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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-04-13

Mr.. SrocKToN's VoTE.-Dr. Ephraim
Batcman was the President of he coun.
Gil of New jersey forty years ago, which
was the Senate. He was the caucus can.
didate of the Adams party for United
States Senator, and as President of the
Council, presided over the joint conven-
tons of the Legislature. In November,
1927, DR.. Bateman presided over the meet
ing to elccta United States Senator, and the
vote being tie, he voted for himself, and
by that vote secured his own election -
The legality of his vote was never ques
toned, either in New Jersey or in the
United States Senate, though partisan
warfare was then very warm. The party
in New Jersey opposed to the Democracy
then and now, did not com PLAIN of the &C.
ton of the present presiding officer of the
New Jersey Senate, who made himse II
Speaker Of that body by his own VOTE
NeW York Erpress.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-04-13

SALES OF LAND.-A Preston Gilbert sold on
Monday, the 9th inst, tract of land called
woods Meadows Enlarged" and containing
twenty four and three-quarter acres, for the sum
of $4l5. J. s. Richardson, Auctioneer.
A. L. Jarrett, as trustee, sold on the 10th
Instant, farm of acres, for $4,000. J. S.
Richardson Auctioneer and on the same day,
was sold by the same trustee tract of ll2
acres of land, improved by mill and other
buildings, to Robert Cooley, for four thousand
Auctioneer.
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
II New ONCE Created

congress has, created the Office ofSteward of Tho
Presidents household, the incumbent of which
Is required to give bonds far the safe keeping O.
the government furniture and property. This
''see was rendered NECESSARY by the incidents
attending tbe renewal Of the wife of the first Re,
publican President of The United States from the
White House TO her ewa hoHse. In noticing the
creation ofthe stewardship and the cause thereof.
contemporary asks:-"Who will dare to tell the
ruth about this Wholesale plundering? Who
loaded these boxes by the score and let them
down by q fall rugged at the back of the White
hoasef Who had those packages put up which
Mr.. Stanton ordered to be returned? Who had
the linen of the White House cut up for under
eiothingf Who packed mp and carried off those
handsome vases of the Blue Room? who sto.e
Tile gold spoons purchased in Mr. Monroe's nd.
ministration and safe until Mr.. Lincoln's? Is i,
aisloyal TO tcll?',
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Record Of GsOnnress


The Albany "Argus'' ssims up the action o
the recent session of Congress, as follows:
They have kept the Union divided, ant, hav,
cheated the country out of the legitimate fruit.
They have done nothing to lessen the taxes o.
the poor man. acre
They have done nothing to improve our finan.
ets.
They have passed Frecdman's Bureau bill
giving seven millions of dollars to the radical
ossrseers and agents of the negroes. .aa
They have SO tempered and tiukered the Con.
stIation as to almost destroy that charter of GU,
liberties, and have violated its express provisions
whenever they feand that it ebstructed their il.
legal projects. '."
They have srusndered one hsndred and atv
millions Of doIlars---the amoant paid by tax over
and above the necessary sum to carry on the
government. -. Il" "..'H 49,
They have been in session eight months lcuis-
lating mainly for oflice-holdcrs, and to distribute
the public money among their Radical friends.
And yet for this kind of service they nearly
double their Own salaries, adding IA half million
vi dollars 10 the taxation of the country. t- ...
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Country Absorbing party

The New York Tribune maintains that tn,
Philadelphia Convention was neither more no,
less thar Dehsoersie concern. Forney's Pres.
On tile contrary, declares shat the Convention i:
'fR the interests Of VIM II. Seward and Andrew
johnson, AM! that "the Delfocratic organiza.
tion is to be wholly Submerged in new party
This terrible perplexty of the Radical press shows
plainly enough that the Convention was in III,
interest Of no party, and arises from the phenonc.
non, TO Radicals inexplicable, that any body o.
men in the United States should be organized
solely with reference To the welfare of their coun.
ny- Il Is hatafaf enough that Radicals should
pot be able 10 understand HOW any ore can pre-
fE country to party, but that Is not tlse k&alt o.
the ConyeAtioa. The Radicals will be able to
realize tint patriotism IN the United States is still
powerful eaesgh 10 swallow up all party organi-
cations, vixen they End themselves gobbcd up in
.he approaching election.
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Only q Shower.

