The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.

The Indian delegations of Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail arrived in Washington on
Monday morning.
Ex-senator Pratt, the newly appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, assum-
ed the duties of his Office on Saturday last.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized six new national banks to begin
business, all in New England except one,
which is in Pennsylvania.
-Fifty-six striking miners have been
arrested at Oceola, Pa, and taken to Clear.
field Jail, no resistance being made. Nine
Germans went to work at the Franklin
mines. From other sections everything is
reported quiet.
Missouri is threatened with a grass
hopper atfiiction, and the Governor has ap.
pointed day of fasting and prayer for the
aversion of the impending calamity. The
swarms that came over from the Rock y
Mountains and high plains of Kansas, last
Summer. deposited their eggs, and the
yonng hoppers have made their appearance
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued call for the redemption of 81, 600, DOC
coupon bonds, upon which interest will
cease the 10Th of August next. The bonds
called for will be taken by the Rothchilds,
representing the Syndicate, their contract
extending until the 3lst Of August next,
with the option of taking up any call with.
in that period.
The further prosecution of the whisk y
| frauds, together with all the evidence and
records, was on Monday turned over te
Mr.. Pratt, the new Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, by the Solicitor office. The
various Supervisors who have been acting
with the Solicitor have been ordered to re-
port directly to the Commissioner, and re.
ceive further instructions from him. The
| Secret Service force of the Treasury, how.
| ever, will continue to aid the internal reve
nue. authorities in detecting and seizine
| "crooked . whisky and bringing offenders
/ to justice. Secretary Bristow anticipates
very determined resistance on the part OF
the whisky ring to steps which he will take
to get them convicted for defrauding the
! Government. The whisky ring have di
rectly employed or retained the ablest legal
talent in the West, in order to defeat the
/ Government in its Interpretation of the
law. The controversy is likely to be bit
| ter one, but will be carried on vigorously
by the Government, which will get outside
counsel, if necessary, to protect its inter
/ ests. 1t is believed in Washington that
nearly all the prominent lawyers of the
country will be employed ON one side OF
| the other. In the meantime Secretary Bris-
/ tow anil Solicitor Wilson are pushing {
! investigation into other sections of the
| country, and evidence is accommodating,
showing that the ring have not been en-.
| tirsly destroyed.
The ceremonies attending the celebra.
of tI,n ,.,1
| Charlotte, n. G., began at noon on Wed.
nesday, in conmemoration of the assem-
bling Of the Mecklenburg delegates at
Charlottetown on the 10Th of May, 1775.
People gathered from different parts OF
| North and South Carolina, Tennessee and
| Virginia, to join in the celebration. The
public buildings, stores and dwellings in
! the town were decorated with flags, flow
ers and evergreens. At noon, a national
flag was hoisted in Independence Square,
while band from Newbern played 1.-The
Old North State Addresses were then
delivered by Mayor Johnston and Governor
Curtis of North Carolina, who expressed
the most patriotic and frateInal sentiments.
The Mecklcnburg Polka" composed for
the occasion, was then played by the band,
and a salute of thirty eight guns for all the
States of the Union was fired by the Raleigh
Light Battery. On Thursday the town was
thronged with visitors, the number of arri-
walls being estimated at 40, 900. At sunrise
salute of one hundred guns was fired, and
all the bells were rung. At 9 o'clock there
was procession of military and fire com
panies, civic associations and citizens, &C
companied by bands Of music, and carrying
flags and banners, the Governors of North
Carolina and other States, U. S. Senators,
Judges of the Courts and other distin-
gushed persons being in carriages.