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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-01-27
8r3 asc0Gs asaa Groceries,

embracing every variety of Merchandise that
are u'n lily kept i'll t9"n and coht4y sl"rvs.-
Consisting in part Of CaSAmcrns, C"lrrgs,
Naslin BE aiucs, Manchester Gin@hams,
t!paCaS, iiriHt% from i 70 - tmts: SwiS. and
@oo!, hHalit.5, SIX aud Linen llAndI"rthiutS,
I'd and white i'ltuncls. black and fancy col
cred tl,:i.s CASSi!Dgra&, > itiH'tts. -ttso. Al!
ext elaive and well selected St"c!, Of Queens
ware, with IL general assortment ui Hats,
Caps, Boots and Shoes, including great VA
rirty Ct Trimmings. t>c.
they ~o"Id particularly call the attention
Of l.o!sa Carpenters and Builders to their
s:uc'; Of Hardware, comprising Locks, Latch
Is. Screws, Nails, &c, as they flattrr thom-
selves they can sell them mach lower than
has heretofore been dome.
All si,ls Of Groceries, and very cheap.
Their stock is entirety new, having .iGSt pr-
chased thrm in the city If Philadelphia.
Those who arc in want ofrh"ap goods. would
10 well :o tlll and r::@il.iut theI stock before
purchasing elsewhere. Country produce t.
i:nu III rEnh%nE' for goods. f.ian 20
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Total SlqjO.0o
II. Il. MITCHELL, Clerk.
True copy. Test.
III. II. MITCHELL,
Jan 20. 1855 I'm Clerk.
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Notice to Creators.

rF,Ils + TO GIVE E1I1CA. ba5 tho subs.r.-
! b, rsol gpcl co4n;y, have obtlined rom the T.
ph"ns to.rt u. said cou:lty, iltters lc.tan ,nt1ry
the personal Is .tg OF
John hcynolda
late OF said county, d4el III person wing cams
against the ii deceased are beraby warneI to ~
hib;t the same with the voacbcrs ,hcloo. dnly
Authentic atcl Oh on before the
oh day OF No, cabtr, 1855.
Thy may On wis. by law b, :.nlad from m
b~n'iit q aa,l estate. II Persons nl BIT d to Il
ate AT, r,q .esg..4 to maks mmel i'e p4yulrlt
10 the sab.crber. Giv.n undar Oar hands ln!s 18th
day OF december lo1l
;,TEpliEN REYNOLDS,
NM. NJ. ItlA NpLBS,
Executor Of oohu l,eynolds d.cl
Test, JAS. Il. LAMAR, Eesr. bee ii, 'ot--ow.
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Executors of john Ii puttyi aou. lc.i.
Test. JAS. II. lamar. Reg r. Zee rs. 'jt--iw
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Contrary 10 iust expectations of the pub
lie, the Roge.ts Of the Smithsonian losttu-
ton have again held their meetings with
c0sed dOOrs, and with the exclusion OF report
ere In go Going, they have adopted course
which we are happy 70. say is uousu4l 10
this country, snd which cannot meet with ap-
prevail. The Regents are publ, board, respon-
sible to the people, snd everything connected
with the discharge OF their important tr1st OughE
to be ss open as the day. b! thus Stunning the
light of publicity they gain nothing 10 dignity or
efficiency of action, while if they DO not inspire
the suspicion Of anything positively wiOog. they
st least, imply that there is something in their
discussions and their votes which requires the
protection Of obscufity aud silence. This mode
Of conducting their business should be tolerated
no longer, aid since they will not apply a remedy
Themselves, it becomes proper for Congress TO
interfere.
Though the meetings of the Board have thus
been held in secret, part Of their acts have
trshspiIed. II seems there was controversy on
the question whether the wllful aud deliberate
violation of the act Of Congress, to which the
Board owes its exis euce should be continued, or
whether the law should be obeyed. Congress
decreed thai the yearly Income of the fund should
be appropriated ia II certain maUner bat the Re
gents bad pursued Il contrarypolicy. Mr.. Choate,
Mr. Meacbam, and few others de sired ihat the
law should be followed and that different di.
rection should be given TO the Institution. They
have been voted down. The fund Ia 70 be appro-
priat,d ne heretofore. The presided and narrow
character Of the Institution is to be carefully
maintained. OF course, as a part Of it, the vi
cious system Of publications hitherto ia vogue is
to be continued. Books which have SO little real
value that they could not fnd private publisher,
works on the miburig OF Ich hyoogy, Geology,
Antiquities, or Whatever other subject,-sre to
be printed in small and costly editions, for dstri
burton among European libraries possibly indoors
ipg one or two names with a sort of remote
ecat but genuine science will be as little adj
vanced by them as by their predecessors. la
word. the Smithsonian Institution is 10 remain
sort of lying in ay lum for luxurious authors
where their still-born offspring are arrayed in
useless splendor st the expense Of a fund given
for no ssch purpose Since this gross peryersion
is persisted n spd since the establishment is 9th
erwise glaringly mismanaged we trus. that Con
eress Will proceed TO DO its duty in the premises
by thoroughly oversauling the esta )li .hment, and
ether making it reslize the wishes OF it. founder
or else return The fund TO his lawful heirs
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

