Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-08
NEWS OF THE DAY,
FOREIGN NEWS,

The receipt of the Presidents message at Frank
fort, had given impetus to business in America,
stock and rise of So per cent had taken pacen tw
days This is two per cent. above New York figures
The German public have invested largely, giving th
go-by to the Turkish loan or shares in anv comnopv
Other matters of interest by this steamer NAV h,
found in our dispatches.
GENERAL NEWS
The wheat crop in the Western States fol
'65 amounts to $I48522. $50 bushels.
The War Department has accepted the re.
signation Of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. West
The annual week Of Concerted PRAYER. held
in all parts Of the world by agreement of all casse:
of Christians, commences to-day.
The tenian Congress in New York is still
in session. Our dispatches contain an item concern
ing their operations.
The prosecution in the Lamar cotton case
announced on Thursday that they had closed their
| evidence. The case was then in its seventh day.
Late advices from Mexico state that Presi-
dent Juarez had entered upon his new term without
opposition, except from general. He was estab-
lished at Chihuahua.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
to issue railroad bonds to the Kansas and Leaven-
worth Railroad Company the second division of
| the road.
The Congressional Committee of fifteen on
Reconstruction propose to send special commission
south to inquire into the condition Of affairs with the
| view OF obtaining proper information
| A young man named Carmichael. keepino
n store at Buffers creek, miles from Augusta, Ca.
| was murdered few night ago. The store was lit
orally stripped by the murderers and thieves
| delegation of the tribes of Sacs, Fox and
| Shawnee Indians, in court costume of yermiIion
| war-paint, and blankets of a sanguinary hue had
brief, friendly chat with their Great Father at the
| White House Saturday morning.
| lhe right of States to tax Federal securities
is TO be again brought before Congress- Should il be
established, the interest on Government bonds will
have to be raised. says Washington special.
A Government engineer has been sent TO
| New Orleans from WASHINGTON. with a view of re.
pairing and rebuilding the leyee at the expense of
the War Department. He has authority to call on
the Department Commander for the labor necessary
VIM. L. Hanscom, United States Naval
Constructor, and builder of the Monadnock and other
celebrated vessels of war; has sent his resignation n
the Secretary of the Navy. and it was accepted on
Saturday
The records of the Treasury Department
show that during the last two years the Government
has realized from sales of confscated and abandoned
cotton sugar. &c. in the State of Mississippi, over
$6,0N,000.
Mayor Lincoln's message states that the net
debt of the city Boston is S1O,O2l l9s The increase
OF the gross debt in 1862 was $S5S Theincreaso
OF means in 1865 was Sl60 S2 showing the net in
crease of the city debt to have been S389,6n.52.
Washington Especial" to a New York
paper says there many indications here that the
Government incnes to.the recognition of Maximil-
ian These specials say thing one day and con-
tradiet it the next.
A scouting party, sent in pursuit of the men
who robbed the safe of Paymaster Ellis of Leaven
WORTH Kansas the other day of $50 600 overlook them
N Platte county. No. and all money except S5 900
was recovered The thieves when orertaken took to
the bush and escaped.
AT the Stock Board on Saturday the trans.
actions were almost exclusively in gold and Govern
ment securities. Gold seems to be going down with
rush. decline OFFS TO Il per cent, being quoted on
Fridays prices 1t sold at 1925 cash. and l42 seller
TO- In New York it sold for l4134 cash.
The Internal Revenue receipts for the week |
ending Saturday were follows: Tuesday, s. 4,333-
5S3.46; Wednesday, 69t2O823; THURSDAY. $1,6S9.-
63l13; Friday Sl59t7S7.s3 Saturday. S722. .5O457-
Total, S9,O24,1l9.92 The receipts on Tuesday last
were the largest since the establishment of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau.
a rather comical action for alimony came |
UP in the Supreme Court chambers New ork on Sat
urday. The title of the is Ellen A. Price w. Joel
tand t rree @ The paint 5l tj WAS Vas seR25atsd fam b
the present motion is made to recover the money
The defence set up that plaintiff is deceased, and
consequently not in need of alimony.
Governor WORTH the new Executive of
North Carolina the goth ult issued an address to
the people of that State announcing to them his as
sumption of the duties of Office and congratuating
vbem on the termination, by direction of President
Johnson, of the provisional government. lie says |
that having been vauquished in the contest with the
tLo
becomes bravo people, and he does not believe
that there is one of them unworthy Of the confidence
reposed in them by the President
Decidedly the cOdest weather in this vicln- |
ty far the present season, that of yesterday
and the two preceding days. The mercury stood at
10 degrees above yesterday morning, and at noon
about 90 degrees. There was every indication of |
storm on Saturday, and we doubtless would have had
a heavy fall of snow had the weather moderated !
Yesterday the sky but little couded. There was
sharp penetrating wind most of the day, which
however died away at sunset The cold snap appears
70 have prevailed considerable extent of coun-
try the mercury at New y ork standing from 70 to |
26 degrees above zerO at Boston from to 10 degrees
at Buffalo Is degrees above, and at Oswego. New |
York, degrees below.
Mr. Tai. P. Shaffner, who for his own infor
nation and qualification, recently made excursion
through several of the Southern States, has given, in
a communication to President Johnson the results of
his observation, which agree in all material respects
with General Grants statement regarding the cond-
ton of affairs in that region. hr. Shatner considers
the Generals descriptions presenting very cor
rect exposition of matters there, He became cogn-
zan Of wrongs and improper conduct on the part OF
both whites and blacks but found the people gener'
ally disposed to acquisce in the changes brought
about by the war; and to accommodate themselves to
the altered situation He aludes the abuse of the
minds of tbs negroes by agents of the Freedmen's
Bureau holding out to them deusive and absurd
hopes. and suggests the preparation of address Of
instruction and advice to the colored people of the
entire Southern country.
President Johnson having removed the in
terdiet some time ago imposed by General Thomas
on the Episcopal clergy of Alabama. in consequence
of their Bishop, the Rev. Mr. Wilmer advising them
to omit the prayer for the national Executive the
General in an order issued the 22d ult announc
| ing said removal took occasion to alude to the
Bishops in terms not at all complimentary to
that gentleman. He says the interdict is removed
because the people of Alabama have shown that they
are not disposed to be influenced by the covert and
cunning" disloyaty of the Bishop whom the General
leaves TO that remorse of conscience consequent on
the exposure and failure of the dabolical schemes
| of designing and corrupt minds"
| The Brownsville correspondent of the
| New Orleans Times announces the arrival at the
former place of the American General R. Clay Craw-
| ford with authority to raise division Of American
| troops for the Mexican republican service-that he
has plenty of funds has established recruiting places
in different Texas towns, is meeting with success in
bis enterprise and has not yet been interfered with
by the American authorities 1t also rumored that
| Generals Logan and Lew. Wallace are connected
with this movement. Mejia. the Imperial COM
mander at Matamoras, was said to be preparing for
an expected attack from General Crawford. A late
Washington dispatch states that Count Zach, an
Austrian officer, had arrived there from Vera Cruz in
the capacity of agent from Maximilian to inter
| cede for his recognition by our Government. The
Paris correspondent of the London Nercs, writing on
the 18th Of December, argues that France and the
United States will agree upon friendly plan to effect
| the evacuation of Mexico by Maximilian and the
French troops and that it will include the establish
| ment at the head of the Mexican Government, ii
| place of the Austrian Archduke, of one of the son
| of the Emperor Iturbide.
The Secretary of War has sent into the
House an official statement of the number of volun
teers called for during the war. We select few o
the States, and for purposes of comparison add tn
| population by the census of 1860:
| ReducedtO3