The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-27
ARRIVAL OF THE SAXONIA.

| Inc screW-steamSnlp SaXOnla, OF the Hamburg
line, from Southampton, on Sunday, Dec: 5, at
lO12 A. NJ, arrived at New York early Friday
| morning. -.-
She brings 80 passengers. Captain Ehlers has
! experienced very severe weather. The gales have
been almost continual from the northward and
westward during the entire passage. From the
10th to the 18th was obliged to lie to most of the
| time. The wind was from N. N. W.. with a tre-
mendous sea, accompanied with severe snow-squalls;
the frost also was
On the 22d when off Georges Banks,
| again compelled to lay the steamer to for six
teen hours-the wind hurricane, from northwest,
the sea in a foam and blowing completely over the
! ship.
Her intelligence has been anticipated by the Ara
bia, at Boston, and the Pacific, at St. Johns, but
| from the London papers of Dec. A. we derive the
| following additional details
The authentic text of short speech pronounced
by the King of Sardinia at late military review,
and which has produced so great an agitation, has
now become known from a sem-oficial source, viz,
the Gazette de Savore The King said "Gentle
men, let us be prepared, for it may happen that
next Spring we shall again have to smell gunpow-
| der.'
The four screw steamships, the AIena the Comp
toise, the Barcelona and the Cadz, built for the
French Transatlantic Company, to ply between
| Havre and New York, have been sold to the penin-
sular and Oriental Company for East India SER
vice.
letter from Bingen, dated November 20, says
that the railway bridge at Nabe had been carried
away by flood.
termined to throw the ship open to public inspec-
| tion free of charge.
Major General Sir j. Ings, the defender of
Lucknow, took his departure from Southampton,
Saturday, December 4th, in the Ceylon steamer for
| India
The following given in a Dublin paper as the
substance OF the rules and regulations of the Rib
| bon Society now being revived in Ireland:
The association is divided into five orders dis
tlnctions: 81. The County Delegate; 2. The Parish
Master; 3. The Body Master; A. The Committee
man; 5. The mere Ribbonman. Each county in
ireland has delegate, and every shire in England
and in Scotland, in which Irish emigrants are in
| any number located, has its delegates and its.
| lodges" The meetings are held in such public
houses as have private room. In all places where
there may be strangers, the members of the associa
ton use signs and passwords to ascertain whether
or not there any of their fraternity present.
These passwords are decided at the quarterly meet
lngs of the general body.
The funds, it is said, raised thus The County
Delegates returning from the quarterly meetings,
summons county meeting of Parish Masters, to
whom he conveys the "goods" the signs and pass
words, and in return they pay him each five shil-
lings. When the Parish Master goes back to his
own district, he passes the goods to the Body
Masters, each of whom pays him Is; and from each
individual member the Body Master exacts a nav
ment of 3D. Each member must attend the sum
mons ofhis order within two hours. If amember en-
ters room where there is mixed company, he
says, "What do you think of the times?" A Rib
bonman answers him, ave are expecting change"
To test the fact that the reply is given Intentionally
and not by chance the Ribbonman reioins. SIN what
case?' and if the stranger answer, "The present
ministry" the new conner knows that he has found
brother. Ii he sees quarrel, he says to one of
the combatants, fDon't be contentious sir % and if
he is answered. "Not with you'll" he ranges himself
the side of his brother
So formidable in the eyes of the authorities is
this organization that the Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land has issued proclamation, stating that the as
sociations are illegal warning all persons against
belonging to them or holding correspondence with
than nf fhnfp A
cerned in administering taking the oaths are de-
clared guilty of felony and all persons belonging to
the association to be guilty of unlawful combi-
nation, and may be punished accordingly.
"And we do herebyannounce and declare that it
is our firm determination to all the in
our power for the suppression of such societies and
associations and for the punishment of persons be-
longing thereto Accordingly, solemnly ad-
monish and require all peaceable and loyal subjects
to the utmost of their powers to discountenance
such societies or assemblies and to be aiding and
assisting the magistrates constabes and other
thorities in the suppression of the same and in the
OBTAINING and bringing to justice ofthose who shall be
found to belong thereto, or be connected herewith
and for the better carrying into effect these in
tentions and purposes aforesaid, do hereby offer
a reward of f100 for such information as will lead
to the conviction of any of the persons who shall
have administered any such OATH and a reward of
ESQ for such information will lead to the convic
tiOn of any of the persons who shall be found to be
members of, or in anywise connected, with any of
the aforesaid societies."
