Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-19

SEYATE.-In the Senate, the principal matter de-
bated was the appropriation of hundred and
twenty odd thousau dollars to execute Indian trea-
ties, which elected considerable opposition; the bill
for the relief of contractors on ironclads also com
manding good deal of attention.
HoUsR.-In the House a long debate as had on
the proposition to increase the salary of the Commits
sioner of the Pension Bureau-the bill being finally
rejected.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Astronomical Society of England has
just issued eight views of the planet Mars.
Nashville restaurants are taking day
boarders at five dollars per week. and selling whisky
at fifteen cents per drink
The two Jewish congregations of Charles.
ton, after a separation of twenty-five years, have
united.
Sugar, corn and wheat crops promise well
in Middle and East Tennessee. Fruit has also been
doing pretty we'll
1t is denied that there is any truth in the
report that Denmark has sold any of her islands to
the United States.
The Directors of the Charleston and Sa-
vannah Railroad have held meeting and declared
their corporation insolvent.
Dexter, the horse which made the remark
able time of 21S is last year. is not matched yet for
any race during the coming season. Sporting men
are afraid of him.
-Rockport, Mass, has almost monopoly
in the manufacture of isnglass. 1t is made from the
sounds of fish called hake. and the business is
active during the winter months.
The failure of the house of Levy & Co.,
dry goods dealers whose liabilities said to be
$500 OO has created much gossip in business circles
at Nashville.
The foolish stories about the advantage
4 IL III tbo
death of girl in New York. who tried the expert
ment.
Out of three hundred mines in Cornwall,
there are OILY nineteen paying dividends namely:
nine copper, six tn and four siverlead, and many
of these are fast receding in value
"A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says two of the Episcopal churches in Charleston
c., are making united movement for educating col
ored children and already have six hundred scholars
| under their care
Marie Boyer, white girl who has been a
captive among the Sioux Indians for the last four
years. has just been released The Minnesota Legis-
lature last winter appropriated 81 900 to secure this
| result
| The London Times is as oracular as ever.
That solemn journal expresses the opinion that ar
incursion into Canada if it should actually be made
must inevitably demonstrate either the strength OF
"A young widow, who had married an old
man. was forever speaking of my first husband. ,
| The second husband at first gently demonstrated
81 guess" said the young wife. you'll wish me tc
| remember you when you're dead and gone" Com
| forting!
| "A widow, Mary A. Smith, of South Caro-
ina recovered recently in the United States District
Court, at Mobile, of Joseph Wilson, captain of the
Manhattan New Orleans boat, $50, being the sun
| of which her minor son had been feeced by some
| gamblers on Wilson's boat.
The estate of the late Joseph Campau, of
Detroit which has been for long time in chancery
has been settled and the property divided among the
| hers-eight persons and their descendants. The
value of the estate is estimated at between two and
three millions 1t consists of real estate in the heart
4 of the city.
The London Daily News confirms the re-
port that ME Goodwin Smith will retire from the Re-
gius Professorship Of Modern History at Oxford al
the end of the ensuing term. The reason is under
stood to be his wish to be relieved of the labor o
tuition and to devote his energies which have been
| somewhat impaired of late by failure of physical
power to the historical works which he has hand
Gen. Early, late of the C. s. A, has just
returned from Mexico. He denounces the Imperial
| humbug and the scheme of American colonization
| He says: The Emperor Carlotta, nor any one Of
european nalondty, CANNOT go three miles from the
city of Mexico any other large centre of popula-
tion without strong body guard for projections they
would be killed at sight, among the people, with
| out it."
| The Alexandria Gazette says: disturb.
ance occurred at Leesburg Tuesday. by attempt
of the military guard there to take from Col. Mosby
who was in town, his overcoat. which had it some
Confederate buttons. gray cloth or something
of the kind. He refused to give it ups and mounted
| his horse to leave town. when he was pursued. ant
fred at by those who followed him. The next da!
this military company. it is said, ordered from
| Leesburg.
The Police Gazette of Kertch, in tn,
Crimea, announces that engineer. named Peter
who had been boring for naphtha on land comedies
to Colonel Novossitzew in that neishborhood. ha
discovered an abundant spring. The workmen, afte
piercing through hard rock at depth of one hun
dred and twenty feet were surprised by sudde
gush of the fluid, followed by cracking noise soo
after quantity ofhot salt water was thrown up mike
with clay This was continued for about half a
hour and was succeeded by flow of pure naphths
yielding four thousand gallons in twentytour hour