Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

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Six thousand copies of Senator Cresswell's eulogy
on the late Henry Winter Davis were ordered to be
1 printed.
| resolution was adopted to inquire of tho Judici-
ary Committee whether any legislation is needed to
prevent civil suits being brought against officers.
Mr. Sumner made an elaborate speech on the joint
resolution fixing the basis of representation.
The bill for the admission of Colorado was taken
up but nothing done with it, the Senate pending its
consideration. having adjourned.
HousE.-A bill was introduced by Mr.. Eliot to
amend the act for the relief of freedmen and ref-
gees, which was passed
resolution introduced by Hon. Frank
Thomas for the construction of an aqueduct to the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. for certain purposes
which was passed.
House agreed to print twenty thousand copies of
Cresswells eulogy.
House passed the bill to transfer the coun ties of
Berkley and Jefferson to West Virginia.
The bill to regulate trade bewixt the United States
and the British Provinces was taken up and debated
at some length, but no definite conclusion was arrived
at by the committee.
GENERAL. NEWS.
DIR. Isaiah P. Lynne, prominent physi-
clan of Chicago died on the SOth instant by an over
dose of morphine.
Michael Brogan, porter, was found dead
in his bed recently in Liverpool after drinking twenty
pints of ale
"A field of wheat buried under an avalanche
IN Switzerland for twenty-five years, proceeded on
its growth as soon as the snow had melted.
John Gordon was lately conveyed to the
Toronto Hospital to have surgical operation per
formed but dreaded it much that he cut his throat
and died.
The seizure of cheap Canada suits of
clothing in single packages for owners wear still
continues at the western ports of entry the express
companies furnishing the officers with full facilities
&C. W. Howard and Judge Shafer, of
California, have the largest dairy farm in the world
Their farm is the coast, 25 miles west of San
Francisco, and covers Il, 900 acres
The steamer Talisman, from New York,
for Turks Island, struck sunken shoal on her trip,
and arrived at the latter port in lcaky condition.
She was repaired and made perfectly seaworthy.
The navigation Of the Western rivers is
in danger of being impeded by sunken steamers.
Fortyfour have gone down in Red River alone since
last June.
Fifteen men were dreadfully burned by
the sudden explosion of pit of molten metal in
London on the 18th ult., caused by drop of rain
falling in it from the skylight
The recent steamboat collision on the
Ohio river, by which many lives were lost resulted
'-om the drunkenness of the pilot on the Nelly
ByelS.
The Emperor Napoleon's recent speech,
consisting Of ne thousand seven hundred and eighty
four words was transmitted to the farthest part of
France by the TELEGRAPH in little over half hour,
Workshops have been begun at Golden
City, Colorado for the manufacture of railroad bars.
Extensive mines of iron ore have been discovered
there which promise yield great wealth to the new
State.
1t is said that when Bishop Gregg returns
to Texas he will take with him at least twenty thou
sand dollars. with promises of in short time.
This will do much to restore his diocese to the pros
perty it enjoyed before the war.
If President Johnson, says Western
Journal is ambitious for a denomination for the
Presidency he certainly, by vetong the Freedmen's
Bureau bill, deprived himself of the most potent
political machinery possible to effect that object.
"A wool-grower made the statement at
late convention in Vermont, held on bitter cold
day that every rag of clothes he had made of
foreign wool, while he had at home thee clips Of
wool from his own focks which he could not sell.
1t is estimated that the amount Of wine
made the past year the lake shore and the vicinity
of Cleveland will reach 100000 gallons, which is
valued ct S6OOOO0 Had the entire grape crop of last
year been made into wine the product would have
been 100000 gallons.
w. F. Windham, notorious prohigate
the English aristocracy. whose shameless exeesses
oo,' debaucheres have long outraged public decency,
died al, ,Ideny at the Norfolk Hotel. Norwich, on
Frido,, N I'd Of February. An annuity office in
Iondon Is re eved by his death of the payment of
life annuity of ,.Eree thousand pounds.
The new Penal Code of Alabama makes
no distinction on ACCENT of color, only marriages
between WI, persons ana negroes are prohibl, CO.
1t forbids VII. --1g and branding as punishment
for crime but provides that convets may be put to
work upon the roads, or hired out to corporations or
individuals.
From computations made by cotton bro
kers in New York city it is estimated that the total
amount of cotton in the United States the 1st of
February very nearly and half million
bales. This includes about three hundred and
twenty-five thousand bales in New York, and six
hundred thousand in coast and river ports the bal
ance being still in the interior in the hands Of manu-
facturers.
-Chu PAX, late President of the See Yup
Company of San Francisco, died in that city few
days ago. Mr.. Chu PAX was very wealthy gentle
man of the Chinese persuasion, and died at the mature
age of sixty nine. His funeral was splendid affair
long tables were spread in the streets which were
ioo led down with sheep, goats and hogs roasted
whole and decorated with flowers, feathers, &C. In
eenee wa burned, bands played, prayers were said
drpes sune and the deceased enjoyed all the honors
of Celestial funeral.
Dan Duncan, a landlord in Indianapolis,
called on poor tenant to collect his rent. He found
the poor woman toiling at the wash tub. with the
evidences of destitutien all around her. Duncan took
, look around, and concluded he didn't want to col
H. It rent as bad as he thought he did He gave the
MO-, van a receipt for the two months due, and two
,ror. Us in advance and then calling some friends
cont h. load of provisions to see her through the
rintor Will not some other landlords emulate Dun
cans exam ple?
a lot, = English work on diamonds and
obsr nrec;ou 7stones, says that but small portion
of the gems soil, and worn are genuine. The diamond
mines of Gocon Va have given out and those of In
dis are rapidy fa ing. The scarcity of real gems has
been met by the ingenuity of counterfeiters, who
manufacture spuriou gems that frequently deceive
ernart conno;sseurs Large quantities of false gems
are made in Birmingha IN ana farls' anu snlpped
East where the Orienta.s sell them to credulous
Furonean travellers as the cal article. Ninetenths
of the diamonds now Haunted By shoddy and Petro-
liza are mere paste ornaments fol which their wearers
have given fabulous sums
The editor of the Newbern NORTH Caro-
lina) Times has just returned from trip through the
States of South Carolina, Georgia, and portion OF
Alabama. He witnessed abundant evidences of the
general disposition to cultivate fully as much land as
could be put into crops The only fear in regard to
the instability of the contracts with the freedmen
At many of the interior towns there were numbers OF
| planters in eager search of unemployed freedmen
There were some complaints of the unfaithfuness OF
the latter but it was hoped that these would be less
| frequent The scarcity of money was measurably
supplie1 by the issue of small bills on the part Of