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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-10-08

AT NIGnT.-Here is one of Thackeay's
pleasant touches:
"It is night now; and here is home
Gathered under the quiet roof, elders and
children lie alike at rest. In the midst of
a great peace and calm, the stars look out
from the heavens. The silence is peOpled
with the past; sorrowful remorses for sins
and shortcomings, memories of passionate
joys and griefs rise out of their graves, but
now alike calm and sad. Eyes, as
shut mine, look at me that have long ceased
to shine The town and fair landscape
sleep under the starlight wreathed in the
autumn mists. Twinkling among the
houses, light keeps watch, here and
there, in what may be sick chamber or
two. The clock tolls sweetly in the silent
air. Here is night at rest. An awful
sense of thanks makes the heart swell, and
tho head bow, as l pass to my room
through the sleeping house, and feel as
though hushed blessing was upon it.
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WARNING TO THE INTEMPERATE.-Chas.
Lamb tells his sad experience as warning
to young men in the following language
"The waters have gone over me, but out
of the black depths, could | be heard, l
would cry out to all those whs have set a
foot in the perilous flood. Could the
youth to whom the flavor of the first cup is
delicious look into my desolation, and be
made to understand what very dreary
thing it is to see his destruction and have
no power to stop it; to see all goodness
emptied out of him, and yet be unable to
forget time when he was otherwise;
could he see my fevered eye, feverish with
last nights drinking, and feverishly look
ing for to-night's repetition of the folly;
could he but feel the body Of the death out
of which cry hourly with feebler cutlery
to be delivered, it were enough to make
him dash the sparkling beverage to the
earth in all the pride of its mantling temp
tation."
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A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFER
ENCE.-An instance of distinction without
a difference was offered by an Irishman,
who, having legs of different sizes, ordered
boots to be made accordingly. His direc-
lions were obeyed; but, as he tried the
smaller boot on the larger leg, he exclaimed
Indignantly: "Confound the fellow! l or
dered him to make one larger than the
other, and, instead of that, he has made
one smaller than the other.''
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Two Crown Princes COntrasted.

1t is said that the Prince Of Wales graft
fies his hatred of his brother-in-law, the
Crown Prince of Prussia, by bestowing his
sympathies upon the French in the present
European struggle. This will not add to
his popularity with the people he is des-
tined to reign over, and who must feel any,
thing but qualification in contrasting his
worthless life with the heroic career of
Frederick William. The latter, besides
proving himself General of unusual cour-
age and address, is noted for liberal views
and an unsullied private life. 1t would be
difficult to say what Wales is distinguished
for, unless for defiance of public opinion,
and an unfortunate habit of getting his
name before the public under discreditable
circumstances. While the Prussians expect
Frederick William to prove nineteenth
century successor of his father, whose old
fashioned notions of the divine right of
kings are tolerated because of the SIMPLE,
hearty nature of the man, and because his
reign cannot be a very long one, English
debauched son of a sovereign, respected for
her virtues, and of father wise as he was
benevolent and enlightened. The one
nation looks forward with hope to the sue
cession of its heir apparent, the other with
distrust and dread.
The unmilitary character Of the reigning
family of Great Britain contrasts striking
ly with that of Prussia. If we leave out
of account William I'LL, who was not an
Englishman, it is four centuries and half
since an English warrior-King in the per-
son of Henry V. gained signal victory
over foreign enemy. George H., it is
true, was present at the battle of Dettingen
and showed much personal courage, but he
can scarcely be entitled to figure among
great generals. With the Plantagenets
and the Yorkish and the Lancasterian
Kings, the race of British royal heroes
came to an end. But from the time of the
Great Elector to the present day, the line
of Brandenburg has never been without
one OF more eminent soldiers.-N Y. Sun.
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NOTICE..
NOTICE.
ROBERT MARSHBANK
JOHN W. MITCHELL AND OTHERS.
III the Orphans Court for Cecil county. In chanccry

