Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-12


marie expedition recently thrown from his hol5e
at liilO and his collar bone broken.
The Mount Hope case was not before the
| TowSontown Court Saturday 1t will be resumed
this morning.
Yesterday the Philadelphia and New York
mail was robbed at the depot in Williamsport. The
| bags were found empty.
The Philadelphia Quakers have raised fund
of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to
found institute for celcred children in that ci
The steamer St. Nicholas, with 500 bales ef
cotton, sunk in the Tombigbee river on the 9th
| instant.
A large tobacco warehouse in New London.
Conn, containing some $50 600 worth Of tobacco was
destroyed by fire on the sth inst.
Communication between Augusta and Sa-
vannah Ga by railroad, was opened on the 26th ut.
| and the cars were running.
Major General Sherman visited Detroit on
| Wednesday last, ard enthusiastically received
| by the citizens and municipal authorities.
! The Florida Legislature has voted Martha
N. Reid pension of $500 year. for lfe for services
| in the rebel hospitals.
In pursuance of orders, General Hooker
| commanding Department of the East, has just
caused the military districts in seven States to be
| discontinued.
The mystery Of the hhunted house at Phila-
delphia has collapsed. The strange manifestations
SAID to have been but the manipulation of a ser
want girl
The Pennsylvania Legislature has appro-
priated 100000 for the relief of the citizens of
Chambersburg who suffered losses from the rebel raid
in October, 1862.
In consequence of a competitive movement,
the rates of ftelegraphng between New York and the
cities Of Boston, Providence, Hartford and New Ha-
ven have been materially reduced.
The Nebraska Legislature have framed a
State Constitution to be submitted to the people on
the ID Of June next An election for State officers is
to take place at the same time.
The Treasury Department will Immediately
commence paying fifty per cent. in money upon Ger
tifcate checks Hitherto only % per cent. has been
paid.
The first through telegram ever received in
San Antonio, Texas, from Washington was printed
in the Herald of thgt place the nineteenth day Of
January last.
There are in San Francisco, according to
the directory 1l9000 inhabitants Of these there are
3l6 lawyers, So apothccaries and 2iS ply scians.
There are . printing Offices, 1722 liquor shops and %
brewcries.
The 0tero murder case is to be brought be-
fore the General Term of the Supreme Court in
u
view ofapplying for new trial for Gonzales and
Salvador.
The Secretary of War has issued an order
honorably mastering out of the service fifteen pay
masters by the middle of the present month. One Of
the payf., casters is from the Bureau of Referred
Claims.
An account of the visit of the Virginia dele
CATION to President johnson given elsewhere, will
be read with interest. The speech OF the President
on the occasion is important indicating his policy
towards the rebel States.
Rev William NJ. Paxton, .. D.. was in
stalled pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in
New York late Rev Dr. Phillips) on Thursday
evening" February lst. DR.. Paxton has mauy friends
in this city.
Reports from independence, Mo-, say that
quite a number of bushwhackers have threatened to
attack the jail and release one Of their number
fined there. 1t is said that troops have been sent
from Fort Leavenworth to preserve peace.
A business meeting Of the members of Ply
mouth church was held on Friday evening last, for
the purpose considering the question of appointing
assistant to Mr. Beecher. After some discussion, it
was decided to lay the whole subject on the table.
The iron manufacturers of Pittsburg have
been compelled. as stated by them, to reduce the
wages OfOuneymen on account Of the great decrease
of business. Many of the workmen have refused to
work the lower wages, and of the mills have
temporarily stopped.
1t is stated that the President is opposed to
the Freedmen's Bureau bill in so far as it exercises
jurisdiction over Maryland Kentucky and Missouri,
and will recommit it to Congress with the recon-
incubation that it be so altered not to apply to
these States.
Governor Orr, upon the invitation Of the
Collector of Charleston. visited the United States
tear last Thf
Governor was received with a salute of sey enteen
guns The first instance since the close of the of
a naval salute TO the Governor of the State.
Professor Agassil' s exploration on the main
stream of the Amazon alone resulted in the discov-
cry of no less than eleven hundred and siZtythree
species of fish, which is greater number than exist,
in the Mediterranean. No Amazon mermaids have
yet been found.
The work on the railroad bridge at Albany
has progressed far that the first train over it is
designed to start on Tuesday next. We understand
that the company intends celebrating the affair and
for this purpose have invited nearly all the prominent
railroad men between New York and ST. Louis.
A heavy delalcation has been brought to
light in the Office of the United States Sub Treasurer
in San Francisco. committed early in January by
William Macy cashier in the office. So far as dis
covered the defalcaon amounts to about $50 co., Of
which $4,000 is in currency and the balance in gold
The defaulter has absconded to parts unknown.
The coroner's inquest on the body Of Milton
B. Holt, who was killed by the railway accident on
the Newark and Monteair railroad on Thursday
morning, by the breaking down Of bridge,
cluded Friday, the Jury rendering verdict
charging the company with gross and culpable
neglect.
The Congregational Church of Cincinnati,
over which DR.. Boynton was pastor for eighteen
,ocr 10, +ba;- Ill or,I
of their interest in the Congregational Church of
Washington. to the charge of which DR.. b. has
recently been called, have presented the latter
church with a very handsome silver communion set
| and magnificent pulpit Bible.
The lst and I'd regular United States col
ored cavalry, raised by General Butler while in
! mand of the Army of the James, and lately doing
duty at Brazos and Brownsville, Texas, have been
ordered to City Point Va, where on the 18th inst.
they to be paid off and mustered of the ser
vice. inducements will be held out by the Freed
mems Bureau to have these returning veterans To-
cate on Government lands in Florida securing COM
Portable homes at a nominal price.
The Chicago Republican says that Miss
Ellen O'Mahoney. Head Centress of the Fenian Sis
terhood. is not, is generally supposed, the wife,
daughter. sister ofthe Irish Chief ohm O'Mahoney
For many years she was principal OF the High School
at Quincy, and added to her reputation as teacher
by her essays and other productions. presented to
! the Teachers State Conventions In 1868 she went
to Chicago, and made assistant of the Kinzie
| School.
| A gentleman who has Just returned to Mo
bile from trip among the planters in the river coun-
ties in Central Alabama. reports that since the LIST OF
January negroes have been anxious to contract and
have been taken by planters at fair prices and that
the demand for labor is through that section
that he did not or hear of a single unemployed
| freedman during his trip. Numbers of negroes have
voluntarily left Mobile for the purpose of going to
work upon plantations in the cottonraising districts
of the State.
| A Coon REBEL JoKE.-A Virginia paper says that
as Generals Early and Breckenridge were crossing
from winchester the night after the battle of the
lsth fsePtenm6er, ls6l closely pursued by the AN
KEGS, tired, hungry and dispirited, the party were
riding silently along, when General Early. in hi!
squeaky voice, asked Gen. Breckenridge % what hi
thought just then of our rights in the Territorie
under the Dred Scott decision :"