Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Or HE DHY.
The disbursements and transfers of the
Treasury Department for the ten days preceding the
lst of March. exceeded fftyone millions of dollars
The ninth volume of Mr.. Bancroft His
tory of the United States may be expected within a
| few weeks.
The Bangor butchers, it is said can buy
Kentucky beef cattle cheaper than they can purchase
those raised and fed in Maine.
| There are in the vaults of the Treasury
Department l4,2400O0 dollars in five dollar notes
The total amount of all denominations is $40 600
The orange and iessamne trees in the
vicinity of Mobile, Ala, were killed and the fig cron
destroyed by the late severe cold
"A set of emeralds and diamonds. valued
at $4,000 Spanish ladys bridal present, is on exh
| bition in New York
| The fair held at Portland last week, for
the benefit of the freedmen was quite successful and
| realized about $4,000.
"A few days ago highly respectable Friend
was dlsowned by the monthly meeting of New York
| friends Tor having piano in his house.
| -Ihe Gloucester vessels from Georges,
winch have recently arrived bring in good fares of
goldfish and haibut. The prices of fish, however are
considerably lower than those of last season
during the last two years the Government
has realized from sales of confscated and abandoned
cotton, sugar etc. in the State in Mississippi, over
six million dollars
An illustration of the cups and downs of
me- inc ot. Louis Ne'es mentions former New Or
leans District Judge now as paper carrier in that
city. ~
Southern shad are now sold in the New
York markets at from fifty cents to one dollar fish
ana even higher. Delaware shad are expected in
week or ten days. and the first of the annual run in
the North river are looked for to-day.
-lhe Rev William Baby, a wel-kuwnn
minister of the Virginia Conference died few davs
since, making the third member of this Conference
VINO has died since the late session Of that body in
Danville, in November last.
In Boston the value of real estate is daily
augmening, not only by sales. but by the great ac
uVlty prevailing among architects and builders, and
The vast number Of projects for improving buildings
by remodcling.
"A citizen of Lafayette, Ind, presented his
wife with four Government bends on New Years
day, and she deposited them for safe keeping in
bureau drawer, to which the mice obtained access
and destroyed them.
lion. John Milton Earle has presented TO
the Worcester Natural History Society the splendid
collection of terrestrial luviatile and marine shells
winch he has been getting together for mere than
1orty years. 1t consists many thousand speeimens
and is in fine condition.
I'm thursday morning Thomas Murphy
ana deorse Finch, aged and u years were drowned
III " nliii race at indianapolis Ind. They were skat
is On inc lce when it broke through They BELONGED
10 the Fourth Ward school, and should have hoor =;
their places instead of on the ice. -'-
1t has tranSpired that the Fmneror r. a..
ana rrince Metternich both nearly lost their
lives by the fall of an Immense Iimb
OUT Shooling. They had just passed it when il roI
WIN tremendous crash. What a confusion in tho
"oii's alialrs was most happily escaped and but Lv
a second! 'N'' '''-" '"' ~
1t Is stated that Professor Goodwin Smith
p1htempIaies the resignation of the Chair of Modern
history IL the University of Oxford on account Of
Ill health, and that he intends to concentrate his
studies On an elaborate History of the Great Re
bellion and Commonwealth of England under
Charles l.
The Austrian Government has determined
to increase the garrison at Cracow by fifteen thousand
men and eighty guns, in consequence of the accuru
latlon OF huSslan troops the frontiers of Galcia
1t is rumored that the Russians are about to form =
camp OF 10000 men in the immediate vicinity of the
frontier.
There is an old man, Il years of age,
county pauper in Indianapolis Ind who few years
ago was the most popular preacher of the Baptist
church in that locality and was loved and respected
for his piety. But he loved whisky and drank it. and
he Is now preaching, in his life more powerful ser
mon to drunkards than he could ever preach VERBALLY
1t IS mentioned in the Eccnement that the |
Vienna head Of the ROthschid branch has summon |
ed by telegraph his children to his bedside to take
their final farewell of dying parent Thus the great
banking firm, the ancestor of which sold nuts on the
streets of Vienna, is about to lose another of its
wealthy heads. |
"A Russian engineer has discovered an |
extensive coal field about ninety verss from Turkcs
tan The coal is said to be of excellent quality and
the Russians will now be able to carry out their plan
OF establishing fleet of steamers on the Syr Dara |
which has hitherto proved impracticable in conse-
quence of the want of fuel in those parts
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
decides that farmers, well as Others who produce
cheese to the value of $1,000, must take license as
manufacturers This ruling will reach large class
OF Farmers who have supposed themselves exempt |
from license duty. 1t follows that those who manu-
tacture butter to the value @ 0o0) must be sub
Ject to like license, the reasoning support of the
rule applies as well to the product latter as that of
cheese.
The Worcester PaZladium; a Massachu- |
setts Republican organ has boldly stepped upon the
Conservative platform, and says: President John
son has vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill. The |
many and grave objections which he makes to the |
all insults upon his sincerity and honesty. however
bitter may be the disappointment of the ardent !
friends of that measure The sober judgment of the
American people is quito likely to find in the veto
justification of the Presidents action.
Napoleon III, is making new bids for pop |
ularty The other day. at a soiree given by the En-
press he entertained the company by singing Beran
gers chansoa on Napoleon beginning "Parlez nous
de lu grand mere" few days before he personally
visited several of the lowest and most turbulent |
quarters of Paris, to decide upon certain improve
ments and embellishments which have been suggested |
by NJ. HausSmann. He also drove slowly round the |
Luxembourg Gardens which have recently given rise
to such vehement discussions and demonstrations |
His visit was made in low phgeton, driven by him
self; his escort consisted of friend and two groons
"A London letter says: "The cattle plague !
increases, and nothing can be more contradictory |
than the views expressed in Parliament as to the /
proper way of dealing with tho question. On one |
point, however, great unanimity has been manifest
ed namely, the necessity of putting stop to all traf
tc of cattle throughout the country whether by rail
way or other means. This is way in which out of
the existing evil great good may come for it will
most likely put permanent stop to the practice Of
driving the animals to the place of consumption |
instead Of killing them and sending the meat |
In the sort of panic that prevails the cry of the ma
jority in Parliament is for the immediate slaughter
of beast attacked and this is certain to be en-
acted, that all the efforts of science are likely to
be stopped.
HeciiHC in the Gold Premium
al, NJ. IL