Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-25
DAILY COMMERCIAL.
BAL TIMORE, MD.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Captain G. c. Danley, an aid de- camp Il
General Quitman during the Mexican war, State Au
dior of Arkansas from 1850 TO 1866 and for man,
years editor of the Little Rock Gazette, died on Oct
; at Little Rock. lie was severely wounded in tn,
assault on Chapultepec. being manned for life
Rev. DR.. William I. Dwight, long regarded
as one of the ablest Congregationast clergymcn il
New England. died at Andover on Sunday, aged
scventy-onc years.
The report that John Mitchell has been re-
leased not correct. lie is still at Fortress Monroe
prisoner.
Hon. H. W. Hilliard. formerly Member of
Congress from Alabama has just been pardoned by
President johnson. Mr.. Iilliard has recently writ
ten ~. Il. ldnc, novel of great interest and power,
which will soon be published.
On Friday morning the steamboat City of
Providence while bound from New York To Proyi-
dence, had her sides-front of wheehouse-stove in
by the waves while of Strattord Light during fierce
gale. The water rushed in. and she was in imminent
danger of being sunk, when the hands were set to
work throwing overheard the cargo to tighten her.
Some thirty thousand dollars worth of goods were
cast overheard, among which was lot of cotton in
bales. These said to have fioated ashore along
the east side of the sound and been picked up. Very
fortunately, the steamer Metropolis from Fall River
came alongside soon after and towed the City of
Providence into New Haven, where. during the day
Providence.
The ordinance passed by the North Carolina
Convention Saturday. requires the Legislature to
make provision for the payment of the interest on
what is known as the old or ant-war debt and for
bids the payment of debts contracted in aid of the
rebellion.
Oil has been struck at the depth of forty
feet Indian creek. Hancock county, Kentucky,
four miles from Hawesvile. and one mile and half
from the Ohio. The land belongs to Messrs. Hogg &
Littel and the well to H. w. Allison. There is great
excitement in the neighborhood.
A general order just promulgated by the
War Department directing that hereafter no person
shall be arrested n deserter for having failed to
port under any draft, will be regarded as cheering
news to the hundreds of renegades and Skedadders
who. with visionary pursuing Provost Marshals before
their eyes. are still hiding and skulking about the
country, North, South, East and West, and even on
the other side of the Atlantic.
The drouth was so severe in Franklin coun-
ty Me-. that nearly all the machinery propelled by
water was stopped, and the Pennington Chronicle
says that the people obliged to come to Lewis
ton after meal.
The next Congress will officially proclaim
the Territory of Colorado the thirty serenh State
in the Union.
A convention of the people Of Missouri is
called to meet at St. Louis the 26th instant to sus
tain President Johnsons policy. Among the signcrs
of the call are Frank p Blair, Lewis V. Bogy AID A.
j. P. Garesche.
The new gold notes to be used in paving
customs have been prepared at the Treasury Dcpart
ment, and will be to the Assistant Treasures
during the present week.
A California steamer. short of coal. put into
Norfolk yesterday.
Governor Morton, of Indiana. is danger
ously i'll.
General Augur, Commander of the District
ofColumbia, is quite ill., and has been confined to his
residence for several days past
A collision occurred on Sunday evening on
the New York and New Haven Railroad between a
construction and milk train. Several ears were
thrown from the track and both engines badly dam
aged. man riding one of the engines was in
stantly killed. and large number of the employees
injured. The cause of the accident is said to have
been the disregard of orders.
Governor Hamilton of Texas has officially
made known the statements necessary to be made to
accompany petition 10 President Johnson for par
don. He says that all applications lor pardon will re-
quire his endorsement.
The Secretary of War has directed the Inn
mediate release from confinement of Mason GRAY
late Captain of the 18th New York cavalry who was
tried in Washington week or two ago by military
and sentenced to be confined at hard labor for five
years and pay fine of 900
A New 1ork paper says that one gentleman
will monopol2e all the Mexican bonds of the smaller
denominations as soon they put in the market
Fifteen Government vessels were sold in
New York yesterday. realizing in the aggregate
$7379 900.
The Philadelphia and Soldiers Fair was
regularly opened yesterday and was visited by thous
ands of people.
General Bennett has forbidden the organiza-
ton of coored militia in Charleston
1t is believed that the amount of $50. .000.-
600 of fve-twenty bonds. as recently advertised by
the Secretary of the Treasury has all been taken by
the conversion of compound interest notes and other
interest bearing securities.
Commodore Vanderbilt. Of New York. was
tn. own from a wagon yesterday and badly injured
This is the second accident Of the kind that has hap
pened to him.
Charles Murray, private of Company y. 5lst
Pennsylvania volunteers, convicted of assaulting
robbing, and killing Lewis ofat, of 3d New Jersey
volunteers has been sentenced to ten years mprson
ment at Auburn New York.
The ex-rebel General Price arrived in
Washington yesterday
The State Department has officially recog-
nized Antonio Maria de Cca as Consul of Spain at
Mobile Chrsten NJ. Hoist as Vice Consul OF Denmark
for the State of Georgia. and Louis CasavaI as Vice
Consul Of Spain at Savannah.
The internal revenue receipts yesterday
amounted to $500, ,35l .i6.
Secretary McCulloch has ordered an exami-
nation of clerks in his Department with IA view to
ascertain whose places can be filed with disabled
soldiers.
The President has received letter from
Governor johnson, of Georgia. in which he Che Gov
ernor) expresses desire that the United States mill
tary forces be retained in that State until the local
forces can be organized.
The Kentucky Central Railroad declines to
transport negroes the road unless provided with
written orders from their masters; military orders are
refused.
Mr. Horace Cotton, Of st. Louis, purchased
lot of clothing at Government sale for $4,000
and almost Immediately sold the same stuff for
S2O0OOO.
Clarence \. Seward declines the Union
nomination for Judge of the Superior Court of New
York.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention adj
journed last evening sine die
Dispatches from Halifax report a negro in
surrection in Jamaica but give no particulars TROOPS
had been sent off to quell the disturbance
In the death of Mr. James A. Suydam. the
New York Academy of Design has come into not only
the handsome endowment of s500O0 but that gentle
mans fine gallery Of paintings, worth more than the
money. As the Academy has just settled down in it,
new palace on Fourth avenue and 23d street the be
quest is timely
The Ficksburg Heuid says that General
Benjamin g. Humphreys, the rebel officer. Just elect
ed Governor Of Mississippi is high-toned Chris
tian gentleman and soldier. H has served Missis-
ppi in council and in camp. and the devotion he ha.
exhibited to her in the past is the best pledge of how
true he will be to her in this her darkest hour
Great excitement exists in Beaufort. con
cernng the ownership of the Sea Islands the freedmen
laboring under the impression that they had been
given to them outright by the Government. Great
mortality Is reported among the negroes.
Seven or eight different saw mills have been
projected and are in process Of erection at Cedar Key
Florida or in the vicinity. for the purpose of manu-
featuring lumber from the Suwannee for the New
York markets.
Gold was dull and heavy yesterday. nothing
whatever being done with it at the First Board
which has not occurred before for months we may
say years. The sales at the Second Board were small
and were made at 14534. decline of a. l46 was de-
manded, but the market closed at 14554. Our fnan-
cial reporter says the stock market as whole was