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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-10-25

INTERVIEW OF PAUL BAGLEY, MISSIONARY, WITH
PRESIDENT JOHNSON, AUG. 3lsT, 1867.
The Proclamation Of 1865 duplicating Mr.. Davis
in assassination Vieps Of the President, Judge
Holt, Judge Underwood, and other matters.
Mr.. BAGLEY.-Mr. President, come
to ask no favor for myself. l never have !;
you know all that [ have done for Mr..
Davis to induce him to apply for pardon.
In the nature Of the case, sir, it seems to
be impossible that he could apply for par
don so long as that Proclamation stands
out against him charging him with being
10 plicated in the assassination Of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
The PREs1DENT.-I never asked him
to apply for pardon.
Mr.. b know you did not you
could not but have done so my po-
sition is different from yours. You know
that l went to Canada to see him, and
that he would not see me; or | suppose
you know if you received my note.
PREs1DENT.-Yes but perhaps he
was not receiving visitors.
Mr.. B.-No; be told me in Fort.
ress Monroe all that he could say on the
subject that his case was entirely differ
ent from any other that a hundred
thousand dollars had been placed on his
head that he was prisoner subject to
whatever the Government saw fit to i'm
pose, and that it was impossible in the
nature of the case for him to apply for
pardon. | saw nothing to induce me to
hink he was too proud to apply for par
don. Why should he be when Lee and
others Of the leaders have done so? No,
sir; his case is different from all others,
He has been singled out upon charge of
assassination, and to apply for pardon
while that charge hangs over him would
DO to admit himself an assassin. 1t is
that Proclamation, sir, that is the insur-
mountable difficulty in the way.
PREsT.-But he was never indicted un-
der the charge of assassination.
Mr.. B.-That's just where the wrong
lies if he had been guilty he ought to
have been indicted, tried and hanged. l
believe in capital punishment | am not
moved by mawkish sensibility but love
of justice.
PREsT.-That's all right, but he has
''een indicted for treason, which is the
he greatest offence. Treason is the
reatest offence known to law-far great
than assassination, and of course be
aust be indicted for the greater offence.
MIR. b am no lawyer though
sudied in my youth but this I know
lat more than two years ago the Presi-
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VOL. XI.---NO. 40.

Judge Holt" 1. is true, it is true that
much blood has been shed, but that was
the blood of war, this is time Of peace.
Joab in war slew thousands, but Solomon
was charged to "briug down his boar
hairs to the grave with blood" because
che shed the blood of war in time of
peace" though it was but two men thus
killed. If the Law of God will let SER
vaut,go free for his tooth sake, shall not
the Executive of great nation let man
60 free for his two years imprisonment
and for bis chains sake
PREsT,-Well, Mr.. Bagley, you will
understand me as, making no promise be-
forehand. You have left your papers, and
they shall be considered carefully.
Mr.. R.-Here is au acrostc written on
the Presidents mama while waiting in the
ante-chamber
ACRosTIC-ANDREw JOHNSON.
a man misunderstood and much maligned
Nor will the people understand his mind; ys
Deaf to oil claims OF mercy, they refuse
Repentance unto those whom they abuse;
Expect to see all retes quite destroyed;
Would make fair Dixie land desert void
johnson would heal the wound that war has
made;
On him of God such duty now is laid;
His hand is stretched towards the bleeding South,
Negecting not his duty to the North;
Slaves unfranchised upon him may depend,
Der all the land he looks all to defend,
Nor should our President 80 slandered be.
or you'll receive the truth, from yours,
P. b.
PRIEST Thank you.
MIR. B.-When you addressed the citi.
zens Of Baltimore last fall from the ecu.
taw House" stood in the crowd, and 80
bitterly was l opposed to your principles
that would not 90 forward afterwards to
shake you by the hand, but when went
all through the South last winter preach
ing to the negroes aud telling them that
they had a right to vote also when I
told Gov. Vance what l was doing, and
he assisted me in getting rail read passes
when Gen. Beauregard and others pass
ed me when Mayor Monroe, after
had told him that had sent mo-
ney from Japan to fight his negroes free,
aud was then in favor of their voting,
when even. after this supplied me with
money to pay my bill at the s'St. Cearlss
Hotel' and invited me to his house-after
these things, sir, saw there was yet
good left in-the people of the South.
PREsT.-Hre is FIVE dollars, Mr.. Bag
ley, as one says, Though it b. but small,
Ills given with willing mind"
MIR. B.-Thank you, Mr.. johnson,
have detained you long. will wait with
hope for your action. Good bye.
Submitted to the public, September
18th, 1867. ..
PAUL BAGLEY,
Missionary from Japan, China, India,
60.
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4ottital
AN HOUR WITH THE DEAD.


