intended to show the movers
extreme care for the interests of the peo-
pie.
In debate on the appropriations to
Indian tribes, Mr.. Evans was in favor of
the amendment, to require one of the
agents to ascertain the boundary of the
Indian tribes IN Texas, "and thus pre-
vent the expense that is incurred every
year to repel Indian hostilities.
In the House of Delegates another
"Exemption Bill' has been offered, as a
substitute for the one ordered to be en-
crossed last week; which provided for the
exemption OF one hundred dollars worth
of property, besides the tools and imple-
ments OF a farmer or mechanic, or the
books OF professional man, to the
amount OF one hundred more. We have
not learned the purport of the substi-
tute. Tuesday next has been set apart
for the consideration of the Rill