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Southern or STATE hignts men.
President David Il. Atchison
Secretary Asbury Dickins
Term expires Tsru ezpi,ss
ALABAMA. MISSISSIPPI.
Ben iFitzpatrick- 1856 Stephen Adams, (U) 1857
@. G. Clay 1859 A. q. Brown 1869
ARKANSAS MISSOURI
r. w. Johnsonx 1855 David X. Atchison 1856
VIM. X. Sebastian 1859 Henry >. Geyey 1889
coNNEcTIcUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Truman Smith 1855 Moses Norris, jr l855
Isaac Toucoy --- 1857 Jared w. Williams 1859
cALIF0RNIA. NEW YORK.
William M. Gwin 1855 IVm. III. Se,ca,a 1855
John b. Weller 1857 Hamilton Fish 1857
DgLAwARE. NEW JERSEY.
James A. Bayard 1857 j. II. Thompson 1857
.Jotn. M Chlyton 1859 William Wright 1859
FLORIDA. NORTH CAROLINA.
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Stephen h. Mallory 1857 Vacancy 1897
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Jesse d. Bright - 1857 Rich'd Brodhead, ,jr 1857
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George w. Jones 1859 Josiah j. Evans 1889
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Edward Eveyett 1859 X. M. Il. Hunter :. 1889
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By Governors appointment The Legislatur
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elect during the coming session
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= Correspondence Of The Cecil Iphic.
Letter from Chess. peakr.
CnEsArEAxE CITY, Jan. IS, 81.

CHESAPEAKE CITY, Jan. Is, 81.
DEAR R:-As promised last week,
now record the finale act of the Shans.
hal drama which was brought out last
week. THE bourne from whence a
traveller sometimes returns," and which
your metropolis boats of. which is the
eternal horror Of all bad, ana some good
men, now holds his honored carcass
Misfortune will sometimes "crusIl" the
wlsest and best Of men, and the subject
OF this should lay this soothing JUNCTION
to his heart and like the American Col.
onel confined in the Concierge 'sweat
ii out"
The Canal is opened and vessels pass
ing give sPring.l'ke and healthy aspect
to the mercantile portion of the town.
Rumor says that lady-po-t has arisen
near here, and that too like a meteor.
None of your second-rate Newspapers
scrlbhlers, but genuine poet of the first
water. How true this may be know
not, hut it will BE- 'Guar" if such thing
should come TO pass. eff It's true" |
promise TO engage her service. for your
paper occasionally.
1t probably not IN place, but can.
not help complimen'ing the Cecil Dem.
ocrat IN relation 10 its metropolitan
"Pindor." Certainly he |
is unique specimen of the genus
home, and his npws.letters are models. !
HE most attrac ,ive portion of the last
that which spoke Of the Wings and
Hards "cheek by jowl' and then said
many office holders We're the lag-eud of
numanlty-was rich. Query: Is not
'Ptndar" an Office holderl
tPirrttufI,ni -iIan uidEru-up ss-....--~.4-
he Bohemia side Of town, and Its drvO
ers, { | hrar) Lave determined to enligh-
Ell the place by taking spiritual maya
line "Light, more light s,ill.' Goo.
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Correspondence Of The Cecil Wing.
Letter from the Rising Sun.
RISING Sun, Jan. 20, 81.