The violence with which the Radical
press assail the Philadelphia Convention
attest their appreciation oc the influence it
will WELD in the political arena. The
Tribune, especially. is troubled as with g
nightmare. Not Belshazzar was more
dismayed at the handwriting on the wall
than is our cotemporary at the prophetic Wis
ion of Radical discontinue coniured up By
this conservative assembly. 1t rails, it
ridcules, it argues, it deaounces, it foams,
with rage, it becomes incoherrent with
mingled emotions of fear and wrath But,
il the Convention is such weak Invention
of the enemy. why is the Tribune so sore
upon the subject ? Why address so many
incantations against an apparition that it
Processes not to fear? The foedgates of
popular sentiment are opened, the waters
rise, the ark ofconservatism floats securely
upon the swelling tide, ard still fanati-
cism, looking around in vain for rock to
stand on, pretends to ignore its doom, and
cries; it's only shower after all
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30

to be sacred and inYiolable; anti we pro-
claim our purpose in dischnrg{ng this. as
in performing all other national obligations
to- maintain uniinpaifed and unimpsachsdl
he honor and the faith,of the republic.
Ninth 1t is TIE duty Of the iiiation.ii
government to recognize the services of the,
federal soldiers and saflors in the, contest
just closed. by meeting promptly and fully
all their just and rightfur claims for The
services they have rendered = Che nation. =
and by extending to those Of them who
have served. and to tue widows and Or
phans Of those who have fallen, the most.
generous and considerate support, H., ~
Tenth.-In Andrew j Crimson, President
IF the United States, who has proved stead
fast in his devotion to the constitution, the
laws, and the interests Of his country. up-,
moved by persecution and undeerved re-,
proach, having faith u1sssailable in the
people and in the principle. Of free govern.
ment, We recognize a Chief magistrates
worthy of the nation, and equal to the.
great crisis upon which his lot is cast..-7-.
And we tender to him, iii his high and 70.
sponsible duties, our profouhd respect and
assurance of our cordial aud sincere SUP
ort -. -
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Bear this In Mind.

SsS-l If auy man has moved in any other dis.?
trict of the county since he was registered last
year, he must get certificate from the Register
in the District from which he moved, ana upon
presenting it to the Register in the Election DIG.
trict in which he resides at present, bis name si
be placed where it should be, and then be Wilt
have no difficulty in getting his vote. Those who
moved from other counties in the State to WASH
ington county, should also bear this impsrtans
matter in mind, SO that the necessary correction
may be made in titne. ~ - .-.-- p - y
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Ne,c England States,
Total, G,4s3, 53l ID, s9s 1,s

From this II appears-omittng fractions-that
while there is In New England pauper to each
40 aud criminal TO each l74 Of the population,
in the Southern States enumerated there was on-
iy one pauper to each 45l and one criminal to
each 3, 42i of the population. 1t Is evident that
the much bsasted superiority Of New England
on account Of her great moral pnrfty and HIGH
inteiligeacey tells better in rhetorical oari.bes
than In statistical figures. What story ii tells
for the culture of Massachusetts, with her sub
lime system of free schools, and her innumerable
churches, that she has 81 $50 paapers and H..
T02 criminals, while Alabama, one of the dark
eoraers oFiiie earth, a field of missionary labor
and rhilantropic effort, with two-tl,irds rs large
population, had only $50 paupers. and LIS
criminals.
1t is not pleasant to thus contrast the social
characteristics of one. section of the Union with
tHose OF another, but tire Rochester Union insists
that the ifnpujent and false pretenses of the Eas-
Tern States to immaculate purity, while seeking
10 hlnesen the South in tire. eyes ofthe world.
render 1t necessary that the press should expose
their hypocrisy and lift the veil FROM the hilcous
contents ef tlseir closets.
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
.LtnExc.,,e ed Party.

ES--Th' Radio lis are sorcly in trouble.
Deep, despairingly deep, is their tribua-
ton. Defeat. hopeless defeat, starcs then,
in the face at every turning misfortune
attcads their every movement-the winds
come TO Them freightci With tales of ca
lxrsity --esery breeze bears its burtLen Of
sorrows to their troubled hearts-the sun
shines but to arsle their ruin more arpar-
ent. and with his setting comes a re loub-
ting of the melancholy assarante Des-
pair. leaden-eyed despair has fixed his re-
len,less grasp upon them. In sheFs they
are at present in q state of desperation
strongly resembling the last stage of by,
drophobia perfectly rabid, grecn-eyed
and foaming at the mouth. If the crisis
don't soon come, they'll take to biting
each other. D..
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Frank Thomass
R Who and what is he (?


