Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

| oregon has ten thousand more men than
| women.
The Detroit (Mich) Post says Gen. Cass
is steadily improving in health Notwithstanding the
| reports to the contrary.
| Notwithstanding the great and rapid
growth of Illinois, it is said that but one-eighth
| that State is yet under cultivation
Rev. h. W. Beecher, at the recent large
admission of members to his church, baptized four
teen OF them by immersion, they having preferences
for that mode.
MIR. George B. Archur was brutally mur-
dered near Cattlettsburg KY. last week, by some
unknown person. who went to his store at night un-
der the pretext of wanting to buy tobacco.
"A Mrs. Sherman, of West Springfield,
Mass, had seventeen nephews twenty first cousins a
brother and her husband serving in the late war
The husband died while in the service
The value of the fresh fish sold annually
at the various French seaports is estimated at 81
600; but by the time it has paid the octroi and
other duties its cost to the consumer is more than
quadrupled.
Resolutions have been introduced into the
Senate of Tennessee, providing for taking vote of
people of East Tennessee in reference to forming
new State. The whole subject was referred to a
select committee.
For man or woman to plead head. or
tooth or side ache for neglecting duty on the Sab
bath, when they are running all about in tho mud
and rain on Monday and Saturday is the highest de-
gree of holy swinding!
-Ihe Chincha Islands do not exceed in
extent ~ square miles, yet for years past they have
supplied guano to an average of 400 ships per an
num- the value of such cargoos in Europe being up
ward of $4,000.
Miss Thomas, in her Walter Going, says
Women can make one another miserable in such
lntinltesimaly small ways that man can rarely be
brought to comprehend how the business is man
aged"
"A volunteer in the rebel army having been
elected town clerk in Wisconsin, the Attorney Cen
era Justfes his predecessor in refusing to give up
the books and papers and admonishes the late rebel
that he cannot hold office in that State.
Richard Roe, Benz. OConnell and An
drew Jones, three of the Cadiz bank robbers, have
been lodged in the penitentiary. The first two are
sentenced for thirteen years each and the last one
for eleven years.
-Oscar +. Barnes writes to certain citizens
OF Albion, N. Y, whom he victimized in oil OPERA
tons' cheerful letter from Havana, assuring them
that the trifing balance in their favor of S2OOOOO
shall be made all right some day or other.
"A terrible tornado swept over the little
village of Caldwell, New York, at the head of Lake
George at O'Clock P. NJ. Sunday, laying waste al
most everything before it, uprooting trees &C. The
damage done will amount to at least thirty thousand
dollars.
I'm Paris there is a hospital for superanu-
ated cats, and they about to establish one for
dogs in London. The Boston Traveller suggests that
we shall next hear of hospital for goats at Madrid
for pigs at Dublin for rats at Edinburg and at Wash
ington, for ducks, probably.
-On the 21st ult., blasting of rock by
means of gunpowder took place at Furnace Quarry,
Lockfyneside. Scotland. The charge of gunpowder
was $3.50 lbs, and mass of rock computed to be
about 10000 TONS displaced with ease and safety
and landed on the quarry floor
-Probst is puzzle. The divines cannot
understand him. A month agn he rolled upon his
pallet Of straw at night in terrible agony Now his
rest is unbroken. He eats with all the relish of
school boy. and sleeps with all the soundness of in
fantile slumber.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, of the 10TH says:
Immense quantities of wheat are pouring into Mil
waukie from all parts of Wisconsin and the States
West and South, seeking transportation hither at
various points along the Mississippi. from the Falls
OF St. Anthony to the southern limit of Iowa.,
The boat in which James Hamill is to row
Kelly the Englishman. at Nevcastle-on-Tyne, is to
be called the ANDY Johnson" and was built by
Councilman Stephen Roberts. of New York, who is
sonel ally to be in Boston at the Fourth of July
resattas: 1t was sent forward after .Hamil in the
steamship Etna.
"A considerable discovery of foreign coin
has been made at Nisderaschen, in Bavaria
workman who was digging for the foundations of
new house, came upon an earthen vessel which was
found to contain not less than $50 coins of the later
Emperors. Their entire weight amounted to more
than four pounds.
An immense International News Club is
to be established in Paris where the different ma
tions Of the world will find the gr eatest comfort and
elegance. They will there be able to find news of
home as almost every paper published under the
will be found on the tables of the great Interna
tional Club.
On Thursday last lady, wearing a red
opera cloak was passing along the street in Quincy,
ILL.,, where some cattle were being driven. One of
them. attracted by the color of the cloak. dashed
forward, and planting horn under each of the adys
arms, pinned her to fence close by. SinguIarly
enough, she released from her perilous and en-
barrassing position without injury.
BY recent report of the superintendent
of colored schools in South Carolina it appears that
there are now 1898 pupils, of whom 6448 can read
and spell that they under the care of 1856 teach
ers, of whom 95 from the North. Of these teach
ers, 81 are sustained by the American Missionary As
sociation, "a by the Freedmen's Association and 81
by the National Freedmen's Relief Association.
ireland will presently be depopulated if
emigration continues at its present rate The last
number of the Cork Reporer states that hundreds of
emigrants are scattered through the town awaiting
the arrival of the next transatlantic steamer These
people, says the Reporter have from Limerick,
Clare Kerry, and some from Tipperary, and are,
Will l.
healthy, interesting body"
"A writer in the May number of Good
Words in an article entitled Quaker Philanthropy"
among other things shows what the Quakers of Eng
land have been doing for the freedmen in this coun
try. From the year 1868 up to June 1865, they had
raised for this purpose not far from SSO00 and the
enterprise is still going forward. The money thus
raised is forwarded to different associations in this
country.
st. Elmo's fire, a rare electrical phenom-
ena, was observed by sea captain during a snow
storm. Blue flames appeared on the vessels mast
and spars, and one came so near the deck that
thorough observation was made 1t consisted of in
Vulnerable blue jets, which made slight Kissing
sound The captain took these jets on his hand and
found them sensbly warm, but they did not discoor
the paint on the bowsprit.
The ladies of Lansing, Michigan, are
duOpllIS new uIesS. II appears 10 CONSIST
of cloth pants like those worn by men, and an old
fashioned Indian "wampus" or sack. which comes
just above the knees. Everything is said to hang
down from the shoulders, doing away with tight
lacing and alleged to be very conducive to health
1t does away with hoops and skirts, and decreases
the lady in quantity about 200 per cent.
Eastern Massachusetts has lately had sew
era destructive fires in its woodlands. The one near
Taunton originated in an attempt made by some boys
to smoke a squirrel out of hollow chestnut tree.
More than 1000 acres were burnt over. In Newton,
also terrible fire ragged threatening the beautiful
villas of that suburban town. blazing along the whole
circuit of the Cochituate acquedac and building up
"a front of some two thousand feet of fierce flame
on Walnut avenue One of the principal losses, by
this confagration is the Newton Theological Semi
nary.
"A Vera Cruz letter says: A short time
since eight thousand stand of arms lately shipped in
New York harbor, were landed here. These arms
were purchased and sent out for the use of the I'm
perial Government. The parties concerned in the
affair are well known in the United States. The
arms were shipped for Havana but carried to Vera
Cruz; and this was done under the American flag
and with the evident knowledge of the officers of the
steamer. On the arms being landed they were in.
spected by officers appointed for such duty and re.
jected The fact that the arms were rejected does
| not lessen the bad character of the act
"A man by the name of William Corte,