JOHN ". MITCHELL AND OTHERS.
In the Orphans Court for Cecil county In chanccry.
September th 1870.
The object of this snt is to procure Decree for
account of tho personal and sale Of the real estate Of
one Richard H. b. Mitchell late Of said county
for the payment of debts due from the said Richard H.
D. Mitchell deceased. to the complainant and others.
The Bill states that the said Richard II. b. Mitchell
his lifetime indebted unto the complainant in the
of s1ty-three dollars and Twsnty-four cents. with
interest thereon On certain promissory note to the
complainant. in his lifetime. dated the fourth day Of
May, eighteen hundred and sxtyninc, and ,yab. sixty
days after the date thereof anil also in til" of Four
teen dollars for snuiry matters and things properly
&argeable in account. That leing 81 indebted. and
Ming seized and possessed Of real and personal estate
living said county AMI elsewhere in this State, the said
Richard ii. b. Mitchell died having first made and
executed his last Will and Testament, of which the said
John W Mitchell appointed Executor: but which
said last Will and Testament contained for the
Mitchell lis widow, and John W Mitchell Richard II.
Mitchell, Walter Mitchell james Mitchell. Andrew Il.
Mitchell, Wilmington d. Mitchell Lucy llebh widow,
Mary Batonan widow yoletts Mitchell, his children,
and Lucy c. Robertson infant child of deceased dangl
ter Elizabeth Robertson and Edward Y. Dent, infant
child Of deceased daughter Catherine Dent. his only
h-irs-at-nw and devisess That the said John W. has
wife that the said Richard IT, has wife: that the said
Walter has wife. That the said Margaret Mitchell,
John ". Mitchell aud wife Richard II. Mitchell and
wife, Walter Mitchell and wife. James Mitchell, Whit
tlngon D. Mitchell Lucy IIeb Mary Batenan, Violeta
Maryland; that the sail Andrew b. Mitchell reside. in
the State of Delaware or eisewhere beyond the limits Of
the State Of Maryland and the said Edward =. Dent
resides in the District Of Columbia beyond
the limits of the State Of Maryland.
The Bill further charges that part of the said debts
al the interest thereon has been paid and that the per
snnal estate Of said deceased is insufficient the pay
,uent Of his debts.
1t Is therrupon aduiged and or,lere that the COM
plsnant by causing copy Of this 0rer to he inserted
in some newspaper published in Cecil county,
week for month bcnr" the tenth day Of October
noNt give notice I" the said absent defendants Of tho
object and substance of this Bill, anu them to
appear in this Court in person by solicitor
before the tenth day of January next to the
premises and show if any they have, why Decree
ought not to pass prayed.
Il. ID. LAMAR Register.
True copy: test, X. d. LAMAR.
Sept 10, lS10-lm Register
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OvERwoRKED.-Our Saviour never drove
his overtired faculties. When tired, "He
sat by the WE'LL" He used to 60 and rest
in the house of Mary and Martha after the
fatigues of working in Jerusalem. He tells
us all, you and me, to let the morrow take
care of itself, and merely to meet the evils
of the present day. Real foresight con-
sists IN reserving our own forces. If We
labor with anxiety about the future, we
destroy the strength which will enable us
to meet the future. If we take more in
than now we can do well, we break up,
and the work is broken up with us.
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The composition roller now in use by
printers was the chance discovery of one
Edward Dyas, printer and parish clerk of
Madeley, in Shropshire, England. His
glue-pot having been upset, and Dyas not
having pelt-ball ready at hand, he took
up a piece of the glue in a soft state and
linked a form with it so satisfactorily that
he continued its use. He afterwards added
treacle to keep the glue soft.
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THE FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF YORK, PA.-This Company
is one of the best Mutual Companies in the
country. The business of the Company is
conducted in the most prompt and accurate
manner, and losses paid without litigation
or delay. Applications for insurance left
at The Wing Office, forwarded, and the pol
icies procured, without further cost or
trouble to persons desiring to insure prop
erty in the Company.
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FAt the cor. Of Sd & Orange sts., in
the City of Wilmington Del, there is an
thousands of pounds of an article which to
every housewife is like "good news from a
far country" That establishment belongs
to Moore & Bro;-that article is Whining
ton Citv SOap,"
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sB-I you want to be IN a good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous L" Wilmington
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
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Notice to Creditors.

This is to give notice that the subscribers of Cecil
county, hath obtained from the Orphans Court Of said
county, letters of Administration the personal
estate of LAURA l.. BIDDLE,
late said county, deceased All persons having claims
against the said deceased hereby warned to exhibit
the same with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
On or before the 2ist day of September. ISL:
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit
OF said estate All persons indebted to said estate
requested to make immediate payment tn tho subscr
hers Given under our hands, this 2lth day of Scptem
her, 1870. MARY =. BIDDLE,
La. LAVENDER.
Administrators of Laura L. Bidde, decd.
Test-REUBEN d. LAMAR, Register.
Sent 81 lS70-Gw
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The Grievances Of American Women,