For Eve years he has represented a dis
trict whose free speech he stiaed, and
whose free press he crushed. IA
For FIVE years has he stood the fraudu-
lent Representative of people whose dear
est rights he wits the foremost to Violate.
b He has sanctioned and upheld the i'm
prisonmeut of his people without warrant
law, without witness and without charge.
z" Tie has witnessed their seizure without
law, has seen them exiled, Imprisoned,
robbed. beaten, chained and outraged by
every species of insult and tyranny, with
out one word in their behalf s4lg d g
He has gloated over their CD antilles, he
has exulted at their sorrows, he has houn-
ded on that fierce spirit of persecution
which gave the people no sense of security
which rendered them uncertain that their
peaceful slumbers would not be broken by
the midnight guard to drag them to prison,
there to pine in neglect and suffer without
hope. r5s.-- ..,f,- "a. Ia. e. ...-
lie has worked only among the lowest
passions of the human heart. r.
He evoked the prejudices Of bad men
and rode into power upon their unhallowed
doings. 9Isai ~
His days are numbered. AN Indignant
and outraged people will hurl him from
that place whose power he has abused, ano
whose public trust he has so Shameful,
betrayed. 'rio'5" - st. g. i-.@aa a..
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
The soldiers and the Fanatics.

That the most ferocious of mankind are In gen..
eral the most cowardy is fact which has not left
to this age alone to illustrate. Nero, the most,
cruel of Roman Emperors, was also the most
cowardly. Marat, that monster of the French.
REVOLUTION, who declared that three hundred
thousand heads must fall before France could be-
safe, had not the courage of hare, Robespirrre.
with The disposition of hyena, was timid as ~
mouse. And the list nigh. n indefinitely null
tiplied. To fluid cruel e. 6lood thirsty man
brave and. fearless is'an EIEOn, not the geaer.
al rule. iHa-33 edi 80 i'9-E.e HHs1 htn iso
Every one knows that the men In this country !
who are at this lnouent the most furious in how!
ing for blood are the most notorious crarens oE
modern time. Not one of them ever exposed.
himself to personal peril, either in defence Of his
| country or in defence ofhimself. They have new
or smelt gunpowder, and sever will, If they can
help it. Yet these are the men who are forever
| talking blood and thunder, threatening another.
ciril-strfe, eager 10 stir up Il war of races, and
frantic to let loose the bloodhouuds Of conGsca-
| tion exile and death. . iiS p 49, taEat
Contrast with this ignominious and shamefh,
spectacle the spirit evnced by those soldiers,
| whose heroic courage and self-sacrifcing patriot
ism have saved the Union from destruction. and
purchased with blood and agony the resis ration
of that grand heritage of freedoms that descended
to us from the Revelation. General Grant. one.
OF the most successful of modern warriors and
whose indomitable perseverance and energy
brought to close one of the most lossal wars
of modern times, exhibits magnanimty
in keeping with his resplendsnt courage, and
| urgtsa course of peace and reconciliation. 4
| similar spirit is manifested by others conspicuous
in the battle field and who have no private eriefs
| or imaginary wrongs TO avenge. The President
himself, who has suffered more In his own per-
son for the cause of the Union than all the radi-
| calls and fanatics put together, who has been ex-
posed to personal danger, to the loss of life and
| property. and who has real cause for yindictiys
ness, generously forgets the past, and subordi-
mates all personal feelings to the good of the coun-
try. 1t is only great heroic spirits that are able
| to conquer themselves, whilst cowardly, selfish
and little souls would wreck all the hopes and
happiness of mar kind for the qualification Of
their own reptile instincts. ~
Let the country judge between these two class
es. The time has come when 1t must decide
whether the Marats and Ropespierres shall hufi
it into the horrors ola French Revolution, or
whether it will rally around .,he great and heroic
men who are seeking TO save it from destruction.
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
The "Oid War Horse in the Field

The sold War Horse in the Field.
l GS-The Radicals have trotted out the
sold War Horse" for another campaign
For four years Ire has been training under
the spur fold Thad Stevens, the chief of the
Negro Suffrage Clan, and his performan-
ces show that he is we'll broke in, he new
er once having baked, broken or sbyed
when under the eye and lash of his accom-
plishcd trainer. ....,.......'..
lie goes. into the fray hampercd with a
load that will prove ineonveBient either in
a fight or on the retreat, and will most
likely insure his being ''gobbled up" BY
the enemy. If he can come off victor
lighting against Restoration of the Union
and with such unwieldy weapons DIS Negro
Suffrage. Freedmen's Bureau Extra Pay,
&c. he will be most justly entitled to the SO,
lr.quet of the "Old War Horse"
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Officers G. go. Canal.

