Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-07

WEAKNESS alike of reporters and the public.
| GENERAL NEWS.
Another little bit of bullion WEIGHING 15E
lbs, and valued at $4,000 in gold has been received
| in New York from Colorado
The first train of the season, CONSISTING OF
twenty-one wagons laden with groceries and pro-
visions left st. Josephs, Mo-. on the 29th for Vir-
ginia City.
The weather continues unseasonably cold
at the West and South. On the 3Oth ult. there was
good skating the Chicago parks, and ice formed at
| Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Ellen Judd, residing near Indianapo-
lis. Indiana, walks two miles and cuts cord of wood
every day, by which means she supports a large
| family of children.
| Nearly all the cotton and wooden mills at
Frankford near Philadelphia, have suspended ope-
ration, awaiting the action of Congress on the Tariff
| and Internal Revenue bill.
| The Duchess Dowager at Sutherland is
very seriously i'll. Her Grace was formerly one of
the Queens Ladies in Waiting, and one of the most
| beautiful women in England
| The editor of paper published in the
mountains of California tells of gathering wild flowers
| In the morning and wading through snow in the
| evening.
! The Pajara California; Times says that
the great lost silver mine of Monterey has been dis
covered 1t wide belt of rich ore thirty five miles
| longl
| Mr.. William Wheatley has Just renewed
his lease of Niblos Garden for three years from the
trst OF May. The price paid is said to be 35 0G0
| year.
| The Academy of Sciences of France has
awarded its prize for statistics to NJ Chenu an army
surgeon, for his work on the losses sustained by the
| allied armies in the Crimea.
| M Emila do (tiro Vii, ,c Oh
series of Sunday dinners, to which nobody but wits
will be invited. and the wit who fails to shine will
be struck off the dinner list.
MIR. Wendell Phillips has issued call for
meeting of the ntiSlavery Society at Dr. Cheeyers
church. in New York. May s. He says the rights of
the negro are to-day in fearful peril than at any
time since the first FIRE on Sumter
The farmers along the line of the Vir-
giia and Tennessee railroad the finest corn growing
section of Virginia preparing to plant very large
crops of corn the present year. Very little attention
| will be given to tobacco.
Within few weeks en- coroner inouests
have been held on persons who have died in London
Of fhydrophobia and III cases evidence was given
showing the disease to have arisen from the bites of
| dogs in the streets.
The New York Evening Post says that
business man in williamsburg whose safe has been
blown open three times by burglars now pursues the
paH of leaving the key in the lock- He is tired of
paying fer repairs.
There are two hundred and fifty newsboys
in Chicago. They pay license of seventy five cents
year, buy warm lunch" fer ten cents and sleep
where they As to nationality they are all either
American or Irish
"A murderer named Shields, who brutally
robbed and murdered citizen of the Peninsula is to
be hung in Richmond on the 10th of next month
Another. named Clark, is to be confined in the Pen-
tentiary of Virginia for life.
An Eastern inventor has contrived q
dress-lifer which will soon be patented and intro
duced to the public 1t is designed to be attached to
the hoop skirt. and will elevate the dress with such
slight inconvenience that ladies will no longer have
an excuse for sweeping the sidewalks with their
costly skirts.
"A grand excursion on the ice in sledges
took place recently at uhksdaI in Sweden, the cor
tege being led by the King and Queen in person.
The royal sledge followed by fifty other sledges
occupied by ladies and gentlemen of the court dipo-
matists, and high functionaries
Tho Daily ,Soat% Ctrro5tnldR calls on all
Confederate officers who were, at any period in COM
mand of the defenses of Fort Sumter and Moultre,
to put their facts observations and opinions on re
cord, that the future hist oran may have the proper
authorities before him.
Dan Bryant is about to leave the ''min-
stres." and will don the buskin for an indefinite
period to come His great success in the Irish brogue
and shiilelah fourishing has determined him to fol-
low q theatrical career. He abandons Congo for
CoYk.
Queen Victoria has presented to the
British Museum one of the Roman tombs recently
discovered upon the Crown property at Old Windsor.
The other tomb is presented to the town of Windsor
and is to be deposited in the contemplated local
museum.
While two men W ere repairing the large
water wheel of the rubber shoe company at Nauga-
tuck, Conn.,, last week, the wheel started and made
complete revolution with of the workmen on it.
He changed his position as the wheel turned and es
capped without injury.
"A New Orleans letter says: "One marked
change in our agriculture is the introduction, to
much greater extent than ever BEFORE of the gang
ploughs horse-cutivators seed-sowers &c. of North
ern farmers. The reduced number of hands compels
this but how far 1t will aid in cotton raising remains
to be SEEN"
A "Japaneseh writes to the London Star
to correct false impression in relation to the Tycoon
He says "the Tyeoon is not Emperor of Japan, but
only a commander whose duty it is to execute the
commands of the.Mkeado. who stands really supreme
in the midst Of Niphon. Called Japan by foreigners
and orders everything relating to the whole country
Money is very scarce in Russia, and n
per cent. is frequently charged for money loaned.
Immense numbers Of estates announced for sale,
but no purchasers present themselves. The most
important commerce of the Russian empire, that of
cereals. is at complete stand STILL there being no
demand for expectation.
The Atlanta InteLIigeRcer gives the follow
ing striking facts: Within the limits of forty-six
counties composing this the fourth revenue collec
tors district, there three hundred disleres
No wonder corn and peach" are SO abundant But
for the tax imposed upon these articles they would
be "cheap as dirt" and friend at elbow sug
gests, not any better.
The big ram Dundarberg approacn
completion, and will make her trial trip in July
Three of the largest steamers constructed in this
country are also building at New York-the Bristol
and Providence for service on the Sound. and third
for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. to run from San
Francisco to China and Japan.
The Yale College faculty will open a
boarding house for students next term, the object
being to furnish good and substantial food at cost
prices 1t will not be revival of the old commons"
system of board, at least for the present but if sue
cessful it will probably into general use and be
accepted by the students for the sake of lessening
their expenses.
On Sunday morning large mass of earth
and rock fell upon the track of the Hartford Provi
dence and ElShkl railroad, al DOluon covering Ine
track. body of men were at once put to work in
cleaning off the track. They worked all day and
| night and had to blast some rocks which were so
large that they could be otherwise removed. The
| trains were unable to pass Monday.
The Providence musical people are pre-
pairing for the great "Sangerbund" of the New Eng
land States, the States of New York and New jersey
and City of Philadelphia, which is to take place in
| the Capitol of Rhode Island on the 26th 9th and
18th of June next. Some 500 singers will take part
| in the festival The Providence Liederkranz have
engaged orchestra of about 50 of the best perform
| ers in New York and Boston.
One of the wickedest and most successful
hoaxes perpetrated the first April this year was
the work of lady in Philadelphia. She sent up to
the pulpit, in Methodist church. notice purport-
ing to announce meeting in aid of another church.
| A number Of names Of prominent clergymen were
mentioned as to take part III the exercises. The
preacher read the manuscript to his large congrega-
ton without hesitation. until he came to passags
announcing that certain iayman would sing conf
| song, when he became confused suddenly, remem-
| bered the day, and abruptly sat down.
A SHARP CoRNER.-The shippers of grain in this
citv have been served with a notice that they must
nav TO the Assessor of Internal Revenue one dollar