Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-19

SEYATE.-In the Senate, the principal matter de-
bated was the appropriation of one hundred and
twenty odd thousaD dollars execute Indian trea-
ties which elected considerable opposition the bill
for the relief of contractors iron-clads also com
handing good deal of attention.
HoUsE.-In the House long debate was had on
the proposition to increase the salary of the Commits
sioner of the Pension Bureauthe bill being finally
rejected.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Astronomical Society of England has
just issued eight views of the planet Mars.
Nashville restaurants are taking day
boarders at five dollars per week. and selling whisky
at fifteen cents per drink.
The two Jewish congregations of Charles
ton. after a separation of twenty-five years, have
united
Sugar, corn and wheat crops promise well
in Middle and East Tennessee. Fruit has also been
doing pretty well.
1t is denied that there is any truth in the
report that Denmark has sold any of her islands to
the United States.
The Directors of the Charleston and Sa-
vannah Railroad have held meeting and declared
their corporation insolvent.
Dexter, the horse which made the remark
able time of 2:lS is last year. is not matched yet for
any race during the coming season. Sporting me-,
are afraid of him.
-Rockport, Mass, has almost monopoly
in the manufacture ofisinglas 1t is made from the
sounds of fish called hake. and the business is very
active during the winter months.
The failure of the house of Levy & Co.,
dry goods Dealers whose liabilities said to be
$20OOOO has created much gossip in business circles
at Nashville.
The foolish stories about the advantage
of arsenic to the complexion. have occasioned the
death of girl in New York, who tried the expert
ment
Out of three hundred mines in Cornwall,
there are ONLY nineteen paying dividends, namely:
nine copper six tin, and four silverlead, and many
of these are fast recedng in value
"A correspondent Of the Boston Journal
two of the Episcopal churches in Charleston,
c., are making united movement for educating col
ored children, and already have six hundred scholars
under their care.
Marie Boyer, white girl who has been q
captive among the Sioux Indians for the last foul
years. has just been released The Minnesota Legis
ature last winter appropriated 81 900 to th
result.
The London Times is as oracular as ever
That solemn journal expresses the opinion that ar
ncursion into Canada if it should actually be made
must inevitably demonstrate either the strength
the weakness of American Fenanism." Just so.
"A young widow, who had married an ole
man, was forever speaking of my first husband.
The second husband at first gently demonstrated
81 guess" said the young wife. you'll wish me t.
remember you when you're dead and gone" Com
forting!
"A widow, Mary A. Smith, of South Caro-
na recovered recently in the United States Distric
Court. at Mobile of Joseph Wilson. captain of thu
Manhattan New Orleans boat, $3.50, being the sun
of which her minor son had been feeced by somt
gamblers on Wilson's boat.
The estate of the late Joseph Campau, oil
Detroit, which has been for long time in chancery
has been settled and the property divided among thu
heirs-eght persons and their descendants. Th'
value of the estate is estmaed at between two anG
three millions 1t consists of real estate in the hear
of the city.
The London DAILY News confirms the re
port that Mr. Goodwin Smith will retire from the Re
gius Professorship Of Modern History at Oxford a
the end of the ensuing term. The reason is under
stood to be his wish to be relieved of the labor
tuition and to devote his energies, which have beer
| somewhat impaired of late by failure of physica
power. to the historical works which he has hand
| ten. Early, late of the C. S. A, has jus
/ returned from Mexico. He denounces the Imperia
| humbug and the scheme of American colonization
1 v
European nationality. cannot go three miles from tn,
city of Mexico any other large centre of popula
ton. without strong body guard for projections they
| would be killed at sight, among the people, with
| out it."
| The Alexandria Gazette says: disturb
ance occurred at Leesburg Tuesday. by an attemp
of the military guard there to take from Col Mosby
who was in town, his overcoat, which had it SOM
Confederate buttons or gray cloth or something
of the kind. He refused to give it up, and mounte
| his horse to leave town, when he was pursued, an
| fred at by those who followed him. The next da
this military company. it is said, ordered fror
| Leesburg.
| The Police Gazette of Kertch, in tn
crimea. announces that an engineer named Peter
who had been boring for naphtha on, land concede
| To Colonel Novossltzew in that neighborhood ha
discovered an abundant spring. The workmen. afte
piercing through hard rock at depth of one hun
dred and twenty feet. were surprised by sudde
gush of the fluid, followed by cracking noise 500
after quantity ofhot salt water was thrown up mike
with clay. This was continued for about half a
hour, and was succeeded by flow of pure naphth
yielding four thousand gallons in twenty-iour hour