The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-27
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Borough, and near Heckscherville, which for TWEEN
ty-one years has been on fire. The vein which con-
tans excellent white ash coal, is some forty feet in
thickness. The origin OF the fire is attributed to a
couple of miners, who, having some work to per
form in the drift in the depth of winter, built fire
they being cold-in the gangway. The flames
destroying the prop timbers, carried by a
strong current rapidly along the passage, and the
fire communicating to the coal, all subsequent eff
forts to eXtinguish it were Intellectual. The men
We're cut of from escape, and were undoubtedly
sutlocated to death. Their remains were never
found.
few days since we assembled the mountain at the
spot of the fire, and were much interested in
lnIng the effect of the fire upon the surface. The
course OF 1T Is from west to east and where the vein
is nearest the surface the ground is for the space of
several hundred feet, sunkcn into deep pits, and
while the stones exhibit evidences of having been
exposed to the action of intense heat every vcstige
OF vegetation had been blasted 1t is desert track
in the midst of smiling fertility. The ground in
some places was almost too warm for the hand to
rest upon it, while steam from water heated by the
internal fire, rose from every pore. The fire has
evidently extended for several hundred yards from
the place 1t originated, and finds vent and air to
continue It's progress at the pits to which we have
alluded score of years has passed. still it burns,
and will burn until further fuel is denied the de-
vouring element. Thousands of tons of coal have
undoubtedly been consumed and thousands of tons
may yet feed the fire before it is checked.-POHsUWe
Journal.
LATER FROM ST. THoMAs.-A letter from ST.
Thomas, dated the 9th inst, says: Business cOntin-
ues without much Improvement; the market is
abundantly supplied with flour for the small demand
existing. Provisions are also in fair stock and
dull
There two monopocs here sanctioned by the
government one for the sale of drugs and medicine
and the other for the sale of ice The latter in its
operation occasionally affects American vessels and
as ice is becoming more and more an article of ex-
port from the United States, it is likely to operate
still more seriously.
The law does not allow the sale of ice except by
the monopolist ANY vessel arriving in distress
with cargo of ice and having to discharge for re-
pairs, Tone how in port,) cannot dispose of the
cargo unless to the mOnopolist or throw it over
board, as it is scarcely possible to send for
ward cargo of this perishabe nature Whether
in such instances this monopoly is not infringe
ment of the reciprocal commercial treaty between
the two governments, must, should many more
such cases occur, give rise to question yet to be
settled
Hen LIFE IN New YoRK.-The following item
from the Tribune recalls the ''Potiphar Papers"
ga grand party was given few nights since bv a
wealthy citizen, at which the peculiar graccs Of the
fashionable young of New York shonc with
unusual splcndOr. In upper room where card
tables had been set for old gentlemen, was Il large
bowl of punch, which the boys smct out. They
broke into the room, and got roaring drunk on the
punch; then invaded the hat room, and cut up all
the men hats, except their own, boring holes in
some, sashng others, slicng off the brims and
punching out the crowns, until the floor was cover
Ell with ruined caStOrs and finally wound up their
gentemanly behaviour by cutting the cord of the
dumb-watcr and letting the whole of the expensive
supper crockery 90 into the kitchen, smashing it
into countless pieces"
THE PESTHENCE ON BOARD THE SUsOUEHANNA-
Captain Sands, of the United States steamship Sus-
quehanna, has received letter from the Secretary
OF the Navy entirely approving his course lcav-
ing his station without instructions, under the cir
cumstances. The cases of fever sent to the Marine
Hospital from the Susquehanna, are convalescing.
NO new cases have broken out since the crew were
landed, nor have any died since Thursday last
The mass OF the crew and officers who were sent on
ShOre on sunday last are permitted to leave quar-
antinc to day, but are allowed to take with them
only small amount of personal baggage, which is
thoroughly clean, and which has not been exposed
to the malaria of the ships hold. The dozen ship
keepers who not landed till Thursday last
will not be liberated from quarantine till Monday
or Tuesday mOrnng.-Ncw York Commercial, Sat
| urdry eceniRg.
