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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
Rev. Stephen Mix,
YES.
Mary Stnddard
A Pun that is no Joke.

A Frenchman near the Canada line, in
Vermont, sold q horse to his Yankee
neighbor, which he recommended, as be-
ing very sound, and serviceable animal,
in spite of his unprepossessing appearance.
To every inquiry of the buyer respecting
the qualities of the horse, the Frenchman
gave favorite reply, but always common-
ced his commentator with tho deprecia-
tory remark:
Giles not look YER good"
The Yankee caring little for the looks
of the horse, of which be Judged for
himself, without the sellers assistance,
and being fully persuaded, after q minute
inspection, that the beast was worth the
moderate sum asked for him, made the
purchase and took him home. A few
days afterwards he returned to the seller
in high dudgeon, and declared that he
had been cheated in the quality of the
horse.
"Vat is de matter ?" said the French
man. ...t 't
"Matter !" said the Yankee, smatter
enough; the horse can't see he is as blind
as bat p ... 20. '.r..
"Ah !" said the Frenchmau, "vat vas
tell you, he was not look yer good-be gar,
| don't know if he loob at aH." -.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

A DANGEROUS CoUNTERFEIT.-A
dangerous counterfeit of one dollar treas.
ury notes issued by the general govern
ment has made its appearance. Except.
ing a few minor discrepancies, the spuri-
Gus note is an exact fac sinssle of the bill
The general appearance of the bill is very
good. The green ink is of a somewhat
lighter shade than that used on the genu-
inc, and some parts of the note look scratch
ed and blurred. The figures l on tho
scroll-work on the lower right corner of
the motto are printed in green in the genu-
inc they are white. The face of Chase,
in the counterfeit, is badly executed, but
otherwise the work is we'll done, and the
note well calculated to deceive. b.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
4oetital.
BEAUTIFUL LINES.

The following lines were written by Tyrone
Power, the famous Irish comedian, who persisted
on the steamer President. They were inscribed
on the wall of the "Od Blandford Church." neal
Petersburg, Va, in which city Power had al
engagement
Thou art crumbling to the dust, old pile
Thou art fastening to thy fall;
And round thee in thy loneliness,
Clings the ivy to the wall
The worshppers are scattered now,
Who knelt before thy shrine;
And silence reigns where anthems rose
In days of "Auld Lang Syne."
And sadly signs the wandering wind,
Where oft in years gone by,
Prayer rose from many hearts to Him,
The Highest of the High.
The tramp of many busy foot
That sought thy asles is Ger,
And many weary heart around,
Is still forevermore.
How doth ambitions hope take Wings
How droops the spirit now
We hear the distant city's din;
The dead are mute below;
The sun that shone upon their paths
Now gilds their lonely graves
The zephyrs which once famed their brows
The grass above them waves.
Oh could we call the many back,
Who've gathered here in vain
Who've careless roved where we do now,
Who'll never meet again
How would our very hearts be stirred,
To meet the earnest gaze
OF the lovely and the beautiful
The lights Of other days!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

PLANs.-The Cleveland Plaindealer
remarking upon the opinion recently put
forth by Chief Justice Chase, that the ne.
groes are destined to become the dominant
race and the "aristocracy' of the South,
says:
His "plan" is to let the negroes drive
the whites out of the South entirely
General Cox has a "plau.' He is to
"Colonize" the negroes in South Carolina
and Georgia, and there bestow upon them
the political privileges that they cannot
expect to secure in all the States in which
they now swarm. Ofcourse, this coloni-
cation is all to be done at the expense of
the white taxpayers. These distinguished
Abolition statesmen have matured plans
for the benefit of the negroes, but they do
not seem to have any for the relief of the
whites. 1t would be relief to people
weighed down by taxation crushing and
calling, if these patriots would for season
endcavor to relieve white men as we'll as
black ones.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

s9rThe common expression "Hum-
bug" is a corruption of the word "Ham-
burg" and originated in the following
manner During period when war pre-
vailed on the Continent, so many false re-
ports and lying bulletins were fabicated at
Hamburg, that at length, when any one
would signify his disbelief of statement,
he would say: "You had that from
Hamburg;" and thus "That is Hamburg
or humbug, became common expression
of incredulitY.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
R6%Too PART1cULAR-Tha Dnnae,

