The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-02


NJ Robson, ofNew Jersey, was appointed to
succeed him.-By the registration in Virgin
ia the white conservative majority has in
creased about 20, 000-Col. W. A. G. Ryan,
one of the Cubans lately captured in New
York, has escaped to sea with a regiment of
volunteers bound for Cuba. The same ex-
petition takes out other officers, and arms
and equipments for brigade of cavalry
Joseph Kelly was shot in Richmond, Va,
last week, at the registration Office, by police
captain Callahan. Kelly was vice president
of the Seymour and Blair club during the
campaign.-Letters from Washington repre-
sent that accounts have been received there
of the success of the Cubans in almost every
contest with the Spanish, and that their for
ces have been organized under competent
and experienced commanders, and they en-
terrain hopes of an early termination of their
struggle for freedom.-The Irish church bill
has passed to third reading in the House
of Lords.-W. Mccormick, member of the
board of trustees of Washington College,
at Lexington, Va, being unavoidably absent
at the late commencement, sent check for
$4,000 as substitute for his personal appear
ance.-A jubilee bigger than the one re-
Gently held at Boston is talked of in New
York.-Gen. Daniel E. Butterfeld has been
appointed assistant treasurer of the United
States, at New York, vice Mr. Van Dyke, re-
sgned.-A report from Arizona Territory
represents that the Indians are committing
depredations of all sorts in that section
Edman Spangler, recently pardoned by
President johnson, from the Dry Tortugas,
where he was confined under sentence of the
military commission that tried the conspira-
tors charged with the murder of the late
President Lincoln has published letter de-
nying his guilt or any knowledge of the aims
or intentions of those concerned in the assas.
sination. He says IT solemnly assert now.
as l always have since was arraigned for
trial at the Washington arsenal, that l am
entirely innocent of any fore or after knowl-
edge of the crime which John Wilkes
Booth committed, save what / knew in COM
mon with everybody after it took place."
was inflicted upon him before and after his
trial, by having his head enclosed in hood"
or bag, with barely sufficient room for breath
ing, and also gives an extended account of
cruelties inflicted upon his fellow prisoners
at the Tortugas.-Tbe President has made
his appointments at large to the military
academy at West Point Said appointments
consisting of white appointees, the negroes
in some quarters are disposed to complain at
the distinction made adverse to their color,
particularly, it is rumored Fred Doug
lass. whose son has aspirations that way.
- The Republican State Convention re-
Gently assembled at Philadelphia, has homi-
mated Ex-Governor Geary ds candidate for
governor, and Judge Williams as candidate
fof judge Of the supreme court of Pennsylva-
MIA negro riot occurred at Franklin,
station on the Seaboard and Roanoke rail
road, when the negroes fired and destroyed
saw mill belonging to the Nealy Brothers,
whose loss is estimated at $20,000-A con-
vention of citizens of w est Tennessee, North
AiAe~.-~ aI;s-;s~;pii tend taihanrus has bcen
called to meet at Memphis, on 18th July, to
take measures to secure the introduction of
Chinese migrants-After the Virginia cleo
ton President Grant will order an election to
take place in Mi. sissippi, ON 10Th September,
and also in Texas about the last Of Septem-
Der or first of October.-The masonic frater-
nifty celebrated St. Johns day, in Indiana,
II,
J. Watson Webb has been making many and
loud complaints against the Brazilian govern
mant, to which he was lately minister from
the United States.-The New York Herald
says: 1.-TWO negro members of the South
Carolina legislature have just been tried for
murder before jury of twelve negroes and
pronounced not guilty. -Four colored gen
tlemen are to be hung in North Carolina to-
day. Hanging is the first of our institutions
that Sambo has saved-it was falling to decay
when he became citizen" Exc Governor
| Seymour comes in for share of million Of
dollars in a land suit that has just been de-
cided in Chicago court, which the Herald
thinks is better than being President.-The
work of laying the French transatlantic
cable is progressing favorably.-It has been
decided in General Sickles case, by the Pres
ident and law authorities, that retired army
officer can hold a civil office Gen. Sickles
goes to Spain as Minister, and remains ma
jor general of the army on the retired list
Under the caption of Hotter than the
Weather." the New York Herald has "the
political campaigns in Virginia and Tenncs-
see. The Pennsylvania coal mines, suspen-
ded by strikers, will shortly resume operations
again, satisfactory arrangements having been
'made.-An American named John Quincy
Warren got himself into trouble in Paris
during the recent political excitement there,
and complains to Minister Washburne on
account of his ill usage-On Sunday last, two
negro women, in Henrico county, Va, had a
quarrel about negro man, husband of one
of the parties, and adjourned to the woods to
fight it out, when one of them choked the
other to death and threw the body into q
dilch.-The Bradley Fisher case has been de-
cided in the Circuit Court for Washington
city, by Judge Wylie adversely to Bradley
The New York World says that many young