Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-29

| Tenn.
| The report that the steamer Continental,
| bound to Oregon with female emigrants. under the
charge of Mr.. A. S. Mercer had put into Fortress
| Monroe. is inrnrroot.
One hundred citizens of Springfield, H.,
have formed Vigilance Committee for the purpose
of rdding the city Of the gamblers thieves and mur-
! derers that infest it.
| In Illinois the farmers forty miles from Chi
eago find it economy to cart their grain with oxen to
that city, instead Of sending it by rail- comment
! on railroad charges.
A block of stores on Dundas street, London.
G. W, the property of Messrs. Matthews & Tate were
| burned on Thursday night Loss $25, ,0O0 The goods
| were mostly insured.
| Ex-Governor R. NJ Stewart, of Missouri.
fell upon the pavement at St. Joseph, few days ago.
breaking his right leg. Owing to his age and infrmi-
| ties, it is believed the wound will prove fatal.
Willis and Clark, tried in the Buchanan
Circuit Court, Missouri for the murder of German
some time since, have been found guilty. Willis
has been sentenced to death. and his rufanly com
panion to niney-niHe years Imprisonment
The North Carolina papers report the death
OF Captain Winpenny. of the steamer Evening Star
on the l4th inst, from the effect of being knocked
down by the shipping Of heavy sea by which his leg
was broken.
Fifteen hundred Freemasons have held a
meeting in Paris in honor of those who died during
the year 1865. President Lincoln King Leopold and
Marshal Magnan were mentioned among the de-
ceased Freemasons.
Mr.. Darcy McGee, the Canadian Minister
OF Agriculture, recently stgmatized the Fenians as
thieves and assassins. lie delivered public lecture
in Montreal Wednesday evening and it was
thought necessary to place guard of armed police
men and detectives.
The steamer Meteor is still detained at her
wharfin Brooklyn, N, Y E, upon the supposition of
being Gillian privateer. No search of the vessel
has yet been made the United States Marshal in New
York is awaiting instructions from Washington before
proceeding further in the matter.
The Congregational meeting-house in Will
jamestown, Mass, built in 176S and thoroughly reft
ted in 1851, in which the Williams College commence
ments have been held for seventy years. was totally
destroyed by fire last Sunday afternoon. Loss 800
600; insured for $1,000. The fire caught from an
overheated stove-pipe.
The Montreal Board of Trade have resolved
that no adequate means exist enabling Canada to
compete with the Erie Canal, and that the Wei
land Canal must be enlarged, the Great Lawrence
locks lengthened and deepened, and new ca
nal built between Lake Champlain and the St.
Lawrence.
The new United States Telegraph line west
OF Chicago on the Pacific route is perfect success
Offices now opened at Clinton, Cedar Rapids and
BoonvilIe, Iowa. The Office at Omaha will be opened
in few days. when the intermediate stations, some
ten or twelve in number, will be opened without
delay.
The articles of incorporation of a new rail
road company called the La Crescent, Rochester and
Gankton Railroad Company" has been filed with the
Minnesota Secretary of State. The object is to con-
struct railroad from the Mississippi River through
the Southern tier of Minnesota counties to the Mis-
souri, River The capital is S1O.OOO,OOO
Mr.. R. P. Waring, editor of the Charleston
N. c. Times, who tried by a military commits
sion at Raleigh for publishing and circulating dis
loyal and sedtiOus writings within district under
martial law, has been sentenced pay fine of three
hundred dollars or, in Of failure to pay such
fine, to be imprisoned at Fort Macon for period of
six months.
The class ship Hartford and steamer Wa
chusett Of the United States East India Suadron ar
rived at Cape Town the 14th of November last
which place they left in few days for Batavia and
Hong Kong. The war between the native tribes and
settlers in the region adjacent to Cape Town con-
tDued, with the advantage rather in favor of the
latter
Capt. Henry A. Stoltz, of the Second Hi
nois Cavalry, brutually murdered near Spring
Eeld. H. on the 10th inst. He was stabbed in seven
which passed through his body. The object of the
murderers no doubt robbery, as the pockets Of
the deceased were red of their contents including
as is supposed about $500.
Two Indians, holding a warrant for 800
acres of land located Oil Creek and the Allegany
river, which the Pennsylvania Legislature gave to
the Chief Cornpanter, in 179l have asked the Penn
sylvauia Senate for relief They claim the land al
egng that Cornplanter sold the tract and made
deed for it, but received no consideration except
$500 in counterfeit money. The claimants were late
ly admitted the floor of the Pennsylvania Senate
and made speech to that body.
The case Of the alleged libel on A. 7. Stew
art was to have been decided on Friday, by Judge
Bowling, at the Tombs Court. n. Y. but the defend
ants in the case Messrs Matsell and Mackeller pub
ished in their paper of last week. card tending to
show that Mr.. Stewart was not the person alluded to
in the article which the complaint was founded.
In view of this fact Judge Hilton, counsel for Mr.
Stewart notified Judge Bowling that he might regard
the prosecution withdrawn.
Governor Curtin, having been censured by
certain newspapers in Pennsylvania for the too fire.
quent exercise of the pardoning power correspon-
dent of the Pittsburg Commercial gives the official
figures, which refer to the number of pardons issued
to Criminals in Allegheny county during the last
fifteen years. For the five years of the adminisra-
ton of Governor Curtin, thirty-nne persons con-
victed of crimes have received clemency at his
| hands. The five years Immediately preceding his
term, forty-fve pardOns were issued, and for the
same number of years previous to the lastmentioned
| time SiXty-siX.
The Norfolk va Post says the question
| of who piloted Commodore Goldsborough through
Pamlico Sound to Roanoke Island in 1862 is often
asked. The Commodore was piloted by Ben and
John Tiett two eolored men, who had escaped from
Little Washington TO Hatteras in the fall of 1851
old Ben was master of navigation in Pamlico
Sound. He knew all Jumps" coves and windmills,
| from Hatteras to Nag's Head Inlet and The had a
precise knowledge of the strength and position of the
| works on the Island which Gen. Burnside had been
despatched to take and hold We believe ''0ld Ben
| went North soon after. Ii was native of North
Carolina, and the Oldest of family of nineteen
| children.
The report of the Georgia Commission to
prepare a system of laws for the government of freed
mi MAS been made 1t provides that all persons Of
color shall have the right to acquire property make
/ contracts and be sued, inherit property, and
give testimony in all civil cases when the rights o
| colored persons involved, and in all criminal
when the accused is a person of color. The
port recommends the organization in each county Of
County Judge, in which precisely the same redress
will be afforded the negro is afforded the white
| man. The Governor, in recommending the report
Il
to the freedmen the position of the governing class
let us fully and fairly meet its responsibilities"
novel and ingenious style of robbery was
developed in New York on Friday evening po-
hceman on duty in Carmine street was accosted by
another man in full police uniform, who stated that
ne had been specially detailed to arrest counter
feiter In that vicinity and would probably need as
sistance Soon after with tin cash box passed
along was arrested by the strange policeman as thc
bogus note manufacturer alluded to- and given il
charge of the other officer to convey to the station
house. the stranger at the same time taking charge
of the prisoners box which he said he would carry
| Police Headquarters It was discovered. however
on the arrival at the station house of the Carmin,
street officer with his man that he had in his charg
the porter of the Greenwich Savings Bank. who
when arrested, had been in the discharge of hi
legitimate duty, and that the individual who had 81
kindly taken charge of the cash box which contained
three thousand dollars, nothing less than an i'm
postor. who had devised this ingenious plan to ge
possession of the money, The rogue has not yet bse
H arrested,