g9"Too PARTIoULAR.-The Dundee
Advertiser circulates the following story ::
On one occasion, beggar wife, on re-
coiving gratuity from the Rev. John
Skinner Of Longside, author of 'Tulluch-
gorham," said to him by the way of thanks
-"Oh! sir, | houp that ye and a. your
family will be In heaven the NIGHT"
"Well," said Skinner, ~ am very much
obliged to you, only you need not have
been just so particular as to the time"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

ag-"Do you enjoy going to church
now?" asked a lady of Mrs. Darlington.
claw me, l do" replied Mrs. Darlington.
"Nothing does me SO much good as to get
up early on Sunday morning, and 60 to
church and hear populous minister dis.
pense with the Gospel" ..,.t..
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
Defamation of Males at the South.

Some of the facts disclosed by Lee s
surrender show how frightfully the popu.
lation of the South has been wasted by
the war. In many localities it will be
found to be nearly annibilated. A few
months ago a general consolidation of
companies and regiments took place in
several Of the rebel corps-whole regi-
ments that once numbered one thousand
men being absorbed in single companies
Of fifty men. The following figures were
taken from the rolls of Hardee's corps,
including present and absent. Ten regi-
ments consolidated, 237 men three regi-
ments, 2lO; twenty regiments, 627 !;
eleven regiments, 7l9 five regiments,
456, representing 10000 men on the
original rolls; one regiment, 201 eight
regiments, 424, representing ten thousand
men of Texas troops; one regiment, 40
left out of 1900; reserve artillery, ten
batteries, $50 ; seven regiments, 419 ;
eighteen regiments, 749. Single regi-
ments, consolidated, and not represented
above showed the following on their rolls /:
Fl, 81, 16, 46, l24, %, SO, 81, 1856, "a,
Al, IS, $50, IS, so, IL, AZ, 40, 100.
Eight companies consolidated amounted
to 80 men five companies, &c F; ten COM
panies, 81 ; eleven companies, So !; ten
companies, IS; fifteen companies 81 ;
ten companies, in one case, 81 in an
other, SO. The average in Lees corps
before consolidation was about 80 men to
the regiment, and these corps represented
over half the army. Gen. Bates division
has lost every general aud field officer and
three-fourths of the men in battle, since
the army left Dalton. 1t lost thirty per
cent. at the battle of Bentonville alone.
Other facts of the same kind might be
stated, if it were possible to place the
matter in proper light.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

WISDOM IN LovE.-A Connecticut
Jonathan, in taking walk with his dear
est, came to a tollbridge, when he, as hon.
estly as he was-wont to be, said, after
paying his toll (Which was one cent?:
"Come, Suke, you must pay your own
toll, for just as like as not 1 shan't have
YOU, after all. /"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

BJnIfa man sells his watch for fifty
dollars and buys it back for forty dollars,
then sells it for forty.fve dollars, how
much did he make in the transaction ? 1t
looks as if he made fifteen dollars, but he
didn't.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

s9-As Deacon A., on an extremely
cold morning in old times, was riding by
the house of his neighbor B, the lat
ter was chopAipg wood. The usual saIuta-
tions were exchanged, the severity of the
weather briefly discussed, and the horse
man made demonstrations of passing on,
when his neighbor detained him With
"Don't be in hurry, Deacon. Would
you not like glass of old Jamaica this
morning?" .,
'Thauk you kindly" said the old gen.
tleman, at the same time beginning to
dismount, with all the deliberation be.
coming deacon. ~ don't care if do"
"Ah, don't trouble yourself to get off,
Deacon" said the neighbor, 81 merely
asked for information. We havn't
drop in the house."
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
S EtE q T
Boarding and Day School
For Xonng Ladies.
Miss BETTE B. NJ. HAMILTON, Principal

