Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.


Mr.. Morrill, called up the bill to regulate the cleo
tive franchise in the District of Columbia 1t pro-
hibtS the distinction of color as qualification for
voting in the District and fixes the penalty at 81 600
fine and Imprisonment in a dungeon for thirty days
the person confined to be fed on bread and water
| only.
| Anumherof amendments were offered, among them
one making the ability to read and write the qual
cation for every voter and another fixing the penalty
for interfering with the right of a coiorcd man fran
chise at S. coo, and indictment for misdemeanor-
| The bill and amendments were re-committed.
In the House, Mr. Morgan Jones' of n. Y, ap-
peared and took the oath Several resolutions were
offered, concerning Mexico jeff Davis, etc, but the
greater part of the session devoted to the consid
Grafton of the House bill, No. extending the right
of suffrage in the District of Columbia. Speeches
were made by Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, Boyer, of Pa
Hale, of N. y, and Scoield and Kelley. of Pa.
THE LEGHSLATERE.
The General Assembly of Maryland met in special
session yesterday in obedience to the Governors
proclamation. Governor Swami took possession of
the gubernatcrial mansion, where he was waited on
by large number of prominent men, among
| whom were Generals Kirby anu Dennison, Hon. Jno
l.. Thomas. Collector Webster, Judge Alexander and
others.
At the mansion the Governor was addressed by
James L. Ridgeey, to which he responded speaking
in high terms of the character and measures of Pres
dent johnson, and assuring his auditors that he
should omit efforts to advance the prosperity of
Baltimore and the State of Maryland.
The Senate was called to order at noon by the
Lieutenant Governor, Hon. c. c. Cox who delivered
able address to the Senate.
Speaker Frazier called the House of Delegates to
order and briefly addressed the members.
GENERAL NEWS.
The population of Minnesota is estimated at
2750OO.
Morris Ellsworth, colored, was hung at
Newark, N j., yesterday. for the murder of his wife
A fire in Taunton, Mass, on Monday night
DESTROYED the main building of the Pewter Britannia
and Plate Company's works. Loss S25 900.
-Four persons implicated in the robbery of
Adams Express Company have been arrested and
S25O,O0O of the stolen money recovered.
Professor Mapes, the distinguished agricul-
turalis died at his residence in Newark, n. j., yes
terday. He was GO years of age.
Hon. George Davis, formerly Attorney Gen
eral of the Confederacy. has been released from Fort
Lafayette, and has returned to his home in Whining
ton, N. C.
Hon. j. A. J. Creswel, United States Sen
ator from Maryland, will deliver the eulogy upon the
late Henry Winter Davis before the House of Rep
resentatives.
Hon. George Bancroft has accepted the in
vtaton of the joint committee to deliver the address
upon the life and character of President Lincoln be-
fore both Houses of Congress- the 18th of Febru-
airy, prox
Business at the Stock Board yesterday was
tame and spiritless. Gold closed at l3S2l transac-
tions small. Governments of all issues were firm
Railroad shares and bonds were quiet nothing doing
in either
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided
that ferry boats not liable to the payment of the
revenue tax of two and half per cent on the gross
receipts
Miss Harriet Lane, who presided with so
much grace and dignity over the White House dur
ing the administration of her uncle, President Buch
anan, is to be married to day, at Wheatand, to Mr.
Henry E. Johnston, a Baltimore banker.
The Macon Telegraph of the Sd instant,
describes in tantaizing terms four acre strawberry
bed in that town, now in full bloom and fruit, the
editor having just been favored with basket of lus
cious specimens, measuring four inches in cir
cumference.
Plates for new issue of fractional curren-
cy are now being prepared by the Printing Bureau
of the Treasury Department. The new issue will be
of the denominations of fifty, twenty five and ten
cents. The notes will be of an entirely new and
original design and are to be nearly an oval shape
The Pay Department accomplished an ex-
traordinary amount of labor principally during the
months of June. July tand August, of 1865. From
June to October of last year, two hundred and
enty millions of money was paid to 100000 officers
and men.
The pews Of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
Henry Ward Beechers) were rented on Tues
day night at auction. A large attendance con-
tested for the choice, and premiums ranged high
The first choice was obtained at premium of 800,
by Mr. Clahn.
A lady named Cutler, residing in South
Fifth street, Brooklyn, mas lately been robbed Of
about $1,000 worth of furniture. by as she believed
spirits. 1t appears, however, that a graceless son
was the thief, he confessing to the robbery wfie
confined in the penitentiary for another offence.
The new steam screw sloop Resaca, recently |
built at the kittery Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, arrived at Washington on Sunday night
She there to take in her machinery and boilers
which are all ready to put in place. She rates in all
respects similar to the Swata~a, lately fitted out at
this yard. and it will require three months to
got her ready for sea.
= The Florida Times of the 29th ult. says that
it is currently reported that the military authorities
at Lake City have discovered heavy cotton fraud,
in the nature Of appropriation of other peoples
cotton, seriously duplicating persons high
in position 1t is said the proof is positive and in
controvertble but that action is withheld on account
of the position of the implicated
The total number of National Banks now |
doing business throughout the country is one thou
sand six hundred and twenty-siX. The Comptroller
of the Currency is not present granting authority
to any National Banks. The few that have re- |
Gently been established among those that were
some time since promised to be allowed to commence
business as their securities were deposited
with the Secretary of the Treasury.
a very obstructive fire broke out in Chi |
a. 1;
Block, on Randolph street. The principal losers are
Messrs Schoelkopf Brothers, an extensive grocery
and provision house, who estimate their loss at |
SSOOOO insured for $4,000. The total loss is about
SiOeV. On the day previous there was another fire
in the same city which destroyed property to the
amount of about $4,000.
An immense audience assembled in Crosby's |
Opera House. Chicago. on Monday to witness the fu-
neral ceremonies of the gallant dead of the Chicago
batteries. There 10 bodies in all. The meeting
was presided over by Charles Randolph ESQ., Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade and was most eloquenty
and feengly addressed by the Rev. Dr. Tiffany The |
streets were thronged along the whole route of the
procession.
Rev. Leonard Bacon of New Haven, who |
has lately returned from through the Southern
States says in lecture on their condition. that of |
all Southerners the women and the clergy are the |
most malignant, and that he would have been glad if |
President johnson had added to the classes excepted
from amnesty the preachers of all denominations and
the editors of newspapers Every of them should
have been obliged to file a statement of his antece-
dents with his application for pardon.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson delivered lecture |
on Tuesday evening in New York, on Home |
Thrusts." or Marriage and Giving in Marriage"
treated hsr subject brilliantly, its eloquent rendition
eciting the frequent plaudits of her listeners The
subject is of great interest and Miss Dickinson is
its worthy pioneer The lady concluded her eloquent
address by appeal for suffering woman, which not
only brought tears upon her fair cheeks but upon
those of many of her audience, male and female
COTTON.
Editors Baltimore D1ily Con,n,ercial-Gentle,uen
AS the Cotton question is at present one of much in
terest to commercial men and statesmen and most |
all other men, and as a consequence much specula-
tlOn has heen inlnlrel in in