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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-06-18


THE CROPS IN THE WEsr-The signs of
prosperity throughout the West were never
more fattering than at present. There is
now every reason to believe that the re-
turns of the autumn, from the immense
crop of cereals, will give an impetus to
commerce and domestic trade such as they
have not had for many years. The sword
has altogether yielded to the ploughshare,
and not only peace but national pros
perity will be almost the certain result
One of our most reliable correspondents
has just returned from an extended West
ern tour, travelling slowly through and OBJ
serving closely the agricultural condition
of the States of West Virginia, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and also
the western portions of Pennsylvania and
New York. He states, as the result of his
observation, that the promise of a bounte-
Gus yield of all the cereal crops was never
greater. Nothing now, but some unfore-
seen calamity, can prevent one of the lar
gest harvests ever garnered in the Vest
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23

this D. until after this evening. After confirming
number OF nominations OF comparatively minor impOr-
lance the nominations for Circuit Judges taken up
and the following were confirmed:
George " Shepley Of Maine for the First Crcut.
Lewis Il. Woodruff Of SeW-YorE for the Second Circuit
VIM Mckenuau Of Penusylvania for the Third Circuit
VIM b. Woods Of Alabama for the Fhh Circuit
s. L. Whitley OF Michigan. for the SiIth Circuit
Thomas Drummoud of Illinois fdr the Seventh Circuit
Johu T. Dillon Of Iowa, for the Eighth Circuit
The nomination Of George A. Pearre OF Maryland Tor
unfavOTable action in the nature OF pOstpOnemen but
Is still pending together with that OF Lorenzo sawyer OF
California for the Ninth Circuit
considerable number OF nominations were not reached
at ALL and the failure OF the Senate to confirm them can
not therefore be considered significant OF their ultimate
fate. Among the number the nomination OF Gen.
Sckes as Minister TO Spain and various Consular aI,
pOintments The following nominations we're confirmed
in the early part OF tO-day's session: $500,
Collectors Of Cts0m-Rohard Gsggn, at Erie. Penn Wlsn
Regno Marbehead Mass and Owen b. ChAdbourne SAco
Maine
Inspector Of Stombo With District Samuel Houston.
United AtfOrngSWarreu Cowes Of PenDyvAnA for The
Territory Of Dakota Henry Alderman for Georgia. Henry j. Role ioi
HeW.Ismpslire. - $500.
Nswlor; Shields Third District West Va John T. Harper
Eighth District Illinois, A. G. Mathews Ninth District llnoi George
W Hendete Eighth District Virgnisi Jonathan Wills Thirteenth
District iBos Beverly Bolts sixth District virginia. Delos W.
Cameron, Twenty second District, New.lOrk
Scauon Third District EewYoki William yen
ning District Georgian David Il. White Fourth District Var
gina; Thouss !. kinney. Ninth District, Illinois. -
W. ParmeBr Brsddon, VI; George w
MeHeau Lexington Mo- H. B. Head at Harrodsbure kL K W.
Poland North Brookfed Mass VIM H. keeham at OsEAoosa
Iowa p NJ Shelby at Rome r. TOmpkD at MeGrego Iowa
james Upton Battle Creek, Mich John NJ Moore ct Ss Lake
Cy r. Palee Henderson, Ky; Mrs Lucy Morehead Porter
at Louisville KJ Bas Porter, al Russelyi XVI Aberi o. Nc
Daniel at Hannibal, Mo -,
Gov. Bullock has issued proclamation converting the
with the act to promote the reconstruction OF that
state
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Dec. 22-The State Tenn
perance Convention met in this city this afternoon to
consider the advisabty OF organizing Temperance
party in the state. The Rev. C. A. Deleyan OF Science
tady made Chairman, and the Rev. DR.. Love OF
Auburn Nice-Chairman.
Business Committee OF nine members was appointed.
This Committee reported address 10 the people OF the
State series resolutions These resolutions
favor political action To further the Temperance cause
and inaugurates political party called the New-IOrk
Anti DranshOp Party" Tho address and resolutions
were written and reported by Gerrt Smith,
The Rev. Mr. Goodwin OF Ontario made minority re-
port favOrng a declaration against Romansm and IA
voring the Bible in schools which rejected Speeches
made by Gerrit Smith, William ii. Goodwin, +. a
Spencer, and others.
There we're opponents OF the new party movement
In attendance. In the evening large public meeting
held and addresses made In support Of the new party
organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
NEw-YORK THURSDAY. DECEMBER %, 1869
deneia Vira la Libertadl Vird Ia Rerorma Dios n
PdtTid CARLOS EMANUEL De CRsPEDRs.
THE STEAMER ANNA.


