Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-02
DAILY COMMERCIAL.
BALTIMORE L. NJ ID.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Powers, and says that force alone Is the power
which has been consulted and recognized. Violence
and conquest the only basis upon which
Austria and Prussia have formed an alliance .
From recently published foreign correspondence it
appears that the Chinese Government by proclama-
ton prevented the Alabama and other rebel cruisers
from entering its ports for the that treaty OF
and amnesty exists between the United States
and China, and that American citizens trading there
should not suffer injury from any their ships
or goods be destroyed.
Russia has officially declared that she viii maintain
intervention policy in the Scheswig Holstein
question. The cattle plague is reported to be the
increase in England. The statement is repeated by
the Army and Navy Gazette that Donald Mckay, of
Boston, is in close communication with the Admiral
ty on the subject of torpedocs
The Times says that the information upon which
the seizure of the Irish People" was made was de-
rived from Washington. The markets are buoyant
and prices have advanced 4@12d. Flour is inactive,
Beef quiet and prices steady. Produce is active
Consols closed at s93s@S954. Illinois Central Shares
SO4@S012; Erie 5S@5S4. L. S. 5-2O's 6S2s@6s7s.
1t is understood that after the trial of Wirz at
Washington is ended, there will be an investigation
of the Salisbury and other prisons of the South in
which Union prisoners confined and maltreated
The United States Court of Claims commences its
October session at the Capitol o-day.
The Rev. DR.. Wayland for more than % years
President of the University at Providence, died on
Saturday afternoon of paralysis.
One hundred and thirty-two patents were issued
from the Patent Office for the week ending Sept. 26
and for the week ending October 8 one hundred and
ten will be issued.
Among the visitors to the President on Saturday
were Major Generals Wool and Palmer, and l.. P.
Walker, formerly Secretary of War of the Confed-
racy.
The Postmaster General is now engaged in cxamin
ing the accounts of those who were postmasters in
States lately in rebellion previous to the war, for the
purpose of inSutng suits against those found to be
indebted to the Department
The fine steamship Havana the pioneer vessel of
the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Com
pany, sailed yesterday noon from New York for Rio
JaneirO. In view of the vast Importance now being
attached to Brazil and the South American Repub-
lies in her neighborhood. the opening up of this line
is a move in the right direction.
The certificates of indebtedness for the week end
ing Saturday, September Both, ut., amounted to the
sum of S7,9O6,5iO, and the mutilatcd currency de-
troyed during the same period amounted to
$iO96l64O.
The Siberian plague is making terrific progress in
the government of Perm, and in the districts of Eka-
ternburg, Tbit, Ncrchoowsh kamuschlov and
Shadrinsk.
Hon. Judge Hall. of Buffalo, n. Y, has so far re-
covered from his recent illness as to walk about but
is not yet able to attend to his official duties.
U. s. Collector c. ID. Norton, of Buffalo n Y WAS
suddenly and severely attacked with pleurisy while
walking in the street Friday morning and for =
time serious apprehensions were felt. At last ac
counts however, he was better.
private dispatch from Boston to some parties in
Washington states that it is nearly certain that Mr.
j. O. A. Griffin will be the Republican nominee for
the place in Congress made by the resignation
OF Mr.. Gooch. Mr.. Griffin it is said, is man of
very areat abilities and an unwavcring radical.
Several arrests of persons charged with passing
counterfeit notes made last week. The city is
said to be flooded with countcrleits, principally upon
Government currency.
The Grand Lodge T. and A. Masons of MARYLAND
on Saturday purchased three lots on Charles street
adjoining ST. Paus Church, 81 feet front by $50 feet
deep, on which they propose to erect new Masonic
Temple. The committee contemplate commencing
the erection of the building early next spring
The Friends and Baltimore base ball clubs played
match game on Saturday, which resulted in the de-
feat of the latter.
Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury,
left Washington for Indiana on Saturday on official
business.
The steamship Somerset" Capt. Sandford of the
Baltimore and Liverpool line and the second Ameri-
can steamer that has left this country for Europe du
ring the past five years. sailed from this port on Sat
urday under the most auspicious circumstances
The revenue cutter Commonwealth" having on
board large number of invited guests escorted the
Somerset down the bay. A full report of the cere-
mony attending the inauguration of this line may be
found in another column.
The eighteenth annual exhibition of the Maryland
Institute will commence this evening and continue
during the present week. We are assured that no
effort has been spared to make the exhibition in
structive and profitable to all who may attend and
the hope is indulged that by reason of the number
variety and superior quality of articles displayed the
occasion will excel in interest and attracveness any
of the fairs of previous years.
The 4om kippur" or Day of Atonement the
highest festivalin the Jewish calendar religiously
observed in this city Saturday. all the Synagoges
being crowded with worshippers. The feast com
menced Friday evening and ended on Saturday
evening.
The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue decd-
ed on Saturday that publishers of newspapers whose
receipts therefor exceed $1,000 annually should be
licensed manufacturers and such license will cover
all sales of these manufactures at from the place
Of publication, and also the printing and sale of bill
heads, circulars, &c.
The United States gunboat Galatea (thirl class,
eleven guns) pa tons, measurement has been sold
by Acting Rear Admiral c. II. Bell, the commandant
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to the Hayten govern
ment, for $4,000 The Galatea is of the following
dimensions Length, 23 feet breadth, 6 feet depth
of hold l213 feet between decks feet inches:
double screw engine diameter of cylinders A inches,
stroke 36 inches; two horizontal tubular boilers and
four furnaces She is about two years old.
Sandwich Island dates of Sept. 3D. received by way
of San Francisco, there later news of the do
ings of the pirate Shenandoah, which is regarded
favorable to the safety of the forty vessels in the
Ochotsk Sea.
Duke Gwin and Ex-Governor Clark of Missouri,
have, it is said crossed the Rio Grande and
dered themselves to our forces, and are now supp-
eating for pardon.
On the 18th ult., Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi,
Col. S. Thomas, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau of Miss transferring the right of try
all cases in which the rights of freedmen are in
voved from the Freedmen's Bureau to the civil
authority. The proclamation declares that negroes
shall be protected in person and property. Some of
the newspapers denOunce the act as encroachment
on the rights of the whites.
Several persons were injured by railroad accident
at the New Haven railroad depot on Saturday. An
old lady had leg broken
By permission of the War Department the Associa-
ted Press will to-day re-establish their telegraph
news business between Washington and New Orleans
by the seaboard route.
The Alabama Convention adjourned on Saturday.
memorial to the President asking a general am
nesty pardon was adopted. The Convention passed
ordinance by vote of 50 to 49, practically abolish
ing the right of negroes to testify in courts of Justice
The stock market on Saturday elected no special
activity, nor were there any new features developed
Gold sold at the same figure at the Second Board
Friday. About Sl4.WO changed hands at l437s, and
it closed with sellers at that figure
Government securities inquired for but the
only transactions in them IA sale of 81 100 7-3O
second series, at 991s-an advance of a.
In Railroad stocks there no movement except
in City Passenger. Baltimore d Ohio R. 4. has ceas
ed to be speculative, and is classed as one of
the most solid stocks. Its shares quoted at higher
figures than any Railroad stock the New ork list
except the Illinois Central. Consequent upon the
resumption of business with the South there is great
activity in almost every department of the wholesale
trade in our city.
Important Decision.
The first session since the close of the war
of the United States District Court, Judge
Underwood presiding, convened on Monday
in Alexandra, Virginia. The District Attor.