Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-19
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"A Paris newspaper announces, an an in
ducement TO subscribe that none of its patrons have
yet died of the cholera.
The disbursements of the Depot Quarter
masters office in this city, under the direction of Col
R. NJ. Newport, amounted to over eight millions of
dollars last year.
Mr.. Franklin kenefOrd, an employee on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was killed about
mile east of Kerneysville, West Virginia, on
Tuesday last, by train of passing over his legs
1t is stated that card of Mr.. James Ste
phens was dropped into the letter box of the Right
Hon. the Attorney General on the morning after the
great Head Centres escape from jail.
A Philadelphia clergyman, on Thanks
giving Day. remarkng upon the fact that Provi-
dence generally matches grand emergencies with
equally grand characters drew his illustration from
the late struggle in this country and enumerated
first among the great men whom it evoked Grant
Sherman and Jay Cooke.
The Quartermaster General in his report,
says of Colonel George D. Wise that the safety eff
cheney, despatch and punctualty with which the af
fairs of the Bureau of the Ocean transportation have
been administered under his direction do him great
honor" The Colonel who is resident of Baltimore
it will be remembered, short time since brevet
ted Brigader General. --.
"A United States revenue officer IN Spring
field received the following ''noat' which seems
rather loud one; To Mr.. Adrns hav bin sellin
chesnuts by the kwart to sum of the nabors and the
boys says shal be prosekutid if don't hav lisens
or get my chesnuts stamped onto. How much hav i
got to pay for sen fu chesnuts" .
"A letter from Wiesbaden speaks of an at
tempt at mischief made in the Kursaal, lighted
bomb having been placed underneath the rouge-et
noir table. The discovery made in time to pre-
vent the explosion, which would have been rather
than an unexpected visit from posse of State
constables.
The New York Citizen says: ''Journal-
ism is rapidly becoming the great profession. In
some of the rural towns are badly paid, but
there is no writer of marked ability in New York
who cannot command at least five thousand dollars
year..
The London Morning Herald, writing
about Fenianism in this country says, "the United
States cannot at and the time be the terri
tory of friendly power, and the home and harborage
of an enemy" 1t always did makea difference whose
gored.
An action has been brought in one Of the
New York courts by person claiming that he has
been injured to the extent of 900 by being described
colored person in of the city directories The
error happened in this wise. The person who gath
cred the for the directory, set down "coll,
meaning collector of bills after the mans name.
The compositor set it up cold, and it went into
print.
We find in letter to Western paper the
following curious paragraph:
When New Orleans fell, some of the coast and
river pilots went off with the rebels while others re-
mained and did service, whenever engaged on United
States vessels. The last have, of course, been here
since. The others have been gradually returning
through the summer and resuming their occupation
AT last they found themselves in the majority where
upon, in certain Pilots Association, they proceeded
to resolve that the pilots who had remained in New
Orleans during the war, and had done service the
United States vessels when required, should not be
recognized by the Association and that vessels which
hereafter employ them should in like manner be
tabooed. Not satisfied with this through their rela-
tions to the insurance companies, they effected
arrangement by which any vessel employing these
| tabooed pilots should be refused insurance"