furnace. sbd fscts-es sre stopping worn and tae
streets II our cises are fall Of artisans and a.
borers f.mi.bing for bread AMI . II T. cap
the emst ofinssre rslevo'e1oe. psru',a ear
eus Of frs ~ f'y Member. Of TIE Hone D."
srsvey resolved ihst'bs Ts'id must be cat iowa
toltssny PEI oe-t standard AZ his sh'r' >e'.
80. l,lresty more t,sl one thrd 1919 ift'ef''
,gsv Id ora.- ~ r,fa-s o. R,r,Hn, % ~ rfD
II o., GgrrnmtH.
Reduce tie Revenue d9 gol ssy, sIf" -
he p.t,psdo n Are tie Three Millions ''i
due 10 Santa Anna 90 or las hard bargain pro-
,id.d Have The pundered ,ufefefs ~ ff~ncn
spoliaiion.s other petitioners ior long deferred
iu,iice had their due. l. not your Revenue re-
ducrg i,.slf pretty rapidly Did Il not fall OF
sbou, fhy per ceot at month ~ compared
with the pr.ceds D.ceu Der snd vii II not be
likely 90 rule below Forty Millions for The cur
rent lcslsbdsr year. r the Tariff issimPy let
sore7 n tie Public Debt should cDn 'inne 70
be sen. 10 fof payment a. rsPid a. lf Of la'e mas
been. and our Import. for 30 should be limited
b, our .bilif, 70 psy for them. where wos'd be
our surplus on TIE lst Of January n.X.l D. ne
Free Irsd,rs Of to-day remember whether the
total Revenues of1-iO, 81 aud i2-shen the d1
tie. were nearly or quite down to their Reveaue
,tsrdsrd-were never 10 Fourt-en or 20 fifteen
Millions per suDum Aod where will he their
surplus year heuce should ike reduction now
iusure Ike results
We do rot believe the T.rif will be e''ent'slly
altered at this Se,sOn-ge fear il cannot be for
the petter aud We - nix 1t Will not be Tor the
worse. But TIE an,mEs II the Ioncey Caucus IS
none the less reprehrbsible The intent OF mat
csbal was TO forestal the action Of the next Con-
erets-tlready for the most part chosen-to bind
the Nation band and foot N helpes' ys'salage 10
pimrehsm sDd Yorksb re-,nd then cay to
the Coz gross that is to be, Yod are lmpotent
"to r,neye or dim nsh the public suffering; for
"ityo pass s1y bill discriminating in favor OF
American Industry the President will veto 1t.
So be quie'. and don't attempt = DO any thing
since even success must be fiuitless. We
sue,s this game sill not win
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

A jo1t Convection Of the friends % Temperance
ffem Now-London ami Winiham Counties, Conn,
was held 10 Norwich on Tuesday, Dec. %. Thu
meeting vas humerou-ly attended from d'fecen, parts
If the two counties by intelligent and earnest friends
Of the cause The reports brought up from tho drsr-
ent town., in regard % the happy inlusnco o. tho
Temperance Law, were in tho highsst degree salts
factory and encouraging In NJ place is tho lar
openly ret or defiance a rogshop does not exist ia
these two counties. In no place does the law lack
friends 10 ifs power brought 10 bear agans' tho
traffic even where il is suspected The meeting,
above referred 70, va. held through the day aod
evening and the interest manifested in ia delibefs-
tons was 30 intense that motion vas made and
carried to continue through two day, session. Bat
this idea dropped when it was found 'eriouayto
interfere with other engagements Of many OF those
Ireseut
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
REDUCING THE REVENUE.

