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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02

SALE OF SrAMps.--T the course OF the last
quarter there were sold by the New York city
Post Office, Postage Stamps 10 the value
ofSlI4, sos. At the comparatively small office
Of Indianapolis similar sales were made in tho
quarter to the extent of $1,000.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
Plank R0a d Notice,

TNllE Stockholders Of the Elkton, Andora
L and lewisviIla Plank Road Company, will
meet at the house Of Mr.. n. Hiss, Esl. in
Elkton, on Monday, the first day of June
next, for the purpose of clectng Nine Man
ayers for the ensuing year. BY order.
JOS. L. CANTWELL,
May tc Secretary.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
BREAD LECTURE.

w. Pnkncy Ewing will lecture on Bread
in the Bethesda Church near Rock Springs,
at o'clock p. NJ, on Saturday the OH inst
The proceeds 10 be applied to the benefit Of
the Church.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
Coral affairs.

NEW BUrLDIaGs.-The spirit of i'm
provement which has characterized our town
for tro'or three years past, seems not at all
diminished. Mrs. Eliza Cloud has Just finish
ed two frame dwellings, on Church Lane, each
l6 by 80 it.; Mrs. Purncll is building a house
near the same place Is by % it.. with lack
building 10 by ii #. Mr.. n. Hiss has COM
mrnce'l three story brick house on Back
Street near Depot lane, % by &c it., with a
frame back building Al by l6 feet. Mcssrs
E. Brown, Jr., j. B. White and jacob Ram
bo are each building neat dwellings, on Maia
st., opposite the Presbyterian Church. ii.
Eandcrford, Sr. is putting up large build
ing, nearly opposite the residence Of Colonel
Gioome Mr.. Rudolph Bennett has COM
mencrd brick dwelling and Store House 45
by % it., in Little Elk. Mrs. Emily Wilson
will soon commence frame house Is by 2S
it., at the corhenor North and Stockton SITS.
Mr.. j. B. Ash is just completing large
dontle frame house on Back st. near North.
These, besides large amount of repairing,
are some Of the improvements on hand and
no doubt many other buildings will go up
during the summer and fall.
In the immediate ncighLorhood much build
ins is also to bc done. Dr. John Gi!pin is to
build a large brick addition to the dwelling at
the old (;ilpin homestead. Mr.. George W.
Denny has commenced a large dwelling at
Frenchtown railroad; Rev. JAS. McIntire and
Mr.. T. Rudolph are each building large
doubc-dcck barns.
At the old Sewall property Mr.. Wilmer is
making very extensive repairs and improve
nents, pIior TO removing his family thilher.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
L-}!c0.

AT his rcsdSnce on hemia Manor, ON
Wednesday last. Mr.. Thomas f. CLAYTON
highly respectable citizen Of the Second
District.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
A VALUABLE MERCHANT AND
GRIS'N NTII.

4 T PUBLIC .4UC1ION-At Port Deposit,
"a Cecil county Md.-Will be oHcr.i ut
Public Auction that large Granite. Mcr-
chant and Grist Mill, at the North end of
Port Deposit, s.known as the Rock Run
MILL" Tins Mill is four stories high IS by
40 IT. 1t has two pair Of extra Burs. grind
ing each 90 bbls., or l20 bbls of -four per
day. 1t has II fall of so feet water power, or
% feet ovcr-shot wheel; would do doubln
the grinding il now does with the substitution
Of "a 80 feet wheel.
This mill does an extensive town and coun-
try trade. and being situated at tn. junction
Ut the public reals which lead from Chester
and Lancaster counties, Pa; rendering slid
mill the most easy of access to those carry
ing grain /" Port Deposit, and u market At
city minimum rates. There are also nearly
s Acres as land
attached. suitable for building purposes, on
which is convenient STONE DWELLING,
with we'll of good water at the door; Stable
and other out-buildings. Also,
GRANITE QUARRIES &
@ r OU \ ID II T. \ II s:
the latter If which command a rental of $500.
The Mill rents from 500 to $500 per annum.
This mill has been recently reconstructed
throughout the interior arrangement, being
unsurpassed for merchant and country mill
ing. There could be an extensive business
done in the grinding and sale ofPlaster; from
400 to GOO tons per annum.
The above property will be offered at Pub
lie Sale on seventh day. SATURDAY, } the
Both day Of fifth month, (MAY,) 1857, at ,
o'clock p. NJ, ut the hotel of Robert Smith,
in the aforesaid town.
TERMS.-Thc terms of sale are one third
cash; one third in twelve months, and tho
residue in twenty-tour months from day of
sale; the credit payments to be secured by
bond or mortgage, or notes with interes st and
approved security. j. b. PRESTON.
OLIVER e KIDD. Auc'oneer.
Port Deposit, May , IS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
FOR SALE.

