Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-28
Stocks generally were dull yes,

SlockS generally were dull yeSt> L..
opened at 145 and closed at 145l4 an ady.s.. C.
quarter on Wednesdays quotations Governm.
strong 1905 being active the sales footing up
500 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares sold at
SILL No sales in Northern Central City Passenger
Railway.
Secretary McCullochs interview with the
moneyed men of New York is said to have been en-
tirely satisfactory. The banks offered him, says a
Washington special. temporary loan of 500 0O0
which he will probably accept. He contemplates
funding S5OOOOCOO or Sl000OO0OO certificates of in
debtedness compound interest notes, and the first
series of 1905, which fall due next July.
DR.. John W. Hughes, who has been on trial at
Cleveland several days. for the murder of Miss Tam
zen Parsons. in Bedford. Cuyahoga County. on the
9th of August last, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree He heard the verdict with appar-
ent Indifference The murder was one of the most
shocking all things considered. ever committed in
Ohio.
A delegation of planters are now in Wash
ngton, endeavorng to obtain an appropriation from
the Government to rebuild the levees from Vicks-
burgg to New Orleans. They were destroyed by both
sides during the war; and it will cost several millions
to rebuild them. Hundreds of thousands of acres of
cotton lands under water that can be reclaimed if
this work is done.
Captain George w. Cutler, the poet, for
merly of Kentucky, died at Providence Hospital on
Capitol Hill Washington, on Christmas. His re-
ma ins were inferred with Masonic honors by ST.
Johns Lodge. He was descendant of Massachu-
sets family, and was born in Quebec, Canada In
early life he practiced law in Kentucky and at the
breaking out of the Mexican war. raised company
andjoined Taylor's army. He figured in Washington
in the days of Know IN othngism as an orator and
took part in the movement
A savings bank for colored people estab
lished only three months ago in Louisville, Ken
lucky. has received in deposits over $4,000. About
$1,000 have been received from colored soldiers orr
ginally from Kentucky. but now on duty in Texas
This bank is a branch of national company called
the "Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company" char
tered by Congress and approved by President Lin
coln March 5. 1865. President johnson highly com
mends it and has directed the Secretaries of the
Treasury War and Navy to give it all proper facili
ties.
bill is before the Legislature of Alabama to
incorporate nm Emigration White Labor Agency"
which shall have authority to appoint agents in all
the States Of the United States for the purpose of
hiring white laborers for the planters of that State
1t is meeting with opposition. but has passed the
Senate. Mr. Wilkins in opposing the bill, argued
that the white laborers proposed to be introduced
would be of poor character and less valuable to the
cotton planter than the labor of the freedmen already
at hand, who cannot and should no. be driven out
being more suitable for laborers than any set of men
in any country.
The Mobile Register of the 10Th inst, in
an article on the government cotton agency system
of the South, pronounces that institution a total
failure, great public, private commercialand social
and source Of the hugest robbery and
corruption 1t says that the agents seize all the cot
ton in private hands they find on charge of its
having belonged to the rebel government and then,
as general thing. appropriate it to their own emolu-
ment, and that from this example the planters and
other citizens have also been led extensively into the
cotton stealing business The paper also asserts that
of the one hundred and twenty thousand bales af
rebel government cotton surrendered by General
Dick Taylor to General Candy, scarcely ten thousand
bales have been or ever will be received by the
national government the remainder having been
stolen,