The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-01-14
THE NEWS.

The Hon. Benjamin F. Hopkins, member
of Congress from the second district of Wis.
copsin, uieu last week at Madison, III mat
State.-The legislature of New York, on
Wednesday last repealed the act of ratification
oi the Fifteenth Amendment. adopted by the
preceding legislature vote in the State
Senate on the repeal was 1G to 10, and in the
house G5 to 56-a joint majority of 12-Hon.
William l.. Goggin, of Virginia, at one time a
member of Congress, and afterwards cand-
date for Governor Of that State, died last
wceE.-An inch Of snow fell at Charleston,
5. c., last week, being an event of unusual
occurrence at that place.-There was said to
be an immense throng of visitors at Annap-
oils on Wednesday of last week, on occasion
of the assembly of the Legislature-Hon.
Lot M. Morrill, was nominated by the Rcpub-
lican members of the Maine Legislature, in
caucus, to fill the vacancy in'the United States
Senate occasioned by the death of Mr. Fes-
senden.-From all the counties bordering on
the Chesapeake Bay reports come of great
damage from the recent flood, caused by the
high tide.--Black bears are reported rs very
plentiful in Allegany county, Maryland, and
last week no less than ten were killed in
the neighborhood of Grantsvile-The news
papers continue to report accidents happen
ing from the careless use of firearms during
the holidays.-Mrs. Stowe has at last pub
lished her book upon the subject of the "By-
ron Scandal" containing some. 500 pages,
with not much additional evidence in sup
port of her first assertions.-It is said that
the President will send in a message to Con-
gress shortly, proposing the purchase of the
entire Dominican Government territory,
which is part of the Island of Hayti.-The
second public congregation of the Ecumen-
cial Council commenced at Rome on January
6th.-There has appeared letter FROM Ber-
lin, written by Professor Randolph Gueist,
ID. D., in reference to Dr. Paul Sch@ppe, for
whom he says there is no great sympathy in
his birthplace, and further that six or seven
years ago person of the same name and
corresponding age was sentenced to prison
in Berlin for adroit forgeries His father al
so was stated to be village minister, and
both afterwards emigrated to America. Is
this the same Dr. Scheppe?-Hon Reverdy
johnson has given hos opinion that the tax
on passengers over the Washington Branch
road of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
which the latter refuse to pay to the State, is
nconstitutional.-It is understood that $780,
900 have already been paid for the lease of
SANTANA, over which the United States now
have jurisdicton.-Th Missouri Legislature
has ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution.-The whole number of Span
ish troops at Havana, in the Island of Cuba,
in December last, was thirteen thousand five
hundred.-The annual ball of the first class
of the United States Naval Academy, took
place at their gymnasium on Friday evening
last, and was brilliant enthusiastically last
the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans,
was observed in Washington by display Of
flags upon the public buildings. The day
passed unnoticed in Baltimore-It is said
that Hon. VIM. Strong, of Pennsylvania,
will be nominated by the President to the
Senate, as the successor of Associate JUS
tice Grier, for which place the late Mr.. Stan.
was confirmed, Two hundred and fifty Chi.
nese arrived last week at New Orleans en-
quite for Texas.-Such official accounts as
have been received from Cuba, it is said, show