Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-15
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL. NEWS.
-Another' steamer is about to sail from Mo-
bile with emgral 7ts to Brazil.
-Snowdrops AID primroses have made their
appearance in some p.rfs of Dorsetshire England,
earlier this year than has known for many years
1t is expected that IT, he straits of Macki-
nav will be opened and navigation between Chicago
and the lower lakes will be resumed bv the middle Of
April at the furthest.
The Petersburg Street Committee report
that there has not been clean street in that city for
four years. They propose to have them cleaned by
contract.
The Oregon papers have big stories of
discoveries of copper Business was very brisk
at Portland. There was never so much inquiry for
freight up the Columbia River
Among the great tunnels Of the world is
that which connects Camagli with st. Marguerite,
on the road between Genoa to Chivari. 1t is $500
yards in length, and is just completed.
The returns Of the passenger railway com
panies of Philadelphia show that more than one hun
d ed thousand persons daily avail themselves of these
faci Titles for local travel.
The Athenians are translating modern
dramas into Creek and the students of the Univer-
sity have Just performed Goethes "Cayigo in Greek
at the Royal Theatre of Athens.
peach-growers of Southern Ohio, informs the Gal
liopos ournul that the crop for this year is gone
killed by the recent cold weather.
The Royal Eng lsh Opera, at Covent Gar
den Theatre, was closed suddenly the night of the
18th of February on account o. financial difficulties.
and inability to pay the artists.
"A general Jail delivery occurred at Fair
fax Court house on Saturday night last The jail
broken open, and all the prisoners, including
two confined the charge of murder, made their es
cape.
The custom house at Toronto was robbed
Sunday night of some $4,000, American money.
The vault was entered by of its key which
was carelessly left in the building At present no
trace of the burglars can be found.
Careless burning of dead grass in the
vicinity of Leesburg Va, has recently occasoned the
destruction of large quantity of fencing. Mr.. Geo.
T. Rust lost about four thousand rails. Similar
losses reported near Middleburg in the State.
Operations at the fishing shores on the
Lower Potomac have commenced. Only few her
rings and shad have yet been caught; but so far
most unusual quantities of catfish have been drawn
ashore in the seines at all the iaadings-more than
were seen before.
One day last week D. A. Rider, OF Ben
nington, VT. cut open perfectly sound pumpkin,
and found the seeds had all commenced to sprout,
some of them shooting up more than inch in length
while the roots strongly fastened in the pump
kim which was completely filled with vegetation.
The name of VIM. Thomas Brande, D. C.
L. F. R. S., the well known English Chemist, is fa-
miar this side of the water. He died recently in
England at the age of eighty. His Dictionary of
Science and Art' and Manual of Chemistry" are
best known here. but all his works have gained
world wide reputation.
The observance of Valentines Day has
not died out in England but the newspapers condemn
Ia vulgarity of some of the cheaper valentines. The
Lon don Telegraph says that Judging from many of
the sp, acimens exhibited one would think that the
humber classes in England took peculiar delight
in insultns each other. Pictorial afronts. applicable
to most ages nd to either SEX freely displayed
The iterat ture of craniology is accumula-
ting. Mr. Greenwe,n, is about to issue, in London,
"A Decade of Skulls fr,nm Ancient Northumbria,"
containing ten photographic plates each giving one
view of skull. half SIZE and tN other views quar-
ter sze together with detailed accL unit OF the cir
cumstances under which each found. With wood
cuts of urns and other associated objects.
The Western papers are full Of accounts
of the losses resulting from freshets Half the bridges
on the Kalamazoo (Mch.) are down, and great guam
titles of grain stored in warehouses by the river side
have been spoiled by the inflow of water. On the
very serious. Huge masses of ice sweep down the
stream of them than thirty feet in alti-
tude.
London receives about 100, ,000, 900 gal
Ions of water each day. 1t is proposed to erect
works which will supply 1S0 900 to 100000 900 gal
| lons and by having purer water save $2, 100000
year in soup, &C. The new works would cost fS 000-
900 to f9OO00GO, and be the finest of their kind in
the world. Two schemes proposed, one of which
would take the water from mountain slopes l52 miles
| distant.
| Among Americans permanently resident
in Rome is Miss Charlotte Cushman the ra0edisnne.
She is celebrated for her skill in borsemanship and
her fondness for the chase. correspondent writes
that he her day lately riding TO the hounds.
To the former avorite of the stage in her tight
| fitting blue riding habit would hardly suppose
that she had been the majestic Lady Macbeth
the grotesquely terrible Meg MerriIles.
The Mobile Tribune regrets "that the
last cold spell' very seriously touched the orange
\ trees. These trees" it adds "are not so delicate
j as they seem. They become accustomed to cold
weather if it be continuous but they are very sus-
q ceptible to atmospheric caprices. Given a cold
1 hook, and then suddenly a few days of general
1ey -armth. succeeded by severe weather, and they
in kk under it"
pphhe phe I-Ae President johnson was in the United
use es Senate and Mr.. Maynard in the House of
to esentatvss from Tennessee, after the ordinance
MT ession adopted by that State the very per-
sad, a.. query comes to Us; IF they entitled to
and ats then, Congress of course regarded the Sc
1 s ordinance as null and void. AID if secession
% ;sb Miu M axe Tennessee out of the Union. when and
: te no" he get out?"
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That 'ox IN THE SoUTH.-The Charleston Cou-
avs ''e', authority of gentleman who has re.
hey l Gently mokine tour tbrorobor. a. cor+ho
kid | States. e 'N- 0DsoU' 'ne oou'ii'in
in 1T IdIv nossble to imap;ne tbo ov+or+ r.
an Wnth ~ ia pox prevails throughout the section
IN All .nJ aeities are more or less infected In
cart some pa q freedmen only are the victims while
rem IN s.Ihite population are among the suffer
your ers ILL L ention is paid to discretion in medical
d an treatmsn.jI IT. aose who have the disease walk
pulls. through tn ,ets inthe most indifferent and un
concerneII r. ,r No one bids them remain within
free passed one ne aary ibree had tbe rad svrnhn
en- | displayed t &c oil Tnow is or;eyonsi,