The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-13
ROBERT Bonner,
DrnraI.intnr. Of tLn Nnr.. A-nrl- L..

LATER FROM THE FRASER RIVER MINEs-The Ga
zctte publishes letter from Port Douglas, new
town site Harrison river. The writer under
date of the 25th, says:
There have been numerous arrivals at this place
during the last three days of parties from the Up-
per Fraser, some leaving the country for good and
others going below after provisions to carry back
to that region. Some of these parties represent
that they have been up Fraser river a distance of
from 25 to so miles above where the new route
strikes it, and also up Bridge river from 20 to 40
miles, that they prospected the bars thoroughly
wherever they went with the following results.
they found the color almost everywhere, on the
high banks and even the tops of the mountains as
well as on the river bars; they could make from
three to five dollars per day any of the bars thew
met with Occasionally pockets would be struck
from which ten fifteen dollars would be taken in
as many pans of dirt, but the average a man might
calculate making at the present stage of the
water will not exceed four or five dollars The
river in that vicinity, however, still too high for
successful operation and those who spent the last
winter omit say it will yet fall from 20 to 80 feet,
when the one or two ounces day can be made on
the best bars without fail. The gold taken out is
somewhat coarser than that below the Canops
The dust from Bridge river is much coarser, being
in thin flakes, something like the scales of fish
compared with the bulk it shows it is very Eobt
There is no doubt, much fine dust lost as no quick
SILVER has yet been used in that section Since
f Mp,uhg ig '1e & &roregong party of twelve arrived
from the upper fraser, bringing still more unfa-
vorable accounts of the diggings in that quarter
and there are signs of deSponding visible in the
camp to-day, and certificates for provisions short
time since at premium, are rather dropping.
The New York police made descent on Monday
afternoon upon party of counterfeiters three
men and one woman, who carried on their operatons
IN DroWn-stone mansion in Myrtle near Division
avenue. Alter securing their prisoners the officers
commenced thorough search of the premises and
lonnd the most complete set of dies stamps, chemi-
cas- ana presses for making bogus United States
quarter-eagles, gold dollars &c ever found in a
couhterleltng establishment, together with large
amount OF counterfeit bank bills consisting of $500
IN IN os on the Delhi Bank, of Delhi, n Y; S4OO in
s57n on tne New England Bank, of Boston, Mass.i
Sz'O IN iOs. on the Bank of Charotteyile, S. c.
besldes these rolled sheets of Oriode metal ready
S3n aHe ihto com, were found. There was about
2lo'Voo N bogus coin in various stages of compile
ton found and secured.
The prisoners, with the execution of the woman
nave very respectable appearance. They gave
their names as Mr.. and Mrs Edwards, Edward
Iooh, S., ana Samuel James. They were entirely un-
hnown % 10 the Police until their arrest. Thousands
OF uoiars OF bogus coin have been sent by them to
all parts of the Union
a NARROW ESCAPE FROM A FoRTUNE.--A gentle
man oi TINS city, formerly connected with the turf
recently made visit to England, and while there
ssttenaea number OF the races, betting pretty
Freely IN small way, and generally coming out
winner. Finally, Just before leaving, he went
10 the Cesarawitz Races, with balance in his
favor up to that date of Sl4 900 on his opera
tions, and finding the odds ten to one against Ten
Brock irioress, ne concluded to risk his pile on
her. She came out about six inches behind Had
she won, he would have pocketed $4,000. TO
come within six inches of making that amount of
money, we should call running pretty narrow
chanee.-Ciacinndti Gaz
Mr r. .Meagher is isdelivering lectures in New York
on Costa Rica, from which he has recently returned.
lie gives favorable account of the climate and soil
OF that region, which is elevated, and which the
natives lind salubrious account of the purity of
the air and its exemption from fierce extremes of
temperature. OF the social and political condition
OF the inhabitants he gave fattering view. We
| infer from the remarks ON this point, with which
his sketches of the geographical confguration and
the resources of the state were interspersed that
all the country and people of Costa Rica need is to
be let alone in the work which they have so pros
perously begun, of improving and periecting their
institutions and bringing out the capabilities of the
region in which they are placed
Mr.. vandenhofI the veteran trs,gedian, took his
farewell of the stage goces career On o 'Ge Est5 Or
wears, On the 10th of the present month his son,