The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-11-18

The Governor has issued proclamation
offering reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the villain who fred the Afri.
can Methodist Episcopal Church at Milling.
ton, Kent county, on the Goth ult., and the
same reward for the parties who DESTROYED
by fire the colored meeting house at Eden
vile, kent county, on the 9TH instant. We
hope the authors of these outrages thay be
brought to justice. The buildings were used
as schoolhouses for colored children, and
the lady teachers were threatened with vio-
lence and had to flee from both LOCALITIES
The Governor says that there is reason to
believe that these atrocities will be follow ed
by others Of like character, the supposed
object being to destroy the schools estab.
hshed for colored children in said county
and conducted in these churches" On
tuesday night another church was added to
those consumed, one being destroyed in the
loth district of Baltimore county, about
three miles from White Hall.
from some statistics made up at the
war Department of the casualties to our
General officers during the war, it appears
'hat we had eight Major Generals and sew.
ehteen brigader Generals killed outright in
n y While two major Generals and nine
brlgadler Generals died of wounds re.
the two ranks died of disease. In the wear
1862 our losses of General officers in battle
were very heavy, numbering no less than fiji:
teen' while during the present year, or from
Ihe ehd OF 1864 to the close of the war. we
lost but one General, though the fighting was
great and decisive. There is abundant ma.
terlal for reflection in these facts.
South Carolina, on Monday, by her
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Amendment forever abolishine Slavery in
the United States President Johnsor's re-.
cent dispatches to the Provisional Govern
ors would seem to have had "a good effect,
ana no doubt the example of South Carroll.
ma IN outstripping New Jersey and Della.
ware IN this good work. will be initiated in
u lew days by others of the lately rehellious
states. South Carolina is the twenty fifth
state that has adopted the amendment, and
similar action by two more is all that is now
necessary.
This has been lucky season for Gen.
erals and what is little remarkable, in not
single instance, that we are aware of. has
a soldier who was running as candidate of
the Union party been defeated Generals
stone, of Iowa; Oglesby, of Illinois Hart.
rant, OF pennsylvania; Fairchild, Of Wiscou.
SIN; Marshall, Of Minnesota ; Cox, of Ohio
ward, of New Jersey; Barlow, of New
I ork, have, as the candidates of the Union
party, been trumohantly elected
A few weeks ago gentleman in Peters.
burg employed for the purpose by the mill
tarry authorities canvassed the city to ascer
tam the number of houses struck by Federal
shells during the recent siege. His investi
cations developed the fact that there were
over eight hundred houses struck by the
whole shells, beside large numbers of others
which received rude touches from fragments.
As soon as it was known positively that
Col Orr was elected Governor of South
Carolina, his competitor, Wade Hampton.
requested Governor Perry to inform Presi
dent johnson of that fact, so that the Presi.
dent might withdraw, if he should think
proper, the pardon which has been granted.
or has been promised, under the suppostion
that General Hampton had been elected
Governor of the State.