Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

SRyATE-But little business was transacted in the
Senate yesterday. Mr. Morrill, submitted resolu-
ton calling upon the President for information rea
tive to the transportation and colonization of colored
persons &c. which was adopted. The joint resolu-
ton in regard to the appointment of cadets to the
Military Academy was then taken UP and passed.
after which the Senate adjourned until Monday.
HousE.-After the transaction of some miscea-
neous business yesterday the House resumed the
consideration of the internal revenue bill. and by
way of amendment large number Of articles here
tofore subject to duty were added to the free list
The bill was then laid aside and the House adjourned.
GENERAL NEWS.
"A gay young noblemen has been arrested
in Loxdon for burglary.
-Congressman Culver, of Penn, Culver d
Co.. has been again arrested-this time the charge
of trover-and held to bail in the sum of S23,0Oo
"A man in Washington Territory has named
an infant son as follows Elmer Sherman-Sheri-
dan cPhersan-K fhomas.-B Farra-
sut-Lyon-Grant.
The King of Greece is to be married to
the Grand Duchess Vera of Russia but the ceremony
will not take place till his Majesty has entered the
Greek Church.
"A young lady of Cincinnati, on the verge
of marriage the other day discovered that her be-
trothed was already married. and po~oned herseif
Immediately.
On Sunday last, at Chicago, four boys
started out on the lake in yaw to visit the tunnel
crib. violent gale set in and drove them out Ill to
the opon lake. since which nothing has been heard
from them.
1t is understood that Mrs Lincoln is about
to purchase a residence in Chicago for the sum of
S14 600 and that Robert Lincoln is about to be ad
mtted to the bar and to enter upon the practice of
his profession in that city.
"A colored man at Cincinnati sued the
ten Thousand dollars damages and the jury gave him
one cent. This must be considered the Cincinnati
market price for universal suffrage.
"A picture of the Emperor Napoleon, made
when he was President Of the French Republic, by
Mr.. W elsh, an American, is exhibition in Paris
1t is said that the thirteen years which have since
elapsed have aged him very little in appearance.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is about to have
new town ball, market house. jail and water works
La ct Of all abandoned churches are to be fitted up
and renovated. some at great expense. The city is
rapidly regaining the appearance it had before the
war.
-SoL7e paper having made the statement
that butter should not be kept in room with kero
sene OIL as The kerosene would spoil the butter-giv-
ing it pecuar Aayor-the Emira Adpert;sey remarks
that some of tn butter nowadays is enough to spoil
kerosene!
Ideas (says Voitaire, the old brute) are
like beards-men get them when they grow up,
women never have any. But Voltaire also said:
"The more married men you have. the fewer crimes
there will be. Marriage renders man more virtuous
and more wise."
The Historical Institute in Paris, the old
societies France. proposes unver
sal congress of the friends of historical science in 1861
This project is said to have been favoraby received
abroad. and delegation from the United States
would probably find welcome.
Colonel Jacques of Illinois, has just been
tried on the indictment found against him in Ken
lucky and triumphantly acquitted. None ofthe wit
nesses summoned on his behalf were examined, but
the submitted the testimony of the prose
cution without word of argument from the counsel
for the defendant
Some days since, Mr.. j. w. Texada,
member of the House of Representatives from Rap
des Parish, got into quarrel with his brother Mr..
T. j. Texada. and high words finally resulted in the
shooting of the former by the latter The ball passed
through his body. and is pronounced by the phys-
| clans a certainly a mortal injury.
The Freedmen's Bureau agent at Mobile
has notified the Mayor to putting colored men
in the chain gang, or he will proceed against him
under the Civil Rights bill. The Mayor replies that
Il
continue to enforce it until restrained by military
| orders.
Some time since vessel was wrecked off
| the coast of Mexico, and an American sailor was
picked up by New York schooner, the captain Of
which abused the poor fellow shamefuly on the pas
sage putting out one Of his eyes, and finding he had
| some money made him pay $50 for his passage. Ar
irving in New York, the sailor brought suit against
| the inhumsn captain for damages, and recovered
$500.
superhtendents Of railroad and steamboat lines be-
tween Baltimore and New Orleans. held at Rich
mond it was resolved that through tickets be agreed
to from New Orleans. Mobile. Montgomery. Atlantis
and Augusta to Richmond. Warrington. Baltimore
Philadelphia and New York on the basis Of the prices
CHARGED for similar tickets via the western and Eas
Tennessee routes. A system Of through checks from
New York to New Orleans and intsrmsdiase point
VA devised