Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


the paid system has inst been completed The entire
force consists of thirty five steam fire engine compa-
MES and twelve hook aud ladder companies Each
engine is manned by foreman. assistant foreman,
engineer driver. stohCr, and seven privatcs-twolve
men In ALL Tie hook and ladder companies have
the same number hut Of course do not require either
engineers oG stok"re The whole number of men EN-
pipycd in the brigade is five hundred and seventy six
including the Chief Engineer and his assislonts The
engines, trucks and tenders are to he drawn to the
fires by i29 horses The expenses for the salaries Of
officers and pay of prvates is 26250 divided as fol-
lows: Chief Engineer. S2009 eleven engineers,
,cach Si2OoD 9l3eo3 three suburban engineers leach
gao >l,-WE torty-seren foremen each $780, S37G00;
iorty-Seycn assistant iorcmcn lcach $500 $36 80:
tmIty-ye steam engineers teach $780, SS. 500; forty
seven drivers (eaeh 500, S329I; hrty-fyc stoi2rs
each >lo0,l S2i500; three hundred and ffty-threc
privatcs (each S70e,) S2l7.lG0. Total, @:2625O.
The New York Uera!d Of Yesterday says
there cases Of cholera in our harbor to re-
port and apparently the disease is disappearing, at
least for the immediate present. DR.. Walser in
charge Of the hospital ship at the Lower Quarantine,
has made a report in regard to the cause develop
ment and history Of the epidemic among the Alta
lantas passengers. Out Of FIVE hundred and twenty
five in the steerage, about sixty attacked and
sixteen died during the passage and since the vessels
arrival thirty-six more have sickened and four died
The Doctor hopes for the speedy disappearance the
malady.
A Washington dispatch to the Boston i'd
reT'iser, says some Of the State banks converted
into national banks have been giving the Government
trouble. They still continue to circulate the notes Of
the State banks well the national notes. In one
instance State bank with capital of S500,O0O, had
in circulation 100000 Of its old paper and also at the
time S!00,00O in circulation in national notes
Threats pun hncnt f1r these violations of law are
gradually bringing banks within the limits OF the
statute
The Memphis Argus, Of the 31st ult., on
The authority Of a gentleman from Hardeman, re-
ports labor as being in ightful state of demOral
ization in that county 1t says that unless something
is done to induce the negroes to 90 to work, and
make contracts fer further work year. the pros
pect for crop in 1865 will be gloomy beyond ali
precedent. great deal Of fencing and other pre-
limnary preparations will have to be done before
even a half crop can be made.
Ex-Mavor Smith, Of Nashville Tenn, on
Sunday evening last visited The Recorders Court ac
cOrding to custom for chat with his friends During
conversation he remarked that there were some
great rascas on the police force which observation
policeman Brown: who happened at the time come
in, took to himself and picking mp a poker he
struck Mr.. Smith over the head with it, knocking
him seuSolcss. On The following day Brown was
rerrimandcd by the Recorder and fined $50 and costs
The Stock market yesterday was inactive
and heavy. Gold sold Il; the First Board at ll63I
ana l6@ and at the Second Board at i633 and ! It.
fraction higher than Thursday. but the transac
tons were limited. Government securities also
lower. Nothing was done in State stocks and but
little in Railroad stocks; SIP was bid for Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and Sl3Ii for Northern Central
Railway.
Letters to the Chicago Republican from
Chattanooga insists upon it that Tennessee will take
front rank amongst the States that furnish Petro-
.eum Ihoy 20 much into detail about the geographic
cal formation Of the oil bearing territory, the oil
springs and the rocks that are nprcgnntcd with pc
roieum.
We notice thal in several Of the cities Of the
Soute efforts are making to introduce steam fire
engines. The Metropolitan fire Company, of Sa-
vannah have initiated measures to procure one. and
TO assist them hessrs. Raymond Il Hamilton. 1.-TWO
lcssees Of the Savannah theatre ten
dered a benefit ON Friday evening last.
Some cnterprising mathematician has cal |
cuatcd that the sum of $30G30O0O is annually ex-
pended in the United States for dog rations lie
also figures UP the amount Of damage done by the |
CANNES to stock, people and property generally, at
S3.Gl),000 more per annum.
The North Carolina election for Governor |
and members of Congress and the Legislature took
turns. A Raleigh despatch however, expresses the |
belief that all the ultra Union candidates for Con
srcsS are defeated
The receipts Of hogs in Cincinnati for the |
week ending Tuesday. November 7th are reported |
very heavy. During the same week 1873 were re- !
eeived in Covington Prices on Tuesday were tend |
ing downward
Some cnterpriSing business men are erect
ing a mill and planning mill in the town of Tren
on, Ga, the present terminus OF the unfinished Wills
Valley Railroad, for the purpose of manufacturing
furniture. This is the way to build up the South.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
circular mstructng collectors of customs that they
receive the Treasury gold certificates in pay
ment of duties imports bnt not in of the |
amount to be paid
The Hartford CT. Times says We hear that |
Mr. Burton the minister at the Fourth Congrega-
tional Church. has declined a 5000 call from |
church at San Francisco.
BY the explosion Of the boiler of the steamer |
Y o,cmito the 18th ultimo on the Sacramento |
River. California forty passengers were killed and
large number Of others injured
The extraordinary advance in the price of |
paper has compelled the Memphis dailies to raise |
their subscriptions to SIG per annum.
Nine thousand eight hundred and fourteen |
immigrants reached New York from different Euro |
pean ports last week.
The latest reports regarding the Alabama |
election. held on Monday last, state that Nj Buger
is elected Governor by small majority.
Ex-Congressman Curry, of Alabama, has |
made his debut as clergyman in Richmond. Va