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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-24

regassis.is rs IN h. .rife,uy with Sc ntitnent OF
wftsh sectsied kss uonlnaiionsan eIsruohs
Bat .ishrrses,os.sais have since prevaiied.
WsLssr ard S 4ata!i anil .Forney and their
>coin;,ssrs sre t.iseaydsd AMI denounced IS
traias.-warse than BLACK R.publieaas-.
and T.,s.nhs aisi Strpilraa. and keift, and
hammond. srs tAe ,n-n who now coltrnE
the 4 miais,ratiai. TIs attempt to force.
"a Cansti,ution up IN K snsas which declared
slaV.ry L, be Of sasSine origin aud above ali
human laws. iH irti ince OF the express,d
and known win az. ninclentIitofihe people.
is the rrsuit vf-.his change in the. connsel<
II ,h- Executiv., aud in the principles and
pulley Of the n -u scfatic' parry. :
: The progress the Iisn.nrratin party in
1llia on the sgoiee; OF slavery extern
sion Is curisas and in s,rucfiy.; In 1913.
the Ohi, % IA ,craf,c e INVENTION X solved.
:. Tat slarery o,s an esit ,tesieb pas. uafas
roruac 10 He developer. ufqf fee Institutions
aad hH an CsaIitptiqaa 1asans should Be
sssd o. pr. esst is. i1,creas0, and to mitigate
and in lily eraaicak 81 cor
|, Tui< resolution wls re..ssacsed or taHdsra.
ed nt tvery ssiecerjing State Cdhfeliipn
| gnril 1885. ~hrnf thy came dawn ia the.
| daelsina "a; y u .tter Sovereignty as psutsut.
la the RebriSks bill: III: *. thai The
people. OF the Territ.,ry had power, as a TER
ritorp. to prohibit slavery.
IN 1886 they endorsed the Cincinnati
| platform, bat still W tn the consirqcrion that
the Territorial !, 'gssla,sre had p ,wer to prs
hibit slavery, x
Tn Ia57sthsy Endorsed The bred s;o,t de-
~ci.ion, which holds, thai neither Congress
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Is, 1858.

The fourth Annual Report of the Postmaster
General of Great Britain is just issued, and it is
document of more than ordinary interest. In its
facts and statistical tables we see the marvellous
progress that has been made in the distribution of
letters and the increase of revenue since the COM
in January, 1910 The Report informs us that
there are in the United Kingdom ll,lOl post
offices, an increase during the year Q957) of 235.
OF these, $40 are head post offices, and TO- POI are
sub-post offices. During the year free deliveries
established at ,041 places where none existed
before, and the year previous (1s56) at ,O38 new
places. The facilities for free letter delivery were
also greatly increased at 29l different places in
1856, and 297 places in 1857 Since the improve
ment of the letter delivery system commenced, in
1851, there has been a free delivery of 300. 900
letters week-about sixteen millions in year
that could formerly only be obtained by applica-
there have been GO receiving houses, and &c letter
pillars set up in London giving the Londoners, for
the delivery and distribution of their mail and
local correspondence, SEQ receiving houses, where
letters can be posted-six district Offices &C letter
pillars-cast iron columns in the street, that are
opened by letter collector every hour-and 2, 232
letter carriers The effects of these improvements
are visible in the vast increase of correspondence
The following table shows the letters mailed in
London and in the kingdom, during the last ten
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Showing that in 1855 only l6,4O0,000 letters were
posted in Russia while "almost exactly the same
number posted in the single city of Manchester
and its suburbs IN the same time.
The report speaks of the ''petty frauds prac-
tised by persons in the kingdom and the colonies,
in using newspapers in lieu of letters-writing on
them-ths being attributed to the ''great disparity
in the rates of postage on printed and written
matter, between the mother country and the colo
MES. A certain remedy for this evil would be to
lower the rates of postage over sea, from SIX
pence II ccntS) TO two pence sterling
Travelling post offices on railways, clerks OF
post office agents, of their oceans steamers,
and other facilities for late mailing and early de-
livery of letters are explained, and their results
made known. While noting the fact of new postal
conventions and treaties with Belgium, France,
and the Interesting State of Liberia, the Post
master General regrets that no progress has been
made towards good postal arrangements with
Portugal, Spain, or the United States of America.
One gross half (about j million letters of all the
correspondence between Great Britain and the en-
tire commercial world is with France and the
United States. And notwithstanding ''the great
intercourse, both commercial and social" between
the two nations, the present high rate of postage,
and the want of a comprehensive and liberal ar
rangement for the Transmission of books and other
printed matter are 'hghy Objectionable"
One curious fact the report mentions "a
British post Office has been opened at Con-
stantinople." Rowland Hill has established a
postal link between Sesos and Abydos. Future
Leanders will no more swim the Iellespont, and
disconsoae IIeros will sigh for the arrival of the
pcnny-poStman.
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LATEST NEWS.
TELEGR A NJ IS
RECEIVED AT OFFICE OF THE
DAILY EXCHANGE.
ARRIVAL OF THE MOSES TAYLOR.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

