The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-10-20
GENERAL NEWS.

the understanding that they appear at such time
and place as the President may designate to an
swer any charge that he may direct TO be pre-
terred against them.
The assel ton is made positively in intelligent
quarters that there is now before the Government
something in the nature of proposal from the
British authorities to pay damages arising from
depredations of Confederate privateers fitted out
at British ports, and aso to arrive at some agree
ment which shall prevent recurrence of like
transactions hereafter, as between the two ma
lions, whether the hostile condition exists in
Great Britain or in the United States.
The Presbytery of fSangamon, Illinois, at its
meeting at Decatur, in that State, OH Tuesday
week, passed a resolution denouncing all inter-
ference, by civil or military authority, with the
freedom of preaching the Gospel, as an usurpa-
ton of the prerogative of the Church; practi-
cal union of Church and State and wholly I'M
warranted. The resolution further declares that
the members of the Presbytery sympathize with
their brethren in Missouri, who are now suffer-
ing persecution for no other crime than that of
preaching Christ
In Cecil county, 3,29S voters have been regis
tered, being about 1000 less than the usual vote
Many Union men, says the Cecil Wing, refused
or neglected to register themselves. Hartford
county is credited with 2,l9l qualified voters,
against $500 in 1861.
At Bowling Green, recently, the sheriff of the
county had in custody two negroes, convicted
in the County Court of the murder of another ne
gro, and who were taken then in custody and
on their way to Nashville Penitentiary. Upon
their arrival at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and
when in the act of changing cars, the sheriff was
surrounded by detachment of colored guards,
who demanded the release of the prisoners, which
being refused, they took them by force, removed
their handcuffs and set them at liberty. With
fixed bayonets they defed the sheriff and his
party, threatening death to all who opposed
them.
In the report of Adjutant General Thomas to
the Secretary of War; the State of Mississippi is
credited with having furnished upwards of sew
enty-nine thousand negroes and one thousand
whites to command them, for service in the Union
army during the war. This force is represented
to have been raised in Mississippi during the
years 1884.
Late mails from Europe state that the business
recently done in England in American securi-
ties, owing to the conciliatory policy of Presi-
dent johnson towards the South has been of
magnitude unprecedented since the breaking out
of the rebellion. Arrests of Fenians still con-
tinue. Papers have been seized which give the
particulars of expected arrivals at Bantry Bay,
Ireland, of arms-bearing vessels from America
The cattle plague in England has now broken
out among the sheep, accompanied by all its
most fatal characteristics.
DR.. McCook, of Steubenvlle, Ohio father of
two Generals and one naval officer, and uncle of
four more Generals of the same name, died in
Washington on Thursday, at the residence Of
his son, Gen. Arson McCook. He was appointed
assessor of internal revenue of the Seventeenth
Ohio district by the President on Saturday week.
1t is supposed from the returns SO far received,
that the Republicans carried Pennsylvania in the
about five thousand majority.
The election in Ohio, it is supposed, will re-
suit in majority OF about twenty-five thousand
for Cox, the Republican candidate for Governor,
an immense falling off, when compared with the
vote which was cast for Brough at the previous
election, when the Republican majority was
somewhere in the neighborhood of hundred
thousand votes.
Major Jno. A. paddock formerly provost mar
shall of the Lehigh and Montgomery district Pa,
was recently tried by court-martal at Auburn,
New York, on numerous charges of fraud, mall
feasance in office and abuse of official powers
He has been sentenced to pay fine of ten thous.
and dollars to the Government, and be impris-
oned, not exceeding five years, till the fine be
paid.
Two physicians in Shiloh, Randolph county,
Illinois, purchased, last week, quantity Of cal
omel from druggist in Chester, and administer
ed it to some forty of their patients. 1t subse-
quently appeared that corrosive sublimate was
mixed with the calome. At last accounts seve-
raj persons died from the effects of the poison
and several others were not expected to live.
Mr.. Watterton, special agent of the Govern
ment to inquire into the condition Of Southern
affairs left yesterday after a short stay. 1t is
understood that his opinion is that the Freed
mems Bureau is an unnecessary burden to the
Government.
The provost marshal of New Orleans has order
ed an inspection of the city registry of voters, with
view of striking from the rolls the names of q
portion of them charged with certain acts of dis
loyalty antecedent to the Presidents amnesty
proclamation, those who in 1862 registered them
selves as enemies the United States. This would
strike off fifty per cent, of the registered voters
of the city Gov Wells protests against this as an
interference with established State laws. If the
Provost Marshal persists, Governor Wells will
appeal to the President.
Emigrants from the Eastern States are pouring
into Missouri apparently without limit. Not
only St. Louis is receiving large accessions, but
all the towns along, the Missouri river. On the
9th no fewer than thirty large covered wagons
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