The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-14
OM E STIC.

DOMESTIC.
There are seventy-six banks in Connecticut with
aggregate capital of S266lS 723 To insure their
better regulation, the Governor in his message sent
in last week, recommends
First That the banks be prohibited from paying
interest on deposits Second. That they be prohib-
tied from making loans on call. Third That their
circulation be limited to an amount not exceeding
seventy-ive per cent. their capital stock
Fourth That they be required to make monthly re-
turns of their condition to the bank commissioners
Filth. That they be required to keep hand
amount of specie equal to ten per cent the total
amount of their Indebtedness, and if during any
month their average amount shall not be equal to
this requirement, all discounts shall cease until they
shall be restored to such condition.
We learn by the Leavenworth Times that accord
ing to contract j. M. Hockaday & Co. are about to
lnaugurae an enterprise of great interest to Kansas
and the West-the establishment of an overland
mail route between st. Joseph, Missouri and Placer
ville California, by way of Salt Lake City. The
service is to be weekly, in four horse coaches-tme
twenty-five days to Salt Lake, at present, and four
teen days thence to Pacerville, whence there is a
daily mail to San Francisco. 1t is stipulated, how
ever, that the contractors shall have got
their rolling stock fairly distributed, and the line
is in good working order the time shall be reduced
ts eighteen days on the eastern section, and twelve
on the western, thus giving through schedule of
only 80 days.
New Orleans CLa.) papers of the 18th instant,
state that the river at that place was five inches
higher on the night of the 4th than ever before
known, and that but for the Bell and Labranch
vases, which carry off an enormous body of water,
it might be tri1ing matter to prevent the river
from going on a bender in New Orleans. A large
amount of damage has already been done by that
nundation, in the destruction of grain, cotton,
frult and buildings; while on the other hand q vast
| quantity OF worn out land will be renovated and
fertilized by the amount of alluvium deposited by
the subsidence of the waters.
| Last fall a convict, named Waterman, was par
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Gus conduct in aiding the officers to quell riot in
the State Prison, and upon condition that he should
abstain from Intoxicating drinks. This last condi-
tion he has broken, over and over again. Accord
ngly, last week the Agent of the Prison caused his
arrest and re-mprsonment on the ground that he
had not complied with the terms of his pardon.
The convict has employed counsel and the question
of the legality of this second arrest is to be tested
On Monday, the Sd instant, young man named
Samuel Lay, of Nockamixon township, Bucks coun-
ty, Pa, committed suicide by hanging himself in
the barn belonging to his father. His body was
discovered by his mother about noon, and he had
apparently been hanging but 4 short time. The de
ceased was about seventeen years of age, and no
has yet been assigned for the commission of
dreadful deed.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the Sth says: Very
heavy purchases of coffee have been made in the
Eastern markets lately on Cincinnati account. In
Guiding the receipts of the last few days. it is esti-
mated the total amount arrived and to arrive with
in period of ten days, will not fall short of 20 900
DagS. An entire cargo was taken In New Ork,
Tuesday, on Cincinnati account
General Smith, in command of the Utah forces
has given orders that no officers families or camp
women will be permitted to accompany the troops
or follow them; quarters and ratiOns will be fur
nished to the camp women at the posts where they
now are. Each organized hospital will be allowed
one matron, but no additional tran, ,portation be-
sides that already specified.
The election on the adoption or rejection of the
Leavenworth, X. T., constitution comes off on the
18th inst The free state party divided and
the pro-slavery men will vote against the instru-
meDt Fl. G. p. writes to the Missouri Republican
that "The prospect is that the thing will be over
whelmingly defeated, as it ought to be. There is
almost as much excitement on this topic as there
used to be on Lecompton.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has had
under consideration the subject of collision at sea,
and the liabilities consequent proper to be enforced
committee has made report thereon,
mendlng an application to Congress- and the form
of law to limit pecuniary liabilities and to punish
willful and wanton perpetrators in cases of mari
time collisions.
A bill for the relief of VIM. X. Jennings and 9th
ers, providing for the compensation of VIM. X.
jennings Henry A. Wise, and other parties, for
slaves carried away from the Chesapeake bay by
the British feet in 1913, taken up and discuss
ed in the House Of Representatives, on Monday, and
referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Gar
nett defended the bill from the objections of Mr..
Bliss, of Ohio.
TEE CASE OF GEN. TwIGGs.-We learn that the
court-martial upon General Twggs, recently held
at Newport Barracks, found him guilty upon the
several charges and specifications against him, with
one exception. They recommended him, however,
to the clemency of the Executive Washington
Union.
1t is stated that Maine is about the only Eastern
State whose uncultivated regions are filling up
rapidly with actual settlers. The spring movement
northwards is quite large, her timber forests prov
ing more attractive than the Western prairies.
The Erie and Ontario road which has been lying
idle for the past six months, is likely to open in
few DAYS, having been leased by Mr.. Robertson, of
Rochester, brother-in-law of Mr.. Benedict, of the
town of Niagara.
The remains of the late Senator Evans left Wash
ington on Monday afternoon for the residence of his
family, Society Hill, South Carolina, accompanied
by his two sons, and in charge of Mr.. C. s. Jones,
acting an assistant sergeant-atarms of the Sen
ate of the United States.
Charles Kendle and VIM. B. Gregory. two we'll
known sporting men, got into q fight in Cincinnati
on Sunday, when the latter was beaten so badly
that he shortly after died. Kendle was arrested and
committed to prison.
The trial of Connolly at Cincinnati for harborino
fugitive slaves was interrupted on Saturday by the
suouen disappearance of Juror who had left to see
a sleS danghter In Iowa. The trial has been post
poneo TILL the Marshal can return him to Court
The members of the Scott Legion, at Pittsburg,
presented Judge Black with an elegant silver pitch
er on w ednesday evening, a mark of their high
esteem for him as an officer and gentleman.
George Harger, aged sixty years, was last week
convicted of forgery in Washington. Penn. and
sentenced to the Western Pententiary for three
years.
Hon. Mr. Alexander De Witt has transmitted to
the Governor of Massachusetts, his declnation of the
office of Bank Commissioner to which he had been
appointed.
The tender of the steamship Vanderbilt for the
conveyance of the mails for Europe on Saturday.
the 22d ut., we understand, has been accented hv
the post-oflice authorities.
Lewis, slave has been sentenced to be hung at
Richmond va, for setting fire to the house of Lou
lisa Barker, free colored.