ES-At meeting of the State Board o.
Public Works, held lin Baltimore OF
Monday last. the following gentlemen
were elected officers of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company for the ensuing year
President.--JAcoB SSIvELY.
Directors.-F. Dorsey Herbert; A.
Kcrshner Stake; L. J. Brengle; Horace
Rcsley, Charles Albert and H.. Addison.
We hope the new board will secure q
General Superintendent with sufficient
ability and energy to construct bride oil
sixty feet span in less time than SIX
weeks. .a. '
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
A Catastrophe Prevented.

lady bird and cat, living together as n ''hap-
Ply family at that place. The bird is permitted
TO come out of its cage daily, and flies around
room in which the cat and lady are, without fear
of bodily harm The other day, while the bird
was picking crumbs off the carpet, the cat sud-
denly sprang upon ii, seized il in her mouth and
jumped upon a table. The lady was greatly
alarmed, but turning she instantly understood
the reason of this extraordinary conduct on the
part Of her Tabby. The door had been left open
and o strange cat had entered the room The lady
attacked it and put it TO fight. As soon as she
had closed the door her own cat jumped down
from the table and dropped the bird, eatIrsly an
injured, at the feet of her mistress. y - u
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Ey-Hopsoy who has been 50 badlv bent.

ED- HoBsoS, who has been so badly beat
in Kentucky by the Democrats, voted
with the Radicals at the last Congressional
elections, and was member of the Radi-
cal State Central Committee of Kentucky.
Forney's Press and the Ne,o York Tribune
supported him.
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
The Vote Of washington, County. :.

b. We give below the yoteof CHS
county polled I'd 1860, the last occasion
upon Which, d fair expression Of public
sentiment was Had. znt5 also, the vote of
1865, the first and only election held UNI
der the present Registry Law. 1t may not
be amiss to state, that the total vote of the
county in 1850 was 5712 or 285 more
than that of 1860.
These tables may serve asa basis on
which to found calculations. flor the cleo
ton this fall and should be preserved by
the reader: aufs f.a fas is T seR f..
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
COINCIDENCE stricken ALREADY

Conscience Stricken Already.
II EE=Tlle daily increasing evidences of
popuIar adherence Of Radicslism is produ-
cling anop the minds of some of the leaders
Of that party visions Of terror '.-'-- e=-' s'ss
The people are moving apd 'Radicalism
stEembles. The future is stored with evil
. the Radical leaders. they, see visions
and dream dreams, Their minds, and
e5nsciences are tortured with spuatural
ereations. For, Instance; the editor of the
e Herald" thinks the, johnson party is 60
ing to pledge the State to payment for
emaneipated slaves, and in spssm of ter
ror he falls on his kne $ and prays the pee
pie to arise and defeat the friends of John
son and Swami and elect Radicals. -
h But it is not payment for emancipated
slaves that this. editor breads. Full well
he knows there will be, payment for old
scores demanded and taken, but not for
negroes. There will be something deman-
ded Of negro-worshipers. The visions
which startle the rcpose of the editor of the
Herald are not really those which he pub
fishes, He has other lreads-he has diff
ferent fears. breads and fears we'll group
ded. The payment which he knows will
come is not for mapunitted slaves, but a
payment ola different character. Negro
slavery is abolished, no matter how; it is
gone, ended, and let there be rest on this
point. ~ I
b., But there has been another kind of sla-
very which the people are going to abolish,
and then will come the demand for that
payment, at which all such as the editor of
the Herald may well shrink and COVER
The slavery of one part of Che white race
to the other is about to be abolished. The
people are about emancipating their fellow
white citizens from . hralllonl far A,ore
Julltng to them than ever was domestic SER
vitude to the negroes. There has been a
bondage whose pains and humliations have
struck deep into the hearts of the people,
but which is shortly to pass away. That
thr4ll ON, hat bondage. was III, work of
the Radical leaders 1t has practically
erdcd, thanks to the eternal principles Of
justice and right. " s''
But now for the payment.
+. There is deep debt of vengeance due
from Radical leaders and Editors to public
justice, and that debt will be demanded
and taken '-'-' ''' ':'." .'''.''
r There is ptynient due for years of fraud
and violence. Of brutal treatment and heart
less prosecutions. inflicted by Radical lea
ders on the heads Of an unoffendins people,
That payment must be made, and when
the whole account is cast up, it will be ter
rible. This is the payment that terrifes
the editor of the Herald, y for he largely
participated in tho revolving and iullunian
scenes shat renders the past arctrospect of
horror to thousands of people whose only
offence was to differ with the editor of the
Herald on public measures. l., -ig .
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30

