The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-29
The sTeaCS,

The National Colored Mems Convention
recently held in Washington city adjourned
on Saturday last. Previous to the adjourn
ment they published an address to the peo-
pie Of color throughout the country, in which
they claim equal rights with the white man,
and charge that most of our State constitu-
tons are mere aristocracies. They charge
that the fathers of our own government were
blinded by the spirit of compromise. 1t
would be rather hard to tell by what COM
promise they were blinded, unless it was to
keep peace with Massachusetts and some
other of the Eastern States, who were unwil.
ling TO give up the slave trade. The Detroit
Post says that the smallpox is now very pre-
yalent in the Western States. A hundred
deaths day are reported in Cincinnati, and
In st. Louis, Chicago, and Milwaukee, it is a
scourge. Mr.. Jenckcs, member Of Con-
gress, stated last week in lecture at the
University building in New York, that from
his "own careful examination during the last
few years, the government had been defrau-
ded in the public service hundred millions
Of dollars year, and that Commissioner
Wells makes the sum still greater" Upon
which the New York Herald says: Was
there ever such stupendous fraud and robbery
before? A hundred millions or more q year
stolen from the government and the people
Is it not time that the Tenure of Office act
should be repealed and the responsibility of
faithful execution of the laws be placed in
the Presidents The protocol relative to the
Alabama claims, as it has been sent to the
Senate, and as it is understood to have been
agreed to by the British Ministry is some
what different from that originally agreed on
II is known that President Johnson's chan
ges to the original have been accepted Four
Commissioners are to be appointed, two by
each government, and they are to sit at
Washington. The claims pending between
the two countries since 1868 are to be adius-
ted, majority ofthe Commissioners deciding
each question, and in the event Of tie, an
arbitrator is to be agreed upon and confirmed
by the senate Cable dispatches state trou-
BILE has arisen between Turkey and Persia,
and that the ambassador of the Porte had
left Teheran. This will no doubt add to the
difficulties which surround the Eastern Dues
ton and may result in grave consequences to
the Turkish government. The Nashville
Banner publishes extracts from letter from
Amos A Lawrence, of Massachusetts, in
which that eminent New England manu-
facturcr extols the advantages of the South,
particularly Ter peSsoe, for carrying on the
cotton malta turing. Mr.. Lawrence takes
a practical view of the subject, and urges the
working of smaller farms and the employ
ment of the extra capital in manufacturing
and mining. The Lavaeca (Texas) CONNER
clal says: "Texas girls lariat wild CATTLE
In the North the strong-minded women are
endeayoring TO coerce perverse men into Civ
ing them the ballot-in other words, to lariat
them into submission, just as the Texas girls
do the wild bulls of the prairies In reply to
the Sepate's resolutions requesting the Presi-
dent to communicate TO that body copy of
his amnesty proclamation and the authority
under which it was made, he furnished num-
Der of cases or precedents to justify his course,
dated as far back as 1895, when General
Washington, then President pardoned the
whiskey insurrectionists in PENNSYLVANIA ;
but says a New York contemporary, the whis-
key ring of that day was nothing compared
with the whiskey ring of the present Then
the government was only cheated out of a
few hundreds or thousands; now the govern
ment is defrauded by the whiskey ring of q
hundred millions year, and no questions
are asked, no amnesty solicited for the crimi-
mails. The Senate having been gratifed in
regard to the authority for the amnesty pro-
clamation, it would not be surprising to
learn tina: 1t next applied 10 Andrew johnson
for his opinions of original sin and the neces-
sity for infant baptism. A dispatch from
Hays City, Kansas, states that Colonel Mel
son, at Fort Hays, has been suppressing in q
summary manner some Of the social enjoy
ments of the citizens An indignation meet
ing was held, at which the arbitrary proceed
ings of the Colonel were denounced and pc
tition sent to the Legislature for redress The
New York papers report heavy snow storm
last week in that city. The snow fell to the
depth of more than foot delaying the cars
on all the lines, and entirely suspending the
running on some Of them. Dispatches from
India report that severe shocks of earthquake
have been felt in Calcutta and Assam. The
New York Herald says: THE St. Louis
Democrat says Carl Schurz is qualified to be
Senator Of the United States because he has
been citizen since 1857--about eleven years
The radicals once considered Mr. Stockton
Of New Jersey, disqualified for similar pc.
sition and he was born on the soil-ay, amid
the red antediluyian mud of his native State
The only difference between Schurz and
Stockton probably is, in the estimation OF
the radicals in Congress, that one represents
the red mud of New Jersey democracy, and
the other the mud of European red republi
canism" The Pal Mall Gazette (conserva
tive) has an editorial on the Alabama Claims
Convention. The writer hopes that tn {
English Parliament viii not ratify the treaty
concluded by Lord Clarendon and Mr.. John
son. If the question of the recognition Of the
South as belligerents is to be reopened. A
dispatch from Hays City, Kansas says the
courier from Fort Dodge brings reoort from