Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

was, after considerable debate passed.
uOUsE.-In the House it was resolved to hold night
sass IONS hereafter for the transaction Of business
Lon, debate had on the bill to regulate
trade hetvv. On the United States and the British
provinces, but -thoUt any definite result.
GEEN NEssAE NEWS.
Seven thousand copies Of Whittier's
"snow-bound" were sold on the day Of publication.
The Belgian Senate has rejected the pro-
posals of the Government to abolish capital punish
mcnt by vote OF IS to ID.
Billiard halls in Worcester are closed on
Saturdays at six o'clock P. NJ by order Of the Board
of Aldermen.
The Ohio papers report cases Of the
spotted fever in Warren county. 1t generally attacks
children. and has proved fatal in almost every ease
The Oconto (Wis.) Lumbermaa says that
upwards of eight tons of lake trout have been caught
at the Green Island fishery this winter.
The Elmira Gazette says over one thous.
and persons in that city have made profession of
religion during the late revival.
AT the meeting of the Nursery and Chill
dren's Hospital in New YORK. it is stated that there
in the institution seven mothers, each under Is
years of age.
Samuel Bennett, of New Bedford, dis
covered torpedo in coal just as he was about
to put it into the stove, on Saturday. It was tin
box filed with powder.
M. Henri NJ artin, the historian, is a can
,'idate for admission to the French Academy. 1t is
urp. in opposition to him that he wears his beard
long. win III academician has ever ventured to do
There a., in the Austrian army q arch
dukes. dukes 25 ,nriuces. 50 fursten princes, $50
counts 89S barons $40 kr. @hs. $500 noblemen. and
10000 commoners, besides the leguiar rank and fle
Boxes containing munitions OF war are
being shipped from Philadelphia to the headquarters
ofthe Fenians at New York. The bonds of the IRIS
Republic meeting with a ready sale.
Miss Dayton, whose lover, VIM. H. Russ.
attempted to murder her in Brooklyn, while ago.
is rapidly recovering The surgeons have succeeded
in extracting the pieces of the bullets in her head
and she will soon be among her friends again.
Seven members of the Board of Council
men of New York were fined on Tuesday by Judge
Barnard 500 each for contempt Of court in refusing
to obey mandamus ordering them to take action OF
a contested seat case.
IN Milford Mass, last Saturday evening
bright ard promising daughter of Moses Harris,
was shockingy burned by the fall Of kerosene lamp
and died in few hours. Mr.. Harris. in trying to
quench the flames, was himself badly burned.
Mrs. Nancy P. Woods, Of South Deer
field. Mass, is seventyseven years old, and within
the last six months she has done the house work for
family of three persons. and 305 yards of
carpeting besides spinning considerable linen thread
"A lad was badly burned in the thigh by a
piece of hot iron in the nail factory at Albany fe@
days since. One of the large arteries severed but
the wound healed. On Saturday evening last it was
rultured and the lad bled to death.
"A lady who has read of the extensive
manufacture C. odometers to tell how far carriage
has run, said she wished Connecticut genius
would invent an instrument to tell how far husbands
had been in the evening when hey Just step down to
the post Office.
There is some suggestive points IN The re
cent statistics of Ireland In the past year there ha
occurred decrease in the number of inhabited
houses of Ireland to the extent of 6 277 and in the
population of 94,Si6-and three million letters
were posted on the island than during the previous
year.
The ST. Louis Democrat of Monday says
the exceedingly genial weather of the past week
opened the upper rivers to trade and commerce after
winter embargo of almost unprecedented duration.
Early in the week the Missouri navigabe to St.
Joseph and toward its close the Illinois packets
able to reach Peoria, and those on the Mississippi
began their trips to Quincy-possibly to Keokuk.
Louis Napoleon is delighted with the pecu
mary of the first volume of his Life of Caesar
The London publishers have forwarded a much
beyond that originally proered for the right of trans
lation into English. The Emperor is now revising
the final proofs of the second volume: it has thirty
two maps and will be ready about the middle Of
March
The Nashville Times accepts it as token
of restored order that for the first time in five years.
an election was held on Saturday last in Tennessee.
entirely under the control of the civil authorities.
The occasion was unusually free from disturbance,
though there was the usual excitement which accom-
panies the canvassing for votes VIII ere number Of
candidates are in the field.
The condition of our financial affairs III
England. bas undergone marked change lately,
While all other securities were depressed and even
consols steadily falling week after week, United
States fivetwenty loans not only maintained their
value but gradually advanced from SO to Ct, and
now quoted at 63@ The amount of American cur
rency afoat in England is very great.
In the cellars of Baron Rothchild's s man
sion, Rue Lafitte. Paris twenty-four thousand
bottles of every species the wines existing at the
commencement of this century, from the Latchryma
Christi which every visitor to Naples has tasted TO
the purple tinted sweet wines of the Cape from the
common wines of the Macon vineyards to the rare
vintages of Medoc The value of this collection
| amounts to about $4,000.
"A London paper states that there are pro-
posals coming forward for the commencement of
steamship lines to America. Among them is one in
contamination at Bristol. The civil authorities and
merchants Of that old port, it says, moving in
earnest in the matter i is proposed to take mme
date steps TO construct suitable docks at Kings Roads,
leading to and from the Bristol channei, ana 20 make
suitable railway connections.
"A gentleman recently brought to the
Treasury. at Washington large bundle of partially
burned Treasury notes for redemption. They were
given to one of the lady clerks to separate and paste
upon sheets so to determine their value. The
lady reproduced nearly $1,000 than the anxious
owner had been able to do, who evinced his appre-
citation of her skiful dissection by the presentation
| of 800.
| "A Memphis dispatch of the 9th says
| Richard Langdon, first cook of the Lockwood, ar
rived to-day. He reports McDouga, the first engi-
| neer as having died on the Mepham, Mclaughlin,
/ the striker. was caught between two timbers and
burned to DEATH Several cabin boys are supposed to
i have been burned to death. Gillespie the second
| cook, and NJ. NJ Reid the baker, have since died.
Most of the passengers have returned to New Or
leans. Twelve ladies were aboard, but not one was
hurt. The hull is sunk and out of sight, Loss $780,
| No insurance.
| The San Francisco Bulletin contends that.
that city can compete on advantageous terms with
St. Louis for the vast trade of Idaho Montana Utah
and Arizona. 1t speaks of project to form a COM
pany for the shipment of goods to Collylle on the
Colorado river. some four hundred miles from Sal,
Lake. where it is proposed to establish an agency
1t adds that during the previous week there had been
| an arrival at Montana by way of Los Angeles
Several other trains expected by the same route
and ssid that the amount of goods to be dispatch
ed in that direction this spring will not fall short
three hundred thousand dollars. The teams are left
| at Los Angeles and the goods dispatched to that
point by steamer. The time occupied in making the
trip from Montana was less than sixty days; forage
i was reported plenty, and no hostile Indians were