The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-27
D o M E sTIC

=, AT an early hour on the morning of the 18th inst
the residence of Mr.. Guiat, on Louisiana Avenue in
NV orieans' La, was entered by burglars and
robbed OF jewelry and plate of the value of 81 OOO
Alter the burglars had decamped the owner of the
mouse informed policeman of the robbery, who,
having two blood hounds with him, put them upon
.ne tral and In hive minutes one of the robbers
captured, and soon after the other. They were
pretty badly bitten by the dogs before they could
be taken off.
East Tennessee papers are discussing the proprie-
tty of reconstructing the State of FARMLAND The
Memphis Bulletin fayOrs division of Tennessee and
the formation of a State from the Western por-
ton with North Mississippi and the Western corner
OF Kentucky. 1t is urged that the interests of the
Eastern and Western portions of the State not
homogeneous, and that the finances of the West
controlled by Nashville.
Major James H. burst, who died lately in Texas
near the Nueces participated in the stOrming of
Bexar during the Texas revolution, at the age of H.
and was engaged in almost every battle up to the
annexation of Texas. He was prominent in the
Cherokee war; has served in the State Senate and
was Deputy Collector of the Brazos Santiago dis
trict at the time of his death.
On Saturday last, we learn from the Pittsburg
(Pa) Morning Post, George s. Selden, convicted
of having, the 10th instant, used disrespcctful
and mencaing language to the United States Cir
cult Court, was sentenced by Judge Irwin to pay
lire OF 500, and to be stricken from the roll OF at
torneys practicing in the United States Circuit
Court, as unfit to practice therein.
About 1115 O'Clock last Saturday night, the Hope
Company Mills, Statfordshire, Conn, took fire in
the boiler house. and the main building entire
ly consumed The out-buildings were saved. In
surance S2O,O0O loss between S35, 900 and $4,000
There had been no fire in the boiler house or the
mill after 5'oclock, at which hour they quit work on
Saturday.
Morton, the Deputy United States Marshal of
Philadelphia, who arrested in New York,
charged with committing assault upon the per-
son of John w. Tye, on Saturday last was brought
before the mayor, and gave bail in the sum of $500
To answer. Henry Grnnell became his bondsman.
Morton was with DR.. Kane on his Arctic expe-
dition. H...
The Bridgeport Conn Standard says that an
attempt has lately been made to force the Bridge
port Insurance Company into bankruptcy. Claims,
1t is stated have accrued to the amount of $50 900,
and the funds not being forthcoming, the claimants
have naturally become impatient. The company
have policies out to the amount of S5,0OO,OO0
During recent hearing in Lowell, Mass, in
reference to junk shops, the agent of the Suffolk
corporation testified that within the past two or
three years nearly serenity of cotton waste had
found its way to the different junk shops and tin
peddlers in Boston, taken from the corporations, at
the loss of nearly S3S, 900. .--. .....-.
The net profit of the Connecticut State Prison for
the year ending March 2lst, were S., 05S.SS. To-
tai number of prisoners at that date 2l2-of whom
20 sentenced for life. Thisis said to be the only
Institution of the kind that has paid expenses dur
ing the past year.
The NJ. Z. Conference. South, has determined not
to elect an additional Bishop at the present time.
and not to make State lines the boundary lines of
annual conferences The general rule on the sub
ject of buying and selling slaves has been, after
long and able debate stricken from the book of dis
cipline.
Advices from st. Johns Newfoundland to the
18th instant state that the seal fishery is likely to
prove very successful, twenty three vessels having
arrived at that port, with an aggregate of about
$4,000 seals.
Havana paper publishes the order of the Cap
General, authorizing the Submarine Electric
Telegraph Company to lay submarine cable to
Key West, and thence by telegraph through Fori-
da to unite the wires with the teegraphs leading to
all parts of the United States
An examination has been commenced before JUS
tice Welsh, in the of Moses Ehrick proprietor
of "Fence" in White street, lately arrested on a
charge of ieoniously receiving a large quantity of
goods, the product of a burglary committed last
Winter in Newburg. @
The British bark Stranger; Capt. Bennett, sailed
from New Orleans, La, for Liverpool, England on
the 4th of December last, and has not been heard
OF since. Her cargo consisted of sos bales of cot
ton, and a ,4l6 slaves.
The annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club
will come off on Thursday, Sd of June. in New
ork harbor. under the direction of the Committee
of Arrangements. There will be a prize valued at
$50, for each class of yachts.
Burton's old theatre. in Chambers street New
York, opposite the Park, has been leased by the
Government for federal courts and offices for fifteen
years, at an annual rent of $4,000.
At the village of Milestone, N. j., the dstemper
has been raging among large drove of hogs fat
tening for the New Y DIRK market on the swill from
a large distilery at that place, and great many
have died.
Henry W. Pratt late Teller of the Grafton Bank,
Mass. and Albert A. Stockwe, jointly indicted for
robbing the Grafton Bank of $4,000, have both
hpp npnI
The Secretary of the Navy has declined to send
second steamer to aid in laying the Atlantic Tele-
graph cable.
DR.. Hampton, of Huntingdon township Ross
county, Ohio, arrested few days SINCE charged
with numbering his wife by poison. 4
Both houses of the Legislature of Wisconsin have
passed bill for the re-establishmen of capital pun
ishmen for the crime of murder in the first dcgree