Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1874-09-16
GENERAL NEWS.

Senator Brownlow, of Tennessee, well
known as a most aggressive Republican,
has published another argument in the
shape of an open letter in earnest OPP
position to the civil rights bill. The
tone of the letter is exceedingly tenn
perate, and its arguments are conclusive
as to the danger incident to a compulsory
fusion of the white and colored schools
in the South which would result from
the passage of the bill. The Senator
says that the recent county elections in
Tennessee were contested with exceed
ing bitterness on this very question, and
that the Republican party, simply be-
cause of its advocacy of the bill, was
defeated by fifty to sixty thousand ma
jority. This fact proves incontestibly
that so far as that State is concerned the
people, irrespective Of color, are awake
to the Importance of not putting in
jeopardy the present educational system
merely to satisfy the fanciful theories of
a f;lnatical few.
Advices from Lima bring the news of
an attempt to assasinate the President Of
Peru, A number of his grateful con-
stituents emptied their pistols at him,
but no one was able to make true shot;
so that his Excellency escaped and the
conspirators were captured. 1t seems
that the sanguinary officers of Peruvian
army are wearied with the long con-
tinuanec Of these piping times Of peace,
and sought to inaugurate a change by
slaughtering the pacific Executive Of the
State.
\ London newspaper intimates that
the Schleswig question threatens to be
reopened. This is truly appalling news.
In Lord Palmerston's time it was said
that only he and one other man in Europe
ever understood this tortuous complica-
ton between Germany and Denmark
and that other was dead. And now that
Lord Palmerston has also passed away
his diplomatic successors are perhaps to
have this terrible puzzle thrust upon
them.
Prince Frederick William, of Prussis
the Queens eldest grandson, will, on
the occasion Of his confirmation, which
stands fixed for the first of September,
have separate retinue attached to his
person, in conformity with an establish
ed Prussian custom. 1t is proposed that
after Michaelmas, 1875, his Royal High
ness shall visit several German universe
ties and pass through the ordinary course
of academical studies for at leafs two
years.
In the U. s. Circuit Court, in Rich
mond, on 10th instant, Judge Hughes
overruled the motion in arrest of judg-
ment in the case of the L. S. VS.. L. II.
Taylor, tried in Alexandria and convicted
of robbing the mail also motion for
a new trial The Court sentenced the
prisoner to confinement in the Albany
penitcntiary for the term of two wears.
There is another indictment against Tay-
lor still untried.
The cable announces the death of Sir
Henry Storks, distinguished army
officer, who was sent out by the British
Government to settle the affairs of ia
maica after Governor Eyre's recall. and
who subsequently held a subordinate
place in the War Department of the
Gladstone Government and was a chief
defender in the House of Commons of
its military administration.
The Treasury Department authorizes
a denial of the statement that an inves-
tigation has been ordered into the con-
duct of business at the Appraisers Office
in Baltimore. No complaints of impor-
lance have reached the Department, and
no occasion for an investigation is known
to exist.