The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-09
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Insurance $780, The fire was first discovered in
tne east side of Mr.. Hawleys building, near the foot
OF the stairs leading to Dr. Wilson's Office and about
clree Ieet about the platform. DR.. W. in escaping
from the lire was obliged to slip down post SUP
porting the stairs His loss in instruments, books,
&C, Is ABOUT $500 Mr.. Smith, tailor on the same
1oor, lost S75; Messrs. Hawley Co. loss is from
$4,000 to 81, 200; 81, 700 insurance Hendrick a
Isham lost from $4,000 to S2,5OO; no insurance.
oncie f Sam in r. o. Stamps $50. Daniel Ball, own
er OF Lyons Hotel lost So, 500; supposed to be in
sured for Sl,600 Mr.. Windsors loss is about $3.50
Inc goods on the first floor mostly saved and
IN very good condition. The furniture in the hotel
was all saved though somewhat damaged.
., We learn from the Exchange Reading Room Books
that General Monagas, President of the Venezuelan
Republic fearful of being overthrown by the reyo-
lutlonary party sent in his resignation to Congress
on the 18th of March, which was accepted, and the
provisional government recognized at the head of
which is General Castro who appointed the follow
ing ministers: w. Urruta Secretary of Foreign
analrs; +. Toro, Secretary of Finance; NJ. F. Torar
secretary OF the Interior; General R. Soto Sec
retary d of War and the Navy. Generals Monagas
and his Secretary of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jacinto
Gutrlrre are under the collective protection of the
diplomatic body.
SToCK OF WHEAT AND Corn IN THE HANDS OF Fan
MERs.-The information we have received from our
correspondents in this and the adjoining States the
last three or four weeks, leaves doubt whatever
that the stocks OF wheat and corn in the hands of
farmers are enormous. The prices current for
Wheat last October, was so far below the estimate
set upont by its owners, that they refused to SELL
preterrlng to hold it over until spring for better
prlces but in this they will be- it is now pretty GER
tam, sadly disappointed The wheat is still in their
hands, but whether they will part with it at pres
ent rates-4O@6O cts. per bushel, is exceedingly
doubtful.
Many OF our correspondents say that notwth-
standing the large amount of corn damaged last
winter partly by being frozen before it was ripe as
was pretty generally the in the northern sec
tions of the Western States, and partly bv being
put in crib before it dry there will be as much
sound corn in the country the first of next June
as ever there was in any previous year, the sound
having been carefully preserved, whilst the dam
aged has been fed to hogs, and stock of all kinds
with lavish hand. The intense anxiety to pro-
cure old corn for seed, which existed last Decem-
Der, has all subsidized Cincinnati Price Current.
The Scott Legion, of Pittsburg, held a meeting
on Monday evening, when a letter was read from
Judge ;. w. Black, favorable to the erection of a
monument in honor of the dead who fell in Mexico
Also letter from John Grayson, Esq. an old SOL
dier OF iSl2, acknowledging the receipt of notice
OF his election to the Scott Legion an honorary
member, and enclosing $50. By unanimous vote
OF the members present, the services of the Scott
Legion were rendered to the President to serve in
the war in tab against the Mormons.
Prof: FELTON,, of Harvard University, claims to
have discovered among DR.. Abbott's collection of
American Antiquities in Broadway, New York,
waxen tablets which were used by the school bows
of Alexandria, in the time of the Ptolemies. The
inscriptions upon these tablets have been deciphered
by the Greek Professor, and they prove to be such
proverbs and apothegms as are now current in the
literature OF the day, and often set copies upon
the writing books OF pupils in public schools
W hat is more interesting perhaps, about these an
tquites is the fact that they are three or four hun
dred years older than the oldest to be found in any
European collection.
All the tributaries of the Lower Mississippi have
been higher than has ever been known before for
years, and the people the coast will have to look
out for breakers along their levee.
White and Black Rivers have Overfown their
banks, with heavy destruction of property
Jacksonport has been entirely submerged and the
population compelled to skiffs dug-outs and
other crafts to convey them from one tenement to
another. At Des Arck the river is within two feet
of the food of 1874, and rising.
A young man named George W. Graves, living
in Essex township, Stark county, Illinois, commit
ted suicide last week by putting the muzzle of gun
to his head and firing it off with stick. He had
been accused by aJewpeddler, who temporarily
boarding at the same house with him, of having
stolen his iewery. This, with some circumstances
calculating to tasten suspicion upon him. so wrought
upon his mind that he went to his room and com
mitted the fatal deed.
LUMBER BUSINESS OF THE WEST BRANcH-The I.v-
coming Gazette says I" The spring thus far has been
uniavorable for the lumber business of this region
Most of the logs in the tributaries of the West
Branch still remain there for want of a sufficient
flood to drive them out and the season is already so
far advanced that no calculation can be made when
such flood will come. Business along the West
Branch will suffer very much if the log crop should
fall
FUGITIvE SLAVE MORA gentleman named
Stump, from Virginia, accompanied by L. S.
Marshall visited Blairsville, Pa, last Thursday and
arrested fugitive slave. Accorning to the Pitts
burg Gazette, however, he was Immediately rescued
by mob of whites and blacks, and Mr.. Stumn and
the Marshal compelled to beat retreat after being
roughly handled.
The Hon. Samuel Adams, a member of the Senate
of Massachusetts, died on Monday last under very
melancholy circumstances He was suffering from
rheumatism, for which acOnite had been prescribed
lotion, and of this he swallowed three teaspoon
fulls, which ended his life in two hours.
At Cincinnati, on the 5th inst, William Smith,
convicted of assault and battery with intent to
kill, in placing "infernal machine" in the
nail shop Of George Carter, with view of de-
stroying his life, sentenced to three years i'm
prisOnment.
PARDONED.-John NJ. Meeks, who was convicted
of robbing the mail at the U. 5. Court for the West
ern district of Virginia. at its October term 1853
and sentenced to imprisOnmentin the District of Co
lumbia Penitentiary for space of ten years. was on
Saturday pardoned by the President of the United
States Washington Star