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draw a line through the centre, it will be found to 

 pass throughout our table lands, and cross cuts 

 through more than two or three of those waters 

 Rs low as navigable points. Our shore may be 

 likened to a comb laid directly north and south, 

 with a bar in the middle ol' the"^ table land, resem- 

 bling the teeth of the comb. By a straight line 

 rail road, on this table land, as may be seen by the 

 Tiap, the distance will be only a fraction over one 

 'lundrod miles, and on this rail road, by a locomo- 

 tive, you may run a passenger from one extremity 

 of our part of the shore to tiie olher in three hours 

 and a half! Then the lateral roads would throw 

 all the meats raised on the interior of the shore to 

 the navigable depots for tlieir natural market, the 

 city of Baltimore; whilst on the other hand the 

 wood, the li-uits, the vegetables, to be passed on | 

 this road, would go to the depots on the Delaware 

 to seek their natural market in Philadelphia and 

 New York. As return cargoes, lime, plaster and 

 merchandize would come from both sides for dis- 

 tribution down th-e mam stem of the road. 



Let me ask you to allow this essay to serve as 

 the rough outline of the plan of the Eastern 

 Shore Rail Road, and in my next I will enter into 

 some calculations which, although rough and has- 

 ty, will I am sure nearly a|;pro:\imate to truth to 

 say this road can and will he supported alone by 

 the Ibreign travel on it; independent both of the 

 mail appropriation which it must and will have, 

 and of the trade furnished by the country through 

 which it passes. I will take leave to say, that, in 

 the consideration of this subject, so vitally impor- 

 tant do I consider to the Eastern Shore, it is to be 

 devoutly hoped, that the narrow minded and jeal- 

 ous bickerings of party politics, will be whollj- ex- 

 cluded and discarded. 



I therefore hope this article will forthwith find a 

 place in every newspaper on this Shore, as all 

 other articles should do on the same subject, whe- 

 ther they be tor the road or against it. Let all 

 light be shed upon the subject. No time is to be 

 lost, as this subject should be considered by the 

 people, and understood by them, as well as their 

 representatives, in time lor the necessary action 

 at the May session. 



TIIOS. EMORY. 



From the Richmond Whig. 



PASSAGE OF THE aiARYLANI) IXTERNAI. IM- 

 PROVEMEKT BILL. 



An extra session of the Maryland Legislature 

 was called, some weeks since, to consider the 

 gi-and improvement bill !or the completion of the 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Rail Road. The bill passed the lower 

 house on Friday, by a majority of nineteen, and 

 had but two dissenting voices in the senate. The 

 funds of the state are |)ledgcd for the completion 

 of these works. This law, says the United States 

 Telegraph, makes Maryland the great thorough- 

 fare of the commerce of the West, and makes her 

 the heart ot the Union. The news of its passage 

 was received in Baltimore by the firing of cannon, 

 the ringing of bells, and the shouts of joyous tri- 

 umph! 



We take the following suminar}- of the provis- 

 ions of the bill, from the Annapolis Republican ot 

 Satnrdav mornin"". 



Vol. "IV— 26 ^ 



"The law appropriates three millions to com- 

 |)lete the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Cumber- 

 land; three millions to continue the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Rail Road to the Ohio; one million to con- 

 struct the ruil road running down the Eastern 

 Shore from Cecil county to Pocomoke bay; half a 

 million for a canal to connect Baltimore with the 

 Chesapeake and Ohio canal 'bj' the most northern 

 route;' and half a million to connect Annapolis 

 with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. It provides 

 for a loan at six per cent, redeemable in filly 

 years, for the above purposes, upon which loan not 

 less than twenty per cent. ])reniium 7tmst be ob- 

 tained, amounting to one and a half million, which 

 will constitute a sinking fund adequate to I'edecm 

 the principal in years, all the profits of t lie sev- 

 eral improvements being pledged to the State for 

 the payment of six percent, interest upon the sev- 

 eral sums received by them, after three years from 

 their receivintj the same." 



ANSWER TO QUERIES RESPECTING HOUSING 

 CORN or THE LAST CROP. 



To the Editor of the Farmers" Register. 



Fairfax, June 1th, 



Under fictitious signatures I have attempted to 

 throw my mite into the Register, and as far as 

 was within my very humble power, make you 

 some return for the many good things I have re- 

 ceived. If I aspired to the station of a public 

 benefactor, I should have given you my proper 

 name; but, sir, I am willing to pass through lifii 

 so that my "right hand shall not know the doings 

 of my left." If I give you brass, as brass let it go: 

 if I.give you gold, surely sir none will require that 



* * * or "the government" should be ira- . 

 pressed upon it to give it currency. Rest assured 

 that when I stale any thing as a fact, I shall be 

 ready to make the proof; as for ojjinions, they may 

 and should only pass for what any may think them 

 worth. 



You ask for particulars in relation to my corn 

 cribs (at page 109, vol. 4.) The largest is 22 feet 

 long, 16 feet wide, and 12 feet high. It is framed 

 strongly, and lathed Inside with | plank, split into 

 slats 3 or 4 inches wide. The other two are of 

 logs resting upon each other with spaces as wide 

 between the logs as we could contrive, and are 20 

 feet long and 14 feet wide — lathed upon the out- 

 side. My memorandum book informs me that 

 upon the 2nd day of October, I began to husk and 

 loft corn;'upon the 8ih, I had 250 barrels lofted, 

 and that upon the 30ih, one house was filled; upon 

 the 20th November, I find this memorandum: "750 

 barrels of corn now lolled, 180 rejected and devot- 

 ed to immediate use, and 20 barrels good, disposed 

 of— making a total of 950 barrels." You also ask 

 what kind of corn I plant. lean only answer that 

 it is the best I have been able to find in 36 years: 

 the ears are large, grains deep and hard, and ma- 

 tured 3 weeks sooner than any other corn 1 have 

 planted; the stalk is strong but very short, and the 

 shoot is low. I always plough seven-eighths of 

 my corn stalks under, in making ready for seeding 

 wheat: if they were large, it could not be done. 

 IMy corn kei)t well— liir' I am puzzled to get as 

 much bad corn as will lecd my hogs. 



Our wheat crop is much injured by (he fly. My 

 Kindcrhook, however, has escaped, and thus far 



