The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-06-03

last, by party vote, agreed to the new bill
to enforce the fifteenth Amendment. 1t goes
now to the President for his approval In
the debate on that day the Democrats charac-
terized it as the most radical measure ever
passed by Congress, and declared that it con-
solidated in the general government more of
the powers heretofore reserved and exercised
by the States than was ever even attempted
before through the legislation of Congress.
1t was further maintained that the pains and
penalties imposed were so stringent as to ma
terially weaken the enforcement of the act,
and the New York city members said that
nothing that Congress could do would tend
so much to unite and consolidate the Demo
cratic party in that State and increase its
members as this bill. They declared that ii
would in the end double the official Demo-
cratic majority of ninety one thousand which
the party had received in the recent judicial
election in New York.
The British minister, in an interview with
the Secretary of State, expressed his thanks
for the prompt action of the administration
in issuing the proclamation against the Fe-
Man invasion of Canada, and also for resort
ing to such prompt civil and military meas
ures to suppress it by the enforcement of the
neutrality laws.
Rev. VIM. Pinckney, d. d., was last week
elected assistant Bishop of the diocese of
Maryland by the convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church which met in Baltimore.
DR.. Pinckney is a nephew of the celebrated
lawyer William Pinckney, and is the pres
cnt Rector of Ascension parish, Washington,
C.
The ST. Louis Democrat gives the details of
the recent conflagration in that city, and the
destruction of the publication office, presses,
files and contents of the Missouri Republican,
one Of the oldest Democratic newspapers in
the West, established in 1903. 1t is q singu-
lar fact that the republican paper is named
Democrat, and the democratic paper named
Republican.
George Chahoon, Republican, was last week
elected mayor of Richmond by small ma
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Council.
On the LIST of June the work of taking the
ninth census will commence. The ccnsus-ta-
ker is not at liberty to make known any in
formation gained in the discharge of his du-
ties that would affect the interest of individu-
ais. Ladies who refuse to tell their ages will
be fined $50.
The new river and harbor bill in Congress
appropriates twelve thousand dollars for the
improvement of the Susquehanna river and
fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement
of the harbor of Wilmington, Delaware, but
does not appropriate cent for the Delaware,
Potomac or Patapsco.
Charles Caldwell, an employee of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, was tried in the
Criminal Court at Washington, d, c., on
Friday last, on a charge of ejecting L. H.
Douglass, son of Fred. Douglass, from chair
car on that road, for which extra charges
are made. The defense was that the seat ia
ken by Douglass had been previously en-
gagged and paid for, and Douglass had been
so informed, and then insisted on remaining
therein He was then elected Judge Hum
phreys told the jury what the present law is
regarding distinction on account of color, and
said while passengers had no right to infringe
on the authority of conductor, still the lat
ter had no right to be rude that if the seats
in the Car in question had been all engaged
it was an error of the conductor to be hasty,
&c. The jury took the case to the jury room,
but being unable to agree were finally dis
charged.