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Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from Washinntou
Correspondence Baltimore Commercial

Correspondence Baltimore Commercial
WASHINGTON, Oct 4th 1863
back again to the National metropois-endeared
to every American by the name of its immortal fopp
der and the recolections of his ustrous successors
in the Chief Alagstracy. and of that long line of
statesmen, orators and soldiers who once trod the
streets we tread, and looked upon the scenes we look
upon but to me hallowed by personal memories of
many Of the greatest and best who shall
'Cn the steady breeze of honor sail
In long possession calm and beautiful"
Under this October sun Washington is really begin
ming to wear its old looks. Dropping in at Wizards
| met more gentlemen than had encountered for
many day, and it was nearly the same experience
at the National and the Metropolitan Hormerly
Browns. Mingled with these gentlemen had the
pleasure of finding also quite number of Northern
ers, including not few who by position and general
cuture-by mind and manners-are much better en-
titled to be called representative men, than most of
those who assume for themselves that term and pre-
tentousy speak for the North while they have little
thought beyond the idea of their own personal ad-
vancement.
Washington is almost Southern city once more. :,
whispered fair friend, as we descended from the
parlors OF Willards to the dining room to-Gay.
"Oh, mo-! l rejoined 1T is the national city which
it always ought to be-
And so it is, now. Probably nowhere throughout
the United States is there spot where the popula
tlon nave more OF the genuine feeling of nafoaoIt
than the settled residents of this city This is a
healthful and animatng sentiment Never was its
wholesome and inspiring influences more needed
throughout the country than now; and never was
there warmer and more general disposition to exer
else that influence, and dfuse that sentiment than
now appears to exist here The people are sick of
partzanship. They cannot of course be Indifferent
to politics in the better of that term-they can
scarcely be neutral where great principles and inte-
rest are at stake-but they can be independent of
mere party; and perhaps, never was there more
marked absence of mere party-feeing, than now an
pears among the best and most influential circles Of
Washington.
This state of things is fostered by the high national
spirit which seems to actuate the President in all his
policy and his official and personal Intercourse
Every day brings new evidence of the elevated
ground which Andrew johnson has deliberately
taken in this respect.
took up my pen only to congratulate you upon
your new publication Long life and prosperity to
the Baltimore Commercial May it be model of
independent and enlightened journasm and, while
just to all parties become the cond uit pipe of
faction or the tool of ambition!
Nv
Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06

HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-There was n great
rush at the Holiday Street Theatre last night to
witness the first presentation of Lester Wallack'
grand play, in five acts, entitled "Rosedale or The
Rifle Ball. "Arrah- h-Na-POgue," having3been with
drawn, after very successful run, to give place
to this play Manager Ford has in this in
stance displayed his customary tact in the
procurement of first class entertainments as the sue
cess which attended the numerous presentations of
'Rosedale" on consecutive nights in New York, and
the known merits of the piece, is full justification
of the belief that it will prove equally acceptable to
the pay-going community here. With new scenery,
by Getz, and new appointments throughout and u
very excellent cast there is occasion why should
not have highly successful run.
THE EQUESTRIAN DRAMA AT FRONT STREET The
ATRE-A new candidate for public favor a rival of
"Menken's" Miss Lizzie Wood who, by her grace and
daring, having won the favor of applauding thou
sands in New York, will make her first appearance
on next Monday evening in this city, the hero of
Lord Byron's dramatic poem of Mazeppa. Miss Wood
is said to be young, pretty and dashing as well as
daring rider. The drama is to be very finely DONE
in the of scenery painted expressly for it by Mr.
Lamb The horse to be used is Black Bess, :" which
the New York papers pronounced the very best
trained animal in the country. We are promised an
excellent dramatic company in support of Miss Wood
Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06

