Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-16

| Williams, of OREGON. The bill to prevent and punish
| kidnapping was passed.
The bill relative to the sale Of postage stamps on
credit taken up, and after considerable discus
| sion postponed for TWO weeks. The deficiency
appropriation bill being considered an effort was
made to strike out the appropriation of for the
| construction Of the Baltimore court house on the
ground Of extravaganza but the appropriation was
| finally retained.
GENERAL NEWS.
The printers Of New York propose to have
| grand dinner on the 21h inst.
| The resignation of Brevet Brigadier General
George Il. Forsyth, of Illinois. has been accepted.
| A Convention Of Southern editors is in
| session at Montgomery. Ala.
| 1t Is now stated that no change viii he
made in the mission to England for some time.
An Office for the sale of Fenian bonds has
been opened in Washington.
Secretary Seward in his recent visit to
Cuba, astonished the people by shaking hands with
| nero coachman and foatman.
| The thermometer at San Francisco has
ranged about 60 degrees above zero all winter, and
| yesterday at noon reached T3.
The l47th and l5lst regiments Of Illinois
infantry have been paid of and discharged the
| service.
|
set fire and burnt by some of the prisoners on the
| It'll None Of the prisoners escaped.
A man named DruGy beat j. NJ. Bruce TO
death with billiard cue at Franklin Kentucky, Oh
! tie +th.
| Dr.. ". S. Reese vas yesterday confirmed
by the Senate as Navai Officer Of the port of Balti
| more.
| 1t is reported that the President denies hay
ing ordered recent military seizures of Southern
| Methodist churches.
| The Court Of Claims, at Washington, has
decided against the validity OF the fraudulent bonds
| issued by John b. Floyd.
| The exequatur Of Estaban Rogers, autho
rzing him act as Chian Consul at the port of New
| York, has been revoked by the President.
The sum Of &125. 600 has been raised in and
about Charleston to aid immigration to South Care
liuai and q company to promote that object has been
chartered by the Legislature.
| A son of Gov. Morton, Of Indiana, Just re-
turned from Paris, reports that his fathers health Is
much improved, and that sanguinc hopes are enter
| tanned Of his entire recovery.
| DR.. Hedding, Of St. Joseph Missouri, has
amputated three legs fron men this winter no were
so badly frosted that this extreme remedy had to be
| rcsorted to.
The naval race between the Winooski and
! Algonquin was abandoned oa Wednesday night. ou
account Of the storm in the Sound. In three heats
made the Winoosk gained 65 miles on the Algonquin
General Cass is said to be seriously i'll at his
home in Detroit his advanced age leaving but little
| hope Of recovery. M. Cass Is now in his eighty
| second year.
| When Sir Walter Scott was urged not to
prop the falling credit Of an acquaintance he rcpel
THE man my friend when my friends were few;
and viii be his, now that his enemies are many
The Kansas City Journal says that Mr.. Jose
Peno, n citizen Of that place, has reached the re-
| markable age Of 100 years. and IS still hale and
| hearty.
The brig Vincent, from Liverpool to Boston,
| with general cargo of merchandise struck on Sow
| and Pigs Ledge during thick fog, Monday night,
| and bilged It was thought she would prove total
| loss.
The President has signed the bill passed by
Congress prohibiting American vessels which during
the rebellion TOOK foreign registers from having their
American registers restored to them, and it is there
| fore now law.
The brewery of ale and beer in Chicago for
the year 1861 amounted to six millions nine hundred
! and twenty-four thousand one hundred and sixty
eight gallons an average of nearly forty gallons for
| every inhabtant.
| In the United States District Court ii
Brooklyn YESTERDAY Nelson j. Stewart, for counter
feiting United States Treasury notes. was sentenced
by Judge Benedict to years in the peuitcntiary,
| and to pay fine Of 81 ,OO0.
| The Rev Dr.. Clarkson, of Chicago, who
was recently elected and consecrated Bishop of the
Episcopal Church Of Nebraska, had his shoulder dis
located and hia collar bone broken, while riding in
stage on his way to Iowa.
The gambling establishments in New Or
leans havs been suppressed by order of Gen. sheIi
dan. The Mayor Is demonstrating against this inter
ference and an appeal to the President is threatened
Mexican correspondent says Maximiliau
| never shows himself and when he walks out private
" heavy escorts and secret spies line his pathway to
| sbisd him from danger. He feels security, and
Looks gery careworn but strives to put the best side
| out.
The Lancaster South Car rolna) Ledger re.
port that in sone portions Of tn at district there /:
actual suffering among the Iaor for the want OF pro
visions They having no means u buying corn, &nc
| if they had, the article cannot nov be procured
owing either to its scarcity or to the un"lllingae
| Of those who have it to sell.
Two soldiers of the l47th Illinois Regimen
just mustered out, returning home, stopped at tht
Briggs House, Chicago. and went to bed. In tA'
| morning one, named Harding, was dead. and tl(
other, named Tewkesbury, was gaSpins. Gas filled
the room, the men on going TO bed having DloWl on
the gas instead Of turning it of.
Mrs. Emma Hardinge, better known a
"Bellc Boyd" who recently gave to the public tw,
volumes of adventures in the Confederate and Fed
eral States in the prisons and in the camps Of bot
| sections now announces herself as the celebrated
! extemporaneous lecturer" in st. James Hail. II
| London.
It is said that Mr. Bancroft, before deliver
ing his eulogy, notified the English and French Min
| listers that he might say something unpleasant Il
them. The French Minister did not attend, th'
English Minister did. 1t is rumored that Mr.. Ban
| croft may at some future time be appointed Secre
tary of State.
! 1t is said that only one or two Of the Fir
gnia delegation pleased with the President
Speech and they the better Union men OF the "'
The Others ere disappointed. and went away think
| . = had been better had they remained at home
Tbo p-o.; .;dents rule of entire loyalty-that loya
mon only ara entitled to recognition. taey though
was rather too personal.
4 dispatch from Washington states tha
there is the best authority for Saying that the teno
of the official advices received by the 6overnmert
indicate even moro conciliatoTy disposition on III
part Of tho Emperor. regarding his relations with th
country than is apparent roa his speech or the Ut
terance of the Paris The Cabinet, it is added
regard the state Of affairs entirely satisfactory.
Orders have been received at the Charles
: | town (Mass.) Navy Yard TO commence operation
! again on the new steam sloop Manitou. This vess,
is one of ten ordered in 1868, of which not one ha
yet been completed. The vessels each 2.34S tor
burden and will carry lS guns. 1t is said that tn
| Department has instructed the commandants of II
different yards, at which they being built, I
have them pushed to completion as rapidly as poss
: | bic.
The Canadian people and press are great
excited and some Of them are furious, over the fa
ure of their commission recently in Washington
] | induce our Government to renew the Reciprocit
+ treaty. Toronto paper declares that the melnbe
d | of the commission shamofully humbled themselve
and that they dare not submit to Parliament the #
o | quirements made of them consideration for i
e | renewal. The Government papers pretend to |
pleased with the failure of the negotiations, alle
= ing that it will lead to the contamination Of their
d scheme Of confederation of all the provinces.
u Letting Out Secrets.
Mr. George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journ0
makes the suhjoined interesting statement-'1f.
| the very incipency of the rebellion, were notifc
that SeYenty-Ye thousand dollars in gold fifty thO