The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-09-11
Correspondence Of The Cecil Wing.
Letter from the 18th District.

Letter from the 18th District.
Chararter Of Land-improremenr-.Ag-
ricultural Produ 1ions-Fruit-Tem-
perance Mass .Neeting-Cump Meet
ing, &c.
SLEEPY Hollow, NEAR PoRr DEPOSIT, !
Sept. It'll, 1852.
Mr.. Editor: AS YOU have no cores
pondent in this part of the county, will
endeavor to give you a few items of in
formation and news. This part OF the
county IS diversified by hill and dale,
and our farmers have fine rolling land
for grazing and cultivation. Five years
ago it consisted principally of"oId fields
and "wornout" lands, but great change
has been brought about by that magi-
clans wand, "guano." Peruvian guano
is the most powerful fertilizer ever APP
piled here.
The farmers are engaged threshing
their wheat and preparing it for market,
and ploughing for their fall sowing.
There is an unusual yield this season of
oats and corn, and buckwheat never
gave better signs of an immense crop.
Potatoes are large but not thicklv set in
the ground. Sweet potatoes yield better
than for several years past. Apples,
peaches, pears, plums, apricots and
ounces are very abundant-mor so
than in any year since 1910.
The great Jubilee Of the Sons of Tenn
perance on Saturday was not what |
expected it would be; 800 or 600 were
present. The speakers were DR.. Reese
of Balto., and Revds Messrs. Squire and
Colclazer. We We're quite edited by
one Of the orators who denounced those
who traillcked in any manner whatever,
in the liquor line; he SAID they "would
break their mothers tombstone and steal
the epitaph to raise money to continue
the business of rum selling and drinking'
Doct. Reese told us that those who sold
whiskey were little worse than his
satanic majesty" wished them to be.
Now, what ri ght have those who choose
to be temperance men, to dictate to the
rumseller! This is free country and
every citizen has right to do as he
pleaseS SO far as the law permits him.
If the "Sonnles" wish to test their in
talliable remedy -the Maine Law-by
the ballot box, let them try it; the whis-
key party will rout them, ''horse, foot
and Dragons" | am not a whiskev
dealer, but cannot sit supinely and see
my friends traduced, even it be by an
"eminent divine"
The Darlington delegation had the
most beautiful banner in the procession.
Octoraro, Susquehanna, North East and
Principle Divisions We're out. and part
of the "Grey's Brass Band discoursed
excellent music.
The Camp Meeting of the NJ. P.
Church at GIacken's Woods hau but
small attendance. The preachers We're
Revds. Alessrs, Helmbold, Murray, Ell
derdice, Brown, Taylor and Devon
shire; the last named, the stationed
preacher at New Valley. The Rev. Mr..
Murray, of Ba!to., preached one of the
most powerful sermons ever delivered
in this part of the country within the
memory of "the oldest inhabtant"
A five days meeting begins to-day at
West Nottingham church, under the
charge of the Rev. Mr.. Hodge. The
M. p. church intend holding four days
meeting, near "rhe Crooked Tree" to
commence on the 18th inst. A.
BOUNTY LANDS.
The following letter from the Land
Office to a gentleman in this town, which
we are permitted to copy, will throw