Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


in the service.
Chief Clerk Hunter performs the duties of
Secretary of State during the absence of Mr. Seward
The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau
yesterday amounted to S6l5,OOO.
The funeral of the Hon. Henry Winter
Davis takes place at o'clock this afternoon from his
late residence on st. Paul's street.
The Chicago Tribune denies the report of
the engagement of Hon. Schuyler Colfax and the
daughter of LieutenantGovernor Bross of that city,
The Columbus Journal says that Mr.. John
S. Rarey is recovering from his late attack of par
aysis.
Mr.. Ferguson Blair has accepted the position
in the Canadian Cabinet made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. George Brown.
Mrs. Hannah F. Lee, widow of the late
Geo. Gardiner Lee died in Boston on Wednesday,
aged S5 years. She was the author of Three Ez-
perments in Living" and other popular works.
A late attempt to subjugate schoolmaster
in Livermore Me-, resulted in the teacher drawing
pistol and maintaining his dignity "a ct arnis The
dsturbers paid $75 to settle the matter.
The completion of the census of Illinois
reveals the astonishing fact that since 1860 the popu
lation of the State has increased about 100000,
nearly SO per centum.
t'iOilIo 1-liS"pitu; HcSlO' SOhhlStSo VI
numbering his wife, to be hanged at Newark on the
10th instant the court having refused to commute
his sentence.
The New York Legislature for 1866 will as
sembe in Albany to-day, and soon as an organiza-
ton is effected Governor Fentons message will be
presented to both houses.
A New Orleans despatch states that the
military recently entered the District Court at
Jefferson, Texas. and rescued by force two Treasury
agents, indicted by the grand jury for swindling
A voluminous report, showing the history of
the Union Pacific Railroad, and all legislation had in
aid thereof, has been compiled at the Interior De-
partment and will shortly be published.
The United States Consul at Port Mahon
writes to the State Department that the cholera has
nearly disappeared from that province and says that
the mortality in Spain has been far greater than will
ever be known.
A Hartford paper states that Mr.. J. Dick
inson Ripley, nephew of Governor Buckingham. of
Connecticut, was burned to death on the steamer
Commonwealth. He was asleep in his stateroom,
and could not be aroused.
The Michigan Soldiers Monument Associa-
ton has appointed Rev. George Taylor, of Ann
Arbor special soliciting agent for the State. He will
enter upon his duties Immediately, and the work Of
raising 100000 for the proposed monument will be
actively prosecuted.
The order requiring all bonded goods pass
ing into the United States to be seized unless nvoiced
at the duty paid price in Canada which has caused
such excitement over the border. is stated to
have been issued without authority from Wash
ington.
The Elmira Gazette states that the North
ern Central Railway Company have purchased the
Northern division of the Erie Railway from Elmira
to Canandaigua, and during the coming season in
tend laying the narrow guage track of the road on
that line, SO to enable them to send through
trains from Baltimore to Niagara Falls.
George Williams and another man, both
burglars attempted to kill policeman and citizen
in New York. on Sunday morning, for disturbing
them in their operations Several shots fired at
the officer, and the citizen attacked with
ing knife but neither were hurt. Williams only was
arrested.
The Liber0t0r of last week contains the val
edictory of VIM Lloyd Garrison. who announces that
this is the last number the paper having been pub
Iished thirty years. He says "the object for
which the Liberntor was commenced has been glo-
riously comsummated." He does not indicate what
he will do in his remaining years though he hopes to
be permitted to take little repose.
Castle Thunder, at Richmond, has been used,
since the first year of the war. as military prison
for the confinement of evil-doers of all kinds and
grades by the rebel authorities up the evacuation
and by the Federal authorities since that time 1t
was vacated last week and turned to its
The Libby Prison has been fitted up, and will here
after be used as the general military prison in that
city.
The extent of the California wine interest
is comparatively little known in the Atlantic States.
Every year increases the product ii2mansely. The
estimate for the present year is $4,000 gallons in
LOS AnpelOs 00 pa Hons n Snnnmo county
and 100000 in the remainder Of the State, or 900
gallons in a-more than four times the product of
the United States in 1860.
The Ohio Legislature met yesterday. The
synoptical dispatch which we received yesterday of
the Governors message presents ther strange
views on the Mexican question, expressing opposi-
tion to any efforts the part of government for
the enforcement on Mexican soil of the Monroe doc
trine. the precise sienifcaton of which dogma the
Governor says has yet been agreed upon even
among ourselves"
The White Cloud Chisr says that very dis
agreeable state affairs exists at Nebraska City,.
Murders and robberies are not of rare occurrence
During the past summer and Fall, the Copperhead
paper of that city, edited by j. Sterling Morton, in
vited the disfranchsed rebels and bushwhackers of
Missouri to Nebraska. They accepted the invita-
tion carried the election in Nebraska City and have
succeeded in establishing condition of society equal
to the palmiest days of bushwhacking in Missouri.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph publishes an ar
tcle upon the project of extending the Grand Trunk
from Port Huron to Chicago. in which it gives
rency to the statement that the authorities of the
Michigan Central Railroad have proposed to the
management of the Grand Trunk Railway to build
a double track from Kalamazoo to Chicago, to ac-
commodate trains on both roads, provided the Grand
Trunk makes its line from Port Huron by way of
Lansing to Kal amazoo.
The discovery and arrest have recently been
effected of the persons, who, the evening of the
3th of October last robbed the safe of United States
Naval Paymaster Rittenhouse at Panama, of four
teen thousand dollars in gold. The principals in the
affair are said to be the keeper of Panama grog-
shop, named Mark Bradley. and boy attached to
the United States ship Cyane. The robbery was eff
fected by means of key manufactured from an i'm
preston paper of the in possession Of the pay
master.
The Chicago papers state that the California
Overland Mail heretofore transmitted via St. Louis
and the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad, thence
across the plains to its destination is to be conveyed
via Chicago thence west by the Chicago and North
western Railway to Boonsboro Iowa; thence via the
Western Stage Company to Omaha and thence by
Ben Halliday's Overland Line. via Fort Kearney, tc
Salt Lake, Idsbo and San Francisco This routs
affords saving of forty-eight hours in time, and
the mails will be transmitted free of cost to The
Government.
The Strong divorce case was finally brought
to its termination Sunday. but in manner rather
unsatisfactory to the parties concerned The Jury
after being in deiberaton for forty eight hours
came into court and expressed the opinion unan
mously that it was impossible for them to agree
They were therefore discharged by Judge Garvin
The point of disagreement the question rela
tive to the adultery charged against Mr. Strong ter
of the members being in favor of rendering verdict
declaring his innocence, and the other two refusing
their assent thereto. All of them agreed verdc
in favor of Mr. Strong the issues relating to tn
charges of adultery against Mrs. Strong.
Governor James l.. Orr, of South Carolina
the Executive chosen by the people of the State a
their recent election issued on Monday last his pro
clamation announcing his assumption of the dute
of office, by permission of the President, and in
structng the citizens in regard to the Commonw
present status. He informs them that though civi
government is restored, the habens corpus still re
mains suspended in the State, and the military powe
is therefore paramount in all matters of which ha
special supervision among which is the adjudication
of all controversies in which the freedmen are inter
| ested The Governor gives the blacks and white
| both some good advice, telling the former that o.
their own sobriety, industry, honesty and good be
havior alone must they now depend for happines,
and counseling towards them the part of the lat