Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-20


Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-Consderabl business was transacted il
the House yesterday. The bill to establish depart
ment of education, which was rejected some tin
since, was. upon motion, recensidercd and passed
1t provides for n Commissioner of Education. will
salary OF $i.CO0 year, and four SSerks at tn
usual salaries The bill to reorganize the army va
taken up ana considered section by section, bu
without reaching q conclusion, was laid aside
letter from the Secretary Of the Treasn,v cir;n,
the amount of gold sold by the Derartr,ort eirc,
January l, to whom sold, the amount paid &c
was read. Mr.. Rogers submitted tho views of ~,
minority OF the Reconstruction Committee. and n,
House adjourned.
GESEEAL NEvz5.
The Nashville Union newspaper has
ceased to exist
ten. Stoneman sent three men to the
penitontiary in Tennessee recently, for giving vent
to disloyal expressions
At Bells Depot, Tennessee. the otba,
day. John Robinson committed suicide. Cause-loye
unrequited.
"A burglar named James Flynn was sen.
tenced to fifteen years. imprisonment in New York
on Monday. VI n
The city of Columbus, Ohio, has inst
been mulcted in $4,000 damages because man fell
into badly constructed sewer
ten. Alcorn, United States Senator from
Mississippi, has applied for teachers situation in 8
freedmen's s school at Freas Point
-Ihe President yesterday sent into the
Senate the nomination of Gov. Holden. of North
carolina, to be minister at San Salvador
lion. 4. B. Washburne has been renomi-
mated for Congress by tho Republican Convention o.
the third Illinois district.
-On Saturday morning John N. Cornwell.
an old citizen of Pittsburg fell from three-story
window and was killed.
-lhe United States bonded warehouse at
the Cunard Dock, Jersey City. was robbed on Thurs
day night last Of six of velvet valued at 81 OO0
The grain receipts at Buffalo for Wednes-
day and Thursday amounted to 26O9 252 bushels. the
greatest amount ever received in the same time at
any one port in the world.
Santa Anna is trying to buy the equestrian
portrait of Gen. Scott nov in the capitoat Washnq
ton 1t is suggested that he ought 10 be able to re-
member Gen. Scott without his portrait to look at.
The bark Arabian was wrecked at Cleve-
land. Ohio, on Sunday night. Five lives were lost
only one person being saved. The schr Alice Grove
was also lost on the same night. One life was lost.
a small keg OF tro-glycerine exploded in
a drug store at Nashville on the 18th instant. The
quantity was not sufficient to do much damage, but
WINDOWS bottles, chairs, &c, were broken.
-Ihe workingmen's coffee room opened at
Cincinnati year ago by the Young Mems Christian
Association. is now visted by about four hundred
persons daily, and is self-sustaining.
"A Paris letter says the police have dis
covered the ramifcations of Bourbon-Neapolitan
plot III Paris and seized letters tending to i'm
p icate the Spanish Government.
-lhe Mercer Pa. Press says there is not
single house in the Of erection in that town
nor has there been one built within tho borough
limits for two years.
An ltinerant is exhibiting in the South
tableaux of Paradise Lost" The Southern peopIe
nave had experience enough on that point Para
disc Kegained' is what they want to see noy.-Nash
oile Union.
The policeman who fred at an escaping
prisoner and killed bystander, at Worcester Ma
sachusetts, recently, has been arragned on charge
Of manslaughter and committed to Jail in default
Of bail.
"A cave has been found by Mr. Leicht on
The crest of the hill at Hoboken, which is over
seventy feet in length. The excavation will be con-
lnued' when discovery of antique remains is ex-
oected.
captain Sweeny, Superintendent of the
Freedmen in Eastern Arkansas says he has not
known of any outreges of whites against the blacks
or a Ions time, and that the freedmen are working
we'll.
James Kelly, who was sentenced to be
lung at Key West. Fla. for the murder of James
JACKSON, second mate of the bark Annie NJ Gray
las mas had mis- sentence commuted by the President
% imprisonment for life at hard labor at the Dr.
rortugas.
1T appears from recent official statements
that there are in England and Wales ono hundred
thousand sufferers from epilepsy and paralysis. the
average mortality among whom is twelve thousand
rer annum. One-seventh of these cases occur in
London alone.
Mrs. Rogers, of Madison, Indiana, invi-
ted dozen Of her neighbors to tea last Sunday and
used arsenic by mistake instead of cream of tartar
to Tighten the cake. Fortunately, too much of the
poison had been taken and no one died, though all
were very sick.
New counterfeit ffty-dollar greenbacks
have appeared at Nashville Tenn. The bills are ex
cellently engraved, except that the signature of
treasurer Spinner is not coarse and heavy as in
The original. The paper on which they are printed
is a little thinner than the genuine
"A conductor has been fined $500 in Buf.
tslo n. Y, for ejecting from car because he
refused to give his seat to woman. The Court held
that ladies. or those who wish to be considered SUCH
are legally entitled to no more privileges in public
than men.
Albert Pike, his wife, and a young girl
named Flora Blanchard, of Nottingham, VT. ere
precipltated down an embankment into the Deerfeld
river, last Sabbath morning, while on their yay to
church. and Mrs. Pike and the girl and the horse,
were drowned.
Northern capital is pouring into East Ten
nessee and especially into Knoxville and Chattanoo
IL eW hOuSpS and fantnrias i
farms are being purchased by farmers and army off.
GERS Several extensive steam saw mills iron founde
ries. and large cloth manuaetory, are projected at
Chattanooga.
"A Maine paper states that ''the oldest in
habitsut cannot we'll recollect a season when the
fruit trees have put forth their blossoms more boun
tlfully. The crop of apples in Maine ought to be
large But another paper says that the corn planted
early Is rottng in the ground in some places All
crops. save grass are backward
Charles A. Sherman, Esq, of Boones-
boro, Iowa. has brought suit for SlOO 900 damages
against the Western Stage Company of that State
for the loss of his wife, child and mother by being
drowned by one of the Company's stages, being
driven OIL bridge into river. some four or five
years age.
"A few days since the yeomanry of Rock
bridge county Virginia. were called out for the pur
pose OF reorRanlzlng the militia service. Some of
them, not understanding the purport of the CALL and
unaware that the war was ended, thought another
conscription to be had, and accordingly fed to
the mountains and the brush.
"A few days ago a plot was brought to light
on boald the United States receiving ship Vermont,
lying off the Brooklyn navy yard. in which the ne
gro sailors on board that vessel were about maturing
conspiracy to murder their officers and then pro-
coed on shore on a raid to murder and pillage Six
of the ringleaders arrested, put in irons and
treated to close confinement.
In Canada are vast deposits of asphaltum,
or mineral pitch. which the inhabitants call gum
BEDS cubic foot of this asphaltum represents tn
euson of not less than sixty to eighty cubic feet
lubricatng oil, and from one hundred to hundred
and twenty feet of illuminating OIL Some of the
best wells in Canada sunk on or near these gum
beds
The telegraph companies have all COM
bined into single concern with capital of fifty
million dollars. The consolidation will oper-
ate IooOOO miles of wire stretching everywhere be-
tween New Foundland, San Francisco and Vancou-
Vers Island. From the latter point line 14,G6C
miles long will be finished to St. Petersburg within
year.
On Saturday morning, a freight car, con.
tanning large quantity of gunpowder, caught fire BY
spark from the locomotive. while on its way from
Quebec to Montreal. 1t was ct once detached from
the train. and the passengers warned to escane a
private soldier at once broke open the door and nm
aided quickly hrouoht co,,o-