NFw YORK, April 27-The steamer Moses Tav-
or has arrived, with San Francisco dates to Isl
inst. She left Aspinwall on the 10TH and brings
nearly 81 100000 in treasure and upwards of 500
passengers.
She left at Aspinwal the United States storeship
Relief
The California news is unimportant The mar.
kets were dull.
Col Schlessinger is among the passengers by the
Moses Taylor.
Valparaiso dates to the 18th of March, announce
that Gen. Nivanco was defeated at AreGupa with
great slaughter and had fled to Bolivia All his
steamers had been captured.
Arequipa was stormed by Gen. Castillo and the
battle Is said to have been terrific. OF one battalion
of 600 men, which defended the barbados all were
killed but forty The loss on both sides was over
1000 killed, and the city was filled with the
wounded.
1t is said that Gen. Castillo intends to push the
war into Bolivia and attempt the overthrow of the
Linares government.
The u. ;. trigate Merrimac, had arrived at Cal
lao. Doctor Oakford, American Consul at Tumk,
is dead
The vernal equinoctial gale ragged with great fury
for fourteen days along the coast IT'S far as Puget
sound, the wind blowing gale during the whole
period.
The treshets were heavy, especially in the mining
regions.
Capt. Bennett, of the late brig Camclia had been
arrested at San Francisco and held to bail with
charge of having scutted his vessel at sea- having
first robbed her of $50 600 in silver which he shipped
at Mazattan for San Francisco. The treasure is
sand 10 be buried near Cape st. Lucas, to which
some vessel had been sent for its recovery.
The dates from Oregon are to the 9th ult The
"Salem" wing of the Democratic party had nomi-
mated Lafayette Graver for Congress, and John
Whitaker for Governor. They had also unanimous
ly adopted resolutions sustaining Mr.. Buchanan
administration.
The dates from the Sandwich Islands are to the
18th OF March, but contain nothing of interest.
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Capt: Brown, of the ship Black Prince. reported
as having put into Rio on the 9th of February,
writes to the owners in Boston, that when the YES
sci was IL days out, in consequence of some diff
Gity he ordered one of the men to be put in irons
l ne man on hearing this drew his knife from his
peit and stabbed Capt. B. in two places. The would
De-assassln, with others, however, was eventually
put IN lrons but it being after discovered that
u concerted plan to make further trouble was on
loot, Capt. Brown made for Rio with all possible
Dispatch and landed of the mutineers at that
port. The ship then left for home on the jrd OF
March, Capt. Brown, though wounded severely,
is not considered in dangerous condition.
Several of the Western Railroad Companies have
reduced their tariff on brcadstuiis, with view tn
urge the old crop into market, and the charges on
the lakes end canals have also been reduced. An
increased bus it is said is already apparent in
consequence of this competition.
The legislature of Pennsylvania has made small
change in the usury laws of that State. The law
heretofore has forbidden all rates of interest above
six per cent, and the penalty for greater rate was
the forfeit of the money or things lent In 1872
railroad and canal companies were made exc,p-
lions to the general law regulating interest The
new law allows contracts to be made as bioh rs 5
per cent.
Ship Sam Dunning, 1886 tons, built at Bruins
wick, Me-, has Just cleared at Mobile for Liverpool
with 1888, s43 lbs. of cotton.
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and Faulkner) submit report concluding with
the following resolution, as substitute for the
above:
Resolved, That the recent sale of the military
reservation at Fort Smelling having been made by
the Secretary Of War, under the direction of the
President of the United States, in strict conformity
to law; and the evidence reported by the Select
Committee having failed to exhibit any fact cir
cumstance tending in the slightest degree to impcnd
the fairness of the sale the integrity of any of
the officers or agents of the government concerned
in the same or to exhibit any fact circumstance
for the opinion and action of this House. it is or
dered that the committee be discharged from the
further consideration of the subject, and that the
report of said committee be laid upon the table,
The subject is to be considered on the 18th of
Nav.
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THE FORT SMELLING REPORT

