Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-29
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
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SENArE.-Nothing was done in the Senate yoster-
day. it having adjourned on account of the death Of
Senator Foot.
THE HousE.-In the House Mr. Morrill,, from the
Committee of Ways and Means, reported bill post
poning the collection of the Internal Revenue tax
for sixty days, in consequence of changes contempa-
ted in the law.
GENERAL NEWS.
The police force of Wilmington consists
Of three captains. six sergeants and sixtyfve men,
-Fifty-four cases of suicide have been re-
ported in this country within the last fortnight
Lord Napier has been appointed Cover
nor of Madras.
Louis Hottingeur, the French banker is
dead, leaving fortune of twelve millions of dollars
"A game named keno is now universally
played in the gambling houses throughout the South
Petty robberies are the order Of the night
at Montgomery, Alabama.
-ChaJlanUUga has voted $500 900 for di
rect railroad to Cincinnati.
-Workmen are busy on the LoudOun and
Hampshire Railroad clearing the track and restoring
The smallpox continues to rage in Mobile,
without any noticeable abatement.
1t is to be seen in every New Orleans
price current that France aud Spain are buying ex-
tensiyely in that market.
Mr., George Keller, an old citizen of Win
chester fell from bridge. Monday night fast, and
broke his leg.
An elephant broke loose at Montgomery
the other day. and had not at last accounts, been
captured.
"A whale Gfty-six feet in length made its
appearance in the Cape Fear river last week. and
captured by the Smithville people.
Mr.. I. B. Reads painting of ''Love' S
Young Dream" destroyed in the recent great fire
at Cincinnati.
ALL the prisoners in the jail at Newbern,
North Carolina, some fifteen in number. broke out on
Thursday night by knocking the guard down.
An unruly lad was fined five dollars 'for
his mother" by the Mayor of Mobile few days ago
the lady making the complaint.
Maj jor General Slocum has accepted the
secretaryship of "A express company with capi-
tai of fifteen millions.
"A petition for a ship canal from Cayuga
Lake to Lake Ontario was introduced in the Senate
by Hon. S. X. Williams on Thursday last
1t is announced from Florence that King
Victor Emmanuel has subscribed O0O 600 francs for
the extinction of the Italian national debt.
-Four Italians have been arrested at Louis.
ville KY, having in their possession fourteen thou
sand dollars in counterfeit bills Of different denom
tions.
"A citizen of Madison, Wisconsin, pro-
poses to give half square of ground in that city to
joint stock company for the purpose of erecting
mandatory.
The Ohio Legislature, upon invitation OF
the Cincinnati Merchants Exchange, arrived in thai
city Saturday night partake OF the hOspitate.
of the city.
Chicago has no park, or, as the Tri6unt
of that city puts it, there are Fifteen square miles
of mud. without green spot of land-two hundred
thousand people without breathing place"
Major Campbell Wallace, former Presi
dent of the East Tennessee and Georgia railroad, ha
been appointed Superintendent of the Western ant
Atlantic railroad.
Miss Lucy Gwin, daughter of DR.. Gwin
State prisoner in United States fortress be
low New Orleans. was married in Paris on the stl
instant to Mr.. Z. j. Coleman. Of St. Louis.
Mr.. Baker of the Worcester Public. Ii
brary is preparing an edition of ''the Chinese elias
sics" composed or abridged by Confucius. the frs
volume of which will be issued next month. This i
said to be the first attempt ever made to mako th
sacred literature of the Chinese accessible to Amer
can readers.
MIR. Charles Winsor, the New York de
faung bank clerk whose flight to Europe is not for
gotten, has been discharged from the English bank
ruptcy court, where suit had been brought agains
him to recover the amount taken from the bank, o.
account of the appearance of the opposing party
| The debt amounted to f26.9I.
"A correspondent writing from Milwaukee
says that city ships and receives direct from the pro
ducers more wheat than any other port in the world
it also has the largest grain elevator in the wordt
| capacity being one million two hundred and ift
thousand bushels. This elevator can ship or receiv
thirty thousand bushels per hour. and its cost wa
| 100000.
A meeting of New York hotel proprietor
is to be held next week, to consider the expedienc
of reducing the price of board If the hotel keeper
safely their to that conclusion it is pro
| bable that many other interests will follow thei
| example. The downtown restaurants also are think
ing of something of the same kind.
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in his las
| political lecture said: The kind and patient NJ
| Lincoln was cudgelled and whacked by Congress
and he bore il with patient spirit, reminding hi1
| of some horses who merely act when cudgelled q
| though it was to brush flies off. When they CON
| menced whacking Mr. johnson, they found a pair
heels through the dashboard and they left the WACO
and took to trees and bushes, crying, Beast brute
| but since then had cudgelled moro carefully"
| 2 The operate artists who have had benefit
| at the New York Academy this week have all bee
| greeted with empty houses The Commercial Adue
tiser says: "Thc stockholders regular in their
| tendance so long as they not obliged to pay bl
| when the shekels expected they stay away. Th
| is a poor way of rewarding recognizing the gen
and the hard labor of the singers. and in case lii
that of Be lini it amounts TO a positive slight" 1t
very evident that New York has had surfeit Of ope
this season, and is tired Of it,