The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-01-21
% Rel>ers a,1 Correspondents.


0y- The Editor has been prevented this wee
by sickness from giving much care TO Tn
Wing, or attention to corr espondents.
Cy"Goq' will observe that his pos,scrint
superseded by another communication whjc
was previously received.
give have two letters from the West Cro
"E. e. E;' and, Also letter from a western
correspondent in reply 10 something in hi
series ofle.ers.
UJWe expect to print next week sevcra
articles from our correspondents. some Of whic
have been quite too long delayed.
MAINE LAw.-The prospects for tn,
passage of a prohbItory liquor law b,
our Legislature this wnter are brighten
ing every day. The discreet depor,.
ment of onr delegation has won the GOOD
go opinion of the best men il, both parties
at Annapolis, and We think Baltimore.
has much to hope from her immediate
representatives.; and. we may add, she
has nothing to fear. They are men who,
free from the calling yoke of party ties,
are enabled to examine the practical
bearing OF any and every question that
may be presented upon the great com.
merc'aI and agricultural interests of our
Commonwealth, aud give such support
or opposition to them as in their judr-
ments shall most condnee to the. rlorv
and prosperity of Maryland, without the
fear Of offending the great Mooch of
the age--"Party."
We presume mne-tenths ofthe Leeis.
latnre would vote for prohihilorv aw
subject to the ratification of The people.
here is popularity in the measure
that few would have lhr femerity to op-
pose, especially if urged as above; but
when they are urged 10 vote for an i'm.
mediate uncoadifaonm /nw, they demur
not because they have any doubts of
ITS propriety, or its beneficial tendency
upon the morals of the people, but sim.
ply because they were not thus instruct
ed.-Boh. CLIPPER.
THE ERIE DlFr'crLry. 80. Njanv ian.
ia letter from Senator Chase, dated
Washington, Jan. tie, appears IN the
Cincinnati Gazette Of Tuesday, IN which
he says:
"Having been informed Of the re-
leas, of several rioters from the custody
of the Marshal by the mob, my col
league, Mr.. Wade and myself called on
the President to know what course
would be adopted IN case the rioters
Icrsrvrrrl in their resistance to the
Federal process.
The Prsslde'I said he should act with
decision Whenever the proper cause for
Intervention was presented, bat as Vet
the necessary evidence of obstruction to
the laws by combination too powerful
10 be suppressed by ordinary judicial
procedure, or hy The marshal, had not
been submitted. The Secretary OF War
also expressed the same views"
ERIE, Pa, Jan. lS.-The woman who
tore down The railroad bridge yesterday
were armed with axes aud saws, and
destroyed about 100 feet OF the bridge.
A young man named J Ii. Walker, one
of the directors OF he Northeast railroad
was shamefully abused by the women,
who peIted him with rotten eggs, and
tore the clothes oil his back. Mr. Walk
err was engaged in taking down the
names of the rngleaders, some of whom
were men dressed in women's clothes.
LOUIS NApoLroH.-Mr. George n.
Sanders, writing from London, to the
N Y. Herald saws:
"Louns Napoleon is preparing for war
on the graniest scale. is known that
lac will have, by earl spring, an lava
ding army Of seven hundred thousand
men fully equipped. The active part
taken by all the Northern courts, espe-
clally that of Austria and Russia, in
bringing about the Bourbon fusion, has
deeply excited Louis Napoleon. He
sees in the success Of Nicholas, the re-
establishment ofthe Bourhons in France.
Hence, notwithstanding his present APP
parent friendly relations or rather pleas
ant coqoetry, with Austria, he will, in
few months strike for the Italian States,
and attempt to hold them as the cost of
Austrian alliance with Russia, and the
Orleanists and Legltinits. Louis Ma
poleon having made up his mind to fight
will fiatter the other powers by canvas
sing their propositions for adjustment,
until he can have in movement all the
material fo- an aggressive war;"
A NOBLE ScorcHMAN.-Capt. Creigh-
ton was hailed by the San Francisco
with the following question:-"Will
you charter your ship! We are loaded
with men, women and children. Name
your price" His reply was, with the
true Scotch accent.-"Wh does the
man mean! It's not money that am
after-l am stopping for humanity's
sake" On the third day, in reply to
another question, he again responded,
81 will stand by you if sink"