FTNfIE subscriber offers for sale pair Dew
Il on Steers, years old, partly broken;
Also Devon Haiter, in calf, all handsome
and we'll bred cattle.
s.B. STCBBS.
Rising Sun, May
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02

REElGIors NorIcE. Est Quarterly Meeting
for Bethel Circuit will commence on Sunday
morning. May Ord at Chesapeake City. Love
feast at O clock; preaching by the Pastor at
II O'Clock. and by the P. Elder, Rev. VIM.
Crie, at I O'clock
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02

GARDEN sEEDS. Fresh garden seeds. for sale
VI At the dry good store Of z BROWN, Jr.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-05-02
. Acres HA land

attached. suitable for building purposes, on
which is convenient STONE DWELLING,
with well of good water at the door; Stable
and other out-buildings. Also,
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

The PoINDExTER CASE ONCE MORE
The State Journal reminds the public that
"since the decision of this case by our Su-
preme Court, the Statesman has not let
day pass in which it has not abused the
"Black Republican" Judges, and especially
Judge BrinkerhoH. That paper declared
the decision ga regular political abolition
shrek, which set at naught the Constitu
ton of the United States, the laws of the
States, former decisions, precedent, and
common sense" and much more thTt
''Was terrible and awful,
Which e'cn to name would be unlawful"
Now be it known that this case was first
tried in the Court of Common Pleas be-
fore Judge Norris, one of the most thor
ough going Democrats in this State, for
merly, we think, Il Judge of the Supreme
Court, elected by Democrats, and who
was their candidate year before lastfor the
same Office, and he it was who was the first
to decide the case in the way in which the
Supreme Court have decided it. 1t was
then brought to the Supreme Court on a
writ of error, and the Supreme Court con-
frmed the ruling of Judge Norris These
are the facts. What has the Statesman got
to say about them?"-
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09
SALE OF AN FRESHMAN IN KENTUCKY

SALE OF AN FRESHMAN IN KENTUcKY.-
A white man was advertised to be sold in
Covington, Ky, on Saturday, by the Sheriff.
His name is Hughes, and his crime,
vagrancy. He is an Irishman, and his
servitude is to last five months. The
Alabama Journal thinks the Dred Scott
decision should go a step further and place
men of foreign birth in the same status
with the negroes. This proceeding would
suit that print exactly. The editor of the
Statesman, we believe, is Kentuckian.
What has he to say about thisS proceeding
in his native State? We were not aware
before that selling Irishman was one of its
peculiar institutions"
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

QUEER MoRAL1TY.-Harper's Monthly
for May contains in its EDITORS table a
reply to an attack in Putam's Magazine.
Harper is in the habit of quoting most
of its tales from the English magazines,
without any acknowledgment of the source
from which they are derived. This
it iustifes, by saying that should it credit
one, it might injure another; should it
adopt articles from a magazine that were
better than the average its readers might
be deceived into purchasing it; and, on
the other hand, should it adopt poor articles
from good magazine its reputation might
be injured by an unlucky quotation.
Every man must see the force of this.
If we steal good watch from a man and
tell where we got it, it would encourage
other pickpockets to steal from the same
man, and they-the pickpockets-might
be wronged thereby; because-don't you
see?-the man might not carry as good
watch another time.
Again should we steal poor watch JUS
tice to the feelings of the subject of our
theft ought to induce us to conceal his
name, because he would be ashamed to have
it known that he carried such shabby af-
fair.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

PENNsYLvANIA.-ln the Legislature of
this State, on the 1st ult., the majority OF
the Select Committee of the Senate on the
resolutions in the Dred Scott case, have
made a lengthy and able report, accom-
panied with resolutions, declaring that
the opinion of the Supreme Court, an
nounces principles in palpable opposition
to the judicial and Legislative history of
the Union, and violation of the plain pro-
visions of the Constitution of the United
States; that the opinion, except on the
question of jurisdiction, being delivered
on case over which the Court admitted
it had no Jurisdiction, it may be justly re-
garded as o6iter dicta coram non .judiciO,
and imperative as law;-and that the five
! judges who concurred in the same o5in-
ion, made a wanton attack on the sover.
eighty of the Free States; and an impotent
attempt to nullify the established laws o.
the country; and by extra Judicial action
have caused unnecessary excitement ii
the public mind, in regard to the subjec
of slavery, and thereby forfeited the conf
dence and respect due to their exalted sta
ton.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

