The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-15
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LATER FROM TEXAS.
! od ~ the steamer Magnolia, we have Galveston
sord. W ' ID instant The Galveston Civia,
More buildings, particularly dwellings,
going up in Galveston, than at any former pc
| riod. 1t is difficult to procure comfortable
residence, so great has been the increase of pop
ulation.
The masOns are now at work in LAYING the foun-
daton of the new custom house in this city; it will
be altogether the finest edifce in the city, Its fine
| elevation, large size, and the numerous upwards
of l40) ornamental columns surrounding it, will
| doubtless give it beautiful and imposing ap-
| pearance.
Welearn, says the Goliad Erpress, that the coun-
try between that place and the Rio Grande is liter
ally covered with horses and mules and that extern
siue trading may be anticipated for several months
as that is the haltng place for rest and trade The
business is becoming not onl wonderfully enlarged
but much more profitable annually, and owing 10
the unsettled state of the country the stock rasers
| OF Mexico are bringing them in large numbers and
selling them at greatly reduced rates.
The San Antonio Herald gives report in crcu-
| lation that Ma jor Ripley, who in their city a
short time since for the purpose of selecting site
for an arsenal had become dsgusted with the enor-
nous prices for lands suitable for the purpose
| and gone elsewhere to locate the same.
The last outward trip of the San Diego mail car
ried four passengers for Ell Paso and one through
! for California.
The San Antonio Herald predicts, from all indi-
cations, year of unparalleled prosperity for Texas
NEWS FROM MExICo.-New Orleans, April u.
| lS5S.-Advices from Tampco state that thirteen
| prominent Mexican reactonists had been captured
| by Governor Cara, while attempting to land from
| the British mail steamer. Garza had fired on an
| American vessel, from which he had endeavored to
extort double duties
Postmaster Capen, of Boston, is now in WASHING
ton in consultation in relation to the proposed re
mova of the Postottice to Summer street The bust
ness men in Boston, to the number of more than
| 5000, have signed protest against the proposed
removal.
| DEFALCATIoN.-A correspondent of the Buffalo
| Courier, writing from Batavia, April 10, saws:
| The Collector of Taxes of the town of LEROY, in
this county, named N. A. Sutton, has suddenly left
the town, and it is ascertained that he is defauer
| from $4,000 to $4,000. He had collected nearly
all of the town tax, over So 900, borrowed all the
money he could from his friends, raised all that
could be raised by mortgaging his effects or in any
| other way, and then decamped.
| Shad were taken in the Hudson, on Saturday as
high up as Hyde Park
| THE LINE-oF-BATTLE SHIP FRAYKLIY.-In COM
municatOn to the President of the Senate, the Sec
retary of the Navy says that the old lineofbattle
ship Franklin is now the stocks at kittery, Me-,
and will shortly be converted into screw steamer
with full steam power. The Secretary thinks that
when these alterations finished the Franklin will
prove very valuable addition to the service This
vessel has not been in commission since 1924, when
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Commodore Stewart.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
The American Association of Science at its late
session in Montreal, appointed committee, con-
| sisting of Doctors Wynne and Hough, and Mr. Eli
OFT, Actuary of Boston, to prepare and report plan
for a uniform system of marriages. births and deaths
applicable to the United States. This committee is
| now in session in New York, and will make their
report at the annual meeting of the Association, to
! be held at Baltimore ON the 2Sth inst.
WAYNE COUNTY Coal LANDs.-In our last weeks
paper noticed the discovery of coal land in Put
nam county, and on our last visit to Wayne county,
| we learned that recent developments had proved
that county to be exceedingly rich in this mineral
Lands that few years since could have been bought
for from 20 to 30 cents per acre. are now command
ing from So to SO. On the Sandy river fine veins
of camel coal have been discovered and sales are
daily taking place.-KanaUha Star.
The weekly statement of the Philadelphia banks
shows S2l ,656,02S of loans and discounts being
decrease OF SILL specie to the amount of Sc, l33,
900, being an increase of $685. 403 deposits to the
amount of Sl3, $685. being an increase of S36l,-
1888; circulation to the amount of 81 975 1872 being
an increase of S27, ,794.
| The New York Canal Board has reduced the tolls
on wheat and -four from three mills to two mills per
thousand pounds per mile, and also, made a reduc-
| ton on marble partly wrought, of Onehalf mill;
also, reduction on stone and castiron ware of one
mill. The reductions require the assent of the Leg
| islature.
A short time since the safe in the county clerks
office at Keytsville, Charlton county, Mo-, was
| blown open with POWDER and five thousand dollars
in specie, mostly gold, stolen. Three strangers,
haiing from St. Louis, are suspected, from their
sudden disappearance from town.
| Col. S. B. Jeter, prominent citizen of Nottoway
| county, died suddenly the I'd inst, in the 10th
year of his age. He had served his county in the
| various capacities of Justice, Sheriff. Commissioner
of the Revenue, &C., and generally respected in
| the community.
Some eighteen wagons and thirty men, says the
Austin (Texas) Iateligenecr, passed through that
place their way to the Staked Plains. 1t is said
| they making for the Wichita mountains, where
they expect to find gold in great abundance.
John Mitchell who has left nothing undone to
| aienate the respect which great many of us used
to have for the Irish patriots, suggests in his paper
the Southern Citizen, that Senator Bell be hung in
effigy before the capitol in Nashville.
Porter's Spirit Of the Times says that Mr.. Ten
Brock does not mean to remain content with his
victory in the Cesarewitch, but intends to renew
his campaign against the flyers of the English turf
during the coming summer.
Advices from Walla Walla, on the Columbia river,
| state that the Mormon settlements in that region
are being broken up, and the Mormons leaving for
Salt Lake.
BOARDED BY BRITISH CRUIsER.-The barque
Anna, at New York, reports on March Y, off Ha-
vana, it was boarded by a boat from the British
! brig of-war Styx.
The Trinity (Texas) Advocate says that vegetation
is lust commencing in that portion of the State 1t
is thought that the fruit has been seriously injured
by the heavy trosts.
About thirty young men left Wilmington, Della
ware on Monday last for the purpose of settIino in
the far West mostly at st. Paul, Minnesota. They
are all mechanics
NORFOLK AND PETERSBURG GRA1LRoAp.-Fortv-thr three
miles of the track of this road are laid and the re-
naming thirty-seven miles into Petersburg, are
ready for the iron.
Pullen, charged with the robbery of the L. s.
Custom House at Norfolk, plead guilty, and was
sentenced to eight years Imprisonment in the Pen-
tentiary.
The State Department at Washington has refused
to grant passport to a colored citizen con-
trary to the practice since the foundation of our
government
Business on the Morris Canal has fairly COM
menced, and boats passing up and down, giving
an air of activity TO this important channel of com
municaton.
The CITY of Lowell, has been compelled to paw Miss
Morrison, a girl of fifteen, $500 for damages receiy
ed from defect in the highway, by which she was
crippled.
The Episcopal church at Cabin Point Surrv
County, Va, was burned down last Thursday. Loss
$4,000.
The foundry of Newman & Graham, in St. Louis.
was destroyed by tre on Friday night. Loss $40,
500; insured $4,000.
IL ~ Ii. uoi vi georgia mas appointed one hun.
drea delegates to the Southern Commercial Con.
vention ~ 0
Inc Danvllle Va. Republican states that tobac
co coming IN freely, and bears much better price.
than the most sanguine could have hoped for.
The Marietta and Cincinnati Company are again
running passenger and freight cars, in connection
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Most of the operatives at the Naumkeap Mass
Mill resumed work on Tuesday, after a delay of :
fortnight.