Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

SENATE.-Nothing of special interest occurred in
| the Senate yesterday.
HoUsE.-In the House, Mr. Ward stated that in
regard to the Arlington Heights property he had re-
ceived letter from the Secretary of War; stating
that the property sold for taxes in 1854 and that
| it was purchased by the Government.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Hooker has so far recovered as to
| be able to walk to his headquarters every day.
"A new and fatal disease among horses has
| manifested itself at the New York stables.
The Western and Atlantic railroad, in
Georgia, carried 1,t52OOO pounds of freight one day
last week.
"A daughter of the late James L. Pettigru.
the South Carolina Unionis is giving public readings
in Washington.
-BuShwhackers roam up and down the
Missouri river. Sixty of them attempted to seize the
Fanny Ogden, river boat, while off Waverly
The Western and Atlantic railroad is now
doing the heaviest freight business ever transacted
since its construction.
Two Cherokee Indians had fight over
bottle of whisky recently at Sulphur Springs, Ark
which resulted in the death of both.
The Memphis Post asserts of that city that
there is not another of its size in the Union where
there are many drinking saloons.
"A new play underlined at one of the Lon
don theatres is announced as a posthumous work of
the late Sheridan Knowles.
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, with whom as
an English capitalist the American public is pretty
well acquainted has work in the press entitled THE
Prospects and Resources of America"
The Oregon papers have big stories of
d;s.ove les ofcopper ore. Business was very brisk at
Portland ., here was never so much inquiry for
freight up the Col- mbia river.
Boston sells its House ofal under con-
tract for S. 500 per annum tho ashes collected by the
city at $1,000, and the street dirt s"eepngS lor
$4,000.
The yellow hair furore is raging in l. on
don. and women with the darkest tresses are dyeing
them carrot color. Grayness or badness in two years
is the penalty.
The burning oil or gas well, twelve miles
below Franklin, the banks of the Allegany river
has not yet been eznguished, but apparently burns
as fercely
The rich cheese called Stilton is due to
the addition of the cream of the milk drawn over
night, which is mixed with the new milk of the
next morning.
Colonel Seth Williams, of the Adiutant
Generals Office having become deranged, his friends
in Maine have consigned him to the asylum at Au-
gusta, which was endowed by his father
The returns Of the passenger railway COM
panies of Philadelphia show that than one hun
dred thousand persons daily avail themselves of these
facilities for local travel.
1t is expected that the straits of Mackinaw
will be opened and navigation between Chicago and
the lower lakes will be resumed by the middle of
April at the furthest.
"A Fort kearney paper declares on the
highest authority that Brigham Young proposes to
purchase two of the Sandwich Islands and emigrate
thither with his flock.
-Philo Chase, of Litchfeld Conn, died a
few days ago. aged rs. For the last years
his daily diet had been three pints of milk and one
of whisky. He adopted that diet from a conviction
hat solid food injured him.
The State officials of Indiana are collect
inc for preservation in permanent FORM as part
of the histo of the war; card photographs of all the
officers of all tl regiments that have been organized
in Indiana during he late rebellion.
The Mississippi has cut channel through
Terrapin Neck, in the iuinty of Vicksburg. this
shortening the river about fifteen miles. This is
damaging to the plantations below, put agreeable to
steamboatmen.
just as one John Elton had closed most
fervd exhortation for sinners flee from the wrath
to come. at of the Baptist churches at New Lon
uOn conn.,, on ounuay Dlgnl tne SnerlH arrested nllH
for stealing minister's overcoat After considerable
lying, the overcoat was produced.
When our war began, or a little later,
many Americans converted their property into gold,
and sent it to England The amount of money thus
thrown into English business is variousy estimated
the highest figures being $5OOOOOOO0. and the lowest
$500 100000.
"A New York detective has received an
anonymous note, in which the writer says that be
could put the officer in the way of recovering the
bonds which stolen last week from Mr.. Lord, of
Exchange place. The condition asked is an equal
division with the informer of the $1,000 reward.
-Leavenworth, Kansas, exhibits great mer
camille activity for so small place. The daily aver
age of deposits at of the banking houses of that
city during the month of February wes S676O91, or
over six hundred and seyenty-six thousand dollars.