Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

SENATE.-The consideration of the Joint resolution
n1lng the basis of representation postponed and
tne House resolution providing against the admission
OF southern representatives, except at the pleasure
OF Congress, was taken up. Mr. Eessenden addressed
the Senate at length In favor of the resolution which
was finally passed by vote of 26 to 10.
HousE.-The House was occupied with the Indiana
contested election case, and finally decided BY vote
81 to &c. that Henry L. Washburne was entitled to the
seat now occupied by Daniel W. Voorhees,. Mr.
Washburne took the oath and his seat.
GENERAL NEWS.
An agency for the sale of bonds of the Irish
| Republic has been established in Philadelphiaas
A bill has passed the Georgia Senate pun.
! tsbing horse stealing witH death.
Both branches of the Missouri Legislature
yesfetay passed resolutions endorsing the action of
the Union majority of Congress.
Governor Fenton, of New York, it is safd,
strongly disapproves the President'a veto of the
Freedmens Bureau bill
1t is proposed tc extend the city of Brook.
yn, N Y 81 er the entire county of Kings of which
/ 1t hcw forms part.
The editors of the Journal, Democrat and
Courier of Louisville have united in the call for
meeting there to sustain the President
The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
Company have purchased the Richmond and Chicago
road and intend laying double track from Dayton.
Ohio, to Richmond, Ind,
The Board Of Naval Engineers who had
charge Of the recent trials between the Wenooski
and the Algonquin, have reported that the AIgon-
quin has failed and is unfit for the naval service
The Texas Reconstruction Convention has
abolished slavery and recognized the right of the
negroes to sue, be sued contract and hold property
and to testify in the courts in each others behalf
game ct billiards, occupying five hours,
was played IN Boston on Monday night by Messrs.
Daniels and Langdon, the former being the winner.
A billiard tournament" will occur at Nashville next
week.
The Parliament of Novia Scotia met on
Thursday. The Lieutenant Governor made speech,
congratulating the members the prosperity of the
Province, and regretting the approaching termina-
tiOn of the Reciprocity Treaty.
The Lawrence (Kansas) Tribune, of the 10Th
instant. says: "a painful rumor was brought down
yesterday by travellers to the effect that Professor
Nudge. the geologist. recently frozen to death in
the vicinity of Manhattan"
Major General Candy has issued a general
order announcing that anything in the laws of the
State of Louisiana prohibiting the incorporation of
societies OF colored for scientific religious
purposes is imperative and void.
The Executive Council of Canada adjourned
on Thursday. Among its last acts was the promul-
CATION of caution to United States fishermen
against nshore fisheries after the 18th of March, the
day the Reciprocity treaty expires.
AT the recent banquet given at Moscow,
Russia. to Cassius M. Clay the American Minister.
his Secretary of Legation, Mr.. Curtin delivered a
speech in the Russian language. whereupon he was
seized upon and kissed by each of the one hundred
and seventy Russians present.
min Sto+ r T
IN session. Cauousses have been held for general
interchange of opinion and discussion of the question
OF endorsing the President or Congress. The con-
servatve element seems to be in the ascendancy but
both wings are disposed to harmonize.
Gen. Grant, during his visit to New York
on Thursday reviewed the regiments which paraded
In honor of the day, and received marching salute
from each. large number of visitors called on him
during the day. and in the afternoon he took drive
through the Park. In the evening number of his
friends presented him with portrait of Gen. Scott
The Fall Mall Gazette says that "the pas
sage in the Emperor Napoeon's speech relating to
America. it is believed. originally contained an ex-
plicit declaration of the period within which the
French troops would be withdrawn from Mexico
AT the last moment however, Mr. Stewards dispatch
became known to the Emperor, upon which he alter
ed the passage to its present FORM"
- ASSoAuuiOA HelS ueSu ItpOFIeu III JnG MAINE
Legislature that the Governor the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and the President of the Senate
ex-ofico, be constituted commission to secure the
erection of monument to the memory of the sons of
Maine. who have fallen in the defence of the Govern
ment during the late rebellion. The resolution ap-
propriateS the sum of $4,000 for this purpose.
The Mayor Of Macon, Ga, has been served
with an order from General Brennan, declaring that
the former will not in future be allowed to exercise
authority in any case in which freedman is party
Should the freedman commit heinous offence he
is to be tried by military commission; for petty
offences he is to be tried before an agent of the Bu
reau.
A letter from Montgomery says that the
Supreme Court of Alabama has decided, at its
present term. that person who was slave can be
convicted for any crime committed while slave
under the statute Of that State. or at the common
law: and those who were slaves are held to have
been slaves up to the occupation in May last by the
military forces of the United States. unless they had
been set free priorio that time by the military power
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