The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-28

BURNING A RAILROAD BRIDGE-On THURSDAY
night last, an attempt made to DESTROY the
bridge on the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad
near the village of Uhrchsvile, by boring holes in
the large timbers filling them with turpentine and
setting the spirits fire. The fire was under head
way, and the sides of the bridge in blaze, when
the freight train came along at its usual speed
The engineer and fireman put the brakes down and
jumped, expecting to see train and bridge all go
down together, in common ruin, to the bottom of
the creek. But the bridge, luckily, although EN-
veloped in smoke and flames, proved competent to
the burthen and the train passed over in safely to
the ''other side of Saltwater" where the brakes
being down, it soon stopped
An EMANCIPATION CASE IN GEoRGIA.-The Macon
Telegraph of Tuesday says :-"3n yesterday morn
ing Judge Lumpkin delivered opinion involving
an emancipation clause in will in a case of this
kind A, the testator had made will in which he
bequeathed certain negroes for life to b. After the
death of b, the negroes to be free and carried
to free State or to Liberia. The Court decided
that this clause in the will was void under
cipatiOn acts that the negroes were free Instant
the termination of the life estate in Georgia. and
as a matter of course, contrary to the spirit and
policy of our laws in relation to emancipatng
slaves.
IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-The Supreme Court at Buff
falo, n. Y, has decided an interesting case for
Bank tellers. The teller of the Butchers and Dro-
vers Bank certified check when the drawer had
not a cent of money in said Bank. The check came
into the hands of the plaintiffs, for valuable CON
sderation, in due course OF business; the Bank re
court held the Bank liable to the law, settled for
centuries that the principal is liable for the acts
of his agent acting in the usual course of his en-
ployment.
CASH AND HONOR CoMBrNED.-At special geuer-
al court OF the East India Company held at the
India House, London, on the 7th inst. a resolution
granting an annuity of $4,000 per annum to Gen.
Sir Colin Campbell was confirmed; and also alike
resolution granting fl 900 per annum to Gen. Sir
James outram. The reason assigned for these
grants was, that as the Queen has determined to
raise Sir Colin to the peerage, and to confer on Sir
James baronetcy, they would need the income to
support their new dignities. ......
A ScoURGE REMovED.-The city physician of Bos
ton In his last report says I have only to report
single death from sndll-po during the gear, and
there is good to hope that for the 1uture the
disease will never again prevail to any extent in our
city, so long as vaccination is attended to so gene
rally by the profession and the people themselves"
If this is the result OF careluI tne
udices which still preVa against IL are somethihg
worse than absurdltles.
FAILING OF A RAILROAD BRIDGE.-~0n Saturday
last tbe bridge over Todds Fork, on the Cincinnati
Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad, gave way as
he westward bound freight train was crossing it,
,recpitating the train into the creek beneath The
fireman, Mr. John Baughman, of Wiamsport was
,illed and one of the brakemen, named Samuel
Slack was so severely injured that he died shortly
fter. The engineer of the train was slightly in
ured. a
THE PEACH CRoP IN MARYLANn-The Elkton,
Id, Democrat says: We understand that Mr.. Ma
haniel Wolfe, of Kent county has sold the fruit OF
ne OF his orchards Sassafras river for 81 00o to
delivered upon the shore. We also understand that
lr. Reybold, proprietor of the Casseday peach
arm in Sassafras Neck, in this county, expects to
ealize over 100000 from his orchard this season.
his world seem to indicate that there has not been
total failure Of the crop so far as Maryland is