The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-01-29
ICorr. spondc' &c Of The Cecil Wing,
Letter from phiiaGelFhfa.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18th,

Drizze, Dlizzle, with the sky eighteen
hours of twenty-f9ur the color OF an cciipscd
optic and the sleepy sun snnsly slowed some
where within the canopy Of heaven this is
the sort of weather which makes grunlhng
prevalent and all ofus. in the phrase Of Man
talini "dcnd moist, unpleasant hydrS. -
Yet we have had weather cold enough, al.
though it was Transient as an ague iii cold
enough to suit Ross and the ginns Of geld
tlesolation about the antarctic pile. Wonder.
full phenomena were observed at some north
crn localities: thcImonr'rical paralysis from
sollIitcd mercury: gaS-jcs t1u%en IN the
Street lamps hands Of clocks Suffering by
cxros;lre also the foot of hill the " oldest
inLabilanl out in stlcrg Gncc, with 10 end
Of january ,enin, ctnces TO the year one arc
not all these things chruniced in the news
rarcrs and Therefore authentic.
This topic of the weather is most migrate
fully regarded; ovuS body employs It, while
ever, body snctrS al il as possessing, so to speak
the quality attributed by StQ,hano to Cali'nn
when lie footed him, "a most ancient and
tsh.likc smell" And why 1t is not now
YOU say neither arc " the everlasting hills. y
IfNont Blanc, foi instance, wcle crucaicd
over night and could he taken, a fresh fzzle
Of nature, with the travellers morning Muffin.
would it therefore be the moe imposing 3
No no man is an aspiring but imperfect
creature. and, n. one fallen from grace, is
constantly looking for squalls, whence his in
tcrcst in the range OF the barometer and the
shfings Of the clouds. So there is phlOso.
ply in the shortest street cooQny, although
at first it pIav not be apparent JcncS aUd
Smith approach each Other at a dog-trot;
temperature reads on the scale above 0.
:" low do Jones"
"'Mornin Smith,
"Aonsus cold day"
s.Well ii is, a sumner. Think II Snow T.
Dunno mrbhc. say. when are you ltl-
lows goin to pint on that little hill =
eli see Blown n lr,ycr know. How S
Reading Z"
"llango. Hear Splc's smashed"
Flat Ta-a."
"Ta-ta'
Talk If Z" the power ur words" why here
you have Tie nucleus of II romance briatling
with texts.
And this is just the sort Of w,a,hcr when
man finds pleasure in being anchored in an
easy chair over the last inSlnlmcnt o! Thack-
cry, or Ella, or od Montague, grazing the
patulum Of humor Of lay fu satire and quaint
thought that ovcrspr,adS the pages, suck ing,
the while solid satisfaction through M t,
stem or pulling upon the fragrant liahaua.-
Though the window pan,s blister with rain
drops and the" Heavens he hung with black, y
there is sunshine in his soul. Great weed =
but it is above aroStrophe; the theme ofpoGS
and the scacc of philosophers, ii has played
midwife three hundred years aud more at the
delivery of human thought and laid myIi-
ads Of human cares. 1t waited on the
mise Of Milton and drew forth the pulpit rlo-
Qnence of Hall it minglrS with the nctarhv-
sizes Of the broad. hrowed German with Lamb
it resumed the acquaintance Of those old
Eliza bclhans to whom Raleigh had introduced
it: and Carlyle, pcrvc,s sc and eloquent gum
bier, blows heavy cloud ard J.esscs the
genius of Tobacco.
AS in everything else, you know and contend
If you don't may St jonathan dsown YOU
in this matter Of tobacco 1--WE are ahead
of all creation and hard to beat, Sir" That
is to say. we grow more and use lnOie than
any other nalon:" we are smoking people
and that's fact" Indeed, we excel in all
the modes of CONSUMPTION we carve choice
cantcs from oUr cubes Of cavcndSh, and
when one of our " free and enlightened citi-
Zcns loses his passport abroad he substitutes
it with his plug" which never Tails 10 satis-
~ the most scrupulous foreign official we
cover, in short the whole ground in question,
and
"-hrothcis be in this c1usn,
jim puiis. Joe snuff, and chnws.'
We'll, our Spanish " ncighbors across the
Delaware have engaged in the tobacco culture
and it is getting to he something of fnror in
West jersey. The plant is extensively and
proti,ablv grown in the valley e the Conncc
ticut. and know no reason why 1T should
not prove valuable crop so much further
south and sncc,ed fruit culture, especially Of
the peach tree. which no longer ilourlsh,s in
this region. These JerScymen, though coed
deal challed, are an industrious and wide
awake people and in view Of the prosperity
they have cduccd from barren and re luctant
soil, are entitled to challenge banter and OK
claim in the language Of the motto of the re-
tired tobacconst, when he set up his carriage,
"puid" rides.
Although the subject of the preceding par
aeraph in is every body S mouth, il is less talk
cd of than many other topics: Morphy s
chess victories. the insuircc'ionary tcnden-
cies Of Europe, the last accession to the tune
full choir in the person of Gordon Bennett, the
Thorndike will and Senator Douglas. Bat
the subject which seems most, at present, to
attract attention, is the recent gold discovery
IN Western Kansas An Immense emiera ton
thithelward from all parts of the country is
ANTICIPATED next spring The existence Of
gold there in considerable quantity seems to
be pretty well attcs,cd, and the aggregate pro-
duct of the region, when occupied. will per-
haps he large. Merchants, professional men,
gamblers, those, in short who minister to the
necessities and vices Of the mining population
will find their account in the new Dorado ;
but they who dig the gold who depend solely
upon physical labor. will do no better than
they may in the cornfields and by the anvils
to which they now devote their industry. Let
me explain. Promising that the gold does not
lie equally distributed. the miner (having ex-
pended years wages in passage monty and
ou,ft) has arrived at the diegings and looks
about for claim" lie finds ono which
yields four dollars a day as his share of the
working, for he is associated with two part
ntrs. III thirty days the "clan" is ex-
hausted and another must he found. The
search for this, or prospecting as it is
called, will occupy perhaps fortnight, fol
men with large expectations are hard TO salts
fy. Meantime the cost Of living and in this
particular it will at first prove mean time
can scarcely he less than a dollar a day. -
The second claim don't lay, perhaps, so vel
as the initial, Or is sooner cleaned out. Then