MR'EDlroR The roads in TINS sec.
l,oa ~ ~. county are extremely bad at
thls time' Mich renders travelling very
laoor'ous an" vrxaiions business. Our
farmers. howe'r, are pretty well pre-
pared for the e,srrencv. with their
ample wood piles. 1slI t fIipd " barrs , and
com cribs with our sNl-n staple shin
ing through TT int'r-,I,es" ,cos,her
with thu excellent prices Wv have re.
ceived for their produce the We, ss,so,
they have certainly very little ,rouhl,.
them at this time, and ought to- n.
happiest portion of our community.
The mechanics OF our village aud
entity are busily engaged at their respec!
tive occupations, getting ready for the
spring trade. Mr.. John Kirk is substan-
TALLY fitted up "ith an ei ght horse pow
er steam engine, with Ia'hcs, Sc, for
doing all kinds Of IRON work for mills,
factories, machinery, SC. Messrs. M'
J. Hunt and J. W. Kirk are putting up
a large number of Hunts celebrated
grain and seed drills. AlesSrs. Haines,
Kirk and Stuhbs. manufacture and tnrn.
ish TO order all kinds OF casting; plo"s o
all the various patterns III use; several
kinds of improved horse row"r' ant
threshers, corn. shelters sc. Mr.. J. W
BENJAMIN manufactures all kinds OF tin
sheet iron and copper ware, and does al
thu. ,spo,tiug be can get,,-Alr. Ell
Haines manufactures at his pottery eve
nv thing in the alone and rarthen- ware
line, from toy to thirty gallon jar
He sends large quantity of stone war
to Baltimore.
i f. P and J. E. Howard are prepare
to furnish the Divided City" will
"Shaaghais" and other parts Of tn
F county with Cochin and Imperial ch'nas
!, great malay, Dorkings, and all the 9th
er imported and improved breeds q
fowls wild and East India geese. Ducks
| &C., also lop.rarrd rabbits, Suffolk an
ESSEX pigs. | hope Cog" alias "Shang
, hai' will embrace this opportunity an
procure sufficient force Of his favorlt
Liped, so that in the event OF anothe
= attack he may be prepared TO resist
successfully as before. His last cor
: municat,on in The Wing" was certain
| " very interesting to lis 1eldeis. quite
, much, have no doubt as my descril
E ton of 'bus,'. The introduction I
: Shanghai Tlctics might be OF surv'ce
r the Turks. at this important crisis. 3
= fore Cog" again attacks "KeAso'
y would advise him TO read and ponder {
/, the Ord verse, chap. 7th Of the Gosp
;. of St. Matthew. kELso.
|, ------
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Correspondence Of The Cecil =
Letter from the 1th fct.
4TH DIsT., /,


Mr.. Ep'ToR;--Many things Inspired
since my former short eplsilc ,.lnd one
prominent u"ltcr presents itself e-couh-
" iolks nsaIn; an that j. the muds.
Lei me ASK You 10 remind lhaoiks of
the proposed Flank Road. Iarnerc was
charter Tor such an Impoverished By
the last Legislature, and us you h.re have
published bridge bills, &C., ca not en-
tighten US on lnls subject. The are now
so ba! that mol much news Of iuLce can
be gathered.
The prospects are that aBotheic house
is to be started al the well knows Hill in
the coming spring, under the ch,i Thos.
Strickland. Mr.. Brockaw has sri OF the
Mitchell farm 10 u Mr.IMoore off county,
ia. Many other sales have laletn place,
OF which shall more PR cula form you
after you tell us about the FllnH.
The people about the celebrn ndora are
considerably puzzl d about the rleus dis.
appearance Of Isaac Hollis, (cs,) one o
The landholdcrs of tina, place; ,this Time
he has not been heard Of since lHh inst.
Yrs. ASA.
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.,sow.BALLrNG on 4 LAaGE ScALE.-

.,sow.BALLlNc on L'RGE ScALE.-
A in-ular phenomenon occurred al
Foyalston, w., during recent snow
.'nru. While it was showing fast, aud
tin, wind high, a white app"aranc" IN
SIC air resembling flock OF wild geese
= as nb.erv.d, but IT was soon ascertain
I'd l.. be balls OF snow collected in the air
rs thou and wirlwinds. They increas-
e.! IL. a,1s and Number for about twenty
n,nn.-s when they fell 10 the ground,
covering something more than an acre
80 examining the apo. wh' re they i'''
ksils were toun.. from one to twenty
i..c.u., in dialrtcl.
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DfArR .oP JAMEs B. SMacs.

l UT SH'aEo ~ GMSCA. -OuY
readers viii remember the mysterious
death ofthis young man who was sha.
On the 10Th Of November last, while
cunning near Bohemia river, with Mr..
job Wharton. The following letter ex.
pains it:
CHESAPEAKE CRY, Jan. II, sd.
p. c. Ricketts,, Esq.-Dcar Sir:-Tt is due the
community 10 know that the circumstances al
trndns the death Of Mr.. James b. Smack have
been made known by n voluntary disclosure on
The part OF the young man who was with him
cunning al the time.
He has stated To Mr.. Ebcnezer Crnpper and
mys, II Lat he vas Walking behind the dccea,
ed aud his gun fired of accidentally. And I
would slate that Mr.. Snack's parents are sn,
i,hcd with the statement, AMI, together with
The majority ofihis community symra,hisc with
the misguided young mnn, although he with.
held 'he disclosure SO long.
II is the earnest desire Of the parents tina,
the matter may resi. as they are entirely sails.
he'd from the relations Of friendship hetw cen
IN IN previous 10 the occurrence, no eonsiIera.
ton could have induced him 10 iniure their so n
ih'eh'!enall!. Resp'y yours,
l.. S. CRorPER.
Signed also by F. CRopfrR.