Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-25

| STATE LEGISLATURE.
| large amount of routine business was transacted
in both branches of the Legislature yesterday. The
State assessment bill taken up in the Senate and
amended so as to give the Governor the appointment
| of the assessors, but no further action was had.
| In the House favorable reports were made upon q
| large number of bills.
| The bill to regulate the working of the public
roads, and bill relating to the license law were or
| dered to third reading.
| GENERAL NEWS.
Gold opened and closed yesterday at 1891
| General Sherman Is expected to arrive in
Washington during the week.
| Gen. Brisbin has been assigned to command
| at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Preparations on large scale are making in
| Mobile for the spring Many prominent turf
| men and not ed horses are arriving.
The steamer Meteor seized in N. Y. on
Tuesday, supposition of being Chilian war YES
sell is still in the custody of the U. s. authorities
Mayor Sweeney has been reelected Mayor
of Wheeling. Va. The Democratic ticket throughout
was successful.
In the Zero murder case at Halifax, N. S..
the cook was hanged yesterday. The mate has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
The resignation of Major General Lew
ment, has been accepted.
| One hundred thousand dollars of the new
issues of fractional currency designed to supercede
| the old issues will be issued ext week.
Over SIPS, ,000in coupons ofthe 7-3O interest
bearing bonds have been sedeemed since the 18th
instant by tho United States Treasury Department
A. 81. Stevens, of Georgia, peremptorialy
declines allowing his to be used in connection
with the United States Senate. HI has refused to
make an address upon the state of the country
The Treasury Department discovered three
counterfeit Interest Coupons Monday and two on
Tuesday which had been paid and returned to Wash
ington.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of DR.. P. j. Horwitz Chief of the Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery, and Captain Thornton A. Jenkins
as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
At meeting of the Senior Class of Yale
College on Saturday afternoon George E. Holt of
Ponfret was elected Class Orator. and Jas. Brand.
of saeo. Me-. Glass Poet.
The nomination of Hon. Daniel S. Dickin-
son has been sent to the Senate for confirmation as
United States District Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of New York.
The grand jury of Lafayette county, Miss,
have found true bill" against General A. J.
Smith. U. S. A., for burning the courthouse and
lOWu OI O&lOEu III tle summer OF 1901. we nope
that the "bill' may be presented.
1t seems to be understood among the best
informed that the New York Collectorship made va
| cant by the death of Hon. Preston King. will be
filled by the appointment of Mr.. Frederick A. Conk-
| ling.
Richard H. Coolidge, United States Army,
died yesterday in North Carolina. where he has been
on duty for some time. DR.. Coolidge was long a
resident of Washington. and son-in-law of Com
modore Morris.
Prize money for the crews of the United
States steamers James Adger. Nphon and Daylight
for the capture of the rebel blockade-runner Cor
nubia will be ready for distribution by the Treasury
Department in n few weeks.
During the year 1865 about 125, 600, 900 let
ters passed through the post Office of the city of New
| York. The amount of postage on both letters and
papers $l.72l l.57940; amount received for box
rents $67,7S6.75 expenses of Office, $685. 7971 profit
| to Government over expenses, 81, ,506174.22
The schooner Adelaide of and for Suffolk,
Va. from Portland. with cargo of lumber. went
| ashore the south side of the Vineyard on the
| night of the Goth instant. The crew were COM
pletely exhausted The captain died from exposure
| on the 18th.
From the 8th to the 18th inst. the receipts
from customs at the four principal ports amounted in
| the aggregate to two millions seven hundred and
thirty thousand four hundred and fftyfour dol
lars follows: New York, 1884, SOL; Boston, $685.
800. Philadelphia, ss5,7l4 Baltimore $sse47.
! The United States Supreme Court has con,
frmed the decree of condemnation in the of the
British ship Admiral captured in December 1861 of
Savannah. by Government vessel, while attempting
to run the blockade of that port. and taken to Pha
delphia and libelled as prize.
In Munroe county, Alabama, an Agricultu
raj Association has been formed among the Southern
citizens which is said to be working with
success, securing regular and reliable services from
the freedmen and providing for the young and aged
The county is almost free from vagrancy, drunken
| ness and crime
A resolution was introduced in the Kentuck,
Legislature on Tuesday requesting Green Clay Smiti
to resign his place in the United States Congress
The reasons for this move are his radical republi
canism and the extreme measures he has advocated
in putting down the democratic and conservative
parties at the presidential and other elections
The st. Lawrence being frozen over, anC
consequently aording extra facilities for smuggling
the Commissioner of Customs has ordered an in
of his force of officers stationed o,
the Canadian frontier. The Commissioner state
that many Of his officers are armless soldiers who
notwithstanding their disability. make most eicen
and valuable officers.
The Boards of Trade of Montreal, Quebe,
and Toronto held a meeting in the former city OF
Wednesday. to take into consideration the inlant
water communications Of the province Resolution
were passed in favor of widening the Weand Cana
and of building the Ottawa Canal. The question O
connecting the St. Lawrence with Lake Champlai
by a canal was brought before the meeting. but n
action is reported.
The claims of the Hon. John Minor Bott
for wood appropriated by our troops in the winter
Il. L
owing to an order issued by the Quartermaster Gen
eral in 1864. requiring that applicants for damage
sustained from Jour armies must be citizens of
State not in rebellion. The claims of Mr.. Bott
amount to $4,000, Of which sum he has already bee
paid $4,000 BY quartermasters of the Federal army
The ex-rebel Captain s. S. Smith, recent
arrested in Toronto Canada on the charge of attempt
ing to negotiate stolen United States bonds has bee
| taken from that place to Windsor where a full in
vestigation of his will be made The four thou
sand dollars worth of vetwentes offered for sale
him not due until 1881, and were shorn of ever
coupon, amounting altogether to about nine hundre
dollars in gold. payable semi-annualy, in sums {
thirty to one thousand dollars each.
The Dist Illinois Infantry, the regiment j
command of which Gen. Grant entered upon tn
brilliant military career which eliminated in h
commission as Lieutenant General of the America
oii' oiiu navy. has Just returned from New Orlean
Inls veteran regiment now numbers four hundre
and nlnety-two men and twenty -one oficors. anon
whom are only fifty men and two officers who starte
out with Gen. Grant as colonel One of the orgina
is the commanding officer Of the regiment, Colon,
! | Jamison.
> The snow storms in Oregon have been s
severe to close many of the leading thoroughfare
] and to cause much suffering and even loss of lif
, Traders and teamsters had been overtaken BY ii
storms and forced to desert their trains. The ten
perature has been unprecedently low along the Goa
| and through the mountains. The steamer Sier,
Nevada had been got off from the rock in the Coluu
bia river without serious injury. The Snake India,
. had become hostile, and at Warren's Dggings tn,
had killed seven white persons aud carried Of all Il