The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-12-04
GENERA. NEWS.

l Philadelphia are still attended by tn ,us-
ands. The interest is said to be increasing.
At New Castle, Del, on Monday. the
jury in the case Of Patrick AhnYn. charged
with the murder of an unknown tramp at
Townsend III August last, returned YER
diet of not guilty.
AT the signal staten on the summit of
| Mount Washington, on Monday afternoon,
the wind attained speed Of 1856 miles per
hour-the greatest velocity recorded since
the establishment Of the station; and the
thermometer marked 81 below zero.
1t is announced that no sales of Treas
ury gold will be ordered for December
The currency balance is sufficient to obviate
the necessity for such sales, which, the
| Secretary says, are never ordered eXcert
for the purpose of repenishing it.
BY the official count of the votes for
| State officers III Massachusetts, it is shown
that the average Republican plurality in
the State, excluding the vote for Governor,
is 10000. The prohibition movement of
course reduced the vote for the Republican
candidate for Governor.
| AT the recent term of the Circuit Court
for Dorchester county, held at Cambridge,
| it is said that twelve indictments were
| found against one Individual for violations
of the local option law. The Court fined
him 500 in each case, making total fines
$1,000. This is pretty dear retailing wills
ky, and some curtaiment of profits.
The Boston Rubber Shoe Company's
factories at Maiden were almost entirely
destroyed by fire on Monday morning.
! The loss is estimated at 5000, 600; insur-
ance S156, 900. The fire, which is sup
| posed to have been started by the careless
use of gas Jet by one of the female
employees, throws 800 persons out of work.
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt
! has been retired upon his own application,
| and Assistant Judge Advocate General
| William Mckee Dunn has been appointed
his successor from December list. No AS
| sistant Judge Advocate General has been
appointed, Congress having last Winter
provided for the abolition of the office when
it should become vacant.
They are already getting ready for the
next election in New Hampshire, though it
| publicans have things in good shape, and
are united, while the Democrats have lost
popularity by their unwise course when in
+ power. The prospect is that the campaign
will result in Republican victory, thus
giving us start fog 1876 among the doubt
full States.
Information from the Rio Grande has
been received i'll Washington to the effect
the troubles along that river are as bad as
ever. 1t is stated that the Mexican raid
ers have contracted TO deliver Is. 600 cattle
at Monterey, and expect to steal them from
Texas. Also that a great difficulty under
which the Mexican Government labors in
sending soldiers to the frontier to prevent
raids is that these soldiers desert and be-
come cattle thieves themselves. Cortina
was detected some time ago in shipping
| cattle from Bagadad for Cuba, the cattle
bearing the marks of their owners. The
cattle thieves are in the habit of smuggling
goods into Texas and taking back droves
of cattle.
The recent storm of rain and wind in
England was the most violent that has been
known there during the past generation.
The hurricane on the North Sea was unpre-
| cedented in fury, and immense destruction
was caused to the shipping. This was fol-
| lowed by the heaviest rain storm that has
occurred for half a century, and which
swept ali over England. Destructive floods
are reported from all the midland counties.
The colieries, iron works and mills were
flooded, and in many cases the inhabitants
had to flee from their houses for safety
Several lives were lost, and thousands of
people were thrown out of work. The
damage to property is estimated at millions.
The London Times describes the storm as a
modified recurrence of the universal del
| uge."
The Commissioners appointed to in
qulre into the respective merits of the diff
terent routes for a ship canal across the
Isthmus, reported on Monday. They give
the preference to the Nicaragua route, and
estimate that the proposed canal from the
larDOr of RrItO the Pacific n
on the Atlantic can he constructed at a cost
not exceeding $4,000, 900. Their reasons
for preferng the Nicaragua route, not
| withstantiing its great length-1Sl miles
are, that it is the only route where the
climate is not dangerous to health, and the
only one where proper supply of water
could be found, Lake Nicaragua being an
unfailing source. The Commissioners, after
referring to the vast Importance of con-
nection between the two oceans, by which
probably "nearly one half of the CARVING
trade of the world will be revolutionzed,"
urge that the United States take some
action at once to carry out the feasible
plans of the ship canal, in order to prevent
either France or England from coming in
and reaping the honor and profit of this
great enterprise.
The Baltimore county Journal favors
the selling of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal. "This would remove it from the
bane of politics, which has for a number of
years been a fruitful source of scandal
throughout our State. No matter which
political party is in power there is bound
to be scandal, and the officers will be &C
cused of running its affairs in the interest
Of a political party. The fact of receiving
less than the State put into it, in money,
does not amount to a row of pins. The
amount of money which the State now re-
ceives annually as its share of the profits
of the concern is bagatelle, compared to
the good results which would accrue to the
whole people, were it cut loose entirely
from State affairs. The necessity of State
aid to the construction of the canal has
now passed away, and the canal proves
that it is able to take care of itself 1t
ought to be in the hands of a corporation
OF private gentlemen, who would develop
Its transportation powers to the highest
point. For more than twenty years the
affairs of the canal have been mixed with
politics in the western portion of our State
and 1T has grown to such a pitch that it
would be happy thing for the people of
that region to be rid of its influence. Let
it be sold by all means We doubt not
purchasers could be found at fair figures"
MIR. Dennis, the Secretary of the Treas
uIy ol LlUerla, writes from MOnr0Vla, I'M |
der date of October 16, to the American
Colonization Society, that all the inland
settlements have been abandoned, and the !
inhabitants have sought refuge at Latrobe
Most of the fugitives lost every thing ex-
cept the clothing they had Oil when they
left their homes, and have nothing to sub |
sist upon except supplies furnished by the
Government. On the 10Th of October the !
Librarian troops attacked large native
town, near Harper, and were repulsed with |
a loss Of several killed and wounded, leav-
ing three brass field pieces with ammuni- |
ton, in the enemy's hands. 1t was re-
ported that the natives had opened fire on
Latrobe with the abandoned cannon. The |
natives were said to be rising all along
the coast, and the owners of coasting yes |
selvs were contemplating their withdrawal |
The native hostility was attributed to Eng
lish influence, and it was stated that every |
English steamer arriving on the coast |
brought guns and ammunition for the saw
ages, and that the officers and crews of |
these steamers have generally expressed |
their sympathy with the natives. Mr.. Den
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