The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-02

Total S7,756 3O,sS7 29.4s3
The first escort for this year was very low one
The quantities from all the gold fields were greatly
below the respective weekly and fortnighty avera-
ges, in many instances not amounting to more than
one-half. This extraordinary falling off in the re-
turns is undoubtedly owing in a great measure to
the recent reductions made by gold buyers in their
buying prices ueyJomne Argas, January Is.
ARTIFICIAL CoAL.-A curious communication by
NJ. Barouier has been sent in to the French Acad-
my of Science, describing a method for obtaining
a substance possessing all the properties of COAL
1t is a fact generally admitted by geologsts that
coal is the result of the carbonisatiOn of vegetable
matter by heat, under strong pressure, and under
circumstances calculated to impede the escape of
their volatile ingredients. NJ Baroulier proceeds
in a similar manner; he envelopes vegetable matter
in wet clay, and exposes it for a considerable
length OF time to great pressure, and to heat of
between 200 and 300 degrees centigrade (or the
melting points of tin and bismuth 1earlyl Various
kinds of sawdust subjected to this treatment
yielded different substances, possessing more or
less the resinous ustre and color of COAL and
burning with bright flame GatgnanF8 Messen-
ger.
OFFICIAL Accounts OF THE FRENCH ARREsTs.-The
Woniteur states that the oath ult, arrests were
simultaneously made in various parts of France,
which defeated cupable projects, and led to the dis
covery and the seizure of arms, ammunition, and
compromising correspondence. The arrests, how
ever, have been exaggerated. They are limited to
fifty principal ring leaders at Paris twenty at LYONS
twelve at Marseies, and four average in forty
departments. In spite of this precaution gather
ing took place at Paris on the night of the 9TH of
March. Firm and vigilant measures caused it to
prove abortive, and led to twenty new arrests.
ANOTHER INTERNAL MAcHINE.-A Piedmontese
named BozZo, ticket porter at Lyons was tried by
the AssZe Court of the Rhone for attempt to murder
by means of an internal machine. Having a grudge
against another porter, named La Chapee, he sent
box to his lodgings directed to him. Chapelle
and his wife, fancying that the box contained pres
ents for their children, fastened to open it with
great glee, but no sooner was the key (Which was
fastened outside by string) put into the keyhole
than the box burst with loud explosion, and one
of the children wounded in the face. Bozzo
had placed in the box two loaded pistols, the trg-
gers of which he had tied to the bolt of the lock-
calculating that as soon as it was turned both would
go off One only did go off in point of fact as it hap
pened, and, fortunately, the wounds received by
the child were not serious. Itwas, however, proved
that the pistols were loaded in a most deadly man
ner. Bozzo was found guilty, and sentenced to hard
labor for life.
THE ARRESTS IN FRANCE.-The arrests in France
have been much larger scale than was sup
posed. The Paris correspondent of the Herald
states that within the last two weeks the arrests
made in the various departments may be counted by
thousands The persons thus seized wholesale are
Immediately examined; the interrogatories are then
forwarded to the Minister of Justice, who decides
whether they to be released transported, or as
signed fixed residence in some of the French
tONHs, uHueI the Vi Iue ponce. FROM
the month of June, lS4S, to the month of December
1852, the number of persons transported amounted
to $4,000. The Emperor subsequently revoked the
sentence against 81 0O0 excess of clemency which
the authorities to consider as having been
dangerous, the parties whom the police have
placed in duraace are chiefly those whom the En-
peror had previously pardoned.
A BENEFIT ExTRAoRDINARY.-A Vienna letter
says: The day before yesterday there was a regular
pilgrimage from the inner city to the suburb of
Mariahil tosee popular actress sell -four and eggs
to her numerous admirers. The thing was done for
the benefit of woman who was in distress but the
Lord Chamberlain is tremendous stckler about eti-
quette, and will not fail to remind the Young lady
that it is highly unbeseeming for person who is
member of the Imperial Royal Company of Dra-
matte Artistes to sit from morning till night in
shop filled with heavy swells, and surrounded by
mob of ganlans. The raised was large, as ten
fOrins were demanded and willingly paid for sin
gle egg.
The Paris Moniteur publishes fresh list, filling
several columns, of places from which addresses Of
congratuaton have been sent to the Emperor At
the head of the list stands that from the Lord Nav
or, aldermen and principal inhabitants of the city
of Dublin.