MARSHAL DE CLAUsEL,-The New Orleans
Picayune, in giving some excellent advice to
those young soldiers who have not yet found
employment, relates the following interesting
incident in the history of Marshal Clausel:
Let our young soldiers remember and profit
by the example of the old French soldiers,
many of them officers, who had won distinc-
ton in the big wars in Europe, who, in their
exile in this country, cheerfully adopted any
pursuit by which they could make an honest
livelihood. Anything in preference to loafer-
ism, vagabondism, and humiliating depend
ence. Many of the old citizens of Mobile will
remember an elderly Frenchmen, VINO, some
thlrty-hve years ago, used to be seen every
morning in the market, with his car Of fish and
vegetables, selling by retail those products of
his own industry and skill. His manners and
appearance betrayed previous life and expe-
rience in some higher or very different sphere
from that in which he then moved. But the
old man was contented, cheerful and viyacious,
and he thrived and was happy.
That man was one of the most distinguished
of Napoleon's surviving Marshals. A few
years afterward, on the establishment of Louis
Philippe on the throne of France, he was re-
stored to his position in the French army, and
the Mobile vegetable and fish vender became
the first Military Governor of Algeria. Such
is the story of Marshal de Clausel, and it is
the story of many other distinguished officers
of the great army of Napoleon.
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A New STYLE OF BEGG1NG.-.The Flaneu

writes in the London Star:
"Here is delicious example of a new kind
of begging. A friend of mine who had ad-
vertised the birth of his child in the Times, a
few days afterwards received the announce
ment cut out and neatly pasted on card with an
ornamental fowered border, with a text from
Exodus, Take this child and nurse it for me,
printed at the bottom. Accompanying it was
the following letter;
will the happy and the prosperous crown
ng oy e{ to ra
for the people; wretched school which needs
rebuilding; considerable debt upon the par
sonage house; these and other matters are
pressing in village where there are no resi-
dent gentry. The living worth less than e200
year.
Any donation, however small, will be ac'
ceptable. Address -
but no! 7 will not print the address Of
this clerical Micawber,' pr
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Another Railroad RiSaSfar

The Rochester On. " Union, of Tuesday
evening says:
GAS the $40 P. NJ. train from Syracuse was
fastening on its way to this city, over the Au-
burn road on Saturday, rail broke just be-
hind the forward truck of the first car as the
train was rounding a curve, breaking the car
in two and throwing the following ones over
the embankment on which the train was pass
ing at the moment. The latter cars went roll
ing down the sides of the embankment, which
is some eight feet in height and the last two
only rested after making complete somer-
sault.
''We have no information of any person
killed, but the name of Mr.. Morgan, clothing
merchant in South Salina or Syracuse, is given,
with the statement of severe injuries inflicted
All the occupants of the injured car were more
or less bruised, but so far as is yet known the
results have not proved fatal to any. The con-
ductor, Mr.. Collins, was in the rear car at the
time of the occurrence, but escaped with slight
injuries. The engine was sent to Auburn for
an extra car and medical attendance, and the
wounded passengers were cared for with every
attention.
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North Carolina Convention.

RALEIGH, Oct 5.-The report of the Com
mittee on Secession, entitled an ordinance de-
caring null and void the ordinance of May
Goth, 1861, came up in convention, when Il
substitute was offered proposing to repeal the
ordinance of secession of May 20th, 1861, and
a discussion sprung up which lasted to the
hour of adjournment. No vote was taken and
nothing was matured. This is the fourth day
of the session and yet nothing has been done.
The outside feeling is one of disappointment
and dissatisfaction. 1t is hoped that a vote
NAV be had tomorrow.
Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06

