The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-07

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and promises to be highly remunerativc. There
are eleven crushing mills in the Durham district
alone, and others are in course Of erection. The
yield this is estimated 800 TONS 600 acres
are now ready for crushing; besides which 1000
acres are planted, and l,GOO prepared for plant
ing-representing ultimate production of 4 900
tons OF sugar. The cultivation of arrowr0ot is
also eXteHding rapidly, l36 acres being thus oc-
cupied, giving employment to ten arrowroot mills
Coffee covers l45 acres Indian corn l57; oats 1917:
oat hay, 409 buckwheat IA; potatoes ~: sweet
potatoes, 1896 The great want is an increased Eu-
ropean population, and, to promote this object. the
Government has recently made provisional grant
OF $50, 600 acres, near the Umzimkuu on the south
ern border, for the purpose of organizing an emf
grafton from Holland.
COsr OF PASSENGERS on RALRoADs-The Cincin-
natl Record. in recent scientific article on this
subject, comments on various calculations made by
different companies. The entire expenses of the
Cleveland and Cincinnati Road are stated and the
number OF passengers carried; and it is shown that
the cost per mile of each traveller is IL cents or
mills But the cost on the Central Ohio was . ,
cents, or exactly double that of the Cleveland Road
though 1t Is admitted that there were for the
period named, so large amount for "extraord-
nary expenses that the charge per capita for
mile on each passenger reckoning the real and cur
rent expenses only, was reduced to l.3l cents In
conclusion. the Record expresses the opinion that
on well conducted road, carrying 900 passen-
gers annually, the cost of each passenger does not
exceed | cent per mile as an average allowing for
a fair amount of freight.
The trigate Sabine, though one ofthe oldest ves-
sells in the Navy, has never been to sea vet! She
was put on the stocks in 1919 and took over thirty
years to be fit for launching and nine more to oct
ready for seal
The Alabama seventy-four, was on the stocks at
Portsmouth, twenty years ago, and she is there
still. The New Orleans, unfinished and rooted in.
has been show at Sackett's Harbor these forty
years. The New Y rk, at Norfolk is hardly nearer
completion than she was in 1887 The Vermont
and Virginia have been standing on the stocks in
Boston Navy ard, while whole generation of
cotemporary ships have been built, used, and grown
rotten
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trade for the
week past gives return of one hundred and elev-
en- arrivals at the collection Office of which fifteen
! were with various cargo, and the remaining nine
! The weeks receipts were So, 1871, of which S32lG
! belongs to the month of September Reports from
above are entirely favorable, except from the first
or Cumberland level, which for twenty miles has
| suffered from low water.-Nut Int.
| The Royal Morgan well known as the Steele. or
Cream horse, Is 81 years old, and is owned BIZ John
! Gregory of Northfeld, Vt. He eats no hay. but
subslsts chiefly on meal, oats, shorts, potatoes &C.
and appears in thriving condition. His step is
still quick and nervous, and he trots as square as
ever. lie will be quite curiosity as he is the old
est horse known to be living
| The Galveston Nees of the 2Sth SAYS: We
| understand that the cotton is beginning to
| come in, in amounts nearly sufficient to make 81
| pretty respectable show in a report and we shall
| commence our usual reports in day or two more
Some 400 or 500 bales have probably already been
received; We look for pretty brisk business by
the middle of September.
! There are 2S4 Congregational churches in the
State OF Connecticut, having IS 900 members The
two largest churches the First Church in Hart
ford, Rev. Joel D. Halves, d. In PASTOR organised
IN 1856, and the First Church in Milford, Rev iona
than Brace, ID. d., pastor, organised in 1889 Both
of these churches contain the same number of com
lnunlcants, ylz:-fire haHdred and fjty.
1t Is stated that the Montreal celebration of the
success of the Atlantic Telegraph rvalled that in
New ork. The Herald of that city says: ''Never
before in any celebration were the reoicinus so
universal; never before were the cordaites Of cti
zenshlp so spontaneously evinccd: never mutual
good Will so hearty, evident so general, so per
vading.''
a number of the Boston underwriters have pre-
sented to Capt. q. Ii. Brock, Of the ship MONDAY.
gold chronometer watch, valued at $500, for
taking his ship into Calcutta after having here fore
foot and 90 feet of the keel ground off close to the
pianklng and aole made in her bottom by a reef
IN the Banda sea.
