The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Baltimore submarine cable bill, in.
PRODUCED in the U. s. Senate by Senator
Whyle, of Maryland has passed both
houses of Congress. The bill an horizes
F. G. Latrobe, W. F. Frick and Rob-
ert Garrett, of Maryland, and assoc ates,
to lay and maintain line or lines of submar-
Inc cables between America and Europe,
with the American end at Baltimore.
Post Trader Belknnps anxiety for an
immediate trial is now explained. Last
week Attorney General Taft, on the dircc-
ton Of President Grant, ordered the crimi-
nal charges against him for bribe taking I"
be dismissed. The reasons alleged are that
he has already suffered in mind aud fortune,
FIR his errors, and the probabilities Of COT
viciiun were slight. Grant will be true o
his friends to the last.
&C. Irving Ditty, of Baltimore, has brought
himself INFO notice again ~ his appearance,
before n coinmltc of Congress, Ia lie ,ify i"
tie bad character of Maddox WHO expose
Returning Bualder Weiss attempts 10 sci!
the vote OF Louisiana To the highest bidder
Mnddox's own test mony was sufficient 10
agnint Wells, nevertheless, has Teen fully
coIroboral ed by more reliable Witnesses
thai himself
Senator Simon Cameron has been sued
for breach OF promise Of marriage. His suit
or is Mary 8. Oliver, a young and good look.
ing Pennsy lvania widow who claims that her
sffcciions have been blighted $4,000 worth,
by the failure of The Senator to C IMPLY
with his engagement. Mr. Cameron regards
the suit us an attempt al black mailing Mrs.
Oliver formerly held position in the Treas.
ury Department, procured ior her Ivy Sena.
tor Cameron. The latter is IS years of aye
Representative Purman, Republican,
from Florida, created a s,ns,tion in tie
House on Tue sday by asserting that his
State had been fairly carried by the Demo-
Gratis and fraudulcnlly given 10 the R,publi-
cans His speech Ind been prepared ever
since the meeting Of Congress and he his
heen waiting for nn opportunity TO deliv, r
it. The proof is clear and Abundant that
what Mr.. Purman states is correct, but the
wrong is now beyond remedy.
president Grant, this week had another
Sunday dinner md talk, in the course of
which he said he thought it was hut fair that
if II State had vot,d for either Hayes or
Tild, n, the full vote of such s. tie should he
counted according 10 lis political complex.
ion. FL thought the result yet very uncer
tain, and Tint the vote OF Louisiana might
possibly be excluded, and the tlccrun OF
President thrown into the House of Rppre-
senlaiives, leaving the Senate 10 elect the
Vice President. President Grant, when his
mentors are not about speaks wha, he
thinks, and from his conversation it 3 fair
to presume that he does not believe Hay rs
and Wheeler were elected, although he hopes
they may be counted in.
The probabilities of n war between
Russia and Turkey seem to he increasing,
with prospect of the great European pow
ers being drawn into it. Ii is possible that
if hosiliies are actually commenced, Eng
land, France and LAZY will b. ranged on the
| side of Russia, while Germany and Austria
will take sides with Turkey. The policy OF
the English government would seem 10 be
to aid Turkey, but the symp thirs Of The
English people are evidently with the Rus
! slams and against the cruel Turks. Our own
country has no small degree OF interest in
I'm f,r; al,
she would have to feed the combalnnts, in a
great measure, furnish them with arms, ant
do their carrying trade.
The character of j. II. Maddox the wit
ness who testified to X, turning Boardcl
| Weiss attcml t. s. sell the electoral vote o
Louisiana for one million of dollars, wa,
again discussed before the House committee
| Messrs. Barnes Compton, State Treasurer %
Mny land, james A. Buchanan, Richard II
Mitchell, general agent of the Equitable Lit,
Insurance Company, DR.. P,ter Gnodlicl
and VIM. A. Fisher, all of Baltimore, trsitie,
TO the good character OF Maddox for trutl
and veracty. VIM Kryser, vice.pmsdcn
of the B ,lImore and Ohio Railroad, trsifirt
that NJ lddoX was in no wise dlscredt Ill,
connected with the alleged over.ssue O
stock of the Parkcrsburg railroad compan,
These gentlemen are all well-known, o. TIN
highest character themselves, and their wor,
will go far to outweigh nny evidence that h
is not to he believed under oath.
The Republicans in the Pennsylvania
House of Delegates made themselves ridicu
l"us the other day by passing n resolution
consuming the Democratic officers of III
House of Representatives for cruel trenimpn
to Wells and Anderson, Of the Louisiana Re
turning Board. These scamrs really fare ~ I
ter than they deserve. and better, prohnh,
Than they would if they were fee to com
md go as they pleased. They are confnu
in the rooms Of the standing committees q
the House. and their meals ERE ordered n
will from the Capitol restaurant, Mt the ex
pensc of the United States. Other quarter
were assigned TO them, but they preferred I
remain where they are, and make martyr
and hermits of themselves. on canvass hnc
lucks, terrarins, oysters, &c. Krnncr am
C"sennve, the colored members of the bonrf
ire also undergoing the same rigorous trent
ment, but Pennsylvania Republicans do no
"xpress any sympathy for them,