The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-01-12
GENERAL NEWS,

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The Brownsville, Texas, correspondent of that
sensational Sheet the New Orleans Times, re-
ports that General r. Clay Crawford has heen
appointed General in the Mexican Republican
Amy, with authority to recruit an American d.
vision for the Republican service; which divi-
sion is to be under the command of Crawford. -
The latter, tits said has established recruiting Of
fees at Brownsville and other places in Texas,
where enlstnents were taking place rapidly
Further ndvices purporting also TO come from
Brownsville, have 1t ihat United States soldiers
still in the service are joining Crawford that a
camp has been established below Brownsville
with sufficient supplies, and that Generals Lew
Wallace and Logan are connected with the eY.
petition, which aims at Monterey. ~ despatch
from Galveston states that IL merchant of New
Orleans was robbed recently by hiehwaymen Of
the sum Of one hundred and sixteen thousand
dollars in greenbacks on the San Antonio road.
Secretary Stanton has concluded not TO mus
ter out the eighty general officers whom it was
understood were to be relieved from further SER
vice by an order from the War Department.
The reason assigned is that Congress is expected
10 legislate on the subject. We are also told
that 1t now aeems to be the settled policy of the
Government TO continue the commissions of nil
officers who did meritorious service during the
late war.
During the holding of court last Monday e,
Spottsylvania Courthouse, q large number of
the farmers of the county attended, for the pur-
pose OF making labor contracts with the negroes
for the ensuing year. About hundred of the lat
ter were present, but obstinatey refused to make
any engagements except by the month, and their
demands were 30 extravagsnt that not single
man was hired. The Fredericksburg Herald re-
marks that this is truly deplorable state Of at.
fairs, and calls upon the Freedmen's Bureau to
take some action upon it. Failing in the Coop
Grafton Of the Bureau, the Herald asks that prop
or and prompt legislation be had on the sub
ject.
The order prohibiting the importation of for
sign cattle during the prevalence of the Kinder
pest has been so far modified BY the Secretary of
the Treasury as to admit of the importation of
Canadian horses, mules and nsses.
The safes of Adams Express Company, whilst
On route between New York and Boston, were
riDed, on Saturday night, of the money and
bonds contained in them, TO the extent of no,
less than half million of dollars.
The New York World states that torpedo
expedition left that city recently fo- the purpose
of destroying the Spanish blockading squadron
DOW engaged in closing to commerce the ports
Of Chill.
meeting was held at New York on Saturday
evening last, for the purpose Of reafirming the
Monroe doctrine. Mr.. Bryant, of the Eueninq
Post was chosen President, and speeches made
BY the Hon. s. S. Cox and others. Letters from
divers persons were also read, after which the
meeting adjourned to assemble al the call Of its
President.
President Johnson has directed Major Sweepy,
the Secretary of War OF the Fenian organization,
to be dismissed the service of the United States
for absence without leave.
A number OF officers of the Veteran Reserve
corps have been assigned to duty in the Freed
mems Bureau for the State of Louisiana. The
negroes in the interior of Louisiana announce
that they are expecting new proclamation
which will materially benefit their condition.
They therefore positively refuse to make new
contracts 10 work or to leave the plantations.
In other respects they are said to be peaceful,