The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-01-13

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In the United States Senate ON Wednes.
day Mr.. Wilson introduced q bill. of which
he had given previous notice. to increase and
fix the Military Peace Establishment of the
United States Army. 1t provides that the
Military Peace Establishment of the United
States Army shall hereafter consist of seven
regiments Of artillery, ten regiments of cav
airy and sixty regiments of infantry. In
addition to the five regiments of artillery
now organized there shall be two new ones
one to be composed Of colored and one
of white persons, olcered by selections
from volunteer officers. Two new regiments
of cavalry are to be Of white and two of
coIored persons. In the infantry there shall
be eight regiments composed of men from
the eteran Reserve Corps, and oliccred by
officers of that corps. There shall be one
Lieutenant General five Majo Generals and
ten Brigadiers. The bill was referred to the
Military Committee. Mr.. Morrill, reported
from the Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia a bill granting negro suffrage
in the District. The bill prohibits the dis.
tinction of color as qualification for voting
in Ike District. and fixes the penalty at $ / 900
fine and imprisonment for thirty DAYS. A
number of amendments We're offered. among
write the qualification for every voter. and
another fXing-the penalty of interfering with
the right of a colorc@ mans franchise at
$1,000 and indictment for misdemeanor.
The bill, with the amendments, was recon.
mlttcd to the committee.
A meeting of sympathy for Mexico.
Chill. Peru and st. Domingo, or the Monroe
doctrine meeting, as it was called, was held
at New York, on Saturday evening and
proved n great success. Speeches were
made by the President. W. c. Bryant, ESD.
Vice Presidents TomlinSon. $. S. Cox. Sc
nor Nicuna Mckenna, the CHILEAN Envoy.
and others. Letters expressing strong sym
pathy with the objects of the meeting were
received and read from numerous army, ma
val and civil officers of the Government, in.
GLIDING, among others. Generals Sicklcs and
Garfield, Speaker Coltay. of the House:
Congressman James II. Lane. John A. Kas-
son, Nesmith. Baker, and many Others
Great regret was ex PRESSED For the sudden
death Of Hon H. Winter Davis. who had
been announced to address the meeting
The meeting passed resolutions endorsing
President johnson and calling second
meeting.
The Adams express car which left New
York for Boston on Saturday evening, was
robbed somewhere between those two cities.
1t is supposed the thieves got into the car
before it left New York. Money and bonds
to the value of 100000 were taken. The
safes were all blown open. Some SSO,OoO
in greenlacks, and large amount of bonds
were scattered around the floor. The car
was an ron one. The robbery was not dis
covered until it reached Boston.
A Jaime paper states that colony of
fifty families, principally from that State is
to embark for Palestine in July next They
propose to settle at Jatfa the ancient .Toppa.
Building lots have been purchased, and they
will carry out with them Yankee impe-
mens, With view to resuscitate the great
and long slumberlng resources of that sonce
splendid land.
The selling colored people in Delaware
for term OF years as punishment for
crime the Wilmington Republican says, "is
now perfect farce. Four persons were
sold afew days since and brought from twelve
to fifteen cents EACH and their purchasers
Immediately let them CO.
Illinois produced, in 1865, one hundred
and seventy seven millions of bushels of
corn, twenty-five millions of bushels of
wheat, eight hundred thousand bushels of
rye, one million of barley and twenty-eight
millions CT bushels of oats.
1T is reported that the Congressional
Committee on the death of President Lin
coin, intend to invite Mr.. George Bancroft,
the historian, to deliver the Grafton on the
occasion of the memorial services, Secretary
Stanton having declined the honor
Tile Soldiers and Sailors National
Union League of Washington, has issued an
address urging all honoraby discharged sol
diers and sailors to preserve their discharge
papers and not to part with them to specu-
ators for any sum.
A Stuyvesant IN. Y. paper states that
a COW in that village lately committed delib.
crate suicide. She walked into brook, and
after three attempts, held her head under
water till she was drowned.
Secretary Mccullough has signed the
draft on the treasury for the payment of the
balance of Mr.. Lincolns salary which he
would have been entitled to for the year. 1t
amounts to $23, 900.
Our dispatches from the North and
South represent the cold weather of the past
two days to have been unprecedented for
years. In Baltimore it has not been equaled
for many years.
Scarcely any new organizations Under
the national banking system are being au
thorized at present. But one was made last
week. The whole number of national banks
to date is sixteen hundred and twenty-six.
Prescott City, California, is so blocked