This steamship, about which so much has
been published In the sensation journals recently has
not left the city in pursuit Of the Spanish gunboats
neither has she had an engagement with them. any
Of hem and II denied that she belongs to the
Junta Guiana OF this city, the Cubans in general
although exofeers of the Hornet apparently
In charge of her.
1.-THE Anna left Newburg Tuesday night Of last
week at H. for this city, arriving at on Wednesday
morning. on nearing the city, she was met by the Reve
board. under whose surveillance she has since
NAMED The Anna Immediately proceeded TO q pier in
the East River opposite SOuth feminist, Wiamsburgh
where with the exception OF trip TO the pier adjoining
the Wallst ferry, day or two ago. she has remained"
The Anna registered the 27th or July. 1863
owned and belonging TO Mr. Orison Blunt, by whom,
the goth OF October, 1862 she transferred to Sig
Ramon Hernandez COriado, said 10 be member Of the
Junta Guiana OF this city, by whom on the very next
day. she osteDsbly sold TO Mr.. John H. Harnett IN
whose possession. however she did not long remain
the next heard OF her. the 18th Of the present month"; she
registered TO her present Ostenshle owner Mr. Geo.
St. the firm that fitted out the Hornet IN the interests of
the Cuban patriots, who diseam her identity with the
CIbans any Of their enterprises.
Mr.. Brown that he bought her for $1,000 but Is
anxious TO dispose OF her now for $4,000 The Anna 10
o steamyacht, with registered tunnage, In new meas
urement Of only IS 27 uDs, with passenger ac0nmOda
ton for between II and Is persons and totally incapable
OF carrying any armament. larger than a-pounder
would be her destruction She only carry coal for
few days but Of the swifest yachts OF her Glass;
and few vessels could oyertake her in OF apursut
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
WE BuFFALo BREAKwATER-nIGn wATER.

BUFFALO, Dec. %. - George L. Fell, United
States Inspector reports that the contractors for the
breakwaer in Buffalo harbor have suspended operations
for the season. having pauked over wholly completed
AZ running feet OF work TO hight eight feet above the
standard Owwaer mark and $50 feet 10 the water level
The work been carried at great disadvantage.
the being the worst that has been experienced
here for number OF years storms coming up when the
cribs were partly filed. driving the wOkmen from tho
work and washing the cribs ashore. The portion COM
peted has been damaged in the least by the heaviest
storms The only 10 which they will be subjected
now Is the running ice In the Spring The contractors IN
tend build 1000 feet next should prove favor
able.
The rainy weather the last few days. followed by a
southwest gale tins afternoon has caused the water In
Buffalo Creek to rise 10 unprecedented hight for this
season. The cellars along the line of the docks and
canals are flooded with water which Is still rising.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
GENERAL TELEGRAPHEC NEWS.

