Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-18

An order has been issued by the Chief
Commissioner of Police in London, Sir Richard
Mayne, to have the whole of the police force in
structed in cutas drill in addition to the other mill
tary drill that is now taught them.
1t is noted as a remarkable fact that one
OF the btterest opponents of the liberty of the
in France, is Graner de Cassagnoc who was former
y an old editor and now member of the Legislative
Corps.
Compliant is made by the papers of Y York,
England that at concerts given there, the ladies
take their crotchet and tattng work with them, and
the gentlemen seduIoEsIy read the newspapers
througOut the performances.
The Indianapolis Journal referring to the
large shipment of arms lately made in behalf of the
Irish Republic says that the Fenans of indianapolis
are good in sending, but do not appear to be much in
going.
The horse railroad drivers of Cambridge,
Mass, struck on Monday because two colored men
were employed to work in Of the stables The
result was that 40 colored were put in the places
of the strikers
There are at present lodgings in Paris for
63'369 families. The Prefect of the Seine has cacu
lated that IN order that lodgings in Paris should re-
man at moderate price, there should be always
$4,000 vacant.
Five hundred barrels of high wines have
been seized by the revenue officers of Madison CO.,
N. y The property was seized for violation of the
revenue law, in unlawfully using the inspectors
brand.
1.-Two men, named Henne and Chestnut, got
into a political in a saloon in Albany on We'd
nesday, when the latter struck the former heavy
blow with his fist. which felled him to the floor and
he expired in few moments. Chestnut fled but was
soon arrested.
The violin seems to succeed in the hands
of the fair sex. Some half dozen young adiss have
played in Paris the last two seasons solos and con-
certed music on this difficult instrument Mile
Camille Urso is announced to play at the Philhar-
monic Society, Bologne
The Boston Traceller says: The Southern
trade has completely collapsed and hardly single
vessel is on its way hither from New Orleans, Mobile
Savannah or Charleston. Our people have probably
as much cotton hand as they care about holding.
and wish the quantity lessened rather than increased
The Bostonians are preparing to literally
test cleanliness of person as preventive against
cholera. The City Fathers have just appropriated
$4,000 for city baths and men, women and children
are expected to betake themselves forthwith to the
publication is complete.
Reports from all parts of Vermont say
that the prospects for large sugar crop were never
petleT IMAM tney are tnls season. The Woodstock
Nodard says the best quality of syrup is freely Of
fered in that vicinity 81 25 per gallon while in
other sections it is quoted at still lower figure and
sugar at corresponding rates.
According to returns just published, it is
found that 6367 cent. of the in the British
army are able both to read and write and $50 per
cent are of superior education. Of the remaining
@52 per cent 1855 read but not WRITE and 1907
can neither read nor write. 1297 per cent of SOL
diers. therefore, unable either to read or write
The ladies of Boone county, Mo-, are
preparing for fair to be held in June next in aid
OF the thousands of suffering orphans in the South
from all parts of which the most affecting appeals for
help are continually coming. An association, with
like objects in view, has also been formed in Column
bia in the same State.
AN anecdote of Rossini is circulating in
Paris to the effect that one day visitor found him at
his piano. evidently engaged IN decpherng the
Iannhauser." Maestro!" exclaims the visitor,
you have got the work upside down." YES" good
humoredly replied the author of Quillaume Tell >
i tried it the other way but that wouldn't do.'
There is mountain of fine rock salt on
the Colorado river in Arizona lying in cubes of all
sizes, and pure, you would dream of it being
salt if you did not putt to your tongue; it more re-
sembles broken chunks of the finest plate glass
There is not particle of foreign matter in it, and
there is enough of the article to supply the popula
ton for centuries
The San Antonio (Te1as) Herald reports
that Major Coopwood has purchased the forty or
more camels introduced into Texas some eight ten
years ago. and expects to start with them in his cara
van for California in short tme loading them with
some or five hundred pounds each. Has Government
abandoned the experiment of naturaizing this ami
NAL?
More than half the British House of Com
mons is composed of University men. One hundred
and ffty-six graduates of Oxford. and one hun
dred and thirteen of Cambridge. Christ Church has
the largest number from Oxford colleges. viz: SO: and
Trinity from the Cambridge colleges viz: 90. There
should be intelligent legislation among such host
scholars.
During violent gale which occurred in
the Dudkeld district in Scotland last month"; a lsr
number of trees, of them of unusual size, wer,
uprooted In the garden of Duncrub, belonging tC
Lord Rollo, fir tree worthy Of note blown down
1t was eighty feet in height and the circumference
at the root eighteen feet. This tree was planted
IN l7O6 to commemorate the union between England
and Scotland.
Brownsville (Texas) correspondence says
the Liberals in Northern Mexico are gaining grounC
and reinforcements. Escobedo's camp three thou
sand men strong. is at Lenarez. The troops are wei
ulsclplHeu anu III BOOu cOnQlCOQ. hle1la mas mao
another forced loan without paying but 20 per cent
of the former Matamoras has no communica
tion with Bagdad or any place except the river.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has commenced the construction at Grafton
West Virginia. of an immense engine-house. Th
new building is designed to hold at least sixteen en-
gnes, and will besides be provided with the necessar
accommodations for workmen, machinery, &c. Thi
is certainly an evidence of prosperity and enterprs
the part of the company which it affords US grea
| pleasure to record.-PMsbura Com.
"A girl five or six years old, daughter O
G. C. Gray at Wesley, about three weeks since wa
playing in the barn with other children. One of tn
number let pitchfork fall striking the girl on tn
head, and tine of the fork penetrated the sku
two inches The children could not extract the forl
the girls mother finding thatit required consderabl
strength to do The child survived about two week
after the accident.
The Pennington Chronicle takes not
that numerous letters sent from that office to tn
address oflottery swndlers in New York The fool
are not all dead. A Pennington trader however
| proved himself no fool. He received notice fe,
days ago from New York agency that a package Q
tickets reserved for him had drawn prize of $50
which would be sent him on receipt of $50 to nan e1
penses. He replied that they might send him 81. 81
and reserve the fifty from the amount of the prize
| Says Paris letter: You will see strang
stories in the press about another Duke de PrasIi
affair at Paris, and you may see it mentioned ais
that the stories concern the newly married coupl,
the Duke and Duchess de Mouchy the latter ,
course being the victim. But ever since the reno,
was putin circulation. Duke and Duchess have drive
regularly to the promenade, and there is reason
believe there is no foundation for the story 1t woul
therefore be improper to give the details as the
| are repeated from mouth to mouth.
| The worlds supply of emery has within
short time been (prospectively) doubled Hither
two places-Cape Emeri. in the island of Mako
and the neighborhood of Smyrna-have furnish,
| nearly all the emery used. A few years ago mil
was discovered in North Wales. and another, perha
the most important deposit of the kind in the worl
has lust been discovered in Chester. Mass This att
Yields emery of the finest kind, and which does N
rust upon exposure to the air. 1t is also reported
be capable of doing one-third more work than al
other emery in the world. Its non-liability to OK
dation also gives it superiority. This mine is no
worked. or preparing for work; and. instead
Turkish" emery being the favorite brand, Amer
can" will be likely to take its place.