The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-24
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pears to be difficulty in establishing the CHARGE
| against them, but whether they authorized by
tne BRUSH Government bv a British officer To
obtain recruits is quite another question The de.
mai OF the British consul that they are places them
IN peculiar position, looking more like private
! speculation than anything else.''
| INTERNATIONAL COURTEsIEs. - DR.. Rhodes the
| young English surgeon who nobly volunteered ia
attend the sick on board the Susquehanna when the
medical officer Of that vessel was laid low with the
ye"w iever was this morning rendered the privilege
and respectfully received him.
1t is gratifying to observe that the kindly svmna
tines OF the two great nations are so gracefully and
happily recognized by the principal branch of the
National Legislature.
Alabama is rich in coal mines. Rich coal levels
! nave been examined at Montevao, which extend
over large section of country 1t is estimated by
| Professor Tuomy, the State GeOlogist that these
levels contain twenty-eight millions of tons. The
Tustenuggee beds quite rich In other sections
OF the State there are evidences of coal formation.
| This wealth has been revealed by the geological
survey of the State.-Nomgomey 1dr.
| PENNSYLvANlA.-The Legislature of PENNSYLVANIA
brought its session to close on Wednesday. OF
ITS acts the Philadelphia Ledger speaks as fol-
lows:
at has been distinguished principally for its lib
erailty. 1t gave away the remainder of the public
| works to private company, chartered nearly all
the private bills which have come before it, allowed
everybody to go into the rumseling business, but
| did not repeal the tonnage tax, which oppresses
trade between Philadelphia and the West, though
the original cause Of the imposition of the tax was
removed by the sale of the main line. The regula-
| tlon OF the Peter Funk insurance companies is a
good measure, which we set down to the credit of
| the Legislature"
In the examination of the dead letters at the Cen
eral Post Office for the last quarter of the year
there were found 2,4S2 which contained money,
amounting to Sl3,45 The three previous quarters
gave 1852 letters, enclosing Sl3 3G4-2245 cover
ing Sl2G56, and 2,202 letters Sll Sl2 Thus in one
year 9,2Il letters discovered covering S5l,-
2S4; nine-tenths of which have been through the
prompt and Judicious action Of the finance bureau,
restored to their original owners.
The SOUTHERN CoYyENrIoN.-We learn from the
Montgomery papers, that the Delegates from that
city, apprehending that none of its large public
halls would be capacious enough for the Southern
commercial Convention, have accepted the tender
OF a new brick warehouse belonging to the Mont
gomery and West Point Railroad Company 1t is a
spacious building near the railroad depot in the
northeastern part of the city.
The Washington correspondent of the New ork
T'mes, writing on the 18th inst, says: "Colonel
Seaton, the esteemed junior editor of the National
h'tett9eHccr, gave one of his famous Congressional
Suppers ON Thursday evening Governors Seward
and Crittenden the leading spirits at the sump-
tuous entertainment, which crowned bv a
feast of reason and flow of soul.' About fiftv
members, with Lord Napier, Baron Stoeckl and a
lew other gentlemen, composed the party
The annual festival of the ST. Georges Society of
New ork, will be celebrated this year with an un-
usual amount of enthusiasm. Lord Napier and the
Prussian Minister, the British Commissioner for the
Fisheries, the Mayor and other distinguished ucsts
will be present at the dinner. The special service
is a revival of the old and audable custom of re-
turning thanks to God for special national blessings
during the year. Bishop Potter and many of the
clergy will attend on the occasion.
THE PUGET SOUND TIMBER TRApE-The San Fran
cisco Alta California; of March 18th, mentions that
the clipper ship Bostonian has been chartered to 90
to Puget Sound, to load spars for England direct
and remarks this would seem like long distance
to carry spars for market, but the superior length
thickness and quality of the Puget Sound timber
fully warrant such shipments"
A Methodist missionary in the Pupet's Sound
District writes that his charge embraces an extent
OF country two hundred miles long, one hundred
and fifty Of which has been travelled in an ocean
steamer. No country west of us; no preachers be-
yond us. We have IA 600 Indians and about I 900
whites, and one hundred church members.
