The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-09-03
THE NEWS.

The OX1OfQS, OF England, ana 11arVaruS, OF
America, came off on last week on the
Thames, and resulted in favor of the English
crew by three boat lengths.-A desperate
conspiracy to blow up the United States fri
gate in port of Cherbourg France, was lately
discovered, when the fuse communicating
with the magazine was already lighted, by a
cabin-boy, and the attempt frustrated. 1t was
afterwards found that twenty-five of the
sailors were implicated in the plot, to avenge
themselves upon their officers, and seven of
them were subsequently hung at the yard
arm.-Prince Arthur of England is at this
time at Prince Edwards Island.-Itis said in
will be brought up at the next session of par
lament will be the consideration of the I'M
conditional release of the Fenian prisoners,
without eXception.-There is an act of Con-
grcss, passed March I'd, 1867, which says
"that no officer or employee of the govern
ment shall require or request any working
man in any navy yard to contribute or pay
any money for political purposes, nor shall
any workingman be removed or discharged
for political opinions" &c, and the radicals
at Washington are said to be much baffled
because they cannot levy contributions upon
the employees Tor party purposes. This law,
it may be remarked, was one of the series
passed to prevent President johnson from
making any changes in this department of
the government works.-It is said that Gen.
Candy has declared that the only terms he
had to propose were that all ineligible men,
bers of the Virginia Legislature chose who
cannot take the test oath) should resign, and
that he would Immediately order new cleo
tons to fill the vacancies thus created and
there seems to be probability that the ac-
ton proposed by Gen. Candy will have to be
adoptcd-Colonels Ryan and Currier, lead
ers of the late Cuban expedition, have been
held to bail, having returned to New York
from Canada.-President Grant will return
to Saratoga to remain until the middle of
September.-The passage or defeat of the fif-
teenth amendment by the Legislature of Cal
itornia is the great object of the political con-
test lately had in that State-An i'm
mense fire occurred in Baltimore last week,
on Fell Point, originating in the oakum
factory of Hanna & Co., the loss estimated at
$12G, O00-It is said that the returns received
by the peach growers of the Eastern Shore
of Maryland for their crops in the New York
markets are far from satisfactory, netting
them 6S cents per box, from which is still to
be deducted charges for picking and hauling
from orchard to depot.-About $4,000 was
stolen on Friday night last from the Office of
the receiver of city taxes in Philadelphia
curious case of q live mans estate being
administered upon occurred recently in New
York.-About twenty years ago a man made
deposit in bank in that city and then
went away and was not heard of for fifteen
years, at the end of which time another man
applied to the surrogate for letters of admin
istration upon his estate, representing him as
dead, which were granted, and armed with
which he went to the bank and drew there
from the deposit, amounting to some So, 600,
made by his alleged deceased intestate, who
has recently turned up alive, and producing
his bank book as the certificate of deposit,
claims to be refunded by the bank, denying
any knowledge of his administrator what
ever. An interesting law suit will be the
finale of the whole matter-A drove of one
thousand head of goats passed through Mis-
souri, recently from Texas-There is said to
be new secret political element in Massa-
chusctts, based upon a strength of fifty
thousand votes outside of any present polti-
cal organization in the field, and organized
upon the labor questions.-One of the latest
sensations in the spiritual world' is the
drawing of most beautiful and life-likc por-
traits of deceased persons by 'planchet!e y
George Peabody left the White Sulphur
Springs in Virginia on Monday last, stopping
ill Baltimore and Philadelphia for day or
two, and then on to Massachusetts. His
heath has much improved. Emperor
Napoleon of France has been i'll lately, and
great CONSERVATION in that country arose
on account of it.-A young physician from
Richmond, Va, named e. J. Hudson, COM
mitted suicide in Baltimore on Monday last
The Ecumenical Council of the Roman
Catholic Church will meet at Rome during
the month of October, and among the high
dignitaries of the church who will be present,
are the Most Rev. Martin j. Spalding, Arch
bishop of the Diocese of Baltimore, presiding
officer of the Triennial Councils, and the
Rev. Bernard McManus, pastor of st. Johns
arish, Baltimore-An international boat
race was rowcd in the harbor of Yokohama,
Japan, in July, between the crews of the U.
s. steamer Iroquois andh her Britannia males
ty'sfrigate Ocean for $500 side, resulting in
favor of the English crew.-On Saturday last
4l,510 baskets of peaches arrived at Phila-
dclphia from Maryland and Delaware.-Jef-
ferson Davis is making q tour in Scotland at
this timc.-Nine fatal cases of sunstroke &C.
CURED in st. Louis on Wednesday of last
week.-The peach stones cast aside by the
armies at Petersburg, Va, have shot up into
a grove of trees forty-five miles long, which
are now loaded with fruit-A fire occurred
at Cape May, N. j., on Tuesday, which con-
| sumed number of hotels, rows of cottages,
and places of business, the loss by which is
estimated at $175,0 0O.-The large brewery
of Kirschoff g. Co., in Westchester county,
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