The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-25

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From NEwFOuNDLAND.-Paper from this island
wa HALIFAX, have been received. From them we
learn that there l35, ,567 fewer seals brought
INTO the ports of this island during the past spring
than in the spring of lS57-the number of seals
brought in in 1857 being 53O735; in 1855 395 lGG.
market. The ''fish"-that is. cxdfsh-remanino
1n m hand from last years cure, is nearly exhausted
,r"oably at this time there is not a cargo obtain
cOost me fish had struck in abundantlv along the
tL Us operations were progressing with yigor at
u vae "au AZ: MINES in Placentia Bay Some seventy
tIam, inci9uing twenty Cornish miners are at work
80 ~, I 'ne prospects warrant the belief that
co,S "a 1i az shipments of will be made in the
''"'S' vi inc present season.
a. RAILROAD ACCIDENT Nj sourI-The train on
Eat 20 iSsouil haliroad started from one mile
EaSt ol this place on Thursday last Mt o'clock A
NJ, ana after running three miles and vbi iIo r,,r;,r
at the rate of twelve miles per hour cane 70 u o7
vert from around which the embankmrnt had hnar
washed away leaving only the iron rail to rnn mon
the locomotive running backwards with tLo tor
der ahead of it, obstructed the view of the engineer
and the first intimation Of the stat the track va
tremendous crash-the iron railing giving way.
ana the baggage car sinking into the chasm turn
ing the locomotive over and inuring Mr. Edward
Rice, the engineer badly-severing his hand from
ms arm.the first passenger car precipitated
against the baggage car, destroying the brake and
iracturlng both thigh bones of the brakeman, Mr.
VIM McGee. No other persons were much injured
-Nerieo Jio.) Ledger.
AN AMERICAN SHIP ON FIRE.-The shin Castilian.
OF NGwburyport, Graves, from Liverpool Nav 3,
with l. Alb tons of coal to the Manhattan Gas Com
pany, arrived at New York Wednesday She
reports, May 2G, off Cape Sable, she saw fhe shin
Jenny Lind, bound for Boston Nav l2. lat. 505
90, long. l5o 45, they saw an American shin on
flre; ran for her, and upon approaching near, saw
snip that was lying by her, fill away and stand to
the eastward. Also, saw another ship from the
westward luff close to, and then stand on They
supposed the first vessel had taken off the crew.
May 80 passed the Grand Banks, since which time
nave had light southwest winds and calms, with
foggy weather.
The PASSENGERS AND CREW OF THE BRIG l. BEuR-
MANN SAFE.-Ihc ship Spartan which came in col
llson with the brig lsa ella Beurman on the 18th
INST, IN dense fog, and afterwards lowered away
her whale boats and took the passengers and crew
from the sinking vessel has, no doubt arrived at
New Bedford or Nantucket and safely landed her
sh1pWrecked passengers. We may soon expect a
detailed account of the disaster The Spartan is a
whaling ship of 1913 TONS belongs to Nantucket and
is owned by MesSrs. Gardner Il Chase She is COM
manded by Captain Turner and sailed for the Paci-
nc July >, 1904, and has consequently been absent
Tour years. She was last heard from on the Goth
OF July, 1857, cruising off Pata and then had O2O
barrels sperm and 800 barrels whale oil on board.
The CASS-llERRAN TREATY.-Dspatches received
at the New Granadian Legation, at Washington
represent the Cass-llerran treaty as still hung up
in the Congress of that Republic Under the laws
oi New Granada, treaty has to be passed by both
Houses OF Congress precisely as any other law The
President submitted this treaty and recommended
its passage. The Senate at once agreed to the SIN
demnity provisions, but amended the article grant
ing the cesson of a coal depot on the island The
House refused to agree to the amendment, pre-
terrlng to ratify the treaty made here. A Com
mittee of Conference was appointed and that
Committee had not agreed at the date of the dis
patches.
