Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-31
GENERAL NEWS.

Gold was better yesterday and quite active,
selling to 40 to l407s.
The Legislature Of Georgia yesterday elect
ed II. V. johnson as U. 5. Senator
Four hundred and ninety-four deaths oc-
cured in New York last week-99 men, 1OS women
16l boys and 127 girls.
Late accounts from the West Inua island
of Guaduoupe state that the cholera still continued
to rage there with fearful fatality.
Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, sent his
annual message to the Legislature yesterday. An
abstract is contained in our dispatches.
Charles Mitcherling, charged with selling
counterfeit internal revenue cigar stamps in New
York has been committed for tia by the L. S. Com
missioner.
The statement, says Washington special.
that the President intends to supersede the Virginia
State government by a Provisional government, has
no foundation in fact.
1t is currently stated among military men,
says the National Inleitigencer. that Lieut. Gen.
Grant will visit Europe during the present season.
and will remain there several months.
Senator Dixon, of Connecticut, is the dis
tingushed Senator with whom the President had the
conversation, the substance of which was given to
the public through the press yesterday.
The ice on the Hudson river is said to be
more sold IL mas peet lOr lcGlN Il uroNt
of cattle crossed from Nyack to Tarrytown Thurs
day and on Sunday parties from IrvugtOn crossed
the ice to attend church at Nyack.
Mr.. John {. Dodge, retired merchant OF
New \ ork. was fatally injured on Monday by being
caught between two vehicles while attempting to
cross Broadway. He staggered to the sidewalk
where he fell insensible and expired Immediately.
Secretary Seward had an interview with
Santa Anna at st. Thomas, on Mexican affairs. The
hostility of the Mexican leader to the Empire in
parts degree of significance to the meeting that is
regarded as highly satisfactory.
The steamer Richm0Rd, of the Baltimore
and Savannah line which was wrecked on the shoal;
off Cape Hatteras, on the 2ith instant, was valued
at $4,000 and insured for $4,000 in New York
offices. The most Of the freight and cotton would
be saved.
The Common Council, in convention last
evening, appointed Messrs. Alexander Wiley, James
j. Ramsey, DR.. James Armitage, John V. L. Find
ley, Wm. Evans, Ihos. W. Cromer, Robert Turner
and Edward S. Lamdin, directors of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad on the part of the city.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that soldier convicted of crime by the
civil authorities though Internationally pardoned
by Governor of q State. can claim nothing undel
his contract of enlistment he hayingb been withdrawn
from the military service by his own misconduct.
The President, it is said, has deferred issu-
ing the formal proclamation declaring the restoration
of the Union, until the opinions of Generals Grant
Sherman, Meade. Thomas, Sheridan, Sickles and
others could be obtained relative to the submission
of the Southern States to the Constitutional au.
thorities
John Brown, captain, and John Moran
pilot Of the steamtug Alpha have been indicted bJ
the grand jury of the Baltimore Circuit Court, fo
in min hos in h.
Patapsco river, in July last. thereby causing tn,
death by drowning of two brothers, William ant
Dayton Ronsaville.
The venerable DR.. Eliphalet Mott, who had
been President of Union College, at Schenectady
for the last sixty-two years. died yesterday at th,
age of ninety-two years. DR.. Mott was born at Ash
ford, Conn, the 18th of June, 173 and during th
past half century he has occupied prominent posi-
ton among the learned of our land, and his name
has been familiar to all classes of his counrymen.
From Cincinnati we have the report of a
fearful steamboat disaster. The Missouri" exploded
her boiler the mouth of the Green river yester
day morning, rendering the vessel total wreck
About hundred persons. officers and crew, wer
board and it is reported that only twenty nclud
ing the wounded. were taken off the wreck A laTg
number were killed by the violence of the explosion
The envelope manufacturers Stationers anC
against the passage of bill which is pending in Con
gress proposing that pOstmasters shall sell stamped
envelopes for the price indicated by the stamp ol
their face. This being virtually giving away the en-
veopes. the manufacturers, of whom they are twenty
| five. employing more than thousand persons AM
Sl5c0OOO capital assert that the passage of the ac
cannot fail to injure them seriously. They furthe
say that the operation of the act will not only b
wrongfully to take 81 100000 out of the public trea
sury out also to deprive the internal revenue of tn
six per cent manufacturers tax which they must pa
if they instead of the Government, make all the en-
| velopes that are used in the country.
| Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture O,
| THE Assassination and its Lessons" to a croyde
| house at the Academy of Music Brooklyn, Ne,
| York, on Monday evening. Theodore Tilton. edto
| of the Independent, (Henry Ward seechers paper
| occupied the chair, and made brief introductio
explaining the of the directors of the Academ
preparatory to the appearance of Mr.. Douglass. Th
| vote of the board allowing him to speak there
the last meeting, stood II for to against The lie,
ture was an exhaustive defence of the colored peop
| of the South, and strong appeal in behalf of the
claim to the franchise. He criticised the course
| the President in reference to reconstruction, an
charged him with breaking faith with the colore
people, who had been the friends Of the Governmel
in its extremity. .. ~