The PHILADELPHIA FIRE.-The total loss
by the fire at French & Richards wholesale
drug warehouse, on Tuesday night, is estima-
ted to be from $25O,0OO to $780, ,OOO-insu-
rance about S175,000, mostly in Philadelphia,
Eastern and English Companies. The follow
ing insurance was on the stock in the main
store, which is total loss:-Phenix Hart
ford, $4,000; Springfield, Mass, $4,000;
Royal, Liverpool, $4,000; Etna, of Hartford,
$4,000; London and Liverpool, $4,000;
Narragansett, Providence, R. T., $4,000; City
Insurance Company, of Hartford, $4,000;
Morris, of New York, $4,000; the balance
insured in Philadelphia companies, making a
total of 100000. The stock in the adjacent
building, No. 1,oO3, was valued at $4,000,
and is partially destroyed. Insured in Spring
field Mass, $4,000; Phoenix, of Hartford,
$4,000. In No. ,OO5 the stock was valued at
$4,000; also partially destroyed. Insured by
Etna, of Hartford, for $4,000; Springfield
$4,000; Home, Morris and Yonkers, of New
York; Narragansett, of Providence; Standard
of New York; Hartford and Security, of New
York-each $4,000. All the property was
occupied by French & Richards.
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AN EXTRAORDINARY YIELD.-The Frederick
Examiner says: The most gratifying evidence
we have received this season of an abundant
corn crop, is furnished us by Mr.. William H.
Hildebrand, living on the farm formerly owned
by Ex-Governor Thomas, in Petersville Dis
trict who raised 10 bbls. and % bushels, or a
fraction less than 100 bushels of shelled corn
on one acre of ground. The ground was sur
veyed BY Mr. VIM mi H. oh n1llsary s yi an experiences
the above statement. The corn was gathered
from field containing 25 acres, and it is
thought by persons competent to judge, that
the whole field will average 10 barrels to the
acre, making the snug aggregate of 2,375
bushels of shelled corn. 1t is not often that
we hear of such an immense yield on land that
has been worked for about century.
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The Western Maryland Railroad.

The construction of the Western MARYLAND
Railroad from Union Bridge to this place, has
been, by the generous action of our County
Commissioners, rendered certainty almost
beyond the possibility of doubt, unless the
Legislature, at It's next session should act ad-
versely in the case.
On Tuesday last, large committee com
posed of gentlemen of influence from various
sections of the county, representing the great
body of the tax payers, waited upon the Com
missioners and urged upon them the impor-
tance of aiding in the prosecution of the enter
prise. These gentlemen knowing the value
of this great improvement, both to Hagerstown
and to the people of the county at large, with
commendable alacrity, seconded the views of
the Committee and those who acted with them
and subscribed the sum of Sl50,000, on con-
dition that the city of Baltimore would take
100000 worth of stock, which, in view of
the increased trade which this road will carry
to that city from the fourishing and productive
counties of Frederick and Washington, in this
State. as well as from the counties of Franklin
and Cumberland, in Pennsylvania, renders
that a certainty. 1t is well known to the bust
ness men of Baltimore, that a large portion of
the agricultural products of this and the above
named counties of Pennsylvania, from the
want Of a more direct route to their city, find
a market in New Y ork and Philadelphia. The
knowledge of this fact alone will awaken them
to the great Importance to their city of the
completion, at as early day as practicable,
of this enterprise This, with many other
facts, was forcibly brought to the notice of the
Commissioners by Messrs. Brumbaugh, Ham
ilton, Syester and other members of the Com
mittee.
When we look at the vast agricultural re-
sources of the county together with her other
evidences of prosperity-her seventy-five
Touring mills now converting her cereals into
a condition for convenient shipment to the
various markets Of the world; her unsurpassed
water power now idle, but inviting capital,
skill and enterprise to develop it and make it
a source of incalculable wealth; her great
mineral wealth now dormant for want of cheap
and convenient transportation to market,
knowing that the completion of this road will
attract to our midst all the elements necessary
for its developments, we cannot but feel CRATE
full, not only to our Commissioners, but to all
who aided in bringing about this important
result.-Hagersto,c TorchhgM.
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The PRoposED EXPLORATION OF ABYss1N1