WASHINGTON, April 2T.-Mr. Petit, in the House
to-day made report from the Committee appointed
to inquire into the circumstances attending the sale
OF the Fort Smelling reservation 1t concludes with
resolution that the sale was without authority of
law; that it was made notwithstanding his know
ledge OF the official opinions of his predecessor,
Hon. Jefferson Davis, and of other officers in super
ior military command, to the contrary, without
consulting with, without the advice, and without
the knowledge of any officer in the service of any
rank leaving the question of the retention of that
Fort to the discretion of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to make the sale; and this action on the
part OF the Secretary was grave official fault
that the Secretary appointed inexperienced and in
competent men: that all competition was excluded
at loss to the government, and that the sale was
at the time and is now, void.
The minority of the committee (Messrs. Burnett
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YLAND AFFAIRS
ALLEGHANY COUNTY.

Coal TRADE.-Last week the coal shipments from
the various collieries in the Maryland coal iiel,
amounted to - 43S Is tons. Of this aggregate tn,
Georges Coal and Iron Company's Railroad brought
down ,G42 Is tons; the Cumberland and Pennsyl
vania Road 1898, II tons, and the Hampshire Goa
and Iron Company's Road 1872, u TONS Total fo,
the year, 4,3S9lS
BUSINESS ON THE CANAL.-For the week endipo
Saturday last. 76 boats left this city for GEORGE
town and AlcXandria laden with $3.50 tons of coal
The total number of boats for the season il M i
the total tonnage 1870 tons The canal is sill rr
ported in excellent boating order throughout.
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rendered, while The Death Of Queen Katharine was
CHASTITY picture, such no painter could portray
canvass, and none but great artist could- have
presented on the stage, with the terrible reality
which characterized Miss CUsnMAN's acting in this
scene 1t was the very counterfeit of death, and
we regret that the audience should have been gull
ty OF the exceeding bad taste of calling Miss CUsH-
MAN before the curtain after such scene, and that
Miss CUsHMAN should have responded to their call
The suddenness of her resurrection married the
elect OF the performance The profound silence
which reigned in the house for the last few minutes
before the curtain descended, and as it fell ex-
pressed much better the feelings of the more intel
llgent portion of the audience, and a higher
tribute to the wonderful art of the actress than the
senseess and ill-timed paudits which followed For
the rest, apart from the acting of Miss CusHMAY
the pei formance did not please u.s. The historical
plays of Shakespeare depend greatly upon the spec
tdcte, and unless put upon the stage with great
pomp and spendor, and with particular attention to
dresses scenery, &c, ill-adapted for the pur-
poses of dramatic representation. In HENRI VIII
Queen Katharine is upon the stage in only three
scenes, and entirely did the interest of the
performance centre last night in Miss CusnMAN's
acting, that the intervals between the scenes in
which she appeared were felt by the audience to be
both long and tedious
Tonight Miss CusHMAN plays Lady Macbeth She
recently appeared in the same character at Nash
vile in Tennessee. In the sleeping scene, as it is
called, a part of her dress caught fire from the
lamp which she carried in her hand The cry of
''Fire' rang through the house, but Lody NocJcth
needed it not voice called out-''Miss Cushman,
you are on fire. Then, without moving an eyclid,
or changing amuscle of her face without betraying
by word or look the slightest discomposure, or for
getting for one moment, that she was Lady NocJctA
and asleep, Miss CUSHMAN felt for the burning por-
ton of her dress, and eXtinguished the flames with
her hands. This single fact abundantly illustrates
the character of the woman, and of her mpersona-
ton of Ludy NacJcfb
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MARKETS.

