The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-26

MOUNT EERNoN.-.John A. Washington ESQ.,
owner Of Mount Vernon, has contracted to convey
it to the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association, on
their compliance with the following terms
" The payment of $500, 900 for two hundred ac es
of land, including the mansion and landing place
and, above all, the tomb. Eighteen thousand dol
lars to be paid on closing the contract, and the re-
mander OF the sum- in Iour bonds, payable in year
ly installmcnts, with tie permission, after payne
of the first bond to pay to Mr.. Washington any
amount of the balance due in of not less than
$4,000 which sums will be credited to the associa-
ton, in this manner lessenng the interest. The
title to the estate and possession to be given pay
ment of the principal and interest, and the privi-
lege also granted of obtaining possession, thirty
days notice, at any time the association may be
ready to furnish the entire purchase money"
To-day, at ten A. NJ, the Postmaster General
VIII announce his decisions the proposals received
under the advertisement of December 81 1857, for
conveying the mails for four years from the lst
OF July next, in the States of Alabama, Mississippi
Mson ioMa Texas kentucky Tennessee
consln and Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas Terri
tories in the order here mentioned Also the pro-
Posals. under the advertisement of February l,
lSos tor the routes established by the act of Con.
gress of March 3, 1851 in various States of the
Union, the contracts being for shorter periods.
THE SOUTHERN MATEON-The Southern Matron''
OF the Mount Vernon Association, is a Miss Cum
nlngham, native of South Carolina and has been
an invalid from infancy. Belle Britain called on
hSl NHHe 1T hlcHnlOnu, ana she thus speaks OF her
81 found Miss Cunningham confined to her bed
and marveled to see such strength coming out of
weakness. 1t is the power of thought or will, or
rather OF love that creates and controls the world
There pale and physically feeble, this chief apostle
OF Mount ernonism has patriotic fire in her eye
that never fails to kindle most contagious enthu
siasm.''
CANE CIDER.-The Nashville Homestead saws that
besides the excellent syrup and sugar made from
the Chinese Sugar Cane, there is vet another art-
obtained WI Is soft I'D
| doubtless healthy in its consequences 1t is OBJ
tanned by putting the expressed Juice of the cane
! INTO any clean wood or glass vessel, allowing it
| to stand ten twelve DAYS, when il assumes the
appearance of limpid water and is fit for use. The
flavor is similar to best cider and we suppose
might be properly called cane cider-Soathern
| CHitiUdtOr.
Although the exports of merchandise from Great
Britain for the months Of January and February
last were only $4,000 900 against S92 900 900 in
the corresponding months last year. yet the papers
express the opinion that the quantity exported was
as large as last year, the difference in value being
only the decline in prices. They also express the
opinion that the profits on the exports at the low
valuation are fully large they were last year on
| the high valuation.
LOVE AND SwNDL1NG.-The last Ravenna o. y
democrat gives an account of the operations of one
| William {. Thompson, who sold his farm at Steu-
benvle, obtained money on loan to the amount of
some $4,000, and decamped taking with him GIRL
| named Mary Mcdonald, and leaving behind him a
wife and family. He was traced to Philadelphia,
where at the latest account, he was held in dur
ance, awaiting requisiton from the Governor OF
| Ohio.
| letter from Rome in the Boston Pilot saws that
| SIX Cardinals have died within few months and
! eight or nine We're to be created on the 18th of
| March-among them Bedini. The Pope has ap-
! pointed young Lucien Bonaparte, already Private
Chamberlain, as one of the Pontifcal PreIates
| Mr. Church is engaged in painting view of Nj
agara Falls from the American side as a pendant for
his famous picture taken from the Canada shore: it
is said that the former will be even finer than the
work which placed this artist at the very head OF
living landscape painters.
GOLD HUYTING.-A company of persons have
been organized in Ray county, No. to 90 out in
search of the gold said to exist near Pixies Peak
OF the Rocky Mountains, in the western portion of
Kansas territory. Fifteen or twenty have Joined
the expedition, which is to start some time in
May.
HEAVY CATTLE.-Dr. G. F. Walker, late of Rock
lngham county, Va, recently sold, in Richmond
IL head of cattle whose united weight was 90 90.
lbs, being an average of 1S4l lbs. each One O.
the cattle weighed 2, ll5, and one other 2,OS5.
Thurow Weed has resumed the proprietorship O
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