The PROPOSED EXPLORATION OF ABYssIN1A.
The expedition got up by NJ, De Moynier to
explore Abyssinia, which left Marseiles with
high hopes few weeks ago, has come to grief.
The goods taken ont for sale in Egypt, upon
which it was expected large profit would be
quence of business being paralyzed by the
cholera, that the company, of which NJ. de
Moynier was the head, has been wound up,
and he has returned to France, Ten of his
companions have, however, it is said, gone
forward, and as soon as report comes from
them an attempt will probably be made in
Paris to raise new subscription,
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The Fenian brotherhood

New YORK, Oct. 5.-The Central Counci
of the Fenian Brotherhood now in session a
the Astor House in this city, have called s
special general congress of the entire organi
zation in the United States, to meet in Phila
delphia on Monday, the 10th of the presen
month
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The Views of Lieutenant General Grant
in REGARD to the Monroe Doctrine.

PHILADELPHIA, October 5.-The statement
in regard to General Grants views touching
Mexican affairs was made on the authority of
VIM. H. Smith, editor of the Chicago Tribune,
who received it from Justice Cation, of Illinois,
who had the conversation with General Grant
on a special train from Cincinnati.
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OswEGo, Oct. 5.-The Government steamer
Little Ada, formerly blockade-runner, put
into this port this morning for coal. She
came from Washington via the St. Lawrence
River, and is to be employed on the upper
lakes in the coast survey service.
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The Fenian brotherhood.

NASHVILLE, Oct A large and enthusias-
tic meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood was
held tonight at the Court House. Speeches
were made, resolutions adopted, and great ell
thusiasm manifested for the cause.
The trial of John C. Brane commenced to-
day; cut on account of the absence of the ac-
cused the court adjourned.
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From sD;rO-

CAIRO, Oct. 4.-Nearly one thousand bales
of cotton passed to-day, mostly for New Al
bany, India. The amount of cotton burned
at Memphis on Sunday was much greater than
first reported. 1t is now estimated that thir-
ty-fve hundred bales were burned The De
Soto, Etna and New York Insurance Com
panies are the principal losers.
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From Boston.

BOSTON, October Am equestrian statue,
IN memory of the late Colonel Shaw, of the
flfty'fourth Massachusetts Regiment, is talked
OF. A meeting to aid the movement will be
held on Saturday, in the Governors rooms, at
the State House.
An easterly rain storm commenced this af
ternoOn,
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Private Letters from Lee and Davis.

The Troy New York; lines says:-''A
friend from Washington has exhumed the fol-
lowing letters from mass of rebel cores
pondence captured and forwarded to the Gov
ernment. The epistles now see the light for
the first time General R. E. Lee writes to
a young woman, under date of Camp near
Petersburg, February II, 1860" thanking her
for gift of warm knit jackets, and adding:
II am much distressed at the fall of Savan-
nah, the city Of my proudest recolections.
hope no harm will betall those left within its
limits. Mrs. Lee and my daughters are in
Richmond. They will be glad to hear of you.
The former is still great sufferer from rheu-
matism, and confined entirely to her couch
and chair. | send the autograph you desire
for your friend, and also late photograph for
you, that you may see the grim visage of the
man for whom you take so much trouble
With kind regard to all my frieds, am most
truly yours, R. E. LEE"
On the 1st of January, 1865, Jeff. Davis,
likewise writing to a spinster, said:
X "Trusting that the year which has
just commenced may by Gods blessing bring
peace to our land, and that your family may
be again assembled with their friends in secu-
rity and contentment | am very truly your
friend, JEFF. DAVIS.
''Miss Bell NJ. Cox, Louisville, Blount county,
Tenn
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CURIOUS FREAK OF BIRD.-On Tuesday
last whilst the wife of Mr.. Thomas Vickroy,
residing on Virginia street, Altoona, Pa, was
sitting in the front room a pheasant flew in at
the door and perched upon her lap, suffering
ant is one of the widest birds that roam our
woods, its timidity never permitting near
approach to it, this becomes one of those
strange occurrences for which no one can &C.
count,
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HARRISBURG, Oct. 5.-Lieutenant General
Grant and family passed here this morning on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, having a special
car attached to the train, which will be due at
PHILADELPHIA at noon.
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Destruction of Cotton by Fire,

