The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-07
D o M E STIC.

The MINERAL BANK EMBEzzLEMENT.-The trial of
Joseph H. Tucker, charged with embezzling the
funds of the Mineral Bank, commenced at Cumber-
land on Monday and will probably last Il week or
ten days. He is charged, whilst acting as Presi
dent OF the Bank, to have embezzled funds to the
amount OF So, 900, and there is twentyonc counts
TO the Indictment charging the offence IN various
technical FORMS running through period OF three
years from 1884 to 1857, causing the ultimate fail
ure of the bank. The punishment, II convicted, by
the law under which he is being tired, Is not iess
than five, more than fifteen years confinement IN
the penitentiary. j. NJ. Schey, ESQ, Is Attorney
for the State, prosecuting, and Josiah H. Gordon,
Thomas Devecmon, Samuel NJ. Semmes and VIM.
Price, Esqrs. counsel for the traverser.
The Salem Gazette says that from Marbehead
there will be about fifty vessels engaged in the fish
ing business the present year. half of which number
have already sailed, and the remainder are making
active preparations to follow in the track. The
Newburyport HeraH says the fishermen in that and
other seaboard towns are active in fitting away for
the season. The fisheries will be more largely en-
gagged in than heretofore owing to the dizziness of
other branches of business, in which there is very
little prospect of any revival.
Isaac IIolcombe, of Fayette county, Georgia, has
been arrested by the officers of the Pension Bureau
and in default of bail committed to Jail to await his
trial for the commission of frauds in obtaining re-
voutiOnary PENSIONS The Pension Office has re-
ccived official information of the conviction of James
X. Buchanan, of Arkansas, who arrested some
months since by its order, for forgery and other
We learn from our exchanges that the planters
actively engaged in replanting their cotton,
with the hope of retrieving the damage caused by
the late frosts, though it is feared that the supply
of seed will prove insufficient to meet their wants.
The frost did not reach Florida. That the only
State which escaped the visitation.
Tuckerman, the U. S. mail robber, was Yesterday
morning brought before Judge Ingerso, of the
United States Circuit Court, at New Haven, for
sentence, which was imprisonment at hard labor in
the State Prison for twenty-one years. During the
address of the Judge, Tuckerman shook convul-
svely.
According to partial returns from the various po-
lice captains of New York city, no less than nine
hundred and twenty-five places in that city were
open Sunday last, for the ''sae of liquors, dry
goods and cigars" The six wards from which no
returns were received, would probably swell the
number to near 800.
The motion made by Mr. Colfax in the House of
Representatives, to lay the table the report from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, recommending
the immediate abrogation of the Clayton and Bull
wer treaty was not regarded a test question, as
both its friends and opponents want an opportunity
for discussion.
Between Saturday and Monday last, the store of
Robert Dunlap, Jr. in Pittsburg, Pa, was broken
open and robbed of large amount of fine cutlery.
Robert Elmore alias Smith, arrested, and over
$500 worth of the stolen goods found in his trunk,
whereupon he confessed the deed and was commit
ted.
The Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette says that on We'd
nesday last, John Ayder attacked man, whose
name is not given, at the depot in Wilmington, in
that State, knocking him down and beating him so
brutaly that he died from the effects on Friday
morning. Ayder escaped and the citizens of Will
mington offer $500 for his arrest.
We learn that Mr.. William d. Coplan son of ex-
Senator Coplan, of Fayette county, was shot at an
election fracas at Sioux city, Iowa, about the mid
die of last month, and died in few days after
wards. He was single man, and almost twenty
two years of age.
The whole value of the exports of domestic
growth and manufactures from Puget's Sound Dis
trict, Washington Territory, during the last year,
was S543, 54773. The exports consisted of lumber,
grain pork bacon, and butter, salmon, whale and
fish OIL cattle and horses, coal, &c. p.
The Project ola bridge across the East River from
New York to Brook yn is agitated. A petition is
about to be presented to Congress asking for the
cessary power to construct low bridge piers,
with an appropriation.
On Saturday, when the banks of Lynchburg,
Virginia, resumed specie payments, one of them
paid out $4,000, and others $4,000 or $40 900
each in coin, the demand for it coming from distant
brokers.
Miss Helen Cunningham, daughter of Mrs. Gun
ningham- Burdell, was married in Jersey City, on
Sunday last, to young dentist of that city. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Van
elect.
, The Methodist Protestant General Conference,
composed of ministerial and lay delegates from
thirty odd Annual Conferences convened on Tues
day, at lynchburg, Va.
1t is stated that the free negroes of Texas are
ayailing themselves of recent law of that State,
enabling them to choose masters and become slaves.