Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-01


The principal business transacted in the House was
the passage of the Constitutional represen alton
amendment.
Mr.. Stevens from the Committee on Reconstruc.
ton, reported back the amendment providing for q
new basis of Representation with single amendment
striking out the words and direct taxes" from tho
first line, which previously read Representation AM
direct taxes shall he apportoned," &c. 1t reads as
follows
kesotred by the Senate and House of Represent2-
tiyes, etc., (two-thirds of both Houses concurring
that the following article be proposed the Legia
lures of the several States, amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, which when rati
fed by threetourths of said Legislatures, shall be
valid as part of said Constitution, viz:
"Articlc-Representatives shall be apportoned
among the several States which may be included
within this Union according TO their respective
bers; counting the whole number of persons in each
State, excluding Irdians not taxed: Proridcd Thai
whenever the elective franchise shall be denied OF
abridged in any State account of race or color all
therein Of such color shall be excIuG
ed from the basis of representation.
Mr.. Stevens called the previous question upon the
amendment, and proceeded to address the House in
his usual STYLE taking occasion berate the Presi
dent for his lately expressed viows the raconsruc
tOn question.
The amendment of Mr.. Schenck, basing apportion-
ment on votes substitutes was,lost-yeas 49, nay,
l3O
Upon the main question there were yeas l2O, nay,
46 and the measure receiving the erequsite
vote, was declared passed by the Speaker.
THE LEGESLATURE.
In our report of the proceedings of the State Legs
lature to-day, will be found the minority report in
full Of the Registration Committee of the House
GENERAL NEWS.
4ho oil -obol bo4ol l,,..,,a..
been held for trial in New York.
Lord Monck is expected Immediately at
Ottawa, when, it is believed, the Canadian Parlia-
ment will be called together.
A brother Of Gen. Grant, formerly his part
ner in business, is now in Washington, and submit
ting to considerable lionzing at the hands of the
military and civic authorities
On Monday next fifty-ive new money-ordeI
Offices to be opened including Richmond Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile and many other important
places in the South and in the Territories.
1t is rumored that Judge Coursol, (of Cana.
ada) who suspended in consequence of his action
in the ST. Albans raid case soon to be restored
office.
Among the patents issued from the Z. S.
Patent Office for the week ending. JAN 23 1866, waa
one for a Steam Generator to Charles Henry Ford
(assignec TO himself Hayward Hutchinson, jesse j.
Hutchinson and Elias S. Hutchinson Baltimore Nd
The total number of lives lost by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of the steamboat Missouri in
the Ohio river the other morning. was SIXTY. among
them the captains wife. Thecaptain escaped, though
badly injured.
1t is said to Ge true that Mrs. Robert Lee is
bringing the Influence ofmany leading of Virginia
and the South to bear upon the President in favor Of
the restoration to her her prncely Arlington estate
and there are some of the opinion that she may be
successful.
A rumor was current in Washington on
Tuesday. and for time received considerable ere
dence that Secretary of War; Stanton had positive
y resigned his position and would yacate it yester
day; but the report appears to have had no reliable
basis.
The Stock market yesterday, as a whole,
quiet. Gold sold at the First Board at 140M and
1iO7 but at the Second Board it fell TO l4O4 closing
at that figure bid. Governments were steady. Moth
ing doing in Railroad stocks. and but slight move
ment in Railroad bonds.
An extra issued by the National Bank Note
Reporter says that an imitation of the twenty dollar
denomination on the First National Bank of Ind-
annapolis, Indiana is in circulation. Wig; Battle of
Lexington on left end back Of note, Baptism of Po-
cahontas.
1t is now supposed that the individual who
succeeded, last Saturday. in purchasing $4,000 in
gold from city bank in New York, for a bogus
check on the Chatham National Bank has departed
for Europe as the time between the transaction and
the discovery of the fraud gave him ample opportu-
nifty to do so.
Jack Sheppard, Jr., as notorious q charac-
ter as his progenitor. escaped from the New York
State prison at Sing Sing on Tuesday, passing out
boldly in broad day light dressed in citizens Clothes
G. 49,
and sleigh standing in front of the prison door and
drove off.
NJ. Montholon, the French Minister, says
Washington special, had long interview with the
Secretary of State Tuesday. 1t understood that
he communicated the reply of the French Govern
ment to the despatch of Mr.. Seward, declining the
recognition of Maximilian's Government.
The Council Grove Democrat is informed
by Col Leavenworth, Indian Agent. that he succeed
ed in recovering two white women, Mrs. Mcdaniel
and Mrs Sriggs and six children, who were taken
capves by the Indians in northern Texas last sum
mer. The Indians have yet three white children,
which they promise to deliver up.
There has been quite an excitement caused
in Canada by atemet to transport from Quebec to
Montreal two cases containing twelve human bodies
which had been resurrected for surgical purposes.
An investigation, the purpose of which is to ferret
out tnOSe engaged IN tle unQeftakl0R Is now
gress.
The large cutstone church belonging to the
Wesleyan denomination in Quebec, .and situated on
the corner Ursula and St. Annes streets, Upper
Town, caught fire on Friday morning, and was almost
entirely destroyed. 1t was fine structure finished
with much taste, and cost tho congregation $4,000
1t was insured, but not to the full value.
Col. Burton n. Harrison, formerly private
Secretary to exPresident Davis, has been released
by order of the President from Fort Delaware where
he has been confined since last spring. Colonel Har
risons Imprisonment was based upon no special
charges other than such as might have been sug-
gested by his official and personal attachment to MI
Davis.
The Washington Star of last evening SAYS
we learn from the Navy Department that the story
sent from New Orleans, to the effect that the Navy
Department is preparing for active service eleven
ron-clads at New Orleans and that orders have been
issued requiring vessels bound for the Rio Grande
call at Galveston in order to convey troops to the
Mexican border. is without particle of foundation
An effort is making in the Virginia Legis
lature to declare the election of Senator'S Underwood
and Segar Illegal Governor Pierpont and John
Minor Bolts talked of for the succession. Both
his friends and enemies are trying to get Governor
Plerpont to resign the former in order that mill
tary governor may be appointed, and the latter that
Robert E. Lee or some other prominent individual
may be elected.
The case of Thaddeus Curtiss against
Messrs. Leaton Wanright, stock brokers, for dam
to the amount of S52000 for an alleged illegal
sale of Harlem and Bucks county lead stocks car
ried" by them on his account, was brought to con-
cluson on Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn IN. V
Circuit Court. The defendants claimed that the con-
tract made by them with the defendants when they
agreed to purchase and carry stocks for them, was
that in case his margin out they had the right
to sell without giving him notice. and Judge Gil
bert charged the jury, that if they found from the
evidence that such contract had been entered into
that 1t was perfectly valid one, and the defendants
were justified in selling the stock. The jury returned
a verdict for defendants
The Newark AdUertiser states that the At
lantic and Great Western Railway Companv. under
the terms of their agreement with the Morris and
Essex Railroad Company, have already contracted
for the grading of the whole of the branch road
from Denville to Bloomfield. This line will mass
through Roonton Little Falls, and the Great Notch
in First Mountain, and will be some twenty-tbree
miles long. A corps of engineers is now enpaeed
between Bloomfield and Patterson in stalking ont the
proposed new road. preparatory to commencing
work The grading this part of the route is to be
finished during the present year. and also that Dor
ton between Denville and Boonton. At the same
ume the work the entire line of the road is to be
pushed forward with all possible dispatch and the