Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

cENATE-N1r. Lane introduced another amend
ment to the Constitution in the form of resolution
| providing for a basis of representation, etc.
| which, after some debate was laid over. The
bill for the admission of Colorado was taken up but
| after some discussion rejected.
HOUSE.-In the House appropriations were made
for the construction repairs and preservation Of forts
and other works of defence The House also passed
| resolution of thanks to Gen. Hancock for dstin-
| guished military services.
GENEEAE. NEWS.
Snow is three feet deep III Northern Wis
consin, and the stock is suffering very much.
At late picture sale III New York,
Chureh's Twilight in the Wilderness" brought
$780, The Duel" by Tussot, 81 275: and water
color by Gustave Dore, The Angels Watching $500
The catalogue of Andoyer Theological
Seminary for this year gives the numbers as follows
Resident Licentiates Is; Senior Class 25; Middle
Glass, 25; Junior Glass, %; total "a.
"A negro girl imprisoned in the Augusta
jail for larceny, carelessIy let her clothes take fire
few days ago. and on Thursday night died from the
injuries she received.
"A dwelling house, owned by Mrs. Edith
| Saunders, between Leesburg and Edwards Ferry.
occupied by Mr.. slas Simpson, was burned few
nights ago, by accident. The children were with
| diihcuty saved.
! "A daily line of steamers now plies be
| tween Hampton and Norfolk and Portsmouth, via
Old Point. There is tri-woekly line between Nor
! folk and Newbern via the Albemare and Chesapeake
canal which makes the trip in twentytour hours.
| The petroleum fever is extending to Maine
Mr.. John Garland writes to local paper that in
the great droughtof 1864 fire broke spontaneously
in seventy different places his farm. His explana
ton is that the soil must be saturated with oil.
The longshoremen OF Brooklyn are on a
strike ,aav and between three thousand and five
thousand of them are assembled the Atlantic dock
Up to everything vas qulet' ana no trouoIe is
apprehended. A large police to.~H however Is helo
in reserve to quiet any disturbance whicn may occur
N. J. Ere Post.
In Missouri the planters are exhibiting
great fairness in their labor contracts The St. Louis
Republican says that in the counties of Howard and
Randolph, negro factory hands (men) are getting
from $50 to $25 month and board small boys and
girls (semmers) getting from S. to $40 per month
and board; field hands Cmen) $50 to S25 per month
and hoard. AS e,,,lSequence the blacks are we'll
disposed, there is Aes poverty a.. the profits or
capital invested largely increased.
Judge Mason gave an interesting opinion
in the New FORK Supreme Court on Friday as to the
duties of hotel keepers guest at the Laarge House
was robbed of a watch, his rings and scarfpn to-
gether with two hundred dollars in money, and on
Of the house nder the statute of the State required
valuables to be deposited in the safe of the office
The judge, however, charged that this did not apply
to a watch, or such ewelry a usually carried
about his person, nor to such amounts of money as
usually carried in the pockets of travellers to
supply ordinary necessities.
A mere accident has Just led to import
ant discoveries in the ruins of the old manor house
of Cebastro. which stands in the gorge of Uces. be-
tween France and Aragon. The recent high winds
threw down part of the wall Of the southern tower
and exposed to view the entrance to sepulchra
vaults belonging to the period of Gothic denomina
ton. Excavations were Immediately commenced
and have brought to light great quantity of jewery
of all kinds diadems, bracelets, rings and pins.
The diadems bear some resemblance to the crown
preserved in the CIuny Museum and enable US to
form 9. accurate opinion to the arts of the Nis
! goths.
The Reese River (Cal.) ReUeille says that
about three miles north of Ions there is isolated
mountain, some five hun dred feet high, which is
called Agate Mountain. Its entire surface upon all
Sides from summit to base, is covered with agates
and concretions and on digging into the soil they
are found like potatoes in hill. The agates are
usually oval and sometimes globuiar in form, and
varying from one four inches in diameter, and
generally beautifully banded and striped. In the
hands of skillfu lapidary, they could be fashioned
| into pleasing ornaments.
The various concretions found in great abund-
| ance and many of them particularly beautiful.
In their sphercity they sometimes found as per
feet as ball, though generally the spherical shape
is quite distorted They hollow and usually filed
with crystals. On breaking them open their interior
is often found to be irregulary hollow and lined
around with layer of quartz crystals, forming what
is termed geode-a little crystal grotto." Some OF
these hollow concretions contain smaller concre-
J ton inside which rattles when shaken in the hand.