INTERESTING STATIsTIcs.-The United
States are composed of thirty-two States
and nine Territories. They contain an en-
tire population of 27,OOO,oO0, of whom
23,0O0,00 are white. The extent of sea-
coast is 12, 600 miles. The length of the
ten principal rivers is 10000 miles. The
surface of the five great lakes is co.
900 square miles. The number of miles
of railway in operation is 10000, which
cost $50, 100000. The length of canals is
5000 miles. 1t contains the longest rail
way on the globe, the Illinois Central,
which is 784 miles. The annual agricul-
tural productions are worth 5000, 900, 900.
Its most valuable production is Indian
corn, which yields annually 400, 700
bushels. The amount of registered and
enrolled tonnage is 4,407, ,010 tons. The
The amount of capital invested in manu-
factures is 5000, 100000. The annual
amount of internal trade Is 5000, 900, 900.
The annual value of the products of labor
(other than agricultural) is 81, 100000,
600. The annual value of the income OF
their inhabitants is 81 800, 900, 900. The
value of farms and live stock is $500, ,00O,-
600. Its mines of gold, copper, lead and
iron, are among the richest in the world
The value ofgold producedis is S 100000,
600. The surface of its coal fields is
138,131 square acres. Within her bor'
ders are $4,000 schools, 5000 academies
235 colleges, and $500 churches.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

MoRMoN1sM-TheN New York Tribune
of the 28th of May, publishes letter
from William Smith, brother of Joseph,
the Mormon prophet, dated Warren, May
10Th. He reviews the recent budgets OF
Mormon intelligence. He says he believes
the statement that officers and friends OF
the government have been in most cruel
and murderous manner put out of the way
by the Mormons" to be true. He has
mo doubt whatever of the charges
against the Mormon people of having COM
mitted the most wanton and cruel murders
in the disguise of Indians. He says:
Ihave good reasons for believing that
my brother, Samuel III. Smith, died of poi
son in Nauvoo, administered by order Of
Brigham Young and William Richards,
only few weeks subsequent to the un-
lawful murder of my two other brothers,
Joseph and Hiram Smith, while incarcer-
ated in Carthage Jail. Several other per
sons who We're presumed to stand between
Brigham Young and the accomplishment
of his ambitious and wicked designs, mys
teriously disappeared from Nauvoo about
the same time, and have never since beer
heard from.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

DARING HIGHwAY RoBBERY.-While in
Cattletsburg last evening, we were made
acquainted with the particulars of daring
highway robbery, which was perpetrated
on Tuesday evening last, 10Th ult., in
Virginia, about one mile above Cattlets-
burg. Mr.. Calvin Wellman, proprietor
of the Union Hotel, Cattletsburg, was re-
turning from Guyandotte, ard just at dusk,
while riding through lane near Morgan's
mill, three men, disguised as negroes,
stepped out in front of him and accosted
him with els that you Cal? Answer
ing in the affirmative, lie was told to
"stand and deliver" Mr.. Wellman gave
them his pocket-book, which contained
three or four dollars, saying it was all the
money he had with him. Two of the
highwaymen then seized him and dragged
him from his horse; they opened his coa
and vest, and cut his belt, which contained
$5OO-three 800 bills, and four SS5O's
After obtaining possession of the money
the robbers decamped. No violence was
done to the person of Mr.. Wellman.
When the robber first addressed Mr.
Wellman, the voice seemed familiar tc
him, but he did not recognize it. IL
thinks, however, he will be able to fine
out who the guilty persons are.
If a man expects to travel much in this
neighborhood after night, or even in th,
day time, with money about his person
he must, to insure his safety, carry hi
purse in one pocket and Colts revoNei
in the other.-Amer5cam Union.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