MISS BETTE B. NJ. HAMILTON, PRINCIPAL.
TT'HE location of this School, in the healthy
l. and pleasant village of Bel Air, Hartford
county, Nd, combines advantages of quiet and
retirement, in highly moral community with
daily conveyances to the adjacent cities and vil-
lagos.
The scholastic year is divided into sessions of
five months each. The first term commences
first of February, the second lst September.
Every arrangement has been made to give this
School all the advantages of frst-class Insti-
tute.
Thorough instruction will be given in the va
rious branches of useful knowledge, and scrupu-
lous regard will be paid to Improvement Of the
morals and department of pupils.
Wax-work, both Fruit and Flowers, Baskets
and Vases, including thorough knowledge oil
the art taught. Also Bead Work, Embroidery
and Fancy Work, in all its varieties.
REFERENC GEES:
Rev. J. II. D. Wingfeld, VIM. Galloway, Esq,
VIM. A. White, Robert N. Hanna t.
/" T. S. G. Smith, VIM. II. Dallam,
II. D. Farnands, Esq, b. H. Hanson,
Henry w. Archer, " Isaac Amos,
Stevenson Archer, "
mhl7
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
THE MARYLAND
Life Insurance Company,
OF BALTIMORE,
Policy Holders Participate in the
Profits.
LOWEST RATES OF THE BEST COMPANIES

The charter of this company requires a
deposit of not less than 100000 with
the Treasurer of the State, as guarantee
of good faith with policy-holders.
This company is prepared to issue Or
binary life policies, policies for term of
years, and ten years non-forGeiture life
policies.
Also, Policies of Endowment, Annuity,
SC.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
VOL. IX.---NO. Sc.
A Clerical Courtship in 1895.

Among the amusing "reminiscences of
those days is the famous courtship of Rev.
Stephen Mix, of Weathersfeld. He made
journey to Northampton in 1896 in
search of wife. He arrived at the Rev.
Solomon Stoddard's, informed him of
the object of his visit, and that the press
ure OF home duties required the utmost
dispatch. Mr.. Stoddard took him into
the room where his daughters were, and
introduced him to Mary, Esther, Christi
anna, Sarah, Rebekah, and Hannah, and
then retired. Mr.. Mix, addressed Mary,
the eldest daug hter, said no had lately set
tied at Weathers6eld, and was DESTROYS
of obtaining wife, and concluded by of.
fering her his heart and hand. She blush
ingly replied that so important propo.
sition required time for consideration.
lie rejoined that lie was pleased that she
asked for suitable time for reflection, and
that in order to afford her the needed op-
portunity to think of his proposal, he
would step into the next room and smoke
a pipe with her father, and she could re-
port to him. .....,
Having smoked his pipe and sent mess
sage to Miss Mary that he was ready for
herianswer, she came in and asked for fur
Their time for consideration. He replied
that she could reflect still longer on the
subject, and send her answer by letter to
Weathers6eld. In few weeks no receiv-
ed her reply, which is probably the most
laconic epistle ever penned. Here is the
model letter which was soon followed by
wedding:
Northampton, 1896.
Rev. Stephen Mix,
YES.
Mary Stoddard.
The matrimonial Mixture took place on
the LIST of December, 1896, and proved to
be compounded of the most oongenial ell
ements. Mix was pastor of that paradise
of onions for forty-four years.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
FXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRA-
Ia TORS who have not settled their &C
counts according to law, will, at as early
a day as possible, with the vouchers, re-
port TO the Register for the settlement of
said accounts. All delinquents will be
called to appear before the Court.
BY order of the Orphans Court,
B. II. HANSON,
Register of Wills for Hartford county.
app
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Hamilton Easter, of Hamilton Easter & Co.
Allen A. Chapman, Of Kirkland, Chase & Co.
George p. Thomas, of Helm, Nicodemus & Co.
Hugh Sisson, Steam Marble Works.
Hiram Woods, Jr., of Dougherty, Woods & Co
Geo. H. Miller, of Coffroth, Miller & Co.
Thomas Cassard, of Gilbert Cassard & Son.
William Devries, Of William Devries & Co.
Chas. Webb, of Thomas Il Co.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-08

No subscription taken for less than year.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
The N. v. Tribune on Davis.

Wegive below the comments of the n. Y.
Tribune on the capture of JEFF. DAVIS:
Jefferson Davis is prisoner of the Gov
ernmcnt. He surrendered under no capitu-
lation but his own which---hc being isola.
ted, disguised in one of his wife S dresses,
and directly within range of several troop.
er s revolvers-was too sudden to be other
wise than unconditional. Being prisoner,
we trust that he will be treated as pris.
oner, under the protection of the dignity
and honor of self-respccting people.
"As we are officially assured that he is
proved to be inculpated in the plot which
eliminated in the murder of President lin.
coin, we trust he is to be indicted, arraigned
and tried for that horrid crime against our
country and every part of it. We hope he
may have fair, open, searching trial, like
any other malefactor, and if convicted, We
trust he will be treated just like any other
We have no faith in killing men in cold
blood or in hot blood either, unless when
las in battle) they obstinately refuse to get
out of the way; but we neither expect nor
desire that the execution or non-execution
of the laws shall depend on their accordance
or disagreement with our conviction of fsound
policy. But let all things be done decently
and in order.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
Rather Unlikely! The "Relia-
ble Man" at the Telegraph

