Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02

| HoUsE.-ln the House, the frcedmen's and refugee
affairs. debates concerning the destitution in th
South, and Niagara ship cana! bll-which latter wa
1 passed, occupied most of the time.
GENERAL NEWS.
| CONTRACTS have been made for translatinc
| Victor IIugos new novel into ten languages.
"A bill to prohibit the landing of passen
gers from emigrant ships which arrive at our mort
overloaded, is soon to be introduced into the House
The flood IN the Missouri river is more
protraced than that has occurred since 1874 anf
has been productive Of great damage
The proper authorities in New York, un.
der the new license law, have prohibited grocers and
apothecaries from selling liquor as beverage.
-Rev. DR.. Durbn is about to start. early
IN May, for tour among the missions of the Metbo.
dist Board in Central and Northern Europe. and
perhaps in Bulgaria
The American Screw Company at Prov.
dence, with capital Of 81 OOO is reported to have
divided $l0O0000 among its stockholders in 1854 and
ST. 900 in 1865.
There are host Of applicants to lease
the house at Philadelphia, lately occupied by the
now murdered Deering family. The associations
would be supposed to be anything but agreeable
"A letter from the War Department shows
that since the first of last October the Adjutant Cen
erals Bureau has recruited about OO men for the
regular army
The entire bank of the Mississippi below
New Orleans is inundated, an acre and half of tbs
leVee having given away. This district is planted
with sugar cane.
AT ball OF the Duchess of Boiano's. in
Paris the other evening" the Princess of St. Ella ap
as the fress In robe covered with the pages
and titles OF several journals print ted on satin.
d
Tennessee House of Representatives on Saturday. on
Us hrSt reading and will soon become law Gen.
FISK urgent for its passage. so that he may abolish
the Freedmens Court.
-Probst, the murderer of the Deerinp
family, was convicted in Philadelphia on Saturday,
OF murder in the first degree. The Court adjourned
until Tuesday, when he will be sentenced The jnry
was out about thirty minutes.
Wendell Phillips in late lecture said:
One thousand men conceived and ensineered the
rebellion. And If five years ago God had been
pleased to take them to himself. or drop them the
other way there would have been no rebellion"
-lhe Detroit Tribune says: "The most
absurd reports are in circulation in our exchanges
concerning the health of Gen. Cass. His condition
mas materially improved of late and he is in no dan
ger whatever"
The Troy Times says: "On Monday. a
couple of fishermen near Poughkeepsie netted seven
thousand shad. This haul caused the price to fall
nifty per cent. Good shad are now selling for fifty
cents piece in this city,
In the reign of Darius gold was thirteen
times more valuable. weight for weight than silver
In the time OF Plato it was twelve times as valuable
In that of Julius Caesar gold was only nine times
more valuable, owing. perhaps. to the enormous
quantity of gold seized by him in his wars.
A hrIcly cto hla ~ Tor,,olo ,4,ool
Me- owned by Charles H. Adams, ana oceupied bv
II. L. Taylor Co., was burned at O'Clock SATURDAY.
morning, with five valuable horses and all the car
risges, harness. fodder and xings The total loss is
heavy.
During the last two weeks, 'Eeight hour
bills have been defeated in the Massachusetts, New
1ork and New Jersey Legislatures, lost in Ohio by
disagreement between the two houses on minor
amendments. and passed in one house of the Penn
sylvania Legislature
"A farm of 100 acres, right in the heart of
New York city, just below Central Park, was wiIIed
IN trust by life lease many years agoto an old lady,
VINO is now ninety years of age. 1t is now covered
with streets and buildings and is soon to come into
possession of fifty heirs.
In canada, to attempt suicide and fail is
to get ones self into prison. An Ottawa despatch to
the Toronto Globe has this item in it, Michael Sater
A.
tempting to destroy his life in fit of jealousy. has
been sentenced to seven days imprisonment"
"A hippopotamus attached to circus
which was exhibited at Bridgeport last week. took
fancy to one of the visitors named Rockwell. and
opened his jaws to take him in" Rockwell didn't
return the affection, and left only portion of his
pantaloons IN the creatures mouth.
"A company has been organized in Louis
ville Kentucky, for the manufacture of linen BY
new improvements in machinery, etc. by which it is
claimed that linen can be made far cheaper than in
Ireland. Some of the most respectable and promi-
nent citizens are connected with the movement.
AN agent of Senator Sprague, of Rhode
Island. has been in Chicago buying beef cattle for
shipping to Providence, where beef is furnished to
the operatives in his mills numbering some Is G0O at
hrst cost transportation added Within the last few
months between $500 and $4,000 worth of cattle
and hog have been purchased there for this purpose
"A Committee from Philadelphia is now
in Chicago arranging for visit of the Vigilant Steam
Fire Company of that city. The Company numbers
eighty men, and will take with them fine brass
band. They will arrive about the Goth of June. The
same Committee recently visited Buffalo for similar
purpose.
"A case has been tried before full Jury of
negroes at Murfreesboro', Tennessee. A freedman
threw stone at another freedman, who retaliated in
kind. striking his assailant in the head and ncting
a severe wound. The injured man died. and the
matter was brought before the Freedmen's Bureau.
and a trial was had, with twelve freedmen for jury.
"A gentleman in Deerfeld has an old In
dian battle-ground in the rear of his house. and it is
said of him that when he has dinner party at his
house he enterans his guests after dinner by inviting
them to the home lot and digging up an old Indian
very much after the style of the King of Naples who
uncoyers house in Pompeii.
The Quartermaster General has records
Of the burial of over one hundred thousand Union
soldiers. and recommends appropriation of one
million dollars to place those whose bodies are scat
tered in cemeteries where they will be safe from des
ecration. Gen. Thomas has issued an order to forbid
powing over or disturbing the of soldiers
at Atlanta.
The Perry Monument on Gibraltar Rock,
the foundation stone of which was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies, in the presence of vast crowd
from the Lake Erie cities and towns on the 10th of
September 1858, and the second stone of which was
never laid is at last to be built Tho Sanduky Reg
lister says that Mr. Thomas Lawrence of that city, is
engaged in erecting the monument at the expense of
Jay Cooke. who has purchased the Island The
is to be marble column.
Professor Newman says, contrary to the
generally received opinion birds prefer to fly against
the wind. The quails of Europe almost invariably
start on their. passage of the Mediterranean with
head wind. and if it chops round and blows fresh
from the southwest. they are drowned by thousands
and their dead bodies are washed ashore for weeks
afterwards. When the wind is abaft. it gets under
the birds feathers in the most aggrayating manner
and upsets his equilibrium and equanimity at the
same time
FENIANISM.