In silence of the starry night,
The long-lost came once mere
But came not with the soulless look
Her coffin'd image wore.
For Life and Love were in her eyes
Their warmth upon her cheek
And in the sweet familiar tones,
Her lipsa greeting speak
Again her face to me is pressed
In all its girlish charms,
And pent-up cares of troubled years
Are wept within her arms
And yet it seemeth, as we talk,
The ''old times' come not near;
But we have met as met we should,
Could she indeed be here.
And how those parted hours have passed
tell with strange relief;
And hear her gentle words console,
Yet chide such useless grief
Half sad, half glad, that weary days
Which must know again,
Her whispered "Hope have Faith and
. Love !''
Shall vile of half their pain
wake TO watch across my couch
The moon-rays family CLEAN,
And ask my soul-Can this indeed
Be nothing more than dream2
Or comes some plying spirit by,
Who, watching them that weep"
Speaks, in the soft tones of the loved,
Sweet soothings while we sleep.
LOUISA Crow.
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dent made a proclamation charging Mr..
Davis with assassination that it has been
read of the country aud the world, and
you might as we'll attempt to ignore the
existence of the sun as Of that proclama.
ton.
PREsT.-He was not arrested under
that proclamation he was arrested as a
military prisoner. Don't you think he
would have been arrested anyhow?
Mr.. 81 do not know but | know
that proclamation is living operating
thing to-day, because there are other men
included With him by name in it who are
exiles under it to-day in Canada, and who
have sought permission to cross over the
line to New York, only to testify in case
at Court and they have not been permit
PREsT.-You see by this parchment
that a pardon is "for all political offences
committed during the rebellion."
Mr.. B.-I see it, sir, / see it. 1t would
not reach his case at all. You could imme-
diatsly proceed against him under the
proclamation, therefore have come to ask
that you withdraw that proclamation
Here is a paper that have prepared shall
[ read it?
PREsT.-Yes.
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Mist&lIaneous.
From the Montreal Ca.) Gazette.
The Case of Jefferson Davis.
To the Editor Of the Gazette :

To the Editor of the Gazette
JERUSALEM MILLS, Hartford Co., Nd, /
Sept. 20, 1867.
SIR Il enclose the following report
for publication ip your columns. 1t will
get into the brains of the Northern Radi-
Gals through your paper, because they ex-
change with you, and the editors will see
it, if the people do not.
With kind regards,
PAUL BAGLEY,
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From the 81. Louis Democrat.
AGigantic Work-the Mississippi Bridge
at st. Louis. 80


