Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

| SENATE-The joint resolution expressive of tn
gratitude of the nation to the officers. soldiers an
seamen of the United States, was passed. resolu
tOn calling the President for information reatn
| to the Provisional Governors, was passed. The res
olution against the admission of Southern represen
tatives was taken up, and Mr.. Dixon addressed tn
Senate in opposition to the resolution and in suppor
| of the Presidents policy.
HoUsE.-Mr. o'Neil, of Pa, introduced supple
ment to an act to regulate the fees of clerks mar
shals and attorneys of circuit and district courts
The Constitutional Amendment providing tha
Congress shall have power to make all laws necessa
ry to secure to the citizens of each State the prv
eyes and immunties of citizens of the several States
was considered, and Mr.. Highly, of California, ad
dressed the House in favor of the amendment.
Mr.. Randall, of Pa. and Mr.. Hale of N. Y, op
posed it.
A bill was reported from the Committee of Way.
and Means to establish reciprocal trade with Canada
and the British Provinces. being in effect partia
restoration of the reciprocity treaty which expires
March.
GENERAL NEWS.
1t is rumored that Hon. James Brooks will
be appointed to the New York Coliectorship.
bonded warehouse is to be established
in Norfolk, Va.
The smallpox Is said to be on the decline
in Montgomery, Ala.
1t is said that nearly 100,0 900 of the i'm
migrants who last year arrived in this country,
settled in New York.
The Chicago. clergymen have drawn up a
protest against the issue of Sunday editions of the
Times and Tribune of that city.
A delegation waited on the President on
Saturday. and requested him to give one member q
his Cabinet to the Pacific States
Steward Allen, of the Ellie Knight, Just
from Wilmington. has brought up lot of very fine
Shad.
During his recent visit to New York, Gen.
Grant was presen ted with purse of hundred thou
sand dollars.
Advices from Havana states that the French
transport loaded with returning troops whose term
of service had expired, was still at that port
Resolutions have been introduced in the
city council of Macon, Ca, to close schools and
churches in order to check the smallpox.
The Military Committee of the Massachu-
sets Legislature have agreed on bill providing that
all militamen shall be drilled eighteen times year.
for which they shall be paid fifty cents each time.
1t is positively asserted that Secretary Har-
Ian has rendered his resignation to take effect as soon
as certain department business shall have been work
ed up.
A contagious disease, known as the spotted
fever has lately broken out in one of the Washing
ton asylums, and is creating quite a panic in the
neRhborhood adjacent.
Ihe schooner Ida, Captain Hutchinson,
from Portland for Havana, went ashore on Sunday
night on Naisset Beach, Cape Cod, Mass, and biged
The crew was saved.
Gen. Fisk, commissioner of freedmen's af-
fairs IN tennessee reports approvngly of the condi-
ton OF the freed people. and says they are RAPIDLY
advancing IN education, industry and good order
The Ira Harris United States Hospital at
Albany has been converted into Home for destitute
and disabled soldiers of the State One hundred have
been received They provided for at the expense
of the State.
The official gazette at Ottawa, G. W., con-
tains orders passed in Cabinet Council to prevent
the introduction into Canada of contagious and in
fecious disorders affecting cattle sheep horses etc.
now prevailing in Europe.
A measure has been proposed and will
shortly be introduced in the House of Representa-
hves. to decrease the number of Supreme Judges.
In such an event distribution of Judicial dis
trcts will be required.
The Annual Report of the Children's Aid
Society of New York shows that 1,45O persons have
been provided with homes and employment during
the past year. The total number of lodgers were 15
A collision occurred on the Erie Railroad.
near Lardvile. on Friday night. A brakeman was
crushed to death between two cars. The conductor
and engineer of one of the trains were arrested for
msnsaughter.
An examination of the books ofthe Chicago
custom house shows that during the year 1865 the
valuation of the exports from that port to Canadian
and other foreign ports amounted to SO and
the valuation of the imports to Chicago from Cana
dian and other foreign ports amounted to S11
-Four children were recently burned to death
at Jacksonville Monmouth county. N T. Ono a
h" "uad tweIva wears foil across beam the floor
gave way and was literally consumed in the presence
and sight of the bystanders, who were poweress 10
aid him.
A mass meeting was held at Springfield,
ILL.,, on Saturday, for the purpose of indorsing the
Presidents action in vetoing the Freedmans Bureau
bill. Major Gen. j. A. McClernand was called to the
chair, and the meeting was addressed by the Presi
dent, Hon. B. s. Edwards, VIM. NJ. Springer and
H. G. Myers.
A terrible tornado is represented to have
passed over the city of Knoxville. Tenn at five
o'clock Saturday morning, The roofs of the depot
and machine shop of the Virginia Railroad and of
the round house of the Georgia Railroad were blown
of. some thirty or more houses were blown down,
and large amount of other property destroyed. No
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