l,2OO bales Flour is iirm-sales of Ii, 900 bbls.-
Common to good State Sl.l5@ 81 80; Ohio. 81 500
$40: southern, S4.50GIS4.75. Wheat has declined
sales Of 10000 bushels Milwaukee Club 9Om94
cts: Western white l25@l32L cts; Red Southern
llS@l20 cts; White do. l2O@l2G cts. Corn
Prices have declined | cent for white-saes of 39.
600 bushels at 72@73 cts. yellow has advanced |
cent-sales at 74@7G cts. Pork-Mess had declined
40 cts.--sales at SlS.75@SlS.S5; Prime is 10 cts
lower-sales at Sl540@S SIS. 50. Beef is stcadvM
Lard generally closed buoyant at 1l55@l2 cts
Coffee is steady-sales of $500 bags to-day. Sugar
is dull-Muscovado $4,000 cts Whiskey has de-
clined 2 cent-sales at % cts Turpentine is heavy
at As cts. Rosin is firm at Sl.521%6Sl.55. Rice is
quiet but firm at 1904 cts. Freghts are frmer
Flour for Liverpool taken at Is. Cd.
MOBILE, April 27.-Sale of 200 bales of Cotton
to day at llM@l11s cts Receipts 3, 450 bales
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the letters mailed in London for delivery within
the London postal district, and the pail letters are
those written in London to go through the mails
out of town. In the local circulation there an
increase of over four million letters within the
year; per cent, while the mail letters in
creased but 200, 900, or less than 2 per cent.
Since the letter delivery system was greatly in
creased and fairly in operation, there has been an
increase of some %, 900, 600 letters annually. The
gross revenue, the expenses, and the net revenue
or clear profits, with the amount of money remit
ted in the kingdom annually, in money orders,
show the practical working of the English postal
system.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28

| The appointment of the Hon. RICHARD B. CAR
MICHAEL to the judgeship Of one of the circuits OF
the Eastern Shore, made vacant by the recent
death of Judge Hopper, has already been announ-
ced in the napcrs, of this CITY, but some further
notice of it is due alike TO the distinguished abili-
ty of Mr. Carmichael and to the impartality shown
by Governor Hicks in comforting upon political
opponent so signal mark of executive favor
'To the vctors belong the spoils' has so long
been a cardinal maxim of State and National Ad-
minlsrations, by which the distribution of patron
age has been governed, that the consideration of
fitness for Office invariably yields to the test Of
party attachment, and Governor Hicks is Justly
entitled TO praise for having risen superior to pot-
cal rejudices the faithful discharge of his Off
cial duty and responsibility. The integrity and
Independence of the judiciary is of the first i'm
portance TO the good government of State, and
we take great pleasure in recording this appoint
ment as il furnishes example of public morality
seldom seen and which cannot be too frequently
initiated.
Mr. Carmichael has been acknowledged for many
wears, as among the ablest LAWYERS of the State,
while his strict integrity of character and nice
sense of honor have obtained for him the esteem of
all who know him. He has, at different times,
been actively engaged in politics, and represented
his district in Congress with great credit to himself
and satisfaction to his constituents. He has, of
late, preferred the quiet enjoyment of private life
TO the exciting cares of public position, and has re-
fused several Offices of emolument and honor
During the late administration, no man in Mary
land held the confidence of President Pierce TO a
greater degree, and it was supposed that Mr.. Car
michael had been designated for an important post
which he could not he induced to accept We are
sure that his present appointment will he hailed
with satisfaction by men of all parties in his dis
trict and it must everywhere be viewed as a
triumph of conservatism over the radical practices
nf In
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FROM TIE PLAINS.

ST.. LOUIS, April 27.-The Santa Fe mail brings
also later news from Capt. Marcy. He had been
overtaken by an express from Gen. Garland direct
ing him to stop for an escort of four companies;
and Capt. Marcy was accordingly resting on the
Arkansas river, near Bents Fort
The RepHbtican has received an extra from the
Fort Smith, Arkansas, Times, which states that
10000 Indians were congregated the Plains with
the determination of making descent on the from
tier and hostiities had already commenced in some
quarters. The Times attributes the movement to
Brigham Young to draw off the troops in Vi tab to
protect the frontier States.
The Republican emphaticay contradicts the state
ment on authority of gentleman attached to the
overland mail service, who travelled over the terri
tories without molestation
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28
FIRE AT HARBOR GRACE n T.

