Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.
FOREIGN NEWS.

| the Fenan Head Centre, Stephens, the governor of
| the Richmond jail Bridewell has been dismissed
from office. The Lord Lieutenant Governor General
Of Ireland has declined appointing a commission to
| inves igate the manner of Stephens escape.
McCatferty, late captain in the Confederate army
and indicted Fenan leader. has been acquitted.
He claimed to be American citizen and the Judges
held that his being alien was fatal to the indic-
| ment
| Five men engaged in the Fenian movement have
been indicted in Cork for treason and felony.
| The London Times applauds Secretary McCulloch's
report; says it is able document, and grounded on
sound financial principles. The same journal re-
marks that the deliberations of the present session of
| Congress Will be earnestly watched by England.
Prince Napoleon is in Paris. The Count who mur-
dered Prince Alfred chief cook, has been sentenced
| to So months imprisonment.
Cholera in PARIS addinq largely to its victims.
GENERAL NEWS.
| Brcvet Brig Gen. W. +. Smith, late Major
General Volunteers has been granted six months
| leave Of absence for the benefit of his health.
| Governor Andrew delivered a lengthy val
edictory to the Massachusetts Legislature yesterday.
His theme was "Reconstruction.'
| The naval hospital fund for the benefit of
of disabled seamen now amounts to the large sum of
| SlO,OOO,OOO.
Surgeon John J. Craven, late the medical
adviser of JEFF. Davis, at Fortress Monroe has been
relieved from duty, and Surgeon Geo. L. Cooper has
been directed to perform that duty.
1t is not true, says q Washington special,
that Governor Morton has been appointed Minister
| to England. Secretary Stanton was named as Mr.
| Adams successor, hut he denies it.
Secretary McCulloch, says Washington
special contemplates issuing in few days, propo
sails for funding S000OOCO0 of certificates of indebt
pdnpSS nd into
| ties.
1t is well understood that Gov. Andrews.
of Mass will not sign the death warrant of Edward
| E. Green. the Maiden murderer. The question is
therefore thrown upon the new executive Governor
Bullock, and his Council. for decision.
A Washington special says it has been re
peatedly and positively denied that the rebel Gen
r. E. Lee has ever applied for a pardon. His app-
cation is nevertheless still in the hands of the Pres-
dent.
Brevet Col. John NJ. Cuyler, Surgeon U. s
A. has been assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at
Fort Wadsworh New York harbor, and Brevet
Lieut.. Col. J. Bailey. Surgeon has been assigned to
duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Warren Boston harbor
Charles Eydus, by his guardian, has sued
the Hudson River Railroad Company to recover
$4,000 damages for injuries sustained by having been
over by one of the company's freight cars last
October, in New York city.
Aaron A. Bradley, the colored preacher,
convicted by a military commission at Savannah, for
sedtiOus language and melting the freedmen to dis
order. and sentenced to years hard labor at Fort
Pulaski has been released on parole by order of Sec
retary Stanton.
Three hundred and thirty million dollars
have been counted in the past year by the female
clerks IN Washington. under the supervision of Col
Frank Jones. of the Redemption Division in General
Spinners Bureau the Treasury, and not one dollar
has been lost in the meantime
The designations of Major General Kilpat
rick. appointed Minister to Chill; Gen. J. D. Cox,
Governor elect of 0hio and Major General Henry L.
Davies, appointed Public Administrator under Mayor
Hoffman, New York, have been accepted to date
January |. 1866
There was tumble in gold yesterday OF
~ per cent from the prices of the previous day. and
sales were made at the First Board at 14215. AT the
Second Board it advanced. however z to per cent
selling at 143@143@ closing at the latter figure. The
market for Governments was firm, with an upward
tendency. Railroad shares seem to have been laid
upon the shelf since the advent of Sc.
An action was brought in the New York
Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday for five hun
dred dollars alleged to have been loaned by the late
Rev. c. j. McCarney, pastor of st. Patricks Roman
Catholic Church at Fort Hamilton. L. l., to Mr. T.
