The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-04-16
The N'ears.

The Chicago papers are getting very I'M
easy at the prospect Of the Philadelphia
Quakers meddling with the Indian affairs
One of them says: wherever you see
man with shad-bellied coat and broad
brimmed hat, spot him. Nine times out Of
ten he will be nothing but an Indian ring in
disguise" Now Chicago papers to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, we hold that any
change in Indian affairs will be for the better;
for certainly greater villanIes than have been
practiced in the last eight years on these poor
savages, cannot be inflicted by any appoint
ees who may come after them. The Spanish
minister of war has asked the Cortes for
contingent of $4,000 men for the present
year. Dispatches from Egypt state that
plot to assassinate the viceroy has been dis
covered and frustrated. Several persons have
been arrested. Mexican adyices report the
civil war in the State of Tamaulipas as still
undated in rage and fury. Two American
traders, on their return from Saltillo to the
Rio Grande, were robbed by the military,
shot and their bodies hung up to the trees.
The order of the Treasury Department for
bidding the payment of taxes in national
bank notes the least mutilated, no matter how
neatly repaired, has called forth protests from
collectors, who say it viii be utterly impossi-
bic to collect taxes unless they can receive
such national bank notes as pass current in
all business transactions, and are received on
deposit by all banking institutions From the
census taken in 1868, under the direction of
Mr. Delmar, Director ofthe Bureau of Stats
tics, by the assessors of internal revenue, it is
shown that the white population ofthe states
then numbered 33,291 .Os1, and colorcd, A.
639,842. Total, 37,9308O3 The entire
population of the States, District of Colum-
bia and the Territories amounts to SO, 422, 959.
The st. John Safety Fund building Of Phila-
phia has been entered and the safe broken
and its entire contents amounting to nearly
one million of dollars stolen. Ofthis amount
over 100000 was in greenbacks. The
Michigan Legislature has passed law to
punish the careless use Of firearms, which
provides for the fine and imprisonment ofany
person who shall aim, though without malice
any frearm Of another. The Supreme Court
at Washington, through Chief Justice Chase,
in delivering an opinion refusing the writ of
error Of the case of George s. Twitchell, Jr,
held that the fifth and sixth articles of amend
ments to the United States Constitution, of
which the petitioner claimed that the Pennsyl.
vania acis wit.l rvgard to indictments for muir
der are violations. were not intended as restric-
tons upon the State governments, but only
upon the general government The fur tradeof
Alaska has been entirely suspended owing to
the terror of the Indians, who refuse to come
near the towns since the destruction of their
villages by General Davis. The majority
oftAe Constituent Cortes ofSpain, supported
by the Council Of Ministers, have agreed to
tender the crown of that country to ex-King
Ferdinand, of Portugal, father of the present
King. The New York Herald says that
bonds and notes to the amount of $4,326, $50
have been missing from the Treasury De-
partment, and that although congressional
committee were appointed two years ago to
investigate these frauds, they have made no
discoveries, but their report just submitted is
miserable failure, and that the Committee
was either incompetent, or purposely left the
frauds covered up. The same paper says
that negro ip Georgia recently shot and
killed another, because the latter would not
90 to church; and other negroes in the neigh
borhood are in pursuit of the murderer, for
the purpose of giving him foretaste of the
next world, by roasting him to alive in this.
The President has nominated and the Senate
confirmed B. F. Joubert, assessor of intenal
revenue in louisiana, @. M. Wilder, dostnlas-
ter at Columbia, South Carolina, together
with two justices of the peace in the District
of Columbia, all four of whom are colored.
Rio advices state the valley of the Amazon
is being scourged with cholera, which has
Frustrated nearly all the inhabitants, but
with comparatively few fatal cases The
Portuguese minister resident at Madrid has
instructions to inform the Spanish govern
ment that King Ferdinand positively de-
clines theSpanish crown. The authorities at
Washington do not credit the report that the |
Peruvian monitors have been sold to the |
Cubans, and 1t is stated that such sale will |
not be permitted by the government of the
United States. The following export duty
has been established in Porto Rico: Sugar,
per hogshead, three dollars, equivalent to
from twenty to thirty-fve cents per hundred
weight; Molasses, per hogshead, sixty five |
cents; coffee, forty cents per quintal. Late
dispatches from the city Of Mexico state that
the government was about sending COM
mission TO Washington, demanding the recall |
of minister Rosecrans. The common coun-
Gil Of Chicago is preparing for grand festi-
val in that city, onthe opening of the Pacific |
Railway. It is proposed to invite every Of |
fetal in California Nevada, Oregon and all
the Territories west of the Missouririver, and |
some of the most prominent officials on this
side A young man, says the New York pa
pers, was seen on Thursday in an, alleyway
in that city to place pistol to his head and |
shoot himself. A patrolman rushed TO him |
end found the bullet protruding from his
forehead, having flattened on the bone. He
stated that he was John Fay, and had been
directed by the spirit of Abraham Lincoln,
the first ruler in Heaven, to take his own