Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-23
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
CONGRESS-.


proceedings ofthe Senate yesterday, was the intro
duction by Mr. Sherman of bill to reduce the rate
ofneres on the national debt and to fund the same
That gentleman delivered elaborate speech on the
subject. and the bill then laid over un ii to dav
HousR-Tbo House took up and passed, without
debate the bill establishing uniform system of
bankruptcy The vote stood yeas IS. nays 50. The
tax bill also under consideration and after
several amendments had been proposed, principally
relating to the tax on Tobacco the bill was laid over
GENERAL NEWS.
Kansas raised nearly 81, 900 900 worth of
corn last year.
One white person and five negroes were
burned TO death in New Orleans on Saturday night
-Ihaddeus Stevens, who wants to make a
Poland of the South, feels warmly towards Russia.
"A subscription has been opened to succor
the Spanish emigrants now in Portugal, who took
part in the rising headed by General Prm.
1.-Two men who attempted to steal a ride
an Indiana railroad were shot dead by the break
man.
1t has been asked when rain falls, does
it ever get UP again? Of course it does-in dew
time.
Mary Ann Bastine, an inmate of the New
York almshouse. died 4 few days since, at tho re-
markable age of us years.
Stephens acknowledges the receipt of
about $4,000 in ALL at various times from American
Fenians.
The longest railroad in the world is the
Central Railroad of Illinois-730 miles long, and
which cost SIS 100000.
Two hundred sacks of corn, branded
Peace" arrived in Memphis, Tenn, tho other day.
for the destitute of Alabama. It was hauled by the
draymen free of charge.
Smaller men than Carlyle can sympathize
with him in one of his annoyances He has COM
planned ofa neighbors hens that they would neither
hatch in peace nor let him.
Sea water has q curious action on cast
iron. converting it into grey, porous mass, that
grows rapidly hot in contactw air. Some cannons
fshed up Scotland became so hot that they could
not be touched.
The Wheeling InteZEgenceris is informed by
farmers that the recent foss have materially injured
the hay crop, which will, it is supposed fall far be-
hind both in quantity and quality the yield of last
year,
-Lozenges poisoned with strychnine and
morphine were Tipped into the pocket of Miss Name.
OF Cane Elizabeth, Maine at festival on the 81
inst. by some person unknown. She tasted them,
and is very sick, but likely to recover.
The Quebec Chronicle says, it is rumored
in commercial circles that there is be an amaga-
nation between the Bank of BritishsNorth America.
the Bank Of Montreal, and the Oriental Bank Of
London.
The sentence of the law has been passed
upon Durham. the Cadiz Bank robber, who was
wounded in the arm. He was sentenced to an i'm
prsonment of thirteen years in the Ohio peniten-
tary.
The American Sharpshooters' Society will
in frouo
June next. Competitors will appear from all parts
of the United States, and from several places in
Europe.
About Eli, 900 has been subscribed to-
wards the Roman Catholic Cathedral which is to be
erected in London as a memorial to Cardinal Wise
man. subscription of f2.OOO has been given anopy-
mously but is generally understood that the donor s
DR.. Newman.
1T is reported that serious apprhensions
are entertained at Murfreesboro Tenn of the repe-
titon at that place of the late scenes at Memphis
The Mayor has been notified to adopt such measures
as will prevent collision between the whites and
negroes.
An artist by the name of Homer Runion
committed suicide at St. Louis few days since in his
rooms. The body was not discovered until several
days had elapsed. and it had undergone partial de-
composition. He was Prussian by birth and said
to be very accomplished man.
"A prize of four hundred francs is offered
by the Educational Society of Lyons France for an
to determine how the want of success in child
rens education is due to their parents and how far
to the schoolmasters. The essays may be written in
any language.
"A fine steamer has been built on the Mis-
sissippi river, at Quincy, Illinois, and called the
Andrew Johnson" as a compliment to the Presi-
dent of the United States The citizens of Quincy
presented the captain with set of coors, copy of
the Constitution, and portrait of the President.
"A Rich old bachelor at Greenfield, Me-,
offered young lady there 800 for kiss last winter
She gave him the kiss and he counted out the money
but she refused to take it. when he told her he
would give it to her when she got married She was
married few days since and is now 500 richer for
that kiss.
Senator Lane, of Indiana, declines re-
election and has written letter formally announc-
ing his determination. MY increasing years and
declining health and strength he remarks "ad-
monish me that should retire from all active par
ticpation in politics. after the expiration of my
present term of service
"A Gascon officer, hearing the brave deeds
of prince described, who had in two battles killed
six men with his own hand-"Bah" said he there
is nothing wonderful in that; want you to know
that the matrass on which repose my limbs is filled
with the mousaches of men have sent to the other
world.''
DR.. Dalton, of New York, has published
an able paper, in which ne gives it as his opinion
that there is reason to expect wide spread ravages
by cholera during the present season. In this view
he is strengthened by the fact that public and private
enterprise united to establish Gordon sanitGire
around every exposed point