The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-24
FURTHER FROM CALIFORNIA.

ST. Louis, Nov. 22.-The overland mail, which
arrived here on Saturday evening, brought five
passengers.
During a severe storm at TETON on the I'd of Oc-
tober, a stampede occurred among the cames used
by Lieut.. Beae. Nine had been recovered, but six
were still missing.
The Los Angeles Star, speaking of immigration,
SAYS another large party OF immigrants from Iowa,
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, had arrived dur
ing the week in excellent health, and without ex-
periencing the slightest inconvenience. The sta
tions the Overland Mail Company afford resting
places at convenient distances and greatly assist
travellers. The stock OF the Company in ex-
cellent condition, and the animals arrive in good
order. large immigration from the Southwest
ern States, is now on the road.
The Sixth Infantry had reached Carson Valley,
and would proceed directly to Bencia.
Three hundred recruits under Lieut. Bootes,
were expected to arrive in ten days.
George Penn Jonson has formally retired from
the National newspaper.
ENcoURAGING FROM FRASER RIvER.-Vctoria
dates to the 18th October had been received.
Nine hundred ounces of gold dust had been re-
ceived by express, besides several large parcels
brought by passengers.
The accounts from above are more favorable
the mines turning out much better than was an
ticipated month previous New dggings of all
descriptions had been discovered, and more miners
going up the river than coming down. Freights
from Victoria to Port Hope had advanced from
$40 to $50 per ton, and the shipments of gold from
Victoria through Wells Fargo & Co., from the
4th of August to the 18th of October, amounted to
S92, 0G0.
The British ship of the line, Ganges, arrived at
Esquimalt, from aparaiso, Oct 18th.
| From OREGoN.-The advices from Oregon are to
the 10th ult They report that Col. Wright's col
umn returned to Walla Walla.
| The artillery battalion under Capt. keys, was en-
| route for Vancouver.
The remains of Capt. Taylor and Lieut. CASTOR
/ were buried at Walla Wala.
| Mitchell, the nephew of Kamiakin, the leading
murderer of the Indian Agent Mr. Bolon three
| has hy Moinr
! and confined in Fort Simcoe.
! The Yakima chief Ouhi, father of Qualchn, was
killed while attempting to escape from Col. Wrights
| command.
The navigation of Fraser River has been thrown
! open to all parties.
! From the ST. Louis Republican,
| Since the sailing of the steamer of the Goth,
there has been little nothing doing in the way
| of trade. The jobbing demand for the country
has improved somewhat, and the premature advent
of the rainy season, hich has set in with unusual
| violence has impaired fresh confidence and hopes
! in the ensuing winters business.
| The mail steamer of the goth, carried off So, H.
37l.45 which compared with the shipment of Oc-
tober 2Oh 1857, Isl, 697 0l238) exhibits an excess
of $3.50, 4707 nearly half million of dollars
The combined shipments of October this year,
amount to 81 ,027 ,5l202, which compared with the
shipment of October, 1857 So, 704 ,432 Sc, will show
| an excess this year of 1923 079.6G
! The experiment OF raising cotton had been tried
| successfully in garden at Diamond Springs Ell
! Dorado county The fibre is said to be fine soft
and silky, and white as the driven snow. 1t has
been compared favorably with a fair quality of Up
| land. The raiser says in the Sacramento Union:
The seed was brought from Tennessee and given
! to me by Major Sims, from Memphis. planted it
in April, and has raised eight stalks, each stalk
containing from sixteen to twenty bolls and is still
| blooming. Some of it was open three weeks ago,
and the rest is opening very fast.
