The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-04
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~, FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IyGENrousLY Sro1Ey.-
Inc boston Post relates the story and we suppose
that it is true: Nff0'N
=, Our readers will recolect that a few wears ago
Mr.. Peter Remington was robbed on the steamer
Terry Oh satchel containing bills belonging to the
newport banks, amounting to $40 900. The money
was never recovered. Therefore much interest is
excited by the appearance of the following para
graph in biographical sketch of Mike Phillips. an
English thief in the Police Gazette of last Satur-
day: ''''' ''''"
The greatest robbery in which Mike was con-
cerned was the robbery of the bank porter between
Newport and Providence, Rhode Island. Mike and
ms associates ascertaned that on certain day the
oahh porter would convey an immense amount of
money IRON Newport to Providence. The thieves
provided themselves with a satchel similar to the
porters, and on the way to Providence, while one
OF the gang engaged his attention, Mike changed
the satchels. When opened, it contained, to their
uerght, $4,000 As soon fair division of the
spolls had been made the mob separated and
while one went west and another south, Mike took
the safest plan to prevent arrest by going to London
with his share of the plumber"
We have files from Bermuda, to the l4th of April
We are assured by the papers that there is no doubt
o the potato crop this season falling considerably
snort OF the quantity raised last year. owing to the
injurious effects of the late severe southerly gale.
i ne british sloop-of-war Devastation, bearing the
nag OF Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, arrived the
MNornlns OF the i4th from Havana. The Bishop of
newfoundland had administered the rite of con-
hrmatlon to 1913 persons in Bermuda
The Fredericksburg correspondent of the Rich
mona D'spdtch says:-"l visited last evening, the
unfinished monument to Mary, the Mother of Wash
!ngton, near this place. From present indications,
IL VIII soon be finished so far ruin can finish any
thing Evil disposed persons, who should be taught
better, have so defaced the marble with bullets and
shot marks, that it can never be restored to its
former condition"
The brig j. II. Kent, Capt Reed, arrived in Sa-
vannah from Havana Cuba on the 2Stb ult On
outward n npt n Poha 10
man. of st. John, n. B.. fell overheard and was
drowned, and on her return passage James Brock,
another seaman fell from aloft and was almost in
collision with the brig Essex, of Portland Me-, in
lat. "a deg 10 min. N, long. so deg As min. W,
and lost her foretopmast bowsprit and boat be-
manmast.
Letters from Venezuela state that General Castro
who is at the head of affairs there has invited
General Paez and several other leading exiles
turn to the country. Not only has he invited Paez
to return IN general terms, but he has sent special
commission to wait upon him in New York, request
ing him to come back to his native land from which
he has been so long expatriated.
The United States mail steamer Arago Captain
Lines, left New York on Saturday for Southamp-
ton and Havre with 3O5 passengers and SS6ll3 in
specie. Among the passengers are the following
General E. }. Wallette, Professor d. G. Eaton,
Major John Biddle, Captain John Britton. The
Hamburg steamer Saxonia, Captain Ehlers, also
ago passengers.
The New York Herald gives the following sums
as the amount received per year by the several army
officers named:-Gen. Scott. SIS, 1872; Gen. Wool
SSS54; Gen. Persifer F. Smith, SIS, lS9; Adit. Gen
Cooper, S5,O93; Major Mcdowell, S4,O2O Col. Tot
ten, S4,64S; Gen. Harvey, S5,O3l Col. May, S3,5l9
and says the general average receipts are, colones
$780, lieut. colonies, $4,000; majors, $4,000; cap
tains, $500, ieutenants $4,000.
The aggregate wealth of the U. States amountst to
$4,000 0OO, 900 and the population is S24 900 OOO-
the wealth divided by the population gives $500 to
each person, young and old and counting five per-
sons TO each family, 1T would give the handsome
little fortune of 81 500 to every family of the re-
public, not excluding slaves.
A tremendous flood of rain fell in Marshall coun-
ty, Miss, on Sunday and Monday of last week
which did incaculabe damage to the newly planted
crops. great number of fences were washed awav
and the planters have to stop all other work to re-
pair them.
There is now residing in Summerhill township,
Cambria county, Pa, lady named Smay, who is
one hundred and one years of age. She was born
in 1857, and was nineteen wears of ape at the time
OF the signing of the Declaration of Independence
Mr.. Matthew Erwin, a representative in the board
OF aldermen of Jersey City, while laboring under
temporary insanity, on Friday attempted to COM
init suicide by taking an ounce of laudanum He
Will probably recover.
Crockett the murderer of Samuel Landrum, in
hung on the 18th of June. Landrum was beaten ON
the Sth, died on the 18th, and his murderer was
sentenced to death on the oath.
Mr.. Preston Beck, one of the most extensive mer
chants of New Mexico was recently killed at santa
fe, In street fight. There was a woman in the
case, and his assailant (who was also killed. man
named German.
A rumor is mentioned in the Norfolk DAY. Book
that several hundred workmen were to be discharg-
ed on Saturday from the Portsmouth navy yard
until the first of july in consequence of the annual
appropriation having been exhausted.
Rt. Rev. DR.. Demers, Bishop of Vancouver sailed
IN the steamer Philadelphia the 18th ult., for
Asplnwall. and hence to San Francisco. He took
with him. for his distant mission five Sisters of ST.
Ann, and two priests, lay brothers Jour
nal.
The Hampshire papers announce the death, at
Lymlngton, IN Hants, of Mrs. Mary Story, aged 50
the last surviving representative in England of that
family who assisted the celebrated William Penn in
all his undertakings in the United States of
America.