Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-05

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yesterday with discussion of tho Stewart resolu-
tions, arriving however at definite conclusion,
HoUsE.-In the House the Brools-Dodge case was
the dominant topic. monopoliZing pretty much the
whole day.
GENERAL NEWS.
M. Edwin Forrest sails for California
next week II is to play several engagements there,
but gaes mainly to recruit his health.
The New York balls last winter cost as
much as the expense THE General Government un-
der President Washington.
.-Governor Low, Of California, has vetoed
the bill granting State aid to the Western Pacific
-rdilroad, and bas been sustained in his Veto
=, ,humanskeletoh .yas found in a garret
in St. Louis the other day, which causes considerable
excitement.
The Houston Telegraph says that in few
years the sheep interest in Texas will not be second
even to cottoQ.
THE AT )ens (Ga.) Watckman of the 14th.
reports that although the very cold weather some
weeks ago killed everything green the wheat crop of
that section now gives promise of doing well
The safe of the express and railroad
companies at California, Missouri, has been robbed
oRsoversl thousand dollars BY I. E. Williams the
ticket agent for the railroad company.
The rebel General j. c. Vaughan, who
commanded at the Piedmont fight after Gen. Jones
Gell, wrtesyh he has lost all by the war and that
he living the Florida line, trying to support his
family by hard labor
Harvey Mansfield, of Bristol, Vt, while
filing saw with his gloves on stopped to rub his
eyes, and filled them with the steel filings thahad
accumulated upon his gloves that it is feared he will
entirely lose his sight
1.-Two Henry county prisoners named Prich-
ard and Barnes, escaped from the Centerville Ind,
Jail on Tuesday. by digging through a stone floor
some distance under ground, and then through
brick wall.
"A servant girl in St. Louis, Missouri, who
had been accused by her employer and arrested for
stealing. brought an action against him. and recov-
cred 81 900 damages, for false imprisonment on the
Sth ult.
The curate at the Madeline, in Paris, NJ.
de Guerry. has been appointed by The Emperor Ma
poeon as Governor to the Prince Imperial" and is
to be elevated to the rank of Bishop with salary of
ten thousand dollars year.
European savants are debating the pro-
position of NJ Won Gumpach, who has issued several
books and pamphlets arguing that the earth is rot
compressed but probate eipSoid. or in other words
that it has not the figure of orange, but lemon
The Galveston papers say that real estate
has greatly advanced in that city, Tenements and
lots are selling for than three times what they
grain market is rapidly filling up by mportations of
corn by thousands of bushels from New Orleans
The wife Of an eminent b-prefect re-
Gently presented herself at one Of President Trop-
longs parties, in Paris. in dress almost without
corsage being open in 'front.' and fastened across
the breast only BY narrow chain of sold. Madame
Tropiong, however, happened to see the lady and
insisted uron her leaving the house.
in reply to a letter of the Collector of
New York. asking whether he should admit cargo
of South American hides just arrived at this port
the Secretary of the Treasury has given permission
for their entry if after careful inspection it ascer-
tanned that they do not come from region infested
with the cattle plague.
The Ohio Senate on Saturday passed, by
vote of 20 against Q. the bill increasing the legal
rate of interest from six to per cent. 1t also
defeated by majority, the Agricultural College
BILL postpOning the establishment of the institution
and allowing the Trustees to receive proposals and
report them at the next session. Tho House proceed
ings were not of general interest.
"A dispatch from Sheboygan says the
steamer Sea Bird, which left Milwaukee for Manito-
woe on the 28th lies fast in the ice about one mile
from Sheboygan pier. Quite a number of passengers
have come ashore on the ice. Two of them broke in
but succeeded in saving themselves. Quite anumher
of them being for Manitowoc, took private convey
ance through.
The ladies of Raleigh, n. c., recently pro-
posed to organize an association of which the oldest
member should be the President and the youngest
the Secretary. But the dear creatures soon met with
an unexpected and insurmOuntable difficulty, and
the project has been aban doned it having been found
impossible to obtain President anu every one Of
the members claiming the right to be Secretary.
Abiding to denomination by many presses
and meetings, of General Grant for the Presidency
bn Cialo0n 9 former nj of
residence, says that while the sympathies of the
General are undoubtedly with the Union party, and
while he intends to act with that party in the future
it is very doubtful whether he would accept such
candidacy. He has already life office. equal in
honor and responsibility with that of the President
and no friend would advise him to abandon it. to
mingle in the strife and turmoil of politics.
AT a recent levee at the White House.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister, escorted the
lady of President Juarez. She was attired in rich
lavender silk richly trimmed, and long trail, with
diamonds. The Hon. /. =. Campbell also had a
Mexican lady on his arm. She attired in blue
silk, long trail and fued trimmings around the bot
tom, with diamond pin. Mr.. Labantree. of the State
Department. also escorted Mexican lady. who at
traced considerable attention The brunette counte
nances and well formed features fthese Montezuma
ladies furnished a contrast with the American ladies
and made them the centre of attraction.
Concerning the little brig Vision, a story
is in circulation to the effect that the loss. or sup
posed loss of that vessel and crew is humbug; that
Captain Donovan landed at st. Johns, in Nova
Scotia sold his brig for fishing smack, while Mrs
Donovan, who remained in New York. collected
polices his life to the amount of twenty thousand
dollars. The story is profuse in details of the
minutin Of the risks taken by the various
Offices how il was provided in the policies that so
long as he sailed in 5rg. which in marine circles is
admitted as of two hundred tons burthen, the risk
would not be impaired. Hence, say the story telerS
his rigging his boat as brig.
The scientific world has Just suffered
severe loss in the death of Sir William Rowan Ham
ilton, Professor of Astronomy in the University OF
Dublin, and Astronomer Royal of England During
his residence at Trinity College, Dublin he displayed
such remarkable precocity that he was appointed to
the chair of Astronomy while still undergraduate
and barely twenty-one years of age. His greatest
achievement in scientific research, the discovery
Of the Calculus of Quaernions, the elaboration of
which occupied period of twenty-five years. He
left sixty volumes of manuscripts. many of them
very bulky. which have been deposited In the library
of Trinity College,