BosToN, April 26-At IIarbor Grace Newfound-
land, on the night of the 18th inst fire broke out
in Toussaints Hotel, on Water street, which de-
stroyed the greater portion of the business part of
the place and upwards of fifty houses. The fire
burned as Tar east as lie Marchant street, and west
to Victoria street, leaving only three houses on the
north side and none the south side of the street
The amount Of damage is not known. One firm,
Bnton Mum, had FL 900 insurance at st. John,
The particulars of the fire are not giyen
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28
EDAM MIA LII

ST.. Louis, April 27.-The Santa Fe mail of the
LIST of April, has arrived at independence.
Between Fort Union and the Arkansas River the
party encountered violent snow storms, followed by
snow, so severe as to freeze of the animals.
VIM. Giddings, mail contractor on the South
ern route, was killed by Thomas Smith in an aifray
over game of billiards. at Santa Fe; and in a rem
counter which occurred between Mr. Preston Beck,
OF the firm of Beck and Johnson and a man named
Girman, the latter was killed and the former dam
gerously wounded.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28
EROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April PA dispatch dated on the
9th inst, has been received at the Navy Depart-
ment from Capt. Hudson commander of the United
States steamer Niagara, in which he saws four hun
dred and seventy miles of the telegraph cable had
been coiled in. The Niagara and A gamemnon, each
would carry AGO miles,
Capt. Hudson had been received with every cour-
tesy, and the officers and men were all WELL
Fifty-seven thousand bids were made to the Post
Office Department for carrying the mails under the
lettings declared Yesterday
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The above named expense for mail packets is
only for some that are specially in the service of
the Post Office; the great bulk of the ocean mail
service being under the Admiralty, and not the
Post Office, as there other objects and duties for
the contract packets besides carrying the mails
In looking over this report of the most noted
postal establishment of the civilized world one
fact stands prominent, and that is the vast amount
OF local correspondence in all dcnscly populated
localities. dozen towns and cities in Great Brit
ain furnish one half of the CORRESPONDENCE and
revenue. The business at the following places are
an eXemplifcatiOn:
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THE WEATHER At OUEREC.

QUEBEC, G. Z. April 26.-This morning is cloudy
and cold, and has the appearance of snow. We had
a hard frost last night. Thermometer in the Upper
Town, at A. NJ. this morning stood at $40 above
zero; in the Lower Town SEQ
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FROM KANSAS

ST.. Louis, April 2G.-The Lcavenworth Cores
pondent of the Rep"biicoR SAYS :-"That at the
election held on the 2lst instant, for members of
Convention to nominate State Officers, the anti
Lcavenworth Constitution delegates were elected
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SUICIDE OF AN ESTEEMED MERCHANT A.

AUGUSTA Ga, April 26,-Wm. 7. Ingraham. of
the house OF W. {. Price CO., committed suicide
yesterday by shooting himself with a pistol He
was noble and highly esteemed citizen and was
born at Albany, N. Y. The cause of the act is not
known.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28

We are authorized to contradict the announce
ment recently made in several of the city papers
that the Collector ofthc Customs had been instruct
ed to dismiss portion of his employees
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NORFOLK, April 27.-Arrived in Hampton Roads
yesterday. British brig Marietta, from Demarara
via Barbadoes, with cargo of sugar bound to
Baltimore.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

MVNpAf, Apfll 70.
Henry Melville Parker, Esq, of Massachusetts,
was admitted an attorney and counsellor of this
court.
No. Gl.-Timothy s. Goodman. plaintiff in error.
rs. John Smonds. In error to the Circuit Court of
the United States for the district of Missouri Mr.
Justice Clifford delivered the opinion Of the court
reversing the judgment of the said Circuit Court,
with costs. and rcmanding the cause, with direc-
tions to award a renire tocios de noro
NO SS.-Altred lngraham ct a., assignees in trust
OF the Grand Gulf X. X. and Banking Company APP
Peliants, Is. Henry :. Dawson, administrator OF
Moses Groves, deceased, ct al. The ARGUMENT nj
this cause was commenced by Mr.. Strawbrdge for
the appellants, and continued by Mr. Benjamin for
the appcees.
Adjourned until tomorrow at II O'Clock