The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-03-19

be granted the Fenians. A breach of PROM
ise case was recently decided in Warren coun-
ty, Illinois, in which the plaintiff recovered
10000 Advices from the Sandwich Isl
ands have been received. Honolulu papers,
in discussing the cooley trade, say, it is au-
thorzed by an act of the Legislature of June
last. The Board of immigration had dis
patched a vessel to the Polypesan Islands
for cargo of natives. Tim missionary au-
thorties were prohibited from sending letters
or papers by the vessel, which created much
ill-feeling The commecial news is unimpor-
tant. John G. Breckenridge reached his
home at Lexington, Kentucky, early on the
morning of the 4th inst, and intends imme-
diately to commence the practice of the law;
but 1t is said he will carefully avoid politics.
The main building of the Jewett Manufac-
turing Company's Mills, at Shannon, Con-
necticut was burned last week The loss
is very heavy. During severe snow storm,
on the 18th instant, in Canada frame dwell
ling house at Point Levi was blown to pieces,
oi'N' wiz "hoiS oilO".-
The Rhode Island House of Representatives
rejected woman suffrage by a vote of 80 to
III votes, on the 18th of the present month;
but the same body Of patrons have adopted
the Fifteenth Amendment, which confers
suffrage upon negroes. What is the matter,
friends? Do you think that the negroes
can do more to keep you in Office than the
ladies Montreal dispatches to the 18th re-
port severe snow storm. The mails for
the United States were sent to st. Johns
in sleighs. An immense quantity of snow
has fallen ON the Grand Trunk Railway, be-
tween Montreal and Vandreuit In some
places the snow was twenty to thirty feet
deep and the Grand Trunk road has lost half
million of dollars by the interruption of its
trade. Dispatches dated on the 10th of
March, from Toronto represent most vio-
lent snow storm prevailing there, and that
dispatches from the east and west describe it
as the most severe of the season. The New
York Post has detailed account of a singrl-
lar and serious accident ON the Erie Railroad.
The Cincinnati express, running at high
rate of speed, was passing freight train
loaded with railroad iron, when two of the
projecting bars caught the side of the smol-
ing car of the express train and tore open the
side of the car for more than half its length,
destroying all the seats Oh one side Several
persons were severely injured but none killed
The steamboat Cuba No. 2 sunk in Red river,
between Jefferson and Shreveport, on the
9TH, with $50 bales of cotton on board. The
boat and part of the cotton is total loss
Some of the friends of General Sherman re-
siding in New York and Boston, have made
up for him the sum of 100000, out of which
they purchased the residence lately occu pied
by General Grant, with its furniture, and in
vested the balance in Government bonds and
delivered to him the title papers ofthe house.
The Macon (Georgia) journal gives the par
ticulars of the shooting of the Rev. Samuel
Anthony, of the Methodist church, on the
10th instant, while performing a marriage
ceremony at the house of Robert Mann, whose
step-danghter was being married Mr..
Mann, who is said to have been intoxicated,
bursted into the room with gun in hand while
the ceremony was in progress, in violent
passion from some supposed slight or i'll
jury. The minister, who was present at the
earnest desire of Mann, undertook to take
the gun from him, and in the struggle was
accidentally shot, though not fatally Fiji
teen States have ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution which estab-
fishes negro suffrage in all the States
1t requires the votes of twenty eight States
TO make t part of the Constitution. The
cashier of the First National Bank of Illinois,
at Rockford, is reported to have absconded
with large amount of the funds ofthe bank
Dispatches by cable state that the Duke dc
Montpensier declares that he does not seek
the Spanish Throne, but should he be chosen
king he will accept the crown. He hopes
the question of his election will not be made
a pretext for civil war. The Middletown
Delaware) Transcript represents the storm
of wind and snow of Saturday week to have
been one of the greatest violence ever known
in that section of the country and the cold
which succeeded it to have been intense
The same paper says the western shore of
the Chesapeake Bay was strewn with wrecks
Of bay crafts. A vessel loaded with bricks
was sunk in the Delaware, man frozen to
death i'll the Elk River, and a carriage with
two persons in it was blown over near Mid
dletown. There exists great alarm in New
York in regard to mad dogs Valuable and
but lately valued animals arc given away,
and there appears to be a scriouspanic in the
dog market 1t is great pity the panic does
not reach this vicinity. The steamer Henry
Burden has left Florida for Cuba, with one
hundred Cuban refugees on board, several
pieces of artillery and five million ball car
tridges and other war material. General
Stoneman issued an order OH the 18th, repub-
fishing the act of Congress vacating the of:
fees in Virginia in thirty days from the pas
sage of the act, and ordering that all persons
who cannot take the iron-cad oath shall be
from Office on the 18th instant
This creates panic in the State offices, for
nearly one-third of them are those that pay
no salary, and will be difficult to fill The
Spanish minister has addressed an earnest re-
against the course of the Govern