The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-22
hc.Eescs,

tain Stewart, bound from Galveston to New
York, went aground off Point Lookout, at
10 o'clock on Monday night, and in few
hours was dashed to- pieces. Three of the
crew were picked up by the steamer w. r.
Clyde, on Wednesday, at Q o'clock in the
afternoon. and taken to Wilmington There
were twenty-five persol- on board the i'll
fated steamer, and only three are known to
have been saved The Democratic members
ofthc Maine Legislature, ON the 14th instant
nominated the Hon. A. p. Could of Thomas
town, az their candidate for United States
Senator. The New York World says that
ex-Secretary Stanton indorses Senator Nor
gan for his loyalty during the war, his fitness
for 70 election, &c. Now let Senator Morgan
indorse ex-Secretaiy Stanton. This knitting
system for bankrupt regulations will do no
sort of good in the contest at Albany, where
cash down and no trust is the rule and prac-
tice; but it has the merit of harming nobody
ship Great Eastern has commenced to take
on board the submarine cable of the Franco
American Atlantic Telegraph Company. 1t
isexpected that She viii sail in June next, to
lay the cable from Brest to the American
coast. General Buffers curious financial
scheme turns out; after all, to be, as popular
rumor OF malice says ofmuch ofthe plate in
his possession, not his own property 1t was
first promulgated by Mr.. Kellogg, who wrote
book, which attracted little or no attention,
concerning financial matters, and it is sub.
stantially the scheme adopted by the Labor
Congress, which met last fall in New York
city. A Madrid dispatch says that the au-
thorities arc in receipt Of offers of men and
money from all quarters of Spain to recover
Cuba from the hands of the insurgents. The
Democratic members of the New Jersey Leg
islature on the 18th instant, nominated by
reclamation the Hon. John P. Stockton, for
United States Senator A dispatch says that
under the rules the roll was called, every
member voting for Stockton. The result was
received with great applause Senator Rob
bins and Captain Whalen were appointed o
committee to inform Mr.. Stockton ofhis unan-
imous nomination, and invite him to the
caucus. AS he entered the hall, every mem
Der arose and received him with. the widest
applause Mr., Stockton delivered an able
address to the caucus, and retired. The dis
patch then says; "This days work has been
we'll done. All Trenton is jubiant, The
Democracy favc proclaimed the sovereign
right OF State, agJ condemned the arrogance
OF q usurping Senate" 1t will be recollccted
that Mr.. Stockton is the same gentleman who
was few years ago turned out of:his lawful
seat in the United States Senate, for the sole
and only purpose to give the Republicans a
majority of two-thirds. The. London mer-
chants are extensively petitioning the gov
eminent to restore the mail service between
southampton and New York, by contract
with the Hamburg American steamship
Company. The petitions show that the aver
age time made by the Hamburg American
steamers is better than that of several others,
and equal to the best to which mail service
is accorded. A dispatch from New Orleans,
dated on the 18th instant, says The stern
wheel steamboat Glide, hence for Red River,
ran aground and exploded her boiler, about
midnight last night, about fifty miles above
this city; she burned to the waters edge and
is total loss. Five or six persons were in
stantly killed, and twenty-five injured some
ofthem fatally. The steamers J. G. Blanch-
ard and Thomas Powell reached the scene in
about twenty minutes. and rescued the sur
Vivors, who were brought to this city by the
Governor Allen, The Governor Allen also
brought the officers and crew of the stern
wheel steamer Idaho, which sunk on Ona-
chita River, on Sunday last. William II.
Hegeman, a messenger lad in the employ of
William d. Strange, Pine street. New York,
returned from the bank with tin box con-
tanning valuable Dapers. A few minutes after
ne placed the box on table in the ONCE ur
his employer, il was seized by two-men who
just then entered the office and who at once
took to flight, pursued by the boy The boy
pursued so holly that to make good .tbsir es-
cape the boxwas dropped, and an officer CON-
ing to the aid of the lad one of thepar.y was
captured. The Commercial Agency Register
of McKillop, Spsague & Co., of New York,
shows that the number of heavy failures in
the principal cities ofthe Union, during the
year 1858, far over reaches that of any pre-
cedins year, which is caused partly by the
advantages given to debtors by the Bankrupt
Act. During the year, according to the
Register there have been in New York 295
failures; in Philadelphia, 90 failures in Bos-
ton SO failures; in Baltimore, 81 failures
and in Chicago, 90 failures, making total of
4s2 mercantile failures during the year. The
number oflarge failures from the first of No
vember, 1868, to the present time, exceed by
fifty percent. the number during the same
length of time, during the crisis of 1853
Hotel robberies are becoming one ofthe COM
mon Transactions of the day. Last week two
men hailing from New York were arrested
at the Eutaw House, in Baltimore, charged
with robbing the rooms of two of the dodgers.
They are both In jail, awaiting the action of
the Grand Jury, and a few days afterwards
Western merchant was robbed of $4,000
at Earps Hotel, in New York. This last rob-
bory is, however declared by Mr.. Earl the
proprietor of the hotel, to be q ruse to make
that amount out of him, and that all the cir.
cumstances surrounding the case forbid the