Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.


SgNArE.-The Senate yesterday took up the Consti-'
tutional amendment. as passed by the House, and
Mr. Howard delivered his views upon the measure.
Mr. Wade offered an amendment, as did also Messrs.
Wilson, Clark and Buckalew, pending discussion of
which the Senate went into executive session and
shortly afterward adjourned.
HoUsE.-In the House several messages of minor
importance were received from the President. Mr..
Elliott, from the Committee on Commerce. asked
leave to report back the bill relative to quarantine
regulations with a recommendation that the House
concur in the Senates amendments but Mr.. LIE Blond
objected and the bill was withdrawn. The tax bill
was then taken up and considered. the section rea
tive to incomes eliciting long debate The final
ton of the House, however may be stated substan-
tally as follows That there shall be levied, collected
and paid annually upon the gains. profits and in
comes of every person residing in the United States
duty of FIVE per centum on the excess over one
thousand dollars when the income does not excesd
e re thousand dollars; but when it exceeds five
thousand dollars there shall be levied and collected
an ucome duty ten per cent:
GENERAL NEWS.
"A patent has recently been granted for a
machine for making and dressing button holes.
Gen. Sweeney looks upon Stephens, the
great Fenian Head Centre. as q spy in English
employ.
Two policemen were stabbed in Detroit
last Saturday by couple of negroes whom they had
arrested for robbery.
The cholera has again made its appear
an ce in France. Cases have occurred at Guerande.
Boiugle-Ratz and LIE Croise.
BY fire near Alexandria, on Monday
evening last, the Government is said to have lost
about $75. 900 worth of we'll seasoned wood.
"A "sea serpent" 20 feet long and foot
in diam eter was killed about week ago in a bayou
near Memphis. He is supposed to have come from
the Mississippi.
Trains of movers daily pass through New
Albany Ind. from the interior of the State. bound
for Kentucky and Ten from which States they
fled during the war.
"A Washington despatch says that Gen.
Grant has received despatch from Gen. Halleck in
California. in which he says there is not word Of
truth in the report that Fort Goodwin has been cap
tured by the Apaches and the garrison tdassacred.
German tailors still continue to arrive in
Edinburgh, to the great disgust of their brethren Of
the goose and lapboard. who have again struck be-
cause the new corners will not conform to the rules Of
| the union.
1t is estimated that the bridge across the
river from Cincinnati to Covington, KY. Eil cost
81 $50 000 Its height above low water is log feet,
and its extreme length, including approaches from
Front street, Cincinnati. and Second street, Covng-
ton, 2252 feet.
The people of Columbia, S. c., are un-
| certain whether Gen. Sherman or Wade hampton
1 burned their city. They held meeting the sub
ect the other day. when resolutions denouncng Sher
| man as the great incendiary" were voted down.
1 Finally, committee appointed to take testi-
mony and report One of the speakers said he con-
sdered Sherman to be great soldier, and that he,
1 not Grant, conquered the Confederacy.
| II. C. A. Dexter, late a supervising Treas
ury agent in the State of Alabama. has been tried
and convicted of appropriating to his own use 1884
bales of Government cotton and has been sentenced
to pay fine of $25O0O0. and be confined in the psni
tentiary at Nashville for year and until the fine
is paid aud to be forever disqualified from holdins
any Office of honor. trust profit under the United
| States Government.
The days grow darker for Imperialism il
| Mexico. From San Luis Potosi the moehos ar
gathering into the capital fro all parts of the State
Escobedo, reinforced with many smaller bodies o
tro ops than his own has taken "Catorce" the larg
est coming mint next to that of Guanajuato in tn
| country. General Poriro Diaz has fallen upon Ga
jaca Capital OF the State of the same name and cap
tured the city and its garrison. At the last censu
under the Essupllc oaJaca had population o
| $4,000.
-Norwegians are excited over the state O
\ oysters found in northern latiudes Several sudde
| deaths have recently occurred. Queen Christian
| ordered the most eminent men of tie medical pro
| fesson in the realm to inquire into tho cause Al
investigation revealed the startling fact that tn
deaths produced by the eating of diseased oys
| ters suffering from ''pestilential consumption,
which disease renders their flesh poisonous. Arathe
unpleasant prospect for the lovers of the deciou
biyalye in Norway.
. If there is boye on earth whom societ
should discountenance it is the great man" who DE-
Iiberately and of malice aforethosght makes afte
dinner speeches on public occasions. NsKt to sue
person in the scale of comparative atrocity il tb
Proposer of Healths who brings him to his legs an
causes hisn to ventilate the common-paces bottle
!. | within him for the occasion. IF ever human b'
ing is unfit to spout in public it is iust after he hi
tax en- ia the supplies. At a cosy private party th
thing may be, and often is. neatly and happily don
but IL ID otherwise On other occasions,