The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-16


next moon
The details of the murders and outrages in Don
ma Ana county are given.
The letting of the contracts to supply the sub
slstence department of the army took place on the
18th inst.
THE REMAINS OF PRESIDENT MISUNDERSTANDING the
bills passed by the Legislature of Virginia is one
for the removal of the remains of President Monroe
from the cemetery in New York, where they have
reposed for more than quarter of a century, to
the city OF Richmond, there to be renterred at the
seat of government of his native State. 1t is pro
posed to erect a tall marble shaft upon an eminence
in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, which is be-
leved to be the most suitable spot in that city,
Hitherto little or nothing has been done by the
United States or Virginia to honor the memory of
Mr.. Monroe.-,Jow. Of Com.
The Lancaster pa. Inteligencer states that quite
number of suits have been commenced by Jona-
than d. Hester, of Berks county, against property
holders in the borough of Manheim for arrearages
of ground rents, said to be due and owing to him
Tor the last thirtythree years, and amounting in all
to some $4,000 900. 1t has caused great cx-
citement in that community, much of the ground
upon which these rents are claimed has changed
hands several times during the period mentioned.
VIM. De Cola, an Italian, residing in New y ork,
was violently assaulted and beaten Sunday morn
ing, by two Irishmen, named Michael Foley and
Patrick McNulty. After the two men had satisfied
themselves with beating their victim they held him
several minutes on the top of hot stove, burning
81 severely IHdC Is not expected TO survive.
The wretches were arrested.
Joseph C.. Stone, a prominent business man of
Rochester n. Y, died on Monday last. The cause
of his death typhoid fever 1t is singular fact
that Mr.. Pratt, of the firm QfM. S. Hawley Il Com
pany OF Buffalo, warm personal friend of the late
MIR. Stone, was at the West with him, and they re-
turned home in company, Mr.. p. was taken sick of
the same disease, at about the same time and sur
vived but nine days.
WHAT RAILROAD WILL Do.-The Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad is 204 miles in length. and cost
about $1,000, 600 In 1880 the taxable value of the
land in the counties through which it passes. as
taken from the census was S2S 942 647-and in 1856
the State assessment makes it S5 229 or an in
crease in six years of sos. This sudden in
crease is alone theresult of internal Improvement
which has cost only $1,000, 600.
The last wish of Col. Benton was that Congress
would make an appropriation for the purchase OIL
his works which he desired might be distributed
among the public libraries of the country. His last
paragraph note is one compmenting Henry Clay
which is appended to the deceaseds account of the
Compromise struggle of 1885, and to which period
the work is completed
In the efforts made by Mayor Tieman of New
y ork to break up the bogus lotteries and other
firms IN that city, over $751; 600 have been recovered
from letters addressed to the swindling establish
ments, and there are yet unopened in the New York
Post Office AS letters, of which 500 are re gistered
directed to the same parties 80
The Printing Investigation Committee have sub
stantally agreed the bill of Mr. Taylor to esab-
lish a Government printing office under Commits
siOner and the Secretary of the Interior. The Com
mittee will probably report next week.
The Tariff Investigation Committee will also
probably report next week.
BY private letter from Macao, China, we are
informed OF the death, in January last, of Captain
;. Drinker. The deceased was a native of Phila-
delphia, and was highly esteemed as a gentleman
and shipmaster by large circle of friends He had
llyed m China for years with his family being
engaged in commerce there.
HEAVY CLAIM.-David A. Neal, late Vice Presi-
dent OF the Illinois Central Railroad, has com
menced suit against the Company in the T. S. Cir
cult Court for $3.50 900 for services rendered to the
company while in its employ. How're, Miller 4
Lewis are the counsel for Neal; Stuart q Douglas
for the road
CorToN MmLs.-The cotton mills at Newburvport
Mass, are still mOtonless, account of Disagree
ment between the employers and the employed-
lhe latter propose to go to work at reduction of
ten per cent frGm last years prices, which would
be an increase from present rates of about twelve
per cent.
The Susquehanna river, at Harrisburg, was rising
at a rapid rate on Tuesday, and will probably be-
come very high. The rain is supposed to have ex-
tended over both branches of the river and if
so, there VIII be Immense amounts of lumber down
soon.
We learn by Wales Beverly Mass. Express that
two lrishmcn, brothers, named Davis cot into a
quarrel in that town yesterday morning while in
toXicated, and one of them stabbed the other so
that he died. The murderer was arrested and con
veyed to Salem Jail.
The simplest test, saws the Scientific American,
by which consumers can ascertain the comparative
purity OF gas, is to burn q piece of paper dipped
INTO solution OF sugar of lead. If the gas IS not
pure the paper will turn to grayish or even black
TINT, while pure gas will leave it white
On Saturday night last about five hundred cords
OF wood, belonging to the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
Company, were destroyed by fire, near the Tusca-
rora station, in Juniata county. The fire oririnat-
ed, doubtless, from locomotive
The first cargo of white oak and yellow pine tim
Der amounting in value to inward of $50 900 was
Shlppea last Saturday ON board the American ship
W. ,. Lindsay, from New York to Venice, for the
construction of naval dry dock for the Austrian
Government.
1t is stated positively that Brown Brothers 4 Co..
the chef creditors of the Collins steamers, have
intention OF running them on their own account.
Captain ComstOck is in Paris endeavoring to sell
the Collins steamers to French company, and, it
is said, will probably succeed
Iwenty-six passenger trains arrive and depart
daily IRON the Pennsylvania Railroad depot on
urant ana Liberty streets, Pittsburgh. The hustle
and activity which such traffic, in small com
pass, creates, are more easily imagined than de-
scribed
The Senate of the New York Legislature passed
the voters Registry Bill on Saturday by vote
OF Is yeas to IA nays. This bill provides for the
y.
a few days since in the Assembly
On Friday a considerable portion of the pine
woods fences, and some Out-houses on the farms of
Messrs. Palmer, Briggs, Frazier, Bird, and Others
about eleven miles from Washington in Prince
Georges county, Nd, were destroyed by fire.
The extortion of Chicago haCkmen has become so
notorious that forty-three of the hundred and
we've hackmen of that city have formed them
selves into an association, with a view of putting a
top to overcharging and other abuses.
DEATH OF A VENERABLE MAN.-Capt BENJAMIN
Blackman, of Verona, New York, as we learn from
he Rome Sentinel, died on the 23d of March, at the
advanced age of97 years and months.
An individual in Philadelphia who committed
perjury, by swearing that he the owner of prop
,rty to which he had title, with view to Civ
NC ball. has been sent to prison for three years.
Mr.. Cass, being applied to for his autograph,
ent it with a card, having his name engraved on
t, as key to the hieroglyphic, the Secretary of
State, writing like hr. Choate, ga shocking bad
land."
The oldest married couple living are supposed to
e Mr.. Snyder and his wife, who reside at Burn
ide, Pa. He is Ill and she is l07 years old, and
hey have been married about SO years.
On Thursday last two young men, named Benia- |
min and Abram Owen, of Neversnk Sullivan coun-
y, Pa, were drowned near the Delaware Water |
zap, by the upsetting of small boat.
Capt. John Rowan has organized military COM
any in Charlottesville, Va, which consists of fifty
of whom are over six feet in