The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-17
Baltimore, Sept. Is, 1858.

The Cumberland Telegraph says, the Commission
ers on the part of Maryland and Virginia, Col.
Thomas j. Lee, the part of the former and
Angus Mcdonald, Esq, in behalf of the latter, APP
pointed to and mark the boundary line of the
State of Maryland, running due North from the
Fairfax stone to the Pennsylvania line, have APP
pointed their first meeting at said stone the 18th
instant The expedition will be accompanied by
Lieut.. Meitzell, of the United States engineer corps,
who has been detailed by the Government astron-
to the commission.
We understand it is to be the design of the com
mission at this time, only to fix the true direction
of the line by astronomical observation, and then to
proceed to perform the duty at the initial point
of the Southern line running from the South Point
to the Atlantic ocean; Immediately after which they
will proceed to run, and mark with suitable monu-
ments the Western line first.
The st. Peter MINI. Free Press learns that the
Upper Sioux Indians were much displeased with
the presents offered them by the government and
refused to receive them any terms. They
disposed to be hostile, and yet create serious
difficulties in that region. They assert that the
agent has 1000 more names on his list than they
have Indians in their bands and that after dividing
the annuity up and paying it out at that rate, he
will retain the balance. 1t is said they offered to
march out their bands and have them counted. but
Brown refused. 1t is stated that they stoned him
out of the Council The goods have all been brought
down to Fort Ridgly. \ day two since, a
came down that collision had taken place there,
in which nine whites and some dozen Indians were
killed; but there has been confederation of it.
Large quantities of timber are now being ship
ped over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Balti-
MORE to be shipped then e to France to be used in
the construction of vessels of 1t comes prin-
cipally from the neighborhOOd of Cheat river, and
we are informed that large prices are paid for it
The export of timber of this character from this
and ad acent regions is quite large and is in
creasing annually. The Messrs. Hall of this coun-
ty. are now engaged in filling heavy cont act for
Cuba and large quantities of it are shipped yearly
from this point for the United States ship yard for
kFnns En and fhn o,,Iau np1,y
augmenting.
correspondent of the Toledo Blade, writing
from Mackinac; states that about six hundred men
are employed upon the fisheries, mostly Indians
and half-breeds, and 200 boats and five vessels in
carrying the fish from the fishing grounds to Mack
mac. The fish trade this season has been poor,
and the catch this year will not exceed l6, 900 bar
rels. Last year it was 1880. Total number of
barrels of fish exported in five years. 81 500. Ag-
gregate value, S63S, 500
A correspondent of the Washington Union writ
ing from Nebraska Territory, SAYS The deplorable
banking system, in addition to the fact that we
have no revenue law, no criminal code collection
laws, has rendered the times now almost insufer-
ably hard throughout the Territory.
The crops of corn, buckwheat and potatoes never
looked as well as this season. Soil that has been
cultivated one or two years will average Weld of
from seventy to eighty bushels per acre, while
sod corn Will average from forty to fifty blu shells
per acre.
The San Francisco Herald says that Mr. H. C.
Plat the contractor, is busilv engaged in repairing
Battery street, in front of Wheeler's Gymnasium,
with the wales and bo tom planks of the famous old
ship Cadmus, which brought Marquis de Lafayette
to this country in 1924 The planks to this day
as sound as pump bolt and would have lasted
many years longer.
The Planters (P George Co. y Advocate SAYS that
the st. Mary's Jockey Club has changed its pro-
gramme for this falls meeting, in accordance with
the suggestion recently made behalf of its friends
and subscribers in P. George county. The races
will come off on the 9th, 2Sth and 10Th of October,
instead of during the first week of November, as
heretofore advertised.
A correspondent of the New York Erening Post,
writing from Illinois, says: The crops in Illinois
and Iowa have not turned out well. Wheat is
poor in this State, and utter failure in Iowa.
Corn is looking finely, and promises rich harvest.
Grass is abundant, and the farmers have made guam
titles of hay.
The Russian frigate Grand Admiral, which has
been built at New York, is to be launched Tues
day, the 2lst instant, that being the birth day of
the Grand Admiral Constantine. She is pierced
for Y guns, is 5000 tons burthen and consequently
the largest war-ship in the world.