The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-08

CHARLES CoUNTY.-The ex-Committee of the
Charles County Agricultural Society has deter
mined to hold their annual exhibition and fair on
the 9th, 10th, and llth of November On the third
day there will be sale of stock.
BALTIMORE AND PoTOMAC RALROAD.-Mr. Bowie,
the agent passed through Port Tobacco on We'd
nesday last. lie had been soliciting subscriptions
in Charles County, one day, and had obtained sub
scrptions to the amount of S3,OO0-from three in
dividuas.
A meeting of the Commissioners of the Railroad
will probably be held in Upper Marlboro on Tues
day, I'd of November, for the purpose of organizing
the company by the election of Directors, &c.
Public notice will be given of the precise time for
the meeting.
A public meeting of the friends of the project
will take place in Port Tobacco the second day
Of the Agricultural Exhibition, the 10th of NOvcm-
Der.
DORCHESTER CouNrY.-There will be a meeting
of the citizens of Dorchester County in Cambridge
the lth inst, to elect delegates to the Eastern
Shore Convention, which will meet at the same
place on Wednesday, November 3D.. The Easton
Star SAYS From the interest exhibited in the
subject in the adjoining counties, and the high
character of the gentlemen engaged in the move
ment, we have right to expect that when they
come together all will be done that is possible for
the protection of the slave property of the Eastern
Shore. The establishment of an effective agency
in the upper part of Delaware, for the arrest Of
runawag slaves, we presume will be one of the
chief topics that will engage the attention of the
convention.
Quite an interesting ceremony took place on
Wednesday at the GEORGETOWN College, d. c., on
the occasion of the retirement of Rev. DR.. Il. A.
Mcguire from the presidency of that venerable in
stitution, and the accession and instament. as his
successor of Rev. DR.. Early, formerly president Of
the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester. Mas
sachusetts but for the past few years president Of
LOyOla College, Baltimore.
Appropriate addresses in Latin poetry and prose
were delivered by Messrs. James II. Dooly, of Vir-
ginia, and J. o. Martin of Louisiana. and in EnU-
lish, by Messrs. James IIoban, of Washington. and
Robert F. Lovclace, of Louisiana; after which Jas
F. Mclaughlin, of Virginia. delivered an exceed
ingly felictous address behalf of the students
generally, in whose name he presented to the re-
firing president a most exquisitely finished and
magnificent gold chalisc and plate and also a su-
perbly bound Roman Missal.
Dr. Early's rep " to the address Of welcome de-
livered by Mr.. Francis " Ward was very happy,
and was received with great applause.
The States says it is authentcally informed that
a transfer was effected on Friday of the Washing
ton and Baltimore turnpike from the old stock
holders to a company of heavy capitalists, who pro
pose to make immediate preparations to lay plank
track from point to the other, and put in Ope-
ration the system Of steam-wagOn travel, which is
now becoming of general use in England and has
lately been eXperimentally introduced into the
crowded thoroughiarcs of New 1ork with success.
1t is asserted that passengers can be taken up at
their residences in either city and dropped at any
point in the other ut one dollar each and also that
the running time over the road will be about two
hours only. ,Jno. II. Robinson, Esq, of Philadcl-
phia, is President of the Company and Moncure
Robinson, Esq, Of Fredericksburg, is a Director
1t is stated that c. b. Calvert Esq, has disposed
of SIG coo worth Of stock he owned in the old road
Before putting steam-wagons it is proposed to
run stage-coaches, not to occupy more than three
and half hours in the transit
The statement that dead body was taken from
the ruins of the New York Crystal Palace is un-
true. Pieces of glass and tin were picked up at
great distance from the fire, and sheet of tin
foot square, from the burning building, was found
in a lot in Newtown, distance of two miles from
the Greenpoint Ferry. Pieces of tin and glass of
various sizes were picked up in various places in
Wilamsburgh,