Carlyle, in his mastery dsguerreOtype OF the
French Revolution, depicts the pampered arts
tocracy and court fayorites, throughout the initial
and preparatory stages Of that great conviction
utterly unconscious of the gfulness of the crisis,
the imminence of their own dowaiall, intriguing
and scrambling for places promotions, peequi-
sites, gratuities, increased emolumen,s, urging
upon the totteriDg power above them the impOssi-
bility of living in a becoming style without au-
thority to make heavier drafts upon the bankrupt
treasury OF pile heavier exsctions upon the fam
ishing peasantry. A few years afSerward, the
tanneries of Meudon were supplied with skins
stripped from the yet warm bodies of these
human butteIfies whose clamorous demands the
guillotine had silenced for ever.
We are reminded of this passage, not more By
the imposing snnunciaton of a new dogms re-
Gently made at Rome, with all she pomp and GER
emory of ecclesiastical drsmatics, than by the
doings and deliberations Of our expiring Congress.
Emphatcally repudiated by the Country this
Congress resssemblss for a short closing session,
humbled but not penitent rebuked but una
bashed. A Country possessing every element OF
Progress and Prosperity is parsyzed and pros
trate through the ncapscity and infstuaton OF lie
legislators and rulers-iis'racted by feuds wan
tonly melted by thi' very Congress-debilitsted 81
commercial embsrrsssments caused BY the mis-
taken policy to which a majority Of this Congress,
ia CONN tilted. To expec. that msjority TO undo
its own evil deeds or those Of its lineal Of prede
cessors may be too u.h; especi lly after condign
punishment has been inflicted by the People on a
majority of its members; but We might reason
ably expect il to pause in its mad, destructive
career, and be content With the mishief
already accomplished. But no!-tee ma
jori,y, 40 if fall.n too law to dread
"second fall" seem intent on further
assaults on the National veal and defiance of the
National spirit. Bills 10 increase BY hfy per
cent. the annual compensation of the Justices of
the Supreme Court and the daily pay of the Mem
bers Of Congress; to increase the NUMBER and
emoluments of public functonares in this or that
direction; to build, equip and man new vessels
Of war, though sailors cannot be procured fer
those already in commission, and not two thirds
Of our Naval officers are doing anything beyond
drawing their pay; to create new regiments and
appoint new of,icers-such are the subjects which
mainly epgross the attention Of Congress while
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
SPECIAL ELECTION.

To Me',s Wv /. Marcy H0rano Seymour ErIs' Corning
joan Ian Buren,, Peto eager Lbs s.yykv. &, Pol
ueisrs
Gentle men We need not tell you tina. there ia
soon TO be Special Election in the Ontario Senate
District: you are well aware Of that Nor need
we inform you that the Know. NOthlDgs ale count
ilg without doubt on fresh triumph in said
Election-cf that, you are sso aware. Their
confidence is founded on their triumph at the No
vember State Election, wherein, by the aid OF
good share of your partisans, they succeeded in
giving large vote to Ulminn and electing Silver
Gr.y or Democratic Know Nothings, TO the Legis-
latue. How much you made out OF the opera
ton is your own business, with which We do no.
propose 10 NEEDLE.
That coalition may have been consummated
without your knowledge or against your cOunsels
ard efforts 1t is at all events highly probable
that you did not foresee nor iatend the heavy
diversion of Democratic votes for Governor from
one of your own number TO UllmaDn. And, with
regard TO members of the Legs .atare, it is prob
able that your eompatriots in that District
thought they were doing well in getting several
Democrats elected to the House, no matter OF
what stripe DOR under whs. flag.
No~ the case is altered. The knos-Nothings
present for Senator tie name of Mr. Stephen Van
Rens selaer Mallory, the gentleman whose lubri-
Gated eloQuence at tAe Poor House Dinner in our
City last winter was found so elecsrifying and
whose energetic efforts for and against the Maine
Law were so conspicuous in our last Legislature.
Great as he 10 BY nature still more 80 BY achieve
meut he 10 to be chosen to the Senate, if At all.
BY tie help Of yoxr Democratic Yarisdss, and the
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
erunleut

