Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-05
THREE CENTS.
MISCELLANY.

large immigration into that State from East Nfiss;.
| sippi, Alabama and Georgia.
-Four children were recently burned to
death at Jacksonville Monmouth county. Now
Jersey.
"A Judge in Knox county, Ohio, issued last
month a license to two young men to marry the same
young lady.
AN engineer was recently arrested and
sent to Augusta for flying the rebel flag on his engine
on the Georgia railroad.
foreign papers announce the death of
Peter Joseph Lenne, one of the most distinguished
hortculturists Of Germany and the founder of the
modern German school of landscape gardening
"A little boy recently died at West Bethel,
Ile; IN consequence of another boy piliug stones
mii'e at play on his stomach, while lying down. so
that he could not rise.
-lhe number Of letters and newspapers de-
Nered IN New York city is increasing at the rate of
not far from five millions year. The numbar re-
ceived last year was nearly fifty millions.
The custom House at Toronto was rohbaa
on Sunday night of some 5000, American money
The vault was entered by means of its own kew which
was careessy left in the building. At present M
trace Of the burglars can be found
AT Vienna pork has been dropped from
the bill of fare at most of the leading hotels and the
pig dealers have teegraphed to their agents in Serya
of %ba
animals - '1'
One of the most estimable and nrom;nor+
citizens of the county, Dr. e. f. Smithers Presidert
of the board Of School Commissioners, died at his
residence, at Vienna on Thursday evening last
Cambridge Intel igeacsr
The weekly rent of a large airy room in
the Peabody buildings, in London, with all the ne
cessary Appliances is only about sixty cents and tha
same proportion is charged for more commodious
apartments.
=. ii, hales, well-knowu lawyer of Chi,
easo, while on his way 60 bia reo;do opea on Mondo,,
night at about 10 o'clock, knocked down ny a
couple Of scalpers, and robbed of 81 GOO Mr. KaIes
was seriously injured.
"A shoemaker in Leeds, England, under
took lately. for wager, ts eat an urcooked rabbit
fur, skin and all. lie succeeded, but Immediately
went iGto cnnvusions, which continued for an hour
when he died.
A recent letter from Paris SAYS that public
opinion in France has received with great horror the
particulars of the sale ny their fathers and mothers.
of the unfortunate young girls of Massachusetts to the
seml-barharous settlers of the territory of Wash
ington.
"A Southern paper says that Madame Mu-
rat Of Tallahassee, Florida widow of the late Col
Archie Murat, and first cousin to the Emperor of
France, has received a gift from Louis Napoleona
life annuity of $4,000 francs in consideration of her
losses by the results of the war.
The enforcement Of the Registry Law in
Missouri, which disfr anchises those who aided the
rebellion, is likely 10 be attended with difficulties
and serious collisions. The ex-rebels are combining
to resist its execution, and it is reported Governor
tlether will call upon the Legislature for authority
to reorgaEize the militia with view to be prepared
ior any emergency.
The Lynchburg (Ea.) Ne,cs says, as a
specimen of tho excitement in those portions of Am
hcrst where oil is thought to exist friend tells us
that on Monday a gentIel owning some four hun
dred or five hundred acres land. which some eight
or ten years since cost him two dollars and fifty cents
positively and absolutely refused an offer of
seventy-fve dollars an acre in specie,
The Pittsburg Gazette, speaking of the
strikes at the rolling mills there says: THE iron
manufacturers held meeting yestardayand resolved
not to resume work until their men would acceptthe
reduced schedule Of wages. The worBmen seemed
equally determined, many of them having already
gone to work at such employment as they can find
while Others are casting about for something to dos
The Richmond Times gives the following
advice to Eirginians Let u.s. by the fairness Justice
and humanity of cur dealings and intercourse with
the freedmen, demonstrate to the conservative
masses Of the North that Freedmen Bureau is not
essential for the protection OF tho emancpated ne
gro. Let US prove that we are the freedmen's best
friend, and seek to mako him useful respectable and
intelligent"
The Lincoln (Delaware) Herald con
graduates the people Of that State that owing to tho
killing Of the peach buds in New jersey the Della
peaches will command good price this year
Il says that although many of the peach buds in
Delaware injured by the last cold weather vet
there are enough unhurt to ensure "a large crop We
are glad that We likely to get peaches from any
where.
