Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-09
MISCELLANY.

The rebel General Longstreet has become
a commission merchant in New Orleans,
The French press may shut its eyes,
says London paper ITO the fact that it is all up
with Macmillan in Mexico, butthc rest Of the world
secs it."
At the celebration of Emancipation in
Boston. on Monday last. Wendell Phillips, in a
speech, said :-"Cougrcss and the President may be
one in sentiment, but thy President is that one
The Detroit Trjjaae understands that
the Jackson Lansing and Saginaw Railroad has been
taken in charge By the Michigan Central Company
they having guaranteed its bonds.
The first despatch by the new telegraph
line between New Orleans and Galveston, Texas, by
the way of Vicksburs and Shreveport, was sent
through on the % ut, to the New Orleans Times.
LISA noteworthy fact that notwithstaud-
ing the disturbed condition of the nation during tho
first part Of the present year. less than six thou
sand six hundred and sixteen patents have been is
sued from the Patent Office,
1t is reported that the Congressional Com
mittcc on the Death of President Linco In intend to
invite Mr. George Bancroft, the historian to deliver
the Grafton the occasion of the memorial services
Secretary Stanton having declined the honor.
"A man III st. Louis sent into the Common
Pleas Court petition asking for a divorce from hi
wife with alimony, she having money and property
in her own right to the amount Of 100000, while be
had but SEQ. lie also asked for the possession OF
the child.
"A letter from San Antonio, Texas. says
the government camcls. the descendants of the herd
imported some Gf.ecn years ago from Egypt, excite
the curiosity of strangers They number about sew
enty. are all sizes and ages some still unwcancd.
Only seven Of the original LOT are alive
Judge Thomas b. Monroe, prominent
lawyer, legislator and politician of Kentucky, died
the % ut. at Pass Christian Miss, at the age 81
a years. lie was great student, an accomplished
writer and speaker, and an influential member Of
the Democratic party.
On New Year day the sheriff of Allie
gany county, Pa, discovered five Of his prisoners,
occupants of one cell, hard at work digging out
They had removed at least cart load of stone brick
and mortar from the wall with better tools than
case knives and upon almost the last stroke
when discovered.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has, III view Of the attempts made by manufacturers
and others to delraud the Government in the matter
of revenue, decided that all persons purchasing or
selling spirit casks with the inspection mark branded
thereon. liable to the penalties prescribed by the
laws of Congress on that subject.
The Scranton Register says that coal in
the bed is valued at twenty-five cents per ton, that ii
costs eighty cents to mine it. and eighty cents
to prepare it for markc-a total of one dollar and
eghty-ivc cents. All that is charged above that is
to be placed to the account of transportation and the
profits Of agents.
An odd bit Of dialogue occurs in a novel
now publishing in French paper. Where is your
husband?" asks a gentleman He went out to buy
cigar, replied the lady Has he been gone long,
Eighteen years" lie Is quite right, remarks
the gentleman, lhosophically; he wants to choose
good one
An incident occurred at St. Louis on
Saturday last Illustrating tho fact that mules are
not only the most saeacious of all four-legsed AMI
mails but they sometimes do things on purely scien-
tifc principles. A drove of about two hundred q
these arge-minded beasts were brought to the Hi
nois shore opposite the city, and it was concluded
that the best to get them across was to start then
on the ice and let them walk over. As soon as they
reached the ice instinct taught them that they hat
mbarked on a dangerous journey, and instantly tn,
ldest male in the droyc-onc, too that had nevcl
been at circu. and had no eiucation-took tn,
lead, and one at a time the whole two hundred "fe
in, and followed their leader in single file with SAT,
spaces between, and thus, stretching themselves into
along line, they crossed the river. The circumstance
was witnessed by a number of gentlemen who were
impressed with the wonderful illustration of mule
Sagacity.