We have hitherto been won't to consider II,
Richmend EIdminsy IS \ pretty smart speame,
Of journal for Virgins, but We begin {, see
that 1t is SIS slow aud stupid any of its easy ni
Icy colleagues in tat decayiug old nursery
OF slaves an6 sl.vebreeders. Asap,t OF the ,rr.
rent news If the dsy. The Frdm,asr of she I9h
inst. publishes paragraph from The rRIs.
UNE of Friday, SEPT. four mouths asl salf
ag0-snd then goes on to rejoice over tae deo.as
and downf,ll OF this journal. Oar nigger.veai.
Ing cot.mporsry would 90 well TO spare il, e1al.
tatoDs. TIE TRlBINE has, as this day lCS, 900
subscribers about AZ mary. ~e suppose. a. the
entlfe press south OF Nisoo and Dixon's lne,) or
several thousand more than it had =, the date q.
which The EIGmIHcr fixes the epoch Of Is dscd.
euce. Il has become, we n nk, one oi the per.
msuent institution. # The county sud stsnis
fair chance to flourish in vieor long after ; ,very
IS abolished and The Ersmiacr and all other OF.
eaus of Virginia Loco Foco.sm aud s,aye5reei.
ng have died out and been Orgot,eo.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

TRIAL or CREAVER PATENT SrRING-BRtKE.-Oa
Saturday last, a trial of Creamers Paten, Spray
Brake was had upon the Harlem Railroad. Ii Wa
designed 10 exhibit it 20 the member, Of the Railroad
Convention now sitting 10 this City; owing to
some msapprebeneon a. 10 the ne, only few OF thsn
were present At II O'Clock, tram Of four ps''en'
eercsrs started from Twenty -sA hist for Williams
bridge Each car was furnished with one Of tho
Spling Brakes. which consists merely of powerful
sprirg, incloscd in box that may remain wound up
Tor months always ready for use, until some eNrsor.
binary necessity demands ils application, when the
engineer or conductor have bat to pub cord, and
stop the train almost instaa,aneousy As tho appa.
raius has been heretofore described in full in thesc
columns, We sha simply state the results of the trial
upon Saturday. The day was very ioggy, and the
rails so wet that the power OF the brake not 50
fully and satisfactorily exhibited as it would have
been upon a dry rail The experiments, however,
fully demonstrated is value preseryatye Of lfc
and property. While he train going at speed
Of twenty five miles an hour, the brakes stopped Il
within a distance of 3l5 feet Another trial, at q
speed of thirty miles an hour, brought the train tos
full stop in the DISTANCE Of $50 feet Upon dry rai ths
eject ot an apple Att of the brakes would have
been even more mlryclous. IA contrast, the hNnd-
hrak,s were tried, while going at tho rate OF thirty
miles m tour, and from the point at which the eag-
necr whist,d down with Inc brakes 10 the stopping
# the train, MS distance o. so feet. The Dis
iances Nele measured in each case By Nh. Elliott
Superintendent Of the road, who expressed al aself, ~
did every gen .!eman upon the tnn, perfectly salts
ed v.rh ~ great utdity. We have no doubt that's
ge1oIal adoption Of dis simple aud inexpensive brake
~ railrond COMPANIES would fesnr IA large saving
life ard property
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

An Anonymous correspondent flyors us with a
treatise On the present industrial crisis holding
up agriculture asa panacea for the present and
pros pectiye evils. This absurtity being often
put forth jus. now, it is, perhaps, worth while to
explode il. Agriculture, pursued without due
combination IN the same community OF mechanical
and manufacturing industries does not secure the
people against famine and what is more, does
lot redeem them from slavery. The history Of
Europe il the history Of tlis assertion oft verified
The den.ity of population has nothing to do
with necessity Of re.orsiDg TO handicrafts or
manufactures This necessity grows ont OF
the independence, sGstentatl0D, culture and
economy which every nation, not gO7erned by
fools, owes TO Itself. Besides, IL is nonsense to
talk shout agriculture preceding hanicrait,.
The agricutuiist is good for nothing without
handicrafts 10 make hi. tools. The density Of
population in England has nothing TO do with her
manufactures and be.ides, the land there, e.
far from being over populated could easily cop
port three times its present numbers, II the peO-
pie were self governed, and the privileged land
owners made 10 dsgorge. Our correspondent.
axis: " Has the Government any right TO pro
tect men in handicrafts and manufactures,
" when it knows or ought to know, that Il csc
men will be liable TO safer Occasional ly aud
" necessarily from the pressure Of evils which il
80 is the province Of Government especially TO
prevent" Protection in this cOuntry having
done the reverse Of this, such query is usslessy
put. Tire actual famines which have taken place
in The country we're before the growth Of manu-
lactores, and cur present evils arise from the free
trade policy Of l-l6 which destroyed tao pro-
duction Of l-42. Ii our correspondent il not
aware of the experience OF Agricultural coua-
tries, let him ,urn to Ireland, Portugal. Turkey,
Inda: There they stand Look at them
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