In no country, whether of ancient or
modern times, have women had less to
complain of in their treatment by man than
in America. This is no rhetorical declama-
ton; it is the simple statement of an unde-
niable fact. 1t is a matter of social his
tory. Since the days of early colonial life
to the present hOur-or, in other words
during the last two hundred and fifty years
such has been the general course of
things in this country. The hardest tasks
have been taken by man, and generous
tenderness has been shown to women in
many of the details of social life, prevailing
all classes of society, to a degree beyond
what is customary even in the most civil
lied countries of Europe. Taking these
tive facts together-that certain abuses still
exist, that certain laws and regulations
need changing, and that, as a general rule,
American women have thus far been treated
by their countrymen with especial consid-
alton, in legal and in a social sense-the
inference becomes perfectly plain. A for
midable and very dangerous social revolu-
ton is not needed to correct remaining
abuses. Revolution aiming at upsetting the
existing relations of the sexes-relations
going back to the earliest records and
traditions of the race-can not be called
less than formidable and dangerous. Let
women make full use of the influences
already at their command, and all really
needed changes may be affected by means
both sure and safe-means already thor
oughly tried. Let them use all the good
sense, all the information, all the eloquence,
and, if they please, all the wit, at their
command when talking over these abuses
in society. Let them state their views,
their needs, their demands, in conscien-
tiously written papers. Let them appeal
for aid to the best, the wisest, the most
respected men Of the country, and the
result is certain. Choose any one real,
existing abuse as test of the honesty and
the liberality of American men toward the
women Of the country, and we all know
beforehand what shall be the result.
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If we could only read each others
hearts, we should be kinder to each other.
If we knew the woes and bitternesses and
physical annoyances of our neighbors, we
should make allowances for them which
we do not now. We go about masked,
uttering stereotyped sentiments, hiding our
heart-pangs and our headaches as carefully
as we can; and yet we wonder that others
do not discover them by intuition. We
cover our best feelings from the light; we
do not so conceal our resentments and our
dislikes, of which we are prone to be proud.
Life is masquerade at which few unmask,
even to their very dearest friends. And
though there is need of much masking,
would to Heaven we dared show our real
faces from birth to death, for then some
few, at least, would truly love each other.
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THE Misunderstanding not call
things by their right names? The French
are just now making great fuss over what
they style nsstrailleuse, and expect great
things from it's use against the Prussians.
This new word may add to the French
military vocabulary, but the invention is
nothing more OF less than a modification of
the Calling gun, illustrated and described
on page 1853, Vol. XXI, of the Scientific
american. The inventor, DIR. Richard J.
Calling, of Indianapolis, furnished draw
ings and description of this famous gun
since that time large number of guns on
substantially this plan have been secretly
constructed at the French Armories. The
new christening does not render it any the
less on American invention.
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Patent Improved Ivory Eye Cups.

