The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-06-16
GENERAL NEWS.

sippi river is about one million bales. There
are seventy thousand bales in Arkansas, and
three hundred thousand bales in Texas.
Ex Governor Moore has been arrested at Mo-
bile and sent to washington.
Gen. Sheridan has issued orders forbidding
mill airy interference with the shipment of cot
ton.
Gen. Candy, by orders from Secretary STAN
ton, has hunted out and arrested. the man who
offered, last winter, in an Alabama paper, to be
one of a Ger ain number of persons TO pay mil
lion dollars for the murder of Mr.. Lincoln, and
he is on his way, under guard, to a safe place.
The condition of affairs at Montgomery, Ala,
is favorable. The principal portion of the Union
forces have been Withdrawn, leaving garrison
of two thousand men. Good order prevails in
Columbus, Georgia.
The freight depot of the Augusta and Savan-
nab railroad, at Augusta, was destroyed by fire
on the Sd. The loss is estimated at S75, 900.
General Howell Cobb, who was arrested and
taken to Nashville, has been released and re-
turned to Athens.
TheSavannah Herald of thu 9th contains the
following: Gen. Berge has been assigned to the
command Of the Savannah district; Gen. Wood
ford is assigned to command that post, General
Grover being relieved. A division of the Nine
teenth Corps has arrived at Savannah
The steamer Governor Troup, while coming
from Augusta for Savannah with cargo of 200.
bales OF cotton, took fire eleven miles below Au-
gusta, and was burned to the waters edge. The
vessel, cargo and baggage of the passengers were
all lost. Some forty out of two hundred passen-
gers were lost by burning or drowning. Those
lost were mostly negroes
The grand jury of the United States District
Court of Virginia, Hon. Judge Underwood pre-
siding, adjourned at Norfolk on the 7th instant,
1t is stated that indictments were found against
some forty prominent and well:known persons
among whom were Gen. Lee, Henry A. Wise,
Governor Letcher, Extra Billy Smith, William
N. McVeigh, formerly of Alexandria, David
Funston, formerly of Alexandria, William B.
Richards, Jr., James Lyon, of Richmond, and
Generals Breckenridge, Early and Kemper.
Gen. Molineaux has ordered all school teachers
at Augusta, Georgia, to take the oath of allegi-
ance. Orders have been sent by the authorities
OF Augusta for supply of school books, and free
schools are to be Immediately opened for all
classes. All restriction on travel has been re-
moved by Gems. Grover and Gilmore in their
respective departments
The vote on the adoption or rejection of the
new constitution of Missouri so far as ascertain
ed, shows majority of 1893 against its adop-
ton. The result in the State is in doubt. In
the city of st. Louis the vote on the s'railroad
ordinance" stood yeas 2,sl5, nays 4,s42.
The Navy Department has received informa-
ton of the destruction of the blockade runner
Denligh, on the Oath of May, off Galveston, by
the United States steamer Fort jackson; also of
schooner called the lie Compt," used as a
guard boat at Galveston, by the boats from the
U. s. steamer Columbia,
A Chattanooga despatch says the ordnance
building there had exploded, setting fire to and
consuming the warehouses filled with govern
ment stores. The loss to the government is
$4,000. Between ten and fifteen persons were
killed and wounded. The explosion was caused
by sparks from a locomotive.
The Washington Star says that Mr.. John T.
Ford is in treaty with congregational society,
for the sale of his theatre, the price asked hy
MIN being 100000 for the entire property,
which includes not only the theatre proper, but
also the three story brick buidingon 10th street,
adjoining the theatre to the south, and also the
large brick building in the rear of the theatre
1t is understood that the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher has expressed himself in favor of the So
ciety making the purchase.
The Richmond papers announce that ex-Gov-
ernor VIM. Smith, for whose arrest reward of
S26, 900 has been offered, arrived in that city on
Thursday, and surrendered himself to the au-
thorities He was subsequently paroled, to re-
port at certain times to to the provost marshal.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Elkton
has been converted into the National Bank of
Elkton. The Bank at Port Deposit has also
been converted into National Bank.
By the arrival at Farther Point of the steam
ship Peruvian, we have advices from England to
the I'd inst. The political news is not of much
Importance. The Alabama claims had been
again brought up in the House of Commons,
and continued to be made matter Of comment
by the London journals. The renewal of the
demand by Mr.. Adams is conceded but the
correspondence throughout is said to have been
quite courteous. The rupture between the EN-
peror and Prince Napoleon, growing out of the
speech of the latter at Ajaccio is said to be COM
plete.
Judge Underwood, of the United States Cir
cult court for the Eastern District of virginia-
a Northern man of intensely radical procivities
and at whose instance the Grand Jury of his
court recently found indictments against General
Robert e. Lee and Others, has since visited Wash.
ington to solicit the cooperation of ATTORNEY
General Speed in the trial for treason of the par
ties alluded to.
The reported occupation of Alexandria, Louisi-
ana, on the Red River, by the Federal forces, is
confirmed by later advices. Fourteen pieces OF
heavy and eight pieces of field artillery were
found in the fort and town. But little other