The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-19
GENERAL NEWS

Professor MarSl'S exploring party re-
turned to New Haven on Saturday, and an
early report of the scientific results of the
expedition is again promised.
The Katie King spirtualistic swindle
has been completely exposed. The fair
apparition lives in a cheap boarding house
III Philadelphia, and materializes at least
three times day at meals.
Congress is chiefly occupied in pre-.
senting resolutions and offering bills EN-
subjects. Both houses will probably ad-
.journ from Tuesday next, till the 9th of
January, after which time their will he but
two months remaining of the session,
which will soon pass away in talk.
AT Desmoines, Iowa, one hundred and
fifty disguised and armed men took Charles
Howard, accused Of murder, from the jail
and hanged him from lamp post. How
ards wife was sleeping with him in the
Jail, and her shrieks are described as "hor-
rible, while she chung to her husband with
such frantic force that it required the
strength of half dozen men to tear him
away.
The sub-Judiciary Committee of the
House have reported to the subcommittee
in favor of amending the Civil Rights bill
by emitting the provision for mixed schools,
and the penalty of $500 imposed by the
bill for violation of any of it's provisions,
leaving the offenders liable to civil suits for
$500 damages. There is a wide difference
of opinion among the members OF the
committee.
On Monday. at Boston, the thermoue-
ter marked six degrees below zero; at Ian
caster, n. H., 80 below; in Maine it aver
aged Il below: at Quebec ii was 20 below:
ut Montreal. II below, and at Toronto,
below. Navigation on the Morris Canal
was entirely closed. and a number Of boats
were frozen in. The present cold spell of
weather extends, it will be seen, all over
the Northern States, but does not extend
westward
The loss by the burning of the Pymp
ton and Wareham streets blocks in Boston,
on Monday night, is estimated at $3.50, 900
Nearly 800 men are thrown out of employ
ment by this fire. Another contlaglation
in Charlestown, Immediately succeeding
the former, destroyed severa! mills and
lumber yards, and consumed a train which
was standing on the track of the Fitchburg
Railroad. The loss is estimated at upwards
of 100000. 1t is suspected that both fires
were of incendary origin.
AT New Orleans, the pupils Of the
Boys High School refused to allow colored
boys to enter the school house, and then
appointed committee to call upon the
Superintendent and request him to prevent
the admission of the colored youths. Tho
Superintendent said he was only an execu-
tive officer, that the whole matter was in
the hands of the School Board, and that he
Ill a.,
General School laws of the State, which
made no distinction in race or color.
The Centennial Tea Party in the Ro-
tunda of the Capitol, at Washington, took
place on Wednesday evening. and was very
largely attended, brilliant and distin-
guished company being present. The presi-
dent OF the United States, the King of the
Sandwich Islands, the Judges of the Su-
preme Court. the members of the Cabinet.
foreign Ministers, General sherman and
other army officers and otfi Gers of the navy,
We're irciudcd in the .ssemblage. An adj
dress was delivered by Secretary z ,6csun
in the Hall of Representatives.
1t is probable that one or two members
of the select House Committee 30 inquire
into affairs in the Southern States. in ac-
coidance with the recommendations in the
Presidents message, will ask to be excused
on the ground that their time is already
occupied. \ sub committee will, it is
understood, proceed to New Orleans within
4 day Or two, and be ready to report the
results of their inquiries soon after the
holiday recess. 1t is thought that Messrs.
Wheeler, Foster, and Durham will be APP
pointed as the sub committee. The COM
mittee to investigate the condition of affairs
al CHI Ia ,at nd I.i To w
South at once.
King Kalakaua arrived in Washington
or Saturday morning. He was received by
Secretaries Fish, Belknap and Robson.
and conveyed, under escort of the marines,
to tie Arlington House. The streets along
the line Of the proco ssion were thronged
with people, and flags We're displayed from
the public OFFICES. hotels and other build
ings. On reaching the hotel the King was
compelled to take to his bed 10y severe
cold. Having sufficiently recovered from
his cold he was presented to the President
on Tuesday afternoon, by Secretary Fish.
The other members of the Cabinet were
present. The President and Cabinet Off
GERS and General Sherman called upon him
on Wednesday. He was received by Con-
gress on Thursday.
The United States reveaue steamer
Hamilton, having been ordered to patrol
the coast from the Delaware BGeakwater
to the Capes during the Winter, and to
give assistance to all vessels found in dis
trcss, left Baltimore on Monday morning,
en- route for her station. She arrived i'll
the lower bay on Tuesday morning, and by
rare good fortune came up with the schooner
Belle Bartlstt, of Provnceton, Mass, just
in time to save her crew from a watery
grave. The vessel was in 4 sinking GoLdi
ton, and went down few minutes after
the men had been brought off by the boats
of the Hamilton. The Colffr, another of
the revenue marine vessels, rescued the
crew of the schooner Niraada of NV
Haven, in the same locality jus: befole the
vessel sunk. Both schooners were loaded
with oysters from the Rappahannock.
Prof Hayden expects to take the field
next year as early as the first of May, to
prosecute the Typographical and geological
survey of the Territories. by hard work
as late as the first part of November he
hopes that the expedition will be able to
complete in all an area of 60, 600 square
miles in Colorado and Utah, lying between
longitude 1919 30' and 109- 80. and between
latitude 46 45' and 40 30'. One result
of this work will be an atlas of six large
II, 800 miles square, which it is designed
to issue in time for the Centennial. The
region in which the surveying parties will
operate next season is almost entirely un-
known, and is left blank on most maps.
1t lies in South Western Colorado and
South Eastern Utah, and is almost the
only extensive area in the whole territory
of tho United States, outside Of Alaska,
which has not been to some extent explored,
either by military expeditions by parties
of miners, or by regular surveying parties.
Prof Hayden has asked for an appropria-
ton Of 100000 for the expenses of next
years field work. Last year Congress gave
him $75, 900 for the short season of four
months. AS the appropriation was not
made until just before the adjournment,
the expedition was not able to begin opera
tons until July. This year the short ses
sion insures that whatever sum is voted for
continuing the survey will be available
early in the Spring. The members of the
surveying party are now engaged in New
York preparing reports and maps.
The Indian Peace Commissioners had
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