The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-01-05
Eofol affairs.

lcE.-On Wednesday some of our citizens
were engaged in filling their cc-houses. The
ice was three to four inches thick.
LETTER SrAMrs.-No letters are mailed
since the LIST instant unless postage stamps
are first placed upon them. Persons who
write letters should, therefore supply them.
selves with stamps in order to save time and
trouble at the Post Office.
\. FINE PAINTING.-We have seen a sample
of first rate House painting done bv Mr..
McCrca OH the new dwelling of Mr. +. Brown
Jr. He is undoubtedly master of his bust
ness. His wllerca bouts can be learned from
his card IN another column.
\SrEAMBoAT SuSK.-The Steamboat Union,
Capt. Pierson, belonging to the Ericsson
Line was cut through by the ice on the LIST
inst on her way from Fl ON Baltimore to Ches-
apcakc City. She reached the latter
place but sunk after being brought into the
canal. Her cargo was not damaged to a
great amount, having been generally taken
out, except certain articles not liable to be
much injured by water.
A D-CEcIL County CIRCUIT Court,
Hon. John II. Price on the Bench, met
on Wednesday, for the purpose of trying
the case of Phil, Viii. e. Bait. r. r..
Co., and George Davidson, Esq. On
account of the illness of some of the
counsel engaged in the case the court
was adjourned over till April.
\SALE OF EXTENSIVE InoN WonKs.-We
learn from the Delaware Gazette that Jethro
j. Mccullough and Delaplainc Mcdaniel
have sold to f. A. Harvey, their former part
ner, their new rolling mill, lately erected in
this county. near Elkton. known as the
Wcst-Amwcll works, for $40 900, and have
purchased some $50 acres of land, with wa
ter power, at North Fast, Nd, near their
rolling mill at that place, from Miss Ann
Russell, for Sl0,050. M.ssrs. Mccullough &
Mcdaniel intend erecting on this land forge
for the purpose Of making their own blooms.
which they have heretofore had to buy, in or
der that they may have their iron for galvan.
lzing more uniform.
\THE CENTRAL RAILROAD. "A correspondent
of tho Philadelphia Ledger writes as follows
on this important subject:
] lately had occasion to pass over some
twenty-five miles of the route selected for the
Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Rail-
road, and although prepared to find large
amount OF work done, must say was sur
prlScd that one short season should have
suiliccd to accomplish so much.
From kcnnctt Square to Oxford. distance
Of some fifteen miles by the projected road.
The PEDESTRIAN need never be out of sight of
freshly turned earth, and the remainder of
the line is, as far as my observations went,
IN an equal state of forwarlncss.
| understand that out of the thirty-six
miles under contract in Pennsylvania, thirty
are already finished, ready for ballast and
ties. Many ties are delivered, and piled at
different points on the road. The mason
work Of the bridges is chiefly completed.
At Elk Creek the vast trcssle work, which
is quarter Of mile long, and which now
stands like the fossil skeleton Of a nircd mon.
Stcr with its thousand legs firmly planted in
the Garth. will soon he jammcd between the
ends of the two banks that crawl slowly down
from the rupturcd hill tops on either hand.
Among the hills, near Woodsidc's, great
wedges are being cleft from the submits re-
verscd and again laid prone in the valley be-
low. Creeks have been Strengthened and new
water courses made, and where long tan
gent can be seen protecting side bitches shar-
pen to point in the distance in short, the
progress OF the whole line proves that the
tardowns and the Connaught men have not
been idle during the IaSt year.