A SHORT METRE PRAYER.-'Pr Prayer and
provender hinder no mans Journey is a
good old saying, but some people who
have plenty of time for the latter, have
mighty little for the former, even when
they are at home. A Tennessee cores
pondent writes:
The Rev. Mr.. Derwell, pious and GU
rious old Methodist minister went from
Tennessee to Kentucky, in 1919, to visit
his relative, the Hon. VIM. Bolton. The
host was not religious man, but was 6
gentleman, and invited the minister to have
family worship every evening. While he
was visiting there, Judge Cone and his
wife, from Nashville, arrived to pass the
night, and Mr.. Bolton being little e1nbar
rassed said to the old minister, as he
brought out the Bible, that he had better
be short as the Judge was probably no
customed to such things.
Very well, very well, said he; and read
ing single verse, he knelt down and pray,
ed, 80 Lord, we are very poor and needy
creatures, and we know thou art able tc
supply all our wants, but Cousin William
says that Judge Gone and his wife from
Nashville are here, and are not used to fam
lily worship, and however needy we are
there is no time to spare in telling thee oul
wants. Amen
The Judge was taken all aback, and 81
was cousin William. They both preesel
the old gentlemen to conduct the services
in his own way, which he did to thei
great edification.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09
OurRAeEous FRAup uroN AN On LADY.

OUTRAGEOUS FRAUD UPON AN OLD LADY.
We learn from the Medina (Ohio) Tri-
bune, that villainous fraud was practiced
upon an old woman, living on Ridge road
in that town few days since. A wealthy
farmer, her relative, and living near, pur-
chased of her an acre of land for which
he pretended to draw deed. Without
suspicion of rascality, the old lady signed
the deed, acknowledging it's execution, and
delivered the same to the purchaser. A
few days afterwards one of the neighbors
had occasion to t'search the records" at
the County Clerk S office, when the discov-
cry was made, that the old lady, instead of
deciding one acre, had given a warrantee
deed for the whole farm Of one hundred
ana. .ftty acres, q0orth sisty dozlarspe acre.
She was feeble in health at the time the
deed was given, and it was thought she
would live but few weeks. Had she
died before the discovery of the fraud, her
heirs would have been robbed of a proper
ty valued at $4,000. The Tribune says
the perpetrators of this villainy are all
wealthy and prominent citizens of Medina
Their names are withheld for the present
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

ovERwoRKED.-John A. Sanford, an
eminent merchant of this city, died on
Tuesday, in the 5lst year of his age. He
commenced life as a trapper on the Mis-
souri,, rose to partnership in the great st.
Louis firm of Pierre Choteau, Jr., d. Co.,
and rapidly accumulated fortune amount
ing to not less than million and hall
Of dollars. We have heard that he, in
connection with Geo. PEABODY, ESQ, the
London banker, made S6oo,oOo on one
years importation of iron, mainly forrail-
roads
But the cares and anxieties of his i'm
mense business proved too great for even
his vigorous mind, and Mr. Sanford was
some months stricken down with insanity
He recovered his reason after time, but
not .permanenly; he was again stricken,
md died under The infliction- more de-
serving OF c0hhfnissefation IN the midst d
his vast wealth than many a beggar who
does not know where to. lay his head. The
life of this man, truly and fearlessly writ
ten, would prove more instructive and sal.
utary than ponderous volumes.
Mr.. Sanford, as executor of the late DIR
Emerson, was the nominal plaintiff in the
Dred Scott case, on which the Supreme
Court have rendered so deplorable decis.
ion.-N Y. Tribune.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

CAPT. Pres. DEvoL,--The name will
strike hundreds as an old familiar one
hundreds who knew him at college as the
taIIest, strongest, handsomest, most frol-
icksome, joival and jolly of the hundreds
around him; it will strike others who knew
him under the sobriquet of Big Hooking
in the singing times of 1910, when his
stentorian lungs were in requisition, over
all Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky,
to discourse such melodies as "Tippeca-
noe and Tyler too" to audiences of tens
of thousands; it will remind other scores
of hundreds who knew him as captain OF
the crack packet steamer between Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati, where his popularity
was such that his name alone kept the boat
crowded with passengers.
Do these thousands wonder what has
become of the aforesaid Pres? The guess
ing of even the shrewdest could scarcely
locate him now as an officer in the Sia-
mese Navy; yet it is so. Somehow he has
found his way around the Horn, somehow
through adventures that would make g
charming book doubtless, he has found
himself IN his present position. All we
know of him is the little paragraph Of q
recent paper published at Hong Kong in
China, which thus reveals exploits we
would fain hear of:
"The Gulf Siam is now infested with g
horde of pirates; fleet of twenty foul
sail was seen off Cut Point; it has taken 8
great number of junks bound to China
The Siamese brig of war, Wanderer, Capt
tain Pres. Devol, succeeded III capturing
two large and heavily armed junks, en-
counters take place dailY.-ZaneSpiIk GQz
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

