Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS

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clarlng non-intercOurse with Great Britain and re
Questing the President to recall our Minister fror
the Court of st. James, called up and an efor
made to refer them to the Committee on FOREIGN Re
lations but Mr.. johnson moved to table them an,
on that demanded the yeas and nays The call wa
sustained, and the resolutions tabled by vote of
to l2-thus rubbing out that little speck of war.
A bill providing national asylum for disable
soldiers was passed.
Senator Davis made speech on the RIGHT of ,,,t
frage in the District.
In the House, on the suffrage bill, speeches wer
made by Mr.. Julian of Ind, Randall Of Po Sit
greaves OF Nj, and j. L. Thomas of Nd.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Senate concurred in the House resolutions 70
latlng to the ship channel and harbor of Baltimore
bill was passed Incorporating the Somerset an,
worcester Railroad. In response to resolutions q
respect to the late Hon. Daniel Jones, Senate
from hent county, whose death took place since th
last sessions ,Teloquent and touching speeches wer
made by Mr.. Vickers, Mr.. McMasters, Mr.. Turnc
and Mr.. 0hr.
In the House large number of petitions were pre
sented leaves to report bills granted bills reported
and several bills passed.
MT roster OF this city offered resolution which
after some opposition, was adopted by vote of 49 :,
IL to the effect that the committee on elections i
in
House. respect the decisions of the officers of regis
tratiOn.
The bill to repeal certain sections of the code re
lating to negro apprentices led to considerable de-
bate.
GENERAL NEWS.
Thos. j. Lille, an old and highly respected
printer, and for many years Treasurer of the Frank
lin Typosrophical Society of Boston, died in that cit,
on Monday.
Nessrs. Gait, Harvey and Rowland, Of
Canada, Smith, of New Brunswick, and Henry, o.
Nova Scotia, have arrived in Washington as dele
CATION to negotiate fer renewal of the Reciprocity
Treaty.
Col. P. P Brown, 7th Regiment Veteran
Vols, has been ordered to assume command of the
post of Philadelphia and the detachments immcdi-
atcly adjacent thereto.
The Police Commissioners of New York re-
Gently discovered that one of their clerks. named
Abia Swift has for time past been in the habit
of appointing men on the police force by means Of
forged papers. He has been arrested and is now in
prison awaiting an examination.
The steamer Lille, recently reported as
having been seized by pirates on her way down the
TOmbigbee il Western Alabama, has been recap
tured by detachment Of the Twenty-irst Missouri
regiment. The outlaws had succeeded in landing
bdltc u lNe large cargo OF cotton
on board
The public and private charnel houses at
tached to St. Stephens (EpscopaD Church, corner of
BroOme and Chrystie Streets New York are being
emptied of their dead, and their bodies removed to
Cypress Hill Cemetery. About 1900 bodies have
been inferred here since 1905 the year in which the
first burial took place.
1t appears from an official statement that
the total number ofmen who have received respect
lively $780, $500 500 bounty during the war, was
l. 13O,3l0-amounting in the aggregate to nearly
$30l 100000 The total enlistments during the war
were 2461,0 GOO men, of whom upward of 731 600 re-
ceived no bounty.
In the City Council nothing of special inter
est was done yesterday except the presentation in
the first branch, by Mr.. Lankford Of the eleventh
ward, Of a response to the memorial of S. I. Hatch,
cOntesing his right TO a seat the representative
from that ward. The document was referred to the
credentials who are now investigating
the matter.
The trial Of Rev. F. P. Gallagher, Catholic
priest of Rolla No. indicted for preaching and teach
ing without having taken the oath of the consti-
tuition, has been removed, on change of venue, to
St. Louis county. and will be heard before the Crimi
nal Court at its present term. Distinguished counsel
will appear in the case, and the trial will be an in
tereSting one.
The New Orleans Picayune states that near
y one-half of the German immigrants who lately ar
rived in that city from New York under contract to
work plantation in the interior have refused to
fulfil the engagement and remain in the city, hoping
% secure higher wages. The contractor is out of
pocket to the amount Of their passage money, which,
according to agreement, he had paid.
The trial of Jose Gonzales by Ferdinandez
indicted in connection with Francisco Gene Salvador
or the murder of Senior Jose Garcia Otero, in the
Brooklyn City Park. the 22d November last, was
in the Kings County Court Of Oyer and
rerminer, on Monday. A Jury was impanneled and
morning the Prosecuting Attorney made
lis opening address.
On Decs smber 2Sth the Florida State Senate
passed the joint resolution ratifying the Constitu
ional Amendment abolgSing sIayery-36 yeas,
lays. Mr.. Peden recorded his vote in the afirnla-
i've, but entered the following lucid protest. Il gave
ny vote in affirmation Of the ratification Of the
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Is reason resulting naturally from pre-exsting cir
umstances, and without constr amt"
The Washington Star of last evening says,
ne fashionable circles of Washington are Just now
cry much interested and excited over the soon to
axe place wedding of Mrs Stephen A. Douglas to
iajor Robert Williams. I. S. A, and Assistant Ad-
not more signally one of tho handsomest and most
rilliant women in America than Major Williams is
me Ofthe finest looking and most fascinating men in
he country; the match is all sides looked upon
IS singularly felictOus and fit to be made.
On the wagon route now being opened be-
ween Denver city and Utah are TWO very prominent
Mountains, which Judge Hughes, the builder of the
oad has named Mount Grant and Mount Sherman
lie describes them as follows: The former is COM
handing solid, firmly-set mass appearing to defy in
Is calm selErepose, the utmost assaults of all the
torms; the other, shooting up in the vicinity even
nore heavenward, more brilliant eye-catching col
INN, more sharply defined than its great neighbor,
nore aspiring-both equally remarkable among the
ther great features of this backbone of continent
Col. Shaffer, former chief of staff to Gen.
butler. who has just returned from two months
our through several Of the Gulf States, says that al
most all the northern men who went there to settle
re preparing to return to the North in consequence
# the bitter hostility of the southern people toward
hem. He predicts that by the 1st of May, all who
an get away will have left the South for more con-
enial climes, From personal observation and from
il the facts he was able TO gather during his tour be
las come to the conclusion that the cotton crop this
'ear will be far below the estimated amount proba-
,ly than 100000 bales On the other hand south
RI business men, who have better opportunity of
moving the true state OF affairs in regard to this
natter say that the crop this year will be nearer two
million of bales than the former figure.
On Sunday evening an attempt was made to
,urn DR.. Halls church, in Providence, R. l. After
he evening service, and the congregation had with
lrawn the two or three persons remaining, dscoy-
,red just as they closing the building that it
vas on fire. One of them thought of the belfry stairs
where before incendiary fire kindled, and
o that point they proceeded, when up under door
eading the bell-deck which locked they found
/ compact bundle of rags held snugly together by
areful stitching. and with two long trains attached
Ill saturated with camphene or kerosene, and the
rains burning slowly up toward the bundle. The in
ense smoke emitted by the burning trains had pene-
rated to the lower partof the house sooner than the
expected, and the wicked scheme to burn
of the most beautiful church edces in the State
vas happily frustrated.
Effect of the Presidents Message Abroad.
Extract Of private letter. dated
FRANKFoRT-oY-THE-M MAIN, Germany
December 10, 1865.
The message of President johnson has been read
With greater interest than any preceding document
rom Washington. Bankers, merchants, manuiac-
urers and diplomats and ministers at the Diet have
lo1,- tho n,f5, tn