The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-05

The Postmaster General contracted, on the 3Oth
ult., with Messrs D. Hockadey, James ii. Jones, JAS
Foster and others, for carrying the mail from ST. Jo
sephs Missouri to Salt Lake CITY, This mail is to be
carried weekly, in four horse coaches, through each
way in eighteen days. %
The Detroit Free Press publishes a list of seven
teen vessels at that port, all loaded with grain and
ready to have cleared on the LIST of Apri which is
the date fixed by insurance companies for sailing
risks to commence.
The New ork News says Inspector Murphy, of
the U. S. Customs has seized a large number of
guns, pistols, swords and other implements of war,
about to be shipped by party OF Mormons, just
embarkng for Utah.
n MAN-TRAP.-A letter to the Philadelphia Jour
nal, written on board the U. s. frigate Minnesota,
says that six or seven of the crew have been killed
or crippled for life, by falling through the hatch
way of the fire room, since that vessel left the United
States.
Phelps, the mail driver between Stonington and
New London, Conn., who was arrested for rob-
png the mails, was examined on Tuesday, at New
London, before the United States Commissioner
Mather. The evidence of his guilt was decisive.
Rev. Charles Smith, of the Shawmut Avenue
orthodox Church, in Boston, who has recently
come into possession of fortune by the death of
relative, has requested his society to reduce his
! salary from 50, to 81, 900.
During the last week, a most remarkable sickness
has prevailed in the vicinity of Van Vranken's
corners, N. Y. 1t attacks aged persons, commenc-
ravages upon the lungs
The body of one of the victims of the steamer Col
one Crossman, mentioned as having been found and
buried near Osceola, Arkansas has been identified
as that of E. G. Kennedy, of Pittsburg. He leaves
wife and two children.
Double the quantity of ice, it is estimated, has
been cut the past season in the vicinity of Boston as
cOmnarpd NJ =
! Medtord, has housed about 1000 tons off Spot
Pond, and other parties have cut 100 900 tons more
| The New York Central Railroad, in a report made
| to the State Senate puts down the aggregate cost
of the iron imported by them since the consolida-
| tlon at 100 per ton, at 81 ,3T5, 900.
THE Lodi Print Works. Bergen County, N. J..
which nearly suspended operations during the past
winter, have for some weeks been running on full
time, with their usual complement of hands-about
$50
| Conrad Pleister, brewer at st. Louis made
wager that he could uplift half barrel of beer by
his teeth. Whilst endeavoring to do 60 he had his
upper jaw broken in fearful manner that it is
| expected he will die of his injuries
The amount of lumber coming down the Allie
! ghany, just now, is immense. For two DAYS past
the river has been covered with RATS following each
other in close succession, as far as the eve could
reach.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for passenger fare at the Holidaysburg ticket
Office for the year 1851 was Sl4 1924 80; at Altoona
S27 ,242.04; at Tyroda Sl4, 5S3.9l; at Huntingdon
! Sl6,l9L75.
About a week since the village of West Union in
Doddridge county, Va, on the Northwestern Vir-
ginia railroad almost totally DESTROYED by fire.
| Some fifteen or sixteen houses were consumed.
The most of the ship builders Of Philadelphia have
been compelled to turn their attention to other
branches of trade, in consequence of the depressed
condition of the freighting interests.
1t is stated that the body of Stoubs. who muir
| dered his wife and two children in Westfeld Mass
| last December, has been found in a mill pond near
| that place.
F. W. Curtenius, Adjutant and Quartermaster
General OF Michigan, tenders to the President in
pehalt OF that State, regiment of volunteers for
service in Utah.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ADMINISTRATIVE Legislature
of Louisiana has passed law abolishng capital
punishment and the substitution of hard labor for
life in the place thereof.
George II. Miller, of West Lampeter township
Lancaster county, Pa, day last week lost a
pocketbook containing 50 100 in notes of Lancaster
and Philadelphia banks.
The harbor of Oswego is now entirely clear of ice
and shlpmasters are busy with the hammer and
cauking iron, preparing to commence the business
of the season.
The accounts of the business on the Buffalo and
Lake Huron Railway are of the most hattering de-
scription. The road has at present lust as much
business as it can do.
The Lake Navigation Company still offer for sale
at public auction, at Buffalo, their entire feet of
vessels comprising sixty-one sailing vessels of all
classes and five steam tugs.
Twenty-Five indictments have been found bv the
grand jury of OnOndaga county, New York, for il
legal voting ut the recent charter election at Sy-
racuse.
THE LAST LGNK.-The Vicksburg Southron of the
23d inst is informed that the last bar of iron on the
railroad between Jackson and New Orleans was laid
the 22d inst
The Chattanooga Advertiser states, upon the an
thority of reports from different parts of Eastern
Tennessee that the whole crop looks unusually fine
thus far.
Mr.. Davis, well known peach grower of Cler-
mont county, Ohio, reports that not more than one
peach bud IN teenty thousand has escaped the frost
Another bridge has been completed across the
Walab and Winnebago.
A shipment of 1000 barrels of pork has been
made from Cincinnati to Montreal, all the way by
rail, at 81 per Dbl
In Winchester, Mass, Friday afternoon, the cot
ton batting mandatory of Mills & Co., was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insured 81, OOO
Eight prisoners escaped from the jail at Indiana
polls, Indiana, by means of false KEYS and scaling
! the walls.
The St Louis Herald says that the kidnapping of
children from three to seven years of age has be-
come very common in that city.
A careful estimate of the persons of Indian blood
indicates that they now number 5000, 900 in all
North America.
PORTSMOUTH CITY.-The people of Portsmouth
decided on Thursday, by majority of 400, to be
henceforth city.
A bill has passed both houses of the Virginia Leg
isature to fix the boundary lines between that State
and Maryland
General Harvey is to be assigned to the command
OF the Utah army, which is to be withdrawn from
Kansas.
DR.. j. W. Hammond, ofPennsylvania, is charged
with being deaulter to the State in the sum OF
S25,727.
The Turkish Admiral has deferred his visit to
the Norfolk Navy Yard, until his return from the
west.
VIM. Carey Jones, Esq, late special agent of the
United States to Central America has returned to
Washington
The Lebanon Conference, composed of ministers
and members of the Lutheran Church. met at Har-
| risburg, Pa. on Monday last
Several fine cattle belonging to Mr. John S.
Burns, otDauphin county, Pennsy vania were seized
with hydrophobia, on Sunday.
The City Council of St Louis have adopted plan
| Tor City Hall, which will cost S630,000.
A fine old original portrait of Oliver Cromwell
has just been sent to Caleb Cushing from England.
Barnburning, by slaves, in Kentucky, is said to
have become frequent.
The grand total ofthe population of all the States
in India is $50, 1884, 297
From eleven to twelve millions oysters arrive at
| Philadelphia each week.
The steamer Curtis Peck has been sold to the
James River Steamboat Company for 900.
| gold field has been discovered at King
| Georges Sound South America.
Jenny Lind has departed on singing visit to Rus
| STA.
From Punch.
THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT.