The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-20

Business upon the Chesapeake Il Ohio Canal
during the week ending on Saturday, quite
brisk, l09 boats arrived at Georgetown, Sc of them
from Cumberland, bringing about $500 tons of coal,
and the remainder from different points with flour,
grain, wood, &c. The receipts Of tolls at the
Georgetown Collectors office for the week
amounted to S3.9l5 81.
The Board of Directors have determined to place
a superintendent upon the Georgetown level.
railroad meeting is to be held at Grcensbo-
rough, Talbot county, on Saturday the 18th, for
the purpose of making arrangements for the
completion of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad,
between Smyrna and Greensborough.
George Shoner, Philip Urich and Karl Winch, were
arrested in New York Friday, ON charge ofgrand
larceny. 1t appears that they took from the Office
of the Merchants Hotel. carpctbag belonging to
j. w. Lacy, lumber dealer from Pennsylvania,
in which was contained number of certificates ot
railroad stocks bonds, checks, fifteen thousand dol
lars in value notes, &C., a silver watch, gold chan
bracelet, earrings and ether valuable jewelry.-
These last articleswere sold by them to JeweIler
for two dollars. The jewclry was recovered and
restored. The papers had been destroyed and the
carpet bag cut in pieces.
John McGinnis, an Ohio State Prison convict
having attempted to commit suicide, by cutting his
throat afterwards swallowed the knife. ChlorO-
form was administered, a piece of the sixth rib,
about three and half inches in length, sawed out,
a hand inserted, which drew forth from the cavity
of the chest and near the heart dull, ugly looking
knife about three and halt or four lnchesn length
There no handle to it-only a shank about one
inch in length. The lung was considerably lacerated
from the knife coming in contact with it..
We learn that the Atlantic Telegraph Company
are selecting and classifying words most used in
communications different subjects, and construct
| ing what NAV be calleda stcnographlc alphabet OF
them, for the purpose of eNpedltng transmlssIons.
| We hear that instead of taking an average OF near
| " two minutes to a word, they already can trans
| nit two words in a minute, and expect, when they
have constructed proper alPhabets, and got compe
tent persons to use them, very much to increase
that rate.-HercpathS journal.
The New York Herald publishes a letter from
! Stephen Weeks, of Maine, sailor confined in
the Spanish State prison at Seville He was second
mate of the ship Waverly, which arrived Manila
three years ago with cargo ofrebellious coolies on
| board, in conflict with whom the officers and crew
! committed great slaughter He was condemned to
four, and Mr.. French (the mate of the ship to six
! years imprisonment, and both are now IN the cham
| gang at Seville.
correspondent of the New Orleans Picay"ne
| mentions the application ofSeburn Brown, a tree
man of color, to the District Court of Newton
! county, Texas, to be made slave for me- Inc
Judge warned him OF all the consequences, ana gave
him day to consider on it, but ne ret9rncI any
The Uopkinsville Nv, NercUy says, that the
mortality anonr hogs in Davies, Muhlenburg, Nc
! Lean and adjacent counties, Is astonishing. IN
some nIaces the dead piled up by hundreds, the
air is black with crows, ravens ana ouZLaruS, ana
| the stencil is overpowerlng.
Horny Goulding President Of bank in Worces-
| ter Mass has been subjected to a fine of $4,000
for conveying property to twice that value out ot
| his hands to escape taxation.
The Hon. Charles James Faulkner, of Virginia,
has consented to deliver the Seventh Annual Ad-
dress before the Agricultural Fair Of Washington
county next month.
The Firemen's parade at Hagerstown, on the 10th,
passed of timely. Eight companies were in line,
and also the citizens of Washington county who
participated in the battle OF North Point.
The Republicans of the 33d New York Congress
sional District have been unable to make a nomina-
tion for Congress.
Hon. Geo. w. Palmer the present representative,
has received the republican nomination for reeec-
tion to Congress in the Sixteenth N. Y. District.
The college term at Yale commenced on Thurs
day last, with about l30 Freshmen.