Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

ing the President to defer the musterngout of thu
| officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps until egisls
ton has been had respecting them developed the op
position of those interested in the regular army
| There considerable skirmishng, but the resolu
| ton passed.
| The House concurred in the amendments of th
Senate for the appointment ofa committee of ffteer
to take into consideration the condition OF the social
| ed Confederate States.
| On Mr.. Wilson's bill in the Senate maintainin!
the freedom of the inhabitants of the States recent,
IN rebellion and.insurection and so declared by thu
President in his proclamation of July 1st, 1862
lively discussion took place, but there was no actor
taken.
Judge Busted. of the Cnited States Dis
trict Court in Alabama has adjourned his court, de
clning to sit the bench until such time as he shall
be freed from military control.
FROM EUROPE.
The steamer City of Boston" arrived at New
York yesterday, with Liverpool dates to the 30th ut
The London Morning HcroM says that the feeling
in that city relative to American affairs is unsatisfac
| tory.
AT an influential public meeting in Manchester
speeches made denouncing the severe proceed
| ings againstIthc blacks in Jamaica.
By the arrival of the steamship Java from Liver
pool, we are in possession Of two days later news
from Europe.
Captain Corbett, who commanded the rebel pirate
Shenandoah at the time of her transfer to the Brit
sh authorities. has been tried at Queenstown for
breach of the foreign enlistment act and acquitted
The Times says it cannot affect TO he disappointed at
the acquittal of Captain Co the evasion Of the neu-
trality laws having been executed as almost to
defy legal retribution.
despatch from Mr.. Seward is published in all Of
the English papers, acknowledging the many ad-
dresses Of coincidence from Great Britain to Presi
dent johnson the assassination of President Lin
coin.
The Fenan trials arr in progress but create no ex-
citement. Luby, the proprietor of the Irish Peo-
pie, has been found guilty and sentenced to twenty
years penal servitude Before sentence the prisoner
addressed the Court repudiating the allegations of
contemplated assassination. which had been urged
against the Fenians. He admitted his guilt accord
ing to the Interpretation of British law but believed
himself innocent according to the higher standard of
eternal rights
In a recent speech Mr.. Bright denounced in un-
measured terms the Jamaica massacre. and held that
the governor and his accomplces were responsible
for murder.
The dry goods store of j. & W. Jeflry, Liverpool.
has been destroyed by fire, involving a loss of
G2000OO.
DIR. Barth, the American traveller, is dead
England is spoken of as the probable mediator be-
tween Spain and Chill.
company has been organized in Spain to build
telegraph line between Cuba and the United States.
The latest from Liverpool via Queenstown is a cor
resrondence from Madrid, denying that the Spanish
Government has sent Admiral Pareja orders to sus-
pend hostilties against Chill. The government is
not even disposed to accept the mediation of neutral
powers
GENERAL NEWS.
The death Of Hon. Samuel T. Sawyer,
founder and for many years editor and proprietor of
the Norfolk (VaD Argus, is announced.
There was more activity IN the stock market
yesterday-gold advancing 4 to ]&-salcs being made
at 1454@l45l5.
There arrived at New York yesterday, 96
vessels, Of which steamships, ships is barks
Is brigs and 50 schooners.
A telegram from Buffalo reports the clo-
sing of the Erie Canal yesterday The weather was
warm in that vicinity. without snow or ice.
The total indebtedness of the State eff Cali
fornia is represented as being only 81 734 l3O-an ex
ceedngly light burden for so wealthy a common
wealth.
Lieut.. Col Augustus Boerstein. 4th regi
ment United States coored troops, tried before the
Dewitt Court Martial in Washington, for conduct
prejudcial to good order and military discipline, has
been dismissed the service.
A letter from an officer of the Government.
dated December 5, 1865, written from Savannah. Ga,
states that the small pox had broken out among the
colored population of Southern Georgia. and owing
to the great destituon among these people the dis
ease is spreading rapidly.
Applications for pardon continue to be re-
ceived at the office of the Att0rny General at Wash
ingon, at the rate of from three to Ave hundred per
week Very few, however, acted upon, amnesty
being granted only few of the $4,000 class and
isolated cases of prominent rebels.
Gen. Longstreet made visit in Aberdeen.
Miss. and on the night of his arrival the house in
which he slept was set fire by the negroes, it was
supposed The General escaped this earthly fire, and
the citizens gave public dinner in his honor few
days afterwards.
The Augusta Telegraph says that Hon. E.
NJ. Bruce, formerly a member of the Confederate
Congress from Kentucky. now banker and cotton
factor in Augusta, Ga, has sent to General John C.
Breckenridge, now an exile from the land of his
BIRTH check for $iOOg09. Mir. Bruce is understood
to have specuated largely and successfully during
the last year of the COnfederacy.
Official reports received by the Mexican
Minister at Washington, show that the independent
army was obliged to raise the siege of Matamoras,
account of the French being heavily reinforced, and
a want of ammunition and provision for the troops
new movement will be made against Matamoras
as soon as General Escobedo can obtain resources
enough. He is at Monterey, and hopes for better
success the next time.
The Newark AdcertiSer states that Bishop
Odenhemer. of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
New Jersey, met with a severe accident at South
Amboy on Sunday. He had Just concluded the SER
vices at Roundabout, and in going out of the church
made missep and fell, breaking his left knee. The
injuries dressed and the bishop sent to his home
in Burlington. lie will be probably laid UP three or
four months from the effects of the injury.
A negro jury was empanneled at CalaO,
Macon county Mo-, on the 4th inst suit for assault
and battery was brought before Squire Balnger, in
which the parties were colored citizens. A jury was
summoned, composed entirely of colored men, who,
after hearing the evidence and the charge of the
court assessed the fine of S2l each to be paid re-
plovined, and tho case stands recorded on the
dnclrnt of the Iustice.