Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-21

can industry at the Paris Exposition was then con-
sideIed. and the House disagreed to the Senate's
amendments thereto, and asked for a committee OF
conference on the subject. The House took up the
bill 20 increase the army. and pending vote the
o-th section, adjourned.
GENERAL NEWS.
The cholera has appeared at Nantes, in
France. and is making fearful ravages in Holland.
Madame Russell whipped Victor Curtz in
fair stand UP fight, in Norfolk, Sunday evening.
"A man named Cung shot his wife in West
Hoboken N. j., mistaking her for a burglar.
AT three of the branch land Offices in the
western States nearly forty thousand dis
posed of during May.
Spain and Portugal have concluded a
common bond of neutral alliance in the event of a
European war.
"A grand regatta came off in Philadelphia
on Tuesday. One hundred and eighteen yachts en-
torcd for the race several of which were upset by the
stiff breeze blowing.
The Hagerstown Torchlight says it is pro-
posed to dedicate An.ietam Cemetery on the 18th of
September next. that being the anniversary of the
great battle.
An election has been ordered by Gov.
Murphy. of Arkansas on August 9th, for three Con-
gressmen and two Supreme Judges.
The grasshoppers have appeared in strong
force in Buchanan county. Miss and fears enter
tanned from their ravages upon vegetation.
The latest reports from the Red river
country are unfavorable to the prospects of the
crops. The overaowed lands have been newly
planted.
On the afternoon of the 18th instant Mar
garet Flandery, servant girl aged 49, burned to
death while attempting to kindle fire with kero-
sene, at Holley. Orleans county. N. Y.
Major General Pope's expedition left
Leavenworth for Fort Bliss. Texas on the Slst ut.
with an escort of 500 men and baggage train of 40
wagons.
"A travelling correspondent of New .ork
paper says Beaufort, S. c.. is nearly Yankeei7 one
half of the present residents hailing from ,sachu-
setts and other New England States.
Two men were found dead in their beds
in Poughkeepsie, on Tuesday, and colored woman
and an Irish laborer dropped dead in Hudson on
Sunday.
An American watch factory at Elgin, ILL.,,
with 600 capital will be ready to make sixty
watches per day by September Most of the stock
holders were formerly workmen at Waltham.
In q late murder case in England, q
chemist succeeded in proving that certain spots on
axe handle stains of human blood, by mi
croscopic examination.
"A house in Augusta, Maine, which was
burned on Tuesday. was built in 177O and was the
quarters of Benedict Arnold when he was on his
Quebec expedition.
Harper, noted guerilla, entered Bow
ling Green, Kentucky, on Thursday night, in com
mand of fifty armed men, and released from prison
three of his confederates in robbery and horse steal
ing.
Gen. Ortega, now in Washington, has
issued protest against the recent decree of President
Juarez reappointing himself to Office and denoupces
the act arbitrary, Illegal tending to establish
Dictatorship an insult to the people, and ealumny
upon Gen. 0rtega himself.
Rev. Father Bender, a priest of one of
tho Catholic churches in Cincinnati refused to per-
NIT any insignia of the Fenisn brotherhood to be
brought within his church on tbs occasion of the
burial service of one q the men who was killed at
the fight at Limestore Ridge.
VIM. Bowling, charged with Captain J..
S. M. Harrows murder. in Fredericksburg, Va.
some two yearsago released from the Jail by tho
military ON saturday last. 1t will be remembered
tha HarroJ a rebel conscripton officer and un-
:ertook eforce Bowling into the Confederate army,
when tie latter shot him.
.-2he people of Holland, Western Massa.
chsetts. were not a little surprised the other
Jay to see the sexton driving into town at brisk
pace. in light trotting skeleton buggy, with cof-
fin strapped to the axle. and funeral procession
coming up in the rear as fast as possible.
The Royal Geographical Society of Eng
land has presented purse of one hundred guineas
to NJ du Chalu, to reimburse him for the loss of his
instruments in Western Africa. and also as testi-
mona of the value of his services to the geography
and ehartography of the region he explored.
AS nearly as we can compute, about eight
motions were made yesterday in the House to in
crease the salaries of as many Offices and most of
them agreed to. Will there ever be an end Of
this? We suggest that some member propose to re-
duce somebody's salary. He would be sure to create
sensation if he did not anything to the Treas
ury.-Tribune.
The late Gen. Scott considered himself
the ranking officer of the armies of the United States
even after Gen. Grant was commissioned Lieutenant
General. The act authorizing Gen. Grants appoint
ment provided that nothing in this contained shall
be construed in any way. to affect the rank. pay or
allowance Of Winfield Scott. Lieutenant General by
brevet. now on the retired list of the army"
"A son of Moses Smith, of Holden, Mass.
about eighteen years old, was shot in the head on
Friday night. and will probably die in consequence.
He left home to go to neighbor's. and in a short
time returned with severe wound in his chin and
jaw-bone broken, while the ball had passed upward
and backwards. and still remained in his head He
has been deirious since and unable to give any
account of the singular affair.
The financial troubles of Lamartine were
lately brought to the notice of the Council of Min
listers in Paris. and it is reported that NJ Rouher
proposed to give him pension of forty thousand
francs for fe which should be inserted in the budget
subject to the approval of the legislative body. In
consideration of this pension Lamartine was to make
to the State all his assets and liabilities. Lam
arine has declined this proposal, and intends it is
said. to settle in Sicily.
"A new idea has been taken hold of by an
enterprising Californian. He has started for the
East with drove of California horses. the native
breed-some 500, intending to drive them into Mis-
souri, to supply the demand As these horses cost but
little on the Pacific SLOPE are tough hardy and can
live on theiphotog of bunch of grass they will
be sure to go through all right and be greatly well
come in the Trans Mississippi region. where rebel
lion and bushwhackng has left the horse crop inevi
tably short for few days.
DIR. Potter, of Tionesta, Venango county,
Pennsylvania made wager of 5000. a week since
that he would drive his pair of mares over country
road, to be selected by him. 100 miles in 99 hours
The event came off last Saturday week, and the Doc
tor drove lOS miles and II roods in hours and II
minutes and l3 seconds. stopping once to feed and
twice to water the actual time of travelling being 81
hours, the best time on record. The animals are
beautiful pair of largo bay mares, and they came in
apparently quite fresh. under strong pull. The
Doctor afterward refused $4,000 for his team.
The community of t'bruisers'i and their
sympathizers here were greatly excited yesterday
over prize fight" which took place below Wash
ington city, between two of the fraternity 'forty.
seven rounds" having been fought before the badlv
whipped one gave in. Itwas one of those incidents
in human affairs where the penalty accompanies the
transgression both being badly punished )" and the
modicum of money and honor won being 50 mites.
finally small as to excite wonder at the endurance
shown to get it. The principals in the affair are now
under arrest in Washington, together with severa
of the fancy" who participated in the mill" al
being held for requisition of the Governor from
Virginia.
The Rev. Granville Moody, of Ohio, in
recent address at Sandusky. on the unity of Chris
tian effort, illustrated the thought by the following
beautiful figure; "Were all the beautiful colors O
the rainbow to be painted and then placed on
wheel while the wheel revolved slowly the color
would be distinct and separate but give rapidity h
the Wheel and the colors would become so blended
that only the white could be and the switer tn
revolutions the brighter would the white become. s.
with Christian effort when not uaited and active
employed. all the colors (denominatonal character
istic) are clearly dscernable. but all together tn
more zealousy they are employed, the whittier the
become and oply the pure light of Christianity /