The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-09
l,575,914 2,7s9,4 Ss
2,575,9l4

Deficiency this year 2l3574
The hog cholera has made its appearance in Chicot
county, Arkansas. The disease is very fatal, and
on some plantations there will scarcely be any left.
Chcot county is about the 33d degree of latitude,
and this believe, is about the furthest south we
have yet heard of the prevalence of the hog chol-
No swill of any kind is used in feeding hogs
in that vicinity, and consequently the theory that
the disease was based upon the feeding of that in
gredient falls to the ground.
The Piqua Enquirer, of last week, on the author-
ty OF an experienced farmer of the vicinity, says:-
notwithstanding the fine appearance of the tops
of potatoes, they will be nothing like the WELD of
last year. There seems to be comparatively few in
hill, and those unusually small. He thinks the
potato crop in the county will fall off at least one
third
The same paper also says: We were shown a
beautiful ring of exquisitely cunDing Device in
which was tastefully inad specimens of pearl which
had been found in the Great Miami. Several very
hne specimens OF this article have been found in
near this river recently, of superb quality.
long letter appears in a Texas paper concerning
the passage of McCulloughs emigrant train across
the staked plain to California The Great American
Desert, through which the train passed, is barren
waste, and poorly supplied with water. Out of
900 head of cattle, $50 died for lack of water,
and for period of seventy-six hours were without
a drop to sake their thirst. The men also suffered
| terribly. and MANY shot down furnishing bulocks on
the road, stuck them, pulled off their boots shoes,
| caught the thick hot blood and drank it freely By
| so doing they saved their lives.
The Louisville Courier says: ''Our hotels are al
ready unusually crowded. although the fall trade
has not yet fairly opened. Night before last there
such rush of travellers at the Louisville Hotel
| that all the chambers occupied and the pro-
prietors forced to spread cots upon the parlor
| floors for the accommodation of their guests
There is every indication of heavy business in our
| city the present season.
On Sunday morning, shortly after five o'clock
! Daniel Kingsburv and John Burns, two prisoners
confined in the Western Penitentiary Allegheny
! city, made their escape
At an election meeting in Tilsenburg Co., on
| Wednesday last the floor of the room gave way
| and one man killed and several dangerously
| hurt.
camp meeting at South New Market, N. H.
was attacked by party of Irishmen on Wednesday
night last and the Presiding Elder badly injured.
Charles Meyer, has been arrested in Milwaukee
on the charge of having embezzled some 500, 900
while employed as a confidential clerk of a firm il
Paris.
A German of '"high degree" named Baron Adolf
Won Lang, has been imprisoned in Pittsburg fol
false pretences.
The rot is making sad havoc among the potato
fields in Bristol county, Massachusetts, and in Bris
tol county, Rhode Island.
1t is proposed to vary the size of blank notes, ac
cordlng to their denominations, as a preventive
against the alteration of the same.
1t is stated that the citizens of Bricksburg ar,
scattering in every direction in consequence of thu
appearance Of yellow fever in that dty.
In Boston, the Bank of Mutual Redemption il
taking the place, in some measure of the Suffolk
Bank.
Dr. Abal A. Cooley, the inventor of frictio,
matches, died at Hartford, Conn, on the 18th ult
aged seventy-six
The water works of Washington city will cos
| S6,000,000