Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
American En1erpriso in EtanscbntIs h

American Enterprise in AamschRtlku,
letter from St. Petersburg, Russia. to the New
York Herald, says:
1t Is asserted know not on what authority that
gent'emaa from America, a great capitalist or tbe
agent OF great American company has arrived here
with proposal to purchase Kamschatka from onT
(RuS5lanl government, with the intention of con.
Yertng 1t INTO the seat Of powerful commercial
association, after the fashion Of the Hudson Bay Com
pany II this intelligence is correct your country
men would be making much better speculation than
you may perhaps Imagine. hamschatka has got
bad name but 1t Is In reality splendid region and
over two hundred thousand square yerts in extent
possessed OF capaclOus harbOrs rivers abOundng in
hSh mountains which iron, copper marble granite
snlte and native sulphur are found IN inexhaustble
quantities; and with soil which, in the northern
parts, Is emlnently adapted to agriculture and would
raise magnificent crops OF cereals; while the interior
contains rich pastures in which the breeding of cat
| tie might be carried on to good advantage.
The climate is not very genial but yet much more
temperate than in Eastern Siberia. In the hands of
| industrious and enterprisng owners Kamschatka
might easily become OF the greatest corn grove
ing and cattle breeding countries in the world and
would afford comfortable home to millions of ppn-
pie instead of the few thousands who now fnd g
canty subsistence amidst the unexplored treasures
that surround them. frOm Petropaulowski a thirty
ing trade might be carried on in fnrS vrein rnia
ais. &C, to China, South Sea islands and the west
coast of America. In fact it is in every respect sI
perior to the Amoor which is shut up by ice for sx
months IN the year, while in PetrOpauowsld The
navigation Is scarcely ever interrupted and with the
exception OF san Francisco, there is not fin ar mort
n the whole Pacific. Persons acquainted with Kams-
chatka are unanimous in extolllng its capabilities
and are persuaded that an American company that
should purchase or farm it from the Russian Gov
ernment would discover mine of gold in this too
long neglected appendage of our empire.
STAND FROM UNDER.-It has transPired that the
proceedings of yesterdays sitting of the ReCOnstruc-
ton Committee were of a character to seriously
alarm the radicals who have been disposed to ght IT
out to the bitter end against the Presidents policv
RepoTt has it that Mr.. Boutwell,, of Mass. broke
ground by opposing the whole scheme of enforced
negro suffrage, and urging tne adoption OF plan of
reconstruction basing representation upon popula-
ton excepting from representation such males above
twenty years OF voters and Ieavinp
the whole question OF suffrage to the States Mr.
BoutWeu alIegeI that Two or three New England
States were all that could be counted on to sustain
enforced negro suffrage,
MIR. Ihad Stevens opposed the proposition of Mr.
Boutwell, with considerable heat, declaring thar If
the committee commenced to recede they might as
WIL I give Ihe WnoIe thing up. Senator Howard and
ohers look part In the subsequent debate and finally
the committee adjourned until Saturday without
action Washington Star
OIL ExCITEMENT-For several days past great gx-
cement has existed in the northern part of the citv
by reason of the discovery of quantity of lubri.
eating OIL which eXudeS from the ground in q IN hlic
alley, in the vicinity of A. l.. Withers' tapnerv
From one to two gallons Of oil per day is thron fo
the surface by very small stream of water ana II
has been pronounced by good judges to be genuina
article. 1t burns more freely than some snecimanS
which have been brought from West VirUipio 81 ~
giOns. Persons in that neigh borhood assert tbat .
digging cellars they had found years ago The san m
substance on the surface of the water ygbicb Sfi
their excavations. There has been no satisfaot Gu
Investigation made here but we hope some one @
take advantage OF these indications TO str,E fLaS
flowing well.-GUmberlund CiU ~ SUNG Ior
ENGLIsH GoTTON MILLS REopEN1NG
q NUMBER OF mills In the AS 70 oGU NHat