Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

NEWS OF TE DAY.
CONGRESS-.
| SESATE.-The credentials of Hon. John Sherman
| as Senator from Ohio for six from the 4th of
| March, 1867, were presented and filed.
Mr.. Wilson offered joint resolution to disband the
militia forces in the rebel States and prohibit their
reorganization. The constitutional amendment being
taken up Mr. Yates addressed the Senate in favor of
| universal suffrage.
| The message of the President vetoing the Freed
mems Bureau Bill was received and read and will
| come up as unfinished.
HoUsE.-The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted
| to the House a statement Of all taxes paid bv tbe
Southern States from April lst 1865 to February 1st
| 1866
| A series OF resolutions introduced declaring
that the loyal States alone are competent to rfy an
| amendment to the Constitution and that an amend
ment ratified by the Legislatures of threef fourths of
said States isto be of legal effect series of resou
tons were passed declaring that the rebellion de-
prlved the people of the rebel States of all civil gov
ernment that it is the duty of Congress to organize
State governments in these States, and guaranty to
them republican form Of governments that the con-
dtion of the rebel States justifes the President in
maintaining the suspension of the writ of habeas
corprs in those States. and in maintaining military
control and possession of the same and that the
thanks OF the nation due to him for employing
and the freedmen in those States. The PENNSYLVANIA
contested election was decided in favor of Mr.
| Cofroth Democrat, and he was sworn in and took
his seat. The loan bill made the special order
| for P. NJ. o-day.
GENERAL NEWS.
The President has vetoed the bill to enlarge
| the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau
A new Republican paper is to be started at
Albany.
S254, 800, ,375 in national bank currency had
been issued on February L.
1t is said that the provost guards at Rich
| mond still carry shears with them to cut off rebel
| uniform buttons.
A project is being agitated for the division
| of New York into two States. New York city COM
plains that it pays the taxes whilst the country dis
| tricts control the State government
The two Spanish war vessels in New York
harbor collided on Saturday. The bowsprt of one
of them was carried away. Three Brooklyn ferry
boats were disabled by ice on the same day.
Dick Turner, the notorious turnkey at Lib
by Prison. is soon to be provided with safe quarters
in that institution the scene of his devotion to the
rebel service.
A petition ninety feet long, signed by six
thousand five hundred citizens of Philadelphia. IA
voring Sunday running has been laid before the
Pennsylvania legislature
Three small children were suffocated in New
York on Saturday and it is alleged thatheir mother
caused their DEATH and afterward attempted to de-
stroy herself
Several planters in H inds and Madison
counties, Miss have white laborers on their planta
tons-Irlsh and German principaly-who are per-
forming their work satisfactorily.
The Cincinnati City Council have asked the
Chio Legislature for authority to issue bonds for
building gas works, and for constructing hospital
aso to lay tax of mill on the dollar for sewer
ing the city.
Three thousand negro troops are TO be mus
tered out of the service during the week at Charles
ton, South Carolina General Bennett advises them
to direct their attention to the cultivation of the soil
as the demand for labor in that department greater
than the supply.
1t is said the military commission which
tried G. B. Lamar. Sr for cotton frauds some weeks
ago, have sentenced him to three years imprison-
ment and $25, 600 fine. Lamar has been released on
bail until the President examine the evidence in
the case.
The Maine lumbermen have had conven-
tion to discuss the reciprocity treaty The quantity
OF lumber cut and manu- factured annually through
out the STATE is reported at billion one hundred
and hfy million OF feet valuation of the same about
twenty million dollars.
Capt. Watkins near Annapolis, few months ago,
and serving out a term for larceny, together with
James Smith, fellow convict escaped from the Ma
ryland penitentiary yesterday a reward of one
thousand dollars is offered for their arrest.
An order has been issued by Gen. Candy
at New Orleans, prohibiting the present city govern
ment from alternating, leasing incumbering any
property of the city for longer period than till the
resumption of the powers of the corporation by lc-
gally chosen administration
The Illinois State Agricultural Executive
Board, at their meeting in Springfield, have unani
mously passed resolution calling upon the President
of the United States to dismiss Isaac Newton Com
missioner of the United States Department of Agr-
culture and asking the State delegation in Congress
TO use their influence to this end.
An exciting iceboat race took place on the
Hudson river last week The boats left Poughkeep-
sic on Friday morning at o'clock, and reaehei Hud
at 430 P. NJ. where the parties spent the night
Resumng the oureey next morning. the distance to
Albany made in two hours and half some time
being lost by accident to of the boats.
Rev. Alexander Campbell the leader in the
reform in the Baptist Church, popularity known
"Campbellism," died in Kentucky lately. Mr.. Camp
bell was debater. and his controversies with Bishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati. Robert Dale Owen, Rev. Mr..
Rice, Presbyterian clergyman, and others, on theo
logical points, have been published and widely read
A prize encounter between two dogs oc
Cured near Chicago, ILL.,, Wednesday last. The
match was Boston Chicago; the stakes $500
side and the amount which changed hands on the oc
casion is estimated at no less than $4,000 The Bos
ton dog the winner after fearful struggle, last
ing two hours and thirty minutes. Neither dog long
survived the bloody contest.
Lieut.. Gen. Grant has. accepted an invita-
ton to become the guest of the members of the New
York National Union League Club, on the 22d inst
Washingtons Birthday-on which occasion he will
be presented with magnificent full-length portrait
of General Scott, painted by Page, on behalf of a
number of gentlemen of that city, who have
purchased the portrait for that purpose. Mrs Grant
will accompany the General
The Berkeley (Martinsburg, Va.,) Union
says: The Governor has commissioned Gen. Bunker
H. H. Blackburn Esq. and Z. W. Andrews Esq, as
Judges of special court, to decide the contest be-
tween Hon. E. B. Hall and Hon. j. W. Kennedy, for
the Judgeship of the 10th judicial Circuit of Vir-
ginia. The court commenced on Thursday last in
occurring under the act of 1863 the result of the trial
will be important as a precedent in others.
The government of Santa Fe has given Capt
Richardson, Kentuckian. 100000 acres with the
understanding that he is to settle with one hundred
| Americans. The land is good but in a region of
almost tropical heat, far from markets. and in the
! neighborhood of hostile Indians. Mr.. Forrest,
Georgian has lately located in the province of Entire
/ Rios, near Panama city, where he has purchased
lS0e of choice land, and negotiating 12000
more, with the agreement TO plant there twenty-five
American families. Some eighty families are already