Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-05

SEE5TE.-Ihe senate was almost wholly occupied
yesterday with discussion of tho Stewart resolu-
| TONS" arriving however at definite conclusion
HoUsE.-In the House the Brooks-Dodge case was
! the dominant topic. monOpoliZing pretty much the
| whole day.
GENERAL NEWS.
Mr.. Edwin Forrest sails for California
next week. He to play several engagements there
| but goes mainly to recruit his health.
| The New York balls last winter cost as
| much as the expense ofthe General Government IN
| der President Washington.
--Govemor Low, Of California, has vetoed
the bill granting State aid to the Western Pacific
RAILROAD. and bes been sustained in his veto.
-A,human'skeletoh was found in a garnet
in St. Louis, the other day. which causes considerable
excitement.
The Houston Telegraph says that in few
years the sheep interest in Texas will not be second
even to cottap.
The AL ens (Ga.) lVatclman of the 18th.
T reports that although the very cold weather some
weeks ago killed everything green, the wheat crop of
that section now gives promise of doing well,
The safe of the express and railroad
companies at California, Missouri, has been robbed
oksoversl thousand dollars by T. E. Williams, the
ticket agent for the railroad company.
The rebel General j. C. Vaughan, who
Jones
IGe writeshat he has lost all by the war and that
he living the Florida line trying to support his
family by hard labor.
Harvey Mansfield, of Bristol, Vt. while
filing a with his gloves on, stopped to rub his
eyes, and so filled them with the steel filings thathad
accumulated upon his gloves that it is feared he will
entirely lose his sight.
1.-Two Henry county prisoners named Prich-
ard and Barnes, escaped from the Centerville Ind
Jail on Tuesday. by digging through stone floor
some distance under ground, and then through
brick wall.
"A servant girl in St. Louis, Missouri. who
had been accused by her employer and arrested for
stealing brought action against him, and recov.
cred 81 900 damages for false imprisonment on the
Sth ult
The curate at the Madeline, in Paris, NJ.
de Query. has been appointed by The Emperor Ma
poeOn as Governor to the Prince Imperial" and is
to be elevated to the rank of Bishop with salary of
ten thousand dollars year.
European Savants are debating the pro-
position of NJ. Won Gumpach, who has issued several
books and pamphlets arguing that the earth is rot
compressed but probate ellipsod or in other words
that it has not the figure of orange, but lemon
The Galveston papers say that real estate
has greatly advanced in that city, Tenements and
lots are selling for than three times what they
cost ten years Meanwhile trade is good and the
gram market Us rapidly filling by importations Of
corn by thousands of bushels from New Orleans
The wife Of an eminent sub-prefect re-
Gently presented herself at one of President Trop
longs parties, in Paris, in dress almost without
corsage, being very open in front and fastened across
the breast only by narrow chain of gold, Madame
Tropiong, however. happened to see the lady and
insisted upon her leaving the house.
in reply to letter of the Collector of
New York, asking whether he should admit cargo |
of South American hides just arrived at this port
the Secretary of the Treasury has given permission
for their entry if after careful inspection it is ascer-
tanned that they do not come from region infested
with the cattle plague.
The Ohio Senate on Saturday passed, BY |
a vote of 20 against Q, the bill increasing the legal
rate ofinerest from six to per cent. 1t also
defeated. by majority. the Agricultural College
bill, pOsponing the establishment of the institution
and allowing the Trustees to receive proposals and
report them at the next session. The House proceed
ings were not Of general interest.
"A dispatch from Sheboygan SAYS the |
steamer Sea Bird which left Milwaukee for Mantle
the 28th lies fast in the ice about one mile
from ShebOygan pier. Quite a number of passengers
have come ashore on the ce Two Of them broke in |
but succeeded in saving themselves. Quite anumber
of them being for Manitowoc. took private convey
ance through.
The ladies of Raleigh, N. c., recently pro-
posed to organize association of which the oldest
member should be the President and the youngest |
the Secretary. But the dear creatures met with
an unexpected and insurmountable difficulty and |
the project has been aban doned it having been found
impossible to obtain President, anu every one Of
the members claiming the right to be Secretary.
-Aludingto denomination by many presses
and meetings of General Grant for the Presidency |
+l,aI oil HAD
residence, says that while the sympathics Of the |
General are undoubtedly with the Union party and |
while he intends to act with that party in the future
1T is very doubtful whether he would accept such
candidacy. He has already life Office, equal in |
honor and responsibility with that of the President
and no friend would advise him to abandon it, to |
mingle in the strife and turmoil of politics.
AT recent levee at the White House. |
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister, escorted the |
lady of President Juarez She was attired in rich |
lavender silk, richly trimmed, and long trail with
diamonds. The Hon. /. D. Campbell also had q /
Mexican lady on his arm. She was attired in blue
silk long trail. and futed trimmings around the bot
tom, with diamond pin. Mr. Labantree, of the State
Department also escorted Mexican lady. who at |
tracted considerable attention. The brunette cOunte
nances and well formed features these MOntezuma
ladies furnished contrast with the American ladies
and made them the centre of attraction.
-SOllStlHlllS INC AllllC VI u IolOllJ SlOIl
is in circulation to the effect that the loss or sup
posed loss. of that vessel and is humbug that
Captain Donovan landed at st. Johns in Move |
Scotia sold his brig for fishing smack, while Mrs |
Donovan, who remained in New York, collected |
poces on his life TO the amount of twenty thousand
dollars The story is profuse in details of the |
minutn Of the risks taken by the various assurance
offices; how ii provided in the policies that so
long as he sailed in brig which in marine circles is
admitted as of two hundred tons burthen, the risk
would not be impaired Hence, say the story tellers
his rigging his boat as a brig.
The scientific world has Just suffered a !
severe loss in the death of Sir William Rowan Ham
ilon, Professor of Astronomy in the Uni Tersity OF
Dublin and Astronomer Royal Of England. During |
his residence at Trinity College, Dublin he displayed
such remarkable precocty that he appointed to |
the chair of Astronomy while still undergraduate
and barely twenty-one years of age His greatest |
achievement in scientific research, the discovery
OF the Calculus Of Quaternions" the elaboration of |
which occupied period of twenty-five years. He /
left sixty volumes of manuscripts, many of them |
very bulky which have been deposited IN the library
Of Trinity College.