The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-08
d M E STIC.

The New York Custom House returns for the
month OF April show the continued effect of the
financial panic last fall. The total imports into
'hiS port Tor that month were but ten and a o!f
mH'ons against over t'cedg last year to the same
month-being decrease of S963i 1882. The reve
nue. Tell OIL million and half. This is a little
heavier than the decrease in the imports for March,
which were SS,62l 900 less than in March last year.
In our exports the Improvement in trade Is more
visible. During the month of March the exports
this year were S5,000,000 less than last year,
while during April the falling off only 81 2SO, 739
In the United States Circuit Court, sitting in Gin
cinnati, a is under trial, in which +. .. Du-
pont & Co., extensive powder manufacturers of
Wilmington, claim $4,000 damages of Benjamin
kittredge, of Cincinnati upon the ground that the
latter has been in the habit of buying empty pow
der kegs with the label of Dupont 4 Co., which
were afterwards filled with an inferior article of
powder, and sold as the ''genuine Dupont"
The Rochester Democrat says there have been some
singular stories current during the last days of the
Stout trial. 1t is said that several of the airer
evinced surprising interest in the welfare of the
prisoner on trial, and went so far as to send him
letters of sympathy and coincidence. One young
woman, while sitting in the courtroom during the
trial, gave vent to her feelings in several poetcal
illusions the topics of which the prisoner and
his hard fate.
Considerable Indignation is felt in some circles in
Boston at the exclusion of unlimited persons from
marriage services celebrated in Kings Chapel
.
church should be open to all, and if privacy is
sought, weddings can be celebrated in private
house. In most places the custom is for the sexton,
standing at the door, to direct chance corners to
side aise and invited persons to the centre of the
house. .- ... ...
Last Friday night Jacob Gregory, of Union town
ship, Luzerne county, Pa, while watching for some
dogs which had been worrying his sheep, fired at a
moving object which he mistook for dog. 1t
proved to be his brother, Peter Gregory, who had
I'LL
knowledge of Jacob. The unfortunate young
man died in less than twenty-fou hours.
Rev. Mr.. Quinn, a Catholic clergyman of Brook
yn called yesterday upon several cotton merchants
in the lower part of the city, and paid to them
sums of money amounting in all to 81, $50 He de
clined to give the name of the party who had made
him the medium of relieving his conscience,-New
York Courier.
The Boston Traveller states that on the morning
of the 18th inst, two brothers named Davis resid-
ing near Beverly, got drunk and quarreled, and in
the course of the dispute one brother stabbed the
other with knife from the effects of which he died
after. The murderer was lodged in Salem
Jail.
A new kind of cotton, called the Rose Cotton, ex-
ceiling in rmness of lint and length of the staple
the kind ordinarily produced, has been sold in Gal
weston, Texas, at price above the market value Of
the Mexican Gulf cotton. As new variety, it
promises to be very decided improvement.
In the UnlteQ states court at hlcnmOnu, on lueS-
day night last the grand jury returned true bills
against Thomas j. Moore, late captain, and David
Morey, late second mate of the barque Octavia for
the murder of Mrs. Ennis; and true bill against
Thomas j. White late first mate of the same vessel
Mr.. Fleming Valentine, respectable farmer of
Valley township, Chester county, Pa, was thrown
from his sulkey last Tuesday, Westchester, and
dragged 4 considerable distance. When found he
quite dead his head being dreadfully bruised
that the features could not be recognized.
At Turks Island, on the 26th ut, the weather
fine and favorable for salt making, although
the stock on hand did not exceed 1000 bushels,
which commanded readily 10 cents per bushel.-
Provisions and vegetables were much wanted.
Governor King, of New York, has offered re-
ward of $1,000 to any person or persons who will
give such information will lead to the apprehen
sion and conviction of the person persons guilty
of the murder of Charles l.. Samuels.
Col James Collier, of Ohio, who was claimed to
be defauter while collector at San Francisco, has
proved before the highest court that the
is indebted to him.
Many of the New York State papers favor the
call for the constitutional convention for the sake of
getting rid of an elective judiciary.
VIM. p. Perines and Andrew Bailey are on trial
before the United States District Court at Pitts
burg, on the charge of mail robbery.
The venerable John Van Zandt, of Albany, n y,
universally known cashier Van Zandt," died
in that city on Wednesday. He was ninety-one
years old
III. G. Stebbins, Esq, has resigned as President
and Director of the American tlantic and Pacific
Ship Canal Company