! The Sixth Infantry has arrived at Carson Valley
| and will reach Placerville Thursday next. The
regiment consists of about 800 men, including team
! sters, ETC., 900 animals and 140 wagons left for
Fort Leavenworth on the 9TH of May last and came
| through by the way of Fort Bridger, the Soda
Springs and Hudspeths Cut off. The regiment had
tedious but prosperous journey, and has not lost
man by sickness, had it any other serious trou-
BILE until it reached the Sink of the Humboldt. At
that place row occurred between some of the
teamsters and soldiers, which resulted in fifteen of
the transfers being dismissed. The news which
| came in from Genoa, stating that the troops were
ordered to remain in Carson Valley, proves to be
incorrect.
CAUSE.-THE Philadelphia Bulletin thus describes
the chess contest now going on between that city
and New York:
The office of the American Telegraph Company
in Third street below Chestnut, and the office of
Towards Express, Chestnut street below Third,
present strange and interesting scene on the eve
nlngs upon which the great chess contest between
Philadelphia and New York is in progress The
centre OF all the excitement is in small apart
ment, peep into which can only be obtained by
the initiated; but the door of which is strictly
!
| the New Y ok umpire, and the secretary of the
! players. Around small table in this room, four
young gentlemen, with fine intellectual heads, sit
at chess-board. The pieces upon the board, and
| the moves are profoundly Greek to us: but we I'M
consciously find ourselves sympathizng with the
players, who, with keen eyes and earnest gesturese
are discussing the move which shall next be made,
and tracing with their fingers upon the board, the
probable elect OF the next step in the game. After
seeming difference of opinion the conflicting
| views reconciled, the four champions agree,
the move is made and in an instant the magic
wires are conveying the intelligence not only to
New York, where the antagonist knights are ma
n9uvering their cheSsmen, but all over the coun-
| try, North, South and West. New York generally
takes her full fifteen minutes before she responds
over the wire to the move just made, and in
| the meantime our Philadelphia players analvse
the game, and fortify themselves for contingent
! cies.
One of the most curious features of the scene is
the fact that everywhere within sight or sound of
the great centre where the game is managed, are
persons with chess boards, eagerly following the
moves, and playing out the game after each move,
and settling it to their own satisfaction. Each of
these boards is the centre OF separate knot of
and in all we hear Kings, ""Bshops" Crooks"
and "Pawns' alkedabout learnedy; but as we have
already said the chess vocabulary, like the chess
moves Is all Greek to us, and we can only take
! intense interest IN the game, without having the
most distant glimmering to what it is all about.
! The Dubuque San says that Thursday last,
Louis Paulsen, Morphys strongest antagonist at the
/ view L rk Nness congress, played DnnuiOiu Dlteen
simultaneous games of Chess with as many of the
best players Of the city, and in all but one which
might have been draw had advantages which, if
the games had been concluded, would have given
him the victory.
The New York papers are much pleased with Mr..
Barry Sullivan, the English tragedian, now playing
at the Broadway Theatre and who made his first
appearance on Monday night as Hamlet The
Herald says of him: He has not modelled himself
on anv of the conventional types which have rem
dered English tradgedy almost chonps-cios to the
aspirations of genius He does not exaggerate
like Forrest, nor does he mouth like Macready.
His dct0n, like his attitudes is natural and grace
full. Whilst his text is rendered with a deicacy
! and elegance which are rarely or ever witnessed
off the French stage, it retains all the force of the
| original conception.
ist although he suffered on his first appearance
sweetness of his voice, which is very svmpathetic
as well as powerful In all the business of the
scene he is intelligent, though he frequently differs
widely from the stereotyped traditions. He is
blessed with graceful FORM fine face, and an
eye that he controls to every expression In all his
acting he is most careful and discriminating and he
initiates nobody; his Hamlet is his own Hamlet and
Shakspeares. His reading of the celebrated solilo
guy in the third act, is model of deliberately crti-
cal elocuton, and his rendering of the closet scene
with the Queen is the most impressive and beauti-
full we have ever witnessed.
| KANsAs.-The correspondent of the New York
Times writing from Lawrence, Nov. 18th saws: The
Territorial Delegation Convention called by the
Central Committee to assemble at this place on the