We have seen the plan, and we may be
allowed to say, who have certainly seen
some of the greatest bridges in the world,
that this will cap them all. Ia mere
length there are many that surpass it,
There is the Victoria bridge, over the st.
Lawrence, which is two miles long; there
is the bridge over the Nebudda, which is
mile and half; there Is the bridge from
Bassein to the main land, which is over
three miles in length. But none of these
bridges are marvels, because 10 none is
there an extraordinary breadth of span.
The style adopted by Capt. Eads is some
what similar to that used 10 the structure
over the Rhine, between Coblenz and
Ehrenbreitstein, but the span there is
only three hundred feet. The bridge
over the Thames at London called
South wark, which is nearly Of the same
material, but infinitely more clumsy and
with an expensive waste of material which
by NO meaus adds to the inirisic strength,
has span of 240 feet. But it is the
great feature OF eur bridge, which will
cost nearly five millions, that it will ac-
commodate two double tracks of rails, one
broad guage, the other narrow, foot pas.
sengers, and street railway cars, and will
not interfere Que whit with navigation; for
of the three arches which together will
span the shores IF St. Louis and Illinois.
the central enc is SIS feet, and the two
side ones 497 feet. The two piers which
will support these glorious arches will be
suca tremendous masses of masonry as to
take back the mind iuvoluntarily to Cheops
and Ceph, euese and their pyramids among
The yellow sands Of Egypt, and within
sight of the tranquil, winding Nile
Soundings made recently in the river
have indicated remarkable change in its
bed. The high water being compelled to
flow through the narrow channel framed
by our wharf and the rivetted shore of
Bloody Island, has cut the sandy bottom
eighteen feet lower than when the same
were made last April Yet this
location is perhaps the narrowest place in
the river within fifteen hundred miles of its f.,
mouth. From this cause it has been alb.
solutely necessary to place the foundations
If the piers upon the rock itself, which is
from 90 to Is feet from the sandy bed
Taking this Into consideration, the pier at
'he deepest part of the river will be n
mass Of masonry 200 feet 10 length, ITO
eet in width, and With breadth taper
ng from 55 feet to 40 feet. The other
Will probably be ITO feet nearer TO the
liver bottom. 1t will be allowed by all
hat this will be stupendous undertaking.
nSS. A coronar In In, lanntu i ;,aa.
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Andrew johnson, Prest U. S.

PREsT.-There is no hatred to the
Government on the part of the people of
the South it's all on the other end they
won't let them come in.
Mr.. B.-The South may not hate the
Government as such ; but there is very
great hatred between the sections, more l
fear than the President is aware Of 1
was refused place to board at the Theo-
logical Seminary in Hirsm, Ohio, on ac-
count Of my interest for Davis, and for
three weeks walked out of their village
daily to find place to lay my head.
PREsT.-Was that Christianity?
Mr.. B-I think not. 1t came in this
way. | had spoken to Gen. Garfield, M.
c., at the Bethany College commence
ment and asked him to hold out some
olive branch of hope to Mr.. Davis. because
it was hard to ask him to admit all the
charges the Government had made against
him without some hope of mercy. He re.
piled that it was matter in which ne did
not feel authorized to move, that he
thought Davis would never get his deserts
this side of e ernity and he would leave
him in the hands of Higher Power
General G. lives at Hiram, and when it
became known what | was doing | was
told by one of the preachers, "The fact is,
no man that will interest himself for the
pardon of jeff. Davis can get board in this
place )" and it all resulted in my being
ordered to leave their Institution though
l have ever been loyal to the Government
and sent money from Japan to help to
fight out its battles. ] believe that charge
of assassination and imprisonment of Mr..
Davis has done mucl to embitter the
Southern mind and have therefore done
and suffered much for his release. This
scar on my forehead was received BY a fall
from train on the day he was bailed.-
My ring was given to the clerk of the
boat for my passage down the St. Law
renee, and when l asked some Presbyte-
rians in Montreal, after addressing their
Sunday School on China, to help me back
to my country, they all went out and left
me as though l had been "the woman
taken in adultery in the very act" But
Consul General Seward, of China, an old
acquaintance and nephew of the Secretary
of State, met me at the hotel, and supplied
my necessities. 1 spent week at Sara
toga Springs, lecturing and preaching, but
did not say "Davis'' once, for I remem-
bered Hiram.
| vent to Judge Holt to. day, and asked
him to endorse this paper, requesting you
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TAILORINGl
GEORGE KAUFHOLz
and is naturally fertile

IA Respectfully informs the citizens of Bel
KA Air, and surrounding country, that he has
N established himself in the tailoring business
in BEL R, and soicts share of the public pat
ronage. Having large experience in the bust
ness, he does bis work in the best manner and
style, and with dispatch.
Securing, Machine Stitching and Repairing,
will also receive his attention.
N3- Whole suits of clothes made from $3.50
to SIS, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop over the Store of R. &. Bouldin, oppo-
site the M. P. Church, Bel Air. sia
G8- Give me call. mill
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a9- A coroner in the County LINER
ick this spring being asked how he could
account for the fearful mortality last VIM
ter be replied 81 do not know there
are great many people dying this year
who never died before"
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PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY'S
SOLUBLE
GUANO.
Office Of General Agency, II South Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
JOHN S. REESE g. CO.,

