The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-03-14
Letters from Chesapeake.
NEW SERIES, No. 8.

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! CHESAPEAKE CRY, Mar. L., 81.
DEAR WIG Want of time and want of
news has prevented my sending you the items
of this village for the past three weeks. PEG.
pie in town now, however. are beginning to
be anxious to see the doings in print and
am forced to again take up the quill. There
are some grievances too which need exposing.
some abuses which should be noticed and ii
is my bounden duty to keep the public in.
| formed concerning these.
The Soirce at the Academy took place two
weeks since and was creditab,e affair The
room was beautifully decorated with num-
Der of American flags. nterminglcd with
flowers and cvcrgrcenS The music of Pete
and the two Jakes" good: the ladies', tof
courSe.) extremely fascinating and beautiful:
the managers attentive and polite: the host
courteous and attentive: the supper plentiful
and of tho best quality: all combined could
not fail Of insuring good time" gcnaia lily.
| The Dancing continued till 1.-THE lesser hour"
and the universal opinion Of all present name
it the party of the season.
The citizens Of ,hc place have lately organ
lied Temperance Society on the old pl an,
and many persons have already signed the
pledge. My opinion however is that it will
be uphill work" The good and temperate
citizens Of the place will of course Join it, but
the drinking men the men who spend their
money all for liquor and leave their family to
either starve or depend upon charity, the
| men who bny quart Of whiskcy and half
pound of sugar: the men who disgrace
themselves and the town by their bacchanalan
revcls will be hard customers to manage -
Moral suasion from Temperance man fails
when put in opposition to the ''Whiskey
Punch the gin sling the Gale sangarcc'
or the "applc todly" of the fascinating bar
keeper who mikes and passes it with the most
winning smile. Rum rules the hour" u
Temperance orator has said and verify be-
licvc ne was right. Our Temperance Society
however has "A noble object in view and if
serves to stop the wholesale traffic which now
is in vogue here, it will achieve a greater VIC
tory than the world has before seen.
building is now going up on the Bohemia
side designed for permanent Post Office
This looks as though the Locofocos of that
end expect to keep the office there during the
reign of Buchanan. This is hardly fair: the
spois should be divided and Chesapeake
proper should have at least one grab.
would recommend to the 1.ocofocos of that
side however to choose some double dyed well
trained member of the Party to recommend
to the P. NJ. General. Last time they lost
the day by recommending newly fl. dyed
individual who changed his colors because
the Know Nothings were intolcrant and pros
criptive but who has since proved himself
tried and faithful" by ''plumping" for Blu
chanan Breckenridge and free Kansas. H.
might do now according to the last platform
of The Cecil Democrat.
Many persons are expecting to remove from
here as soon as the spring opens. Some 60
to the West, some to other states and some
to other parts of this county. The Political
complexion Of the District next fall will OF
course be decided by these removals; men
will then vote however upon 1.-THE merits OF
the question: and the howl of ''abolitionist'
will not brighten the American Shareholders
into voting the I.ocofoco ticket 1.-THE Amer
lean party "tocs the mark" making the issue
mtricanism or its opposite and will hurl into
the teeth of all Locofocos the ISLANDERS which
they Of course will start about every candi-
date. then the District will be carried for the
Party by fifty votes. The men are here to do
it and they can do it if they riu. The trade
in Il e canal was brisk last week, unusually so
for the season. The tdewa,er and Pennsyl.
vania canals will be open on the 18th learn
and the spring business will then commence
in reality. ............-..
The old Locofocos here are bowling over
the leaders Of the Democrat for the past two
or three weeks. A prominent man II tho
Party told me in conversation few days
since that serious designs were now entertain
cd of starting new paper in your town: l
say $50 in and be squeezed" The American
party will quiet all these disturbances next
fall and harmonize the Democracy by beating
them handsomely in the county. With ma
ny apologies to you for the length OF this~1
anl Yours for the right.
NEsCIo.