Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-,

slOn MI MafSlaii, bl Ill., hOuSseau, MI. Rlt-
ter and Mr.. Shanklia, of Ky. Mr., Chanler of New
York. and Mr.. Phelps, of Nd, opposing the bill;
| and Mr.. Hubbard, of Conn.,, Mr.. Moulton of H.,
and Mr.. Kelley, of Pa. speaking in favor Of it, No
action was taken.
THE LEGISLATURES.
In evening session, it resolved that the Senate
meet hereafter at 10 A. NJ. summary of the bill
relative to the finances Of the State which passed the
Senate, Feb. LIST, viii be found elsewhere
The House rejected the bill to reimburse Governor
Bradford for the loss of his house, ayes g. nays 81.
The committee appointed to visit and examine the
public schools Of Baltimore made highly favorable
report, and closed by recommending that the school
system of Baltimore shall remain under the control
and direction of the Mayor and City Council as at
present.
GENERAL NEWS.
Seven convicts escaped from Sing Sing
prison, New York, on Saturday. Cause-false keys.
Three men were shot in New York on Sat
urday.
The Free School Bill, making equal endow-
ments but epcrate schools for white and colored has
passed the House of Representatives of Mo.
Generals Grant and Sherman. and Assistant
Secretary Fox visited Admiral Porter and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. yesterday.
Christian Berger, charged with the murder
Of Miss Watts, in Germantown, recently has been
tried and found guilty Of murder in the first degree
Governor Cox, Of Ohio. has declined to
commute the death sentence of DR.. Jno W. Hughes,
the Cleveland wife murderer.
Fort Laramie dates to the 22d, say that the
Sioux Indians having been frozen cut, have mado
treaty to keep the peace and not steal mules and
stock.
The steamer W Il. Carter exploded her
boilers on Friday morning. at Island No. gS, near
Ncksburg, involving large loss of life with total
loss of boat and cargo.
Mrs. Anne f.. Kirby, who not long since in
fl of jeaiousy, shot and killed her husband, in
Richc!0nd Va, has been pronounced insane, and
scrt to luuatic asylum.
Major John Sexton. formerly G. s. of Stone
wall Brigade has been chosen by the citizens their
representative in the Froedmen's court. in V Wythe
county, Va.
The Secretary of the Treasury will take no
action on claims for captured and abandoned pro-
pcrty until the return of Assistant Secretary Chan
dler from the South
Rev. j. Z. Campbell, who has had charge
fthe Lutheran Church at Waynesboro', Pa, has re-
ceivcd and accepted call from the Lutheran con-
gregation at Shepher3stown. Va.
The location OF the Kent County Railroad
has been permanently fixed upon by the Delaware
town, and from there to the bay
1t is stated that there is something over two
millions dollars deposited by freedmen in the differ
ent saving banks throughout the South, about Two
hundred thousand dolara Of which IS deposited with
the Freedmea's 5 Savings and Trust Company.
General Howard has donated the fees of
800 per night. which he is receiving for delivering
public lectures, to the fund for the erection Of Con
gregatioual Church in Washington ny the society of
which Chaplain Boynton of the House is PASTOR
1t is reported that Gen Forrest, under the
guise of retiring from business in Memphis, 20 his
plantation, has gone to Mexico in consequence Of
having been notified to appear before amtary con-
mission in Washington.
i freedman named Price has been swind-
ling the unsophiscated negroes in Lynrhburg by
getting cash subscriptions for ircedmens paper to
be published in Nashville. lie got about sixty sub
seribers at $2 piece.
Major General j. W. Fcssendoa, who has
Just been nuserol ont of the service has accepted
the position of superintendent of the New England
division Of tie National Express Company, of which
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston is President.
A bill has been INTRODUCED in the Penn
sylvana House of Representatives requiring 1000
TO he paid by any railroad company to the widow or
minor child of any person killed railroad while
riding within car.
Dispatches from the State Department in
dcate that immigration Iroi!i Europe TO the Unltvd
States will this year exceed that Of any previous
year. All the German ports especially filing up
with persons desirous Of SECURING passage to this
country
Tuesday night the dwelling and store Of Mr.
Joseph Myers at CoalGcd station on the Danrille
Railroad, in Chesterfield county. fred by in
condiary, and the building and its entire contents
Iunl AN oil Mr.
insured for S2OG6.
On Tuesday last, the barn os James c. Chill
dress. Esq, near Howardsville Albemarie county,
Va. was burnt. II valued at about S12.0GO and
about 81 900 worth of corn, oats, forage
&c. freedman, Wat Coles, formerly the property
Of Mr., Chdress, has been arrested-charged with
the arson.
Reports are received from Utah that the Nor
mons contemplate the abandonment of that Teri
tory, and wholesale emigration to the Sandwich
Islands. 1t said that Brigham Young mas pur
chased or secured the refusal of two of the Sand
wch Islands for future colonization by the Mormons
The motive for this is the growing popular and Off
cial opposition to the system of polyEamy.
The Third Auditor has decided that, in
the case of the steamer R. E. Hamilton seized by the
United States authorities in 1864 foE the transporta
ton of troops from St. Louis to Mobile and which
was blown up by torpedoeS placed in the coa-bin by
rebel emissares, the owners are entitled to the full
value OF the vessel destroyed. As establishing pre-
ceden this fact is of considerable Importance as
large number of United States vessels similarly
destroyed during the war.
Adyiees lately received by Gen. Pope from
Brevet Major General Corse, commanding the Dis
trict of Minnesota. convey the intelligence that
general desire exists among all the Indians, except
those engaged in the of 1862 to make peace
with the whites. 1t also appears that many of those
engaged in the massacre Of 1852 are anxious to
and surrender themselves but are afraid that they
will be ill-treated. A gentleman from Fort Garry
reports that some sixty of the Indians who were en-
gagged in the instruction now in the employ of
settlers along the Red river, in British territory.
The Fenian excitement is on the increase in
Canada, impelled by the fear that the way to the
freedom of Ireland by preliminary invasion OF
Canada is the fixed policy of the leaders in the move
ment The Canadian Fenians have issued an address
denouncing the proposition; but this has neither
Gained the public mind nor satisfied the authorities
Unusual agitation prevails throughout the upper
province. The militia have been again called out
and troops being hurried to the frontier to meet
an expected invasion by way Of Satnia or Windsor
The Sedentary militia have been called to arms, at
least a portion of them. for the whole strength
amounts to one hundred and fifty thousand men.
This force is only liable to be called into active ser
vice in times of great danger as in the rebellion of
1897.
STATE AFFAIRS.
SALE OF Real EsTATE-Wm B. Tabler auct.. on
account Of John II. and Joshua P. Remsburg, ex-
ecutorS of John Remsburg, deceased sold at public
sale, farm of lSi acres situated on Catoetin noun