Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
E0NGREGS.

| the measure.
| In the House, bill was introduced regulating the
of Postmasters 1t provides that the Postmaster
| General shall readust salaries once quarter when
there is discrepancy of ten per cent. between the
| basis of commissions and salaries allowed
In Committee Of the Whole the naval appropria-
tion bill was taken up, but laid aside to enable Mr.
| Deming, of Connecticut, and Mr. Smith, of Ken
lucky, to speak that portion of the Presidents
message relative to the admission of members from
the insurrectonary States.
THE LEGISLATVRE,
large amount of routine business was transacted
in both Houses yesterday. The Senate bill favorng
the Eastern Shore railroad was passed
In the House appropriation of S, 900 was made
to complete the Antietam Cemetery
The bill authorizing the Mayor and Common
Council of this city to subscribe 100000 to the cap
tai stock of the Western Maryland Railroad was
passed. Several other bills of more or less ilnpor
tance were also passed.
FOREIGN NEWS.
By the arrival of the steamship Nova Scotian, at
Portland from Liverpool, we are in possession of
four days later news from Europe
The Fenian trials at Cork have been concluded
Several more prisoners having been sentenced to
penal servtude. Two of the prisoners proving them
selves aliens ere admitted to bail on their own
recognizances the Judge telling them that they
the country they would not be called for trial. Be-
sides these many others were admitted to bail and
the trials of the remainder of the prisoners were ad
journed to the asszcs
A great fire had occurred at st. Katherne's dock.
London, involving an immense loss
No diminution is reported in the cattle plarue
Tho London Times, in leading article anticipates
that by January I, 1867 Napoleon will have with
drawn his troops from Mexico and Rome
The Pope bestowed his blessing upon the French
troops on New Years day.
GENERAL NEWS.
Capt. Rufus Choate, only son of the late
Hon. Rufus Choate died at Dorchester Mass. on the
18th inst
1t is claimed that Minnesota is a favorable
region for the residence of persons with pulmonary
affections
1t is understood that General Buffers reply
to General Grant is nearly finished and will soon ap-
pear with the imprint of a New York publishing
house 1t is said to contain some sharp hits.
The granting of pardons has temporarily
ceased owing to the President having directed that
no more applications be laid beforehm until further
orders.
Gonzales, who has been on trial for the last
three days in Brooklyn for the murder of Otero
found guilty of murderin the first degree on Thurs
day. lie was remanded for sentence.
Five hundred and fourteen emigrant pas
senger vessels arrived in New York last year. carry
ing 2O003l passengers. In 1864 the number of eni-
grants landed at Castle Garden was 1s2, gl6
Theodore Knapp a German translator for
New Iork publishers, committed suicide on We'd
nesday evening in that city, by swallowing lauda-
mum, while laboring under fit of melancholy
The New Orleans Delta thinks it ominous
that pontoon trains have been ordered to the Rio
Grande. They were ordered from New Orleans by
direction of Gen. Sheridan, whose chief of staff is
now at Brownsville.
Toronto dispatch states that General
Swenys promise of hostages for Fenians convicted in
ireland has created fears of another Canadian nya
son' and stirred up the provincias to renewed ex-
citement and wrath.
The Lowell (Mass.) papers state that the
loss by the fire in that city the orning of the 18th
instant was fully quarter of a million dollars The
property insured for two hundred and seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars, ninety one thousand
of which is in New York offices.
A consolidated report Of the colored schools
under the control of the Bureau has been made by
Major General Howard, from which we learn that
the whole number of schools for colored children in
the several freedmens districts for the month of No.
yember 1865. G3l the number of teachers en-
poyed ,2i0. and the number of scholars 95 S34
The Secretary of the Treasury is now en-
gagged in recognizing his bureaus and has requested
the clerks who petitioning Congress for higher
pay to wait until his measure is decided upon. He
hopes to reduce the clerical staff of his Department
from 200 clerks to 20OO and by dividing the pay of
the 2,7O0 among the 1000, to satisfy all parties
The Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood,
now in session in New York are legsating for their
divisions. A Congress is talked of, and movement
N their own account contemplated The 0,Maho-
ny division have derived courage and cheer from
StpDbnOs' neDt nd tboH- ao11oo
developing great power. Both parties are receiv-
ing continual endorsement and remittances from the
working brothers.
The Hon. John G. Davis, Representa-
tive from Indiana in the NXXIId, XNXIIId,
AAAVth and NXXVIth Congresses, died in Terre
Haute, Ind, on Thursday morning. Deceased was
born in Fleming county, KY, October TO- 1910. He
was bred to the occupation of farmer, and from
1888 to 1851 was clerk of the superior and inferior
courts of Parke county, Ind He belonged to the
Democratic party, but in the XAXVIth Congress
voted with the anti-Lecompton Democrats.
In the City Council yesterday joint reso-
luton adopted some debate ensuing thereon in the
Second Branch, providing for the appointment of
committee to proceed to Annapolis and endeavor to
procure the passage of act eXempting the Public
Schools of this city from the operation of the law
passed at the last regular session of the Legislature
establishing uniform system of education through
out the State. The resolutions call upon the Board
OF Public School Commissioners to appoint com
mittee from their body for the same purpose.
The steamship Montezuma, from Kingston,
Jamaica, the 9Th instant, arrived at New York on
Thursday evening. Her advices Indicate that the
white inhabitants of the island are beginning to re-
cover from their fright, and to see the injustice of
their conduct toward the blacks. The tone of their
newspapers is quite subdued since they were made
acquainted with the state of public feeling in this
country and in England in regard to their bloody
slaughter of the negroes after the revolt had been put
down.
Mr.. E. A. Sothern, the actor, better known
as Lord Dundreary, has lately had verdict for two
hundred and fifty dollars damages rendered against
him. in the Court of Queens Bench London in a
suit brought by the lessee of the Prince of Wales
theatre. The action brought for failure on the
part of Mr.. Sothern to comply with his engagement
to act in plaintiffs theatre, and the damages were
laid at two thousand pounds. Sickness pleaded
by defendant as the justification of his breach of
contract.
The new fifty cent note has been issued by
the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department
The issue is similar to the old one in size and
differs from it only in the substitution of finely
engraved picture of Gen. Spinner in place of ex-
Treasurer Fessenden, and slightly in its typographi
cal appearance 1t IS the desire of the Department to
in order to redeem the genuine and destroy the i'm
mense amount of counterfeit y-cent fractional
currency.
The report current in New Orleans that
Bishop Wilmer. of Alabama, was interrupted by the
military while officiating at public service in that
city, and forbidden to administer the right of confr-
nation, is pronounced by the Picayltne as incorrect
Gen. Sherman having received a despatch from Mo
bile, informing him that the nterdct of Major Gene
rails Thomas and Wood had been actually withdrawn
though not made public communicated it to Bishop
Wilmer and gave him his assurance that no inter
ference would be made with the exercise of his func-
tions.
The steamship Montezuma arrived at New
York on Thursday night, with advices from Kings
ion Jamaica, to January g. No further disturbances
had occurred the island, but over one hundred
and fifty prisoners were still held for trial. and the
arrests of rebels had not yet ceased Sir Henry
Storks, appointed to supersede Governor Eyre, had
not arrived at his post of duty when the steamer left
A dispatch from W. Cardwell, British Secretary of
State for the Colonies, which had been laid before
the local Assembly, seemed to give unqualified ap-
proval to the measures taken by Governor Eyre for
the suppression of the revolt.
CITY NOTICES.
EDUCATIONAL PRoGREss.-Professor F. Knapp has
inaugurated new and highly commendable feature