Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.


In the Senate yesterday a response made by
the Secretary of War to the resolution recently in
troduced by Mr.. Cresswell. concerning the appoint
ment Of Commissioners in this State and Delaware
to award compens alton to loyal owners for slaves
taken as soldiers. In Maryland 3,SO7 claims were
filed for compensation. 7S6 of which were acted upon
by the Commission, the amount awarded being
S23O,75O. Twenty-Five of these claims have been
paid, amounting in the aggregate to S690O
The bill concerning the appointment of additional
Assistant Assessors was passed in the Senate, Mr..
Sumner endeaVoring to insert an amendment that all
persons appointed under it should take the test oath
Mr.. s. censured the of Secretary McCulloch
In appointing assessors in the southern States with
out their taking tho OATH He characterized his
course miSchievous and deserving the rebuke of
Congress.
On the resolution of Mr.. Howe for the appointment
of Provisional Governors in the Southern States,
lengthy speech was made by Mr.. johnson.
The subject of negro suffrage in the District of Col
umbia occupied the attention of the House, Mr.. Ro
gers, of n. y making lengthy speech thereon, in
which he claimed thatthe trainers of tho Constitution
and the citizens of the thirteen States in adopting it,
did not regard the negro race as being entitled to the
rights of citizenship.
Mr.. Fansworth. of ILL.,, opposed the position as
sumed by Mr.. Rogers that the founders of the gov
ernment intended it only for white men. He
tended that it was made neither for white men
black men. but for en. and denounced this cry of
white mans government as sounding strange to the
coored crippled soldiers they came hobblng home
from the battle-feds of the country.
LEfiISLATURE.
Beyond the preSentltion Of petitions and leave
granted to present bills nothing was done in the Le-
gislature yesterday. The Message of his Excellency
Gov. Swami presented and ordered to be printed
We devote large portion of our space to-day to its
publication. 1t is able document, and will be read
with interest by all concerned in the welfare of our
State
GENERAL NEWS
Newhall's extensive car and carriage facto-
ry at New Haven was nearly destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning, Loss about $4,000.
Governor Crawford, in his inaugural to the
Kansas Legislature recommends the removal of the
Indians to the Indian Territory.
The Grand Annual Ball Of the Baltimore
Target Rife Shooting Association came off at Con-
corda Hall last night, and was the most brilliant
affair thus far of the season.
The Charleston Courier, Jan. 9, announces
the formal opening Of the Court of General Sessions
and Common Pleas, which has been closed since 1863
Hon. A. P. Aldrich presided Judge. Tho State
records have all been safely preserved in the interior
and were ordered to be brought down thereirom i'm
mediately.
Capt. Aoorhouse, of the steamship City Of |
London. reports the wreck on the Irish coast near
Queenstown. of the steamer Ibis. of the Cork and
Liverpool line. The City Of London took off all the
passengers and crew on board. but the Captain and
twenty persons were drowned before Captain Moor
house reached the vessel |
Mrs. Grinder, the Pittsburg poisoner, who |
will expiate her crime the 10TH remains in bed the
greater part of the time, and to care for no
thing but morphine and opium using all that she can
procure In the same jail are Marschall and Frecke
,h0 ba hnn on tbe
German emigrant just arrived in the country last
August.
Accounts from Louisiana represent a very |
unfortunate condition of affairs among the freedmen
They show disposition to make contracts and the
planters greatly discouraged. number of the /
plan ter of the Attackapas Parish have cmigrated to
Honduras. These reports quite in contrast with
those from Mississippi where the freedmen going
to work and making satisfactory arrangements.
gentleman of Louisville, says the Journal |
of that city. on Thursday of last week. put an inter-
esting question to Mr.. Seward Secretary of State
Mr.. Seward replied: Il must answer you diplomati- |
caliy"-and he did. And now said the gentleman.
Il will ask you another question, and you can an
swer alphabetically as please: Are to have
war;" MOP replied the Secretary Nothing |
diplomatic about that. The Journal adds I'VE
know that this conversation took place. for we
heard it,
A few evenings since three burglars visited
the residence of Col McKendry, formerly of the ID
Massachusetts Cavalry in Milton, Mass and at
tempted to enter his house. Their noise alarmed the
Colonel. who seized two loade: revolvers and with
out stopping to put his clothes went into the yard
and confronted them. They were well-behayed bur- |
glars, and allowed themselves to be driven into |
she'd where the Colonel held them at bay with his |
revolvers until his clothing had been brought to him
and rope to tie the men together. after which he
marched them to the lookup.
The New Orleans Picayune announces a
most agreeable sign of progressing reconstruction |
in the fact that there is rage among the young
people to settle down in said and quiet matrimony
The clergymen are kept going night and day, like
doctors during epidemic respond to the numer-
GUS demands for their services to assist in tying the
silken knot. The PicoyURe eloquently observes |
Gentle Hymen follows closely upon the heels of |
grim vsaged Mars. and the soft breathings of cpl
thaamic melody succeed to the fierce and dissonant
clangor of the war trumpet"
The sons of Mr. William johnson, brother
Of the President, have published letter confirming
the reports that their father, who was accidentally
injured by the discharge of his own gun died for |
want Of surgical treatment the rebel surgeons Of the
vicinity refusing TO render any assistance on the
dent. The accident occurred at Velasco. Texas and
the family obliged to send to Columbia hun
ired miles distant, for a Federal surgeon. When |
applied to for their professional mnistrations the
faculty of Nelasco replied that there too many