The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-18
Presented to the Hartford Historical So
ciety, April 2sth, 1894.
BY GEO. w. ARCHER, NJ. d.

ctety, April SSth, 1884.
BY GEO. w. ARCHER, NJ. ID.
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We print these extracts as part of the history
of thecounty Many of them recount the local
events of the late war, and have been imparti-
ally made from the county wspapers of both
sides. We will add, that there are still many
gaps in the files, and it is greatly to be desired
that persons who have the missing numbers
especially those relating to the war-will favor
the Historical Society with Them if only on
loan for they are our main dependence for a
full and correct history of that terrible con-
flict
March 81, 1856. DIR. John H. Waters has
been appointed professor of Physiology and
Medical Jurisprudence in the st. Louis Medical
College. Or. Walters was 4 native of this
county, and Il brother of Judge Watters0
April II, 1857. The first number of the
Southern Egis" will be issued in July, with
George Yellott and John Cox as editors the
latter now editor of this paper. The Egis will
be devoted to the defense of the South and its
May 8. Mr.. John Burke, formerly of Bel Air,
who removed to California in 1S49, was recent
ly killed in that territory, by one of two men
who were fighting-he having thrown himself
between them, and was shot. II believe Mr..
Burke was a son of Sheriff Burke.1
May 10. Governor Lyon has appointed Hon.
James l.. Bartol Judge of the Court of Appeals,
in place of Judge Mason, appointed Collector
of the Port of Baltimore. Judge Bartol was
born in Havre de Grace; studied law in Bel Air,
and after practicing for some years the
Eastern Shore, settled in Baltimore.
The Southern Agis.-John Cox, editor and
January 16, 1858. General Cadwallader has
6 900 acres of land in Gunpowder Neck, on
which not enough formerly grew to feed the
force that worked it, 1t now produces thOus-
ands of tons of grass and grain, and hundreds
of stock all this improvement having been
wrought within ten years past. His manager
January So John Carroll Walsh first ap
pears as editor, with John Cox as proprietor
and publisher
Feb. 81. All editorial says, that the court
house was burned on last Saturday, Goth inst;
that the fire was first seen about 31a o'clock,
a. NJ, when the flame was breaking out of
the roof. The records of the Commissioners
office and of the public schools were destroyed.
The two wings forming the Clerks and the
Registers offices, were not inJured-being fire
the books. Fortunately the roofs of the sur
rounding houses were covered with snow. No
one can account for the origin of the fire.
On the same morning town meeting was
held in the Clerks office, and Il committee APP
pointed to go at once to Annapolis, to ask the
Legislature-then in session-to take measures
June IL. The contract for rebuilding the
court house has been awarded to Elijah and
Alonzo Reynolds, of Port Deposit, for S14 900,
including the old material; to be finished by
the LIST of July, 1859. Frank Barr was APP
pointed Superintendent, and j. Crawford Neil
son Consulting Architect.
June 10. The contract for rebuilding Como
wingo bridge has been awarded to Harris INA
son. of York, and Messrs. Black, of Lancaster,
(builders,) for $685. 900, to be completed by
January, 1859.
June %. An editorial runs as follows: The
Baltimore County Advocate" says, the boun-
Diary between Baltimore and Hartford counties
is Little Gunpowder river, from mouth to
source. Its source is Carin's spring, thence
due N. to Pa. line. We are informed that this
QrlN OF cd
and marked; that when the commissioners APP
pointed to run the line reached this spring it
was night, and they parted never to meet again.
In surveying the county Baltimore county,,
to locate school districts, Mr.. Mahool has re-
Gently run this line and he locates it much fur
Their East than was the generally accepted
opinion. Some who thought themselves in
Hartford are placed by this line i'll Baltimore
county; and it has created some excitement.
Visitor is out, with George w. Heating as edi-
tor. Then comes this specimen of editorial
courtesy 1.-The Major has washed off his
pollutions and begins with clean hands,"
July 81. The editor of the Baltimore Re-
publican" having lately visited Spesutia Island,
says that at the commencement of the revolu-
ton the island was owned by one of those gal
liant spirits who pledged their lives, their for
tunes and their sacred honor. He became,
soon afterwards, an officer in the patriot army
and sold the island on several years credit.
When the debt became due, continental money
was worth but one in one hundred, and the
purchaser knowing that the seller, as an officer
money at nominal value, took a witness to
the seller. and paid HMM the deprecated
names, it is difficult, at this late day, to identify
the parties to this contract. 1t is fact, how
ever. that in August, 1873, Francis Holland
sold the island to Col. Samuel Hughes, proprie-
tor of many iron works. among which was
Principle Furnace, in Cecil county, where he
cast many cannon for the patriot army. He
was held in high esteem and it is hardly credi-
BILE that he perpetrated this fragrant wrong
upon, Holland, II fellow-patriot. who in '76
raised company in this county. and promptly
led them to the aid of Washington in the Jer-
seys.I
The writer goes on to say, that in 1913, a
friend of his being captured by the British, un-
der Cockburn, WAS taken to the island, where
he found the younger officers laying off their
estates. A vessel loaded with coffee having
been captured, and brought to that point, they
next sowed the coffee and plowed it in, some of
them riding the mules in the plCws, and all joy
ously entering into the sport and promising
themselves fine crop at Brother Jonathan's
expense. 1t is by no means impossible that
rum formed part of that cargo, and that it, too.
entered joyously into the sport"
September 25. Our neighbor of the Ma
tional American has started, in TOwsontown,
THE Baltimore County American"
October 2 We congratulate our young
ance of the National American" since it has
come into his hands, and on the valuable ac-
cession of Frank Barr as editor.
January q, 1860 A company called the
Hartford Ritemen" has been formed.
The Hartford Light Dragons which under
Cdpl. II. IiIiSdu JdrTeClJ ludue nue dppcar-
ance some years ago, are about to organize
again.
March 8. The "Spesutia Rangers" has been
formed, with Robert H. Archer, Captain Vim.
E. Evans, LIST Lieutenant; Benedict II. Keene
ID Lieutenant; ID. S. Elliott, Sd Lieutenant
DIR. L. NJ. Elliott, Surgeon; L. d. Michael, LIST
Sergeant.
These numerous military organizations seem
to foreshadow the terrible war so near at hand
while the following is still more ominous.
December l. A card of date November 26th
from Robert III. Archer announces that he is
about to raise u regiment composed of young
men of the I'd Congressional district. whose
services will be offered the Governor of South
Carolina, should the crisis require it.
Resolutions on the Death of Mr.. w. ID.