Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bu,
reau, Washington amounted to S9l5.OOO.
st. Paul, Minnesota, has population OF
| l3,Ol2, against 10. t05 in 1860
Senator Creswell was last week admitted tc
practice in the Circuit Court for the District of Co
! lumba.
| The steamship Western Metropolis arrived
at New York on Thursday from Apaachicola, FIori-
| da with 800 bales of cotton.
Forty thousand dollars worth of oil was de-
stroyed on Thursday by the burning of portion Of
Cozzens X Cos kerosene factory at Blissville L. l.
One company of q colored regiment recent
ly paid OF in Texas. have RENTED through their
captain 81, 100 to the Freedmen's Savings Bank in
New York.
Hon. Tom Corwin, of Ohio, says that he
would have continued in the Mexican embassy, but
that he had to climb mountains and keep on foot all
the time to keep in reach of the Mexican Republic,
and he was too old for it
The Iribune'S Washington special of YES
terday says: At auction sale Of two estates in
Staunton in the valley of the Shenandoah, short
time ago. the white POPULATION were Mortified TO find
that the highest bidder vas colored man. who thus
entered into the ranks of tho landed aristocracy of
Virginia
The executive Office of the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals. at Frankfort, KY. was burned on
Thursday morning; also. portion of the new build
ing being used for military department and by the
Judges of the Court Of Appeals. The library,
records, and papers of the court. were almost en-
tirely destroyed.
novel official document was received at
the Indian Bureau on Thursday, It is tabular
analysis of the cost head to the Government of
killing Indians and squaws.' On the Western plains
the average cost of killing an Indian has been about
S5OO0OO, while for squaw the cost is nearly
S20OO,0O0
A dispatch from New Orleans furnishes us
with later news from Mexico. The Liberalists are
confident of the speedy capture of Matamoras and
Bagdad. Important communications have passed
between the commanders of the opposing forces The
Imperalis organ in Matamoras says there is no ap-
prehensions of another attack upon the city.
Our financial reporter informs us that
stocks inactive, and for fancies" the market is
quite fiat. Gold to he as noted for the last day
or so at li7 though few small lots yesterday
sold at 1865. Governments weaker; State
stock and City SIS quiet and nothing done" Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad shares sold at SIP and City
Passenger at S2l.
The HeroldS Washington special of yes
terday says the industriously circulated con-
cerning the resignation of Judge Otto Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, and the appointment in
his place of Judge Morton, of Illinois, are without
foundation. Judge Otto is understood to enjoy to
the fullest extent the confidence and esteem of the
Secretary of the Interior well as of the chiefs of
the several bureaus of that department. There is no
prospect of his removal from that position.
The Washington correspondent of the Tri
bunc observes that the Secretary Of the Treasury will
recon rend in his report considerable increase in
National banking capital. made necessary by the
commercial necessities Of the country and especially
the destitution of banking capital the South He
will also ask for discretionary power to withdraw
legal tenders and compound interest notes retiring
them when necessary by the loan of money at six per
cent.
a citizen Of Wilson county, Tennessee,
hired substitute in the rebel army who served as
such through the The hirer agreed, in writing,
to convey to the substitute tract of land for which
suit was brought Chancellor Steele, of Tennessee,
has annulled the contract. He declares that the
of the Conederates as belligerents was
induced by considerations of humanity, and in no
wise invested the So-called with rights of nation
atty Hence. contracts made in contemplation of the
existence of such government, in obed ence to its
exactons and to promote its ends in derogation
of public morals and law, and are void.