Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

providing that by the constitution OF the State no
person shall be excluded from the right of suffrage or
civil rights account of color. and making it neces
sary for the Legislature to give its formal sanction
| thereto.
| The Freedmen's Bureau bill was again under con-
sideration.
In the House effort made by Mr.. Stevens to
force the new constitutional amendment resolution
to vote. but there being such marked dsinclina-
ton on both sides to act upon so important matter
without thoroughly ventiatng the subject that the
| previous question was withdrawn.
| In the course of the debate that ensued, Mr.
Brooks of N. Y, sent to the Chair petition from
| Susan B. Anthony. of Womans Rights notoriety
and Others of the same school, asking that the right
| or suffrage be extended to women. Upon Mr. Ste
| vens demanding whether Brooks favored such an
amendment. the latter said that he preferred that
| white women should be allowed to vote before ne
groes After lengthy discussion and without action
| on the pending question: the House adjourned
STATE LEGISLATURE.
considerable amount of routine business was
transacted in both Houses yesterday In the House
| the bill authorizing all railroad companies to run
their cars on Sunday was rejected-a vote prevailing,
yeas 43. nays IA, to strike out the enactng clause
| On the bill to regulate the working of the public
roads of the State an amendment was offered to re-
quire the male population of certain ages both white
and colored, to work day the public roads or
| furnish substitute. The amendment was lost by
vote of Al to %. and pending the consideration Of
| the bill. the House adjourned.
GENERAL NEWS.
| Gold closed at 1899 yesterday.
The President has recognized Camille Jo.
seph Ludman Vice-Consul of Brazil in New York.
Siam is anxious to enter into a commercial
| treaty with the United States.
General j. II. Wilson has resigned his
commission and accepted the northern agency of the
| National Express Company.
The Russian Government has placed a war
steamer at the diposa of the Russian Overland Tele
| graph Company.
The French Minister as Washington has
asked the State Department for official information
| of the recent affair on the Rio Grande.
General Sheridan has been instructed to
punish any United States soldiers that were impli
| Gated in the attack on Bagdad.
President Roberts and Gen. Sweenev in
tend to make tour through the West, stumping In
| behalf of Feniansm.
The Reconstruction Committee is still taking
testimony. The witnesses examined thus far repre-
sent an unfayorabe condition of the South
The Ways and Means Committee are still
undecided about Secretary McCuochs Financial
bill.
Gen. Banks hopes to report. his resolution
on the French Industrial Exposition with an appro
prlatlon OF only $50,000 for expenses.
The Galveston Bulletin of the 5th inst. savs
that an engineer and pontoon train were enbarkinR
there for the Rio Grande
-Four hundred and thirty-four deaths oc-
CURED in New York last week-l17 men. 81 women,
ll5 boys and 2l3 girls
Only 377 names were registered in Calves
ton as voters. The San Antonio Erpress states that
LIS voters were registered in Bexar county.
Eleven maranderQ have ranapt1v bao, o,r
tured and given to the civil authorities at San
Antonio. Texas
Capt. VIM. Shankland, an old and highly
esteemed shipmaster. died on Monday morning at
Philadelphia.
In the Southern States there are GAL schools
for colored children. The number of teachers is
l,240. and of scholars 65, 900.
At the instance of the Spanish Consul in
New York. supposed Chilian steamer was seized
yesterday by United States Marshal Murray.
In our local columns may be found abstracts
from the reports of the Public School Commissioners
and the managers of the House of Refuge of Balti
more.
We print to-day the main provisions of the
bill now under consideration by Legislature, pro-
vding for general assessment of all real personal
and mixed property in the State
The amendment to the Constitution of the |
United States. prohibiting slavery. adopted in
the Senate Of the New jersey Legislature yesterday
by a vote of thirteen to eight Two Democrats voted
in favor of it. Three cheers for New Jersey!
An ice-bridge has formed above Niagara |
Falls, extending three miles down the rapids It
the largest for many years. and the people cross
from both sides.
The National Banks in Massachusetts, New |
York. and other States which have more than their
apportionment of national currency. will probably
have the amounts of notes which they are author |
lied to issue reduced in order to effect fair proper
tionment in the Southern States.
A carriage containing four persons was run |
into by train on the Flushing Railroad. L. l.. on
Sunday night. and smashed to pieces. One of the |
horses killed and the other severely injured |
The occupants of the carriage received serious
contusions.
The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says it con-
tnues to receive encouraging accounts of the cotton
crop from planters throughout southwestern Georgia
The freedmen have generally made labor contracts
There will. however. be little corn-not enough to
feed the plantations. to nothing Of the towns and
non-producers.
Over five hundred original Union men of |
Alabama noted for their answering fidelity to the |
national cause. have forwarded petition to Wash
ngton. setting forth that they prescribed in that
State traitors to the South recounting the
tnued bitterness and violence of the men recently in
arms against the Government, and deprecating the
withdrawal of the Federal troops from that State.
1t is stated that large number of the mus
tered out white soldiers at Baton Rouge La. desire
to remain in the South. and are anxious to go to |
work on plantations to make cotton. The Advocate
says that these men are hardy industrious and ener-
getic sons of the West and. if given an interest in
the crop. their labor plantation would be worth
more than twice their number of freedmen.
Another ice-boat race came off at Pough- |
keepsie, N. Y. on Monday. The distance sailed was
16 miles and return the boats going to Newburgh. |
The Una arrived at Newburgh ahead on the down |
trip and came in ahead on her return The run from
Newburgh to New Hamburg. distance of miles, |
was made in the unprecedented time of minutes. |
Four boats entered. the Una, Minnehaha Icice
and Snowflake.
The British Bark Diadem. under the COM
mand of Captain Hannah which sailed from New |
York on the 5th inst. for Liverpool with cargo of
petroleum. spirits Of turpentine and staves was cap
sized during the gale of the 9th inst, and the cap
tains wife and two boys belonging to the were
drowned Captain Hannah and four of the crew |
afterwards died from exposure. The survivors ar
rived in New Y ork on Monday. |
James Craig, youngster, aged eighteen,
who was in the employ of Mr.. Wright, agent for the
New Haven Steamboat Company. was sent few
days since to the Fulton Bank of New York. with
$1,000 check. He appropriated the proceeds and
went on a jovial spree. spending his money freely
His career was stopped by his arrest when he was
committed for trial. Five hundred dollars of the
money was recovered.
The failure of the Columbian Marine Insu-
rance Company. of the oldest of the joint stock
marine insurance companies of the city of New
York. was announced Monday. Its liabilities are
estimated to reach six million dollars; but Mr.
Phelps the agent of the company says that the as
sets will be sufficient to meet all these and leave
handsome surplus. 1t found necessary to close
the concern in consequence Of recent very heavy
losses its payments account of Ango-rebel pirat
ical depredaons alone it is said aggregating over
million dollars.
On Friday, in Philadelphia, the legal argu-
ment appertaining to the important railroad conro
versy between the Pennsylvania Central and the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Companies, on the
side. and the Atlantic and Great Western Rail
way Company on the other. was concluded in the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The questian was
on the application for injunction by the two first
named companies to restrain the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Company from entering into an
agreement with certain other companies to lease their
roads, Millions of dollars of capital and hundreds