The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-25


four years old, a son Of Mr. Philip Wagner,
of this place, was severely kicked by q horse,
on Tuesday last. The.little fellow, 1t seems,
was induced by companion to strike the
horse with'a small stick, and received from
the animal a kick on the chin, which cut Sc
we're cash, but fortunately broke no bones
DR.. VIM. T. Alunnikhuysen attended to the
little sufferers hurts, and he is now doing
we'll
THE TIDE WATER CkNAL.-During the
week ending on the 18th inst, there were
towed from the outlet lock at Havre de Grace
1856 boats as follows. TO Baltimore, SO boats,
loaded with lumber, coal, ice, &C.; to Phil
adelphia, 80 boats, loaded with coal wood,
&C.; to Spesutia Island, 10 boats, loaded with
coal, and to other points Is boats, loaded with
coal, lumber, &c. Arrivals 1877 and departures
1866 boats. Unloaded at Havre de Grace, 90
boats.
CRIME.--The New York World, of the 18th
Z inst publishes nearly three columns of hor-
rible crimes committed by negroes, many of
them of the most revolving character,
and many of the victims being defenceless
white women of respectability.
THE WIcKEpEsr MAN.-For months we
have been regaled with accounts of the
"Wickedest Man in New York" and of his
conversion, all of which now SCENE to turn
out as nothing more than q New York SEN
sation From letter in the New York
Times, ii appears that John Allen has never
been converted at all, and that he simply
rented his rooms for the purpose of holding
prayer meetings, because he had no further
use for them. The crowd of curious persons
who daily visited his place, after he got into
Dyers Magazine, completely destroyed his
business, and he adopted his present course
as bushes transaction merely. The writer
alluded 10 says:
That Allen, Thomas MADDEN, Slocum and
Exit Burns are neither converted nor re-
formed men, 1t is said that the late excite
ment was caused by the colporteurs of q city
mission. For several months they endeayor-
ed to make an impression upon the scum of
Water street, but failed. At length 1t was
decided to create sensation, and Allen was
selected as the person who was to accomplish
tnt 3UItCl. I1C WIS .uCeCIlUcu us
the "Wickedest Man in New York." and
his place became frequented by religious
persons and others, who visited him out of
curiosity. His regular business was broken
up, and it is alleged that a proposition was
then made to hire his rooms for religious
meetings, which offer was accepted, Allen re-
ceiving rent of $3.50. 1t is alleged that
Kit Burns has hired the use of his rat pit
for religious meetings at the rate of $3.50 a
month, for one hour day; and that Tom.
MADDEN is joining in the present movement
in the hope Of escaping trial On anindictment
pending against him in the Court of General
Sessions.
The writer then goes on to show that
Dyer's Magazine article, first calling attention
to Allen was mere money speculation, to
which certain colporteurs were parties in in /.
terest, with the evident intention to shame
John Allen into change of life, and thus to
obtain foothOld among his vile neighbors
and companions in sim The stroke was
bold one, but it utterly tailed in its purpose
TO soften Johns heart
STARVATION AT RED RIvER-The St.
Paul (Minn) Press gives melancholy ac-
count of the ravages Of the grasshopper, and
the distress which it has wrought upon the
people. The Press says the terrible calamity
which has overtaken the isolated British set
Element on Red River--whose fields the
grasshoppers have scourged with desolation
as if fire had swept over them-cals loudly
upon their prosperous neighbors for aid
Nothing says the Press but the most prompt
and energetic measures can avert from the
people of Red River the most awful calamity
of modern times Ten or twelve thousand
people in distant region, 500 miles from our
western frontier, are on the eve of starvation.
The Press says:
1.-THE grasshoppers have utterly DESTROYED
the crops of the farmers, which by an UMPIRE
cedented combination of misfortunes, the
hunters, who constitute large part Of the
population, have returned from the plains
without their usual supplies of buffalo meat.
Che buffaloes have disappeared from their
usual haunts, while the fruits of the earth
have been consumed by this terrible irrup.
ton of grasshoppers. They are thus cut of
from all sources of supply, except fish, upon
which they are now subsisting.
While their wants are thus pressing, the
time within which they can be reached with
relief from this quarter Is very short In q
few weeks, when the frost shall have killed
the grass on the prairies, it will be extremely
difficult for trains to reach there with sup
plies for want of subsistence to feed the ami
mails Before November it is not improbable
that these starving people may be walled in
by 500 miles of snow from any possible aid
except what may dribble through on dog
trains The problem before the people Of
Minnesota and the benevolent of other States
is, within the next six weeks, to place at Fort
Garry food enough to subsist population OF
l0.O0U souls Ior Blk or seven months. This
is the work before us, and it is work which
must be accomplished e
Food for the Curious.
A gentleman in one of the departments al
Washington has made curious discovery