Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-,

PEsA E. ne SSndte yCsteTdSy nna4iy QlSpoSeG Oh
by passing the joint resolution providing for tho pro-
per representation of the United States at the Paris
| Exposition in 1867. The remainder of the session
| was almost entirely absorbed in the discussion of
| matters relating to the District of Columbia.
HousE-In the House yesterday, Mr.. Bingham
reported concurrent resolution requesting tho Pres
ident to communicate to the Governors of the res
pectiTe States official copy of the Constitutional
amendment rs passed by Congress- to be laid before
the State Legislatures for concurrence therein. A
discussion to whether the joint resolution
should be signed by the President and in order to
settle the point the matter laid over until Mon
day. when it will come up as the special order. Tho
Rosseau Grnnell difficulty then came up, and COM
mttee appointed to Investigate the facts in the
case and report what action is necessary to he taken
in the premises. After tho transaction of busines
relating to the District, the House adjourned.
GENEEsAg. NEWS.
Thirteen johnson Clubs have been formed
in Frederick county
-Fifty-two carpenters were discharged at
the Norfolk navy yard on Saturday last.
High taxes have stopped billiard playing
in Alexandria. Va.
Col. Ralph L. Maclay, lately member
OF the Harrisburg bar. died in Milroy, Pa on the
llth inst.
President johnson has subscribed the
sum offve thousand dollars towards the new Metro
p0litan NJ. E. Church in Washington.
"A gentleman of Boston recently made
hisdaughter present on her wedding day of acheck
for fifty thousand dollars just to start housekeeping
-Imail Pacha, Ficeroy of Egypt, proposes
to make his his heir instead of his elder brother
as is the absurd law of the Islamites.
The story that an attempt had been made
to assassinate Judge Underwood in Richmond, is pro-
nounced by the Times to be untrue
Professor Henry D. Rogers, who has long
held the chair of National History in the University
of Glasgow. Scotland. is dead. He was a native of
Pennsylvania.
Widow Mary Ryan and her babe perished
in her burning house in Medina, N Y, Thursday
night. She had rescued four children but returned
for her money.
So large have been the shipments Of cot
ton by one merchant in Bombay, that n decline of
penny pound represents loss to him of three hun
dred thousand pounds.
The Boston Journal says the hay crop, an
important matter for New England promises to be
good and the yield of fruit will be millions of dollars
in advance of last year.
The expense incurred by Canada, in con-
sequence of the Fenian invasion, up to this time.
may be estimated at not far short Of 81 500 co.,
and that sum will be largely increased before the
According to the recent State census New
jersey has now population of seven hundred and
sevcnty-three thousand and seven hundred, which
is a gain in five years of over a hundred thousand
Hudson and Essex counties exhibit the largest rela
tive increase.
After the first of July, letters posted in
this country and addressed to the Dutch West Indies
Curacao, Sala, st. Eustatus and st. Martin may 90
via France in the French mail. postage thirty three
cents for each single rate of quarter ounce or un
der prepayment optional.
The first Sangerfest of the New England
States New York New Jersey and the city of Phila-
delphia will occur at Providence four days begin
ming June 26. The programme consists of various
musical and gastronomc exercises of much interest
to those who will participate.
"A 'colored" millionaire, announced as
the Duke de Bouton qui Peroe. is in Paris Ho 10
tho wealthiest of the ex-Emperor Soulouque's ebo-
ny courtierE His fortune is stated to be seven mill
HonE, and sPlenddy decorated and furnished ho-
tel has been prepared for him in the Avenue de
PImperatrice.
The London Spectator says that there is
going to be scarcity of ivory. The demand for Shelf
field alone kills 90 900 elephants year. and the
race is dying, rather is being killed out. With
prospective dearth of coal, and threatened famine
Of billiard balls, and Fenian invasions what is the
country coming to?
AT Nashville, in the ha5eas corpus case of
the Freedmen's Bureau, before Judge Connolly F.
Trigg of the United States Court the Judge decided
that most ofthe powers vested in the Bureau were
given by military orders, and the war having boon
officially declared at end, that organization was
virtually powerless to all cases involving civil
rights.
The New Jersey corruption cases are re-
ported at considerable length in the local papers.
The charges are that the members Of tho State Leg
islature whose names appeared in the indictment,
offered or promised TO other members certain sums
of money for their votes certain measure which
specified. At the opening of the trial on Tuesday
little was done beyond the reading of the papers
in the case, and binding the accused for future
appearance. Garret Van Wagner. one of the de-
PENDANTS, offered Albert A. Hopper as surety in
5000; Barclay Haines presented George NJ. Wright
and Charles T. Rush gave t. L. Price, each for
similar sum. The go over till the first Monday
in October.