CAIRO, October 3.-Over three hundred
bales of cotton, valned at about $500, 900, were
bnrned at Memphis, on Sunday. The proper
ty was owned by Hill & Clarkson, Harris &
Wormley, and the United States Government.
The fire is supposed to have been the work OF
an incendiary
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Movements of General Grant.

HARRISBURG. Oct. 5.-Lieutenant General
Grant and staff arrived here at O clock this
morning from Pittsburg, and left at 1.3O for
WASHINGTON.
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Especial Despatch to the Commercial.I
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Information has
been received at the Freedmen Bureau, from
Col. Thomas, Assistant Commissioner for the
State of Mississippi, that the Mayor of Vicks-
burg, having signiGed his willingness to allow
negroes to testify before his courts, and to i'm
pose the same penalties upon negroes violating
State laws or city ordinances as would be i'm
posed upon white persons committing the
same crime, officers of the Bureau at Vicks-
burg have been instructed in no case to inter
fere with the city authorities in the discharge
of their duties, and not to take cognizance of
cases coming within the jurisdiction of the
Mayor of the city of Vicksburg, but to turn
all such cases over to the Mayor for trial.
Colonel Thomas also informs the Bureau
that he has notified the judicial officers and
magistrates of the Provisional Government of
Mississippi that when they allow negroes the
same rights and privileges as are accorded to
white men before their courts, officers of the
Bureau will not interfere with such tribunals,
but give them every assistance possible in the
discharge of their duties.
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Louisiana State Democratic Convention

New ORLEANS, Oct. 4.-The Democratic
State Convention was permanently organized
to-day, and adopted platform. The resolu-
tons emphatcally approve of President John
sons reorganization policy; exclude from the
field of politics all religious and sectional cen
troverses; hold that this Government was made
to be perpetual for the exclusive benefit of the
white race; recommends the calling of Con-
vention to adopt a Constitution expressive of
the will of the people: recommends q memor
ial to Congress for compensation for the losses
sustained by the emancipation policy; advert to
the repeal act law as in conflict with the Con
stitution and law of the general Government;
earnestly appeal for general amnesty and the
prompt restoration of the property of citizens,
and invite all citizens, without distinction of
nationality, to join them in opposition to the
radical Republican party.
The Convention nominated j. NJ. Welles
for Governor, and H. A. P. Perhues for Lieut.
Governor, and then adjourned sine die.
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Opening of the New Orleans and Jackson
Railroad

New ORLEANS, Oct. 4.-The New Orleans
and Jackson Railroad has been completed
through to Canton, Miss, and trains will soon
commence running.
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From Fort Monroe.

FORT MONROE, October 4th.-The sloop
Alice, Captain Neigh left Baltimore June
l4th, and has been seen here and at Norfolk
repeatedly until within month past. The
Captain had considerable money with him
when last seen, and fears are now entertained
that he has been loully dealt with.
Captain Wheeler, Acting Assistant Quarter
master at Eastvile, Eastern Shore, Va, has
been robbed of his safe and about $4,000 in
currency. The case will be investigated
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The VISIT OF THE PREs1DENT.-The splen-
did steamer Rhode Island is being handsomely
fitted up preparatory to taking President John-
Navy, and others, on a trip South, and it is
expected that she will be ready some time next
week. 1t is thought that the President and
party will visit Richmond, Wilmington,
Charleston and other Southern cities,
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Cold Wea ther Coming

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.-The weather is re-
markably cold here for the season. Snow fell
for half an hour last evening in the northern
section Of the city,