Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-05
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restoring It, U6ndG4d6re rlenaqSsad by the Senate
tive list of the U. S. Navy. The reconstruction re-
port was again up. and several amendments were
proposed and acted upon after which the Senate
adjourned.
Housa.-The most prominent feature in the House
proceedings was the passage Of preamble and reso
lution introduced by Mr.. Williams, of Pennsylva
nia calling for information as to the part taken by
Government officials in the South to make treason
honored instead Of ''odious." by Difference to the
memories of the Confederate dead.
The rest of the business up was of miscellaneous
character. q brief debate reconstruction having
occurred before the adjournment.
GENERAL NEWS.
Eighty three new journals at sou each
were published in Paris on the first of May.
DR.. Chaplin says the cause that never made
a fanatic never produced martyr.
Fifty persons were killed by the terrific
dust storm at Buenos Ayres on the 10Th of March.
An organ is being put into Beecher's
Church which is to cost $25.OOO.
Three negroes were drowned by the up
setting of skif near Mobile. few days ago.
"A little son of VIM. H. Wales, Esq, of
Norfork. Va. was crushed to death by car passing
over him on Friday last.
The father of the peasant who saved the
Cars life has been recalled" from Siberia where
he was in exile.
Some cabinet makers do not believe in
working all the ebony and mahogany in the country
into the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Detroit Post thinks the job under
taken by the Central Organizer Stephens. that of
squaring the circles" is somewhat difficult.
"A destructive fire occurred at Battle Creek,
Michigan. Friday morning. consuming the Battle
Creek House and twenty-nine horses belonging to
Van Amburgh's menagerie.
"A prisoner in the Wisconsin penitentiary,
having previously prepared key wherewith to make
his exit through the cookroom door, secreted him
self in the oven. where after little search, he was
found the thermometer standing at 140 degrees when
placed in the oven.
"A young woman named Miss Ellen Muir
ray, had narrow escape from death Monday night
at Albany. While working about gas jet her hair
took fire. In an instant her head was enveoped in
fame. All the hair was burned off her head before
| it was eItingushed.
If the Washington correspondents speak
the truth Thad Stevens changed his colors several
times during his furious speech of last Saturday The
National Inelli1encers reporter he turned vid
| with rage" The Boston Posts correspondent say 8
| he turned white with fury"
| The Nashville Union says that Thad Ste
vens is one Of the who, in the famous Pennsyl-
| vania "Buckshot War;" illustrated his courage by
jumping from the window of the Capitol back of the
Speakers chair. He is desperately valiant where
there is no dangsr-full of fight when the enemy is
| absent.
| AT the tobacco fair just held in Louisville,
Kentucky, the first premium hogsheads Of leaf to-
bacco grown in Hart county, Kentucky, sold for five
dollars and fifty cents per pound. which believei
the highest price ever paid for the raw material The
tobacco must have been the fanciest of the fancy ye
| low coal smoked.
The Empress Eugene is said to be rapidly
approaching that uncertain age which leaders o
| fashion so much dread The 5th of May was he
fortieth birthday and the once young and beautiful
Eugene, is beginning to show her years lime
writing his wrinkles in her face, and she is gradu
ally losing the rmness and deicacy of her features
| The Persian conqueror, Nadlr Shad, say
the celebrated Kohi-noor glittering in the turban
| the vanquished Mohammed Shah, and proposed j
the most friendly sort Of way imaginable that the
should exchange head.dressssi and as the copquere
man preferred that to parting with his head. the s1
change was made. Finally, after undergoing sinila
! exchanges for centuries, 1t has now become one {
, | the crown jewels Of England.
| The Waukegan Qllinois) Gazette of tn
26th says, Mr.. Harley II. Hendee, of Avon, inform
us that the wolves still continue to trouble the flock
in that town and In the northern portion of Fremon
With view to put stop to the depredatons of thes
miserable pests ne mas succeeded IN getting subecriI
tions from the farmers In the two towns mentionet
guaranteeing S75 for each old wolf and $37 so fc
each young wolf killed in either town. this offer
: | bounty to hold good six months from this date.
"A correspondent of Sacramento pape
. tells the following pathetic story ID you.
man sentenced to Jail for year, who still retains Il
J. treasures of pretty wife and child. They come
see him every day, and the Warden turns the gre
creakins lock. and the three sit on bench f
awhile and forget their msfortunes Yesterday, beil
Sunday they brought him his dinner all the delica
little things that poor woman could think of al
carry and the repast lasted great while. The chi
!. ID extremely beautiful. and while it was playi
about tho grated DOORS could the furtive tea
!, drive one another quickly down the young moths
rosy cheek, thsssh she WH Pfstsndins to b. cheer
| t!l tAs HRs"