The Hudson River Railroad Company have cat
of all their desG-heajs ercePt Legislative "a
porters We have no doubt that Legislative re-
porters are sufficiently well paid 70 pay their
way; but whether they sre or not, It does not
look well for the Company 10 show especial "A
yors TO ne men nearest the ears of majors sai
Assembly men. holding the power of shaping AMI
toping anything which may come up colceraIag
the read. Let there be no exceptions, aud least
Of al OF ihIs kind.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
nature Of the service, the number Of .sips s,s

nature Of the service. the number Of shin, mi
tie average rate of speed reqnirei ,nd the b-,,.
mess should be given to the lowest bidder farai,A
ina adequate security for is Performance. rs,,
IS the only manner in which the ocean mai a.,
vice can hereafter be iustl, disposed Of. r.s,a
VAS time when 1t was proper 20 pay large
bOualie, in orier to bring into existence 4, a,
uerous std powerful ste,m marine. Thai obls,,
is attained; our builders Of SHIPS an ms ,Ao.rv
can EASILY compete With the world, sd A.ss !,
no good reason why the work t. De doae ,A,ala
not henceforth he allotted TO those who are read,
TO DO it on the most favorable terms for the Cav.
errmeut
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

THE STATE OY SUPERIOR.-Mr. Sherman, mem
ber OF the Michigan Legislature from tie Lake Saps'
rior region has given the House notice that no VII
introduce joint resolution, instructng our Senators
ard Representatives in Congress to SCI Oh" the
upper penin,ula Of this State ioto Territory 70 be
known 81 the Territory Of Superior. Mr. shermsnh
New. Yorker-one Of si1,y-tso Empire stster' in
the present Legislature Of Michigan. II Excelsior
comes to tie rescue the motion TO set on will be
-
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
POLITICAL IYTELLIGEYCE.

THE Mas 1cHCsETT Z. ;. SRsAror. -Atthe .asca,
Of The meubers Of the House u Representative n'l
on Friday evening, the Hon. l,enTy "ls'a' Z"
Netics, WIS nominated a. q clnd.iAie % III Me v"
can.y in ;ss United states Senate, caused y va ~
equation Of Mr.. Egsrett. The allowing table so'"
ih- resa,s Q; Toe 40 balotng Nc ir't Of When 80
informal. It al Dc tia, "a the Informal 'oS'
Gen. WJson received three vo,es more than az oeis'
csndi3a,es. On the formal ballot be recslTe' ~
vote. ioeing q vote more than eli Others.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

We learn from the bes. source TIA. COmno-
dore Vasdexbit has proposed to tie Postmaster
General 20 establish new line Of ocean steamers
between here and Liverpool, run ling every fort.
Digh,, alternately with the Collins line, 90 that
there shsll be e weekly NAL serS!cs By American
ships on this great international route. Sir.
Vanderbilt eher, TO Furnish large and swift YES
sells, and to receive from the Department only
eco for each trip, or some -, 900 le'' than
the Briti,h Government pays tAs Cunaia line, and
net quite half wha. the Collins line receives I'M
der the existing contract. This rste Of conper.
sstion appears to be quite reasonable, and it is
very likely 10 one will be found 10 under-bid it.
But if il 10 necessary to establish another AReri
can line, the contract should DO given out BY
public competition, and not on the private propo-
sails Of any individual or company. The Post
mater neral should advertise for bids just as
ia the case ofsny other mail contract, stating the
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15

Later dispatches from Washington assure US
that no actual notice Of the death Of the Hon.
John Y. Mason, has been received by the Govern
ment Letters dated Paris, Dec. -, 3 p. NJ, at
the Office of the Legation, state that Mr. Mason
was then very low