Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.


pondent will be found on the fourth page.
The City Councils were not in session yes
terday.
The Democrats in the Senate of the New
Jersey Legislature have passed resolution express
ing confidence in President johnson.
On Tuesday evening complete telegraphic
current was secured between New York and San
Francisco. 1t is seldom that this is possible.
The Spaniards have raised the blockade of
every Chilian port except Valparaiso They recently
burned several sailing vessels the Gillian coast
During December last, ~, ,O64 rations were
persons. white and black.
The Democratic members of the Ohio Leg
islature in on Tuesday. endorsed the Presi-
dents veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
The Rev. Rufus F. Buell. died in Washing
ton on Tuesday. He was for many years an eminent
missionary of the Baptist denomination to Greece.
Receipts for customs at the four principal
Atlantic ports during the past ten days amounted to
four million of dollars.
1t is reported that the clerks in the different
departments generally disapprove of the Presidents
veto and sustain Congress.
A bill has been intro duced iuto the New
York Legislature to prevent railroad companies from
issuing free passes, except to their employees
The bill allowing negroes to testify in the
courts passed the North Carolina House on Wednes-
day. by vote of 69 yeas to nays.
1t is rumored that the President will soon
reaffirm his position in special proclamation, and
that all the lova Southern members will be request
ed to repair to the Capitol.
General Saxton, from Charleston, and Gen.
Terry. from Richmond, have been summoned to
Washington as witnesses before the Reconstruction
Committee.
In Jersey City coroner's jury have found
that Barbara Mahon came to her death from expo
sure, want Of nourishment and ill-treatment from
her husband.
The Republican members of the Maine
Legislature in caucus. last evening, approved the
action of the Maine Senators in voting to pass the
Freedmens Bureau bill over the Presidents Veto
VIM. Dobson, an old citizen of Cass county,
Illinois, residing near Meredosia, was murdered in
his own house, on the 10th, by his sonin-law Samuel
Mitchell. The murderer has been arrested.
Presi dent johnson attended the annual
meeting of the Washington National Monument
Society yesterday at the City Hall. and delivered
brief and appropriate address.
Speaker Colfax bet box of cigars with a
brother Congressman that the President would ap-
prove the Freedmens bill. He lost and sent the box
to the Congressman, labelled From victim of mis-
placed confidence"
A tremendous mass meeting was held in
washington yesterday. and resolutions endorsing the
Administration were adopted and a committee ap-
pointed to present them to the President; who in re-
sponse delivered speech, which will be found else
where in this mornings Commercial.
Our exports are still handsomely ahead of
our imports-the increase at gold valuation, from
the lst of October to the present time, being about
S2l,000,0O0. The probabilities are that the spring
months will show still more favorable result for the
American balance sheet.
Early this week, application was made for
the use of large hall in Washington, for VIM. Lloyd
Garrison to deliver lecture. The owners wished
negroes to be refused admittance; this Garrison s
friends declined, and the use of the hall was denied
them.
The Russo American telegraph is being
rapidly extended. The wires have been put up to a
point four hundred miles north of New Westminster
in Frazier river and it is expected that full commu-
nication with Europe and Russia will be had in
another year.
The bill before the North Carolina Legisla-
ture granting to freedmen the right of esifying in
the courts, has been amended as to preclude its
taking effect until all matters of jurisdiction now
over to the civil authorities.
Eleven thousand five hundred bales of cot
ton worth over two millions of dollars were recev-
ed on Saturday at Boston from the South, for Mas
sachusetts manufacturers This is the largest impor
tation upon any one day since the commencement of
the war.
1t is reported that the President declared to
party who applied for an official appointment that
Io baya bn condition nf
his adherence to his policy in all its parts, and
that this requirement will be made in all future
of appointment to Office under his administration.
A Washington dispatch to the Iribunesa says:
The statement that Messrs. Seward McCulloch, Den
sage in Cabinet meeting is generally credited here.
1t is said that Cabinet Ministers. in confidential con
versations, do not deny it.
A three thousand dollar robbery was COM
mtted last week at Buffalo, in Iowa. Three men
entered a room while the owner was engaged in
writing and cooy Informed him thatthey wanted all
the money and valuables that he had, using a con-
vincing argument brace of cooked revolvers.
Money to the above amount was given up, and the
thieves decamped, and still remain at large.
Some time since, a man in Boston paid
three hundred dollars for special train to take him
to Portland Maine, in order to take passage in the
steamship Nova Scotia for Liverpool which expense
he would bave saved by taking the regular afternoon
train from Boston. 1t is supposed that this mar
was Howard the third one of the Concord Bank rob
bers who had 100000 worth of the stolen bonds il
his possession. This accounts foT his great anxiet,
to leave the country and for his fear that he should
be too late for the steamer.
On the 18th instant Edward l.. Dawson, 6
supervisor and collector of the town of Jacksonville
Morgan county. Illinois. fed with $1,000 of the
public monies which he had collected. One of his
bondsmen. Mr.. Martin II. Cassell, who was in Wash
ington at the time. received telegram informing
him of The fact and at once went on to New YorE
to intercept him, in case he should attempt to sal
from that port Fort natey he arrived there just
'ime to arrest him he was .parklns lol oaili1. .
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