Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

reau yesterday amounted to 81 SO0000
The steam tug Neptune exploded hel
boiler in New York bay yesterday, wounding eigh
persons.
Hon. Jacob R. McKenly, an ex-Congress
man from Pennsylvania. died at Douglassvile in thai
State yesterday.
In our Washington dispatches will be found
statement of the public debt by Secretary McCul-
loch.
Major General Terry, commanding the
Department of Virginia. has gone North on short
leave of absence.
The large factory of Horace D. Lamon,
. Brooklyn, was totally destroyed by fire on Monday
evening, with heavy loss in machinery and stock.
The strike of the screwmen in New Orleans
has been for the time successful and the shipowners
are paying five dollars day.
The first section Of the Union Pacific Rail
road is completed to Topeka. The first passenger
train arrsved at that place Tuesday from Wyan-
| dotte.
The loss of life in this country by steam
boat accidents the past year, much greater than
ever before, the number being estimated at l7SS In
1864 35S in 1861 60.
1t has just been decided by the proper au-
thoritieS that all deposits, whether from disbursing
officers others, liable to taxation except de-
posits made by the Treasurer of the United States
Mr.. Monfort, the Indian Military Agent, has
deposited in the State Library a pair Of English
handouts worn by several of the Indiana soldiers
| while prisoners in the Libby prison.
A letter from the pirate Semmes TO his
brother Sam, of Cumberland, Nd Is published He
rejoices in conscience void of offence. The mer-
| chants whose ships Semmes burned don't SEQ it.
Jos. Il. Maddox commenced suit in the
New York Supreme Court yesterday against Secre-
| tary Stanton for alleged false imprisonment The
| amount required to Obliterate his griefis 100000
We publish from Washington a statement
ofthc amounts of prize paid to officers of the
navy Of Importance TO them and interesting to the
| public generally.
| EX-Alderman Farley of New York, has
been arrested. charged with snatching checks,
| amounting to $4,000 from the hands of city CON
| tractor.
! a convention of Collectors of Customs is to
in Washington city on Monday the sth instant,
to deliberate concerning some necessary changes. in
| existing customs laws.
Three hundred applications for places in the
Treasury Department were filed last week; but in
stead of making new appointments Secretary Nc
Culoch Is constantly reducing the clerical force
We give this morning the statement of
Captain Greenham. of the steamship Constitution.
in regard to the loss of that vessel on the Cape Look
out Shoals. 1t is sad record of a tragic event.
By the will of the late John +. Pickerton,
of Indiana. donation of thousand dollars con-
ssting of forty bonds. with sevcnty-sx coupons
attached, made to the Government to assist in
paying of the public debt.
Gov Lewis, Of Wisconsin, has received a
dispatch from Col. Pearsall, commanding the first
four companies of the 18th Regiment announcing
their safe arrival at Leavenworth from the plains
route for Madison.
The New Hampshire Republican State Con
venton met yesterday at Concord, and nominated
Fred. Smith for Governor. Resolutions were adopted
approving the tone and temper of President John
sons message.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Scripps tthe wife Of
Postmaster Scripps. of Chicago, while engaged in
receiving visits from her friends at her residence in
that city fell back suddenly in her chair and died in
stantly without struggle or word.
The annual meeting of the Brewer Asso
citation of Pennsylvania was held in Philadelphia on
Wednesday evening. All the former officers were
reelected. large amount of capital invested in
brewe!es was represented at the meeting.
Gold was weaker again yesterday, selling at
both Boards at 1444, and closing at 1H The sales
were right smart" footing up $4,000. Governments
quiet but for all the issues the market very
strong. R. r. shares quiet, nothing being done
in them.
The congregation of the Chicago Lutheran
Church have split one faction electing new pastor
the other retaining the old pastor. The pastor
faction occupied the church Monday night. keep
ing the others who held the keys out in the cold The
police refused TO interfere.
The contemplated increase of the regular
army grows daily in favor in Washington. Those
who three months ago considered seventy-fve thou
sand too large number, favor augmenting it to
nearly twice that force. The Military Committee
will probably introduce bill for its increase early
next week.
Semi official news received at Washington
announces that President Juarez his Cabinet the
members of the Supreme Court and other function
aries had safely arrived at chihuahua the capital of
the Mexican Republic. Juarez enthusiastically
received and the people were rejoicing at having got
rid of the French troops.
Meyer Creme, bullion dealers, have sued |
the banking house of Clark Dodge & Co.. in N. Y |
for the value of bag containing IS 600 in gold claim
ing to have been delivered to the defendants in 1864
and lost while in their possession The action is for
Pl065, the worth of the gold in greenbacks at 2l25
per cent.
The four street railways in Cincinnati,
earned in the last nine months, ninety five thousand
seven hundred and forty four dollars one hundred |
and three thousand two hundred and fOrtyfve dol
lars, fftyone thousand four hundred dollars and |
seveny-nine thousand nine hundred and one dollars
respectively |
a delegation of six Indian chiefs of the |
Kiowah and Sacs and Foxes has arrived in Wash |
ineton in charge of Major Burbank with two inter
prefers. They on their way to smoke pipe of |
peace. and confer with their Great Father the Pres
ident One of them hideous- looking old fellow, is
reported to have been married eighty-fve times.
The Decatur (Ill.) Magnet says: The |
original Lincoln log cabin is on storage in Phla-
depha About the first of April next it will take its
departure from the United States for England John
Hanks, Esq. Mr.. LincOlns early companion in life
and who helped to build the cabin, will accompany
it to the old country.
The St. Louis people were in danger of |
another ice-break. The committee having the safety
of the steamboats, in charge have arranged to have
the City Of Alton attack the ice at Carondoet and
if possible break it as far up as the city At the
same time the steamer Niagara and the ferry boats
will make dash at the ice in front of the levee and
clear the harbor. if practicable.
Intelligence has been received in New Ha-
Of the DEATH by drowning, in st. Pierre Creek
Charleston, of James W. Blake, who recently
went to Charleston to engage in the practice of the
law. Mr.. Blake graduated at Yale College with high
honor and brother, Major E. f. Blake, of the Fifth
Connecticut Volunteers, was killed in the battle Of
Cedar Mountain.
A report is current in Chicago that a prom
inent railroad officer, understood to be Hon. w. B
had invested large sums in the Nevada silver mines
has received his first dividend in the shape of ton
of silver in bars valued at $4,000 to S50000 based
on the present value of greenhacks. He must have
been as-ton-ished.
General Spinner on Tuesday morning re-
ceived letter containing ten dollars in greenbacks
without an accompanying address to denote from
whence it came. He deposited it in the United
States Treasury. Some idea of the magnitude of the
operations of his Office may be formed by knowing
that vouchers and accounts of millions of
dollars daily pass through his hands in the ordinary
transaction of business.
The Herald'S Washington special says: 1t
appears that the Navy Department cannot find con-
science for availing itself of the proer of the Old
Capitol Prison for the confinement of Semmes.
delegation of gentlemen of the navy have visited the
venerable and famous institution in question, and re-
port that they co not fnd it at all fit for the accom-
mediation Of gentleman of the rebel captains SEN
sibilities.
Hon. Frederick De Peyster has been re-
elected President of the New York Historical So
ciety The remaining officers are:-First Vice Presi
dent, Thomas De Witt, ID. Second Vice President
Benjamin R. Winthrop; Foreign Corresponding Sec
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