Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

General Fitzpatrick has left Callao for Val
paraiso in the English mail packet
The building Of the railroad bridge over
the Roanoke river ION the Weldon road is progress
ing rapidly 1t will be oncthird of mile in length
Governor Oglesby and Hon. O. NJ. Hatch,
of Illinois, are to solicit subscriptions in New York
for the Lincoln Monument at Springfield.
The total span of the great bridge at Gin
cnna, the Ohio will be O57 yards, the largest
in the world
number of ex-rebel officers have been en-
gagged for the Chilian navy. Ten left Panama, for
Chill, recently, in a Gillian war steamer
In the West Virginia House of Delegates,
on the sixth ballot the town of Buckhannon in Up
shur county, has been selected as the point for the
permanent location of the capital of the State
In Boone county, Ky, returned rebel sol
diers are numbering negroes, and have ordered the
departure of the Government officials. military
force has been sent to quel the disturbance.
The Legislature of Tennessee has recently
passed bill loaning the Memphis ana Ohio Railroad
Company siOOOOO to enable it to rebuild the bridge
at the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and put the
road in thorough repair to Paris.
The largest crowd ever assembled in Pitts
burg to witness any amusement were gathered at the
Central Skating Park on Thursday last, to witness
Miss Carrie w. Moores skating it is estimated there
were from 10000 to l5G0O persons present, including
many of the clergy.
The North American Lloyd Steamship
Company will soon start line, consisting of four
first class steamships to run between New York and
Liverpool The Atlantic the pioneer of these ships
is nearly ready to sail. This is the third Amer
can line to Europe
A bill has passed the House of Delegates
OF Virginia which Furnishes with death or confine-
ment in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
years, any person committing robbery by strangua-
tiOn suocaton, beating striking, other violence
or by threat at presenting firearms
A number of loyal Alabamians have ar
rived ct Washington for the purpose of representing
to the President the condition of affairs in Alabama
They say that the State officers, from Governor Patten
down. use the influence of their position to oppress
and persecute the Union men Of State whose condi
tion is much than at any time during the re-
bellion.
An anti-monopoly convention assembled at
St. Paul, Mimi. the 7th instant. Lieut.. Governor
Armstrong was elected permanent chairman There
were three hundred delegates present, and more on
the way, detained by the deep snow. Committees
were appointed to memoriaize Congress on the i'm
prasement of the Mississippi river to petition the
Wisconsin Legislature to regulate freight tariff to
receive proposals for line river packets and to draft
resolutions.
The National Wool Growers Association
assem- bed in Pittsbnrg on the sth inst and perma-
nent organization effected. About two hundred
delegates present, representing capital of at
least $1OOO.O60. Dr.. Julius F. LeMoyne, of Wash
ington county, was chosen President. The object of
the Association is to advance the wool growing in
terests of the United States to harmonise the in
terests of the producing and manufacturing interests
of the United States TO advance the prosperity
of our common country.
Donald Mckay, the distinguished ship builder
of East Boston. has lately returned from Europe.
where he thoroughly inspected the iron-clad navies
of France and England. lie says that our Navy De-
partment has constructed. built and equipped since
1861 an iron-elad feet more powerful than all the
ironclad naves Of the world combined and declares
the Dunderberg to be equal to all the French iron
cads, of which we have heard much in praise. lie
advises government to continue the work of
structing a-going iron-clads.
President Johnson is reported to be far from
satisfied With the recent ambiguous expressions of
the French Eiic relative to the evacuation of
Mexico and it is expected that he will shortly sub
nit statement of facts regarding Mexican affairs to
Congress, and suggest to the members appropriate
legislation. At all events, the Presidents determi
nation never to recognize Maximilians government
may be regarded as unalterable 1t is also reported
in Washington that military commission will in
few days proceed thence to the Rio Grande to uves
tigae the circumstances connected with the late cap
ture of Bagdad.
In Gen. Sickles' Department of South Car
olina, John Ferguson, of Charleston. former owner
Of the steamer Planter has applied for possession Of
the steamer, claiming that she stolen by negroes
and captured from them by the Federal bloekadng
squadron, that he has taken the amnesty oath, and
the steamer should be restored to him with his other
property. Gen. Saxton reports that the Planter
employed by the rebels, and while in this service
brought past the batteries and surrendered TO Adm
raj Du Pont by a slave named Robert Small. The
steamer has since been employed by the Quartermas
ter's Department, and Small placed in command.
The scheme uf Mr.. Asa S. Mercer to trans
port the widows and orphan daughters of soldiers
from the Eastern TO the Pacific States with the pro-
posed object of procuring them homes and employ
ment and which he has lately carried into effect by
taking from New York city on the steamship Cont
mental number Of lady emigrantS receives severe
in California Oregon, and Washing
ton Territory. The entire expedition is pronounced
worse than i'll advised and fanatica as the husband
market and the market OF labor suited for these fc
males is said to be better than here. A PROPOSE
ton recently made in the Washington Legsla-
ture to appropriate $4,000 for their benefit but it was