Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-30
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Ing business than has been for long time previous.
| The French Government is about to pro-
| pose to the various Governments of Europe uni
| form passport system.
| United States Treasurer f. E. Spinner,
in response to applications has shipped $3.50 in
| fractional currency to Cincinnati.
| The Brownlow- Woodruff quarrel reached
a new phase at Nashville, on Wednesday, Each of
the belligerents was fined $50 and costs.
| One of the mile stones erected by Benia-
| min Franklin when he was Postmaster General and
was measuring the stage road between Philadelphia
and Boston. is still standing in Stratford, Conn.
"A benevolent Bostonian is thinking of es-
tab!ishing home for the newsboys and bootblacks
of Boston, upon the plan which has been adopted in
| New York.
There are seventeen manufactures of
paper collars in New England, and each girl employed
makes about one thousand of them daily.
--lhe British Museum is costly establish
ment. as it takes nearly S550OO per annum to carry
it on; of which $4,000 goes for the purchase and
S55.OOO for the binding of books
The Winona (Minn.) Republican announ-
ces the opening of navigation to Red Wing via Lake
Pepn. The opening thi, season was later than it has
been in 23 years.
At a recent sale in Washington county,
Tennessee, corn sold at five dollars per bushel and
bacon at eighty cents per pound. on credit of y
months,
The New Orleans Picayine says that
petroleum of great purity. and in large quantities.
has been found in Angeline. Trinity, and Nacogdo-
ches counties, Eastern Texas.
There were only Sjr persons in Memphis,
in 1861, that voted against secession. Now there are
not less than sic hundred persons claiming to be one
of the SIX
"A large number of naval officers and
others at Portsmouth. N. H., celebrated the ami
verSary of the capture of New Orleans, on Tuesday
and Wednesday last
-Ihe parents of a boy who died in the city
hospital at Bolton have commenced suit against the
physicians in charge of the institution, demanding
$4,000 damages, because they made a post mortem
examination of him without their consent.
The Louisville Journal saws that the fa-
nous hotel the Gait House, of that city, which was
destroyed by fire. is to be rebuilt in proportions more
extensive and magnificent than it ever before pre-
sented in its palmiest days.
-Gottschalk is meeting with great success
in Peru, and has received new decoration there, in
the shape of gold scanthus leaf ornamented with
gold and diamonds, and surmounted by the symbols
| of music.
In a short time the City of Mexico will
be lighted by gas. The works rapidly approach
ing completion and there have already been received
all the iron pipes needed to distribute the supply of
gas throughout the city.
a great sanitary reform is in progress in
Troy Numerous colonies off pigs. which were dis
covered by the health police boarding under the
same roofs with their owners, have been compelled
to seek other quarters.
"A burglar was shot in Troy on Wednes-
day morning while attempting to enter the bedroom
&c AL
not better man. Marks of blood upon the window
sill showed that he had been hit
The Russian government announces that
it has obtained from the government of China the
privilege for Russian vessels to enter Chinese ports
under certain conditions ofpaying tonnage dues only
once in four months, whatever may be the number of
voyages they make
The New York Daily NelCS has an exag-
gerated idea of the prison accommodations at the
disposal of the Government 1t calls on President
johnson to put in close confinement Congress and
all who oppose his policy"
A National Tobacco Fair will be held in
Louisville. KY. on the 2Sth and 18th of May next
Delegates will be in attendance from Virginia, Penn
sylvania, Tennessee. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Mis-
souri, and the best specimens of tobacco grown in
these States will be on exhibition.
The Washington Chronicle says the Agri-
cultural Department has recently received several
highly interesting letters from most of the Southern
States, which represent this year that the crops
especially the cotton crop. will be exceedingly large
providing the seaEc2 continues propitious.
The Boston Traveller, Cf April 25th, says
resident of New York city has lately given by will
a handsome fund to Harvard University for the pu--
chase year after year of works of American art;
proof finterest in the arts in connection with univer
sity education that may be the beginning of an i'm
portGnt movement.
The Hartford and New Haven Railroad
Company have bought up all the peat beds lying
contiguous to their read with view to the substu-
ton of peat for coal fuei fer their locomotives.
They propose to use the machine known az Leavtt
& Hunnewels of Boston. in the preparation Of the
peat.
The San Francisco (Cal) Scientific Press
says rain fall in that city from September 1865
to March 1, 1856. was 19.49 inches. The fall in Ne
vada for the sans Vericd was 1892 inches. This is
about the usual proportion cf rain between tho sea-
coast. at San Francisco and tao -.ttddle western
slope of the Sierra Nevadas.
Bank checks, with the United States
stamp printed in the body of the check have been
introduced into New York, permission being given
to proprietors to execute the 1t proposed to
extend the privilege to other documents which re-
quire a stamp, thus saving much time and indonye-
nience.
The dramatic authors Of Paris are at
tempting to organize publishing house, which will
bring out their works and leave them some profit. if
the piece SELLS Efforts are being made every side
to break dogn the present most unjust system of
publishers wac really are vampires while the dra
matte authors are hut the corpses which supply
blood.
| "A Boston letter writer says that some
] he rvba houo 10 ba 4 6
| General Grant in Philadelphia gentleman called
at an establishment in Milk street. Boston, and asked
the largest stockholder in the concern at what price
he would Sc. carpets for General Grants house? He
| answered they had no carpets to sell General
Grant; but he was welcome 70 the carpets for his
house"
We regret to hear, says the Mississippi
Post, that of the colored people refusing
pay the tax of one dollar levied by General Fisk for
hospital purposes and to prepare them for the cho
era. and have subjected themselves to heavy fines.
All WIG have not paid had better do at Gen.
Runkle is determined to execute his order. He has
selected the most trus Of colored citizens
collectors, so az to remove any chaEce suspicion of
1 fraud in the bureau.
| The st. Louis Democrat says thai DR..
Dickinson, oculist and surgeon of that city, per-
| formed an operation upon the eye of young man
/ named w. L. Christopher from Orange county Mo.
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interior obstruction to vision then removed by ex-
cision Sc successful was the work. that the young
man able to read in six weeks after the opera
| ton. He had previously lost his other eye.
"A very melancholy accident by drowning
occurred in the vicinity of Romney. Va. on Satur-
| day. the l4th inst Mr.. Henry Kelley, in company
with his daughter, Miss Henrietta Kelley left their
homes for Romney on the morning of that day, Tor
the purpose Of making some purchases, and when
returning in attempting to the South Branch.
MI H. missed the ford. and getting into deep water.
the buggy was upset, and before assistance could
reach them, father and daughter were drowned.
MIR. Albert, ex-member of the French
Republican Government of 1S4s having been pre-
vented to his great regret and that of his friends by
the inrmities Of old age. from repairing to Chicago
as ambassador of the French people to Mrs. Lincoln
| for the purpose of transmitting to her the gold
| medal in commemoration of President LinooIn. /.
has been decided to forward the same to the Secre
tary of State through the medium of the American
Minister at Paris and the honor of presenting this
token of admiration to Mrs. Lincoln thus devoIve.
| upon Mr.. Seward.
The excitement among the New York
liquor dealers. growing out of the new excise law
has come to be almost panic. The law is ven