Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-20

engagements at the provincial English II eatres
-Adelina Patti recently sung a cavitina
from . Barbiere de Sevigla." at Rossini's, when
the venerable maestro asked by whom it was written
He did not know his composition.
1t is ated that Mr.. Charles +. Browne
Artemus Ward) has received an offer of $4,000 in
gold and his extraordinary expenses, for lecturing
| tour in England of six months.
| "A cavalry-man named Daniel Carmody,
living in Washington, tried to kill friend named
Campbell with his sabre. but only succeeded in in
| ficting severe wound.
In Cincinnati the other day a lady broke
her ancle by fall caused by her putting her foot
through the crinolne of another lady who was walk
| ing in the opposite direction.
Information has been received of the safe
arrival DR.. Livingston at Zanzibar. He was about
to proceed on his intended exploration of Central
| Africa.
| -taure, an eminent baritone, has accepted
an engagement for five years at the Imperial Opera
of Paris for sum of $4,000 francs year. One of the
| conditions of the engagement is that he shall not
| play in London during that time
The church, in New Orlaans, in which the
Methodist Conference is holding its sessions, was
struck by lightning Thursday night during the
prevalence of one of the seyerest storms which has
| visited New Orleans.
| lAC LIeHcu ordnance committee have
come to the conclusion first that breech-oaders are
mistake for large calibres; and tn at for rfed guns
throwing heavy shot, the Whitworth gun is the best
| The only thing against it is its cost.
1t Is reported, says the Kingston Whiq.
that the Imperial Government is fitting out two
steamers to cruise the Upper St. Lawrence and the
Lakes and that twenty small gunboaS are preparing
! in England for the same destination
| lie Pays, French Canadian payer, saws:
Canada by not joining its interests to those of its
rich and powerful neighbors, will be compelled to
vegetate miseraby under the tuteage of a foreign
power and DC loaded with taxes. debts and beggars"
| Among the late arrivals at Savannah is
Benson j. Losing. Esq, the historian. Mr. Lossing
has gone for the purpose of procuring information in
relation to the part borne by that city during the
war.
| General Burnside was severely injured at
| the depot of the New Haven Railroad in New York
on Saturday evening, while taking the cars for home
Though suffering much pain, he came through to
Providence.
The officers of the U. s. A, who were
prisoners OF in 1861 and 1862 are about to tender
to Bishop Lynch. Of Charleston S. c., the proceeds
Of a public lecture in New York for rebuilding the
orphan asylum of Charleston.
The Fenians of New York have pur-
chased large quantities of magnificent jewelry and
clothinS lOr MIS- iiead centre Stephens on her
rival in that city This lady is the sister of George
Hopper. of Dublin. merchant who became en-
broiled early in the Fenian difficulties.
Among the recent arrivals in Panama
DR., Berthold seeman, formerly naturalist on the
British ship Herald, on her voyage round the world
in 1916 to 1851. He is on his way to Nicaragua, to
make reports in regard 10 the mines of Lemon and
Matagalpa.
The cotton and woollen mandatory in
the penitentiary of Texas instead of finding any dit
icuy in dispoSng ofits goods cannot even complete
its Texas orders its prices ranging from three to ten
cents yard under those of articles brought from
the North.
1t is known that by far the largest pur-
chases Of material sold by the War Department since
the close of the war have been by one or the other
branch of the Fenian Executive. Twenty thousand
army revolvers and seventeen Thousand forage caps
were sold to an agent of Gen. Sweeney last week.
The salaries Of negro minstrels are rising,
because the supply Of such singers does equal the
demand A man who sings neatly a pretty ballad.
and is willing TO cork his face make more
money than the vast majority of mechanics, clerks
or literary men.
The London Athen9um says that, not
withstanding Baron Won der Dickens melancholy
fate, and the tragcal end OF almost all the African
travellers of late another traveller is ready to
! of science. The new explorer is Herr Gerhard
| Rohlfs.
The Chicago Tribune publishes the an
nual report Of the City Comptroller. of Chicago, by
which it appears that the liabilities of the municipa!
| government foot up $2.556,749.4s aGd the assets
Sl,654,S 80. with balance in bank Of S9Ol ,s55ls.
which equals the amount of the liabilities
The steamer Atlantic, for Bremen, which
sailed from the port of New York on Saturday last,
carried heavy a cargo that the vessel draws over
twenty-five feet of water. and several hours get
ting the bar. She leaves Bremen on the 9th Of
May. and has over 600 passengers already engaged
| -Iti estimated that the value of the gloves
| manufactured in France is between SS.O0O,00O and
$1,000 900. and is still rapidly increasing The kid
and lamb sking used for glazed gloves dressed ct
| Paris. Grenoble, Ann0n2y, Romans and Charmont
! The Paris manufacturers whose gloves are most
highly esteemed. employ wOrkmen FROM gendome
| AN Eastp0Tt letter says that the United
! States Marshal, the British Consul several English
officers and detectives B. DOran Kiliia and several
leading Fenians, all stopping together at the May
bee Hotel and that it Ia very amusing to them
scowling at each other tables and in the diff
| ferent little corridors or passages.
| "A number of wealthy citizens of New
| Albany, Indiana. have formed themselves into
company for the purpose of engaging extensively in
| the manufacture of woOlen cloths. The New Albany
| Ledger says the corporators are gentlemen of the
| right kind of enterprise and will give employment
| to over two hundred hands.
SO strong is the feeling against the Massa.
chusetts liquor law. the part of Boston hotel keep
ers, that at recent meeting 1t proposed to close
all the hotels in Boston and keep them eloaed until
they allowed to sell liquors their bars without
| fear of molestation from the State constabulary
force The DrOprietOrs of of largest hotals
| favored such movement, but it was not carried.
The oil well at Ballston, N. Y, has been
bored to the depth of five hundred and eighty feet
Two mineral springs have been struck, plenty of gas
and lastly sort of black substance. soft and oily
which is supposed to oil. The stockholders OF
the concern much encouraged by signs and in
dications that they have resolved to tube the ell
and pump for petroleum
"A New York letter says: Gan event in
the dramatic world is the sudden closing up of Lucy
Rushtons theatre in Broadway. variety of reason:
are assigned, but the one most commonly received
is that Uncle Samuel being unable to collect his pei
cent from the box Office, laid injunction on the
concern according to the law in such cases made and
s provided.
The Cincinnati Gazette says III 1t pure
Essence of Coffee" is now made in that city out o.
the cheapest dirtest and nastiest moiasses which
is boiled until it ropes, cooled in pans, and whsf
hard, broken up and puyerized. Ground rye is theI
mixed with it, after which it is boxed up each box
being sold at eighty cents and labelled Pure Essenc,
of Coffee"
II 1t is announced that a substitute for mag
: nesium nas been discovered which will produce
light nearly brilliant that given by the burninc
e of magnesium wire, at much Iower cost The new
light is produced by burning mixture of twenty
parts of dried and pulverzed nitrate of potash
parts flour of sulphur, and six of the red sui
. | phde of arsenic.
e 1t said that the salt mines of Nevad.
throw III the shade entirely all others known in tn
| United States ons bod is reported to cover l59
acres, yielding 100000 09 tens annually of salt
p per cent fine. No bottom to this salt bed has sye
| been discovered As deep as any work has gone. tn
bed is solid rocksat, and from depth of thirty
f feet the salt water comes in rapidly as to preyen
| work without efficient pumping arrangements Th
salt water sweils up to the surface and overfows tn
3 large aoor from which the fine white salt is con
It tinuay gath cred. This aoor several hundred acre
: in area has been so well leEeed that the water flow