NJ Connaughton, an auetioneer The plaintiff was
brother of the clergyman, and administrator of his
property. verdict was rendered in favor Of the
plaintiff.
Information has been received in Richmond
that A, ". Conrow formerly Representative in the
rebel Congress from Missouri; Gen. NJ. NJ. Parsons
who formerly conn, handed the Missouri Brigade in
the rebel army, and Asss ant AdtGen. Standish, Of
the same brigade, were murot cred by robbers while
their way from the Texas frontier to the City OF
Mexico, several months ago. These men ,eft the
South soon after the surrender.
An important meeting of woolgrowers was
held in Cincinnati on the I'd inst They favored the
policy of terminating the Reciprocity Treaty with
Canada, and among other recommendations and
resolutions, they took high and bold ground AGAINST
the canine race, advising that they be choked into
extinction by Government tax, thereby saving the
finances of the country well the wool. Gentle
men will remember to muzzle before they levy.
The second anniversary mass in memory of
the late Archbishop Hughes, celebrated on We'd
nesday at st. Patrick's cathedral, N. Y, the Most
Rev. Archbishop McCloskey acting ceebrant. A
largo number Of the clergymen of the diocese were
present and assisted at the ceremonies. Mr. Gustavu
Schmidt conducted the musical portion of the eXer
cises, the sung being CarcanO's Requiem in D
minor. The lJera sung by a full chorus, in the
old Gregorian or plain chant style. and the Arch
bishop pronounced the episcopal benedietion.
Yesterday morning, the three three fishing
shores above Georgetown. wel-known as Clouds
landings, were rented at auction by Thomas Dow
ling auctioneer Landing No l, nearest Georgetown,
was let to Robert Simmons for 81 OPS; No q to Wm.
Mankins for $3.50; No 8, to Wm Simmons for Sl5O-
English Harbor landing on the Virginia shore, near
the Aqueduct bridge was afterwards let to Joseph
Harper for 500. The term only includes the ap-
preaching season. The rents considerably in ad-
vance of those of the last season.
Proceedings in the case of Robert Martin,
charged with implication in the rebel plot of 1854
destroy this city by fire. and recently surrendered By
the military to the civil authorities, commenced
on Wednesday before United States Commissioner
Osborn The testimony taken of B. II. Melon
aid and Jacob c. Martin, giving statement of the
movements of the accused about the time of the at
tempted execution of the plot and containing allu-
sions to the famous black yalises which figured so
cOnspicuously in it.
A gentleman just returned to New Orleans
from Arkansas reports that State to be in an unset
tied. dsorg ganized condition. In many parts of the
country the inhabitants actually threatened with
famine. Life and property everywhere insecure
and murders and robberies are of almost every day
occurrence. No one thinks of travelling unarmed
the people are making use of muskets. shotguns, &c.
where no better weapons are to be found. He had
gone to that State to live. but the condition of the
abandon the idea.
The Board of Supervisors of Erie county,
n Y, have just been auditing the bills for their
current expenses and some of the items evnce great
lberality, showing the way the money goes" these
for instance. packs cards, So; cribbage board $0
l cribbage board, IS; chequer board, $40; l set
chequer men, 81 annual illustrated, $40; 81 pack
ages of stationery. to be delivered the end Of the
session. $685. 112 diaries, $4l2 ia pocketbooks and
wallets, S34650; lis knives, 2S5.50 13 photograph
albums. $751; books, dictionaries family bibles,
works of Shakespeare, Byron, &c. S2S1.50 III articles
mysteriously denominated 'privates Sl45 25 9boxes
mysteriously charged as 'Bx's Ex;" $50.
The Alexandria Gazette indulges in lamen
tatons over the absence this year of most of the
citing and jsvial scenes which distinguished New
Years Day in the good times before the war. 1t
says: Another main feature of New Years Day, in
former times. also absent. Hiring day, with its
accompanying excitement, was missed by unserYed
housekeepers: and the hundreds of negroes who
used to congregate at Catts to seek for and to be
sought after by masters for the commencing year,
were nowhere visible. In those days able bodied
hired for Sl20 and woman for SIS per year. in
addition to their house ROOM food clothing and doc