The style and substance of the telegraph
ic dispatches about the capture of Jefferson
Davis are of character to excite the sus-
piclon that some Of them are exaggerations.
1t is undoubtedly true that he has been
captured, and so far so good, but the state
ment to the effect that he was disguised in
his wife 5 clothes, that he was refractory, and
proposed hurting somebody" word,
all the embellishments thrown around the
simple fact that he was captured by Cap
tain Prichard, not far from Macon, Ga, are
of the nature of the fshy stories of the re
liable gentlemen and are absurd and ride
ulous. Some of our rampant abolion CO.
temporaries are beginning to back down
from the exaltation produced by the ''rclia-
bic" dispatch, concerning the "petticoat'
proceeding Of the rebel chieftain. 1t is
now. said that Davis had no disguise on at
all, but was found in his tent dressed in a
morning gown--and he absolutely had boot,
on,--two articles of dress common to other
men, less notorious than the rebel Presi-
dent The various statements ahoat as to
where he is TO be tried how and when,
whether he is first TO be tried for treason,
or for completely in the assassination OF
President Lincoln; whether he is to be shot,
hung, or quartered, are plentiful, and in
creasing each day and every hour. -Plai'
Dealer.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
"SOuthern GentIemen.n ~

They were Southern gcntlcmen' who
murdered prisoners in cold blood, starved
thousand of our brave fellows to death,
threw railroad trains from the track, at
tempted to fire our cities assassinated the
President, and endeayored to commit whole
sale murder by introducing deadly disease
into the country. A Northern horse. thief
would be entitled to damages for libel il he
were called "Southern gentleman, -
Cleveland HerdH
They we're not Southern gentlemen"
who did these things, Southern rufiians
may have and probably did commit all those
offences; but the masses of the South never
endorsed any such proceedings. Neither
we're they Northern Gentlemen" who rob
bed private residences in the South and con
verted the spoils to their own use, commit,
ted unmentionablo crimes upon Southern
women and murdered unoilcnding peopl,
in cold blood. No, no, these were not
Northern gentlemen, they were Northern
rufiians. Nor was it Northern gentlemen
who have imprisoned citizens without crime
mobbcd newspaper offices, beat men t
death for exercising the liberty of speech
and subjected men to the most inhumal
treatment for being Democrats. Thes
we're Northern blackguards, and the Cleve
land HeraH is their apologist.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
The AbOlitIORlsts

The New York Tribune, commenting on
the fact that nearly all the most conspicu-
Gus and Jealous aboltionists of other days,
such as WENDELL PHILLIPS, GERRrT SMITH,
etc, are now advocating the adoption of
magnanimous policy in the treatment of the
South, says
"The abolitionists were thoroughly IN
earnest. Mistaken on some points, they
may have been; that they exaggerated the
wrong and evil of American slavery is posi-
BILE that they were often disposed to over
look and overleap constitutional and legal
obstacles to the achievement Of their darling
purpose is probable but they were not, as
a class, knaves, self-seekers, hypocrtes. -
Onthe contrary, they clearly rcnounccd ease
popularity, ambition, and some easy ways to
wealth, by ayowing themselves enemies of
the slave power.
The old abolitionists proper were in earn
est, and were as sincere in their convictions,
probably, as any men who ever mounted a
political hobby-horsc. They were dcrided,
contemned, and not unfrequcntly mobbed,
yet they were, despite such treatment, in
stant in season and out of season in pro.
claiming that the negro was n man and a
brother. Still, there was good deal OF
malevoencc mixed up with their phlan-
thropy, and not little of sclfrighteousncss
incorporated into their christianity. Iftheir
attempts to exalt the southern negro had
not been accompanied by attempts to de-
grade the southern white man, we might
have avoided the war which has Just closed
They were very disagreoablc men. There
was positivoness Of right about them, and
a capacity for blackguardism, which assum
ed that all men who did not agree with them
were ''minions of the slave oligarchy," and
proper subjects for castigation. On the
whole, however, they were not the worst men,
although they did great deal of mischief,
not least Of which was the contempt they
incucatcd for the constitution and law, and
which remains yet to plague the country
The demagogues who have allied themselves
with the abolitionists proper since 1854 are
altogether a bad lot, and it is not surprising
that the Tribune wishes to keep the distinc-
ton clear between the simon pure's $ and
shoddyitos. II is not uncharitabc in styling
the latter "knaves, self seekers, hypocrites. "
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
Amount Of Cotton now In the
south.

