The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-08-25
GENERAL NEWS.

BY the arrival off Farther Point of the steam
ship Belgian, we bave adviccs from Europe to
the 18th inst. An extraordinary meeting of the
shareholders in the Atlantic Telegraph Company
was held in London on the 9th inst. The pre-
ference shares were to be consolidated into an
eight per cent. preferential stock, and it was re-
solved to raise additional capital to the extent of
eighty thousand pounds, to complete the present
cable and to lay a second. No trustworthy in
formation in regard to the cable had at that time
reached London, but the chairman said that the
stockholders should have the courage TO perse-
we're. The meeting was large and unanimous.
1t was rumored at Paris that six thousand adj
ditional troops were to be sent to Mexico.
The cholera was still spreading at Constanti-
nope.
Since the Jenkins defalcation and the ketcl-
um frauds and forgeries it has been discovered
that another teller in Wall street Bank is a
defauler in the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars. Arrangement, have, however, in this
instance, been made by the bondsmen and friends
of the defaultng teller, to make good the loss to
the bank. A coll, citing agent at New York Of
the Erie Railroad, has also absconded, and it
has been discovered that he also is a defaulcr to
the extent of from twenty-five thousand TO fifty
thousand dollars.
Ex-Governor Tod, of Ohio, objects 10 having
the freed negroes settle in that State. He also
objects to negro suffrage, on the ground that it
may induce many negroes to migrate thither
f,o, tho liz 10 ali L.,
says, that the black 'should seek a climate where
slavery does not exist-a climate and country
more congenial to his tastes and more profitable
to his labor than the Northern States and North
ern climate tan be-"
Col st. Leger Grenfell, who was convicted by
n court martial and sentenced to death for con-
spring 10 aid prisoners of war to escape from
Camp Douglas, has had his sentence committed
by President johnson to Imprisonment for life
at hard labor at the Dry Tortugas
1t is reported from Washington that no more
National Banks will be authorized except in cases
where applications were filed prior to the lst of
August.
President johnson is about to visit Richmond,
GNU ioohs arc HoN oeiuB PePuleu uilu uiiu
his suite al the Ballard House.
The trial by court martial of Henry Werz late
commandant of the military prison at Anderson
vile, commenced on Monday at Washington
The charge on which he is now on trial is for
"traitorously conspiring with Robert e. Lee,
James A. Speddon, John Fl. Winder and others,
to injure the health and destroy the lives of SOL
diers liz the militery service of the United States,
then held and being prisoners of war within the
lines of the so-called Confederate States, and in
the prisons thereof to the end that the armies of
the United States might be weakened and i'm
paired, in violation of the laws of war;" To the
above charge there are appended thirteen specif-
cations, Major General Lew. Wallace is Presi-
dent of the Court.
Some soldiers who went out from jackson,
Mississippi, for the purpose of hunting up horses
that had been stolen, were attacked by guerril
las, and three of the soldiers were killed. Two
of the guerillas were captured subsequently,.