The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-05-28

ers captured on the wrecking schooner by
the Spaniaris, have beenEeleased. The pro-
perry of nineteen CUBAN ladieshad been com
fiscatcd. The President had an interview
with Major Gen. Clark, of Texas, last Friday,
in which. the latter urged that thesTeSas
election should take place in August. when
the people would not be busted gathering
their crops, ana would haze time to attend
the polls. He charges that the reported
outrages in Texas are greatly exaggerated,
The President finally said that he would
have the State restored with as little delay as
possible. A negro police magistrate has been
appinted in Washington. Two colored clerks
have been designate for appointment in the
Revenue Bureau; one of them is president
of Republican Club in Washington, and the
other is the brother ofan alderman of the
city. Fred. Douglass, Jr., coored, has been
appointed clerk in the Office of the Register
Of Deeds in the District of Columbia. He
wrote a letter to the Register applying for
the position, and stating that he was prin-
ter, but could not work at his trade on acr
count of the trade combination against his
color Attorney General Hoar is very un-
popular among the politicians and congress
men in Washington, and it is said that efforts
will be made to have him dismissed from
the cabinet. The Massachusetts delegation
arna oil
Ebenezer Bassett, a negro who has been APP
pointed United States minister to Hayti, left
Washington on the 2gd instant, en- route to the
field of his diplomatic labors Assstan.
Secretary of State Davis posted the gentle,
man fully as to the nature fhis duties; but,
as if acting in vindcation of the teIacity of
the African brain, or in condemnation of the
Professors writing master, be communica-
ted President Grants instructions verbally; so
the Ambassador is not burdened with writ
ten documents. A duplicate line of submarine
cable has been completed between London
and Valcntia, Ireland, and the two Atlantic
cables are working. At Yalentia one cable
will be used exclusively for forwarding and
the other for receiving messages, so that dis
patches may be transmitted almost in an in
slant between London and New York. A
bill for telegraphing to Reverdy johnson has
been presented to the Secretary of State, by
the agent ofthe Telegraph Company for pay
ment, in which there is "a single item amount
ing to $4,000. 1t is proposed to give min
lister Hale chance to make a clean breast of
it about the smuggling business before retir-
ing from office, Why not, says the New
York Herald, give all our foreign representa-
tives chance to do the same thing before
they give up the political ghost? What a
wonderful, what humiliating spectacle it
would present We hope to be forgiven if
we express the conviction that there is not
an American legation abroad, from the high
est to the lowest, whose linen would be
found unsoiled in case of public washing.
The sidewheel blockade runner Salvador was
at Nassau on the 10th instant She has ell
countcred but little litigation there, and
seemed to be taking on Cuban men, arms
and munitions under the open eyes of the
British officials, without interference. Sec
rotary Boutwell, has ordered that hereafter
two millions of Treasury gold shall be sold
weekly until further orders, instead of one.