WoHSE THAN THE MoRMoNS. The Ccavcland
HeTdid has an article upon the progress of free love
and free love associations, in the northern part of
Oho-originally settled by the people from Con-
nectcut, Massachusetts and Vermont. free love
ticket for the town election in Berlin, it seems has
been carried by the free lovers, under disguised
name, and the respectable inhabitants of the town
who do not believe i'll the ism, threaten to leave the
place If they cannot get rid of the lcprosy. Four
of the heights of the town now devoted to
the purpose OF the association, and five houses have
been erected within four weeks The association
has paper there, which is forced upon the attention
Of those who do not subscribe by slipping under
their doors at night
A letter from the Yankee colony N Virginia to
the Worcester Transcript, indicates that it is thrv
ing moderately, in spite of some mistakes at the
start. The hotel is not yet finished, but a church,
with school room in the basement has been com
pletcd and is declared to be the best church in the
vicinity. Several settlers from Millbury, Mass,
have Just come in, one of whom would establish
planning mill and another brick yard. A Mr. A.
of Vermont, was about to introduce machinery for
extensive cilarmakng. Two men from Clinton,
Mass, have erected Il building for the manufacture
Of mattresses. The thermometer ranged from G5
to 80 degs and pear, peach and apple trees were in
full bloom on the 18th.
company of 80 MormOns-most of them from
Denmark Sweden and Norway, arrived in New
York on Sunday, in the ship John Bright. Their
emigration projected before the news of the
difficulties in Utah had reached them, and it was
their intention at first to proceed direct to Salt
Lake. When it was asccrtainea that they could
not readily do so, it decided that they should
soourn for a time in Canada, but they have since
decided not to 90 thithcr, but to settle somewhere
in the northwest until opportunity of joining
Brigham is afforded them. They speak hopefully
of the progress OF MormOnism in the Scandinavian
countries.
THE ENGLISH YACHT MmANDA.-This handsome
English yacht sloop rugged. arrived here on Tues
day night, after passage of ten days from King
ston, Jam. She left England some months since,
and proceeded to the Canary Islands, where she
ldnucu party OF gentlemen, whence she proceeded
to the West Indies, where she has since been. Her
commander Capt. Gray will probably leave her ut
this point, and the yacht will proceed directly from
this port to England. The Miranda was built at
Cowcs about five years since, and is iity-nne Brit
ish tons. She is at present anchored in Cooper
river, off Brown Co.'S WHARF, charleston Ner-
cury, Aprd y.
DuEL.-Two gentlemen from Mobile, Messrs. Deas
and Kennedy, visited the vicinity of New Orleans,
a few days ago to settle difficulty They met at
III o'clock, the Mctare road, beyond the race
track, and at the first fire Mr. Kennedy received his
adversary's ball in his side just below the hip
Mr.. Deas being untouched. Mr.. Kcnnedy's wound
is very serious one although not necessarily CON
sidcrcd dangerous. Mr. Kennedy was formerly
connected with the Mobile Register, but more
Gently as been engaged in the practice Of law in
Mobile.
DEATH OF Dir. FoRD IN AFRrcl-The bark Lucy
johnson, at New London, from GaboOn River, West
Coast Of Africa reports that Dr.. Henry A. Ford, of
Philadelphia died ut the American Mission the
18th OF February, 1858, Of malignant fever, after
an illness of ten days DR.. Ford had been connect
ed with the mission seven years, and had suffered
very little from the effects Of the climate, but over
work and fatigue Frustrated him. The loss to the
mission will be very severe, and cannot soon be re-
paired.
The last report of the Kentucky Deaf and Dumb
Institution says of the effects OF intcr-marragcs
From ten to twenty per cent. Of deaf mutes the
children OF cousins. 1t is greatly to be regretted
that the law forbiddng the marriage of first cousins
did not pass the recent Legislature These marri-
ages are violation OF law of nature, is eviden-
ced by the affections visited in almost every case
upon their offspring in deafness, blindness and
idiocy-and ought to be violation of human laws
also.
We learn from the BastrOp (TeXas) Advertiser of
the Sd, that unknown party of so-styled "regula
tors" had notified the Rev. William C. Hughes and
his brothers to leave the country in sixty days or
they would he dealt with according to the laws and
usages OF that organization. No cause is assigned
EXCEPT that that party considered Them bl
members of society, &C.
Six hundred nice looking girls of the Chicopee
Mills, Mass, recently struck against an attempt on
the part of their employers to down their WAGES
from 20 to % per cent. They said the statement
their board, was no such thing They would be
mighty wel' satisfied if they could do that, but
they could not nor even half OF it.