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

Norton, who murdered Holloway ut dance
at his hotel on the previous Thursday night,
and hanged them to tree one mile from
town. The Duke of Aosto, the second son
of Victor Emmanuel, renounces the right of
succession to the Italian throne in favor of
his sister the princess Clotilde, the wife of
Plonplon. If this means anything, it means
this-that Napoleon plays bold game, and
that if he is successful the Bonapartes will yet
rule France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Mr..
Washburne q few days since made speech
against the Denver Pacific Railroad and Tele-
graph Company, in which he stated that the
lands already granted by Congress to rail
roads amounted to one hundred and eighty
five millions of acres, which at the lowest
price of public lands is equal to $231 100000.
But the real value Of these lands when given
away was not less than $500,000,000. The
area of the lands thus squandered is
equal to that of all the States east of the
Allegheny Mountains from Maine to Virginia
inclusive. The lands granted to the Pa
cific Railroads alone are nearly equal to the
area of France. Next, says New York CO.
temporary, in the item of government sub
sides in bonds, it appears that the Union
Pacific Railroad, ITO miles, which terminates
going West, somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of Great Salt Lake, will be paid the
sum of $56,000,00 or $51 ,O34 per mile, OK.
cceding by $4,000 per mile the cost of
construction and equipment As to the sub
sides in bonds lin addition to the lands) 80
far actually granted, the Secretary of the
Treasury reports them as follows: Total
subsidies in bonds, $44,337,000. To the
Union Pacific Railroad, 500, miles S20,23s,.
900; to the Central Pacific, from California,
800 miles, $14,764 600; to the Union Pacific,
Eastern division, 1914 miles, $G,3O3 900, to
the Sioux City and Pacific, go miles S11 ,1l2..
O0O, and so on till the aggregate, exceeding
forty-four millions is reached. But the
Union Pacific Railroad, in its subsidies of
land and bonds, granted and to come, bangs
them all outfits government grants enlarg.
ing to the splendid figure of $50, 6l5 per mile,
or nearly $24,000,00O clear profits on the cost
of building and equipping the road Mr..
Washburne says the road is badly located,
and poorly built, and he thinks it might be
well to enquire whether the company that is
lobbying the bill through is not in reality a
bogus concern. Open the doors again, lie
says, and other jobs lying in wait to the ex-
tent Of $200,0O0,000 will walk in. In the
Georgia House of Assembly resolution has
been introduced inquiring into the appoint.
ment Of negro as clerk of the court in Chat
ham county, and to institute proceedings
against him, the case to be carried to the
Supreme Court if necessary. A resolution
was also introduced into the same body de-
claring that Georgia was fully reconstructed
and therefore Congress has no right to inter
fere in regard to the qualification ofmembers
of the Legislature and Senate officers. The
United States Grand Jury at San Francisco,
at its present session, found over three hun
dred indictments for naturalization frauds
In reference to Maryland affairs, the Wash
ington correspondent of the n. Y. Journal of
Commerce says: The paragraphs that have
been going the rounds of the press asserting
that bill would be reported from the Judi
ciary committee declaring that the govern
ment in Maryland is not republican in form,
have no foundation in fact The report pro-
badly arose from the fact that Governor
Thomas will soon make a report upon the
evidence taken by the special committee
appointed 20 investigate affairs in MARYLAND.
in which it is probable he will severely crit.
else the manner in which that State is gov
crned. So far as Mr.. Boutwells name is con-
nectcd with the affair, the whole story is a
fabrication. In the trial for murder of Mrs.
IWitchell, who was indicted together with
her husband for the murder of Mrs. Hill not
long since, in Philadelphia, the district attor
ney on Friday morning abandoned the case,
and the Judge charged the jury to bring in a
verdict of not guilty which they did, and she
was discharged. The New York police ar
rested on Friday seven counterfeiters and
found about twenty thousand dollars
in counterfeit greenbacks upon them ncud-
ing about $4,000 in bills ofthe Rhode Island
National bank. The court of Error and Ap-
peal in Canada have refused to grant new
trial to Whelan, who was lately convicted of
the murder of D Arcy MCGEE