Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

SgSATE-In the Senate yesterday, Mr.. Howe pre-
sented petition for amendment to the Constitu-
ton for electing the President and Vice President by
a direct vote of the people, instead of the electoral
College, and for equal rights without distinction of
color. which was referred to the Committee on Re-
construction.
Mr.. Wilson presented a petition from citizens of
Massachusetts, asking for the dsfranehisement Of
late rebels which referred to the same committee
The bill to extend the time for the withdrawal of
goods from pubic stores and bonded warehouses,
on which there was motion pending to reconsider
the by which it passed. cams up and Mr. Sprague
obtained the floor. and discussed at considerable
length the free trade and protective tariff alleging
that the bill calculated to injure home manufac-
lures and build up foreign interests.
The Constitutional amendment on the subject of
representation then taken up. and Mr.. Fessenden
delivered lengthy speech Several amendments were
offered but without reaching a vote On the bill, the
Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-But little business was done in the House.
resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary
of Warto state how many volunteers are still re
tanned in the military service. The House resumed
the consideration of the civil rights bH" ami after
protraeted debate in which Messrs. Bingham.
Shellabarger and others participated the House then
GENERAL NEWS.
Says the Springfield Mass. Republican:
by mysterious but mercful 'dispensation.' the
Massachusetts, Legislature has been thus far re-
strained from making itself ridiculous over the
Washington imbrogio."
The New Hampshire farmers who are
owners of fine maple trees are preparing to make an
unusual amount of maple sugar and maple moasses
The promises well for large business among
the maple orchards.
The older members of Congress want TO
hurry up the adjournment, because they dread the hot
season in Washington more than ever in the coming
summer Mr.. Stevens will introduce a motion for
night sessions
The war cost East Baton Rouge, La,
eight thousand slaves, hundred dwellings. five
thousand bales of cotton burned five thousand stolen
or captured and an incredible number of horses
cattle and agricultural implements. amounting prob
ably to ten millions of dollars.
California is bidding for the Montana
trade A train of fifty wagons is organizing at Sac
ramento for the purpose of opening up road to
Montana. train from Denver arrived at St. Joseph
last week. having been twenty days on the trip,
owing to the severity Of the weather.
The Monroe La Mtellt9encer says -
I'VE have conversed with several planters of this
and adjoining parishes the subject of the coming
CROP and we find that most of them think of nothing
but making cotton. whilst corn is nearly forgotten.
Nearly every planter is now buying corn from the
Western markets.
Throughout the central part of Indiana
the cold weather has materially damaged the pros
pect for fruit crop. and peach buds very
ally killed. All the more tender varieties of cherries
are in the same condition. Raspberries ofthe Euro
pean varieties where they not protected, have
suffered severely
Ell Nino Eddie, the youthful gymnast
met with serious accident in New Orleans by fall
ing from the trapeze. in the drum act. distance of
thirty feet to the STAGE The force of the fall was
slightly broken by blanket, but it was feared that
he had received serious injury. There should be
law against risking children's aecks in this way.
The cattle plague having shortened the
supply of meat in the English markets, poultry be-
comes staple article of food. In order to furnish
better quality and larger stocks, the agricultural
cieties are increasing the displays of fowls at their
exhibitions and announcing larger premiums for the
best.
Near Toronto, Canada, two men, while
boring last week for water at the bottom OF an old
well that had dried up, suddenly overwhelmed
by an influx of gas and suffocated to death. candle
being brought to the opening to rescue the men,
possible, the gas took fire. throwing up the flames
eight and ten feet high. After hours the fire
was extnguished by throwing large quantities Of
salt.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
| has instructed the Second Auditor to require al
claimants for of pay bounty for deceased
soldiers of foreign BIRTH and who represent them
selves only brothers, sisters and widows of the de-
ceased, to have duly authenticated evidence from
genealogical tables from their native place before
| their claims be allowed.
The arrest of gang of female shop-lft-
| ers at Milwaukee a few days ago, brought to light
dodge of such characters to enable them to pfel
| from stores and escape detection. The women in
question loose dresses open in front,
their body belt full of sharp pointed hooks Lean
ing the counters of the stores they visited they
managed to purloin whole pieces of dress goods Sc
! cpre them to the belt and escape detection.
| John S, Pearson, who had served three
years in the southwestern army and received dan
gerous wound at the battle Of Chickamauga, was OIL
Friday hanged at Goshen. Orange county, N Y, in
atonement of the murder of Walter Gregory, old
farmer, whom he assassnated on the oath Of Septem
Der last. The gallows erected in the courtroom
in which the prisoner had been tried and sentenced
to death. The dying man met his fate most cour
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