Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

M. d. Potter, senior proprietor of the
Cincinnati Commercial died at his residence in that
city early Wednesday morning.
An Ohio soldier disabled in both arms,
has learned to write ntelIgibly holding his pen in
his mouth.
-Adah Isaacs Menken is to give twenty
four performances at the Broadway Theatre, New
York. receiving twelve thousand dollars therefor.
1t is proposed in Paris to construct a
system of subterranean railways divcrging from the
Palais Royal as the common center, and connected
at their ends by an outside circle.
The Staffordshire (England) manufactu-
rers have advanced the prices of china and earhen
ware at the rate of about ten per cent owing to the
enhanced value of labor and materials
Mr.. John L. Oweus received an offer from
Manager Wood of $4,000 for ten months services in
any city indicated by Mr.. Wood Mr. Owens declined
the offer
Pa is is at present well supplied with fruit
and vegetables from Algeria. Green peas of the
present years growth plenty in all eating houses
Strawberries are selling in the central market.
"A Richmond paper states that Castle
Thunder is being thoroughly repaired preparatory to
being turned into grand mercantile mphitheatre'
-whateyor that may be.
The New Orleans Grand Jury report all
the orphan asylums prosperous. They contain $50
orphans end 40 insane persons. The Parish Prison
contains 700 inmates.
The slips in most Of the Hartford churches
sold on Monday night in all cases at an advance
over last year. Those in the first Baptist sold for
5000; second Baptist about the same South Con-
gregational, $5,70O; Fourth Congregational, s. 0G0
The snow has nearly disappeared from the
fields and valleys among the White Mountains. Some
freshets have occurred but of sufficient violence
TO wash the roads. From present appearances the
season will open earlier than usual.
An Amer can student, Francis A. Chan
ming. of Boston, has lately taken the Arnold prize at
Oxford, England for an English essay The prize
amounts to S2l0, and is open all Oxford graduates
of less than eight years standing.
A movement was iraugur,ted las. week at
Nashville to supply the MANNED rebel soldiers with
artificial limbs. Ii is proposed to give concerts and
tableau entertainments throughout the State in fur
therance of this object.
A small boy while passing through an
alley in Cincinnati, the other day. was so seriously
scalded, sy the sudden escape of steam from the
boiler of manufacturing establishment that he has
since died.
The louisville (Ky.) Journal says that in
1861 and 1862 there in cultivation $50 planta
tiOns in sixteen parishes of Louisiana on which 3S9
5H hOgsheads of sugar were produced. In 1864 and
1865 there only Ire plantations worked, pro-
ducing 6.755 hogsheads of sugar.
Tho dead body of Mrs. Mary P. Cogge
hall, widow Of the late Josiah Coggesha of Bristol
r. L. was found on a farm at Bristol Neck on Satur-
day. The deceased left her home en- the 9th inst
for the purpose of visiting sister on Bristol Neck,
and it is supposed lost her and perished from cold
Mr.. George Kibura, the oldest inhabi-
tant of Hudson, Ohio, and resident Of the Western
Reserve since 1901. died at Hudson on the I4th Of
March, at the age Of ninety-siX years and four
months. He was native of Goshen, Connecticut,
and was sixty days in making his first journey West
"A fro icsome member of Congress from
Dacotah the other day bought swapping turtle, and
put it in the desk of venerable member from Penn
sSIvania, and then asked the member for sheet Of
paper. Tho unsuspecting gentleman nearly lost one
Of his fingers by te ck, greatly to the delight Of
The practical joker.
The Montana women are up II arms
against the China aundrymen. They insist that they
shall have monopoly of doing uD'' the linen of
the lords of creation. The editor of the Montana
Radiator has been waited upon by committee of
the fair agitatoFs. and asked to become their cham
pion.
Major Stanhope, commanding the mill
that all idle persons found in the limits of that com
mand who are without sufficient means of support,
and competent to perform labor will be collected
together and placed at work cleansing and policeng
the public thOroughares and removing the offal III
Norfolk.
Over thirty years ago Rev. E. K. Avery
was tried in Rhode Island for the murder of Sarah
NJ. Cornell and acquitted. The girl wGs found dead
in the woods near camp meeting and Avery was
said to have been seen with her just before. Proof
has lately appeared that the man with the girl
was not Avery. but person resembling him in size
and dress, and that the girl committed suicide.
"A Const antinople paper says that two an
iquaries in making excavations in Syria. have dis
covered jewish habitation entire. the construction
of which dates centuries previous to the Christian
era. It's rooms furnished after the Egyptian
style. and these gentlemen found in them the five
books of Moses the Psalms of David, and another
book containing II ebrew poetry, entirely unknown.
The Imaum of Muscat, who has just been
assassinated by the tribes settled the shore of the
Persian Gulf, at the head of of the richest
and most powerful States Of Arabia. His possessions
comprised independently of the territory of Muscat,
part of Moghistau. the islands of Kischm and Or
muz. the island Of Zanzibar and all the eastern coast
of Africa. from Cape Gardafou to Querimbo.
"A Colorado exchange Of the 10th says
that len. Connor has reached Denver en- route fer
Washington. He reports the Mormons uneasy. but
unlikely to revolt With steadiness on the part of
the Government; with the discovery of gold and sill
mines in Utah, and with the Vidctte to sow dis
affection by spreading truth in the Mormon Church
itself, Conner has doubt of the right and speedy
solution of the Mormon problem.
The Supreme Court Of Errors at Hartford
has reversed the decision of the lower court in the
Shaker case of guardianship, which has been long
time in litigation. widow left her children with
the Enfield Shakers to be supported till they became
fifteen years of age (; since then she has married
again, and claims the custody of the children,
though the eldest is only ten The highest court in
the State now decides that they must stay with the
Shakers.
"A bill of exchange for fifty pound sterling,
drawn by banking house in Richmond on the Anglo
rebel banking firm of Brown. Shipley l. Co., London.
and ndorsed by Trenholm Key. of the Confederate
Treasury, was some time since intercepted by the
Government and placed in the hands OF Jay Cooke
& Co., for collection. The draft was duly honored,
and the amount forwarded to the Messrs Cooke who
paid over to the United States Treasury the amount
in gold Similar drafts the firm of Frazer. Tren-
holm il Co., of Liverpool. of which the ex-rebel
Secretary of the Treasury is member, have been
turned dishonored.
Among the noble uses TO which female
genius may be put is that of watching and copying
the subtle changes which pass the face of nature
Misc Becky daughter of the mechanical assistant
at Kew, England is thus employed-her special field
of observation being the sum- all the changes on which
she records from day to day by means of his light.
During the day she watches fer means for photo
graphing the sum- with that patience for which the
is distinguished: and we have the authority Of
the President of the Astronomical Society for saying
that she never lets an opportunity escape her. 1t is
extraordinary that even on very cloudy days. between
gaps of cloud when it would be imagined that it was
almost impossible to get photograph yet there is
always a record at Kew.
The PACIFIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MurlIo of Co.
null the treaty with the United States which allows