WINTER ASCENT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON.
Coos Republican narrates the successful termna-
ton of an enterprise several times attempted but
never before accomplished, viz, the ascent of
Mount Washington in winter. Later than the
early part of September, the ascent of any Of
the White Mountain range is attended with dan
ger, and several who have made the attempt
have lost their lives. On the 7th inst, however,
two individuals surmounted all the perils of the
ascent, and entered the Tip Top and Summit
Houses. The title to these buildings has been for
some time in litigation, and recently Samuel +.
Spaulding, of Lancaster, obtained an execution,
which he anxious to levy immediately. Sc
curing the services of Deputy Sheriff Lueius
Hartshorn, and h. F. 0sgoOd, an experienced
guide, the three left the Glen House at A. NJ.
on the 7th inst. For the first mile, the snow was
about one foot in depth, increasing to two and
half and three feet as they approached the Ledge
AT this point, Mr.. Spauding, left the party and
returned for horses and provisions for the adven-
lures on their return trip. Messrs. Hartshorn and
Osgood pressed on with all speed, over ground
covered with ncrustation of snow and ice
which occasionally afforded good footing but often
breaking, and precipitating them on the rocks be-
meath. The party suffered much from thirst, but
water was found only at the Ledge The air was
mider than had been expected, and the sun shone
in clear sky. of the scene at the summit, and
the return, the Republican says: "Arri-
we'd at the summit, the view is repre-
sented as having been sublime beyond the
power of description, Mr.. Osgood averring that in
his many trips to the mountain, he never beheld
so extended and yet so grand and terrific view as
burst upon them on that lonely height. Measures
were Immediately taken to enter the houses which
as they were covered with snow, labor of
time. Unable to obtain ingress at the DOORS they
forced their way in through the windows, on which
the frost had formed foot and one half IN thick
ness The walls and all the furniture were draped
with some four inches of Frost and the air was BIZ
ting in the extreme.
at was like tomb, and lamp was necessary in
this snow to enable the party to distinguish
the surrounding objects. As delay was dangerous
in the extreme, and having perfected their legal
duty, the two prepared to return. Upon emerg-
ing from the houses, they beheld to the Southwest
cloud rapidly increasing in volume and rolling
on toward them. When first seen, it was smallsin
magnitude, but it increased in size with alarming
velocity, soon spgeading over the entire South.
They knew it was frost cloud, and that to be
caught in its folds would probably be fatal and
they FASTENED to avoid it. They had just entered
the woods at the base of the ledge when it came
upon them. So icy and penetrating was its breath,
that to have encountered its binding, freezing
power ON the unprotected height would have been
to have perished with it as pail to cover them.
The party reached the Glen in safety and were
heartily welcomed by their friends, who, well
knowing the danger attending this never before
accomplished feat, awaited them with much anx-
iety.'
STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURcH-The Metro
politan Catholic Almanac for 1859, just issued
contains the following statistics in reference
to the present condition of the Catholic Church in
the United States, contrasted with its condition in
the years 1889 and ls49:
1889.
Provinces, Doceses, Is
Bishops, is Priests, : ATS
Churches, 4lS
ls49.
Provinces, 3 Dioceses, 80
Bishops, 26 Priests, 1000
Churches, 966
FfSgInSss' Pfenfntes, 4 Bi.Ssss' BRiGSSsss'' q q
Priests, 2io8 Churches 1854
Upon this result the Protestant Churchman COM
ments follows:
In l774 there were only nineteen priests in the
the United States then colonies. In 1890 there
was one bishop and twenty priests. In $500, two
bishops and about forty priests. In 1908, two bish
ops and sixty-eigbt priests. From 1sOS to 1880 no
details given, but in the latter year the number
had increased to 10 bishops, 232 priests and 23O
churches. 1t will therefore be seen that during
the last thirty years the number of dioceses has in
creased from IL to 49, the number of bishops from
10 to 45; the number of priests from 2S2 to 2,l0S;
the number of churches from 230 to 1884
Descending to details, we find that the most rap
id growth has been in the Western States; the dio-