Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-09
MESs EEEANE.

lhe depth 0l SIX inches Mt LA Crosse, but that the
snow was disappearing rapidly. The st. Paul Press
says the storm there was mixture of rain slcet and
snow which has raised the river three or four inches
greatly 10 the benefit of navigation. At GAINESVILLE
Wisconsin, the fall of snow was sufficient to load
down the trees and break many of them. At Davcn-
port, Iowa, there Il light fall of snow and at
Burlington forty hours continuous rain. 1t is rarely
that snow has fallen thus carly in the season. only
two instances being on record at La Crosse.
During the celebration Of high mass at
st. Peters Church, in Philadelphia, on Sunday last
violent panic created by an individual who
rushed violently into the church during service,
screaming fire! fire. at the top of his voice. and
throwing off his coat and hat, if preparing to COM
bat the flames. The congregation as might be ex-
pected rushed pel nell over the seats and through
the doors, overturning the weak and young several
of whom seriously injured 1t was soon discov-
cred that the alarm false, and that the person
who had thus unceremOn0uSly invaded the sanctu-
ary was crazy.
The Mobile Tribune thus speaks of the
Confederate securities: We are quite certain that
not dollar of Confederate bonds or treasury
notes, cotton owned by the Confederacy vii be of
the least service to any that LAYS a claim to it.
We should as soon expect next month Il lot of ne
groes to be put out the stand for public sale at
auction. Any one who nurses deusion in regard
to the matter had better discard il at once lie can
find rcpose in not hoping for any profit from this
source.
Brigham Young has had new '.revela-
ton" lie says it is "the will of God that the sisters
should make their own bonnets and hats for them
selves and their families, from straw and other mate
rals raised in the Utah mountains" The next rev
elation will probably dictate the style in which they
are to be made and worn. 1t is said that Brigham
Young has large lot of rye straw for sale in lots to
suit purchasers" which perhaps accounts for the
straw hat revelation.
General Palmer has been informed of the
murder of four discharged coored soldiers who were
shot down in cold blood by party of rebels in Mel
son county ky on the 9th ultmo. 1t is represented
that Bullet. Spencer and Nelson counties swarm
ing with returned rebel soldiers, who go about com
mittinG the grosscst outrages upon Union citizens
and that colored who left those counties to enter
the service cannot return except at the risk of
being shot.
-Bayard Taylor informs the editor Of the
Rural Advertiser that he raised the present season
few plants of the real Latakia tobacco probably the
first grown in the United States. The seed was
brought from Egypt, and he considers the plants he
has grown fully equal to any he ever saw on Mount
Lebanon. from whence the celebrated Latakia tobacco
comes. 1t is quite distinct in species, having broad
velvety leaf. and pale yellow blossom.
An engineer at Nashville sent a workman
under his locomotive to oil the running gear,-aud
then forgetting his presence, ran his engine ahead
just far enough to cut of one of the mans legs A
bystander shouted to warn the engineer, who there
upon backed his machine in dismay and cut of the
other leg of the unfortunate workman. He survived
however and suing tho company for $50 900 damages
has obtained $500.
The recent earthquake at San Francisco
was attended by some odd incidents In the Bank
Exchange building, a gentleman who was playing at
q TN n md was
seen no until the shock was over when he was
found lying at the bottom of the stairs with TWO bill
lizard cues grasped tightly in his hands, and the points
of both protruding through the window pane
M. Desor, Swiss naturalist, has investi
gated and confirmed the statement that small fish
have been found in Algerian artesian wells two hun
dred feet deep These fish belong the carp species
They are healthy, and have fine, large and perfect
eyes. Subteranean fish usually blind on account
Of the uselessness of eyes to such creatures.
"A fruit preserving house, with capacity
Of250O0 bushels Is to be erected at Buffalo at cost
Of 100000 These houses have been thoroughly tested
in Cleveland Cincinnati, Indianapolis, New York
and Greensborough, while large ones have just been
finished in Pittshurg, Detroit Chicago and St. Louis
The chief of the Bureau of Arts and
Sciences at Pekn has made favorable report on
the question Of railroads. and decides that the
of steam is not dangerous to a people. Unhappy
Chinese
The American land system is to be intro
duced in Mexico, so that the citizens of moderate
means can get hold of farm. The public territory
is to be surveyed into sections and quarter sections of
l40 and $50 acres
1t is fact not generally known, that the
immortal Washington drew his last breath in the us
day of the week. in the last month of the last year,
and in the last year Of the last century He died Sat
urday night, u o'clock, Dec. 81. 1779.
Great preparations are being made at
Chicago to celebrate the anniversary of the COM
mencement Of Sherman'S March to the Sea, Nov.
18th. Several prominent army organizations will
participate in the festivities.
Three ladies of Sumter, S. c., were call.
ed to account by the Provost Marshal recently for
wearing Confederate flags at party. They were
sharply rebuked and settled the matter by written
apology.
"A gentleman in Newport, Kentucky, who
has had his barn burned by mischievous boys offers
S25 to start fund for the erection of cheap barns ex
pressly for juvenile incendiaries to set on fire.
The Fire Marshal of Chicago has issued
his report for October showing that during the
month the total loss aggregated S779,4 ,42O42 on which
there was insurance amounting to S6l3,O70
The Memphis Bulletin says, in reference to
the cotton crop in that vicinity the season has been
most auspclous lof gatheTlng, and the product from
the quantity planted, will be almost unprecedented
The whole of Manhattan Island, on which
stands the city of New York, was once purchased by
one Peter Minnit for S24,
1t costs fifteen dollars and half to trans
port barrel OF flour, worth only twelve from savan
nah to Milledgevle.
The bachelors of New York are banding
themselves together under VOW never to marry un-
til the ladies abandon their eXtravagancieS in dress
The body of VIM. Foster, engineer of the
steamer Conjock recently blown up, has been recov
cred.
The death of Burgevme, the English lead.
of the Chinese, has been previously reported; and
the latest advces say he met his death by drowning
The people of Chicago are rejoicing over
having reached water in their artesian well.
There are 1880 children attending the
1 eighteen nublic schoolx xnfC Cbioaoo