Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-,

SEHATg.-The Senate yesterday was mostly occu-
pied with discussion of tho claims of Senator
Stockton to his seat in that body resulting in his
claim being admitted.
HoUsE.-In the House some important action was
in giving needed relief to invalid soldiers after
which the important loan bill debated at length
and passed. An evening session was dispensed with
GENERAL NEWS.
-Ihe Government is about to commence
the rebuilding of Fort Sumter
The City Hotel, in Natchez, Mississippi,
was burned to the ground on Tuesday night last
"A ball is announced at Red Bluff Califor-
mia. to raise funds to improve the graveyard.
Mr.. George Holland, the low comedian of
Wallacks Theatre. is soventy-fve years old.
"A bill authorizing the construction of
street railroads in Augusta. Ga. has been passed by
the Legislature of that State.
In short time the South Carolina Rail
road will be running the whole length of the line
from Charleston to Hamburg
The friends of temperance at Ferry Point,
near Norfolk. held enthusiastic meeting there on
Sunday. Twenty persons signed the pledge.
John Maupin, horse thief, and Wat
Coles, a negro barn-burner. escaped from the Char
lottesville Jail the other night.
The trade of New Orleans with the North
west is increasing. Twenty thousand sacks of grain
were brought down the Mississippi in one day.
Sixty hogs died from sufocaton in a car
of an eastern bound freight train, at Fairport New
York. last Wednesday. There were over 200 hogs in
the car.
The vote cast for Mayor Slaughter, who
was reelected at Fredericksburg Monday. was 326
200 less than before the war. His competitor. Mr..
Eve. only received 76.
"A "boiler insurance company has been
in Napv nfnfru &c 10;
against all losses from the explosion of boilers under
the inspection of the company.
AT thirty we are trying to cut our name in
big letters upon the walls of this tenement of life;
twenty years later have carved it. or shut up
knife.
AN officer of the Montgomery and West
Point railroad states that work will probably be com
menced on the bridge across the Chattahoochee in
two weeks
The Kingston, G. W, Daily News says
that "a number of the citizens of Ottawa have left
for the United States within the past few days Some
of them are of a class which can well be spared"
An English baronet was recently sentenced
to six weeks hard labor and compelled to pay fine
$50 for making and causing to be feled two trees
on an estate to which he laid claim.
1t is suggested that Maximilian can ap-
preciate the order of "the Elephant" with which the
necticut speculator, he don't know what to do with
the animal.
The agent Of the Whipple File Company
in Cincinnati publishes card that the reported fail
ure of the company is untrue. 1t was temporarily
embarrassed by delayed remittances but is now
going ahead again.
The Valparaiso IND Tidette predicts a
very dry this year. and bases its predictions
ten years ago. The season of 1855 was wet, the
following winter was cold-about as last winter was,
| and the season of 1856 was very dry.
Gen. Mcclellan is still in Europe. He
proposed to return to America lastEfal but the i'm
passable mud prevented his moving. AS soon as the
mud was frozen he would have started but he thought
it better not to attempt winter campaign Hewent
| into winter quarters at Dresden-Odd Feilolo.
-Swindlers now make tours of the New
York kitchens persuading the cooks to invest in bo-
1 gus Fenian bonds. One girl had promised them S.
| when they over-reached themselves by the remark
that the girls next door had given $15. Sure the
girls next door nagurs" said Bridget and started
for the police office; but the impostors escaped.
| "A few hours after recent wedding in
Shutesbury, the officiating clergyman discovered thai
the fact of his residence out of the State disqualified
| him for legal marrying. He hunted up the couple
with all possible speed and returned the ee and they
were married again by the regular pastor of the
| parish.
John Copeland, of Platte county, Mo-.
with his wife, visited of his neighbors few
nights ago, leaving their two children at home il
bed Hearing noise he started out and discovered
| his own house in flames. He rushed home and int
the house. caught his children but caught by th
falling roof. He succeeded. however though badl!
burned, in saving himself and children.
| MIR. T. P. Cooke left by will e100 to b.
annually awarded for the best nautical or nationa
play sent in for competitor to the authorities at tn
| Dramatic College. One hundred and twenty hav
been received and read this year, and the lucky ont
is both nautical and national the subject being base
| on the Spanish Armada excitement. The title
| True to the Core"
| Amanda Fletcher, girl of fifteen year
wears of age, who was captured by the Cheyenne In
dians in August last. while on her way to Idaho, il
company with her parents, has just been rescue
from captivity by Major Wynkoop, who is engage
| in removing the Cheyennes to their reservation:
| Miss Fletcher was from Minersyille, Henry county
Illinois.
"A man by the name of Montgomery, livin
| about five miles from Sweetwater. Tenn. was muI
dered in cold blood, on Wednesday last, while on hi
way from his farm to Sweetwater. He was shot 81
, times in the head and once in the body, and the
dragged some three hundred yards from the roat
! | The murderer took his money, watch and overcoa
4 | and then escaped.
. We are glad to see that the merchants {
Baltimore are about securing such arrangemeI
OF the time tables of the Delaware and Phladelph
" and Wilmington and Baltimore Railroads will s.
h cure close connection. daily, between the Easter
Q Shore and Baltimore and between Baltimore and Il
$ Eastern Shore Such arrangement has been lor
needed by tfe business interests both of Baltimo
: and the Eastern Shore. and too much praise cam
be given those to whose efforts this arrangement
dus,-Deaton Union,