Quite fleet of ships cleared at the New Orleans
custom-house on the 9th instant, carving large
cargoes. Of cotton there were twenty-eight thou
sand SIX hundred and thirty bales among the pro-
duce, together with four hundred hogsheads to-
bacco, and eighteen thousand five hundred and
thirty sacks of grain, all for foreign markets.
The celebration at Goodman, Miss, of the com
pletion of the Central Railroad to that point was a
very enthusiastic affair. The attendance from the
nelghboring counties large, the speeches elo-
quent, the dinner eXcellent but the happiest Incl
dent of the occasion the sale, at fair price of
a number of the bonds of the company to gentlemen
on the spot.
Official information has been received at the Navy
Department of the death Of Capt. benjamin Page.
He died at New York on the 10th inst Can't. PaGe
at the time of his death was on the retired list He
was born in England, entered the service December
H. 1910, and attained the rank of captain in 1871
He had seen eighteen years active service and was
last at sea in 1850.
y severe hurricane passed over Dent county Mis-
souri,, on Saturday evening, the 10th inst. 1t was
very destructive in its course, sweeping everything
before 1t. Lighthouses were entirely destroyed, and
every particle of fencing torn to pieces No
lives were lost, though many persons were bruised
and otherwise injured. The storm came from the
South.
A man named Watson, of Frederick Nd has
been lodged in iail in Martinsburp CHARGED with
having committed forgery upon divers persons to
considerable amount. He also hired horse in the
latter place, and attempted to make off with him,
but was apprehended rather unexpectedly.
| An old suit, commenced nearly twenty-eight
| years ago by the United States, against General
Harrison, upon official bond which he signed for
public officer, recently ordered to be struck
from the docket of the United States Circuit Court
| Cincinnati.
The Savannah Republican estimates the stock of
cotton which will be received at that port during
the present year, at 273,Gl4 bales. The receipts
| last year were 3l3. POS baes-showinp deficiency
this year Of 39, ,59i bales.
| Our Southern exchanges complain of very cool
and rainy weather. On the 10th instant there was
slight frost in sections of South Carolina
No damage, however, was done, and the grain and
fruit crops it is said, never presented finer ap-
| pearance.
A shipment of eighteen thousand coon skins was
made in a single lot from Chicago on the 10th inst.
| for London, bv way of New York The average
value of the skins is about fifty cents each They
We're made up into bales of three hundred skins
| each
The contemplated excursion of the steamer
| Ericsson to the Mediterranean, seems to have been
abandoned, not more than half a dozen berths hav.
ing been taken up the 18th. The Ericsson was
to have sailed on the lst of May She is now ad-
vertised to leave on the Sth of May for Bremen.
The workmen on the Reading Railroad at Rich
mond, Pa, struck on Wednesday, account of the
non-payment of their wages. Some of them, it is
reported, have received pay since the 1st of jan
uary.
The Hecker Brothers have redeemed 81. 600 of the
bread tickets issued By the Hunter Woods Associa
ton up to the time Of the Crystal Palace fete, and
still redeem them at the rate of about $500 per
week.
| Danforth, Cooke Il Co., of Paterson, have Just
finished very handsome locomotive and tender, for
the railroad in Mexico 1t weighs 20 tons, and cost
So 000 1t will be the first locomotive ever seen in
that country.
The introduction of cotton manufactures into the
Texas State penitentiary has proved very satisfac
tory. The mills turn out from ten to twelve
thousand yards per week.
From every portion of the South, West, and
North, most cheering accounts of the wheat cror
reach us, and if disaster bealls the coming har
vest will be the most abundant ever gathered.
The Blue Ridge Republican says 1--WE have
had almost continued rain for some ten days past
| Wheat oats grass and early vegetables are in re-
markable growth, but need the hot sum-
The ST. Louis Republican Dem. says it is now
manifest that the election in that State next Au
gust is to turn upon the question of abolshng sla
| very within its limits. -
The bill providing for the sale, at s3,5OO,O 900 o.
the Pennsylvania State Canals to the Sunbury anC
Erie Railroad Company, passed the Senate on the
18th inst. as it came from the House.
''Burleigh," the New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal predicts that dissolution will soor
take place in the Bible Tract, and other great ma