The Austrian government has accerted
the proposal Of the East Asiatic expedition which I
to start this month. 1t is proposed to exp,or Siam
china and Japan. The expedition will consist of the
irigate schwarzenberg and the corvette Friederieh
and will be under the comnar.d of Admiral Teget-
thof The Diplomatic pat of the mission has been
entrusted by the Austrian Ministry of foreign Affairs
to Cheyalier Karl von Scherzer.
"A drGnkcn woman was put in the st.
Louis caaboose Thursday night last and was Gercely
attacked by a which was in the cell, and
which tore of part of the creatures nose and
otherwise very seriously injured and nanged her.
IAe woman screamed, but 10 one came to her relief
and she finally managed TO seize the coon by the
throat and choked it to DEATH The st. Louis papers
scverey denounce the inhumanity of the prison
aeepers.
In Grace Methodist Church, Chicago, the
organ possesses some curious features, the most no
tceable being the extended action. The key boards
in the pew Of the center aisle twenty feet
rom the organ, the trackerwork and draw-stop ac-
ion running under the floor, in the basement. This
instrument, though small contains er four thousand
rct of trackerwork the swell trackers being nearly
orty feet long from the keys to the valves still pre-
sarylng remarkable promptness to the touch.
Punch has not been very funny of late,
at it has mad some grains Of sense now and then.
ihis IS grain: GU will do good at the theatres
until the right to hiss much recognized as the
right to clap. Abstractedly, these rights are equal
CUT Just hiss, and you'll have dozen snobs crying
shame fool next you will remark to his friend
hat it Is iHiberai,' and policeman will probably
az that you had better be quiet And though a
ciague may be sent in to applaud, it is called ( con-
piracy if Il group agree TO condemn"
The chief medical officer Of the Freed
aen's Bureau represents that during the month of
December the total number of freedmen treated Mt
Tho various hospitals throughout the Southern States
principally for malarlous diseases was thirteen thou
and one hundred and twelve. The deaths during
nat period were six hundred and ifty-three: dis
"harged, twelve thousand four hundred and fifty
..sne. The actual cost for medicines amounted to
me dollar and half for each patient The friends
yt the sick freedmen bore the of the expense.
On the 10th Of January trial of endur,
ance as well as of speed with regard to the relative
merits of Arab and English thoroughbred horses in
hot climates took place in the desert between Cero
and Suez. A pure Arab, belonging TO Prince daJm,
and an English horse, the property Of Mr. Smart,
-tared together from Cairo at seven nours. eleven
.Anutes, thirty seconds. A. NJ. arI at three bours
sht inmates P. NJ the Arab horse reached the goal
Suez having traversed ae distance of ninety miles
III seven hours, ftty-sx minutes thirty seconds, while
ais Engllsh competitor broke down nearly eighteen
AiIes from the winning post. Reaumer's thermome-
marked thirty degrees. with high wind blowing
-"Perhaps the most audacious exploit Of
the coffee merchant is one of late date 1t is well
known that the United States Government supplied
s soldiers in the field, during the late war; with the
finest of Coffee while to the citizens was left the COM
monest trash at the highest figure. Under these cir
cumstances firm in New York, prompted. no doIbt
by humanitarian feelings, undertook to revanp the
grounds lett from the camp kettles, By alDfng and
m.ctHg, hundreds of barrels OF which were returned
to New York and sold extra R0 to the great sat
lSaction of our citizens" Thus saith Hunts Mer-
chants Magazine for February, and the truth of the
statement is attested by officers of the Subsistence
Department,
The Lynchburg Ne1cs says that valuable
discoveries of iron lave been made on the land %
Mr. Powhatan Wingfed, in Amherst county, about
three miles north of the James River Canal at Sta
Pies Mills. company Of gentlemen, we und erstsnd
have leased the mine and are about to conmencs the