3Copy Of letter to the Editor Of the Baltimor,
Patriot, dated
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Il WAsHIHoroN CRY, MARcH 90, 1896.
j DEAR SIR


. The great question Of Quit Rents in the Su-
sbrcme Court of the United States, claimed by the
heirs OF Lord Baltimore from the citizens of the
Esa'e has Just been settled in favor OF Maryland.
Il Yours in haste, &c. THO: KENNEDY.
Another letter to the Chronicle, says" The de-
sion Of the Court proceeded entirely on the ground
IN he Acts of Parliament Of 1881, and the agree
Ehents upon which it was passed. These agree
khents, thus confirmed by an Act of Parliament.
kNere enough in the opinion OF the Court, to show
&na all the right of Louise Dso,0ning to QUIT
kENTS, was retinF,isied and ea tinguisked. AS
Die opinion this point disposed of this case, and
Ali others founded on the same claim, the Court
#Eld not deem it necessary to discuss other qucs
Hons, which had been raised and argued in the
+ause.o


M Another TO the American, says" was in the
fbnpreme Court room this morning. and heard Judge
Slo-y deliver the opinion Of the court in the Of
lrowning. The landholders of Maryland may
Erow hush their fears, which always thought we're
pOnecessarily alarmed The judgment of the Cir.
putt Court is confirmed. This cxtravsgant and
Fsonary claim, in short and pithy exposition of
H. facts and the law in the case, has thus by the
#hdgment Of the Supreme Court, received its quie.
aus loreyer.o


ThltdIetphLn, March 20 - esterday man was
vhken up and committed TO prison on the following
Charges that on the 18th inst. he went into the
*arerooms o. Comfy and Teyis took the marks off
lree pieces OF bed licking, laid them aside, as his
lwn, and obtained from MIR. Comfy an advance on
hem of twenty-five dollars, requesting him at the
eme time, TO put labels on the goods he had been
nabe to do it, having no pen and ink. On the 10th,
be same person went into the same warerooms,


bid nre other pieces OF bed ticken with the three
leces on which he had got the advance, and then
pnrlyed, on the twelve pieces, to obtain from Mr..
Somy an advance OF one hundred dollars. Pretty
frly yestsi day morning, the same man went to the
Rme store, and was arrested and committed.
"a Philadelphia, .March 25-The body Of the unfor.
pnate and deceased CHARLES ROGERS, Esq.


las found yesterday morning, On the Flats Of the
delaware, between the lower Rope Walk and the


pint House-there left by the last flood tide The
Pdy was promptly recognised by his relatives and


ends. His watch found in his fob, and it is


heved, every article he had about him when he


y his friends, was found on him. There no


60 OF violence on any part OF his person. Mr. Ro


rs left his family the last day OF the old year, and


ense interest and anguish has been occasioned BY


sudden disappearance 1t is melancholy


action, but still it is satisacio to his relations


ends and the public, to have his body found, and


nave 1t ascertahed that it was by dispensation


Providence, and not by the hand Of man, that his


was shortened. OF the fate OF one other citizen,


20 Disappeared suddenly, the nigh, before Mr..


psers, - are still IN tho. dark