The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-01
NEWS ITEMS.

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ass-The formal openingof the bridge across
the Susquehanna river, on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, took place
at Havre de Grace at noon on Tuesday last. A
number of distinguished guests were present,
including representatives from the principal
railroad companies and newspaper establish
ments. The engine which crossed the bridge
was gaily decorated with flags and wreaths. At
the banquet subsequently given Mr.. Parker,
Chief Engineer of the bridge, furnished some
interesting facts connected with its construc-
ton. He stated its length to be three thousand
five hundred feet, with spans of two hundred
and fifty feet. The construction of this work
has occupied five years, engaging the services
of from five hundred to one thousand men, and
costing between one and one half and two mil
lions of dollars. Five million feet of lumber
and three million pounds wrought and cast
iron had been used, and it embraced twenty
thousand cubic yards of masonry. The bridge
has thirteen supporting piers, and is built in
water from ten to forty-fve feet in depth. The
height of the superstructure is twenty five feet
Mg~An exchange paper says that the fastest
time con record, at all distances, is as follows
/ mile pacing, Pocahontas... .........."."2.l74
l INLET rotting, Dexter.
miles trotting, Flora mple....."".4.5O4
miles trotting, Dutchman ........ .."...7.324
Is miles trotting, 004
~ AluooCO's.
100 miles trotting, Conqueror 1862
100 miles trotting, (double,) Master Burke
and Robin. ........ lOl7.ZZ
mile, running, Henry Peritt...........1.424
miles, running, Lexington. "...7.l94
May-Judge Magruder, of the Circuit Court of
Anne Arundel County, who set up the authori-
ty of the State as paramount to that of the
United States, and refused 10 receive negro tes-
timony in his Court, declaring the Civil Rights
itYYf xuoo ON Sat IPHo lac t
brought before United States Commissioner
Brooks and held to bail to await the action of
the Grand Jury of the United States District
Court. The case will probably go to the SUI
preme Court for final adjudication
MS~The Fort Smith (Ark.) NID Era states
that of company of Union soldiers enlisted in
the southwestern part of that State, and dis
chared from the Union army little more than
| a year ago, six men have been murdered since
| their return to their homes. 1t is thus that the
| rebels of that region inagurate peace. They
massacre in detail the army that conquered
and paroled them.
Ms~Alfred Spates, the Democratic candidate
for State Senator in Allegany county, has Civ
en- DR.. Charles H ..Ohr, the Republican candi-
date, who was eleced by majority of twelve
votes, notice that he will contest his right to a
seat in the Senate. Spates was imprisoned in
Fort McHenry for some time on the charge OF
| of his invasions of Maryland.
n TEA bill has been prepared, and will be
| introduced during the first week of the session
of Congress, repeating the act of July, 1852,
which empowers the President to grant full or
conditional pardons to persons engaged in re-
| bellion. If it becomes law it confines the
President to the constitutional power to pardon
after trial and conviction. It is a part of the
radical programme.-W Washington Letter.
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mg-A memorial is being circulated in New
York for the removal of Secretary McCulloch
on the ground of mismanagement of the Urea
| sury Department. His opponents assert that
currency from circulation caused almost pa
mic. Counter memorials are also being circu-
| lated.
| @9-A Washington despatch says thatd during
| three days this week seventy Postmasters were
| removed. This is doing remarkably we'll fol
one department, and shows that President
/ johnson and some of his Cabinet ministers are
not disposed to allow Republicans who differ
with them to hold Office.
@-The coal fields of America cover two
hundred and twenty five thousand square miles
an area equal to twenty eight such States as
! Massachusetts,. One cubic mile will furnish
| seven millions of tons annually for a thousand
years. At this rate our coal will last sixty
thousand years.
Mg-The Ohio Penitentiary has, at the pres
ent time, eight hundred and eighty-two cor
| victs confined within its walls, being about one
hundred and fifty more than at this time last
year. There has been steady increase in the
number of inmates of the institution since the
LAlose of the war.
| lag-A new route from Philadelphia to Nor
folk, uia the Philadelp hia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad, and the Delaware Railroad
to Somers' Point, in the Chesapeake Bay, and
from thence to Norfolk by steamers, was inau-
gurated on Tuesday last
Mg- The Arkansas Legislature has gone
through the farce of electing John T. Jones as
United States Senator. They might safely have
| deferred the work until the State had adopted
| the Constitutional Amendment.
Ms-The Tennessee Legislature have adopt
ed a law disqualifying Rebels from acting as
| Jurors. The Union members of the Legislature
have issued call for State Republican Con-
| vention.
asss- President johnson has refused to give
the notorious Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi
permission to return to this country. He says
| that he will do so at his own risk-which is not
risking much.
SoLoN RoBIsoN's NovEL.-Solon Robinson
the veteran Agricultural Editor, has written a
Novel for The Ne,o- York Weekly Tribute. The
publication will commence on the fifth of De-
cember
re- Secretary Seward on Tuesday transmit.
| ted very lengthy series of instructions over
the Atlantic cable to one of our foreign minis
| tiers.
| Ny~The New York Post is out against Hon
Horace Greeley for United States Senator, on
account of his high protection tariff notions.
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