Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS,

road Company was taken up. The bill provides for
the construction of a railroad and telegraph line
from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pa
cc coast. The capital stock is to consist Of 81 000
co. in shares of SlG0 each. The right of way is
granted ami ground for buildings, &C. Donations Of
public land made to the company. In time of
TIE government is to have the of the road for
transportation Of troops, &c. Mr.. Nye addressed
the Senate in favor of the resolution against the
admission Of Southern representatives.
HoUsE-A spirited debate took place upon the
Constitutional amendment. MIR. Woodbridge, of Yer
mont and Mr.. Bingham. of Ohio, speaking in favor
Of the proposition. and Mr.. Davis of New York, op-
posing it. The amendment was postponed until the
second Monday in April.
The appropriation bill being considered Mr. Wash
burne. of Illinois, asked that the committee might
go back to the appropriation Of one hundred thou
sand dollars for furnishing the Baltimore Court
House, which was passed some days SINCE and stated
that the appropriation was not for furnishing the
court house. but merely for damages claimed to have
been sustained by the contractor. The Committee
refused to go back, and the appropriation remained
untouched
GENERAL NEWS.
The reported death of the Rev. Alexander
Campbell is untrue. He is now residing at Bethany,
Virginia.
Gen. Stephen Elliot, the rebel commander
of Fort Sumter during the memorable Gilmore siege,
aisd at Aiken, S. c.. on the 2lst inst.
Edward S. Irving, cashier in the Boston
Postoice for nearly thirty-six years. and much
tsemed citizen died Monday in that city, aged Il
The harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, is ice
bound from the Basin to the Beach, and is likely to
continue so for some time to come.
1t is said that the Joint Committee on Re-
nil ohably RI fhic uaal- no
cond ;ton of the South.
The Hon. G. W. Smythe, of Texas, died
last week. lie was very popular in that State, and
his death is regarded as public calamity.
Mr.. Thos. Swift, of Morrisania was killed
at Melrose N. Y, on Monday, by switch-tender in
the employ of the Harlem Railroad.
On the 23d inst, Frank King, of Williston,
Vt lost his life on the railroad between Mortified
and Montpelier. while endeavoring to save comrade
who had fallen between the cars.
The steamer Oceanus, which went ashore
on Fishers Island on Friday night has been hauled
off and towed to New York. The cargo had pre-
viously been taken out in good condition.
Albert L. S.arkweather, the Manchester
murderer, was sentenced at Hartford. Connecticut,
on Tuesday, by Chief Justice Hinman. to be hung
on Friday, August l7th.
New Orleans now has a population larger
by sixty thousand than ever before, Galveston and
other Texan cities are full to overfowng, and the
same is said of Memphis, Mobile, Montgomery, At
Ianta. and all the towns of the Southwest
The oil excitement in Canada runs almost
as high "a nj any time in Western Pennsylvania A
well has been opened near the town of Enniskillen
known as the Hendricks well, which pumps htteel
hundred barrels of clear oil per day.
Secretary McCulloch has given the Banl
Presidents notice that he would that the propo
sition of Mr.. Spinner did not bear un;uGtly upol
their business and with this promise they have ief
| Washington for their respective homes.
| Works are erecting at Golden City, Colora
| do, for the manufacture of railroad bars Exten
sive mines of iron have been discovered there
! which promise to yield great wealth to the neV
| State.
A railroad from Cairo to ST. Louis will
! huiIt this summer, and, another line from Cairo
Vipeennes. Ind. is contemplated, by which it is pre-
| posed TO make a broad-guage connection with th
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
The Post office Department. lately advertise
the letting of over 700 routes IN Mississippi Louis
ana, Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia. hDt only Il
were let, and on SIS routes the people Sti dest
tute of postal facilities because the test oath Is
| the way.
An enterprising colored man, who had bee
elected from street railroad car in st. Louis hi
brought an action against the company for 5000
damages, and has engaged eminent lawyers to carr
on the suit The conductor held to bail in bonC
for $500.
A new express company, the Merchant
Union, has been formed in the western part of Nc
| York State, with capital of fifteen millions, al
! the arrangements already completed for imm
dately opening business. E. R. Ross is Preside1
| Wm H. Seward, Vice President, and Major Gener
II. w. Slocum. Secretary.
Hon. Cornelius Cole, the Senator elect fro
California has just delivered public address at S.
Francisco the present political issues of the
try. He was opposed to restoring the leaders of Il
rebellion to political power. Recent events, he sal
had made it uncertain whether the confederates hi
lost anything in the late struggle or not There W
no necessity for haste in reconstruction.
Mrs. Bigelow, wife of the American Mini
ter in Paris. is seriously Ill. The French papers
scribe the modest menaGe OF ths republican repI
sentative with much admiration for its Spartan sill
plicity. Onejournalist found Mr. Bigelow cooki
his own ham and eggs, without any attendant to ",
on him, and appears to think that these domestic
l.? cidents are fit subjects of public curiosity
n The Supreme Court of Nevada has reafir,
ed its late decision that the Specific Contract Law
is unconstitutional and that greenbacks must be
cepted at par in payment of debt; and the merchan
J. bankers, &C., have reafirmed their decision IL
whose offers greenbacks shall be branded as no bet
N than thief and be ruled out in all future busin
% | transactions,
d A legal issue has arisen between the ci
and military authorities of kentucky involving
So important questions and interests. Captains R,
i and Lennin were recently fined and committed to
ID for their action, under military ORDERS in protect
the polls at the late election. The United States
re- trct has issued writs of habeas corpus and the
e. will be argued by eminent counsel on both Sides
=. Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison delivered d
re course on Tuesday evening in the Brooklyn Acade
e. of Music on the political questions of the day.
Il Guiding the Presidents reconstruction policy
b. recent speech. The Presidents policy was denoun
ed in severe terms, and Mr.. johnson was charged "
s attempting coup detat by the expulsion Of Cong
IL and the introduction ofmembers from the South
States,