The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-03

Buenos Ayres dates to Dec. 9th. The papers do
not contain any notice of the river deiences re
ported in England, being made by President
Lopez against the United States war ships
Business is slowly reviving but prices are still low.
Shipments of hides continue as before Last
month the river Plata sent away 100000 hides, and
this month l50, 900 will leave. The mountain mines
also sending away large quantities of copper to
England, from the port of Rosario.
But little has transpired indicating the ultimate
result OF the controversy between the Bishop ofthis
docess and the FreemasOns. | wrote that the
Bishop denied the of the church for funeral SER
vices, and the Masons have appealed to the Legisa-
ture, now in session. Action upon the petition has
not yet occurred. In the meantime, the Bishop has
Issued orders to the clergy in the country oppose
by ali legal means, the extension of the foul heresy
OF Masonry and gives example, | am Informed, by
promptly accommodating all Masons, releasing
their wives from matrimonial obligations, servants
from duty, &c. The MaSons take it quite cooy
and are waiting the decision of government.
Dairy farming has been commenced IL the Ar
gentne Republic by Senior Lopez.
On the 2lst ut., says the Buenos Ayrean Com
mserciol Times, convention was concluded and
signed by the piepipotentaries of Great Britain
France and Sardinia and the President of the Ar
gentne Confederation, by which the latter agrees
10 liqudate claims for damages suffered bv subjects
of the first three Powers during the civil wars to
the amount of three millions of hard dollars, paya-
bic in instalmeHts extending over the next thirty
four years, with an interest of six per cent.
In the province of San Luis, portion of the Ar
about midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific
gold mines have been found rivang the best gold
lands hitherto known. The province is thinly in
habited, and very distant from any natural art
fetal highways of commerce.
The Buenos Ayres Packet, Sept. 25th, saws:
The discovery of the immense treasures contained
in the Canada Honda has put the whole province in
commotion, for every one is getting ready to gorge
himself with the seductive metal.
After Moral. who brought the first news on Sun
day, several Others have arrived, who confirm it,
and all are unanimous in assuring us that since
Thursday last nobody has extracted less than
twelve ounces per day. whilst some, in twelve
hours of labor, have succeeded in collecting thirty
ounces.
On Sunday we received the correspondence OF Sr.
Rodriguez which we now insert; but never be-
lieved that there could be such abundance of gold
till we saw with our own eyes the remittances that
have been made, and the least we can say is that
California and Australia reproduced in San
Luis
The gold is of superior quality, for from ASSAYS
that were made yesterday twenty -onc carats were
obtained.
All the remittances made to this capital are in
large "pepas" (nuggets), for such is the JOY and
uproar that no one thinks of even primary wash
ing.
We have seen nuggets of two and a half ounces
of solid gold.
The process of mining and separating are ex-
ceedingly imperfect; but even these, the editor
continues, must present almost fabulous results.
heavy land suit is being tried in the Circuit
Court of Kanawha county, Va, in which Messrs
Emile and Charles Dumas, L. Lacouture and D'Huc
de Monslgnon, are all suing each other for piece
of land, of which the kanawha Star gives the fol-
lowing history:
1t appears that in the year 1881, Col Jas. Swan,
of Boston, died in Paris France, seized ofvery large
tracts of lands, lying in the counties Of Randolph
Harrison, Wood, kanawha, Greenbrier, Bath, Ty-
Ter, Logan, Boone and other counties west of the
Allegheny Mountains in Virginia. That these
cd mn or1S pf t,yp
millions of acres of land. That after the death of
Col Swan, these lands became forfeited to the Com
monwealth, for non-payment of taxes, amounting
to some $4,000. In the year 1888, it was made
known to the General Assembly of Virginia, that
Col. Swan had rendered service to the United
States in Revolutionary struggles with Great
Britain, and had become indebted in large sums of
money, to officers in the French army his old com
panions in arms, and had in his last will, directed
that his large landed estate in Virginia should be
sold to pay his creditors the money thus borrowed
These facts being made known, the Legislature of
Virginia, very generously on the 18th March. 1888,
passed an Act conveying all of the lands forfeited
to the State, as before mentioned, to John Pc
ter Dumas, in trust for the benefit of the creditors
of James Swan, which creditors were mostly
Frenchmen, residing in France
The litigants all claim to have bought the claims
of the French creditors to greater or less extent
and are suing each other and Josiah Randall-that
gentleman having claim of $4,000 against the
land as trustee appointed by the kanawha Court
AMOUNT OF GOLD PRopUCED AT FRASER RIVER
The San Francisco Alta Californian prints state
ment showing the amounts of gold dust imported
through Wells, Fargo l. Co.'s Express from Veto
ria, Portland, Whatcom and Sehome, since the lst
May last. The whole amount of dust imported
from Victoria and Bellingham Bay in the last six
months, is Sl73, $685. of which probably SIS 900
was California dust, leaving sos, 900 as the import
of Fraser river dust. Not less than IL, 900 miners
went from California to Victoria they carried
perhaps 81 in California dust each with them on an
mr. Of wnr llaa m dolI
they had before returning; and, according to this
rule, at least $4,000 of the imported dust must
have been dug in California. Let US suppose,
however, that the whole amount of the dust from
Victoria and Bellingham Bay was dug Fraser
river, and that as much more heretofore dug is
still in the hands of the miners, and that as much
has been sent to England by sailing yessels-alI
unreasonably liberal allowances-andw we have the
total produce of Fraser river at $500 000 whereas
California produces Sl50,000 every day in dust
and 100000 every week. All Fraser river is an
insignificant affair compared with the Allison
quartz mine at Grass Valley, which sends $4,000
to the mint every month";
MARYLAND Coal TRADE.-For the week ending
November 81 4,7S5. 90 tons of coal were
shipped over the Cumberland and PENNSYLVANIA |
Railroad, 1867 06 tons the road of the Georges
Creek Coal and Iron Company, 3369.06 over the |
road of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company,
and .233.1l tons over the Hampshire Coal and
Iron Company road, making an aggregate for the
week from the whole coal region Of 49, 355I2 tons.
Total shipments for the year from the entire re-
gion Ga ,426.l2 tons.
During the week ending December l. &C boats
cleared this port carrying ,294.00 tons of coal
During the season 1920 canal boats cleared this
port carrying 26l 405.07 tons of COAL Cumberland
Mr.. Rarey, the horsetamer, has returned to Lon
don, after a very successful tour in Sweden and
Lapland. He instructed class of geo at Stock !
holm. The Crown Prince delivered I'D to him
a peculiarly vicious half-breed Arab mare, which |
no groom in Sweden dared approach Mr.. |
Rarey tanned her in about one hour and twenty |
minutes The Prince presented him a gold
medal.
The Howard Association of New Orleans pub- |
fishes the results its operations during the nreva
lence ofthe epidemic this year. On the I4th of |
August last it assumed the responsibility of decIar- |
ing the yellow fever epidemic, and on the LIST No |
vember announced the cessation of the endemic
The number of of fever treated under its super
vision was 3,4l4. Of these 2,643 were discharged,
cured; and III died. The largest proportion were
Irish, making 1885, next came the Germans, l,O69;
Dext, natives of the United States, 400. The fund
Of the Association, at the start, was $40, 264, but
the long continuance of the fever exhausted this |
amount, and contributions were requested and |
we're freely furnished.
The Advertiser says that vessels are wanted for
rsight at Apslachicoa. !