The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-13

OCEAN STEAMERS FROM NoEEoLK.-The City Coun-
Gil OfNortolk has unanimously adopted a preamble
and accompanying resolutions intended to prepare
the way for the establishment of the proposed line of
steamers to st. Nazaire, at the mouth of the Loire
The resolutions appear in the Norfolk Argus, from
which the following is clipped
Resolved, That in order to bring the subject ad-
ysedlv before the authorities and people of Norfolk
and to give practical direction to a noble public re-
solve, joint committee of three members from
each branch Of the Councils be appointed to inquire
into the best practicable means of establishing at
the earliest day, direct trade by line of steam
packets between the ports of Norfolk and st. Ma
zaire-that they ascertain the amount of capital
necdfu for the undertaking, and what cooperation
may be expected from parties in France, and from
shiphuiders, and the owners of ships already built
that they be authorised to correspond with South
ern members of Congress in reference to aid from
the General Government for mail and other public
service; and with other parties having official or
personal influence in the cause; that they be in
structed to confer freely with the President and
proper committees of the Bristol Convention and
of the Merchants and Mechanics Exchange of this
city, and invite their counsel and cordial co-opera-
ton; and that they report to the Councils from
time to time their dongs in the premises.
Copies of the resolutions are to be forwarded to
the Governors of Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina, and the Senators and Representatives in
Congress from those States and also to the author
ties of the corporate cities and towns in Virginia
Tennessee and North Carolina, and their advice and
assistance solicited.
Consul HARRIs-Accordng to the Washington
correspondent of the New ork Herald, a recent
note from Lord Napier to the State Department
informs the Secretary of State that the Earl of Ell
gin had expressed to his government the obligation
he was under to Consul General at Japan
Townsend Harris, for important aid rendered him
and his Interpreter in negotiating the treaty lately
concluded with that empire. Lord Napier adds
that the Queen is anxious to confer upon Mr.. Harris
a solid testimonial of her gratitude for his conduct
in the shape of snuff box, with the royal cipher:
and his lordship desires that Mr.. Harris NAV be
authorized to receive it Secretary Cass has re-
piled to Lord Napier's letter, and has also commu-
nicated the matter to the Chairmen of the Senate
and House Committees on Foreign Affairs.
Man WITH HEART on THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS
BoDY.-A day or two ago man died who had been
Tor some months an inmate of one Of our hospitals
and whose disease had exhibited such peculiar and
unknown symptoms to battle the greatest skill of
the best physicians. Under the circumstances if
was deemed advisable to make a post-mortem exam
ination, when it found that in the diaphram
was large hole, and that the intestines had been
forced up and had pressed the heart from its natu
raj position to the right side ofhs body, where
1t had performed its functions for several years; the
man himself having been prevented from his
daily labor only for the last few months. How the
patient could have survived such length of time
with such subverted system is marvellous and is
the first instance of the kind, we understand that
has come to the knowledge of the medical profess
sion.-Cincinnoti Enquirer.
The TARIFF MovEMEyr.-A meeting of A larpe
number OF persons representing the iron interest
IN a number Of Ohio and Kentucky counties, was
held in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the ID After an
animated discussion OF the present condition of the
iron business of the country; the total inability of
the furnace men to pay the present prices for sup
plies and labor, and sell pig iron at the present
rates; the causes OF the low price of iron and the
proper remedy to be applied, the meeting
Resolced, That united and strenuous effort be
made at the approaching session of Congress- to
obtain such a modification of the act of Congress,
as Will afford more adequate protection to our
manufacturers against the importation of foreign
iron. and thereby secure more uniformity and sta
bilty in the price of iron in the country; and in
making said modification, the system of specific
duties, and, if possible, the sliding scale be
adopted
Committees were appointed to correspond, &c.
BIBLIoGRAPHY. The London book trade has firm,
Irubner Il Co., of whose business transactions
American literature well as literature on Ameri-
ca, form principal branch. Mr.. Nicholas Trubner
German, who has never resided in this country,
has made the first attempt to marshal the literature
of the United States of America during the last
forty years, according to the generally adopted
photographed rules Mexico, in her own wav had
an extensive work on Mexican writer's and Mexican
literature, early 1916 to 1921. Three volumes
appeared in Mexico in which 1861 Mexca an writers
could be enumerated 40 of them only ANONYMOUS
all the rest the names given Forty years only
have passed, and the book, with all its 1857 Next
can authors, is forgotten.-N. Y. Tribune.
The dimensions of the sloop-of-war No. l, at the
stocks upon the navy yard, are as follows: Length
from taffrai- rail to head of stem POS feet beam "a
feet, depth of hold lG feet. She will carry two |
eleven inch pivot guns and two guns carrying 32lb
shot. The pivot guns weigh 900 lbs. each, with
the trucks $4,000 lbs. each. The frgate Lancaster
which was taken upon the dry-dock a short time
since, to be coppered was to have been taken off
. the close OF this week and hauled into the wharf
where her machinery will be put on board It
VIII require two or three months to fit her out for
sea. The work upon sloOp No. 9 which is LONGER
and has more beam than the other is progressive
A portion OF her frame is up, and with the present
orce in the yard she can be got ready for launch
ng about the middle of February.
Berlin letter to the Boston Journal saws: GA
Jerinan llterateur, OF much dull learning and duller
industry, has taken upon himself to be Humboldt's
,iographer, without having any special oualiica
ions tor the task lie has attached himself burr
Ike to Humboldt, and will not be shaken off
very word from the old mans lips, every letter he
writes, is eagerly caught up and chronicled. or
lied away by the German Boswell.
Judge Carter, of the Cincinnati Common Pleas
Court, has commenced suit az anst the law firm of
Thompson Nesmith, for libel, in which he fixes
he amount of his damages at $40, 900. The alleged
libel is said to have been contained in a communi-
ION III the columns of Il cotemporary, some weeks
lgo.
1t is estimated by the Ercnjny Po.t that the con-
SUMPTION Oh opium IN New ork Is equal to two |
ounces annually to each adult inhabitant The
quantity passing through the custom house amounts
% one hundred thousand pounds annually, and it
5 swallowed in variety of forms. 1t is stated |
hat 1t Is used much by Judges, lawyers and clergy
men. "
The Hagerstown NoH announces the death by
irowmng, OF Mr.. ). w. Summers, member of !
he House of Delegates while crossing a lock on |
he Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, above Hancock
lie was about 80 years of age.
The bridge on the Grand Trunk Railroad. at
Sheerbrooke, Canada, broke down on Monday NOR
ling, while two engines crossing it. One man
was killed.
Col. Colt, whose claim upon the city of Hartford
or $4,000 for his dyke and other improvements
Vas contested, has been awarded by the referees
he sum Of $50, 1855.
The dissensions concerning the management of
he Dudley Observatory at Albany, n. Y, has di-
ected attention to the establishment of one at New
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