Correspondence. ELDERVILLE, Hancock Co, Ill. We suppose that one-half your readers do not know that such a town exists in Hancock county, as Elderville. It is situated one mile east of the center of Wythe township and, as a town consists of one good store, blacksmith shop, wagon shop, hay hoop factory, and seven or eight residences nearly all new, all frame, principally two stories high. Inhabitants 60. This is a new town, but not yet the second in the county, but as its business capacity is first class, and as it is situated in the midst of the best farming district in the county, and as "no pent up Utica contracts its powers," or any other man, we claim for this place the right to spread, puff, blow or bust, as occasion may require. No Woolen Mill, Cotton Factory or National Capitols have yet been located here; but there is room for as good National Capitols here as a Washington can afford or as Nation choose to build. No money has been appropriated by Congress to build a Navy Yard at this place, nor has that august assembly been petioned for a Custom House; but a Post Office will probably be erected here next summer. Yet, notwithstanding all this, we can expect no vessels at our Wharf, until the west fork of Bear Creek is improved and deepened sufficiently for the navigation of first class cat-fish, which will not be done this winter. Business men remember Elderville. J. K. M. The Carthage Gazette Carthage, Illinois Thursday December 26, 1872 Page 2 Column 4