The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-08-22
Correspondence.
For The Cecil Wing

| FOR / no Cevi wing.
Nix. EDITOR THE ucx. hor,sc to ours i. a
! static, which stable has y yard in font, TASTE
| fl ~ se: out with ;ar's, old wagon, &C.,
inoead OF iree'; ina,esi O! floye-s grassee ard
shrubs, We Ia, c. that hich e.,i.s no gpch del.
! irate reieiue. and TO enivsn This landscaye il
stead Of deer in the foreground. we have COW
with hell on, and hog with no bell, but with
q SOU aing propensity and ability " hich think
can safely be snid o defy ucce>sinl imitation by
anything in nature or art capable Of emitting
4 snlnd, and which no nhahi'ant of PorScpols
envc!opcd in the same quantity of hair and
hri-t'es could possibly excel, OF even equal. In
the middle distance" we have o. had until the
last three OF four days, hike Fl led with er Of
the color Of enerald, when not DISTURBED by the
above named proprietor ot first class sq' ealing
! apparatus. In truth, he sccucd TO consider the
lake his rccu.iar property. and spent large por-
| ton Of his leisure mouents reclining with ar-
parent eniuviIont, in The depths of its highly
pert,'sled contents somewhat modifying tor tie
time beirg its bright color bnt greatly incrcas-
ing It's fragrance OF the other accessories and
principal features, which, perhaps ii would not
he best to here cnnmerate. I win not now speak,
but leave You and vour readers, possessed of
even moderately imaginative powers, with n
snail degree OF Artistic TASTE 10 fill M the PIC
tnre, each 'or himself while proceed to exl ,ain
| that the picture, as above represented, did not
when We first domi,i ed in the locality, PIE ent
all the Textures that new render it $" Attractive
and desirable, (!o the Town commissioners but
for the last two wears, the proprietor has been
gradually enhancing tie peculiar bca'ltic0 Of tile
place" until it has attained its pre- ent perfection.
Feeling somewhat Interested in the matter,
have, ut intervals, during the last few months,
suggested wha. |, in M" humble Judgment, con
ceiyed, would be Improvements in some of the
more striking teatnes Of the place, modifying
some and subsiturin" an entire thange in others.
My suggestions have always been met III that
atfab!e and pleasant manner, which believe has
always distinguished the proprie or Of the pic
tu'e, and like the krd parent of a little one
whose request is somewhat improper, and " no
hears it with Eyes, my dear, hear vou,' but
has not the remocSt iCea of complying with the
request. So. the prep. ,etor, " would rot Ike
tie hog under my window" ami . in:end to
fix up my pen anl r,it hilu n," and 81 want to
Sc. it, aud then, INN. odately after, when ask
ed what will You take !or tina: hog" says -
don't want TO sell it," Iii FIX my pen 10 night.
&c" Having somehow learned to believe that
We have Town Commissioners, (without other
evidence than something about some geese aud
hogs in lot a short distance from where any
one resides, would fnrnish) it occurred to me to
apply to them, too tondly believing that they
would inteite t to remove some Of The pecattar
beauties. But, victim of misplaced confidence,
that / am; a:'e .foHr TsehS 10 deliberate on the
very knottv question their sagc conclusion is
we can do nothing (and by the way. are they
not master wuknlcn at "tha! SANE" nothing y
Of course tle!e is no nuisance, as THEN Railiff
tells them, ard by this decision sax, see heIe
nv dear sir your apr, citation of scents ia not
to be depended on Tie smell Of ammonia is
pleasant, and what if your smelling bottle is
somewhat large, and he contents somewhat I'M
refined, were we not elected to smell out things
for ourselves what though we were not within
II half square of the sweet smelling bottle o.
(perverted perhaps by state of affairs thai
would, if streets were named from their most
striking characteristics, give ours a title shock
ing to ears poitc.) and then consider how use
full to have stealing through tie open door cr
window this scent SO well calculated TO modil,
The perhaps, too savory perfume arising FROM the
vianas on the board before yon :" and 'your
appreciation Of sounds is as greatly at fault a
We have shown it to be in the matter of scen's."
Music hath charms I" they would qpoic.' and il
you would hnt cast aside your narrow PIE. udite,
which, my dear sir, is unworthy of you, you
woud then lie able to appreciate the high tenor
that you might incorporate with your nore hum
bic efforts AT music; and the cow-bell, if You