Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-07
NEWS OF THE DAY;
CONGRESS-.

.sENATE.-ln the Senate yesterday. the action
looking to the prevention of cholera by vements
In the canal and other sanitary preparations indi-
cate that fears of cholera may hurry Congress in
needful legislation should nothing else do it.
The Ocean Telegraph also to the Weat Indies
claimed attention. bill being reported for that pur
pose.
that that State, as State is regarded as finally,
the proposition to add two counties to its ter
ritorial bounds being duly entertained.
HousE.-In the House. the reconstruction policy
was discussed somewhat at length; the fishing houn-
ties the wool and coal interests afterwards claiming
each share of attention.
GENERAE. NEWS.
Frederick Ruckert, the German poet a
native Of Sehweinfur died on the 3lst of December,
aged 20.
The health of the venerable Lewis Cass is
rapidly failing He scarcely sits up at all, and his
death is daily expected.
--Abbe Oliver having said mass for seventy
seven years. has received the Order of the Legion Of
Honor therefor.
st-A rich gold region has been discovered
somo eighteen miles from Panama, and only two
miles from the railroad.
-Reyivals Of religion are numerously re-
ported from various parts of New England and st
more numerously from the West ard Northwest.
"A real estate speculator in New York has
made half million of dollars by judcious purchase
since the lst of January.
The number Of widows, orphans and dis
abled soldiers now drawing annual pensions from the
Government is about $500, without including those
granted during the present month.
"A magnificent Hungarian mantle. trimmed
and lined with ermine, is being made at Pesth. for
o nf info
1t cost Ei00.
"A Partisan speculator proposes to or
ganze balloon service. to ply between the Place do
Ia ConcOrde and the Champs de Mars during the
Universal Exhibition of lsG7.
The losses in which the marine insurance
offices and the underwriters at Lloyds London arc
interested. through the late wrecks and casualties at
sea- represent 81 100000 to &, ,5OO,O0O.
"A memorial is to be erected to the trage-
dian. G. Y. Brooke, whose energy and bravery were
conspicuously shown in time of danger, when the
ill-fated London was lost.
We import nearly million dollars worth
of cigars week. these. suppose are mostly of the
best Havana This import is occasioned by the in
ternal tax, which is greater than the duty on the
foreign article.
"A girl about thirteen years of age, named
Tarpey, was burned to death in Pawtucket this
week, her clotAes having been set on fire by Kerosene
which exploded while she was attempting to kinde
a fire with it.
Five Paris theatres receive assistance from
the state, amounting in all to 100000 francs Of
this sum the Opera receives $50 900 francs the Theatre
Franchise and the Opera Comique 2i0,OO0 each, and
the odeon and the Theatre Lyrique 100000 each.
The London Presbytery of the English
Presbyterian church has resolved to raise five thou
sand pounds sterling, during the next five years. for
the purpose of aiding new congregations in the
metropolis in securing the services Of able ministers
The Imperial Geographical Society of
France has admitted Sine, Dora dIstra among its
members as q worthy successor TO Mme. Ida Pfeiffer
the only foreign lady that had been elected into that
body. The new member has distinguished herself by
her travels in ROumciia and the Morea.
All the bridges Of Paris are now opened
free of toll, the bridge of Grcnee, which was the
only at which toll was taken, having been thrown
open to the public on the first day of the present
year. The nearest toll bridge to Paris is now that of
Surenne on the further side Of the Bos de Roulogne
The Honolulu Gazette mentions wonder
ful piece of mechancism-an ivory ship constructed
by Captain Pierce. of the whaler Addison. He wa.
five years at work upon it. It is made entirely of
ivory from keel to opmast, and is remarkable work
of mechanic art.