The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-10-29

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various classes Of settlers, than Commodore
Marry Snow fell for short time at Rich
mond, Va, on wednesday morning of last
week, succeeded by rain.-The senatorial
contest in Tennessee was ended on Friday of
last week, by the election of Henry Cooper, of
Davidson county, 10 the Senate. The result
is said to have taken Andrew Johnson's
friends by surprise The vote stood John
son 81, Cooper Unnecessary to choice a.
Over $4,000 acres of Texas lands were sold
at auction in Richmond, Va, last week, at
prices ranging from so cts. to SO per acre.
Attorney General Hoar has expressed the
opinion, it is said, at a cabinet meeting, that
in the Yerger case, from Mississippi, The Su-
preme Court will undoubtedly reader an
opinion in the case adverse to the military
tribunal before which he was tried and con
victed.-A shock of an earthquake was ex-
perienced at Augusta, Maine last week, which
lasted more than minute and shook the
houses SO violently rs to ring the door bells.
The same shock was also felt at Concord,
Portland, Boston, Springfield and other pla-
ces-It is contradicted that Gilbert G. Wal
ker is the youngest Governor Virginia ever
had. Gen. Henry Lee Highthorse Harry
and John Tyler, afterwards President of the
United States, were both Governors of that
State at the age of thirty -fve.-It is stated
that large number of those engaged in the
lynching affair in Prince Georges county
Md, recently, were soldiers from Fort Wash
ington, and their inability to obtain other
clothing accounted for their strange disguise
The National Capital Movement Conven
ton in st. Louis h's adjourned sine die-A
railroad and telegraph line are being built in
Japan, and mint is TO be established by the
Government. A general system of education
under foreign teaching is being inaugurated
in different provinces of the empire-Much
trouble is said TO exist in Florida over the
collection of the revenue, and United States
troops are to be sent on there.-A Captain
Moody, resident at one time of Montgomery
county, Nd, was lately killed in Cuba, fight.
ing against the Spanish.-A telegram from
Washington to the New York Associated
Press, on Saturday last, says the Secretary OF
the Treasury will soon order an investigation
into the charges against General Butterfleld
nconnection with the gold panic, in such man
ner as will thoroughly test their truth.-The
Tennessee Republicans at Washington held
meeting, on one night last week, to rejoice
over the defeat of Andrew johnson as Sena-
tor from that State-Mayor Banks, of Balti.
more, has sent message to the City Council
denying that the new City Hall ordinance was
passed over his veto by the proper majority
in the second branch, and claims that the
| same is not legal ordinancc.-He is sus-
tanned by the City Counsellor and Solicitor
| and new muddle seems about to be made
in the matter.-The Earl of Derby of Eng
land, who has been very i'll for several weeks,
| died on Saturday last at seventy years of
age.-A new submarine Cable designed to
| connect Havana with the Island of Jamaica
has been completed.-A dispatch from Cairo
Egypt, announces the arrival of the Empress
Eugene at that city, where she was well re-
| ceiyed.-On Sunday last an immense demon
stration in favor of amnesty to the Fenians
was made by large professions, which formed
| in various parts of the city. with banners and
music, and marched to Hyde Park, where a
mass meeting was held of $4,000 peoplc-It
| is stated that q Col. Lawrance Orion Will
| liams, who has for six years been, supposed
to have been executed as q spy at Franklin,
Tennessee, in 1868, now turns up alive, mar
ried to wealthy Cuban lady, and in COM
mand of regiment of insurgent "black
horse" cavalry, fighting Spaniards in the
sever faithful Islc."-The amount of Mr..
Peabody's benefactions to different objects is
now some ten millions of dollars, of which
over two millions are devoted to the cause OF
| education in the South.-Gen. H. B. Titus, OF
New Hampshire, has purchased the farm OF
the late John Minor Botts in Virginia, near
Brandy Station, in Culpepet county, COM
prising SOL acres, for $55, OOO.-The Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia met on
Thursday, and among q large number of
Attorneys admitted to practice, was George
B. Vashon. colored professor, Of Howard
University Association in Washington
city, called the Philosophical Lyceum, was
was recently driven from the Council cham
Der where it held its meetings, for teaching
| infidel and atheistic doctrines An affidavit
has been framed against some of its members
for blasphemy, unddr an old Maryland law,
which remains unrepealed, and which pre-
scribcs as punishment for the first offence
that hole shall be bored in the tongue for
the second offense that the person convicted
shall be branded with the letter "B," and for
the third offepse death without the benefit OF
clergy.-Gen. Butterfeld, Assistant Treasur-
er, at New York city, has resigned "A Sc
we're snow storm prevailed at Buffalo, New
York, on Wednesday, and in Canada, along
the lines of the Great Western and Grand
Trunk Railways, the snow had fallen to con-
siderable depth.-The Governors Of Pcnnsyl-
vania, Ohio and most of the other States
have designated the 18th of November as
Thanksgiving Day.-President Grant and
family are in Philadelphia this week, to at
tend the wedding of Bishop Simpsons daugh-
ter-The mortified remains of n man of coloscol