The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-06-04
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The NesCS.

The New York Herald says that the al
most unfailing barometer Of changes in the
political atmosphere, Indicates storm brew
ing. "Whathas produced these changes does
not devolve upon us to say; but certain it is
that General Grant is not as popular, by a
great deal, as he was when he came into the
Presidency, nor is the country as hopeful of
the success of bis administration, as it was
then" The suit of II. L. Davis against the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
been concluded at Cincinnati, with verdict
against the Company for three thousand dol
lars and costs. 1t was brought by the plain
tiff to test the right of the Company to ex-
clude any individuals from the use of their
wires at pleasure when they are willing to
pay the usual rates, and in this instance the
right is established the More clearly, as the
use made of the Company's wires by Mr.:
Davis was for purposes'of trade and specula-
ton, in direct competition with the Compa.
ny itself. A Texas paper referring to The
political situation in the State, asks "Who
dare sell himself?" Whereupon the Calves
ton Bulletin replies to the conundrum, by
putting another ask members of the late
Texas Convention, who did not sell thani-
selvesT" A railroad train was; fired intoiby,
disguised band, supposed. to be composed
of illicit distillers, on ihe Louisville and
Memphis railroad, on Saturday night, in Or
der to rescue aprisoner held by an internal
revenue officer. The Austrian government
has named the dcscendcnt of famous Polish
patriot, Governor of Gallicia This appoint.
ment is regarded as an anti Russian demon.
straion made openly by the Cabinet in vi
enna Late advices state that the reVol,.
tionary fire of Cuba has extended to Tile
neighboring Spanish island of Porto Rico.
1t is fertile island, and has population of
about six hundred thousand and in importance
is the fourth isle of the West Indies The
Indians call General Custer the "Ctccpine
Panther" and another General the "Porta-
bic Pantry" The Hon. John p. Hale las
published a letter tdrning the tables on those
who assailed his honesty, in showing that all
the acts on which he is charged with corrup-
ton were done by order of the Secretary
who made the charge. 1t is stated in a Tex
as paper that "chain of cattle and horse
droVes' for northwestern cities has been cross
ing the Brazos at one point for three weeks
past. The Nashville Union asks pardon of
its readers for'the profanity which appeared
IN its columns ON acertain day, being report
OF the proceedings Of the Radical Conyen-
ton in Nashville 1t con: o1es ITSELF howev-
er, With tie detection that profane history
has been serviceable to the world, and trusts
that this chapter may be of service to Ten
nessee. The same paper says that Parson
Brownlow is Disguised with Washington and
wants to give his place in the Senate to Horace
Maynard, in order to be made Governor of
Tennessee again. To which the New York
Herald replies: The idea that Washington
is too hota place for the Parson is pretty
sure evidence that birthstone and fagots will
have to be piled up in extra quantities in the
other place to make it at gil comfortable fer
him when he gets there. The gasometer in
Cincinnati exploded last week, its immense
iron holder, one hundred and thirty feet in
diameter and having capacity of half mil
lion of cubic feet Of gas being torn to pieces
and scattered ip all directions. The Mobile
Register states that Governor Hoffman is
winning golden opinions of all sorts of PEG.
ple;" upon which western paper remarks
that it don't believe that Governor Hoffman
ever bet dollar in his life; and as for keep
ing company with "al sorts of people, it will
go its last red that he don't" Isabella, the
ex-Queen of Spain, has not forgotten the
pleasures Of Madrid or her throne. Two
thousand other edherents have mustered on
French Territory, and threaten to cross The
border in opposition to the revolutionary
government. The men are said to be under
the command of officers ofmuch merit. Tie
The Spanish government is already On the
alert to prevent an invasion. Bavaria, the
most persistent opponent of the realization
of German unity under the supremacy
of Prussia, has fallen into the line of national
advance. The General elections lately held
in the kingdom have resulted in favor of The
perfect union Of North and South Germany,
reversing completely the public expression
recorded in Munich at the moment of
the Astro -Prussian war Bavaria is about to
cut loose from Rome, SO it is stated.