The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-09
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ARMY AND NAVY.
Orders have been issued from the War Depart
ment, selecting the 9Th regiment of infantry, now
in service in the department of Utah. for service in
Oregon and W Washington Territories. The regiment
will be provisioned with three months supplies.
The equipments will be completed at Fort Brdger.
The commanding officer of the regiment is directed
to see that no wagon isloaded heavier than 1000
pounds; rapid movements being essential in the In
dian country.
As soon as the necessary supplies and transporta-
! ton are furnished the regiment will march from
Camp Floyd. situated 80 miles from Salt Lake city,
via Soda Springs, Humboldt river, &C., to Benicia.
! California The commanding officer is required to
report to Gen. Clarke. of the department of the
Pacific the probable time of his arrival Bencia,
that water transportation to Oregon may be in
| readiness.
The new steam sloop-ofwar at the Portsmouth
navy yard is already beginning to make some show
| in the large ship house. The keel is laid, and
twenty-eight Of her sixty-iive square frames are
up. Constructor Hanscom thinks that he will be
able to launch her by the LIST of December next or
by the time Congress meets. Her keel is some
thing that 200 feet in length; her deck is 225
! feet. The Portsmouth is undergoing a thorough
repair. 1t will take some two months and half
| before she will 60 in the water. large gang of
men put her. The jamestown is at the
| yard, has been overhaued, and is being put in
complete order. She will be ready for in fort
night. The number of men on the roll is S04.
Lieut. Jonn ID. EggleStOn mas Oeen ordered and
reported for duty on board the Z. S. Receiving
Ship Pennsylvania, in place of Lieut.. Covie Ter
ret detached and ordered to the Cyane
Letter bags are now up at the rooms of the Ma
| val Library and Institute, Boston Navy Yard, for
the L. s. squadron in the East Indies and Pacific
and the coast of Africa, all of which will be dis
patched in the course of the next ten days. let
ter bag will also be made up for the home squadron
to go by the L. ;. ship jamestown, reitting at
Portsmouth, n. H.
The Portland (Me) Advertiser says:-Mr H.
Clay Smith has left table specimen Of pure
black lead, taken from Mount Puzzle, situated in
the town of Newry Oxford county. Mr.. Clay has
some eight men employed in working the vein
which is apparently inexhaustible. About year
ago while prospecting" in that region in search
of gold-specimens of which he found on Bear river
he discovered this lead. He informs that it is
scattered all over the mountain the surface, and
that he picked up one lump of pure weighing
fifty pounds We believe that there are but two
other lead mines in the country, one in New York
and one in Massachusetts, neither of which, we are
told, affords the article in such purity the Newry
mine.
A meeting was held at Ontonagon on the 25th
ult., composed of delegates from the Upper PENN
sula Of Michigan, and from those por tions of Wis
conSn and Minnesota bordering on Lake Superior,
for the purpose of considering the propriety of the
formation of Territory out of the Lake Superior
region of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
preparatory to the formation of Il new State. A
committee appointed to draft an address to
the Legislatures of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Min
nesota, urging upon them the propricty and neces
sty of grant to the general government of their
territory bordering on Lake Superior for the pur-
! pose of enabling the inhabitants to form a new
Territory.
The LIST of September is the beginning of the
| commercial year in New Orleans. In other large
cities the commercial years begins with the alma
nae, that is on the lst Of January. The lapse in
the receipts of cotton has fixed the LIST of September
| as the commercial New Years day in New Orleans
Fifteen or eighteen years ago, the lst of October
was the day; but the ambition of the planters in
| the matter of sending the first bales to market
| crowded the LIST OF October so much that the be-
ginning OF the year put back to the LIST of Sep
TENDER. Cincinnati. we believe is the only other
city whose commercial year begins on that date,
and that is owing to her intimate and extensive re-
! lations with New Orleans.-N. o. Crescent.
