The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-07

In the House of Representatives on Monday n
message was received from the President transmit
ting certain exceedingly volumnous documents in
relation to Indian affairs on the Pacific coast which
1T was stated had cost the labor of six clerks for
nine months to copy. discussion arose as to the
propriety of printing these documents but motion
to print was finally voted down, and they were or
dered TO lie on the table.
A sailor died recently, in Texas and on his death
bed confessed that he was one of the crew who mur
dered Mrs. Aston, of South Carolina, forty wears
ago. Mrs. Aston was the daughter of Aaron Burr.
She sailed from Charleston for New York in a brio
and on the trip the crew'muined, and murdered all
the officers and passengers, Mrs. Aston being the
last one to walk the plank. The sailor remembered
her look of despair, and died in the greatest agony
of mind.
The Santa Annaists in Mexico keep quiet Their
cause is unpopular with all parties. Ell Proqreso
says that when Santa Anna left Turbaca to place
himself at the head Of the Spanish iibusters to in
wade Mexico, his friends of that town sent him a
fiattering address, to which he replied that his
country, torn by anarchy, needed his services and
he should go willingly to aid them, because he
could not be indifferent to her fate.
The third annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Kansas and Nebraska was held
at Topeka from the 18th to the 10Th of April Bishon
James presiding. The churches returned SOB mem
bers in Kansas, and 7s7 in Nebraska-an increase of
more than half in 1857. There are 50 local preach
ers in the two territories. FOrty-one itincrant
in
Nebraska for the year ensuing.
| One of the mills of the Pioneer Paper N[anufactu.
| ring Company at Athens, Ga, was DESTROYED by
fire on +. iday evening" 23d ult. The amount of pa
per- rags, and other stock consumed was about sill
600; the mill, machinery, &C., between $l5 900 and
$4,000 Insurance 81 OO0 the loss is about 500
| 900.
James Oakley, near Stone Ridge, Ulster county,
new ork, recently IN digging to enlarge his eel
| lar, came upon a deposit Of gold and silver coin
| that must have been buried there for over sixty
years. The coins consisted of four gold pieces
one Josephus, Portuguese coin the date of 1854
On Saturday night, at Q O'clock with tired and
| swollen limbs, and nearly incapable of speech Jas
Lambert concluded the task of walking for one bpn
dred and five consecutive hours, without rest or
sleep, in Worcester, Mass. lie is but % wears of
| age.
A gentleman from Boston, who takes a business
view of most things, when recently asked respect
ing person oil quite poetic temperature replied,
Oi, he Is one OF those men who have soarinps after
the Infinite, and divings after the unfath0mabIc.
but who never pays cash."
The Treasurer of the United States acknowledges
the receipt from some person unknown under an
envelope postmarked New York, April 30, last, of
SiiO IN Virginia bank notes, ''the property of
government" The proceeds deductinG q Nor
cent, discount)-viz Sl6S.75-have been deposited
in the Treasury.
The bill fer the admission of Minnesota into the
onon Is now under discussion in the House of Rep
resentatves.
The members of the Medical Association now in
session at Washington, have been most Hospitality
entertained by several of the physicians of George
town.
! The Arkansas Traveller announces the Hon. +. A.
Warren as a candidate for reelection to Congress
subject to the decision of Democratic District
Convention.
The fare on the Erie Railroad, between Jersey
CitV and Patterson the Guardian saws is In no re
duced at an early day.
The subject of the repeal of the bounties granted
to the Cod fishery, is under discussion in the Sen
| ate.