The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Jss-The Meadville PENN Republican denies
the statement that there is but one soldier of the
Revolutionary war living, and says that there
is in Sandusky, Cattaraugus county, New
York, an old Revolution soldier, Matthias Bake
man by name who draws a pension from the
Government. He was born in 1855, and is
therefore III years old. His wife who was one
year younger than himself, died about three
years ago; and his daughter, four-score years
and more, keeps house for him. The old man
enjoys remarkable good health for one of such
advanced years, and walks to the village, half
a mile from his residence, every two or three
days. On each Fourth of July he takes his old
fowling piece and goes out into the woods
where he blazes away a salute in honor of In
dependence Day.
u.s. Governor Orr, in his late message to the
Legislature of South Carolina, complains OF
the oppression to which that State is subjected
by those who should be her loving brothers
This claim for fraternal affection was probably
suggested by the performance at the Wigwam
in which he walked arm in arm with repre-
sentative of the faction in Massachusetts, which
was defeated at the late election by majority
of $4,000 votes. The labors of South Carolina
for thirty years to break up the Union, her in
augaration of the secession movement, her
commencement of the war by the attack upon
Sumpter, are poor titles to our brotherly regard
and they have not been strengthened by her
stubborn resistance to the guarantees demand
ed by the loyal people of the United States.
N9>T The Chicago Republican processes to have
trustworthy information from Utah that Brig
ham Young is about to retire temporarily to a
plantation some sixty miles from Salt Lake
City, leaving the charge of public affairs in the
hands of his son. This movement, it is said
is occasioned by the increasing age of Brigham
Young and the object is to test the ability of
the Young Brigham to WELD the sceptre before
the death of his father shall render final any
step which may be adopted in regard to the
succession. If he manifests the ability to man
age the affairs of Government that his father
and the elders hope, then Brigham's abdication
will be permanent
5-That Rebel lawlessness is by no means
extinct in Missouri is demonstrated again in
Platte City, where bushwhacking has literally
taken the place of justice. A Radical Judge
elect having opened court therein his displac-
ed opponent, fossil disloyalist, Immediately
set up a court Of his own. The Radical Clerk
refusing to obey his orders, the Judge seems to
have called in jury of bushwhackers. The
Clerk happily escaped with his life but the
bushwhackers were at latest report in undls-
turbed possession of the muddy founts of JUS
tice.
Johns Hopkins, the richest man in Bal
timore, offers to give his suburban seat of 600
acres to the city for public park, and W. W.
Corcoran, the Washington banker, has made a
proposition to give the Government his estate,
lying two miles from the city, for a Presiden-
tial park. In the latter case it is thought
probable that site in the northwestern part
Of Washington will be selected, as better adapt
ed to landscape gardening,
Mg> A dispatch from San Francisco states
that 700 French troops have been cut to pieces
by the Mexican Liberals, 200 having been kill
ed and the rest made prisoners. 1t can hard
ly be expected that the Fren CHI will effect their
withdrawal without meeting with some SINH
lar accidents.
5ag~It is intimated in Washington that Sec
rotary Seward will soon retire from the State
Department. and that Reverdy johnson will
succeed him.
M3-A writer in the Danvlle Register nomi-
mates Sen. Robert L. Lee for next Governor of
Virginia. The election will be held in May
next.
GS-The Government has ordered a gunboat
to be sent to Alexandria, Egypt, to bring the
conspirator Surratt direct to Washington.
@s-A partial census of Mississippi reveals
q decrease of two and half per cent in the
white population and 10 per cent in the black.