Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-01
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"A lady writing to the PenRsg1ranian, saws:
Speaking of beauty. l wish people would dress
pleasantly benevoenty. | saw a lovely girl to-day
looking unlovely and unlOveable, because her mus
lin dress stifiy starched to keep clean longer
My Iaunures tries to persuade into the barbarous
custom. To my mind, woman should always look
as SOFT to the toach as flower, and pure All her
garments should be made of the finest and sofest
material possible that will easily dispose itself into
folds falling gracefully around her. and not by being
liable to be ruttied every moment compel her to stiff
attitudes and starched demeanor. denying her luxury
ol lounge and loll; why, my very words would grow
prim and precise, were | to wear dress which de-
pended on flour or potato for its proprety,o
The President on Saturday, on the recon-
mendation of the Secretary of the Interior after 4
thorough investigation Of the first section (orty mies
OF the Pacific railroad, eastern DIVISION has accented
the same on condition that the company remedy Ger
tain defects construction suggested in the report of
the commissioners, which the company have promised
to do, and the President has ordered the bonds to
which the company are entitled to be delivered and
the lands falling to the railroad under the charter to
be certified to the company.
-RodgerS, the sculptor, is at work on q new
miniature group, representing the taking of the oath
ol allegiance before drawing raiOns There are our
figures: A United States officer, who holds in his
right hand the Bible upon which the oath is about TO
be administered. and with his left lifts his cap from
his head; a rebel woman who is about to take the
OATH alad, her son. who midly clings to her skirts
and negro boy who leans over the basket which he
has brought to receive the rations Of course tho
subject is handled skillfully.
Young Hopkins, Hartford grocer. es-
tablished good credit by paying his bills PROMPTLY
ana recently took advantage of his reputation to buy
and ship to his father in New York goods to tho
Of gho
there under the market price When the victims ap-
pretended this plan they apprehended old Hopkins,
but young Hopkins was too quick for them, and has
already gained the sunny South
In the United States Circuit Court. in
session at Rutland, Vermont, Judge Smalley ruled
that the act Of Congress making the authority of tho
President defense against suits brought for search
arrest or imprisonment, was Illegal and that the act
affords no protection to officers carrying out the Pres
idents orders. He also ruled that martial law not
having been declared in Vermont the civil law re-
manned IN full force, and was not subordinate to mill
itary authority.
The income Of the government from in.
terna revenue through the past week averaged $685.
12 day. equal to weekly aggregate of S. 10, ,212
The revenue ofthe government from all sources I'm
cluding customsl during the first quarter lending
oept30 OF the current fiscal year. amounted to Sl4S-
VVVOO' equal to yearly aggregate of S592, 100000.
1t having been frequently stated that the
issue of National Bank notes inflated the currency
OF the country it may be interesting to know that
on the lst OF October 1865, the total amount of bank
currency, State and National, was several millions
less than the amount of State Bank notes on the 1st
of January, 1863
The Cleveland Herald gives as an evi-
dence OF the rapid growth of that city that the total
number oil new churches stores dwellings and manu-
featuring establishments erected since January 1s
1865, including those commenced at that time and
not completed, as taken by the carriers six
hundred and thirty-six.
billy Watson, a young and ambitious per-
son. advertised in Buffalo last week that he would
walk rope two hundred feet long, hung fifty feet
high. William started and walked few feet, but
hndng 1t long distance to the ground, asked the
audience to excuse him. and retired and seen no
more.
Geo. NJ. Carlton, Surveyor of the Port of
Memphis, proved defaulter in about the sum of
S550,OOO. a commission was appointed to investigate
the matter which they ostensbly did, but the result
was never reported to the public. 1t is said that
Carlton compromised the affair by paying fifty cents
on the dollar.
The Rochester Courier states that Mr.,
Elijah Jenkins on the Meadowborough road, in that
town. has an orchard of about 500 trees, bearing
mostly baldwins and russets for the apples of which
this fall he has refused Sl6O0. There are probably
80 barrels.
The Racine wisconsin, Journal SAWS that
on the 18th instant, the Racine and Mississinn rail
road was sold at public auction by the United States
marshall and was bid off by Mr.. &, A, Thomson for
the sum of Sl,OOOOOO.