The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-02-21

have contributed large amount to aid the
Order in the Southern States, or, in others
words, to rcsuscitate those lodges that were
broken up during the war. About $4,000
comes to Virginia from the Northern States
and 5000 from Kentucky This is very COM
mendable, and we have no doubt will be in
strumental in doing much good The lodges
in Petersburg, as they are prospecting and in
a flouriShing condition, we presume will not
receive any portion of this fund.-PeterSbu1y
Erpress.
BosToN PosToFFICE.-Duringt the first week
in the present year there were pa 720 letters
mailed in the Post Office, 62 051 drop letters
deposited, giving an average of 34,960 mail
letters for each day, and 1918 drop letters
The value stamps cancelled during the week
was $S59S62.
MEMPHIS, Feb 13.-Tom Smith and Lit
Alexander, negroes, have been arrested on
the charge of rape.
E. II. Dashiell who killed his son some
weeks since, has been released for want of
prosecution.
John Cunningham was shot and MORALLY
wounded last night, corner of Main and Jack
son streets, by Jack Winters, who is now
under bonds for killing Mike Council near
1.-THE same place two weeks since.
John Cowder and John Hallam exchanged
seven shots to-day, on account of card in the
morning papers. No one was hurt. Both
were arrested.
New YORK, February 13.-As Tuesday
nights express train on the Hudson River
railroad was passing through the Highlands,
an avalanche which had been detached from
cliff overhead, descended upon two of the
passenger cars, crushing roofs and causing
panic among the passengers, two of whom
were severely injured.
Boston, Feb. 12.-Nine thousand five hun
dred persons, of whom two thousand four
hundred were women, were committed to the
two State prisons, the twenty jails, the six
teen houses of correction and one house of
industry in Massachusetts last year.
The bottom of the ocean will soon be as
extensive a means of human intelligence as
the top of it. The emperor ofFrance is about
to have his submarine cable to the Island of
st. Pierre, and New York the Government
of Queen Isabella is also about laying down
cable 10 Cuba and Porto Rico by way of the
Canaries; and now we hear of mother pro-
jected line between Brest and New York
The latter is organized by a Franco American
Company with capital of million sterling
the stock and direction to be divided be-
tween England, France and this country
The English share of the stock is said to be
already subscribed This company has recei-
we'd valuable concessions from the French
Government, and the line will be laid next
summer very probably.
Fourteen camels, raised in Texas, have
arrived at lndianola, to be shipped to New
York, and placed in the Central Park in that
city. Some years ago, it will be remembered,
lot of camels were imported by the War
Department for use in transportation of sup
plies across the desert regions of New Mexico;
and the lot above referred to come from that
stock, having been raised in Camp Verde,
Texas.
Some idea of the consumption of fish to
London will be gained by the statistics pub
lished for 1860, during which year 1 ,225 mil
lions of fresh herrings ga millions flat fish;
SO millions of soles; one-half million cod fish;
10 millions of sea cells; 25 millions of macke-
rel etc were used Besides 49G millions of
oysters ia millions of Holsters, etc. Of
dried fish, 1877 millions of herring, and %
millions of cod were consumed.
A correspondent of the London Teleq,uph
gives an account of the famine in Tunis. The
country is in most wretched state. The
Arabs are dying by thousands from cold and
starvation. In Tunis alone 5000 have died
in two months. The streets are full of Or
phans from three to eight years old, naked
and starving, eating the otfal they find
Mothers abandon their children, or sell them
to Europeans for less than shilling Private
. charity can do little, and the embarrassed gov
eminent not much more.
AT Mound City, Illinois, there are eight
monitors laid up; and as the care of them is
rather costly and troublesome job, it is pro-
posed to eXcayate basin, at a cost of 81 600
900, in which they may be allowed to rot or
rust without further expense. There is not
a chance in a thousand that river iron clads
will be needed again. and the better way to
get rid of our present stock entirely, is by
breaking them up, if purchasers for them, as
{ they lie, can not be found
Commissioner Rollins offered, some time
" ago, reward of three hundred dollars for
such information as would lead to the detec-
ton OF any Illicit silt and the conviction of
the projectors Sharp Yankee have been
putting up $50 stills, and then informing
the authorities and obtaining tic reward
This is the latest fraud on the revenue.
About $500 destitute negroes were fed by
the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina
during the month of December, and the num-
Der has been increasing since
The: North Carolina Convention voted
down resolution declaring negroes and
persons unable to read or write ineligible to
the Office of Governor
Secretary Seward, by direction of the Presi-
dent, has written to Charles O'Connor and
James I. Brady, of New York, asking them
to go to Europe and appear as counsel for
the American citizens under trial for compli-
city in the Fenian proceedings. No answer
has yet been received but if these gentlemen
do not accept, the tender will be made to
others.
Eighteen menengaged in cutting wood in
TIL forest of Rothwald in Austria, recently
me, in hut to take breakfast, when sudden
ly they were overwhelmed by an avalanche
of snt wv and were swept away, hut and ALL
Three days elapsed before they were missed
and VIII, en- search was made for them eleven
were ext ricated from the snow, seven ofwhom
were dea, |, and the other four so exhausted
by cold q nd hunger that they are not ex-
pected to live The other seven have not
been found.
The New York Chamber of Commerce pro-
tests against ,'he reduction of the American
dollar to the standard ofthe French five-franc-
piece, without saving clause in favor of ex-
listing contracts.
AT Fawcett, the recent owners of"Dex-
ter" has bought the celebrated trotting horse
"Bashaw, jun" paying for him S14 so per
pound. "Bashaw'' weighed 1,040 pounds, and
sold therefore, for $15,DS0.
TIE total number of miles of railroad in
the United States al the close Of 1867 was 81
925, an increase over 1866 of 2,719 number