The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-04-28
photographic.

The Mobile Register puts at the head of its col
umns the name of the rebel Commander-in- Chief,
Robert E. Lee, as candidate for the President
of the United States in the canvass of 1868, and
remarks that there is a concerted organiza-
ton now in progress to put forward "the model
hero of the Confederacy" as ''the next State
Rights Democratic candidate in the next cam
paign.
The Cincinnati Gaseae says that pure ''es-
sence of Coffee is now made in that city out
of the cheapest, dirtiest molasses,' which is
boiled until it ropes, cooled in pans, and when
hard, broken up and pulverized. Ground rye is
then mixed with it, after which it is boxed up,
each box being sold at eighty cents, and labell-
ed Pure Essence of Coffee
The Union men of Washington county will
meet in mass meeting at Hagerstown on to day,
Saturday. Several able speakers have express
ed their intention of being present, among whom
are Senator Cresswell Ex-Governor Frank Thorn
as and Hon. John L.. Thomas Jr., of Maryland
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois Hon. Horace
Maynard of Tennessee, and General Garfield, Of
ed Unionists of the loyal county of Washington
will be out in full force.
| The Memphis Avalanche is now engaged in
abusing the Northern merchants of that city who
differ with it in politics-that is, those who arc
now and have been Unionists in the past Speak
ing of one Mr.. Wocott it says in its issue Of the
| 18th inst:
Smallpox is not written over the door OIL
| Wolcott but radicalism-a disease still more
fatal and loathsome-is raging within. There
are few other pest houses in this city, which
we will in a few days publish and advise oul
readers to- shun.
The smallpox and yarioloid are prevailing in
Washington to an extent that is alarming the
citizens
| Quartermaster General Meigs informs Congress
that he has reports of the internent of the re-
mains of nearly 100, 900 Union soldiers.
Probst, the murderer of the Deerng familyiin
Philadelphia, still adheres to his original state
ment as to having an accomplice, but no one
having cognizance of the case credits one word
that the murderer utters.
The Union citizens of Leavenworth, Kansas,
the home of Senator Lane, of that State, have
passed resolutions condemning his vote against
the Civil Rights bill.
The agricultural reports in the Illinois papers
are of conflicting character. In some parts OF
the State the spring wheat is ruined In Alton
the promise is excellent. Fruit with the excep-
ton of peaches, will do well.
A car load of freedmen-men, women and
children-arrived at Providence, Rhode Island,
on Sunday, from the South, an agent of the
| Freedmen's Bureau having secured places for
them as servants there.
The coming session of the of the old School
Presbyterian Church, at st. Louis, is regarded
with much interest, as it is probable, that the
question of reunion of the old and New School
branches will be under discussion.
A poor white woman of Richmond, who was
burned out at Rockets day or two since, losing
all her clothing and furniture, made application
to Judge Crutchfeld, who has charge of the city
poor fund, but was refused aid because Of her
having come Jsom the North, the city funds being
used only to alleviate the distress of poor South
erners. The woman was furnished quarters and
rations for herself and child by the Government
at Camp Lee.
Secretary Stanton has issued an order forbid
ing persons who may own lands containing the
graves of Union soldiers to obliterate or mutt
late the traces of such graves by blowing or 9TH
erwise, or to disturb the headboards, stakes or
fences around them. Post commanders, provost
marshals and other officers instructed TO COM
municate any breach of this order to the Quar-
termaster General.