The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-03-05
The NeICS.

that borough, sold in Lancaster city, few
days since, their crops of tobacco-being
three Thousand pounds each, the former at
III cents and the latter at 1911 cents per
pound. The same paper says that the ordi-
nary stage of the river was disturbed in the
early part of the week before last by rise,
which attained height not equalled by any
previous freshet of this winter. The wharves
and towing path Oh the Wrightsville side of
the river were entirely submerged. The
committee of foreign affairs, in the United
States Senate have come to favorable con-
clusion with regard to the Gushing Darien
Canal treaty. The New York Tribune, in
commenting on the action of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in the case of
Jefferson Davis, says: The ex-President of
the Confederacy is now freed from even q
semblance of prosecution or trial. We do
not expect to hear the clamor now that much
simpler and more evidently just steps in the
same cause evoked some time ago; and yet
we fail to perceive why, if this thing were to
be done, it might not better have been done
without the prolonged incarceration and the
other chapters of the discreditable history
A newsboy last week, while passing along
King street, in Hamilton, Canada, crying his
papers, was suddenly buried about two feet
under the surface of an avalanche of snow
from roof, weighing over ton. Great
alarm was felt for the little fellows safety by
the spectators, until they heard him crying
out "only penny" as his head appeared
above the surface. The Cuban question
seems to be far from an adjustment A Mon
treal contemporary thinks the day is fast ap-
preaching when it will be cheaper to give up
"the ever faithful isle" than to retain it any
longer The Captain General originally
thought that reinforcement of 5000 men
would be amply sufficient to restore tranquil
ity, but that number. although assisted by
the 1000 or 5000 troops previously on the
Cuban establishment, and supplemented by
large force of volunteers, seems to have
made no permanent impression in the insur-
rectionary districts. Districts which month
or six weeks ago had taken no part in the
movement for independence, are now over
run by the insurgents, and the day seems to
be approaching when the Spanish flag will
only float over the Capital and two or three
of the larger towns which have as yet
evinced no open or whispered sympathy for
the insurgents, The Cinnamon have erected
an idol temple at Portland, Oregon, for the
purpose of their peculiar worship. Four
hI1n Chippca ,,;r -.
Francisco on the Gath of last month AS
they were taken from the ship to their Quar-
tiers an effort was made to seize some of
them, and some Of the rival parties were
wounded. Great excitement existed in the
Chinese section of the city. The efforts of
the police, however, prevented an outbreak,
The New York Commercial states that Gen
eral Butler, in conversation with some friends,
declared that Mrs. Suratt was an innocent
woman; but this is nothing more than he
said upon the floor of the United States House
of Representatives, in reply to Mr. Bingham,
of Ohio, and on numerous other occasions.
The Commercial also states that he said at
the same time and during the same converse
ton, that when he wanted any one convic-
ted he always sent them to military COM
mission, but when he wanted them acouit.
ted he always did it himself Holt and Stan
ton understood this as we'll as General But
Ter, for they seldom sent persons any where
else to be tried The Siamese twins, who
quarrelled long since and scarcely spoke for
years, have recently renewed their attempt
to obtain physical divorce by the use of
the knife. DR.. Symes, of Edinburg, and
Sir James Simpson, the eminent surgeons,
agree in declaring the operation to be peril
GUS in the extreme, if not totally impossible.
An eastern exchange, in referring to the en-
igration in Florida, declares that Florida is
the cry of thousands of new emigrants native
and foreign, who are determined to change
their homes this spring. With 59,27O square
miles of territory, and less than 200 900 souls
ola population in the American Italy, cotton
rice, sugar, tobacco, corn, and all the trop-
cal fruits native to the soil, wine, silk; olives
and sumac producible everywhere, endless
plantations of timber, wilderness of bloom,
the woods swarming with game, and the
rivers and brooks, with the finest fish, while
along the coast, the table of the sybarite
could be stocked every day with succession
of fresh delicacies obtained at little more cost
than the capture. This is the land for thous-
and who must SILVER and famish in less &C.
NAL ATTITUDES, and now crowded settlements.
An important decision has been rendered by
the Supreme Court of the United States,
which seems to settle the question in regard
to contracts made specially in coin, declaring
that such contracts are binding and cannot
be evaded under the legal tender act, as has
been generally supposed Cotton has been
dull the past week, caused by cable dispatches
from Liverpool. The stock in the market
is sensbly increasing, but the receipts at the
ports for the week, only reached $4,000 bales
against 10000 for the same time last year,
reducing the excess over last year to 10000
bales. Prices have declined to rather more
than one cent pound on ordinary descrip-
tions. The amount Of coin in the United
States Treasury has been reduced in the last
year over $200OO,OOO, At the beginning of
January, the Treasury had only about $4O,-
100000 of coin properly its own. There is
great excitement in the Catholic Church Mt