The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-24
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The Kansas HeraId Of Freedom gives a discour-
aging view of the times in Kansas. 1t says:-''We
pity the man who is compelled to raise money now
in Kansas. We were told by money lender the
other day, that he was receiving from 10 to 30 per
cent. per month for the of money, and had been
paid at the rate Of 90 25 and 30 per per month
to discount notes. The lowest rates good secu-
rity for the use of money to range between
three and five per cent. per month. Business in
all our Kansas towns is nearly suspended. Men
worth twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars can
not sell property at any price to realize few
hundred dollars.
AT a stated meeting of the Massachusetts His
torica Society at their rooms, Thursday, the
President, the Hon. Robert G.. Winthrop, presented
assignment to the Society by the venerable Jo-
siah Quincy, of his interest in the copyright and
the stereotype plates of his just finished " Life of
John Quincy Adams" can expression of his
of the honor he had derived, and of the many
privileges he had enjoyed" from his association
with that Society," since the 26th of July, 1895
the proceeds of the sales of which are to constitute
a fund to be applied to the printing of any cata-
logue, the preservation and binding of pamphlets,
and the care of the pictures of the Society.
TERRIBLE FIRE IN CANADA.-We learn from the
Quebec Chronicle of Saturday, that dreadful fire,
caused by the clearing of lands has occurred in the
County of Chcoutimi, and has been carried by
strong wind sprngng up at the time over the great
part of nine townships in that county consuming
all before it. and rendering deSolate and houseless
over one hundred families, equal to seven hundred
souls BY this calamity, it is said, more than one
/
been destroyed beside an immense extent OF fen
cling, with several costly bridges. More than
third of the seed sown this spring has also been de
stroyed, which will be very severely felt by the set
tiers, owing to their inability to procure seed and
re-sow so late in the season.
The Newburyport HeraId says that old residents
were not little surprised on Thursday last by the
advent in their midst of Mr.. Peter Fudge, after an
absence of iorty-six years. In 1872, Mr.. Fudge
sailed from Newburyport in ship belonging to the
late Moses Brown, since which time tidings were
had of him until his return. His wife was married
twice after his departure, and some years since she
died.
There are 20 ships now in frame at Quebec, Cana
da, in which the woods chiefly used are elm, in
lengths Of from so to 10 feet for kees, floors and
bottom planking; tamarac (larch) and red pine for
planking white pine for decks; oak, red pine, &C.,
for beams bends and other purposes. The ships
being generally iron-kneed, with iron transverse
traces in their frames.
1t is said that at the principal hotels in Saratoga,
Newport, and other places, will for the future
be taken that all gratuities given to servants shall
| find their way into common fund, for the benefit
of the domestics of the establishment and that any
refusal to comply with this rule will be followed by
| the dismissal Of the servant offending.
/ The stock trains east from Rochester, last Friday
night, over the Central Railroad, numbered l27
cars-the largest of the season. The Western far
! mers are sending down their cattle in anticipation
of loss of crops by reshes and shorness of feed the
coming summer.
| n wealthy iarner IN OtSegO county, New Ork,
has now on hand over SEQ, 900 worth of hops. He
first refused 80 cents a pound, demanding 3s1E.
and when offered that, he demanded 40 cents; and
when offered that he still upon the price, until
fortune in of her freaks, reduced the price to
five cents pound, leaving the farmer to hop up at
! his leisure.
| The Norfolk papers announce that it is found to
be impossible to continue the route from Norfolk to
Philadelphia via Scafnrd, Del, in consequence of
! the obstruction of bar in the Nanticoke river
| The line will therefore be discontinued until the
/ said bar can be removed.
Mr.. Cornelius Van Neste, respectable resident
of New Brunswick, was instantly killed on Satur-
| day, BY the A. p NJ, train from New York, when
! between the former place and Milestone.
man who was recently sent to Sing Sing for
ten wears for burglary learning that his portrait
and life were to appear in one of the papers, ordered
/ 500 extra copies, which he circulated among his
/ friends.
In the last thirty days. no less than nineteen
wives flying from their husbands, have passed over
the Buffalo and State Line Railroad
The City Council of Louisville, Ky, has estab-
/ lished paid fire department