Messrs John liurford and Aaron Hurford, broth
ers, of West Fall0wicld township, Chester county,
! Pa, and colored man. who lives with them, har-
vested field of six of oats, of strong growth
this season. The Messrs. Hurfurd are, the one 81
years of age. and the other 50 years and did all the
work themselves, the only aid they received being
from the c0iored man, whose age was about 81 or
50. The oats being ''down' good deal, they were
obliged to use the scythe where it was too much
tangled to cradle. They gathered the oats bound
it into sheaves and hauled it into the barn.
At the Burnet House, Cincinnati, on Saturday,
a thief was caught standing with one foot upon the
projecting portion of the stone SILL and the other
| upon gas pipe running along the building, which
was not over an inch and a half in diameter, and
maintaining his position by pressing his fingers
against the smooth stones of the side of the win
| dow! The window on the third floor, opening
to the yard, and at least forty feet from the
ground; so that his position was indeed perilous
one.
On Friday last the municipality of Jersey City
gave dinner to Capt. Hudson, of the Niagara.
In the course of the Captains speech he said "At
! the last yearly meeting of the sarans of London
the gold medal was given for the best paper that
had been read. And what do YOU think were the
contents of that paper? 1t was the utter impos-
sibility and imp acticability of ever laying that
| telegraphic wire
The following table shows the proportion of
deaths and wounding in the principal railroad
countries Of the world:
Passengers carried.
Prussia, one killed wounded to every 1924 ,075
Belgium, one killed or wounded to every l,6ll ,237
! France, one killed or wounded to every 375, O95
England, one killed or wounded to every 3ll 345
u States, one killed or wounded to every lSS, 459
Israel Washburne, Jr., has been renominated for
Congress in the Fifth district of Maine; Elihu B.
Washburne is up again in the First district of IL
llnols; and {. {. Washburne is in nomination for
another term in the Second district of Wisconsin
They are all Republicans, and brothers.
A violent hail storm took place on the lower Ohio
river last Thursday night. At ROckport large
house occupied by Mr.. Henry Gardner was blown
to pieces and Mrs. Gardner killed. two children
were so badly bruised, that it was thought they
could not recover. The hail-stones were about the
size OF half hickory nut.
The Maysville N. Y, Sentinel saws that on Friday
| last man named Daniels, resident of James
town, was arrested on charge of incest with two
| OF his daughters. aged Is and Is. He waived ey-
animation, and Daniels was committed to iail He
| Is a man of some 60 years of age
| A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press wri
ting from Omaha, n T., says:-Emiprants are
coming into the Territory quite rapidly On
the 9th of next month the land Office here opens for
public entry, and will continue open thus for two
weeks; then follow the private entries
The Hopkinsvillc Press saws the tobacco crop in
that section of Kentucky is better than it has been
Tor years 1t has the appearance of being extraor-
dinarily good. The recent hail storm that sweep
over Christian county, however, did much damage
to the crop. The loss is estimated at one-fourth.
The Lafayette lind Courier says that large
quantities OF Chinese sugar will be raised on
the abash Valley the present season. In the vi
cnity of Lafayette, many farmers expect to pro-
duce all the sugar and mOlasses necessary for their
home consumption, and will make it a staple pro-
duct hereafter.
On Saturday last, says the Brdgeton IN J.)
Chronicle of the 4th inst a tornado or Whirlwind
passed over Cape May county, in a line with the
seaside road, doing considerable damage in the way
OF tearing down barns, uprooting trees, scattering
fences, and twisting in divers ways the growing
corn.
Prof Bond of the Cambridge Observatory, in
letter to the Boston 1duerser SAYS, that two faint
comets were discovered at the Observatory on the
night of the 9Th. One degree South of the star
Capella, the other twenty degrees East oft. The
hrst conjectured to be the return of Fayes peri
odcal comet if So its computed place differs very
considerably from its actual position.
lcEBERGs.-Capt Colburn. of shin Sea Lion. at
Doston from Antwerp states that on the 22d of Au-
gust IN lat. 43 A. lon. 40 20 saw an icebero anout
ten miles from the ship and on approachinr If SIM
posed 1t to be from $50 to 200 feet above the level of
the sea- 1t was from 400 to 500 feet in lenrtb ond
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