Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-,

In the Senate petitions were presented from tn
temale Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia, tn
Ant-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania. and from citi
zens OF New England, praying for the abolishmen
OF all distinction on account Of color or race in cvi
or political rights.
The bill relating to the registering of vessels wa
passed.
The Freedmen's Bureau bill. as amended by th
House. was referred to the Committee on the Judi
| ciary.
The Constitutional Amendment fixing the basis o
| representation being considered Mr. Fessenden ad
dressed the Senate at length in favor of the amend
ment and in reply to the speech of Mr.. Sumner
The House passed bill declaring the meaning o
certain parts Of the internal revenue act and fol-
other purposes
The Consular and Diplomatic Approximation bill
was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
bill was reported for the disposal of the public
lands in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Florida which provides that these lands shall be
disposed of to actual settlers under the provisions
the Homestead law with the restriction that no entry
shall be made for more than so acres
The Senate bill granting the frankng privilege to
Mrs. Lincoln was passed.
LEGHSLATURE.
| In the Senate a report and resolutions from the
Committee on Federal Relations were presented sup
porting the views Of the Governor as expressed in
his Message.
The joint resolutions amending the Constitution in
relation to the register law were discussed at length
and laid on the table,
In the House. petitions for and against the passage
| of the boom bill were presented
The resolutions offered by Mr.. Speaker Frazier, en-
dorslng President JohnsOn's policy, condemning ne
| gro suffrage, &c, were passed.
| GENERAL. NEWS.
A State Tempera nee Convention is now in
session at Syracuse, NY.
| DR.. Hughes, the wife murderer. will he hmm
at Cleveland Ohio, on Friday
The Treasury Department at Washington
has discovered twelve distinct counterfeits on the
| fifty cent fractional currency.
Interest in the Mount Hone case increases
as the trial proceeds See report of proceedings in
| another column.
The sentence of detective Baker, at Wash.
ngton has been postponed until he is tried on other
! indictments now pending
! q bill has been introduced in the Pennsyl-
vanla Legislature to punish any one who shall write
or cause to be published false notice of marriage
The Committee on Elections of the House
have agreed it is sad to report against the claim of
D. W. Voorhees,, of Indiana to a seat This will let
in MT. Washburne, Union.
Remnants of the rebel ram Merrimac,
now at the Portsmouth, Va, Navy Yard, are to be
made into set of furniture for the office of the Sec
A bliI has been prepared by the House Com.
mittee on The District of Columbia appropriatinr
twenty-five thousand dollars for sanitary PURPOSES
the main object being to guard against the cholera
''Aunt Judah" O venerable negress who
has been one of the institutions of Lafayette Ind
died recently, aged no. She was once servant in
President Madison's family.
The agent of the Freedmens Bureau in
Florida has ordered that all cases where aborers re-
fuse to carry out their contracts shall be Investigated
and the offenders punished.
Gen. Prim, at last advices, was raising the
whole Of Andalusia and marching confidently upon
Cordoya. Its sgeneraliy believed that this movement
will be successful.
The St. Paul (Minn.} Press estimates the
amount of wheat sent to market from that State dur
ing the year 1865 at 6,0O0000 bushels fhs gives As
bushels for every inhabitant-man, woman and child
in the State.
At Fairfield, Iowa, few days ago, two
counterfeiters were arrested. On an attempt being
made to search them. they drew revolvers. fired
wounded the Marshal and two other persons, and
then escaped.
The President yesterday received number
of citizens of Montana to whom he made an interest
ing speech. He also delivered lengthy address to the
coored delegation who called on him under the lead
of Fred. Douglas.
The list of marine disasters and consequent
loss Of life does not seem to have been completed
Seven persons drowned by the wreck of the brig
Neya on the Florida coast and fresh cases of suffer
Ing are reported from several parts of the country.
The New Orleans PicuyuHe says that a large
and valuable part of the old State library of Lou
isiana has been saved from the general destruction
and wreck at Baton Rouge. The number of books
thus saved is twentythree thousand
The trial Of ex-Postmaster Armstrong OF
Springfield, Ill., indicted for embezzing letters from
the mails terminated Ola the 81, in failure of the
jury to agree. second trial of the case will take
place next June.
''Stonehouse Jack, a notorious character,
and who was recently escorted from Titusville by
vigilance committee shot and mOrtally wounded a
man named McClune, at Cleveland, on Sunday last
He will probably get his deserts.
Carl Schurz opened the Fraternity course in
Brooklyn Tuesday night, at the Brooklyn Academy,
before comparatively small audience lie lectured
National affairs, and particularly upon the
negro, his rights and wrongs prospects and deserts
The levee commissioners of Louisiana have
no money to pay Iaborers. They have therefore ap-
Piled to General Candy for an advance of half mil
lion dollars by the Federal Government to complete
their work before the spring rains shall increase the
damage
As the hall Of the House of Representatives
in Washington holds but tweve hundred persons,
each member of the Senate ana House will be allowed
only five tickets of admission to the ceremonies of
the obseques of President Lincoln to take place on
the 18th. No one except those holding tickets will
be allowed to enter the Capitol building on that day
There is difficulty in Kansas between
squatters and holders of lands obtained from the
Pacific Railroad Company. The squatters have or
dered the persons holding the lands to leave by
certain day. The Governor the I'd, sent his pri-
vate secretary to the spot, entrusted with proper
powers to prevent disturbance. All was quiet up to
latest accounts.
The financial community of Cincinnati had
a sensation the Sd, in the disappearance of Benno
Speyer, German emigration agent and banker of
that city. Speyer made fortune of $500 600 during
the war by gold speculations, all of which. and more
he has lost recently by unfortunate investments His
liabilities are large, and his creditors considerably
perturbed.
A lecture was delivered on Tuesday evening
at St. Stephens Catholic Church. New York. by the
Most Rev. NJ. j. spaulding Archbishop of Baltimore
THE Church the Civizer of Nations" The
church crowded to its utmost capacity, and the
lecture listened to with intense interest The pro-
ceeds of the lecture to the under distribution
of the religious conference of St. Vincent de Paul
Patti has returned to the Italiens, saws a
Paris letter-writer, and at four dollars seat the
house is crowded Her reception was brilliant be-
yond anything in the history Of the triumphs of this
theatre but the enthusiasm of the audience did not
quite reach the point attained last week at Mar
seies. where the people took the horses from her
carriage and dragged her to her hotel and then,
snatching her bonnet from her head, tore it into
, shreds and divided them around as souvenirs
Another company of Northern men who
went South with the view of investing their money
and establishing homes have returned. satisfied that
the lives and property of loyal men not safe
der the governments established there. One of
| their number, who purchased place within eighty
| miles of Vcksburg. notified by mob to leave
within five days. He at set his freedmen to
work building small fort, on which he raised the
| American flag. He then armed his freedmen, and
notified the mob that he ready to leave if they
were ready to force him away The mob had not dis
| turhed him at las arrountz