-. Immense quantities Of iron ore have been
discovered in CalaveTas County, Cal
THE wooden mills of II. Bull ut Peters
burgh, H.. burned on Tuesday evening. Loss,
81. c. Ward g. Co.'S patent roofing man
uiactory at Nashville was partially burned yesterday
Loss about 81 600 insurance, $1,000.
L. j. Byrd was shot at New-OIleans byP.N.
Ducros, and probably MORALLY wounded. Ducres has
been arrested. Both young men are highly connected.
Heavy seizures of property, have been
made the southern counties OF California by the revo
nue. authorities. for Illicit dstilng.
The office of the Lehigh Coal and Navi-
CATION Company OF Mauch Chunk was destroyed by hre
on Tuesday night. The loss is about 5000 partially
insured
Over 400 colored men have left Richmond,
Va during the past week to 60 to work IN Louisiana ara
last month for the South
The ruins of the Allegheny City school
building which burned on Tuesday, fell In yester,
day. nurng two children named jacket so severely tha'
they will probably die
The weather in Los Angeles County, Cal,
ia colder than been for many Great damage
been done to the Young fruit trees and oran trees
under two years are badly sapped.
The proposltion to paw Charles Burrill
$4,000 for obtaining the city Of Boston quota
during the was defeated In the Boston Board VI Al
dermen yesterday by a TIE VOTE
There were six fires in Chicago between
10 O'Clock Tuesday night and o'clock yesterday
morning The only serious one was the DESTRUCTION on
Fleishnann's brewery Loss, $4,000; Insurance. F,ao
of citizens Nashville Tenn at the prospect OF SUE
penson OF the city schools The schools attended ~
about 600 pupils and IN highly prosperous condi-
ton Tne Suspension urged by the city authorities a.
a measure of economy
The Grand Chapter of the Phi Kappa
Sigma Fraternity held session in Philadelphia yester,
day Full delegations present from nearly al
subordinate ChaperaBd much business was TRANSACTED
grand reunion OF the members oil the fraternity VIII NC
held In Philadelphia during August 1870.
.... In the case of the Sheriff of Boyle County,
KY. against Cobb Co. Of Buffalo. n ", for the rsso,
ration of 1900 bushels OF wheat seized from him whe
under Judge Ballard OF the g. District court
of Louisville decided that the u. Marshal could not
take from the OF State officer property ned
under process The grain.wi1 be returned at the eI
peDse OF Cobb Co.
Several alleged relatives of the late SEN
aor David Frederick commenced suit 10 the or
curt Court Of San Francisco against JOhn A. MEG
Andrew j. Butler and Others for the possession Of Brod
ercks property The prosecution maintain that the NIL
and estate were Administered upon forgery. written
after Brodercks DEATH by Alfred A Phillips and signed
by Moses +. flanagan
CoOpers Union No. 6 last evening voted a
ANAL sum to the Cleveland eoopers now sthke against
a In clia ar WA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
FRANCE.
RELIEF OF THE SPANISH REFUGEES.

RELIEF OF THE SPANISH REFUGEES.
PARIS. Wednesday, Dec %, 1859.
subscription has been opened for the relief of tho
SpaniaTds, who were recently expelled from the
country by the French Government
GEN, BANKS.
The French journals allude to the fact that Gen.
Banks had several interviews with the Emperor be-
fore his departure for America but in the absence Of
further information, abstain from comment.
FATHER HYAClNTHE.
Father Hyacinthe has arrived at Havre on the
steamship Pereire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
AMIRDERER EXECUTED.

CARLISLE, Pa, Dec. 22.-Adam Titus was
hanged here today for the murder Of Henry salm at
shppensburg, Pa on Dec. 20, 1863 When the murderer
was arragned his trial last june lie pleaded guilty
and refused TO be tried. He afterward sentenced
without trial. and uDhesitatDgy detailed the clrcun-
stances Of the crime which he had committed But few
persons present at the execution. Dr. schOeppe
was asO sentenced 10 be hanged at the same time but "a
stay OF proceedings ordered some time ago m his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
SPAIN.
THE ELECTIONS.


MADRID, Wednesday, Dec %, 1869.
Elections for the AyRtamientOs, which were dis
solved by the Government, have been ordered and
will commence on the Sd of January. The elections
to ill the seats in the COrtes left vacant by the Re-
publican deputies who took an active part in the
late instruction will take place the Goth of Janu
AIRY.
In the COrtes the republican minority have made
an energetic protest against these elections and they
demand the restoration of the former AyntdmicntOs.
They declare that they will carry tho matter before
the legal tribunals, but counsel the people in the
mean time to keep the peace, and make vigorous eff
forts at the new elections to return their true
friends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
THE DIR. OLIVER MURDER CASE.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Dec. 22.-Mr. 6. s.
Ayres was examined to-day, for killing Dr. Anthony X.
Oliver for alleged seduction OF his daughter The test.
mony was the the COroners inquest with the
addition that the widow OF deceased testified that her
husband held Ayress due.b for 5000. payable az ten
DAYS notice. bnt there had been trouble about
the money. The examination was continued until to-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
GREAT BRITAIN.
NF.yy DIsuOps-THE TROOPS IN IRELAND.

NEW BIsHoPS-THE TROOPS IN IRELAND.
LONDON, Wednesday Dec o. 1859.
The newly-appoiuted Bishops of Exeter, Bath, and
Wells, and the Falkland Islands were consecrated
Yesterday at Westminster Abbey. The troops in Ire
land are hereafter to be more generally billeted
the inhabitants.
Leave has been granted the Archbishop of Canter-
bury to appoint Suffragan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
POLITICAL.
NETWORK.

