Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-23
DAILY COMMERCIAL.
BAL LTIMORE MD.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

bringing particulars OF the loss oi the Orig 1lanla
When discovered by the Florida the crew of the Ii
tania on a raft constructed from the foreyard
part of the maintopmust. and two cabin doors with
which they put off from their vessel when they saw
she must 90 down in a few moments. The material.
OF which this raft was constructed were so scanty
that ii sunk in the water till the crew were sub
merged to the waist. The rescued ten in all, were
completely exhausted, having been on the raft day
and a half without food. Signals of distress were
made to a bark which passed within thre, miles OF
them, but were disregarded
The counsel of Jeffcrsn Davis, it is stated.
has expressed desire that his client be granted an
Immediate trial. The desire for an early arraign-
ment. came originally from Davis, who it is sad has
declared that he has no fears for the issue and that
the government will do him great favor by nrraign-
ing him at the earliest possible moment 1t is also
reported that the favorable change in his every
day life was mainly the work of the President and at
this hour he has almost everything he could ask
liberty ITSELF and the presence of his family about
him.
The reported death of Hon. Geo V. Law
renee, member of Congress- from the Washington
Penn, district, is denied He was very low, but is
recovering.
The census of the city of New York, Just
published in full, shows that within the past five
years the population of the great metropolis Of the
Union instead of having increased more than 25OOOO
has decreased 1000. The returns of 1860 show
cess of 1874 females and in 1868 an excess of jS
beng an increase of female in five years of
24,S6. decrease of 3,505 is shown in the colured
population. the number in 1860 being l2,57i.
Major General Davis, Jr., commandant of
the Department of Alabama having learned that
large numbers of arms and other ordinance property
o the United States and Of the socaled Confederate
States. in the hands of the people within his dis
an or1e
Commanders to collect such property, and notifying
the people that they will be held liable to punish
ment II they refuse to turn over the
Walter 5. Coleman, James I. Brame and
I. O. Glassock, candidates for the mayoralty of
Mobile Ala.
r. NJ Bolton and Col. VI. j. Bulger, are
candidates for Governor of Alabama
The Mobile 1dceitiSer and Reqister of the
18th says 1--WE learn that gentleman was in this
city yesterday buying six and eight per cent Confed
crate bonds for house in New York. The price
paid is said to have been dollars in gold for bonds
Of one thousand dollars each
General John II. Forncy formerly of Ala.
bama, has embarked in business in New Orleans
The Rev. r. X. Hargrove, of Tuscaloosa. |
Ala, had his leg broken above the ankle by being
thrown from his buggy few days ago.
The inauguration of the great Philadelphia |
fair for the benefit of the Soldiers and Sailors Home
will take place this evening. ut the Academy Of
Music. 1t is positively announced that President |
johnson and Secretaries Seward and Stanton and |
Generals Grant and Meade and Admiral Farragut |
will be present at the ceremony.
Among the closing acts of the Kentucky |
Presbyterian Synod the adoption of paper urging
all under the Synods to study the things which
make peace" The next yearly meeting will be held
in Henderson, by.
bn II |
{. Magruder, were hanged On Saturday, the former
at Nashville Tenn, and the latter at Louisville Ky |
Their executions private.
Property to the amount Of So. 900 was de- |
stroyed by fire in Charleston, Mass on tho morning
Of the 10Th. a fire in Detroit Michigan. the same
morning, involved loss Of 81, 900.
A New York bartender was shot dead on |
Saturday by jersey City detective.
Wirz underwent medical examination on |
Saturday in the presence of the Court, with a view
of showing that lie physically incapable of COM
mtting the crimes with which he is charged.
Mr.. John Campbell, of Cecil county, died
on Wednesday at the ripe age of s. years
We print this morning the despatch of the
President to the North Carolina Convention relative
to the Reputation of the Confederate debt.
Several gangs, composed OF counterfeitcrs. |
murderers, and thieves generally have recently been
dis overed in Nashville. Tennessee They have
their rendezvous in u under the city which is
said to connect with the McNary tomb, III one Of the
grave yards.
A wooden mill was destroyed by fire III Phil
adelpha on Friday night involving loss of $4,000
The Wirz trial was concluded on Saturday. |
After Judge Advocate Col Chapman had finished his
argument. the President of the Court ordered the
doors to be closed.
The Propeller Of the Baltimore and Phil.
adephia steamship linc burst her steam chimney
Saturday. fatally scalding Thomas Willing, fireman, |
and severely injurng Mr.. Crumbach, engineer and |
several others.
The Star says, it is understood that the Hon.
L. A. Rollins, Deputy Commissioner of Internal Re-
venue, will succeed Hon. Wm. p. Orton, Commits |
Sioner, who will retire the 1st of November to |
accept the Presidency Of the United States Telegraph
Company.
The road leading from Alexandria to Wash
ington. is infested by robbers of a most dangerous |
character. In order to escape detection, the Williams
disguise themselves as negroes.
woman named Wilkes, alias Houghton. |
was found dead in a closet of her house in Washing |
ton yesterday. 1t is supposed that she was sranglcd
by her paramour.
D. I. Bsbie, formerly connected with the
Norfolk and then with the Richmond press, active
advocate of internal improve ements, died at Mata-
moras, Mexico, on the 18th of August.
About one hundred and fifty colored people |
in Lynchburg, Va, about emigrate to Liberia
They publish an appeal to their former masters to
aid them with money.
a terrible afray occurred on election day
Madison Precinct, Fremont county, Iowa. in which
VIM. Blue was stabbed in the abdomen and Jack |
Blue shot in the spine. One man, by the name of
Hale received five stabs and shot in the back An
other man of the same name knocked down and |
severely injured man badly stabbed, and several |
others or less injured. None of the injured are
dead but all are in a critical condition. The quarrel
not political one, but resulted from an old |
family grudge
On Tuesday afternoon last, Il boiler ex-
poded in Steinhausers manuiactory Railway, |
n j.. with terrible effect, tearing the building
pieces, and killing three men standing near by. The
boiler, lr5 by IL feet. thrown hundred feet
high, and twelve hundred feet distant.
The trial of Emerson Etheridge closed on
Thursday The accused submitted his case without
argument and is confident of acquital except on the
unimportant charge to which he pleaded guilty.
The stock market on Saturday was dull and
heavy Gold was firm at l46, and transactions were
quite light. There change in the money mar |
ket rates according to class Of paper ranging from
to - per cent
The oyster trade at Fort Monroe is brisk
shipments amounting to between LOCO and 1890 bar
rels each steamer from Norfolk to Boston New York
and Baltimore.
The Richmond Rep,bjjc Of Saturday says |
the Hon. r. l.. Montague, Lieutenant Governor of |
the State during Governor Letchers term lately !
made a speech at the Bruinton Church, King and |
Queen county. in which he expressed his belief that /
the origin of the war not from African slavery
but 'tIe great csea8ioa Qt tie Democratic princi
pie and there could be permanent peace until this
was restrained" |
The Paca homicide case has been postponed
until the March term of the Court.
Among the present ''lionesses' at Paris
is Lady Victoria Fitz William Il fascinating Es4ui-
maux Of Grinnell Bay. whose tender care of Lord
Frederick Fitz William, three years ago, when
he was taken ill board the English man war
George Henry" detained in 8 bay BY stress Of
weather on the Esquimaux coast. induced him to