The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-01
GENERAL NEWS.

delivered to the legislature. The message urges
the adoption of the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery and the passage of laws for
property. This course, be says, will secure the
admission of our representatives in Congress and
restore the State to all her political rights in the
Union. He opposes special code for the govern
ment of negroes and recommends the adoption
of q vagrant law, bearing upon whites and
and blacks alike, and suggests the kind of law to
be adopted. He also recommends that provi-
sion be made for destitute white and black per-
sons.
The two colored women lately sentenced by
Judge Tuck, ofAnne Arundel county, Maryland,
to be sold in the State for the term of two years,
were convicted of an offence, punishable with
Imprisonment in the penitentiary, but at their
solicitation, and the sentence being optional
with the Judge, he ordered them to be sold in the
State for the term of two years, so that their
friends might purchase them.
"At the late term of the Circuit Court, Judge
Parker, Philip Williams, Esq, made mo-
ton to have two trustees appointed for the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to fill vacancies
caused by the death of one trustee and the remov-
al of another from the neighhorhood. Messrs.
Fauntleroy and Pollock, in behalf of Rev. Mr.
Lanahan, opposed the motion, by moving that
two gentlemen other than those named be appoin-
ted. Judge Parker refused to consider either
motion upon the ground that they were informal.
chancory suit is therefore about to be instituted
to recover possession CT the church property
Winchester Times.
The steamships Nevada and Zodiac from Sa-
vannah on the 18th have arrived
The Savannah Herald has information that an
emeute took place among the negroes near Ma
rianna, Florida. The rioters burned the Cotton
House. A company of regulars were sent there
to keep order.
The coast survey steamer Bibb is at Savannah
making thorough explorations of the distractions
placed in the harbor by the rebels during the
war.
The steam frgate Colorado, the Frolic, her
tender, and the sloop-of-war Kearsarge are still
cruising in French waters. The navy depart
ment has ordered our vessels not to proceed
further up the Mediterranean, as the cholera is
still prevalent in most of the ports. 1t 10 not
definitely known where the squadron will win
ter but it is rumored that Lisbon is the port Sc
lected. At an entertainment given by the Off
GERS of our squadron to the officers of the Russian
gunboat Askold, our squadron was strongly in
vited to visit Russia during the next sum-
mer.
1t is stated that the first pardon was granted
by the President last Saturday to rebel of that
class among the exempts who were graduates of
the West Point Academy. Major Echols, who
was engineer of the rebel defenses of Charleston,
was the recipient II is said that strong in-
ducement for his pardon was the fact that he is
the author of an invention promising to be of
great value to the government, which he could
not have patented until restored to the right of
citizenship.
Col. Bravo, of the Liberal army OF Mexico, as
bearer of dispatches from President Juarez TO the
United States Government, arrived at Kansas
City last Friday, and left Immediately for Wash
ington. Col. Bravo states that the Mexicans had
$4,000 troops under arms and that rs, 900 more
can be put in the field rs soon as the means is
raised, which will be speedily.
Ex-Governor Magrath, of South Carolina,
from his place of confinement in Fort Pulaski,
has issued an urgent appeal for release. Mr. Ma
grath was judge of q United States court when
the rebellion broke out, and resigned at that
time He wishes to know what crime more than
others he has committed against the government
for which he should still be kept under lock when
every other rebel governor and Judge is at large.
He is willing to give the best security for future
loyalty and ''to aid in carrying out the policy
of the government.
The Benian Sisterhood gave grand ball in
New York on Wednesday evening. The green
flag of Erin and the Stars and Stripes were freely
displayed in all parts of the ball room. A
splendid Irish flag was displayed over the En-
glish flag, with the English cross turned down.
wards, and the red of the flag concealed. On
this was the following motto: s'The red cross
of England shall fall beneath the eagle and the
harp"
The tobacco purchased at Richmond, Va, DUR
ing the war for Belmont, & Co., of New York,
agents for the Rothschilds, which was seized by
the military authorities of the United States
soon after their entrance into Richmond, is to be
shipped to New York. 1t consists of three hun
dred and sixty-six hogsheads stored in Auder-
sons and Meyers warehouses in that city.
striking curiosity has lately been discovered
in the Nevada Territory. 1t is mountain of
rock salt, situated about twenty miles from Mead
ow Valley, and only eighteen miles from the
head of navigation on the Colorado river, II
rises abruptly from the plain, about four hun
dred feet in height, mountain of pure, shark.
ling, crystalized salt.
The Star says the statement that Judge Magratb
and the rebel secretary of war, Seldom, have
been released from Fort Pulaski, and Governor
Lubbock from Fort Delaware, on their parole, is
without foundation, and that there is no proba-
bility that either will very soon be set at liberty.
One of the Richmond papers referring TO Hon.
B. johnson Barbour, a member of Congress elect
from Virginia, remarks "Mr. b., we are in
formed, owned O hundred and fifty slaves before
the war, nearly all of whom stick 10 him still