Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-23
General Sherman-What He Thinks of
the Fenians.


The Sandusky Ohio Register. of Monday. chroni-
cles the arrival of General Sherman at that city,
from his tour of inspection along the upper lakes
The Register represents the General as in excellent
health. and speaking quite freely upon recent
questions. 1t gives the following account Of Sher-
man on the Canada shore:
There is a circumstance in connection with their
visit and reception at Goderich, Canada West few
days since, which we believe has not been made pub
lie. When the revenue cutter neared the port,
general running to and fro ofred coats and mounted
men were noticed and a haSty gathering about the
guns in the works upon the hill Noticing this. they
waived the usua, custom of salgting foreign flag.
that Fenian attack was feared.
AS soon as within speaking distance the cutter
fsea eS an When its w Was &
covered the counteDance of the officers frightened
and the 'belligerents' were very kindly received.
proacb the Colonel in command. after little hesita-
tion said that he glad that they did not fire a
salute for every man of his five hundred would have
taken the woods. The General replied that though
they frowned on the crazy movements OF the Fenans
yet they couldn't help laughing little, a compi-
mentary return for the favors of the two or three
years years past; ,, g -, =
Emerald Isle pounce down upon her if they desired
but he wished no Irish Republic on our north. The
United States didn't want Canada. If we did, acam-
palgn Olive days would bring 1t"
CnIamities of the Louisiana Planters.
The planters of Louisiana deserve sympathy.
They made extraordinary efforts in the carly part of
the to raise large crop of cotton, but they
have recently been subjected to series of calamties
The water has risen to unprecedented height in
the river flooding miles of rich bottom land. There
have been several storms with hail and wind which
has beaten down the young plant and now new
misfortune appears to have fallen on them, gen.
tleman who has large plantation at st. Joseph, in
that State writes to the New Orleans Times fol-
lows:
Of III mis- tors lei In
whence they returned last fall The general belief
is that this terrible destroyer of crops has been in
troduced here by the returning negroes, who proba
bly, brought them in their wagons or boxes. At all
events it is certain that this grasshOpper very diff
ieren from the species we usually see here is smaller
and legs and that he is doing terrible damage to our
crops
ut is known that in Texas they have often totally
destroyed the and the cotton. in localities
the fruit trees portion of the praire; that
when they find nothing further to satisfy their vora-
city tney Will suddenly rise like dark cloud, and
leave in countless swarms for new field ofrapaoioIa
operation. These creatures now devouring the
crops of those places in Tensas parish which cul
Vated by negroes who have but lately returned from
Texas. wheretrom they are gradually spreading all
over the country and there seems to be remedy
stop their destructive exploits. Some of our plant
ers have attempted to drive them out of the fields,
but SO far there IS 10 evidence of this being done
successfully as the destruction is steadily going on.
Generally tho grasshOppers eat the leaves leaving
nothing but the STEMS and then the stalks die out;
and though at present they do not seem to have gone
doabt that they will gradually spread over the coun-
try and thus still further reduce the growing CROP"
A FLAG FOR GARIBALDI-A number Of Iadiss of
this city will present flag to Garibaldi and one
hundred youDg.men will be chosen as the bearers of
it. Each member of this special committee will be
expected to furnish his outfit and to defray his
own expenses. The banner, which will be finished
Saturday morning, and is to cost $780, 1t will be
the flag of Italy. On side the coat of arms OF
New York will be embroidered, and on the other for
the Italian coat of arms. The committee will start
Europe probably on Saturday. This is Independent
of the movement of Italian residents of New York,
who have called q meeting at Cooper Institute on
Friday evening" to assist three hundred young men
to go to Europe.-N Y. Post.
Doc LIVES Two WEEKS WITHOUT EATING oF
| DRINKING.-A female black and tan terrier belong.
| ing to Dr.. John Hail. of Cleveland. was suddenly
missed by its owner two weeks ago. Effort was made
to ind the animal but without avail. This morning
friend OF the doctors chanced to visit neglected
| room over DeWitt's store where, to his astonish
ment he found the poor little dog. The latter haC
wasted to a shadow. but was lively. nevertheless
| DR.. Hall had entered the room two weeks before
accompanied unknown to him, by his dog, and tn
latter had been left there. During the whole con
hnement it had been impossible for her to Obtain
either food or drink In short time after being rs
1 leased, however, she killed q rat in fine style,