Samuel Russell, well known citizen of Madison
y. \ :, fortnight ago last Saturday left Buffalo
saying to the master of boat which he chartered,
that he was going to Indiana, and should be back in
three days, and engaging the boat to wait for
ms return. His family knew that he going to
Indiana to collect 81 900 of miller in that State
| This man on being teegraphed to. has answered
/ that Russell had called on him, and that he had
paid him the 81 600, and that he said he was going
/ to Illinois. His family has no knowledge of any
intention his part to visit Illinois, or that he had
any business there. 1t is feared he has been muir
dered.
/ The statement that Mr.. Peabody holds 500 900
| OF the stock OF the Cairo City (Ill.) Company is
! contradicted. "One who knows" writes to the
/ Philadelphia EreniDg JoHrpot-Mr. Peabody is a
stock holder in the Cairo Company to the extent of
800 shares, the par value of which is $3.50 0O0 but
| the market value before the flood was never more
than S25 per share, which would make his interest
81 I,5OO-provided he had purchased at market
price. But as he became possessed of this interest
by owning large claims against the United States
Bank his entire interest has not cost him So 900.
remarkable fossil recently discovered by
Rev. Samuel Lockwood, of Keyport, n. j., who
has been for some weeks past on a tour of geologi-
! cal investigation among the Catsk mountains,
and will be presented to Rutgers College. 1t con
! siss OF three fragments, being portions of an ex-
! tinct fossil plant, the largest fragment weighing
! some 200 lbs Its dscovercr SAYS it is "A water
! plant of the family Egn,ieefacca, and that it was
found in member of the New York Deronian, or
/ old red sandstone rock.
At Milford Massachusetts,, a boy, at work in one
of the shoe shops in that place. recently found in
an old mail bag which the proprietor of the shop
had purchased to work into Shoes a letter which
had been mailed at an office in Tennessee and
/ directed to another place in the same State and
/ which contained four fty-dollar bills, twenty a
ten, five, and three; in all, 1898. This firm has
purchased several thousand of these worn-out mail
bags, and several other letters have been found in
them.
MASONs OF VIRGINIA on A VIsGT.-The delegation
/ of Masons, from Virginia, were expected to arrive
| at Boston on Wednesday night last, when they
/ would become the guests Of the De Molay Encamp-
ment of Knight Templars. On Thursday there will
be grand procession through the principal streets,
and visit to Bunker Hill. In the evening grand
festival at Music Hall will be held. The Boston
Encampment of Knight Tempars will also visit
Bristol, r. l., on Thursday.
THE LrrrLEs CAsE.-A jury was obtained on
] Three
panels were exhausted before this was accomplish
ed, and full jury would even have been formed
had not the Court accepted of those whose opinions
were already formed. \ plea of manslaughter in
the first degree willprobaby be accepted.
/ DUEL IN ROXBURY, MAss.-An anonymous cor
respondent Of the Boston HeraM alleges that n
duel took place early on Monday morning in Rox-
bury, between a Southern gentleman and Young
law student of Boston. The Southerner was
wounded in three places, it is feared dangerously
The Boston boy was only run through the sleeve of
his shirt. The Southener insulted him on Saturday
forenoon, and the student challenged him at once
All parties are highly connected.
Mr.. BOugh, residing near Strong River, Smith
county, Mass, about month ago, was boring for
water in the piney woods, and when he had bored
about 40 feet ga mighty rushing wind" came out of
the hole, which continued for several days. He
/ quit boring and waited to see what would come of
it. He placed a bottle over the hole and the wind
makes a noise in it which can be heard a mile. 1t
/ ''blows about week at a time, and then it begins
to "suck in, which continues for about the same
! time, and then blows again. So far no dimnuton
| of its force has been discovered
7 OLD PoIYr-The Norfolk Dan Book announces
that there now about two hundred and fifty
I visitors at Old Point. chiefly from the Southern
States, and that daily additions are made to the
number. This is one of the most pleasant places of
retreat in all the country, and we doubt not the
present season VIII prove an unusually gay and
prosperous one.
meeting Of the Board of Visitors of the Medi-
cal College of Virginia will be held in Richmond on
the Sth OF July, to fill in the Professor
snip OF Chemistry, caused by the resignation of Dr.
Martin P. Scott. The candidates for the chair are
requested to address their communications to the
Secretary.
They are tanning an elephants hide at Cincinna-
ii: 1t was purchased by furrier in Wisconsin,