Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

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Sheridan and other army officers asking increase
| Of pay to the officers Of the army.
| The Secretary of War requested to communi-
cate to the Senate the report of Brig. Gen. Roberts
| on the best method fCI rccaiming swamp lands in
| the basin of the Mississippi.
The joint resolution fixing the basis of representa-
ton being taken, Mr.. Sumner addressed the Sem
ate at length in opposition to the resolution
In the House a large number of bills were intro
duced and referred without debate.
The invalid pension appropriation bill was passed
it came from the Senate. 1t approprates nineteen
millions of dollars.
series ofrosolutions declaring that the geographi
cal condition of the country require the removal of
the Capital to the great West, were introduced and
referred.
resolution instructng the Committee on Recon-
structon to inquire into the expedicncy of levying
contributions the seeded States to derray the ex-
penses necessary to maintain the National authority
in those States introduced and debate arising,
went over without vote
The treedmen's Bureau bill was considered. Mr..
Grinnell, of Iowa, Mr.. Mckee, of Ky, Mr. Raymond.
ofN y Mr.. Eliot. of Mass. speaking in favor of the
bill, and Mr.. Trimble, of Ky, Mr. Stevens, of Pa,
opposing 1t. final vote is to be taken the first thing
this morning.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Senate passed resolution enfranchising
certain members of the Legislature who were not
entitled to suffrage under the terms of the registry
law.
In the House various petitions were presented.
The vote rejecting the bill to pay Governor Bradford
for the loss of his house was reconsidered by vote
of 80 to l9.
GEEERAE. NEWS.
Gold closed yesterday at 139al395.
A fire in Oswcgo, n. Y, on Sunday morn
ing destroyed about forty thousand dollars worth of
property.
Major General Schofeld received the most
attention from Napoleon and Eugenie, of any Amer-
can, at the grand ball recently given the TuiIeries
James r. Spaulding, one of the editors Of
the New York Times, was stricken down with
paralysis on Saturday.
bill is to be introduced into Congress for
the relief of officers whose vouchers or accounts have
been captured or destroyed during the war
One hundred and fifty thousand bushels Of
ice were housed in Lynchburg, Va. during the past
four weeks.
The United States steamers De Soto, Dove
Richmond, Florida, sassacus, NJ Ion ocacy and the
Mackinaw are ordered by the Secretary of the Navy
to be attached to the West India squadron.
Two butchers of Macon. Ga, named Wash.
Burield and Mr.. Pridgen. fought with butcher
knives the other day. in that city, The doctors hope
both will recover.
1t is reported that new Constitutional
amendment is to be offered restricting the tenure of
the Presidential office to term and abolishing the
Electoral College.
The committee of the Baltimore city Union
Convention yesterday presented to the Legislature
memorial protesting against the repeal OF modifca-
ton of the registry law.
A boy four years old, at Princeton, ILL.,,
who had been permitted to play with an old pistol
on the suppostion that it not loaded snapped it
at his sister, twenyone years old and killed her in
stantly.
a movement is projected for holding in
Washington in few days meeting of prominent
politicians, to organize national party in opposition
to the radicals, to be composed of Union democrats
and conservative republicans
The Fenians of Jersey City have issued
remarkable call for an immense gathering this even
ing, at which the Mayor of the city is to preside
OMahoney and his entire staff being announced as
speakers.
By order of Gen. Woods, the military dis
trict lines of Mississippi were abolished on the first
day of the present month. Certain military posts
are. however, designated within the State, four in
number, with two additional ones temporarily.
Brevet Major General B. w. Brice, well
known to the citizens of Baltimore. was yesterday
confirmed by the Senate as Paymaster General T. S.
A. Between three and four thousand volunteer
brevet appointments were also confirmed.
The bonds of the o. Mahoney branch Of Fe-
mans said to be still selling freely among those
who are supposed to know something of what is
going and there appears to be general confidence
and hope among the whole fraternity.
The Lynchburgh Ne1cs states that more than
four millions of dollars capital owned by citizens OF
Lynchburg, have been invested out of Virginia in
consequence of the usury laws. The owners could
not afford to lend money at per cent.
-Four gentlemen from Pennsylvania. recently
Z visit to Johns Island, near Charleston S. Co. for
the purpose of purchasing land, were beSet by the
negroes, and narrowly escaped with their lives
They said the island belonged to them and no white
man should ever come on it.
A friendly meeting for the puglistic cham
ponship of Montana took place in that territory on
New Years Day, between Patsey Marley, of New
York, and Con- orem, the Colorado champion
Ninety ynine rounds fought occupying two hours
Orem was the victor. This the third meeting be-
tween these men.
The Macon Georgia. Messenger says two
thirds of the freedmen in that part of the South arc
disposed go to work. but as general rule they are
opposed to hiring out to their former masters They
wish to swap plantations, that gives them
of having secured their freedom not otherwise at
tanable.
A rumor has gained circulation in Washing
ton that if the Freedmen's Bureau bill shall pass in
the House of Representatives in the same shape that
it was received from the Senate the President viii
issue proclamation declaring the privileges of the
writ of habeas corpus restored in all the border
States.
The case of Ishmael Day, of Maryland, who
shot man for trying to haul down the United States
fag was the only among forty decided upon
favorably by the House Commtte on Claims last
week, in a meeting at which demands for private
losses sustained by loyal citizens during the war
submitted.
A pony express has been started in New
Orleans 'for the delivery of small packages with the
greatest dispatch and at low rates to all parts of the
CITY," Signs bearing the words, Pony Express
Wanted" will be distributed amongst the business
houses of the city and they have only to hang out
the sign. and up trots "a pony driven by boy III
uniform.
The Rochester Union learns that leading
grain, produce and apple dealer in Ontario county
suddenly closed business recently at Canandaigua,
and left for parts unknown. His labilaties are
varously reported at from $4,000 to 100000. Since
his departure bank paper TO the amount of Sl4,0OG
has turned up. bearing the name of the
of the party which the latter asserts is forgery
A prize fight for two thousand dollars took
place the 10th of January, few miles from London
England. between two pugalists named Rookie and
Ryall. which lasted two hours and ffysiX minutes;
but only thirteen rounds were fought during that
time, owing TO the fall of drenching rain and the
muddy state of the ground. The fight was ially ad-
journed to the 22d February.
A company of gentlemen from Baltimore
have purchased of Mr.. William Goodwin, of Nelson
county, Va. ten acres of ground, upon which rich
deposits of porcelain clay Of the finest quality have
been found The formation is said to be from one to
seven feet in thickness and of quality unsurpassed
The purchasers design Immediately erecting the re-
qusite machinery for the manufacture of porcelain
ware on an extensive scale.
The total number Of the graduates of West
Point, who were in the regular army at the COM
mencement of the war eight hundred and twenty.
OF this number one hundred and ninety-seven re-
signed and joined the South leaving six hundred and
twenty-one loyal graduates who remained in arms
for the Union, of which number no less than one
hundred and thirty-eight, nearly many those
who resigned, natives of the Southern States.