Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-22

warded by steamer to- morrow. The bulk of Mr..
Stewards communication is directed to review and
commentary upon the imperial address, and scores
with special severity the assertion of the Emperor
that this government had been invited to join France
in her Mexican intervention, before the introduction
OF French forces into the army of Maximlian. The
"reminiscences of the Premier relative to the part
France has been made to take in the struggle of
sister republic especially caustie and cannot fail
to suggest the idea across the water that do not
receive the imperial excuses for that sinister
with any degree of equanimity.
A widow lady named Potter has just died
at Brevedent France in her one hundred and fourth
year. She retained her faculties to the last.
Lieut.. Gov. Bross, of Illinois, thinks
that it will not cost mucn to build ths Pacific Rail
road as was expended in constructing the Pennsylya
MIA Central or the Erie.
Sam Barr, clerk of the Missouri, threatens
to kill somebody if the statement of racing at the
time of the explosion as published by the Evansville
Courier is not retracted The editor declines to re-
tract.
The workmen on the shore end of the
Chicago lake tunnel have excavated distance of
about one mile out under the lake. while the work
men from the Golfer dam sunk il the lake have adj
vanced to meet them two hundred feet.
Theodore Adams has brought suit against
the United States in the Court of Claims to recover
balance of $ll2.750.76. alleged to be due him on
contracts made with Gen. Fremont for the building
of thirty eight monitors and eight tugs.
The fisheries along the Virginia and
Maryland shores of the Potomac are all being put in
order for the ashing season, now fast approaching
and it is thought that ths herring and shad taken this
spring will equal if not greatly exceed IL amount
that of any previous year.
The Charleston Courier says that $125,-
900 have been subscribed in that city for the purpose
of securing white laborers for South Carolina
off hash a "a,
esce in Germany, who declares that he can persuade
thousands Of the people of that country to emgrate
Eight hogsheads of tobacco were some
time since put up Louisville and shipped to Liv-
erpool The prices not being satisfactory it was sent
back 70 louisville and sold there on Tuesday last to
Chicago firm at rate that yielded profit to the
seller.
Bill Reynolds, the Missouri bushwhacker,
who killed two men in Pleasant Hill, Cass county,
Mo-, few days since, pursued by the citizens.
overtaken and brought back to the town. when Mr.
Copeland brother of one of the murdered men shot
him dead in the street.
The pecuniary losses of Kinds county,
Mississippi by the war estimated at the solid az
gregate of SIS 500. The papers add another ten
millions for the depreciation in the value of the lands
1t would require large inducements to persuade the
people of that county to go into another war in
search of their rights.
The newly elected estate Centre" of the
Illinois Fenians John Forrista comes out for Roberts
and General Sweeney, and says that mad ambition
and lust of not0riety" prompted John 0'Mahoney
and others to violate the constitution. He mildly
charaoterizeS the opposite faction as the Clique of
knaves and imbeciles that support John O'Mahoney
in his reasonable and ruinous COURSE The fight is
growing daily more interesting.
The latest sensation in Chicago has been
great dog fright, the description of which occupies
three solid columns of the Republican, The head
ings of the report sufficiently suggestive of the
nature of the contest. Among them ars the follow
ing: BEST contested battle on record, Twenty
thousand dollars lost and won," "The Boston dog
Victorious Neither animal survives the struggle"
"How roughs behaved at the tavern ~ Rum ruhian-
sm riot and robbery" The whole affair was az COM
pete exhibition of the neither strata of Chicago
rowdysn aad brutality as could have possibly been
got us.
The testimony of General Lee before the
Reconstruction Committee is understood to have had
reference eoey to the State and people of Virginia
He declared that the people of Virginia accept the
result OF the war final, submit in good faith to the
authority of the Government, and are honestly
anxious for complete restoration in the Union. In
response to inquiry to whether jury could be
empaneled in Virginia for impartial trial of JEFF
ferson Davis General Lee stated thathe thought not
| as scarcely any man summoned as juror could
bring in verdict of guilty without feeling that he
as party to the same crime could be held equally
liable.
One dollar square inch seems pretty
seep price for picture. particularly when the one
hundred dollars is paid in gold; but such is the ac-
tua cost of tiny Meissonier exhibited atthe monthly
meeting of the N. G. Ath@neum Club. This little
| gem is called 'The Guard Room and represents
group of soldiers at cards. In size is only eight by
ten inches. yet perfectly elaborated all its de-
tails, and SO effectively presented the salient fea
lures of the portrayed, that the merest tyro
art must confess its masterpiece, while the connois
seur is lost in wonder and delight as he gazes upon
its beauties The picture formerly belonged to Prince
Demido and when his collection was sold, this little
thing brought thirty-fve thousand francs, but has
since become the properly of wealthy New Yorker,
/ who paid eight thousand dollars in gold for it,