The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-03-19

The New York Euening Post learns that
the Western Union Telegraph Company finds
1t necessary to procure cheap operators for
country stations. Men, it Is said, are not
only expensive, but restless under confine-
ment. When they are not busy they are apt
to stay away from their offices, and do not
hear the signal for message. Women work
cheaply, and remain at their post reading
or sewing, and are thus always at hand to
hear the premonitory click An experiment
was lately made upon long line to test this
matter, and it was found that the female ope-
rators invariably answered the calls, but the
men were often absent. The Chinese inhab-
itants of California are almost wholly of one
sex; and as there are no surplus women Of
anysrace or kind on the Pacific coast, the
Chinese have attempted to bring from their
own country supply of the female sex; but
this has always been resisted by the Ameri-
can people of California. Clock ticks have
been for more than a month, passing over
5000 miles of telegraph wire between Boston
and San Francisco. This is done by connec-
ting the pendulum of the thermometer at
Cambridge University with the wire that
stretches to San Francisco, in such manner
that the main circuit is broken, and instantly
closed again at every beat or tick of the time
piece. There is, however,, a loss of time in
the transmission. To measure this loss u
second wire was called into service, called Il
repeater" added at Boston. The clock ticks
then rush over 5000 miles of wire to Boston,
and return on the second Wire, recording
themselves at the point of starting in some
thing less than sixty seconds of time, having
in the interval traversed 5000 miles, and ac-
tually measured the flight of electricity The
New York Observer, in referring to General
Grants message to Congress, asking the re-
peal of the law so as to enable Mr.. Stewart to
assume the duties of Secretary of the Treas
ury, says: We cannot imagine u greater
breach of public decorum than to repeal
just, equitable and confessedly valuable law,
to permit the very thing which the law was
made to prevent. Berlin dispatches state
that King William, in his opening speech to
the sessions, said that the first duty of the
North German Confederation was to main
tain peace and friendly relations with other
powers; that the result of the Conference
recently held at Paris Oh the Eastern ques-
ton demonstrated that there was general
desire for peace. Mr.. Bancroft, the Ameri-
can Minister, gave grand dinner on the
4th instant, in honor of the Inauguration of
President Grant. He said that no dispute
had ever risen between the United States and
Germany, and the friendly relations between
the two countries were now specially guaran-
teed. Late adyices from Japan state that the
minister of France to Japan had audience
with the Mikado at Yeddo, and presented his
credentials. The ports of Yeddo and Negata
have been opened TO foreigners Yeddo is to
be the official residence ofthe Mikado, and the
permanent capital of the japanese empire
Three hundred and fifty lodges of Cheyennes,
Arapahoes and Camanche Indians, numbering
in all about 900 warriors, are said to be
moving on the war path. Fresh trails have
been discovered near the head of the Red and
the Staked Plains. The pardon issued by
ex-Prcsident johnson for Martin, the defaul-
ting cashier of the Boston Hide and Leather
Bank, has been revoked by President Grant
but the United States Marshal, before he ire
cciyed the order, had released the criminal
The San Francisco alta says that burglaries
and highway robberies are almost as frequent
as they were in 1850 and 1851, and that the
criminals always escape, but that San Fran
cisco cannot stand it much longer The
Minnesota House of Representatives have
voted 500, 900 acres of internal improvement
lands for the payment of the old railroad
bonds of the State. 5000 emigrants have
arrived at New York since the first of Janu-
airy. Minnesota has appropriated $4,000
for the establishment of new Emigration
Board. 1t is expected that large number
of emigrants will come from Hanover and
Saxony, and other German States this year,
owing to the extension of Prussian rule over
these countries. The Hon. James Guthrie,
Secretary of the Treasury under the admin
istration of President Pierce, died at Louis
vile, Kentucky, the 18th instant 1t is re-
ported that General Longstreet will not ac-
ccpt the position of Surveyor of the port of
New Orleans, lately conferred upon him by
the President. The reason for this is that
his adhesion to radicalism may not be attri.
buted to his desire for place If his CONVEX
sion is real, we do not see any necessity for
making this test, and as his refusal is based
upon the fear of being suspected, we do not
look upon it as the best evidence of disinter-
estedness. A large fleet of fishing vessels
arrived lately at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
from Georges Bank, nearly all having suffer
cd loss of cables and anchors by weather of
almost unexampled severity. 1t is said that
the losses will consume the profits ofthe fish
cry for the present year. Dispatches from
Vienna report that the ministerial budget
shows deficiency Of 100000 of forms in
the revenue to meet the estimated expenses.
On the rendition of their verdict ofnot guilty
by the jury in the case of James Grant,
charged with the murder of Ii. Riycs Pollard,
considerable applause took place, and this
action seemed to be generally approved by
the populace. The steamer Pantheon, from
New Orleans for Liverpool, with 10000 BUSH