William L. Everett, the engineer who invented
the machinery which contributed so essentially to
the successful laying of the Atlantic Cable was born
IN Watertown n. Y, April H. 1926. He learned
the machinist trade in his native town. subsequent
ly entered the navy, where he rose rapidlv to tha
hrSt place among the engineers.
The President of the Memphis Branch of the
Bank OF Tennessee last week attacked the editor of
the Enquirer, in that city, because the Equirer had
MADE some pretty severe comments on the conduct
Oh tfe bank The editor got the best of the fight,
and, besides, the Bank President was fined 500
letter from Westchester. New York. of Thurs
day, says: 81 regret to say that the venerable
William Jay is now in very delicate health, and is
probably, not far from the confines of life He has
however, reached good old age in the home and
estate of his illustrious father, John JAY"
About thirteen thousand pounds of clear sand
We're threshed out of the sixty bales of linen RAGS
imported from Alexandria, Egypt, and alleged to
have been taken from mummics Alexandria is the
only place where this kind of fraud has been per
petrated
The Erie Daily Bulletin SAYS that the remains of
the Flag Ship Lawrence of Perry's Fleet are being
raised by Capt. Van Mormon with his wrecking ma
chlnery, and portion of the hull will be taken .
the celebration at Put-nBay.
PROPOSED RAILROAD.-The Warrenton Uhiqurrcs
the construction of railroad from Salem Fauquier
CO. to arrenton, and connecting the Orange and
nieNandria Railroad with the Fredericksburg and
Richmond road
The Troy Wing says that there is residna in that
city young mechanic, who claims to have con-
structed telegraph apparatus which will transmit
words with twice the velocity that the Hughes In
strument is capable of.
In A, australia the Ncthodsts have GO churches
and 6S3 other preaching stations Communicants
upward OF 900; attendants on the divine worsbn
nearly loO,OOO. The number of the children in the
weekday and Sabbath schools, 1859.
:, man named Jacob Peartubo of Manchester.
Mass, who had been disappointed in love affair
Gled on ednesday last, from voluntary starvation
tie destroyed his sight three wears 90 bv an at
tempt to blow out his brains.
Application will be made to the next Ir~islature
OF New Jersey, for authority to construct canal or
SacEWater navigation from the head of the navi~a-
bic feeder of the Delaware and Raritan Canal TO
Phillipsburg.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that
packages OF American manufacture exported empty
from the United States, and afterwards imported
hiIed, are not entitled to entry free of duty.
The Charter Oak place, so celebrated in the his
tory of { nm, is being cut up and laid ont into
building lots. Ere long, the precise SPOT on which
the Old tree stood may become a question of dis
pute. " ''
DEATH OF CoNsUL.-John c. Barr, who was an
pointed =; s. Consul at Melbourne, Australia, died
Australia, from a stroke of the SUM-
gentleman residing in Dinwiddie county. Va.
Killed deer last week, says the SoHthsde Depocraf
with one OF Colts revolvers at a distance of one
hundred and thirty-eight yards.
Brussel paper says:-''Dr Andre Schleier-
achef, one OF the greatest scientific notabtirs of
July u" 'he IL"
The aggregate of the losses at sea for eight
months, since the commencement of the year is 2O9
vessels, valued at $500 l9l, against i06 vessels
valued at Sll 1856, 200 in the same time last wear
At Montreal, Canada, Alexander Penault for
stealing two pence from the poor-box of the Cattle
oral, was recently sentenced to two wears imprson
ment in the Penitentiary
Mr.. Samuel Hoffman, bricklayer, was drowned
on FRIDAY last, while bathing in the Potomac river,
at the w hlte House, near Washington.
Coal RECEPTs.-The REGENTS of Coal nv tho
Alexandria Canal for the month of August. were
40 SOC 1920 tons. - ~
In New Orleans man was fined twenty-five idol
!ars 'or beating slave man and attempting to pass
through funeral procession Of colored persons.
IMPORTATION OF SCoTCH GRLs-Sixtv Scotch girls
have Just been imported directly from Scotland to
work in the factories at Holyoke, Mass
NJ RIED,
On Thursday, I'd instant, by Rev s. Collins ROBERT
A. COOK to Miss OLEVIA l.. S. SHRECK both of this