The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-11-05

family, and this fact influenced them in their
late operations in Wall street.-Agnes Pas
chal, aged ninety-fnnr years, the mother OF
Judge Paschal, and one of the last widow
pensioners of the revolutionary war, died
recently in Georgia.-An eloquent English
clergyman, Rev. Thomas Noble, is said TO be
only one inch taller than Tom Thumb.-Mr
George Peabody was announced TO be scri-
ously i'll in London last week, but late &C
counts report him to be recovering.-A Miss
Pet Mckay, beautiful young lady of Quin
cy, Illinois, deliberately drowned herself in
the Mississippi river, at that place, on Thurs
day last. She left q note stating that she did
not commit suicide for shame, or love, or any
thing of that sort, but because "all her friends
were enemies" and that this is a cold, drra-
ry world to live in."-At the Lynchburg
fair grounds, Va, on last week Col. VIM. o.
McCorkle, Il prominent merchant, was nor
tally stabbed by Max Sumptcr.-The Jani-
tor of the building No, 63 Liberty street, New
York city, with his wife and two children,
were suffocated with the smoke by the burn
ing of the same on Friday last-In Eng
land two scholarship of $3.50 annual value
each, have recently been founded for the
benefit of females who wish to study for
: the medical PROFESSIONAL appears that the
cause of the fire on board the Stonewall, the
steamer burnt on the Mississippi river recent
ly, was the carelessness of some deck hands,
who were engaged in playing cards with a
lighted candle near some hay-A fire occur
red at the Licking county (Ohio) Infrmary
last week, and one of the buildings occupied
by the insane was entirely destroyed and ten
of the inmates persisted in the flames.-Hon.
Lot NJ Morrell has been appointed by Gov
ernor Chamberlain, of Maine, United States
Senator, TO fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Senator Fcssenden.-Belle
Boyd, late of Virginia, and well known DUR
ing the war from her connection with the
Confederate secret service, has been sent to
the State insane asylum in California.
the officers ofthc Cuban ship of war Hornet,
tried at Wilmington, North Carolina, for a
violation of the neutrality laws, have been
discharged except seven who gave bail in
$500 each for their appearance before the
United States District Court, which met on
Monday last.-Governor Geary's removals
and appointments in Pennsylvania are Gre
ating great deal of dissatisfaction among
some classes of the Republicans in that State.
Miss Louisa Muhlbach, whose historical
novels have been so widely read throughout
this country, has abandoned her intention of
making lecturing tour through the United
States, and is about to marry a professor of
medicine in the Berlin University-The If
repressible conflict among the New York bro
kers, seems still to rage, as witness the fol-
lowing: Mr.. Orlando W. Joslyn, New
York broker on Broad street, was arrested
on Saturday afternoon last, and arraigned
before Justice Bowling at the Tombs, on a
charge ofperury preferred by j. Fisk, Jr.
Joslyn waived an examination and gave bail
10 answer at the Court of General Sessions.
The alleged perjury was the affidavit of
Joslyn that his house sold Fisk 1886, 900 gold,
at SLIGO, on the memorable gath September
last and which Fisk now denies.-From Spain
we learn that the prospects of their again
having king shortly is increasing, as al
deputies in the Cortes are pledged to vote for
the Duke of Genoa for that position.-In
the Tennessee legislature, on Monday last,
Mr. White offered preamble reciting q clause
in the Constitution of that State which SAYS
that no senator or representative shall duriug
the time for which he was elected, be eligi-
BILE to any office or place of trust, the ap-
pointment which is vested in the executive Or
in the general assembly, &C., and as Henry
Cooper, the newly elected U. S. Senator, was
representative from Davidson county, in
the Legislature, the same gentleman offered
q resolution that his election was illegal and
void. MIR. White is understood to be o fast
friend of Andrew johnson, and no doubt the
action is taken to attempt to yet secure his
election. Nothing has yet been done with
the resolution. Andy seems to die hard
Father Hyaointhe remains in New York,
closely watched and besieged by the newspa-
per reporters, who chronicle such startling
events in the history of this great man, as
that he arose on Sunday morning, took
breakfast, (wonderfulD attended Catholic
Church, and finally went to bed again at ten
o'clock at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wickliffe, of
Kentucky, died on Saturday last, at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law Judge William M
Merrick, in Howard county, Md. He was
formerly member of Congress and also of
the Peace Congress of 1861, and under Pres-
dent Tyler held the position of Post Master
General.