Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-17
.ENERAL NEWS.

day.
GENERAL NEWS.
Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut.
has issued proclamation appointing March 3Oth as
day of fasting and humiliation in that State.
There are indications td2t New Orleans
and Key West are to be abandoned as naval depots.
Nearly all supplies are being removed from them
The Egyptian government on the first of
January, for the first time commenced the use OF
postage stamps.
Daily passenger trains are now running
on the Jackson Railroad between New Orleans and
Canton.
There are now in the vaults of the Z. s.
Treasury about S14 900 in notes and coin, which
is the largest sum they have before contained.
The President of one of the leading Boston
banks has just had his salary raised to $1,000 per
year account of valuable services.
There is great excitement in Fall River,
Mass, over the sudden disappearance of one Nathan
M. Bufinton with unpaid bills left behind him TO
the amount of $90000
Austria has Just been troubled with one of
her periodical pancs, and has been trying and hap
PLY acquitting, begy of young Italian girls for the
heinous crime of singing patriotic songs the banks
of the bright blue lake Of Garda.
The fire now raging in the Sandwich
(Mass) woods, has already burned over 1900 acres,
and it is impossible to tell where it will stop fire
in those woods few months ago burned over more
than 1900 acres.
Mayor Hoffman, of New York, is making
strenuous effort to break up the ewelry and lottery
swindlers who send aenticing certificates over the
country, promising prize every time. The Post
office Department has promised to aid him.
"A yerdant couple, married by the Mayor
of TIRE Haute, Ind, after spending about four
months If honey moon. or, rather. vinegar moon,
came back ard very innoceatly asked to have the
knot united.
The contract on behalf of the Gettysbure
Battlefield Memorial Association for the purchase Of
the spot upon which Gen Reynolds fell has just been
closed. Five acres have been purchased. and suit
able monument will soon be erected 10 the memory
of the gallant deceased.
"A fre-damp explosion occurred in the
Chicago Gid Lake Tunnel on Saturday night by
which two of the workmen were severely burned.
Since the commencement of the work, these ex-
plosions have been frequent.
Three hundred and fifty thou sand francs
year are spent in confning debtors whose debts do
not amount to total of two hundred and forty thou
sand francs BY the Department of the Seine, Paris
Such course would be more appropriate in De
partment of the Insane.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald is
charmed with the serene peace that prevails in that
city: With the exception Of fifteen twenty fights
and the exchange ofa few friendly shots without any
unfortunate results nothing has happened of moment
| in two days"
1t is estimated that the Gee court martial
at Raleigh, n. c., will cost the Government at Least
100000 before it is at an end The testimony thus
far for the prosecution is replete with horrors only
oil aI hyyf fhn 80
| martial.
| "A Russian engineer has discovered an ex-
| tensive coal field about 80 versts from Turkestap
The coal said be of excellent quality and the Rus
slams will be able to carry out their plan of es
tablishng feet of steamers the Syr Daria which
has hitherto proved impracticable in consequence O
| the want of fuel in those parts.
| Secretary McCulloch has directed the
| Southern Treasury agents to inform the public a
large, as far as practicable and especially all subscr
bers to the Confederate Cotton Loan, that this SO
called Confederate cotton is considered the proper
of the late Contederacy and is liable to seizure an
| confiscation.
-Twenty-eight millions of bushels of sal
are annually consumed in the United States of whic
| amount about one-haf is imported The quantit
of salt manufactured in this country is steadily o
the increase and perhaps in ten years will becom
sufficient to supply our wants without any importa
| ton.
The Galena Ill.) Gazette says: ''Mr
Canty. of Elizabeth. went down into an old miners
hole the other day to search for mineral While h
was digging in the dirt the earth overheard gave
and fell upon him. burying him entirely over exceT
his head. The weight of earth was so heavy that
unable to moye and in this condition he lay frol
eight o'clock in the morning till four in the evening
l when be was found by his friends and rescued"