MORE ARREARAGEs.- esterday we
showed from the official records that the
Medill administration left as a legacy To
the Republican party, outstanding debts,
for the payment of which no appropriation
whatever has been made, of 515,915.75.
Upon inquiry this morning at the Audi
tors Office, we find that the above figures
only represent the amount of the Medill
debts which were actually paid by the Re
publican administration during the year
1856. There are yet outstanding and un
paid of these Medill debts upwards of one
hundred thousand dollars, which the Leg
islature at its late session had to provide
ways and means to settle and pay off, Such
are few of the facts connected with our
State finances when the Medill dynasty
was driven out and the Republican admin
istration came in. Without materially in
creasing our tax levy, and by cutting down
useless expenditures, the Republicans, in
the first year of their power, paid off over
half million of the Medill debts, and
this year they will pay off one hundred
thousand dollars more, and square the ac-
counts. Such are some of the fruits of the
wise and economical administration of Gov
ernor Chase.-,Stdte ,JOWrnaL.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09
CURE FOR THE Hoo CHoLERA.-

CURE FOR THE Hoo CHoLERA.-A CORE
spondent residing in Ohio writes that he
has discovered remedy for the malady
among hogs which has proved so fatal in
that and other States. His remedy, two
quarts of flax seed boiled in ten gallons
of water till the seed is thoroughly
cooked; let it stand till cold, then give it
to the hogs as fast as they can drink it
turn it down if they refuse to drink. Re
peat the dose for week or so, and 1t will
effect cure. Pulverized charcoal and
sulphur mixed in milk, L know to have
cured tie hogs of this fatal disease last fall
in this neighborhood.- Ge,anesSee Farmer
Some eastern omnibus drivers COM
plain that they cannot carry the usual num-
Der of passen gers, in consequence of the
extensive hoops of the ladies. They
should inscribe on their vehicles the motto
from Caesar:
''JaD1 forte IN Omnibus"
Machinery has reached great state of
perfection. We saw some burnt peas put
into the hopper of n coffee mill the other
day, and in less than two minutes, it was
occupying place in grocery window la
|
A LICK BAcK.-Erie, Pa, has not ac-
quired an enviable renown. The Erie Ga
zette, in chronicling the fact that they have
only one prisoner in the jail at that place,
iubilates over the high moral tone of it's
city. Whereupon the Buffalo Advertiser
says for its part it thinks an empty jail in
Erie one of the greatest objections to the
place. They suffer all their scoundrels to
run at large.
AN IRISH SrGN.-In pool across the
road, in the county of Tipperary, is stuck
up pole, having affixed 10 it board
with this inscriptions: "Take notice that
when the water is over this board, the
road is impossible"
How TO GET UP F1GHT.-'I saw
said one urchin to another in the street the
other day, you're the fellow what stole
my marbles'' <'No [ anti "Then |
am liar, am % and without more ado
he pitched right into him.
A man went into a printing office to beg
a paper. because" said he, 'we like
to read the newspapers very much, but
our neighbors are too stingy to take one. -
The Washington Union, in an article
printed Saturday last, states that our gov
ernment has been solicited to Join with
France and England in beligerent opera
tions to bring China to terms, but has re-
fused to have anything to dowith the fight
Col. Lane is now on excellent terms
with his old enemies the Border Ruffians,
and is said TO be at work with them to
make Kansas Democratic" Free State.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-09

The Legislature of Virginia, on the 18th
Of March, 1856, passed a law by which no
eastern vessel could leave the ports of that
State without first being searched and
fumigated, to ascertain if it had on board
any runaway slaves. If any were found
on board, the vessel was seized and con-
fiscated. If none were found, she was
permitted to leave upon the payment of a
fee of five dollars to the officer making the
search. Under this statute, one Massa-
chusetts vessel has been confscated.-
The Legislature of Massachusetts, during
the present session, has passed bill di-
recting the Governor to have suits institu-
ted at Richmond, Virginia, to test the
constitutionalitv of the law, and appropri-
ating $25oO to defray the expense Of the
litigation. Should the law be sustained
by the Virginia courts, an appeal will be Ia
ken to the Supreme Court Of the United
States.