Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-22
GENERAL NEWS.

There are IRON ~ to 2oOOO bales OF Gov
eminent cotton the different depots on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, waiting transportation.
1t is rumOred that the Hon. Jesse O. Nor
ton, of Illinois, will succeed Judge Otto as As
sistant Secretary Of the Interior.
The next annual Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church of Virginia, will assemble in
Danville on Thursday, the 23d inst.
The Cherokees have chosen Downing as
chief of their nation. in place of John Ross, de-
posed.
The colored people of Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va. have elected Mr. Calvin Pepper to rep
resent them as Judge in the Freedmen's Court.
The arrivals of immigrants at New York,
within the last three days, number 35l6, making
total of Ia ,141 since the 1st of January.
1t is estimated that over two thousand rebels
in Jamaica have been hanged and shot under court
martial sentences.
The rebel Major General Simon Bolivar
Buckner of Kentucky, is now associate editor of The
Neo Orleans Crescent, and Major General Frank
Gardner is a local reporter under him.
The steamer W. A. Maffat. CAPTAIN Andrew,
belonging to the Missouri river trade. was burned
at her wharf, at St. Louis, on Friday night Loss
$4,000.
Among the arrivals on Monday, by the
Henry Chauncey from Aspinwall, was Major Gen.
Rosecrans, on his return from three months tour
through the gold and silver regions of the Pacific
coast.
Yesterday the stock market was dull and
heavy Gold sold at the First Board at 14, but fell
off a and closed at li634. The sales were light
Governments were dull and Railroad shares and
bonds quiet nothing being done in either.
The number of immigrants arriving in Mis-
souri, is estimated at 1000 week. Sales of land arc
being made to very large amount 900 worth
being disposed of in the month of October by the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railr Dad Company alone
The Board of Trade managers of Pittsburgh
have resolved to offer prize of $4,000 for the best
method of consuming the smoke of the city. The ap
pance to be effectual and capable of adaptation to
dwellings as well as factories.
w. h. Haynes and - Everett claiming
to be Government detectives were arrested on Mon
day in Portsmouth, Va, by order of the Mayor OF
that city, charged with extorting $50 from Mr. E.
Foreman. They were turned over to the military
authorities, and committed to hard labor in nrson
until the affair can be investigated.
A number of gentlemen, says the Pittsburg
Commercial, while prospecting south of Dunkipk
Creek. in Greene county, Pa, came upon an exten
sive lead mine, rivaling in richness, perhaps the
most productive mines in the world. A vein of gold
quartz was recently discovered in the same vicinity
The Chicago Tribune says THE fact is
Gen. Logan has had no notice from the President OIL
Secretary Seward that he has been or will be ap
pointed Minister to Mexico. The Washington report
for the New FORK papers started the story that h
had been rendered the Japan mission, and afterward
corrected it by stating that he had declined it
count of the great distance it would take him iron
home. Neither statement is true
William Prout, Lawrence T. Prout anC
Thomas Morrissey, charged with robbng the Amer
lean Express in Chicago, of $4,000. the 9th inst
were arraigned before Justice Brown on Monda
forenoon for preliminary examination. The brother
Prout were held for trial at the Recorders Court il
bonds of S2 900 each, and in the case of Morrssey
in consideration of his ill health, the bail was re
duced to $4,000. The girl. Rozilla Craig, was de
tanned as a witness under bonds of $1,000.