Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-13
NEWS OF TIE DAY,
CONGRESS.


| The Red river navigation is excellent and
cotton boats arc bringing down much cotton.
The Charleston Courier says large num-
Der Of families viii spend the summer months at the
| North.
The ice on Lake Erie is RAPIDLY disap,
pearng, and there is good prospect of an early re.
sumption of navigation.
The Mobile Register denies the report that
an unquestioned of cholera had appeared in that
| city.
"A new circular railway to connect the va
rious lines approaching Paris at distance Of thirty
or forty league: from their point Of arrival is rapidly
| advancing.
On the 7th the weather in Chicago was so
cold that the MANAGERS of the Skating Park an
| nouncGd skating carnival" ;" with all the iuuina-
! tions and allurements.
There arc still one hundred and four State
banks in New York. with circulation of 80 600 00C;
against circulation of S26 600 coo before the etab
| lishment Of National Banks.
As General Banks has never submitted a
report of the battle Of Cedar Mountain Va. and the
siege of Port Hudson the Secretary of War has called
upon him for said reports, which the General is at
present engaged in preparing.
"A lady visitor, who had climbed, with
several companions, to the dome of the CAPITOL in
SOluL4Uus, tainted from exhaustion at the summit
A gallant bachelor Of the House of Representatives
carried her down.
So far, the corn and wheat crops in Ten.
nCssee promise well. In Middle end East Tennessee
fruit also has been doing finely. but it is clear and
cold at nights and many persons fear the fruit will
be destroyed throughout the State.
In the island Of Great Britain, as it has
been recently computed there are 1850 places Of
worship. Reckoning two sermons each Sabbath in
each Of these and 39020S0 sermons arc ciphcrcd out
as the number annually preached in the island.
Landscape art may be said to flourish in
France, if we may judge by the fact that when, rot
long since. the pictureS one hundred and fifty in
number, Of NJ. Troyon were sold, they realized
fl6,GOo
Not far from Fort Caspar or Platte bridge,
on the old Oregon and California route, and about
one hundred and thirty miles west of Fort Laramie
there are situate some coal oil springs which run l
teen hundred gallons day. This location is in the
Black Hills, three miles from the Red Butts
"A butcher at the Centre Market esped an
old female acquaintance in the market yesterday who
mad gotten herself up in juvenile array, Gipsey hat
waterfall ETC.. and he exclaimed to his aeighbnr in
the next stall, John, do look at Li2e now-mutton
dressed lamb fashion. doE-goned if sho ain'tr
The Logansport Qnd. Journal says: For
the first time in the history of our courts negro
woman. Mrs. Amanda Lindsey, nee Hill was ad-
mited to testify in the Cas- Circuit Court on last
Tuesday, in the Of the State Of Indiana against
Wise.
The assessed valuation Of one hundred and
two counties in Illinois for 1861 was S356 O5S: for
1865 it is Sj9l 6l3 23l gGin of S3S2i2l or nearly
ten per cent. in a single year. What will it be when
the boys all home, with settlers from Europe also
Hocking in.
The clipper ship Washington left New
York few DAYS since, having on board two maenif.
cent locomotives, constructed at Patterson, N J.
for the Central Pacific Railroad Company, over 100
tons each, together with full set of machinery in
tended for new steamer now building at San
Francisco.
Major General Steedman, accompanied
by staff officers and some correspondents of leading
papers, left New FORK yesterday, by order of the
President. on an extensive inspecting tour of the
operations of the freedmen in the Southern States.
They proceed first to Richmond, and will extend
their tour to Texas.
1t is calculated, from dates deemed re-
liable, that in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi the
number Of negroes at work is about ore-third what
it was in 1860 while there are not as many whites
lahoriug as then. In three districts where white
labor has heretofore been used there will be olerably
full crops Of everything
Inc hepuDucanS OF NfeenpOlnt, Long
Island, he'd gorif"ation meeting late on Monday
night, over the final passage of the Civil Rights bill
ard at midnight fired salute of one hundred guns
salutc of one hundred guns was fired from Fort
Greene, Brooklyn, Tuesday evening in honor of the
passage by Congress of the Civil Rights bill over tho
Presidents veto.
The Prince Of Wales, according to a gos-
siping English Journal appears to be pretty fat for
his age, ard bids fair to become a fair type of the
rotund John Bull we see in pictures. lie walks
twelve stone ten pounds Zone hundred and seventy
eight poundS) and therefore cannot ride il the hunt
ing field under fourteen stone Zone hundred and
ninety-six pounds.) His Royal Highness hunts II
old Melton costume leather breeches whit top boots
and cutaway scarlet coat.
Chicago does up some queer transactions
in real estate occasionally. The latest is indicated
In the report of the Health Officer, who states ha
there has been deposited in the lake basin at the foot
OF Randolph street. 81 10 wagon loads of ashes and
cinders. The amount of land made by this accumu
atiOr Is Il trfc one-fourth of acre; and be-
ing estimated at the present price of real estate in
that locality shows advantage to the city to the
amount of $50 600.
An interesting and important decision
touching the responsibility OF common carriers, has
just been decided at Milwaukee. in which the Amer-
Express Company are made to pay 500. FOR
damages done to Cremona fiddle, wilhelm transpor-
tation, notwithstanding the attempted waiver of
sponsibility exceeding $50, expressed on the Com
pany's blank receipts.
Trustworthy advices from Texas, Louis
ana, Arkansas. Georgia and Alebama, report that
planters putting in cotton to the full extent OF
their ability, and that in sections the amount
of land that has been assigned to cotton culture is
greater than ever before known. The fears of
scarcity of seed have proved groundess as seed is
found to be plenty though much Of it risky from
being too old.
The coal trade is stlll rather fiat, no ar
rangemout having yet been completed between the
companies and the miners. Several companies are
filling old contracts and paying IS cents for mining
but as soon as the contracts filled. they will stop
operations. unless the miners will work at reduced
prices is rumOred, as go to press, that per
manent price has been decided upon by operators and
miners, and that the companies will now so to work.
Cumberland CiUilian.
"A gentleman Just own from Fort Sully
reports tha, the small pox had broken out among
the Indians at Fort Sully and that they were in
starving condition, eating their ponies. Colonel
Porter had issued his last ration to them, and was
forced either to issuing further raons or sarve
his men. The Indians were very indignant at
this refusal, and some of them proceeded to Crow
Creek and sent word to Captain Sewell, who was in
command at that post that if Sewell did not issue
them ratiOns, they would attack the post; but the
Captain was On his guard and double pcketed his
garrison.
The death of descendant of William
Penn is thus announced in the Philadelphia Press:
One of oldest and most respected citizens Peter
Penn Gaske ESQ.,, head of the lineal descendants of
William Penn, the founder of our State died on the
Sd inst. after short but painful Illness which be
bore with Christian fortitude He had, on the very
day of his demise, attained the of sxtysix years
and during the whole period of this long life was
resident of this city, where, by his uniformly kind
and gentemanly character he always had the esteem
of his fellow citizens and the warm friendship Of his
intimate associates.
War Movements In Newfoundland.
EARTHwORKs GOING UP, GUNS MOUNTING AND THE
VOLUNTEERS OUT.
Our Newfoundland dates to the 9th of March.
A letter from st. Johns says:
The volunteers were suddenly called out inspected
and furnished with twenty rounds of ball cartridge
each. The regular troops have also been employed
incpSSHntly placing in in tha fnrc