Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.


SENATE.-Soveral petitions were presented and re-
ferred to appropriate committees. Mr.. Poland in
| trOduced joint resolution to be proposed as an
| amendment to The Constitution, providing that no
person who has been shall be engaged in rebellion
against the United States shall be entitled to vote or
hold Office in the United States The resolution was
referred to the Committee on Reconstructinn Mr.
henderson submitted series of resolutions on re-
construction and setting forth that it is for Congress-
to decide whether armed rebellion yet exists and
to adopt such measures as will remedy present evils
The resolutions were laid the table and ordered
to ne printed. The joint resolution fixing the basis
OF representation again taken up and discussed
by Messrs. Morrill, and Wilson, after which the
Senate adjourned.
HoUSE,-The Joint resolution approprialing fifteen
thousand dollars to Miss Clara Barton for services
rendered IN searching for missing soldiers was passed
unanimously. Messrs. Boutwell, and WaShburne
submitted minority report on the admission of
Tennessee, which ordered to be printed. Mr..
Wilson reported bill to facilitate commercial and
postal intercourse between the States. Mr.. Wilson
also reported BILL which provides that the Supreme
Court shall consist of one Chief Justice and eight
Associate Justices, defining circuits &c. which was
passed without debate. Mr.. Wilson also reported
bill restricting the fees Of claim agents, which
elected long debate but the bill was finally passed
by yeas 20, nays 50. The House then resumed the
consideration of the bill to secure to all persons in
the several States the same civil rights, which
was discussed at length by Messrs. Brownall. Ray
mond, Delano and Kerr. and without reaching vote
the House adjourned.
GENERAL. NEWS.
People with small poX walk about the
streets of Memphis mmclested.
Spotted fever is raging in Dearborn
county. Indiana.
"A Canada oil well yields two thousand
two hundred and ffty-nine gallons per hour
Sixty gold watches and large number of
valuable jewels were recently found entombed in tbe
cemetery at Montgomery, Ala
Several car loads of provisions have been
sent from Huntsville to the:destitute Of Cherokee
county, Ala.
The Mississippi has overhowed the unre-
paired levcc near Baton Rouge, La and great food
is anticipated
"A letter from Frankfort the Maine SAYS
the emigration from Europe to this country in 1866
will reach at least 100000 persons,
The consumption of wines in Great Bri-
tain last year reached a million gallons per month,
just double what it was before the reduction of duties
There are indications that New Orleans
and Key West are to be abandoned as naval depots
Nearly all supplies are being removed from them
The Lords of the Admiralty have Just Or
dered that in the British navy lads under eighteen
years of age shall be birched but not logged.
An exchange says the ladies in ball.
room often look as if they needed military order
dress !"
There have already been six hundred
balls in New York this winter. They have been at
tended by 100000 people. and the whole expenses
have been S925 .000
Cotton growing in the Sandwich Islands
is becoming very successful. About 12OO pounds of
Sea Island cotton can be raised on an average, per
acre, and the plant is perennial there.
1t is intimated that Archbishop Purcell
of Cincinnati, will be the newly appointed cardinal
at the next meeting of the Consistory in Rome
Bishop Purcell is now senior Archbishop in America
"A student named Hayden, and drug
store clerk named Hughes. killed one another in an
ARRAY at Georgetown, Kentucky, on Wednesday
last
The Lynchburg VA. Necs says that
valuable discoveries of iron have been made in Am
herst county. three miles north of the James River
canal, and that company have leased the mines and
about to erect furnaces. 1t also says that there
are abundant indications Of petroleum in the same
vicinity.
Mobile planters, in great numbers, are
Ocking to New Orleans for the purpose Of procuring
loans of buying agricultural implements and to
make arrangements for their planting. If the plant
get ready cash now to carry out their plans
there is hope of obtaining the 2,500OOO bales that
some writers figured out for next season.
Some of the London merchants have in
stituted custom of charging an admission fee to
their stores. The lady sightseers can enter by pay
ing small fee, and examine ali the latest styles and
costumes without making any purchases unless dis
posed to do so.
There is live oak tree growing upon
land owned by Gov. Grape. in Genesee county, Mich,
of remarkable dimension. Its circumference is %
feet It's trunk is hollow the diameter of the hollow
being feet inches. The wood-choppers upon the
land have boxed aperture or doorway into the
tree, built them q campfire therein, and played
'euchre' by its light.
AT the recent convention of wool growers
in this State. Mr.. Amsden gave his own experience
as the best argument for raising sheep. He had be-
gun by shipping grain and the first lot he shipped to
Chicago in corn. lacked S2757 of paying the charges
He vowed revenge, and in three years raised 800
worth Of produce, and the railroads shipped that
New York for him for the of $392. That produce
wool and mutton. If he had had that in grain i
would have amounted to 1880 bushels costing 81 900
to get it to New York 1t therefore cost hundred
and twenty times much to get 81 worth of to
rlse did IN send wool -Hbicr0o RenubIico,