The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-28

| curious electric clock has been invented by Mr..
! Balm the inventor of a telegraph which CONVEYS
communications to any distance by the discooration
! OF saturated paper by electricity. There is no
visible power that actuates it, but in a garden OF
other piece of ground is dug a hole four or five feet
| deep, and into this hole is thrown LAYER of coke
! then layer of earth and then few zinc plates
feeble but constant galvanic current is generated
by the contact of the earth with the coke be ow il
and zinc above it, without the aid of any other bat
terry, and this current is conveyed in doors by con
| per wires. The wires form a coil round magnet
! and the electromagnetic thus formed is made to
! constitute the bob of the pendulum of the clock
! ana by machinery the electric apparatus gives a
vibratory motion to the pendulum, and the pcndu-
um in its turn gives motion to the two hands of a
clock.-Bg6olo Republic.
| few days since land slide took place at a deem
cut on the Pittsburg and Connelsvile railroad OBJ
poste to Mckeesport, Pa, where there is also a
sharp curve. A daughter of Mr.. John brave, per
ceiving the danger to approaching trains instantly
crossed the river and ran down the track waving a
red handkerchief, by which she succeeded in stop
ping the train, just in time to prevent disastrous
! collision. The railroad company, by way of appre-
citation of her bravery and presence of mind, have
given her free pass over the road for many years
to come, and made stopping place for the trains
near her fathers house, for her convenience.
The Philadelphia Bulletin, of Friday afternoon,
adverting to the fact that two other drowned bodies
were found within the city limits within a few
hours Oh lne discovery OF the murdered remains OF
Mr. +. f. Clark, remarks that there are, in all our
great Atlantic cities, entirely two many waits of
tins description constantly coming to light and too
few discoveries of the perpetrators.
All persons who served in the Texas revolution,
and the heirs of such as have died, are entitled to
bounty lands; but the legislature of Texas has linn
ited the time for application to be made, which
time has nearly expired, and when it does expire,
the claimants who have not then applied will be
barred forever and lose their rights
The population of some of the principal cities of
Ohio are as follows: Cincinnati, 200, 900; Cleveland
10000; Columbus, % ,000 Dayton, ,000 Toledo,
1000; GAINESVILLE, 10000; Steubenvie, 10000;
Chillcothc, 10000; Sandusky, 10000; Springfield,
S,OOO No other city has more than 5000.
On Friday last, an ARRAY took place on Plum
street Cincinnati, Ohio, between two men named
LETTERS, Gather and sony and policeman named
Blair, In the of which, Blair struck the elder
LETTERS, who fell cutting his head badly that he
died the same evening. Blair was held in $4,000 to
answer charge of manslaughter.
The COnecuh (Ala) Spartan says that few days
SINCE Mr.. Lynch, while out turkey hunting, was
hred upon by two brothers. named Wilson, (who
mlstook him for their game) and died in twenty
minutes.
Messrs. Harper Brother, who suspended during
the panic last autumn for the want of small sum
OF money, have resumed in full, having notified
their creditors that hereafter all their notes will be
PAID at maturity.
James Dean is reported to have died of legacy
at St Louis. He had the misfortune recently to re
ceive fortune from deceased relative in England
and lived so fast that he used up himself and the
fortune in a few months, leaving his family dest-
tute.
On the evening of Saturday, l7th instant, the
crew of the ship Princess Royal, which had just
arrived at New Orleans, La, from Boston, Mass,
were arrested in the former city, charged on the
oath of the captain with mutiny on the high seas
The Dubuque Northwest, edited by Col. Heath,
and supporter of the admission of Kansas with
the Lecompton Constitution, has been selected by
the common council of that city their official
organ.
The New Orleans correspondent of the st. Louis
Republican says that Gen. Walker is preparing for
another expedition against Nicaragua.
The steamship jamestown, from Norfolk, last
week, took over 300 barrels of early vegetables to
New York.