The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-07
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plements and Other-traces of former mines that have
been discovered by the present workers of the cop
per mines OF Lake Superior have naturally awaken
ed a curiosity as to who these earlier miners were
and at what historical period their labors were be
slowed
In Captain Jonathan Carver's travels, there is
passage that may throw light upon this subject
The Captain who a native of Comec icut, was
upon Lake Superior in 1861, when he saw a prolu-
sion of copper; and in his remarks respecting it, he
says:
"a company of adyenturers from England begun,
soon after the conquest of Canada, to bring away
some OF this metal but the distracted situation of
affairs in America, has obliged them to relmquish
their scheme"
Quebec. fell in lisa, and the prompt submission of
all Canada followed; although it was four years la
ter that peace was finally signed between England
and France.
1t was, then. between l759 when Quebec was
captured, and 1867. the drte at which Carver was
at the mines that this s'company of aventurers
from England made this attempt to bring away
some OF the copper The operations of these men,
therefore, at the mines, were one hundred wears
ago. and the question arises whether the tools and
other traces of former work there, which the pres
ent miners have found, were those of these people?
And again, II we find that those traces of older
date than that then where the traces that these
'.adventurcrs" did leave behind them, when they
abandoned what they had begun?
ARTEsG,N WELL AT LouIsvuLE-S,LT WATER
ForNp-Our enterprising fclow-ctizcns, G. |. ~
"a ' dupont, VINO nave Tor some months been hOr-
ing an artesan well to supply their paper mill with
water, have now reached the depth Of 100 feet
They have penetfateds reservoir of salt water.
which from this great depth will send up a stream
T." she top OF mill, about fifty feet above the
lace OF the GARTH The subterranean pressure of
this column ef water may be said to be strong
enough to throw it up l2G feet, since the present
stream is borne through bed of sand 76 feet
deep. after it leaves the oriiice in the stone, be
fore it reaches the surface of the earth and is then
forced fifty feet above the surface of the earth
1t is possible that the stream of water running
from the well might be borne much higher if none
OF its force were lost The tube through which it
passes is only one inch in diameter, while the bore
of the well is three and half inches. This small
tube, with one end wrapped round as to enlarge
1t, is inserted in the bore Of course the insertion
cannot be water proof, and much of the force which
bears up the stream is lost With tube the size of
the bore closely inserted, larger volume of water
might be decidedly salty. The temperature was
Gl Fahrenheit, while that of the air was -
difference Of o.. The Messrs. Dupont have yrU
determined what they will do, but the probability is
that they will go deeper. Mr.. Kellogg, their su-
pcrintendcnt. thinks there is another reservoir at
the depth of 2300 feet, fed by the drain from the
Benson Hills, that will suit much better. They
will decide in day or two whether they will bore
INTO this deeper rcservoir.-Lo"isrWc Coniicr.
The town of Springfield, Conway county, Ar
kansas, was visited on the 20th of April by a de
structivc tornado, which swept away many of the
the largest and best houses, leaving no traces of
squa that some thought, as their houses were un-
rooted or blown down, that it was the effect of
lightning. The clerks Office, stout frame build
ing, was unrOofcd. the windows blown in, doors
shivcred on the hinges, and what was still worse,
many record books completely drenchcd by the tor
rents Of rain that followed. The old rt-house
was swept entirely away. The tops of the houses
were blown off, and the bed clothes and wearing
apparel of the imates were blown away. Mracu-
lously, no lives were lost and with the exception Of
q few Sllrht bruises, hurt.
In d6mOlishng the walls of the old GoshcnhOppcR
Church, Norristown Pa, week before last, the
cornerstone found in the northeast corner of
the building. 1t is sandstone, about one and "a
half feet long and fifteen inches in breadth. tcon-
tanned two small coins, one dated lG9j and the other
1862. The one is supposed to be an English, and
the other German coin. \ small flask containing
some tasteless liquor, supposed to have been wine,
and quantity of black mouldered parchment,
also found in it. This was one of the oldest chur
ches in the country, having been erected in the year
l744.
Edward Dean, indicted in Aeganv county (Md.)
court for the murder Of Thomas II. Wilson, was
tried last Wednesday and acquitted. Wm Englc,
indicted for the murder of VIM. burst was tried on
Friday, and found guilty of manslaughter. The
wife and four children of the prisoner were present
in and pathetically appealed for his release,
moving the jury to tears, and exciting the sympathy
OF every man in the courthouse
The Buffalo Courier says that the Western Trans
Saturday than during the whole season of 1857; and
further that they will ship during the present
week, at least 10000 barrels. We are satisfied,
from what we learn of contracts already made and
to be made, that more -four will be shipped from
BuHalo by canal during the month of May, than
during the whole season Of 1851
On Tuesday last, eight Germans, who had been
indicted at Washington, ID. C., for an outrage upon
4 German woman between Washington and Bladens-
burg, Md, on the nth ult, were brought to trial
and five were convicted Charles Hoffman was SEN
fenced to fifteen years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary, with hard labor, and John Sitter. David
Franck, VIM. Schmidt, and Herman Julius to
twelve years each. The other three were acquit-
ted.
Saturday last, the first of May, was Showing
day in New ork, as usual, and it is believed there
were more changes Of residence in that city and
Brooklyn than have occurred for many years. \
large proportion of houses standing empty,
and rents have fallen on the East river side of the
city, about % per cent In Brooklyn alone there
are some two hundred houses without tenants.
THE HEALTH OF RIsnor Srursov.-At the close of
the Oneida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, held last week at Cooperstown, Bishop
Ames remarked that Bishop Simpson, in a letter to
him, written ut Pitsburg the Sth, says ''l have
been able cross the threshold but twice since my
return from Europe" Bishop Ames added that
| more recent information assured him that Bishop
Simpsons recovery was very doubtful.-N y
Com. Ado.
In nineteen days after signing the government
contract for all the horses that the government
wants during the year 1858, Mrssrs H. j. Sanger
John Frink, Thomas DYER and J. W. Singleton
Inoisans--bought and paid for seventeen hundred
horses. without one cent of government funds and
had them all collected and delivered at Fort Leav-
enworth.
The New York and Liverpool packet ship Forest
Queen was found abandoned at sea- by an English
vessel and a crew put on board her to navigate her
to the nearest port. The destruction of the steam
ship Cortes, of New Bedford, by fire, at Cape Cru
sade, Is reported The officers and crew were all
saved.
Judge DAILY and one Sutherland, the former the
agent of the Maryland and Georgia lotteries, and
the latter the agent of the Delaware lottery, have
been arrested at Pittsburgh for selling tickets
About $25 900 worth of tickets were secured by the
police: whether there were any prizes among them
or not we not informed
A new comet was discovered at Harvard College
Observatory, by Mr.. Horace p. Tuttle, on the I'd
inst, at 10 H. =. NJ.
Its position as determined by Mr. G.. p. Bond.
on lS5S-May 3D. X. \. > h. 50 m.-Dec. 35 deg 10
min.
Motion, chiefly in right ascension, Increasing
about degree daily. w G. Ro%n
Cambridge, May 4, 1858.
Six thousand bushels of Canadian whoat tbot
had been In storage at the mouth of the Genesse,.
river were sold on the Both ult for 81 O2 per
bushel. 1t would have brought 81 30 per bushe
last fall.
The receipts Of the Erie Railroad Company for
the frst twenty-seven DAYS of April this year, show
an increase of SllG0 900 those for the same pc
riod last year.
The Des Jardines Bridge disaster has already cost
the Great Western Railway over one hundred and
sixtyone thousand dollars, and there are still three
four unsettled cases,