Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

rebel Cen Elliott, who defended Fort Sumter against
him.
Mr. Vim. Thomson, recently elected Sheriff
of this city enters upon the discharge of his duties
to-day.
The Receipts at the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau, Washington, yesterday. amounted to s. $780,
1851.
The 5th Regiment Colored troops at lack
sonvilc, Fla mutinied on the 26ti. In queling the
riot the Lieut.. Colonel was shot in the hand.
Thirty thousand dollars have been raised
in New York to purchase for the permanent Wash
ington residence of General Grant the house which
he now occupies.
Francis Adams, long connected with the
Boston press and moro recently of The .Satnrdny
ECening E1press, died in Boston Friday night.
liz had been in ill health for some weeks
In accordance with the law just passed by
the Mississippi Legislature, the Tax Collector at
Vicksburg gives notice that he will collect tax of
81 upon each person,
Lieut.. Gen. Grant, accompanied by several
of his staff. left Washington yesterday for visit to
Richmond Charleston Savannah. and other cities of
the South He will see Richmond for the first time
The new Chapel Of the Bridge street Pres
byterian Church, Georgetown, D. c., was dedicated
last Sabbath Rev. DIR. Joseph I. Smith of this city,
| preaching the dedicatory discourse.
Mai. Geo. L. Stevens, of Boston, has COM
menced the publication Of a new journal called The
Right Way" 1t is distributed gratuiousy. and aims
to present and advocate advanced and liberal views
on the public questions of the day.
A meeting Of the members Of the bar was
| held yesterday in the Superior Court Room, when
resolutions adopted and speeches made express
i've of regret al the death of Samuel j. Donaldson.
! the senior member Of Che Baltimore bar
John P. Reed, Jr, indicted for the murder
| of Jacob Grouse, acquitted on Saturday at Bed
ford Penn. in the Court of Oyer and Terminer The
killing of Grouse caused by political dsa gree
| mcnts arising out of the late rebellion
| The North Carolina Legislature met yester
! day. The Lower House organized by the election of
1 s. I. Phillips, of Orange county, Speaker. The
! Senate had not perfected an organization at last
| counts.
Gerrit Smith, OF New York, has prosecuted
the propretors of The Chicago Tribune. for accusing
him of feisning insanity escape the responsibility
il the John Brown raid. That is too old al issue 10
I resurfect at this late day.
Mrs Lincoln has not ordered monument
from Germeuy for hes husband. She living in close
retirement at tho Clifton House, Chicago. superin-
tending the education Of her youngest son, little
Tad" Robert is completing his legal studies with
law firm in Chicago.
Members of Congress are beginning to ar
rive at Washington in anticipation cf the approach
ing meeting of the National Legislature. Generals
Schenck and Garfield, of Ohio, Senators Ramsey. oC
Minnesota, and Stockton, of New Jersey, being
among the recent ais
The Boston Transcript says that the Boston
Monday morning papers not allowed to pub
lish reports of Sunday evening meetings, the State
constable having just decided that their preparation
and printing are not works of necessity, mercy or
charity.
The Alabama Legislature was organized on
the Goth instant by the election of Hon. Walter il.
Crenshaw, from Butler and Lowndcs, President Of
the Senate Michael Taul. ESQ., Secretary of the Sen
ate; Hon. Thomas B. Cooper, of Cherokee. Speaker
of the House. and Wm. H. Fowler Esq, Clerk OF the
House.
Intelligence from Central Mississippi re-
ports healthy condition of affairs there Personal
enterprise was active, and provisions were plentiful
The negroes were also well disposed and returning to
their former homes. A Columbus Miss. newspaper
is informed of 5000 being collected by Govern
ment agent. who accounted for but IS 900 1t adds
THE stealing mania is rampant
Our Financial reporter informs us that gold
fairly active yesterday. having advanced Is to =
Saturday price the sales for the day footing up
about $40 0O0-all at 1471S@l4714. Governments were
fraction better but business in them not large.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Shares opened at SIP
and closed Sll12i Northern Central closed at 81
and City Passenger at S2l4.
The Fenian excitement having somewhat
subsidized in Canada. the provincial confederation
scheme will now be brought up again. Every effor'
will be made by the Canadian and the home govern
ment to effect union of the colonies: but the mari
time provinces still oppose it. French republican
club has been organized in Montreal with the ohiec,
Ot apit he nj alo IN
the United States.
Carleton, OF New York, published yester
day Mrs. Kanes book, entitled the Life and
Love of DR.. Kane" The DR.. fell in love with and
secretly married one of the Misses Foxs of Rochester
famous a spirualist, but his family declining to
acknowledge the widow, and pay over her legacy,
Mrs. Kane gives the interesting facts of their court
ship and marriage to the public in a volume, which
will no doubt be eagerly per used by tho curious
A young man and young woman were burn
ed to death on Thursday, November l6. in Franklin
county, Kansas, while trying to hay from
being consumed by prairie fire. The parents of the
young people came from Indiana. and lately settled
near Ottawa. Large numbers of prairie fires have
occurred recently in the newly settled districts OF
Kansas and very considerable amount of property
in the way of barns. fences, hay and fodder and in
two three instances houses have been destroyed
The Rey. Sella Martin (colored) gave the
results of his mission England obtain aid for the
suffering freedmen of the South. at Shiloh Presby
terian Church, New York, on Sunday evening He
had succeeded in collecting about $50 00O but thought
that the freedmen must rely chiefly the contribu
tions of the North for relief He found much sympa
thy among prominent Englshmen, but general un-
willingness to contribute pecunary from fear lest
they might be considered mpertineny interfering
| in our domestic concerns.
The officers of the late armies North and
South taking to various civil ayocatons. Major
General Averill is driving team and keeping feed
store in the Pennsylvania oil regions General Fran
| els j. Heron is a commission merchant in New Or
| leans. Major General W. S. Smith has opened a
retail grocery in Chicago, in partnership with Capt
Atkinson of his staff. late Lieutenant General of
the rebel army is clerk in an Express Office in New
Orleans and the officer who fought Franklin at
Sabine is a bar keeper at Houston, Texas rebel
Colonel was seen in Galveston, driving a dray with
mule, whose harness was made Of ropes The Col
| onel wore his uniform and all insignia of rank.
Judge Richard Busted, formerly of New
| York, and presiding over the United States
District Court of Alabama, has come into conflict
with the military there, General Wood having de-
cned to obey writ of habeas corpus issued by the
Judge for the surrender to the civil authorities of S.
c. Dexter, Treasury cotton agent at Mobile, ar
rested and held for trial by court martial charge
| of malfeasanee. Subsequently the Judge ordered
General Wood to appear and show why he should
not be proceeded against for contempt. The General
still neither appearing nor responding, writ of at
tachment against him, directed to the United States
Marshal. granted by the Judge and made return
| able on the 11th of December proximo
! The official returns of the late election in
| Pennsylvania have at length been received from
| Harrisburg. The footings up as follows;
FOR AUDIToR-GENERAL,
Tn;n
W ", Ii. Davis, DEM 2l5 T40
Hartranft's majority. 22660
FOR sURvEYoR-GENERAL.
J. NJ Campbell, Union. 237 800
J. p Linton 2l5 Sl
Campbell's majority 2l9SS
The total vote for AuditorGeneral is 454 140 which
is lis less than the heavy vote for President in
1860 Harranfts vote is 81, ,99l less than Lincons
and Davis 6O576 less than McCellans. the decline
| in each party being nearly the same.
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