Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-21


herself to the British naval authorities.
The Captain of the Pirate says that he heard of the
close Of the the 39th of August. when he i'm
mediately unmbered his guns and consigned them
to the hold, and steered for Liverpool. Capt. Wad-
dell had sent letter to Earl Russell but its contents
had not yet been made public. English papers see
reason for turning her to the American Gov
eminent if demanded.
Earl Russell Premier and Lord Clarendon as
Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been nductcd into
Office
GEN ERAL NEWS
The venerable President Mott, of Union
College, is in failing health.
They have malignant dipthcria in Missis
sppi.
Ex-Gov'r Allen, of La, is publishing
newspaper in the City of Mexico.
Semmes of the Confederate navy, is prac-
tcing law in Mobile.
An oil rock has been discovered in Trum-
bull county, Penn. yielding, the OIL Ne,cs states
about forty five gallons to the ton.
Up to the present date, the United States
Treasury Department has chartered 1910 National
banks with total capital of SiO3, ,74lS $3.50
Capt. John X kennedy, of the 2l3th Pennsyl-
vania volunteers tried by court martial for drunk
duty, has been cashiered the service
editor of the Chicago Tribune, has gone into the
banking business in Chicago.
The Indian murderers at St. Paul were
hanged on Saturday. They met their fate with the
stolidity of brutes.
The safe Of Capt j. E. Pennington, A Q.
M. at Chattanooga rifed Sunday night.
$l9.656.50 is the sum missing.
The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau
yesterday amounted to a trihe over million of dol
lars.
AT the present time there are but twenty
two prisoners confined in the Old Capitol prison, the
most important of which are Winder Dunder, Dun
and Gee.
Election returns in Minnesota gradually in
crease MarshalIs majority. 1t will not vary much
from 1,5OO. The suffrage amendment is lost by over
2OOO
During the past week the Redemption Di-
vision of the Treasury Department redeemed in out
standing certificates of Indebtedness Sli7976o and
S4,53S,930 in muti!ated fractional currency.
We publish this morning an interesting
and important statement in regard to Mexico, show
ing the original designs of France in planning the
conquest of that country.
Hon. J. 5. Morrill,, member of the United
States House of Representatives from Vermont. is
prominent candidate for the vacancy in the Senate
In another column we print some impor-
tant news from South America setting forth the de
termination of the Chilian Government to fight to
the bitter end.
The old frame Universaist Church on
Washington street. Buffalo. has been disposed of by
the trustees for the of Sl00OO to D. C. Harris,
who designs converting it into livery stable.
The medical department of the Freedmen's
Bureau has received a report which shows that there
only 36S freedmen under medical treatment in
Louisiana located in the hospitals at Ncw Orleans,
st. Charles, Shreveport Thibedcaux and Baton Rouge.
The business of the United States Patent
Office is gradually increasing During the month of
October six hundred and twenty-cght patents were
issued and five hundred and twenty were or will be
Issued from the st to the 2Sth of November inclusive
The sale of l,500 government mules, at
Springfield, Illinois, completed Friday, the
amount realized being about Sl75,000 sale of 1000
government mules commenced at Jefferson Barracks
near st. Louis, on Thursday.
In the Stock Market yesterday gold sold at
1867 and the business therein was limited. Govern
ment Securities were in fair demand and further
advance was established in 52Os and 1905, but for
stocks generally the market was dull and heavy.
A despatch from Concord, n. H., to the
Boston Herald, on Saturday last says that General
diarrhGa. tending to liberation. AT last advices
however, symptoms were more favorable.
Provisional Governor Hamilton, of Texas,
has issued his proclamation appointing the Sth day
of January as the time for holding election for
delegates to the State convention, which is to meet
on the 7th of February.
The Memphis Daily Appeal says the work
upon the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad drags
slowly toward completion, in consequence Of the
sadly dilapidated condition of the finance of the
company.
The loss by the the destruction of Barton's
tool factory. in Rochester. Saturday morning last
is estimated at $4,000. This is the sixth time that
Mr.. Barton has been sorely stricken by fire in that
city.
A panic occurred in Public School No. Is,
in Republican street yesterday, caused by cry Of
FIRE being raised. There several hundred
children in the school at the time whose alarm and
fright fearful. but happily they all got out
without serious accident.
The steamer ". A. Moffit was burned at st.
Louis on Thursday night. Loss S60,00O insured for
$4,000 The fire the work of an incendary: and
some suspicious circumstances connected with the
affair will cause the payment of the insurance money
to be dependent upon the result of investigation.
In the Indiana legislature, on Friday.
message was received from Governor Morton, an
nouncing his temporary retirement from gubernato-
rial duties in consequence of llhealth. The COVER
nor left for Washington the same night and thence
will go to Europe.
The business men of Detroit are taking ac-
tive measures to break up the immense traffic in
smuggled goods at that place. The Government force
is considered inadequate to the work. 1t is estimated
that from 5000 to $4,000 worth of goods arc SNUG
ged daily; and the business is said to be brisk all
along the line
Ford's Theatre, the scene Of the murder of
our martyr President" is still in the hands Of the
workmen, who are slowly arranging and putting it
into fire proof condition for the reception of the
archives of the Government. DR.. Lieber. the head
of the Bureau, is now occupied, with several able
assistants in asserting arranging. and classifying
the various historical documents
At Memphis, Tenn, on Tuesday last, John
T. Creighton, charged with the murder of VIM. Nc
Cormick. underwent an examination before Judge
Jones' who upon the evidence elected held the ac-
cused to bail in the sum of $4,000 for his appearance
at the Criminal Court from day to day to the
charge in the indictment,
The Syracuse Standard says a number of
canal horses have recently died in that city of some
strange and unknown disease. The animal exhibits
no symptoms of disease until it is taken suddenly.
and dies in a short time One canal boat owner lost
six horses in five weeks. The disease appears to be
confined to canal horses.
In the United States, from the middle of
October to the 10th instant there seventeen
rious railroad accidents, of which eight were col
lisions; fourteen fatalities TO inland steamers, of
which four were collisions; and thirteen boiler eX-
plosions of which four steamboats, and three
on locomotives. During the month of October there
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