The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-16

! amended in the House of Lords, and is again
the cause of great excitement in England
line resuiJ of tine irgiuia election is the sue
cess of Gilbert g. Walker for Governor, and
the adoption ofthe expurgated Constitution
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio
| have nominated Gen. W. S. Rosecrans for
| Governor.-The Cutans, it is said are adop-
ting dilatory measures in the conduct of the
war in that Island, and meanwhile the dis
eases incident to the climate are making
havoc among the Spanish troops.-Wm. H.
Sanford, cashier of the Central National
Bank of New York City, has absconded
with bonds to the amount of 800 000.-Ac-
cording to a correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald ex- President Willard Fillmore believes
that President Grant has been entrapped in
the meshes of the politicians of his party, has
failed to comprehend the Importance of the
political issues of the day, and lost glori
GUS opportunity to restore the equilibrium,
which had been destroyed by the usurpations
of Congress, between the different branches of
the Government" The ex-President, accor-
ding to the same authority, is also severe In
his structures upon the Radical party, in re-
gard to their policy as to giving the elective
franchise to the negroes, and does not see
how it can be withheld from the millions of
Chinese, a superior race to the negroes, who
are emigratin@. - this country.-is adore
youngest d, glitter of Gen Albert Pike, was
found dead in her bed at Memphis, Tenn,
fhn off nj In1-r al
to assuage nervous headache, from which
she suffered. 1t is supposed she upset the
bottle containing the choroform in her sleep,
and persisted from the effects of 1.-THE
practice of wearing n small bouquet in the
buttonhole, is coming into fashion among the
gentlemen, according to an exchange.-A
young girl named Anne McFadden was &C.
cidentally shot and killed by her sister, near
Ripley, Ohio, few days ago.-An Englis,
agricultural journal anticipates late harvest
with yield of wheat and barley below tho
averagc.-The Gettysburg Memorial Associ.
alton have determined to mark the prom-
| nent and interesting spots on that battle field
with permanent granite memorials-A hand
some monument has been erected to the poet
Fitz Green Halleck, at Guilford, Connecticut,
recently.-A new rifle has been invented by
Prussian, said to be more destructive and
effective than the celebrated needle gun, and
from which thirty shots can be fired in a
minute.-A Miss Nellie Smith, aged sixty
five years, committed suicide in Ohio last
| week.-A quarrel has been going on for some
time, according to the correspondent of the
N. N. Post, between certain members of the
Indian Peace Commission. "Let us have
peace "-Snails in Kentucky are learning to
chew tobacco, and are rapidly diminishing
the supply for their human exemplars.--
James D. Lowry and VIM. o. Saville have
been appointed inspectors of steamboats, in
Baltimore, Md The remittances of treasure
from San Francisco by steamer have materi-
ally diminished since facilities for that pur-
pose have been furnished by rail,-The latest
fashion among the London "nobs" is to car
ry poodle under their arms-The value Of
real and personal estate in N. Y. city for
1869 is $964, 100, 597-The young prince of
Abyssinia does not flourish in England, on
account of the climate, and is to be sent to
India for the benefit of his health--Mr Seth
Green is restocking the Hudson River with
fish, 100, OOto2000,0 900 per day being Matched
for the purpose.-Senator Roscoe Conkling
reports to Secretary Boutwell, on the condi-
ton of the Pacific Railroad, that it is well
constructed and that there is no question as
to the comfort and safety of travel thereon
The Prussian Government is rapidly build
ing iron clads with undisguised pretentions
to the supremacy of the Baltic Sea, and the
Russians are much annoyed thereat.--It is
said that the grand jury will indict several
bank presidents and leading brokers for usury
in money transactions, in Wall street,
N. Y.-At Richmond, Va, the negroes in ia.
vor of w ellis for governor, attacked one who
had voted for Walker and who had to be res
cued by the whites from their vengeance
COL Yerger, on trial in Mississippi before
military commission for the murder of Col.
Crane, has petitioned Chief Justice Chase for
writ of Habeas Corpus, the result of which
is not yet known.-It is said that the fabri-
cation of Egyptian mummies is carried on
proftably and extensively in Paris.-The
wheat crop in California, in some of the
counties, is reported as faiure-The re-
ported loss of the Powell Expedition, from
Illinois, in the far west, by drowning, turns
out to be hoax-The Northeastern Sanger
bund Festival, held in Baltimore this week,
was mammoth affair and was participated
in by many societies from other cities in this
country and by representatives from aboad-
man in Iowa has invented cannon
which he claims will throw projectile four
teen miles, and has gone to Washington to
sell out to the government for $780, OO.-The
newspapers throughout the country are dis
cussing the Chinese emigration to the Pacific
States in its relation to the political and So
cial condition of this country in the future
The President and family will go to Long
Branch, N. Y, for the summer-Albert
Wyeth, formerly telegraph operator at Har-
risburg, Pa, was one of the number captured
recently at Cuba from on board the Grape
shot, and was sentenced to be shot by the
Spaniards- New York Tribune goes in
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