The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-08
Annapolis.

cient Severn on Tuesday. The following
is portion of the letter:
EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS.
The term of office Of all Gov. Swami.
appointees expires with the nomination o.
their successors by Gov. Bowie and theil
confirmation by the Senate. The nomina
tions must be transmitted to the Senate
within fifty days after the meeting of the
Legislature. There are Inspectors of To
bacco, Flour, Grain, Superintendent Of
Live Stock Scales. Magistrates, ETC., to be
appointed, and the candidates and Their
friends will add considerably to the reve-
nues Of the railroads leading to the city
and the hotels during the contest. A large
delegation is daily expected from Balti-
more in the interest of candidates fol-
Tobacco Inspectors and Magistrates.
COMMISSIONER OF LAND oFFICE-CoURT OF
APPEALS.
In addition to the patronage i'll the gift
of the Governor at each session of the Leg
islature, he will have the appointment at
this session of Judge for the Sixth Judi
cial Circuit of the State (Montgomery and
Frederick counties to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death Of Judge Nelson, OF
Frederick county. The new Judge will al
so be member of the Court of Appeals,
as he was Chief Justice of that circuit, and
will hold office until the next election for
members of the Legislature. Hon. VIM.
P. Maulsby, of Frederick, is strongly urged
for the vacancy. He was the Democratic
candidate for the House of Representatives
in the Fouth District in 1865 against Hon.
Frank Thomas, and was defeated, He
was also an officer in the Union army dur
ing the late troubles" which will prob
ably be bar to his success. Frederick j.
Nelson, son of the late Judge, is also
mentioned in connection with the position,
and there are said to be number of aspi-
rants from Montgomery county.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
Governor Bowie, it is rumored, takes
strong and decided ground in his message
against the ratification by the General As
sembly of the Fifteenth Amendment. He
has been credited with more enlightened
and liberal views. Many Intelligent Dem
ocrats see that it's adoption by the requisite
number of STATES is a forgone conclusion,
and therefore further opposition is worse
than fruitless. There are numbers of the
most prominent Democrats in Maryland
who are in favor of it's ratification by the
present Democratic Legislature, in order to
secure division in the colorsd vote at the
next election. When the amendment is
submitted, it will be found that it has sup
porters in both Houses, but there are not
enough to endorse it in either.
THE STATE FINANCES.
learn to-day that Comptroller Leonard
report will show that the State has now a
debt of over IL, 600, 600, on which it is pay
ing interest. The last Legislature passed
bills appropriating about $4,000, 900, and,
Judging by the past, when the body to
meet tomorrow adjourns the present debt
will be doubled.
Mr.. F. c. Latrobe, of Baltimore City,
was elected Speaker of the House of Dele
gates, and Milton Y. Kidd, of Cecil county,
Chief Clerk, and Thomas II. Moore, read
ing Clerk, by reclamation.
The Senate did not succeed in making a
permanent organization on the first day.
The Comptroller's Report gives the fol-
lowing figures in reference to the State
finances:-The total receipts into the
Treasury from all sources during the fiscal
year ended September 80, 1869, was So, OO2, :
0.5S, which sum, added to the balance
remaining in the Treasury September 80,
1869, viz: 1882, SOL .01, makes the aggregate
of 50, Asa, 641.59. The disbursements dur
ing the fiscal year amounted to $3,O39, 3O1.-
IS, and the balance remaining ia the Trea-
sury at the close of the fiscal year was
$445, 340.41. The estimated receipts into
the Treasury during the fiscal year which
ends September 80, 1870, are So, 1873, ESQ.,
The probable disbursements during the
same period, based upon existing laws, will
amount to So, POI, $50, being ST, 800 in ex-
cess of receipts.
On Thursday, in the Senate, Hon. Barnes
Compton, of Charles Gree Railroad Dem
crat, was reelected President, and Mr..
Augustus Gassaway, Of Anne Arundel, Sc
cretary. The subordinate officers of both
Houses, at least so many as have been
chosen up to this time. were sworn in In
the House raid was resolved upon the
Treasury, in the shape of orders for postage
stamps and stationery, copies of the Code
laws, of the State Constitution, etc. The
standing committees of the two Houses
will not be announced until Tuesday next.
On Tuesday the officers Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad were presented draft
for $500, 900, claimed by the State author
tiles as money due the State, on account of
the tax on one-fifth of the gross receipts
from the Washington Branch of that COM
pany. The Railroad authorities refused to
pay the draft, on the ground that the State
was largely indebted to the Company, on
account of the premium paid by the latter
on the sterling debt III Europe.
L. E. EWING, Esq.-Dear Sir:-For sew
eral years past, the good people of Port
Deposit, have testified their remembrance
of the ''Soldier's Orphans" by sending
Christmas Dinner to tho Md. Union
Orphan Asylum. Wesend you the follow
ing extracts from letter from the Secrc-
tary of the Board of Managers, that the
Friends who have contributed may see how
fully their gifts are appreciated, and with
the hope that others may be stirred up to
like deeds of kindness to sour Country's
Orphans. c. NJ. TOME,
n. RAMSAY,
BALTIMORE, Jan. list, 1870.
"Your note informing me of the coming
of the "Box" from Port Deposit, was
indeed a glad message. Really know not
what we would do without your kindness,
for all the ladies here are interested in so
many other institutions. went I'D this
morning to see what they needed for their