In the XXVIth Senate District the Republi-
can Convention nominated the Hon. Abraham V. Har-
pending Of Yates County for Senator TO succeed MT
Folger He was a member OF the Assembly Of 1857, is
sturdy Republican, and an able man. The election will
take place on Tuesday, the 2sth lust.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
THE GCUMENICAL COUNCIL.
AVAILABILITY LOSING GROUND.

LONDON Wednesday, Dec q, 1869.
The tenor Of the latest advces from Rome indicates
that the advocates of Papal infallbilty losing
ground in the Council.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
PORTUGAL.
PENISsULAR UNION.

LisbON' ht"HcSuas' b''' 49, i"O''
Rum0rs that secret negotiations III progress for
a peninsuar union are current and cause much pub
lie excitement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
"vmc1yrA CRY. MT. Dec. q.


at never made n speech anywhere denouncinR the
Presidents appointments, nor a speech In Montana
against the negro, bid for Democratic support On
the contrary in my message congratulated the Demo.
cratic Legislature OF Montana the certainty OF the
adoption Of the Fifteenth Amendment, and recommended
that they enact its exact words into law public
ought TO be Judged by his official acts. My record in
favor OF the negro and Republican principles has no blot
and, II examined, will Yindcate against all msrepre.
sentation JAMES NJ. ASHLEY"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
MONTANA.

GOV. ASHLEY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Gov. Ashley tele-
graphs the following in answer to tho charge made
against him that he working in COLLISION with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
WASHINGTON.

THE GEORGIA RECONSTRUCTION BILL SIGNED BY
THE PREsIDENT-NEARLY ALL THE CIRCUIT
JUDGES CONFIRMED-JUDGE HOARs NOMIN-
ALTON TABLED-THE IRON-CLAD TRIUMPH.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THR TRIBUHBl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23

Coopers Union No. 6 last evening voted a
0 reduction VI wsgvs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23
EONIsATLONs AND COMBINATIONS PROC
ZION FROM GOV. BULLOCK.

GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHl
The President sent the senate today the following
nominations: e. Whitman Williams "a be Postmaster at
Rome n Y; Auasa u. Tracy, To DO Postmaster AT Mid
l.burg VIZ Gabriel e. Wharton, 20 De District AttOr-
1ry for kentucky, wee Brst0D, resigned.
6ebslOn from @ clock
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26

At the regular meeting of the "Medi-
colegal Society,"" at the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, last evening, DR.. Fin
nell submitted a rare specimen of fatty
heart taken from the body of colored
woman who recently fell in syncope, while
shouting under great excitement at a re-
ligious meeting, and died in few mo-
ments. The autopsy discovered that the
entire structure of the heart had been
transformed from the ordinary healthy
muscular tissue to pure fat, and yet its or
ganism remained perfect in all it's parts.
The doctor said he presented this case to
the society not only for its rarity, but for
the bearing which it and similar cases had
upon medical Jurisprudence, the special
object for which the society was organized.
1t might often happen, as it often did
happen, that a man was knocked down by
blow in quarrel, and was supposed to
have been killed by the blow, when, in
fact, he died as this colored woman did,
from over excitement acting upon a fatty
heart. 1t showed the Importance of %
careful autopsy in cases of supposed homi-
eide. Death resulted in this case from
paralysis of the heart and long detention of
blood from the brain and it indicated the
treatment in such cases that could not be too
often or too strongly impressed upon the
public-viz., that in cases of fainting the
patient should be Immediately suspended
head downward, or, at least placed in a
horizontal position. Had this been done in
the case of the colOred woman whose heart
was here exhibited, she might probably
have been alive to-day. Scarcely an audi
ence could be got together in which there
would not be individuals, with feeble and
fatty hearts, who were liable at any time
under any extraordinary mental or bodily
excitement, to be attacked in the manner
this woman was, and who might die Under
the attack, unless Immediately treated in a
proper manner In the case of Inspector
Carpenter, the autopsy showed fatty con-
dition of the heart, and had not Mr.. Car
penter been so obstinately opposed to
taking stimulus of any kind, his life might
probably have been prolonged many years
-Neao York Times, Novenaber II.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26
Tit for Tat.

Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS tellsthe Illustrated
London Nesos rather singular story of a
bit of meanness and the appropriate re-
venge which followed it, When the Prince
of Wales lately visited Hull, there was a
desi1e to ornament, in his honor, the
monument in that city erected to the
memory of Wilberforce But the column
was lofty and not easily climbed, and it
was hard to find any one to make the
ascent and wreathe it; with flowers and
foliage The authorities offered money
reward to any man who would accomplish
the task After some time, two sailors
from one of Her Majesty ships undertook
the job, and performed it well. They ap-
piled for the reward, but the local officers
refused to pay it, on the ground that, be-
ing servants of the Queen, it was no more
than the duty of the sailors to decorate the
shaft in honor of the Prince. Beer was of
fered in lieu of the expected guineas, and
the sailors drank it and went their way.
But during the night before the arrival of
the royal guest, all the ornament was torn
away, by the same strong and skillful hands
that had carried it aloft. Moreover, a
small ladder, decidedly not an ornament
to the column, was left sticking there,
where no one could get at it. The loyal
authorities of Hull could only hope that
the Prince did not observe the bar
renness and Disagreement of the Wilber
force column, as he passed it.
Toledo has imported 100000, coo feet Of
pins lumher the past season.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26
Human Bodies Turned to Stone.

To the Editor of the New York Sun:
SIR: The recent affirmation of PrOfeS-
sor III. A. Ward, of the Rochester IN. W
University, "that there is no single in
stance on record of fossil or petrifed
flesh" is strangely subversive of the truth
in many well authenticated cases, recorded
in the newspaper presses, and well re-
membered to this day by hundreds of the
most intelligent and reputable citizens res
ident where the discovery of these phe-
nomena took place.
The instance recently furnished you
from Canastota, N. Y, of the petrifaction
of the body of Captain Cady, "an old and
well-known resident of the town of Sulli-
van," revives and reclothes with all the
freshness and vigor of yesterdays Incl
dent the exhumation of the body of Mrs.
Willis Cowling for reinterment in the new
cemetery, just erected and completed in
the city of Richmond, Va, thirty-five
years ago.
The deceased lady, the wife of one of
the largest manufacturers of that city, and
man of fine character and large wealth,
was buried in the grounds attached to the
Methodist Episcopal Church. After the
lapse of several years, Mr.. Cowling in the
interim having married again, and the
second wife dying, determined to bury
both wives side by side in the new ceme-
terry, and had the body of the first wife
exhumed:: The unusual weight of the cof.
fin, exacting the force and power of seve-
eral men to remove it, and the extraordi-
nary preservation of the wood of which
it was manufactured, induced the friends
present to investigate these astounding
phenomena, and with that sole object in
view opened the coffin, when, to the utter
amazement of every beholder, the body
was found to be petriied in its entirety
daguerreotyping not only the general con,
tour of the face, but lining each individual
feature with such perfect accuracy as tc
be easily and distinctly recognizable by
every friend present, Notwithstanding tht
Intervention of fifteen years between tht
burial of the body and its exhumation.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26
What will Become Of Us?

THE suns atmosphere, say the scientific
men, is in highly excited condition. A
column Of magnetic light is shooting out
further and further from the solar sphere,
and it is now stretching out fortyfve mil
lions of miles In other words, it has ac-
complished half the distance between us
and the sun! The interesting question,
and one on which, perhaps, we donot wish
any more light of this character, is: How
long will it be before it finishes the rest of
the distance and bridges the gigantic
chasm between the earth and the sun
Is it messenger sent out to snatch us up
as food for the insatiate monster that keeps
himself warm by devouring planets, and
whose 1ire-eating propensities this whole
earth would satisfy for a few days only?
If so, how long will this emissary be in
reaching us, and carrying the globe away
as if we were gigantic lump of coal for
roaring furnace? This column of light at
intervals indicates its approach by flashing
and corruscating with fresh brilliancy. So
decidedare its effects that two astronomers,
one at London, the other at Oxford, and
neither knowing the experience of the
other, supposed that the dark glass of
their telescopes had been broken or put
out of range, SO strong was the flash OF
gOluen ignG upon tne VISION. IL Is pre-
dicted that before the end of the next
year this magnetic light will have got near
enough to us to make it's immediate and
actual influence upon the earth distinctly
felt. 1t is announced that In consequence
we may expect to seephenomena that have
never been seen or known before by the
human race. If any of our readers are
therefore yet disposed to complain of the
weather and the earthquakes let them re-
member that, by this time next year, they
may have an entire new line of expert
ences to explain and endure, in compari
son with which the fitful winter and
rough, rude autumn of to-day, may seem
like June morning'in Paradise, and the
earthquakes shock and lightning's storm,
placid rocking in the cradle with pleas
ant lullaby of thunder.-Buf'alo Erpress,
NOU 10. t'& 81