Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-17
NEWS OF TIE DAY,
CONGRESS-.

SENATE.-The principal feature in the Senate pro-
ceedings yesterday, bitter personal alteration
between Senators McDougall and Conness, in which
the former, especially, figured SO badly that we de-
termined not to inict his utterances on our readers
and therefore have occupied the same space with
matter less Objectionable.
HoUsE.-In the House Mr. Stevens made most
extraordinary, although characteristic attempt to
patronize the Chronicle, by drawing upon the contin
gent fund of that body, ending in a running detail
of the grievances suffered by members at the hands
of the press generally.
The Reconstruction Committee sent forward a vast
mass of testimony, elected by the examination of
Messrs. Stevens, of Georgia. and Sharkey. of Mssis
sippi. of which we present what space permits.
GENERAL NEWS.
j. B. Nagle, an old and highly respected
dence in Philadelphia He is of the old school of
painters, contemporary with Sully and Peale
Mr.. Pike has formed the opinion that his
opera house set fire by an incendiary and
offers in the Cincinnati papers reward of 900 for
his detection.
The Wabash river is receding slowly and
is now within the banks. Immense and unusual
washes have been made along the western bank and
through the bottoms.
The Illinois and Michigan Canal was for
mally opened to navigation throughout its whole
length, Wednesday, and up to eleven o'clock, Thurs
day morning, twenty two boats and one propeller had
arrived at Chicago from La Sale, Joliet etc., nearly
all loaded with corn.
A gentleman at Indianapolis, somewhat
addicted to the ardent the sly. made raid upon
private jug, in the house of friend the other day,
and hastily swallowing mouthful discovered to his
profound disgust that it deodorzed coal oil.
His friends have been boring him, but not for oil.
The cholera has reappearedin Egypt with
in the past few days. The Provinces in Alexandria
have ordered quarantine of thirty days. and the
return of this fearful epidemic causes great excite
men where the effects of its last visit are not yet
erased.
AT the recent fire in New York sev eral val
liable paintings werelost in the workshops of Mr. Rit
chic, the engraver among which was the painting of
the Death of Lincoln" !" which was being engraved
The Republican Court" was also destroyed, but the
plate saved.
The True Delta tells story of man in
Louisiana about to be sentenced jail for assault and
battery, who pleaded in of Judgment that be
was ferryman an important road, With no one to
help him, and to imprison him would be obstructipg
the public highway.
1t is thought that Texas will produce the
largest cotton crop the coming season of any of the
cotton growing States. and South Carolina the small
est The interior of the latter is so entirely devas-
tated that it will take several years to recover its
former prosperity.
In his speech advocating the extension of
the franchise in England and Wales, Mr.. Gladstone
said the proposed measure would make the whole
voting population of England and Wales 5000 in
the counties and SIS 900 in the towns. being about
ons-fourth of the adult male population.
As the merchants of Cincinnati have
failed to take the site of Pike Opera House for the
new Exchange, Mr.. Pike will go to work at to
rebuild. He will not put up an Opera House, how
ever, but cover the same ground with splendid
structure, repeating the Opera House 'front.' and divid
l ing the building into stores and Offices
| The Department of State has just pub
ished an official register of the Diplomatic and Con-
suar officers of the United States in foreign coun-
tries and OF foreign ministers their Secretaries and
attaches. accredited to the United States and foreign
conSus, residing in the United States with lists cor
rected to February. 1886. The circular shows that
the aggregate of the Diplomatic and Consular officers
of the United States is S03 with an aggregate
salary of STE. 900. The number of Diplomatic officers
s69 The number of Consular officers is $780, and the
| number of Judicial officers is 6.