Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The steamer Star of the Union" from New Or
leans on the 23d, brings later news from Mexico.
correspondent says that the arrests of Liberals anC
those suspected of Liberalism numerous, tha
it will soon take one-half the nation to guard th'
prisoners. One of the barbarous orders issued by the
French commanders is, that every man wearing
leather shall be hanged The road between Monterey
and Matamoras is held by the Liberals, and the
French garrison is kept shut up in the State of Du-
range by the Liberal General Catini. The French
column of 1,2G0 men unable to move out of their
encampment fifty miles from Tampico, as the gueras
had captured all the horses and mules. The Liberals
held the main towns in the State of Mexico.
despatch from New Orleans state that Genera
Candy has seized the steamers Cherokee and Magno-
lia the Mobile packets having failed to comply with
the principles and concessions made in the joint order
by the army and navy commanders.
The Alabama Convention has adopted an ordinance
ordering election of State officers the first Mon
day of November; lcgalizing the marriages of ne
groes; authorizing county commissioners to provide
for INDECENT, helpless ard directing the ju
dcial officers to continue agents of the Freedmen
Bureau
The Cincinnati Commercial denies that the railroad
disaster in Indiana last week attempt to kill
General Grant.
The Chicago Times says that negro suffrage is not
national Question-hat it is a State question"
By order of the Postmaster General an Office will be
established at Woodville, Frederick county, equ-
distant between Lgamore and Mount Airey. Evan
Wilson is appointed the postmaster, and Alexan-
der Farrall postmaster Swanon, Allegheny county
Maryland.
special despatch from Lawrence, Kansas, to the
ST. Louis Democrat says that Col. Sells made i'm
portant treaty with the Indians at their Council
Grounds 100 miles south of st. Louis, on Friday last
The Usage tribe cede about million of land
for which the Government pays them 100000. About
100000 acres also ceded from the north side of
their reservation. All these lands are in Kansas.
The annual message of Governor BrownIow con-
graduates the people wit Messing the termination of
the rebellion. He says the restoration of civil law
has worked well and prosperity is promised in every
section, The Governor thinks that guilty rebels
should be treated with severity in proportion to their
offences, and the with ten years disenfranchisc
ment, but the leaders with neither mercy orbear
ance.
Ex-Governor Horton of Texas, died at Waterford
on the ls of September.
A heavy confidence man named A. NJ. Auerbach
arrested at Louisville the other day.
For the first time since the beginning of the in
1861, the great Southern through mail reached Rich
mOnd on Monday from Washington and New York
by way of the Orange and Alexandria, and Virginia
Central Railroads, and for the future will continue
pass that route. The Superintendents of those
roads are laboring increasingly to put them in
pete ORDER and new and engines will be intro
duced rapidly possible.
The First Branch Of the City Council passed an
ordinance last evening fixing the salaries of the en-
ployees of the Baltimore Fire Department from the
1st of Nov, 1865, follows: Chief Engineer, 81, 500
Assistant, 81 050 Clerk to Commissioners S1,Oy0:
Engineer $3.50; Firemen and Hostlers Of Engine Com
panies and the Hostlcrs and Tillcrmen of Truck
Companies, $780, Foremen, $3.50; Exramen, $3.50 per
annum monthly. The City Register, in answer to
ata1 thott
bounties due from the State not paid out of
the City Treasury but from private fund.
The Religious Herald. an influential Baptist paper.
-~blished in Richmond, has passed into the hands of
Ror ;, letter. D. d. and Rev. A. E. Dickinson,
VII iii ho ;ao :" their labors by Rev. DIR. Shaver.
Connecticut is opposeu ao',,,t, =; A.
patch from Hartford says that o, ' -. - w
State voted against the negro suffrage ana
except Windham, which gives $50 majority in the
affirmative. The majority in the State against negro
suffrage is about 6,000.
Lieut.. Gen. Grant was enthusiastically received at
Columbus yesterday
An immense meeting of freedmen held at
Petersburg, Va, on Monday night, Captain Barues
made an interesting address, exhorng them to labor,
and disabusng the minds of the blacks of the idea
that the lands of their late masters to be divided
among them.
The Secretary of the Interior has officially notified
the Pacific Railroad Company of the acceptance of
their proposition for the location of the new line, and
also that the recommendation of the board of COM
missioners fixing the maximum grade at thirty feet
east and west, has been adopted.
The drug store of French & Richards, Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire last night.
The North Carolina Convention organized on Mon
day by the election of Hon. S. G. Read as President
One hundred members were present.
Authentic information yesterday received in
Washington as to the arrest of His Grace Duke
Gwin" and Gov'r Clark, late of Missouri and their
commtta to Fort Jackson.
The statement relative to the muster out of the
Veteran Reserve Corps is premature. The War De-
partment looks upon the corps necessity for the
present and it will not be disbanded, it is under
Stood until the regiments of the regular army are
sufficiently recruited to take its place.
The President yesterday appointed Robert Allen to
be Postmaster at Austin, Nevada Territory, and
Henry Bachus at Selma, Alabama.
The trial trip of the new revenue cutter Andrew
johnson, at Buffalo, n. Y, is pronounced com
plete success, Her engines with 40 pounds of steam
made 33 revolutions, and she ran % miles in hour
and As minutes.
The President has appointed Wm B. Little of
Nevada, Consul at Panama, lin place of R. McRae
deceased.
Upon the recommendation of General Palmer
commanding the Departments of Kentucky, 1000 of
the colored troops of his command will be mustered
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue yesterday
decided that in determining the amount of taxable
gross receipts for premiums and receipts under
section l05 the of June 80 1864 insurance
panies are not allowed to deduct any amount paid by
them for Reinsurance.
The Wirz trial still progresses: During the read
ing of the previous days proceedings yesterday the
prisoner brought in and laid down on the sofa.
His physical prostration renders him unable to remain
ina pht
amined but their testimony was unimportant. 1t
seems that the counsel for Wirz were under wrong
impression In stating that Generals Lee Johnston
and Howell Cobb had been subpenaed as witnesses
Judge Advocate Chapman denies the fact
The capital stock for the construction of new rail-
road between Alexandria and Fredericksburg has
been subscribed and the work will be proceeded with
Immediately. charter for the road was obtained at
the last session of the Legislature of Virginia
Major H. c. Mcdonald has been appointed to the
command OF the military sub-dstrict of Lynchburg
ya made vacant by the arrest of Brigader General
J. c. Brscoe upon the charge of robbing the safe of
the post quarermaster of large sum of Government
funds.
J.H. Norwood was yesterday appointed by the
President to be Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
First District of South Carolina.
The receipts from internal revenue yesterday
amounted to $2,9s6OOO
Over one thousand men employed in the quarter
masters department Of Washington as teamsters,
forage masters laborers, &C.. have been discharged
within the past few weeks. Col. Luddington, Chief
Quartermaser of the department. has turned over to
the Quartermaster General during the past month
about four hundred teams and wagons which will
doubsless be disposed of at public auction
There was further advance yesterday of x to u
in Gold the sales at the second board being made at
from 144 up to 14ss regular; it sold however seller
30. as low as 1884 Governments were steady. as
were also City 6's and railroad bonds. Railroad
shares we're again very firm, Baltimore and Ohio
selling as on Monday at S1l7A, Northern Central
closing at s44A bid S45 asked, and City Passenger at
S2lL bid, S22 asked. Bankers and Brokers' Tele.
graph sold to-day At Sls4 at which figure 1t closed