The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-06-11
Correspondence Of The Cecil Wing |
Letter from PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, June I, 80.
So g Frost the Anatomy" has not vet taken
to his " Summer grave This bIanket.com-
pelling weather seems any hut constitutional
visitation in June. 1t don't harmouiZe with
Strawberries and cream it makes peas look
like eXoticS. The white-apronrd Ethiopian
who toddles behind his ice-crcam barrow.
wears a disconsolle lock- as if he were a
founding Of the last dog days. still aSlray
and inappropriate. detect well defined
shivcr in the note of the Gagged mock ing bird
opposite my window.
And, they say, much damage has been
done to the crops in the tier % States upon
the lakes. What happy harvest horoscope
was that of a week ago! Abundance every
where predicted; old carlh-at least 50 much
of it as is appointed to Yankee Doodl,dom
tctming with a wealth Of vegetation. or
some forty notices OF growing crops in eight
or ten States, that obScrv, d. not one was
,jaundiccd with the comrlcXiCn of complaint.
After all, the accounts of injury done may be
much exaggerated. I believe the statements
exceed the Truth, and that upon limited
amount of fact the Spectators have based IA
tig cnnu,d. rocollvcl Il for YOU know | am
one of the ''oldest inhabitants Upon the
first Of June, seventeen ears ago there was n
similar extensive and destructive frost The
harvest of 1889 can suffer considerable rcLuc-
ton and still be Of average quantity.
They have got TO pill, botumizing on scale
Of some magnitude, at last, in Europe. The
affair at Munieb.llo, III which some twenty
five thousand men, more or less, were engaged
and as many bundled killed ard wounded.
Is called, in old world martial language,
"skirmish Of outposis." With lis. it would
have made dozen candidates for tie pIcSi.
dcncy. Would have, say, for Of late the
Iassion for military heroes has much abattd.
We are getting to prefer civil virtues and the
qualities OF eminent craftsmanship. The
brilliant and successful administration Of our
present illustious CHIEF Magistrate, COM
manding, as it does, universal confidence at
home, and inspiring unprecedented terror
abroad, has done much to confirm the alter.
ed tendencies of the popular mind. Let
them fight, therefore, if so they will, spread
havoc" fill their pits with dead and their
ambulances with wounded. pile Ossa ON
P,lion of laurels, ch,quei Italy with bloody
battle fields, cram the insaliabl, nav Of glory
they can't get up more stunning tabicauX
than that, conspicuous and destined to i'm
mortality, where the twelfth President of
this great Republic, more favored of the Gods
homage of the subdutd and hatlcSs Lopoz-
Paraguay against Piedmont. History will do
us justice: and ages after the great Executive
and the great Minister shall have lain down
with Kings and counsolors of the earth, "
Buchanan will he rcvcienccd by peoples
ignorant Of Pitt and the fame of Bowlln will
extingulsh the memory Of OXcnstciin.
But to descend to n comparatively tame
subject change in the science Of war
within the memory OF the youngest Of us =
Why, the veteran Piussians Of Frederic, could
they be resusctated as they fought, would
Iecoil at once from raw recruits with mordern
arrns 1t is not only IN increased precision
ii aim, but the vast distances projectlles are
now carried. the MIME rifle will take a ball
eighteen hundred yards, or more than mile
it can be used with deadly effect over half a
mile. What Slaughter might be made by it
liz compact masses ofcavalry before they could
CHARGE Then, the effectiveness of artillery
has been greatly augmented by improve
Ments cannon art rliied as well as small
arms. Smooth borcS are even abandoned oy
the duests, except they be old fogy. -
Llttle boys use them to shoot cats and fire
Fourth-ot,July salutes. The late DR.. Lardner
had pet theory Of bcnumbing. and even dcs-
troying troops by Wholesale with poisonous
chemical gases. How the world has wagged
onward since the days of the venerable
Mcllaie, famous in song. Never heard of
him? lie was the Pink Of" ould Irish gen.
tlemcn,' cousin, believe, to Timothy Thady
Mulligan, Of punch drinking celebrity:
With cruel four FOUNDER he kept all in grea,
order,
He'd murther the country would Larry McIlalc;
He'd blunderbuss too of horse pistols pair,
But bis favoritc weapon was always fall
Paul Morphy has been extensively lionzcd
at New York and Boston, and is expected
here. His speeches on these occasions, for
f'ankness and simplicity must have com
mcndtd themselves to all. IIescems natural,
healthy man, with no gingerbread about Inn,
one who has not been injured by success and
fattery. There was q story that while at
New York mysterious lady called upon him,
cTaved an interview, had it accorded, secured
the favor Of a game of chess with the cham
pion. beat him and retrird as mysteriously as
she came. Doubtless it was " sensation "
item: ladies' don't 20 about nowadays in this
Anne Radcliile-Ale Dumas style.
There is good deal of preparatory cleo
trical cracking in the political world. The
Opposition convention for this State will as
semble at Harrisburg tomorrow. Some eittr-
vescrnce ia anticipated. but it is thought that
II will subside bsrinlessly. The present ir1,
PRESTON is that the tone Of the proceedings