The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-11-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Tile steamer Pacific, running between
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, was
lost, by laundering, on Thursday night of
last week, and over two hundred lives lost
Only one passenger is known to have been
saved.
The Attorney General received on
Monday, dispatches from st. Louis an
nouncing that the malicious rumors impli-
eating Gen. Babcock and Mr.. Orville Grant
in the whisky frauds were utterly without
foundation.
Tho municipal election at Providence,
r. l., on Wednesday, resulted in a Repub-
lican victory, Hon. Thomas A. Doyle being
elected Mayor for the tenth time. over his
Democratic and Reform competitors. The
City Council is also largely Republican.
In the appointment of the Baltimore
Council Committees, the claims of the Re-
form party have been fully recognized,
chairmanships of several important COM
mittees having been given to them, and
positions upon all Others Although there
were only two of the candidates of the
Citizens Reform party elected to the Sec
ond Branch, yet the chairmanships of three
committees have been given to them.
Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice President of
in the Capitol at Washington, Wednesday
morning, and remained there under medi-
cal attendance during the remainder of the
day and the night. His unexpected illness
occasioned considerable alarm and many
exaggerated rumors prevailed. The nduc-
ing causes of the attack were supposed to
be overwork and indigestion, and taken in
connection with Mr.. Wilson's sudden ILL
ness of last year, suggested the possibility
of fatal termination. His attending
physician, however, looks to his recovery
within few days.
The Government appears to be pushing
the Whisky Ring with vigor. In the United
States Court at ST. Louis, j. Il. JOwiett,
against whom two indictments were pend
ing for conspiracy to defraud the Govern
ment, on Tuesday, entered a plea of guilty,
and a capias was issued for A. NJ. Everest,
Government gauger, who absconded some
time since, aud it is understood that he will
report and plead guilty. At Chicago
number of indictments have been found
r:-ainst prominent distillers and rectifiers,
a., lmc officers who ere working up the
matter believe they have sufficient proof
to convict the guilty parties. In Brooklyn
on Tuesday afternoon, the revenue officers
raided an illicit distillery, and notwith-
standing the resistance of party of
roughs, succeeded in capturing quantity
of whisky.
The Lewes, Del, Light reports another
fish war at the Capes, similar to the great
struggle of last season. On the goth ult.,
the blue fish were again chasing and de-
vouring the manhaden shad, "moss bunk
ers," as they are sometimes called, and
thousands in their efforts to escape the
ravages of the blue fish ran high and dry
on the beach. Near the little light house
on the cape where the high tides overflow
into the valley, several thousand bushels
sought refuge in there, but were even fol-
lowed over the flats by their formidable
enemies, and many of the latter were
caught Oh the fiat sands, where the waite:
was but a few inches deep. After the tide
fell off, these fish were left there to die, and
many of them were hauled off into the
country by the farmers who use them as a
fertilizer on their lands. 1t is somewhat
singular why these fish should make their
appearance here in the manner stated above
just at this season of the year, this year
and Nashville nothing like it was ever
seen or heard of before, at least along the
coast.