Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-18
MISCELLANY.

Prof. Agassiz is following the upward
course of the Amazon river and has already discov
cred sixty new species of fish
"A fire broke out in PHILADELPHIA on Fri
lay afternoon. which destructive in its char
lcter that about forty families rendered home
less.
The following item shows in what times
we live: There were imported into New York last
week, Sl52l14 worth of holiday presents"
The Worcester Shield says, an air line rail
road through this county from New York to East
VILE Virginia, to pass Snow Hill, and designed
to connect New York by rail in more direct course
with New Orleans, as n government mail route, is
among the most probable things on the tapis. Under
The clause of the Constitution which declares that
Conaress shall have power TO establish posoffces and
post-roads. the present Congress will charter Com
pany this winter for such purpose. and enact the
right of way through the States the road will run on
conditions that the mails be carried free the
same.
1t is related in connection with the recent
loss Of the schooner New Jersey. and the saving of
her crew of six persons and dog, that when the
steamship Granada touched the wreck for the pur-
pose of taking off the crew the latter who had been
without food water for thirtysix hours were
found lying on the deck drenched with water and
completely exhausted. The dog YVES the only living
object on the watch and as soon as he beheld the
Granada he rushed forward bit the captains foot
and whined piteouSly-eyidently for the purpose of
telling them of the approaching succor. This he re-
peated the second time before the whistle of the
steamboat aroused the to its presence. Grea
interest attaches to this incident from the fact that
the crew had decided to kill the faithful animal the
following morning 10 sustain their lives little longer
The Tribune says: at is a matter that
and we may Sc well state that Helmbold is paying
the Tribune over ten thousand dollars this year He
paid one thousand five hundred dollars for in
sertion of page in the Weekly Tribune, besides
his column in the Foiiv Tribune. Bonner once paid
three thousand dollars for insertion Of an ad
vertisement of the Ledger. He knew that, by judi
cious advertising he could insure fortune. The old
prejudice among druggists and physicians against
advertising is dying out, and they. as well Others
see that the cheapest mode whereby they can make
themselves and their medicines known to the public
is by wise and liberal system of advertising Helm
bold discovered this fact. and took advantage of it "
A Havana correspondent says that on the
18th Of last month the Captain General. his Elk
cellency Lieutenant General Don Jose Marchessi y
Oleaga took formal possession of his Office His pre-
deeessor, Gen Mes5na, embarked on the 2lst for ST.
Thomas, on mis- return to Europe, accompanied by
his family As usual the people were in despair at
Ms departure the pest PROOF OF Wnlch Is tnat the
ohca Hotstn says 80. his safe arrival at ST. Thomas
is reported
On the 22d the .ex-Emperor of Hayti. family and
SUITE arrived in the port of Mayaguez, board the
French steamer Caravee, but none of the party
went ashore: The imperial refugees were on their
way to st. Thomas.
The committee appointed to distribute prizes to the
most successful cotton planters of the island have
given two or three thousand escudos new coin of half
dollarI-ffteen hundred dollars each-to two gen.
temen of Ponce two of two thousand TO two planters
Of Santa Isabel; two Of Thousand two planters
of Camuz, and two of five hundred to two planters.
one of Corozal and the ether at Pepino.