Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-14
NEWS OF THE DAY,
CONGRESS-.

COSGRESS.
SEYATE,-An interesting debate occurred in the
Senate yesterday, showing the mannerin which hold
of territorial Offices abuse their opportunities to
the turning them into virtual sinecures something
which having been at length thoroughly ventilated
may be corrected.
HoUsE.-The passage of the Naval Appropriation
Bill by the House will be hailed in Maryland with
much satisfaction. from the bearing it has upon the
Importance and prosperity of the State Capital it
being at length determined upon the final location
of the Naval Academy. The bill will no doubt re-
: ceive the signature of the President.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Texas Convention has passed law
MAKING fo oo - residence in the State necessary
qualification to vote.
"A Swedish noblemai1- has created a sensa-
ton in the Champs Eysees, Paris ny driving team
of Norwegian dogs attached to a droiska
The boss printers of Boston propose re-
duction of wages to all their employees commencing
the lst of May and the latter propose resisting by
strike.
The loss by the recent great freshet in
Wisconsin is estimated at from 81 600 to 100000
the damage to the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen
r. R. alone being placed at $50O0O0. The loss at
Milwaukee is stated at $l5O,OO0.
The London correspondent of a Western
paper has been to hear Charles Kingsley preach and
describes him as a red-faced, thin-Epped, sharp
featured man. with an unpleasant manner, lacking
repose and simplicity.
The Fredonia IN. " Adoe1tiser says:
There is a gentlemen about sixty years of age who
has been resident of Fredona three miles from the
rairoad) from his YOUTH who has seen the cars
or steam engine, one little arrangement he
came upon by accident in a printing office"
The Hudson Gazette says son of Mr..
Toh WaIeb &c
years of age. died Sunday night after brief i'll
ness. 1t was the opinion of the doctors who were
called to the child's aid that death was caused by
eating colored candy.
There has been recent strike of the
bricklayers on the Chicago tunnel, compelling the
contractors to engage a corps of workmen This
has caused slight delay in the progress of the work
The shore end is now completed $500 feet and the
crib end 66Oeet, leaving 1850 feet yet TO be finished
In the Rhode Island Legislature the Com
mittee on Education recommend that statues of
Roger Williams and Nathaniel Greene be placed in
the Rhode Island niche of the National Hall Of
Statuary at Washington. At previous session, the
Senate selected Henry heaton and Nathaniel Greene
as the iusrious Rhode Islanders thus to be honored
The drill season at the camp at Chalons
| is to begin about the end of June, and terminate
about the end of August. The chief command will
be given to Marshal Regnaud de st. Jean d'Angely
There will be at the camp about eighteen thousand
infantry two divisions of which will be furnished by
| the Imperial Guard.
Union colored people doing business on
the Mississippi engag ed in raising cotton for market
complain that they travel on the river except
as freight and that they expect to furnish freight
(coton in considerable quantities for transportation
they will be under the necessity of bestowing the
| patronage In that line upon steamboat companies
that will not insist upon treating both them and heil
cotton as alike freight
The Buffalo Express says that Henry Bur
den. of Troy and John McGee, of Bath we'll known
capitalists, have purchased the controlling interest
/ in the Union Iron Works of that city. The rolling
mill of the Union Iron Works is the most extensive
establishment of the sort in existence, and with ade
Quate capital is capable of greater product than any
single iron establishment in England.
| Train up child in the way he should &c
seems to mean in Pike county Missouri. to teach
boy horse-stealing. Several cases have recently oc
CURED in that section of this kind of thieving The
st. Louis Democrat explains it by referring to the
State law which provides that any criminal under
eighteen years, convicted of penitentiary offense
shall merely be confined in the county Jail.
| -Ihe American Association for the ad-
vancement of Science has, through its President
| the Rev. +. Barnard. LII. D. of Columbia College
accepted the invitation of the citizens of Buffalo II
hold the next session in that CITY, The Association
numbers about six hundred members, among whom
the most distngu guished scientific men in the conn
| try. The session will probably be held during tn,
| month of August and will occupy five or six days
The London Reader concludes an articl,
on colleges and schools as folows:-"For the school
boy who wishes to improve such literary faculties
he may possess there could be no better exercise thai
that of accurately transatng paper passages from
the terses writers of Greek Latin while the stu
| dent of more advanced years would find that dill
gent study of the Ethics accompanied by laboriou
analcs of their method of treatment and their clas
cation of subjects. would be attended bS results ia
more beneficial to his English style than ndefnit
series of msy efforts at journalism. such as thos
| upon which we have here remarked"
The Queen held full Court at Bucking
| ham Palace short time since. Her Majesty wa
| dressed. as usual in black, with train trimme
| with miniyer and Grape, and Queen of Scots ca
with long veil. and brilliant with diamonds Th
Princess of Wales, who is looking thin. had on blu
velvet train trimmed with silver blond, petticoat
tulle over white silk trimmed with blue velvet band
and head dress of blue velvet diamonds, feather
: | and veil. The two young Prncesses. Helena an
q Louise, trains of rich pink silk petticoats
white tulle over white silk. trimmed with pink an
white satin bows and emerald, diamond and peal
y iewels