.. General Agents for Company.
The very extended use of this guano through
out the country renders it unnecessary for us to
say more this season, than that its composition
and quality are precisely the same as that hereto
fore sold by us for the Company.
We have sold this Guano from the beginning
under regular system OF rigid inspection, at an
expense to the Company of many hundreds of
dollars annually. This is done for the protec-
tion alike of the consumer and the Company, as
it is manifest to all who understand the trade in
fertilizers, that it can not be safely conducted on
any other principle. The importance and ex-
tent of the trade demand this protection.
We are prepared to exhibit DR.. A. Snowden
Piggot's certificate Of inspection for every cargo
sold. Consumers must observe the name of
JOHN S. REESE & Co., branded on the bags,
none other genuine. ju26-3m
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WASHINGTON, D, c.,
Aug, 31st, 1867.

SIR 1T is known that more that two
years ago the President make procla-
nation duplicating Jefferson Davis in the
assassination of President Lincoln that a
hundred thousand dollars were offered for
his arrest that be was two years impris.
oned and sometime in claims, and that he
has never been tried or even indicted for
the charge set forth in that proclama-
ton. To the name of God the President
is this day entreated to withdraw that
Proclamation.
Entreated because if its charge could
have been sustained he doubtless would
have been indicted and tried upon that
charge.
Entreated because it has brought evil
and only evil and unnecessary evil upon
the country and the whole country to-
day. Evil to the Constitution. she Ju-
dietary, and the trutb-loving heart of the
people because it proclaims charge
which it has never attempted to prove.
Evil to the ouce disloyal portion Of the
body polite, because il is ball that will
not allow the wound to heal.
o, sir, if the uuutterable gratitude of
millions can move the heart of the Presi-
dent-and it is not doubted-surely the
Proclamation will be Withdrawn and the
gratitude given.
Then your prisoner would stand on
equal ground with others who rebelled,
and like them could apply for pardon
Then, sir, the labors and tears and pray.
ers of your suppliaut would be answered !;
the undying demands of justice would be
met, and the accomplishment of the long
cherished desire of the President would
be greatly facilitated, even the reconcilia-
ticn Of the people and the healing of the
wound of the nation.
In the love of Jesus,
PAUL BAGLEY,
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WANTED.

A Franklinville, few families. Girls and
IA boys to work in the Factory. Girls will be
taken to board. Steady employment guaran-
teed. Address II. SIMMS,
.@ Upper Falls P. o.,
octll-St Baltimore Co., Md.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-25
FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 25. 1867

the only representative Of his State in
Congress opposed politically TO Presi-
dent Jefferson l-whose horse Ratler, "
son Of DIR. Thornton's, was matched
against gray Of Mr.. Tayloe's, q re-
marksble horse, that easily beat the Ma
jor's, both heats. two miles; time, less
than four minutes. / won a bottle Of
champagne from the Major Some
handsome ladies on the course. Took
long walk in the evening with the ladies
in the park; thickly wooded and many
fine deer" Next day, =" explored the
ground, aud was visited by Major Lewis.
In the evening, Col Robert Carter came
to tea. He is very gentlemanly man,
owner of Sabine Hall, an estate contigu-
Gus to Mt Airy, mile distant He re.
GREETED much our short visit prevented
his seeing us at Sabine Hall.
"The Mount Airy House was built by
Col. Tayloe's grandfather more than
century ago, Of dark stone found ia the
neighborhood, faced by white stone i'm
ported from England. Handsome eleya-
ton, with two square wings, connected by
covered ways; large hall in centre,
luTOuBu lnt uOuSt up olhllsi u loub
gallery with family portraits, the Cor
bins, Platers, etc the conservatory
large, with orange and lemon trees
put out on the grass; an extensive
garden, in squares and terraces, ac-
cording to the fashion Of that period,
as now in France and Italy; in
front, lawn planted, and terrace, with
sowers on pedestals. No slaves lost from
any of Col. Tayloe's estates during the
war-a proof of their good treatment" /"
Our tourist also visited Col. Tayloe's
estates in King George county; the
Hop Yard, beautiful estate of 23OO
acres; delightful view; and Oaken
Brow, 1900 acres, in excellent order.
From one house on an elevated ridge is
a fine view of the Rappahannock river
and of the opposite shore.
But for the prolixity Of this article
we would follow the diplomatist from
the declaration of war with Great Britain
through his further career, and on the
several interesting pilgrimages he made
in Europe-but siStc VIAToR
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-25
Dust Returning to Dust.