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OUR AGENT FOR CECIL. COUNTY Is
Ben j. c. Biddle,
PIVOT BRIDGE.
20. Address, Chesapeake City.
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How SCHOLARS ARE MADE.-Costly ap.
paratus and splendid cabinets have no
magical power to make scholars. In all
circumstances, as man is, under God, the
master of his own fortune, so he is master
of his own mind. The Creator has SO con-
stituted the human intellect that it can
only grow by its own action and free will,
it will certainly and necessarily grow.
Every man must, therefore, educate him
self. His book and teacher are but helps;
the work is his. A man is not educated
until he has the ability to summon, in an
emergency, all his mental powers in Wig
orons exercise to effect his proposed object.
1t is not the man who has seen most, or
read most, who can do this; such one is
in danger Of being borne down like beast
of burden, by an overloaded mass of other
mems thoughts. Nor is it the man who
can boast of native vigor and capacity.
The greatest of all warriors in the siege of
Troy, had the pre-eminence because self
discipline had taught him how to use his
bow.-Daniel Webster.
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A MURDERoUs SEA FLowER.-One of
the exquisit wonders of the sea is called the
opelet, and is about as large as the German
aster, looking, indeed. very much like one.
Imagine very large double aster with
ever SO many long petals of light green,
glossy as satin, and each one tipped with
rose color. These lovely petals do not lie
quietly in their places like those of the
aster in your garden, but wave about in the
water; while the opelet generally clings to
a rock. How innocent and lovely it looks
on its rocky bed! Who would suspect that
it could eat anything grosser than dew or
sunshine? But those beautiful waving
arms, as you call them, have another use
besides looking pretty. They have to pro-
vide food for large, open mouth, which is
hidden deep down among them-so well
hidden that one can scarcely find it. Well
do they perform their duty, for the instant
that a foolish little fishlet touches one of
the rosy tips he is struck with poison as
fatal to him as lightning. He Immediately
becomes numb, and in a moment stops
struggling, and then the other beautiful
arms wrap themselves around him, and he
is drawn into the huge, greedy mouth and
is seen no more. Then the lovely arms
unclose and wave again in the water, look
ing as innocent and harmless as though
they had never touched fish.
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Why are the good words "begin - and
"beginning" fallen into such disfavor p
They are old, indeed, and they have done
a great deal of service but they are strong
and racy, and worth dozen Of the bastard
" commence and commencement"
which are intriguing against them. "He
commenced to speak" says the reporter
But the Bible mentions a better way =
&c From that time Jesus began to preach. :"
Should we improve it if we said, From
that time Jesus commenced to preach ?"
So at the very beginning of the Bible-or
is it more elegant to say commencement of
the Bible what do we read? Is it that
in the commencement God made heaven
and earth? Now precisely as much as
these familiar and solemn passages would
lose in force and spirit by substituting COM
mence for begin, does every phrase lose by
the same ill treatment. When we give,
don't let us "donate > and whoever COM
mcnces " a work, let us begin it. Long
words are no more elegant words than
"big" pictures are high art.
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ACToRs BEFORE THE SPECTACULAR
ERA.-John kemble, in his convivial
hours, used to tell of his own wandering
life during his dramatic novitiate, that he
once played Nentidious in All for Love, :"
with one ruffic, because neither his own
nor the stock wardrobe could furnish two.
In those days, even in the London Thea
tres, all heroes Of all countries and ages,
Greeks, Romans, Ancient Britons Planta-
genet kings, medieval barons, and mobiles
of the early Georgian epoch, discharged
their respective duties i'll heavy court suits.
Booth and Quin acted Cato and Othello in
this appropriate costume, and Garrick at
tired Macbeth like state coachman in full
livery. The Ghost in Hamlet wore a
bag wig, cooked hat, and frilled shirt,
when a suit of armor was beyond the finan-
ces of the company. On the occasion above
alluded to, Kemble used only one arm at a
time, thrusting the other, minus ruffle,
within the folds of his capacious waistcoat.
When he wanted to relieve the monotony
of action, he rapidly slipped both hands be-
hind him, and in trice changed the ruffle
from one to the other
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RESTORE YOUR SIGHT,!
SDectacles Rendered Useless :!
OLD EYES MADE NEWT!

All diseases OF the eye successfully ny
Balls New Patent Ivory Eye Cups.
Read for yourself and restore your sight
Spetarlcs aud Surgical operations rendered Useless
The Inesnnbe blessing of sight is made perpetual 10y
the use of the
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NOTICES., &C.
ROAD NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application will be made
to the Comfy Commissioners of Cecil county at their
first meeting after the second Tuesday Qlt Of octoer
1870 to appoint Examiners tn view and lay out road
from Octoraro locks on the Old MARYLAND Canal TO the
county bridge at Row landsvillc passing through lands
of Com. Corners heirs, Susiuchanna Canal Company
and the Mccullough Iron Company.
SEPT H. lSI0-lm
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
THOMAS J. BURBAGE, EFT AL, ET AL
JAMES L. BURBAGE EFT AL, EFT AL.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Chancery.
September IT, 1870. No. 263 d. No.2.
ORDERED That the sales male and reported by james
b. troome and William J. Jones' Trustees for the sale
the real estate of John Burbsg, deceased lee ratified
and confirmed unless to the contrary thereof 10
shown on before the 18th day Of November, next ::
provided copy of this order be inserted in news
paper printed in Cecil county. once week for one
month before the Il tn day of October, next.
The Report the Of sales to he - COG co.
DAVID SCOTT Clark.
True copy; test, David SCOTT.
Sept IL, 1S10-lm Clerk.
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SCoLDING.-Of all the dlsagreeable hab-
its the world was ever tormented with,
scolding is the most annoying. To hear a
saw filed, to hear steamboat whistle, to
hear an ass bray, to hear a peacock scream.
or all Indian yell, is music compared with
it. Since we were little child we have
always felt mortal adherence to scold-
ing. And had VIC been scolded as some
children are, we know not that we should
ever have been good for anything. Our
sensitive spirit would have been rebelled
and wrought itself into a hateful discor-
dant thing. 1t is no wonder many chill
dren are bad. They are stunted or killed by
early frosts of cold, icy scolding. What a
frost is to the spring buds, is scolding to
all the best in the child heart. Scolding
folks at home! How miserable! Tighten
ing, thunder hail, storm and Winds let
them all come, rather than hurricanes of
scolding. Let all the powers that be, wage
a war of kindness on all the scolders, that
they may be overcome with better spirit.