The Daily Union

From our Baltimore Correspondent.

Baltimore, Nov. 1–5, p. m.

The corner-stone of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, to be erected off Cary street, between Lexington and Saratoga, was laid this afternoon with appropriate ceremony.

The Catholic Mirror—a religious paper published here—is out with a very severe article against the commanding officers at Fortress Monroe and other military stations for depriving the Catholic soldiers of certain religious rights, and for compelling them to attend Protestant worship against their wishes. I saw a letter myself, a few days ago, from one of the soldiers at Fortress Monroe to a friend in this city, making loud complaints in regard to the same matter. This is a country of religious toleration; and if it be true that wrong has been done the soldiers at the military stations in question to such extent as they complain of, the evil ought to be corrected. It is but just that all persons should worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and under their own vine and fig tree. Because military commanders may be prejudiced against a certain doctrine or religious tenet, it is no reason why they should undertake to control the consciences of those whose duty it is to obey. The matter will, in all probability, be represented to the department at Washington in its true light.

We have another delightful day. The Indian summer, with its sombre yet sweet melancholy hue, is upon us. It is a beautiful romance of the wild aborigines to believe that the spirits of departed warriors and braves return at this peculiar season to commune with the living.

Many of our citizens have returned from the great Agricultural Fair at Harrisburg. They speak of it in exalted terms.

Our market is steady. Sales to-day of 900 bbls. City Mills flour at $3 75, and 400 do. Howard street at $3 81. Red wheat, 70 a 75 cents; white, 75 a 85 cents. White corn, old, 53 a 54 cents; yellow do., 53 cents. Oats, 30 a 33 cents. Rye, 73 a 75 cents. Provisions steady—prices unchanged. Groceries firm. Rio coffee, 8 a 9½ cents. Whiskey, 22 a 23 cents.