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

THE CANAL.-The repairs to the Georgetown level
were completed yesterday the water let in, and
this morning a large number of boats, yariously
loaded, were arriving. We are pleased to learn
that capitalists have revived confidence in the new
board Of control The company has effected loan
in New York ofSl00000, to build new stone dam,
in the place of the present dam No. A. The work
has already commenced Washington States
violent storm took place along the Chesapeake
coast of Eastern Virginia Monday afternoon,
whereby much damage was done to houses, fences,
and crops. AT Old Point Comfort shutters were
blown off the buildings, and in one case the greater
part of the roof of one of the largest hotels was
stripped, involving loss of nearly thousand
dollars. Several trees were torn up by the roots
At Piney Point it also blew very violently, but no
damage was done.
There are three candidates for Congress in Flori-
da, viz iz:-Hawkins, the present incumbent and re-
gular Democratic nominee for reelection; John
Westcott, independent candidate on his own hook,
and Major Chase of Pensacola, the nominee of the
dlsatfected Democrats, who repudiate the action OF
the Monticello Convention. All these gentlemen
are Democrats. The opposition, which it is said,
still calls itself Whig seems to be resting on its
oars.
Messrs. Douglas and Lincoln have agreed to
joint discussion at prominent point in each Con
gressonal district of Illinois, alternately to open
and close
The death of Mrs. Loudon, the authoress, is an
nounced. She was the widow of John Claudus
Loudon, author of the agricultural Encyclopaedia.
The lady herself wrote The Mummy, a novel, pub
ished in 1927; The Lady's FIotcer Garden, The La
dy's Country Companion, Gardening for Ladies, and
The Lady's Companion to the Fiorer Garden. Mrs.
Loudon enjoyed pension of fl00 per annum from
the civil list
Mr.. VIM. Carey Jones, Colonel Benton's son-in-
law, publishes in the St. Louis Republican fierce
attack upon Mr.. F. P. Blair and his som denying
the assertions of those gentlemen that Colonel Ben
ton denounced the Administration OF MI Buchan-
an, and indulging in personal abuse OF the Blairs
for their circulation of such 4 report
The following missionaries have sailed from BOs-
ton, per bark Henry Hill, for Malta and Symrna:
The Rev. DR.. Z. Riggs, Mrs. E. Riggs, Misses Eliza
beth Riggs. Margaret Riggs, Emma Riggs, Messrs.
Edward Riggs James Riggs, Charles Riggs, the
Rev. Daniel Ladd Mrs. Daniel Ladd, Miss c. X
Ladd. Mr. II. NJ. Ladd, Miss Mary Loveland and
the Rev. I. l.. Ambrose.
William Penn Chandler, Esq. formerly one of
the editors of the Delaware Gazette, has resigned
the Consulate at Tunis, on account of the bad CON
dition of his health. DR.. John Merritt of Middle
town, Delaware, has been, we understand, appoint
ed to fill the vacancy.
DIR. Z. Y. Dickey, president of the new Octora-
ra band, died at his residence in Pennsylvania, on
Saturday last, of disease of the heart. He had
been President of the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Central Railroad, and also was a member OF the
pennsylvania Legislature.
There is to be Pigeon-shooting Tournament at
Lafayette, Indiana on the 22d, 23d, 24th and 10Th
days of September As it is anticipated tnat sports,
men and the crack shots of the United States and
Canada will attend several thousahus Vi "nu
pigeons have been provided for the occasion.
Tho citizens of Craytonville, in Anderson dis
trct the birth place of Hon. James l.. Orr, Speaker
of the House of fRepresentatives have rendered him
a nnblic dinner, which will take place on the 18th
August
Thomas Cannon, the once celebrated pugilist and
ex-champion of England, (under the name of the
stWindsor Cannon a few days since put period
TO his existence by shooting himself through the
head under circumstances of great destitution and
misery.
The Glass Works of Z. Warmser & Co., at CIa-
rion Pa, were destroyed by fire on the night of
July 10Th. The buildings belonged to John Agnew,
who loses about $4,000. Warmser Co. lose lum-
ber and materials amounting to about $4,000
The Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylva-
MIA State Agricultural Society is to be held IN Pitts
burgh on the 2sth, 29th and 3Oth OF September,
and the lst of October, 1858.
The Hon. A. G. jenkins, the youngest member OF
the Vir yinia delegation in Congress- was recently
married in st. Louis, to Miss Jennie s., the only
child of the Hon. Judge Bowling, of St. Louis