The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-01-01
Mere Mention.

IL IS reported mat ouuSe Mclean OF ONO
is seriously i'll.
Mr.. Preston, our new minister to Spain
will sail from Boston on the 9th of january.
The Spanish expedition against Mexico
will be on larger scale than was at first
supposed.
Toe total distance between St. louis and
San Francisco, by the New overland route, is
2,7G5 miles.
1t is stated that Edward Ridgeley. Esq. of
Dover, is TO he Secretary Of State Of Delaware
under Gov. Burton.
Hamilton Fish is nominated for next Presi.
dent by the Boston Conrcr and several Of its
Old Wing correspondents.
In Conway n. H., the snow is about foot
deep, and SOLID and campact as zee, having
been frozen while saturated
Wisconsin has set apart the avails of
swamp lands MS fund for normal instruction.
The income of this fund Is over $lS 600.
Mrs. Sallie NJ Mattingly. daughter of the
late Judge Roane Of Virginia. and grand
daughter Of Patrick Henry, died in Kentucky
last week.
On Thursday last the Morse telegraph wires
worked in a con tnouns circuit from New
York to La Crosse, on the Mississippi. The
distance is 1000.
1t is rnmorcd that Zu'oaga has offered to
place Mexico under English protection and
that Mr.. Worrcll had gone to England to ar.
range matters.
The youngest sister Of Robert Burns, the
poet and the sole surviving child of the family
circle of which he was the elder brother, died
recently at her cottage near Ayr.
Five French and three Spanish vessels of.
war were at Sacrilicios also the United
States sloop.oEw4r Saratoga, and another
American slcop had been off Vera C,uz.
There have been arrests near Cork, Ireland,
ofsomc fifteen young men, occupying rcspcc
table stations, charged with being members
Of society having tor its object the lnvasi Oh
Of Ireland by American Iillibus,ers
The Rev. DR.. Lang, of Australia, in late
speech, advocated separation of that colony
from Great Britain. and the establishment Of
independent States. particularly in the event
Of wal between Great Britain and France.
\ correspondent of Forneys Philadelphia
Press says that by an ineXorable law, none
but Roman Catholic young men are low adj
mitcr! at Mount St. Mary's Collcge--a col
ltge viii. for many years has existed at
Eunettsburg, Md.
CHrnCH DEDICArIoN.--Thc new Methodist
Episcopal church at Iluvle de Glace, Nd :,
was dedicated on Sunday, the 10Th ult., the
Revs. Mcssrs Blooke and Scwal OF Baltimore,
officiating. The SUM Of 81, 100 was collected
tJwaldS liquidatng the church debt
E Boston Buchanan Esq, formerly U. S.
consul 1T La Cochclc France, died on board
tie steamship Alid during her recent ,,r,-
New York. The deceased was nephew Of
James NJ. Buchanan Esq. of Baltimore, our
present minister TO Denmark.
AT Camp Floyd Utah. the officers ard men
are dvertng themselves with amateur thea
trlcals. The company is made up Of enlisted
men, the feminine part is from the great Salt
Lake City. 1t was opened with the comedy
called " Used Up, and concluded with the
Dead Shot"
Memorials in all parts of Great Britain
have been signed by influential men, a ding
Government ' 'tiirig" ;5ai- AMI han per
! cent. on f5U0,O00 Of new capital for the
| h'hi'''o itl'sihpn. IL Is supposed ll!at The
Government will accede to the request and
if 50, contract for new cable will bc short.
/ ly made.
In lecture lately delivered at Detroit,
Lieutenant AlauIy STATED that the value of the
shipping and commerce passing the flats Of
the st, Clair, on an average Of two hundred
and Thirty days for he busy season. reached
the daily average Of 81 l2J 223 The entire
yuluc of the lake Commerce was 5000 OOO 600
10 each lake varying more in favor Of Lakes
Michigan and Huron, less to Lake Superior,
and as Lake Erie is an outlet to others,
amounting i'll its case to $500 600 900.