The President has appointed VIM.
Price, Esq, of Baltimore, U. 8. District
Attorney for Maryland. This is the gen.
tleman sly led by Pete contemplate
political lawyer. How prone some people
are to measure the merits of their fellows
by their own. Pete himself would have
been lawyer but unfortunately he was
never able to acquire even the reputation
of respectable pettifogger, and ADAM
doned the profession in disgust. Hence
he is particularly bitter when abiding to
gentlemen who have acquired celebrity in
the line of a profession in which he made a
miserable failure. q $50 .te.I..
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30

The following is the answer to a letter sent
70 one OF those advertising swindlers of New York
offering, for fractional currency to send .'eer-
tain and quick mode of getting rich. s.W otk
like thunder, and don't spend cent" ,}s
A Yankee made bet with Dutchran that
he couli swallow him. The Datchman. laid ds~a
upon the table, and the Yankee taking his big.
toe in his mouth, nipped it severely. ~ ~. I,
'fOhs you are biting mel'' reared the Dutch,
maz. ..s'8a ~ 5s7tA4!s taa.Gu-f !. rs u
''Wby, you old fool, replied the Yankee,
"aid you think was going to swallow ygul
whole2'
4E-Gold is selling in Baltimore at 147s
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
who Was IL.

EF Who was it that said, 'the doctrine
that this is White mans Government is
the most infamous of all time? ' H'
j., Thsdeus Stevens, Radical h.-.l
Who was it that voted in Congress to
increase his pay $4,000 term?
Francis Thomas, Radical who will
tell you he is for Retrenchment
Who was it that voted in Congress fer
Negro Suffrage in the District of Colum-
bia? -. -. ,.rNa-"H s'i l.-a 20. .
Francis Thomas, Radical, and car
tidate for reelection in this District.
-a Who was it that denounced the Con-
stitution as "a league with hell and COW
cnant with deathw .r" "# s'i '' .
Wend' ll'Philips, Radical. .1 .
Who was it that pronounced the Stars
and Stripes ga Haunting lie." b."
'' Horace Grecly,a Radical. .H
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
.sz.ss 4 Compassion.

~, ;. = I5aiI3.II tgasslFtEf.lI 70 z5HsMo II
NE tslse no particular, pleasure in drawing unr
favorable comparisons between the different sec
tions OF our common country - b Bug "'!
but there Is so much Boosting and hypocrisy
displayed By New England radical Readers over
tue alleged superiority of their section ms COIN
pared wiih the barbarian South, /" tlat we give
the following, taken from the census reports o.
ls6O, by the Newark Journal with the comment:
af That paper: e 3s!''''3H '77'ta3 5't
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30

.a Ry'If Radical tells you he is cppo
sed to negro suffrage ask him why he ad.
vocates the reelection Of Frank Thoma.
who in Congress voted for Negro suf
frage. ...., f., ,...... .f.....
If he tells you he is in favor of Re.
trcnchmcnt in the expenses of the Gov.
ernmcnt and lesscning of the taxes, ask
him why he supports Frank, Thomas who
voted to increase his own pay $4,000 a
year. ..-...
Ifyou hear Radical blowing about an
economical administration of affairs, ask
him how it is he votes for Frank Thomas
who supports the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
and sqnandcrs millions for the benefit OF
God knows who, but certainly not for
the white man. r,.i:. .-..... ....,
Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-08-30
Peat and Pete.

Peat is successfully used on the Hud
son River Railroad to run locomotives
Eechange.
ES- Nothing new in that Locomo-
tives on the Franklin Railroad, during
the war, run with PETE and made gooc
time.