Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONG RESS.

SEN4TE.-ln the Senate yesterday the matter which
seems to have commanded the most interest and
elected the most debate was resoluton-which was
finally adOpted-introduced by Senator Wilson to
prohibit the sale of spirtuous liquors in the capitol.
HOUsE.-In the House. very little transpired of in
terest bill for the reefof paymasers alone having
caused much debate, resulting however. in no de-
cided action.
GENERAL NEWS.
Some of the Union papers of Indiana are
favoring Gov. Morton for the United States Senate.
Chicago is talking about public baths as
sanitary measure.
New Orleans is crowded with emigrants
on the way to Mexico.
The New York Gas Light Company get
their coal delivered at $40 in gold and after making
their gas from it. sell tho coke for more than the coal
originally cost them.
Gen. Lew. Wallace has written a letter ad
vocating the thorough military education for rank
and file Of the American army. being an improvement
on the French system.
"A correspondent of the GAINESVILLE Courier
reports that fifty wells are being sunk in the Blue
Rock" oil region Oil has been struck in five differ
ent places Nuns Rock, and of excellent quality.
Two men, suspected of robbery, were
recently taken at night from their beds at Milan,
Mo-. and hung Subsequent events proved them to
be innocent.
"A Roman Catholic Tract Society has
been established in New York. under the auspices of
the Paulist Fathers Branches will be established in
all the large cities of the Union.
The amount raised in the Congregational
churches of England and Wales, at the simultaneous
collection for freedmen far has been paid in, is
about S15,0O0
Some swindlers are advertising exten-
siyely European Pocket Timekeeper." sent by
mail for the low price of dollar. 1t is simply
pastcboard dial with string pendulum, for telling
time by the could not cost over two cents, and
would be dear at that price, it is of at ALL
"A reporter for London morning paper,
describing recent launch, says that the
company had left the platform the workmen took up
the plank on which the Prince Of Wales had stood
and divided it among themselves s0upenr, where
at the Saturday Rerieo devotes sarcastic editorial
to "the whorshipers of the holy chips
The London Orchestra says NJ lie Carlotts
Patti has renewed an engagement with Mr. Gye for
five years. Her services will not be confined to con-
| certs she will also appear in the "Huguenots, .
| Robert lie Diable" and III Flauto Magico," and
will go into the provinces at the close of the London
| season.
The Suez Canal is partially completed. a
schooner having actually navigated the canal from
Port Laid to Suez. direct communication between
t Mediterranean and Red Sea may be regarded as
an accomplished fact. Nothing now remains but to
give to the canal all the width and depth necessary
to insure free passage for largo ships to finish tho
dykes. ports basins, and dockyards.
| "A Paris letter by the last steamer says: !
| have just gentleman who has been travelling
for the past three weeks in Austria proper and par
ticularly in Gacia, or Austrian Poland, bordering
upon Prussia. He states that the greatest activity
| prevails and that troops being rapidly pushed
toward the Prussian frontier while all the fortresses
| are being put in repair. Throughout Austria, he
states, war with Prussia is regarded as inevitable
The Georgia Revenue bill, passed during
the recent session of the Legislature fixes tax OF
ten dollars upon ply scians and dentists ten dollars
on photographers; twenty-five dollars on auctione rs
twenty-five dollars billiard tables; fifty dollars on
race tracks; twenty-five dollars on circusses; one
thousand dollars on gift enterprises; and twenty cts
per gallon on brandy gin. whisky or rum whether
| foreign or domestic sold in the State.
The four leading Evangelical societies in
| England the Church." the London, the yves
leyan" and the Baptist" reported in 1864 from all
urces, f325O0O, and in 1865, f49OOO while in that
time The Free and the United Presbyterian Churches
of Scotland had more than doubled these contrbu-
tions, The receipts Of the American and Presby-
terian Boards were more than $500 900 IN 1865. L
Won add to this other prominent organizations. tbs
contributions will amount to Il 100000. 1t is calcd
lated that the territory occupied by missionaries
the different churches embraces population of 150
| 1000 souls.
| SMOKING IN Town MEErING-The bingham mass.
J'mrnai has an account of an amusing episode which
Occurred at the recent annual town meeting of Hull
It appears that certain persons INDUCED in their
customed habit of smoking during the progress o
| bns;ness which the moderator objected to as beint
improper and out of place. Aecordngly the matte
was out to vote, when it was found that the smo
made known than cigars, meeTschaums, brier; wood
: and dudeens struggled from the pockets of the BY
atandars WHARF thAy had quietly laid away, and