The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-10-25

EProfessor Anderson's benefit to
the Kossuth Fund, in New York, on
Friday evening last yielded $1,000.
The MoRmoNs.-It is said that, with
all their errors and villianies, they have
one redeeming feature about them; not
a drop of liquor is allowed at their set
Element, at Salt Lake.
PENNSYLVANIA. The Legislature will stand
as follows at the nsxt session; Senate, lG demo-
Gratis. is wings, one native. Ihcnaiive is from
Philadelphia county. In the House there will
be 81 democrats and 46 wings. In Philadelphia
county six democrats and five wings and natives
have been elected to the Legislature, the first
time for many years that the County Assembly
ticket has been divided.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.-The Rockville
Journal, of Saturday says: We are glad TO learn
that the sickness on the river is greatly abatlng.
few mo, frosts, and the feycrs will leave IN
a hurry. Money is very scarce in our county,
owing to the low price OF wheat, and the fail
urc ofihe other crops. Very few OF our lar
mers will sell at the present price; and those
who do, only enough to enable them to purchase
their gunno.
THE HAVANA PRISONERS friend at Ha-
vana communicates 10 the Washington Republic
some minutes Of an interview with the captain
General and the American prisoners. He says
that the violence Of the New Orleans mob to-
wards the Spanish consul in that city, was cx-
planned to the captains entire satisfaction; and
he expressed his intention to recommend TO his
own government the release Of the captivcs i'm
medatrly on their arrival. He spoke in Just
terms of the President and Government OF the
United States, and took occasion TO say that they
had done everything in their power to prevent
the invasion.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 22.--Thc steamer En-
pire city has arrived here to-day, with dates from
Hyvana to the 10Th inst.
The steamer Falcon, from Chagres, had not
reached Havana consequently she brings moth
| ing new IRON California.
! Mr.. J. S. Thrasher, late editor of the Faro
| Industrial, the American who administered to
| the wants of the Cuban prisoners, was arrested
al Havana on the 18th, on some unknown charge.
He was treated miIly--hs papers were seized,
and he was not allowed to communicate with his
! friends. He was not committed to prison. but
cnniincd to his own residence and closely watch
ed by the com,nissary of Police.
| Wilson l.. REEVES. another Of the Lopez pri
soners, was released BY the Captain General on
the 18Th inst, and came passenger in the EN-
| prc city.
| IMPORTANT FROM WAsHINGToN. England
| and Cnba.--A Washington despatch to the
| Philadelphia North American says that there
is no reliable intelligence there auihorising the
! OPT Mon that special messenger has been ap-
| pointed from either France or Spain in relation
| to Cuban affairs, and adds:
\ communication was recently addressed TO
our Government, by Lord Palmerston, respect
| ing expeditions fitted out in the United States
AGAINST Cuba in violation OF the spirit of treat
stpulations; but il was answered IN dgnifeI
and truly American paper by Mr.. Critrnden
Acting Secretary of State, who intima ted. in
very plain terms, THAT England had better occu-
by herself with her own affairs meaning, in
downright vernacuar, mind her own business
I This reply will probably prevent all European
interference, or, at all events. will warn those
powers what may be expected should they OBJ
trlde in our concerns. The document docs
Mr.. Crttenden and the administration great
credit
Sir Henry L. Bulwer has retired from the
British missonat Washington, and il is said, i.
to receive u European appointment.
AGR1cuLTURE IN ORrGoN.--A letter
FROM Umpqua. Valley, Oregon, publish
ed in the New York Courier, says the
climate is so mild in that quarter of the
globe, that sleeping out of doors is nc
hardship. Even in winter the ground
in the valleys never freezes, so that oats
potatoes and barley are sown in the fall
4 The wheat has the largest berry evel
seen. Oats Of corresponding quality
are raised fee gears in succession, from
one soutng. yielding at the rate Of fifty
bushels 10 the acre of each crop! Indian
corn does not do so we'll, on account Of
the droughts in August and September
{ but potatoes, turni ps and other roots, in
the moister locations grow to great
size. No insects or weeds trouble the
crops of any kind. Apples produce
abundantly, and plums, crab apples
rasberries "a large yellow variety, whor
: tleberries, Ga sed species,) awberries
and several other berries of fine flavor
not known at home, are very abundant
Government gires to every actual set
tier on public lands in Oregon, six hun
dred and forty acres in fee simple,
EFFECT OF THE CLIMATE. On one