The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-02-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The applications fied for clerkships at
the Treasury Department have now reached
I2.ooo, and every day auGments the number
IL Is singular commentary upon this strife
Tor Office that no class Of persons in this
country are so notoriously put to it to live on
their incomes rs the clerks in Washington. =
CONGRESS is necessarily lnportuned for their
re'lef, many resign from sheer inability 30
1--we there, and yet the pressure for clerkships
is Unprecedented.
The House of Representatives Monday.
adopted resolution approving of the conduct
OF the President of the United States in de.
Ginning to receive present of u carriage and
horses from certain friends in New York.
and expressing the sense of the House that
the practice so common of presents to officers
OF the Government, either for office or promo.
tlon is demoralizing in its tendency, and
ought to be prohibited.
The President it is said, has deferred
Issuing the formal proclamation declaring
the restoration Of the Union, until The opin.
IONS OF Gems. Grant. Sherman, Meade.
Thomas. Sheridan, Sickles, and others could
be obtained relative to the submission of the
Southern States to the constitutional author.
tiles
Major General Sickles commanding de.
partment OF South Carolina. has prescribed
regulations for the government of all people
in his department. He decides that all laws
shall be applicable alike to all the inhabi,
tants no person shall be held incompetent
to sue, make complaint, or to testify because
of color or caste.
The Rev. w. II. Mlburn. known as the
blind preacher" has withdrawn from the
Methodist church, and was ordained bv
Bishop Hopkins as a deacon in the Episcopal
church on sunday, Dec. 8.
New York dispatches report the publ.
cation of the address Of the council of the
Irish Republic, dated at Dublin. 1t saws III,
work OF preparation is done, that an army is
soon to stand face to face with the enemy. --
They ask for loan to help them along.
Hon. James B. Ricaud, of Kent county.
Nd. died at his residence, in Chestcrtown.
on Tuesday last. He represented the First
District in Congress for two terms, and had
filled several high and important positions in
the State Government.
-Rcsolntions have been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature asserting that that State
''never will voluntarily consent to change
the adjustment of political power as fixed bv
the Constitution Of the United States"
The friends of Tennessee in the House
claim that there are fifty Republican mem
bers who have signifed their purpose to vote
to admit the representatives from that State.
to seats in the House at an early day.
Secretary Seward had an interview wit
Santa Anna, at st. Thomas, on Mexican
affairs. The known hostility of this office.
to the Mexican Empire imparts degree OF
significance to the meeting that can hardly
be mistaken at this time.
The steamer Miami, which exploded on
the Mississippi. had about two hundred per
sons on board. about one hundred of whom
were saved. The Missouri had one hundred
and twenty persons on board, of whom nearly
one hundred were lost.
United States notes. wilfulv cut in half.
are rot to be redeemed. and when any count
erleit United States notes are presented t.
any Gcvcrmcnt agent, he is ordered to Siam
the word counterfeit across its face
The people of Augusta, Georgia, are
the erection of a cenotaph 10
the 'hcroic dead. the citizens of that State
who fell in the attempt to break up the Coy
"A bill has passed the Senate of Aalama
the new county of "Cleburnn."
in honor Of the late rebel general of thai
name.
Gov Orr of South Carolina. has sen,
m agent to Washington to protest acains,
the passage Of tie act increasing the power.
Of the Frecdmcn's Bureau.