The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-22
GENERAL NEWS.


The New Orleans Times publishes Gen. So-
GUMS order revoking his order forbidding the
organization Of the militia of Mississippi by Gov.
Sharkey, and says ave have information some
what reliable, that important changes will soon
take place in Mississippi regarding the powers
and conduct of the Freedmen's Bureau, which
will doubtless form precedent for all other
States lately in insurrection.'
A number of Indian tribes lately in arms, have
signed treaty of peace with the United States
acknowledging themselves to be under its pro-
lection, and promising strict obedience. The
United States recprocally promises to re-estab-
lish peace with the Indians.
despatch from New Orleans says that Gen.
Banks has gone North, to remain.
1t. Gamble, R. N, of the British steamer Ur-
gent, in letter to the Halifax Express seys that
be passed the locality where the Atlantic Cable
buoys are reported to have been placed, and with
the best look-outs, officers and men, they saw
none of them. He concludes that if the Great
Easterns reckonings were correct, the buoys
must have parted from the cable and be drifting
about the ocean.
The New York Journal says
Private letters from Mexico tell us of the arri-
val in Mexico City of large numbers of Confede-
rate officers Among them are Gen. Jack Ma
gruder, Gen. Sterling Price, Gen. Stephens, late
chief engineer in Lees army, Gov. Trusten Polk,
Gov. Allen, of Louisiana, Gov. Isham G. Harris,
of Tennessee Judge Perkins, of Louisiana, Gen.
Leadbeater, Gen. Wilcox, Judge Watkins, Col.
Semmes Col. Anglade, Col. Denis, Major Kim
nell, Major Mordecai Captains Carroll, Wood,
Cage, Adams, of Missouri, Moore, of Alabama,
Thompson of Joe Johnston's staff, and Gregory.
Lieutenant Maury has been appointed to the OBJ
servatory in Mexico. Gen. Stephens has charge
Of the San Luis Potosi railroad. Messrs. s. Bar
ron and H. Meade, of Morgans staff, and G. A.
Borchert, late of the steamer Stonewall jackson,
have applied for lands to settle on permanently.
General Shelby and his command have remained
belief in Mexico City was that they will be &C.
cepted into the French service.
In Berkeley county, Va, vigilance committees
have been organized for the pursuit and capture
ofhorse thieves and the recovery of stolen horses
In Opequon township few days ago the compa-
ny turned out and pursued a partystealng horses,
and succeeded in recovering the animals, though
the thieves escaped
The Washington correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger writes: ,....
'' "The time is not distant when there will be an
entire reconstruction of the Cabinet. The mem
bers whose time will have come are Messrs
Stanton, Harlan, Speed, and Judge Advocate
Holt. You may rely upon what assert. 1t is
the Presidents wish that his Cabinet shall be a
perfectly harmonious one, or nearly SO as posi-
BILE, and when all is ready the change will he
made, and the new members duly announced"
Dispatches from various parts of Illinois re-
port the potato rot as being alarming The dis
ease appears to be prevalent in various sections
of the State.
90 Fifty thousand dollars worth Of Government
bonds were distracted from the counter Of a
banking house in Wall street, New York, on
Thursday week, while the attention of the clerk
was diverted. Payment on them has been stop
ped, and $4,000 reward offered for their recov-
cry. "-t
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that Judge Dom
'iphan, of the Covington Circuit has decided the
Kentucky Expatriaton Law to be unconstitu-
tional. 1t is believed the Court of Appeals will
approve the decision. The Expatriation Law
was the one that attempted TO disfranchse men
for their action during the late war by mere
act of the Legislature.
A despatch from New Orleans of Sept. 18th,
says that two-thirds of the people of Aroyelles
Parish are in destitute condition. An appeal
has been made to Gen. Candy, who has ordered
measures for their immediate relief General
Swayne, of the Alabama Freedman's Bureau,
abiding in circular TO an impression prevailing
among the negroes that the plantations will be
parcelled out among them at the beginning of
next year, tells them that they need hope for
nothing Of the sort, and that they must 60 to
work and behave themselves rh
The q. s. Consul at Constaptinople writes that
the cholera is committing fearful ravages in that
place. 1t is estimated that the victims already
number 20,0O0-the number of deaths in single
day having reached 1000. t-
Z THE LADY's FRlEND.--The October number of