Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
FOREIGN NEWS.

BY the steamer New York. from Aspenwall, we
have intelligence that the Peruvian Dictator Prado
has made an offensive and defensive alliance with
Chill, and declared war against Spain.
The steamer Austr ALASKAN, from Liverpool on the
9th, arrived at New York Yesterday
The cattle plague is increasing in England
The Fenian trials continue daily
General Prim had arrived at Barrancas, Portugal
and had declared his readiness to surrender to the
Spanish commander
CONGRESS.
Mr.. Sherman presented petitions asking for a re-
duction sales of agricultural implements Mr.
Guthrie presented certificate of election of Hon Gen
3. Houston as Senator from Alabama. A resolution
was introduced that special committee be appoint
ed to examine into the alleged eases of fraud on the
part OF government cotton agents. The Constitu-
uonal Amendment being again considered Mr. John
son, OF Maryland addressed the Senate at length in
opposition to the Amendment. The House received
message from the President in reply to the resolu
ton requesting the President to communicate the
reports made by the Judge Advocate General or other
ohcers, as to the grounds facts accusations upon
which Jefferson Davis and others are held in cOnne-
ment The President inclosed letters from the Sec
retary of War and Attorney General, and concurred
in their opinion that publication of thepapers called
for by the resolution not compatible with the pub
lie interest. Generals 0serhaus, Crook and Ward
were presented to the House by the Speaker. The
Freedmen's Bureau bill was passed as returned from
the Senate. The Naval appropriation bill was
passed.
GENERAL NEWS.
The steamer Norwich, loaded with cotton.
was burned at New Orleans the Sth inst Most of
the cotton was thrown overheard and saved
Ex-Gov Graham, United States Senator
elect from North Carolina is out in letter favoring
negro evidence.
General Prim is reported to have crossed
the Portuguese frontier. The Spanish government
mas declared Its intention to increase its feet in the
Pacific.
Addresses in favor of General Sweeny's
war policy delivered in New York on Thurs
day evening, before large assembage of enthusi-
astic Fenans and thirty new recruits were enrolled
The British bark Jenny, from Liverpool for
Savannah, wrecked on the 4th inst off Cape Hat
teras and of twentyfour passengers on board all but
four perished.
Our dispatches give the details of the rail
road disaster on the Bloomfield and Newark branch
OF the Morris and Essex Railroad. Milton Holt, of
Newark, was killed, and eight others wounded one
of them, it is thought, fatally.
One million pounds of servceable and un-
serylceable gunpowder were sold at auction at the
Brooklyn navy yard on Thursday. The Dupont
Hazard and Latflin Powder Companies were the
only purchasers.
From a paper recently read before the
Polytechnic Society. of New York, by Prof Hough
OF the Dudley Observatory it appears that in Janu-
airy the barometer attained the greatest elevation
ever known in the United States.
The colored men of BROOKLYN, at a recent
meeting held to take action in favor of securing
homesteads for the freedmen, appointed committee
to visit President johnson and members of Congress
in reference to the matter
The dentists Of Ohio are urging upon the
Legislature the passage of bill forbdding any one
to practice the profession unless duly licensed by the
Dental Association They contend that this is neces
sary to suppress dead quackery.
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kansas, Dor
tends trouble between the holders of land warrants
from the Pacific Railroad and the squatters The
latter have sent the former threatening order to
vacate by a certain day.
A correspondent of the London Morning
Post says 1T is reported in diplomatic circles that
a private understanding exists between the Govern
ments of Great Britain and Washington by which
the claims made by America for the losses at sea will
be amicably arranged"
Orders from Washington have been received
at Wilmington, N c., for the immediate discontinue
ance of that military district. There are now only
three regiments of national infantry in the entire
State of North Carolina one of them being of white
and the others of colored troops.
The Arion masquerade at the Academy Of
Music, on Thursday night, is spoken of by the New
York papers as brilliant affair." forming most
agreeable contrast to the suocating crowd that un-
der the name of the Seventh Regiment Reception. a
few evenings since, created general discomfort and