1t is ascertained by scientific writers
that the number OF persons who have ex.
listed on our globe since the beginning of
time amounts to 36,627 ,842, ,273, ,075, ,256.
These figures when divided by 1895, 900
the number of square leagues on the
globe-leave IL ,32O, ,6S9, 1872 square miles
of land, which, being divided as before,
give l,3A 1922, ,O76 persons to each square
mile. If we reduce these miles to square
rods, the number will be 1853, l74,500,
900, which, divided in like manner, will
give 1888 inhabitants to each square rod;
and these being reduced to feet, viii give
shout five persons to each square foot of
terra firma
1t will thus be perceived that our earth
is a vast cemetery. On each aquare rod
of it 1888 human beings lie buried, each
rod being scarcely sufficient for ten
graves, with each grave containing l2S
persons The whole suface of our globe,
therefore, has been dug over l2S times
to bury its dead How literally true is
the declaration of the poet:
There's not dust that floats ON air
But once was living man."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-25
Tuesday, February 9Th, 1861,

in front of the Courthouse, in the city of Mem
phis, proceed to sell TO the highest bidder FOR
CASH, the following described property, to-
wit A certain tract of land, situated, lying
and being in the county of Shelby and State of
Tennessee, in the vicinity and on the easto
the city of Memphis, on the northeast side of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad being
part of the John Ramsey grant of five thousand
acres, and bounded as follows Beginning ut
the northwest corner of a tract of one hundred
acres of land lately owned by Nath. Kagland
thence south with the west boundary line of
said one hundred acre tract, thirteen poles to n
stake, fifty feet from centre of said railroad,
with a black oak and black walnut pointers
thence south forty-iye degrees east with the
northeastside of said railroad twenty nine poles
10 a stake, fifty feet from the centre of said
railroad thence north thirty three and a half
poles TO a stake in the north boundary line of
said oss hundred acre tract thence west with
the north boundary line of said one hundred
acre tract twenty-one poles to the beginning
corner, containing by estimation three acres
Ofland, and being the same tract that was con-
veyed to said Mildred Anderson by Nath. Rag
land by Decd bearing date 18th April, lS43, to-
rether with all improvements thereon, and ap-
purtenapces thereuntQ belonging. The equity of
redemption in and to this .property IS expressly
waived in said Trust Decd, and the title is be-
Iieyed TO be good, but / sell and convey only
as Trustee. Sale to be made within lawful
hours sAM' H. OVMAkD,
trustee
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-01-25
/. ASSETS. July l. 1855.
Loss by Portland Fire. July 4th.

V'HE total amount covered by the Etna Poll
i cies on property destroyed or damaged is
500, ,S54, on which salvage will be about Eve
per cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from S2Q0,0O0, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is five per cent. upon the Com
pany's assets, a figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year.
or proportion equal to 81, 200 loss for COM
pany of 100000 assets.
The necessity for insurance and the value of
wealthy, strong corporations is forcibly il
lustrated by this fire. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population of 35.000-was handsomely built
mostly fine brick or stone neutrality-suspicious.
and screened with upward of 3, 900 shade trees
bounded on three sides by water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean--and
With steam fire department-yet it has $l0,-
OOO,OOO of property consumed in a few hours
upon holiday when its people are least occu-
pied--from the very insignificant cause of a
contemplate irecracker.
Remember the trifing origin of fires that
sweep away in few hours the earnings of
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Etna Agent call if you need proper insur-
ance security. Pay fair rate of premium for
a good and genuine article, and with these
lights and experiences before you, procure
your insurance with shrewd judgment
Applications for insurance promptly attended
to by II. A. LITTLET0N & CO., Agts,
Is No. 27S Front street, up stairs.
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