The New York Journolof Commerce says:
'Sinco the fall of Mobile we have been able
to extend our researches at the South, and
we have now obtained what we consider re-
liable data for fair estimate of the quaint,
ity of cotton still on hand within the so
called southern lines. We place the whole
amount as oqualto 500, 600 ordinary bales
Some of it is in the seed, and large quaint
ity is still unpacked for the want of tn,
proper material and facilities Our Mobil,
correspondent figures the total at | 500, 0Ol
bales, but some of his assumptions are il
excess Of known results, and we are conf
dent that our estimate is very close to tn
actual stock.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
The NemnCrniic Party.

The life and strength of the old Demo
cratic party was its national spirit. From
its earliest history this never failed TO assert
Itself clearly, ferycnty, we may say, indeed,
hercely, on every question involving the
preservation, or the enlargement or the
honor and glory of the country. In our
great controversies with England, with
France, with Mexico, it was peculiarly the
war party. In every minor dispute with
other nations, il was always the party most
apt to plant itself on high pretensions and
extreme claims. In our domestic affairs, it
was the party that al,cdys lubored most ear
aestty TO put dozen sectional aiScord, and to
strengthen the bonds Of the Union.
Strange as it may appear, the above is
extracted, bodily, from the New York Time,
the metropolitan organ Of Secretary Sew
ard, and one of the most ably conducted
journals of the black republican persuasion.
After having been denounced as traitors,
and disunionists, for years, by all the papers
in the interest of the dominant party, it is a
reliefto find, among those who have falsely
accused us, one who has the candor and
honesty to do justice to party distinguished
as ours has ever been by it broad nationality,
and its unceasing efforts ''to put down sec.
tional discord, and to strengthen the bonds
of the Union Well may the Democratic
party take courage, when, our enemies being
judges, it is the only party that has been
true to the Constitution, and the only po-
litical organization that can ever bring order
out of the existing confusion, or light out Of
the darkness in which our nation has for
some years past been envelored. PLAIN
Dealer.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
Home Amairs First.

The pacific intentions Of the Government
seem 10 be assured by the rapidity with
which the work of disarmament is being
prosecuted. 1t is perhaps better for the
present that we give our exclusive attention
to internal affairs, after having arranged
which, we may seek indemnity for our com
mercisl losses from England, and guarantee
republican form of government to Mexi-
co. 1t has been perhaps considered by the
Administration that the reduction Of ex-
penses and the questions Of reconstruction
should be first disposed Of, after which we
can attend to England, Canada, and Mexico
Perhaps President johnson has concluded
that before proceeding to regulate the af-
fairs of Mexico, we had better attend to our
own. He has possibly thought that before
proceeding to confer the boon of republican
ism upon neighboring country, he will first
see that it is possessed by some dozen or
fifteen states which have no governments
in this country. He has, mayhap, thought
that anterior to kicking Macmillan out Of
Mexico, he will finish the kicking out pro
cess with reference to secession in the Uni
ted States.
If President Johnston has thought thus,
nobody will dispute his decisions. Nobody
will be sorry that he has decided to restore
order here before restoring order in Mexico
Nobody will regret that he has concluded
that craftsmanship, like charity, begins at
home. Nobody will regret that he has CON
cluded to fund and put in shape the present
debt before creating another by war with
England or France or both.
England will pay us as readily year
from now as to-day, and Canada will be
just as available as security then as now.
Twelve months hence Maximilian will be
no stronger on his throne than at present,
and possibly France by that time will have
become tired of and will withdraw her pro
tectorate. In any case, our foreign ques
tions will keep" but our own, if neglect
ed, are in danger of spelling. We will at
tend to these now, and little later to tn,
othcrs