The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-05
GENERAL NEWS.

The body Of an unknown man, in an
| advanced state of decomposition, was found
floating in the Delaware, near Delaware
City, on Sunday afternoon.
The internal revenue receipts for July
and August, the first two months of the
present fiscal year, were $17,919,601, an
excess of $577, 449 on the receipts of the
corresponding months of 1878.
| The Democratic Convention for the
Sixth District met at Hagerstown, on We'd
nesday last, and nominated William Walsh
on the Hath ballot. Poor old "Gum
Blair " was thrown overheard.
Gen. Custer reported Monday to Gen.
Sheridan the return of the Black Hills
expedition to Fort Lincoln. He says his
command marched one thousand miles,
and, with replenished supplies, sis in good
condition to take the field to- morrow
"A remarkable meteorological pheneme-
non is reported from Ell Paso, Texas The
Collector of Customs writes that up to the
10th of August no rain had fallen in that
vicinity for precisely a year. Vegetation
is scorched and cattle have died of starva-
| ton.
The Great Eastern is once more cross
ing the Atlantic with the long coil of a
| telegraph unwinding from her STEM This
is the new cable which the Anglo American
Company are laying, and which ought to
help in bringing down to lower figures the
existing tariff for transatlantic messages.
"A Philadelphia paper says that PIN
kerton's Detective Agency has gone vigor-
ously to work in the search for Charlie
Ross, Allen Pinkerton himself superin-
tending the operation of his corps. He has
sent out placard of description of the boy
and the kidnappers, but which does not
materially differ from that already pub
lished.
AT the Wilmington City election, on
Tuesday last, the Democratic and indie
pendent candidates for Council were elect
cd in seven out of the ten wards. The Re-
publican majority in the city, calculated on
the Assessors and Collectors vote, is 4G5.
The new Council stands 10 Republicans
and Democrats. The result has no party
significance, as in several of the wards the
Republicans Joined the Democrats for the
purpose of defeating supposed {" Ring"
The State election in Vermont took
place on Tuesday, and resulted as usual in
a Republican triumph. Judge Peck is
elected Governor by about $4,000. The
House is overwhelmingly Republican, and
the Senate unanimously so. The only
feature of special interest in the result is
the defeat of Judge Poland in the Second
Congressional District by Mr.. Dennison,
the Independent Republican candidate.
The Judges introduction of the press-gag
bill in Congress turned his constituents
against him, and when his denomination
was forced upon them, they bolted.
The army loses one of its most gallant
and valuable officers in the death of Major
General John G. Foster, which occurred at
his New Hampshire home during the late
hours of Tuesday night. A particular
interest attached to this veteran soldier
because he was one of the two remaining
alive of that little band of officers who
gathered around Major Anderson on that
dark Christmas night of 1860 when the flag
was transferred from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, and who behind its walls withstood
a hundred days later the fire of the Con-
federate batteries that opened the long and
terrible struggle.
The Democrats of three important
States-Ohio, Indiana and Missouri-have
now declared themselves in favor of paying
off the Government debt in paper currency,
although the national faith is pledged to
its payment in coin. This, of course is
practical reputation. The same doctrine
of other States, for it barely escaped in
Illinois and Pennsylvania. There are a
great many Democrats, as we'll as Republi-
cans, who have strong pecuniary interest
in the fulfilment of the Government pro-
misses. There is nothing more solid and
safe than such investments under the pres
ent administration, and revolution such
as these Democratic politicians seek to
bring about would work disaster to thous-
ands of our people.
The official returns from the election in
Ohio on the proposed new Constitution
show that the vote stood as follows in the
State: 102, SS5 for the Constitution, and
$50, 1863 against; 70, for minority repre-
sentation, and 25S. Ais against; 45,416 for
railroad aid, and 296, 65S against; 172, 252
for license, and 179, 53S against. The peo-
pie of Ohio express very decided opinion
on all these points, excepting on the license
question, where they are almost equally
divided. The opposition to license has a
small majority, and it is probable that this
vote has incorporated the no-license policy
into the organic law of the State of Ohio,
although we cannot be certain about this
as we do not know the exact form in which
the amendment relating to the license or no
license question was submitted to the popu-
lar vote.
The venerable Thos. Fl. Morris, senior
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
died "Wednesday last, at Springfield, Ohio.
OF his eighty years of life fifty eight had
been spent in the ministry and thirty eight
in the episcopal office. When he entered
the Church the second war with Great
Britain had but just ended; the United
States were hardly more than the strip of
country between the Atlantic and the Allie
ghanies. He was man of deep religious
nature and great natural force of character.
He has left his mark upon the administra-
ton of the Church in this country, and it
is not only by members of his own denomi-
nation. but by all who knew his solid worth
and enthusiastic devotion to all good pur-
poses, that his death will be most earnestly
regretted. 1t is also announced that Bishop
James is very seriously i'll.
From time to time there have been
indications of large falling off in the
immigration to this country, consequent
upon depression of business which fol-
lowed the financial panic of last Fall, but
we were scarcely prepared to find the de-
crease in the number of immigrants so
great as that foreshadowed in the estimate
of the New York Board of immigration.
The number of immigrants arriving last
year was 26S, 600, and it is estimated that
the number this year will be but $4,000.
Of course this estimate may fall short of
the actual numbers if there should be I'M
wonted business activity during the coming
Autumn. One of the effects of the inven-
ton of steam engines, the laying of tele-
graph cables, and the publication of nu-
merous newspapers, is to be found in the
promptness with which the supply of both
labor and material gravitates to meet the
demand. Without these aids to commerce
the evils of overstocked or of understocked
labor markets would be aggravated by the
slowness with which supply would accom-
itself to demand.
Ann Eliza, one of the wives of Brig
ham Young, has applied to the Third Dis
trict Court of Utah for divorce. She
alleges in her complaint that they were
married on the 9th of April, 1868; and
that in about one year after the marriage