The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-02
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the following news summary:
The weather has been intensely hot and scorch- |
ingly dry since the date of our last semi-mOnthy !
summary. Bad as the heat has been it has, so far |
as vegetation is concerned, been aggravated by |
strong, fiery sea breezes, which have parched the
country around Kingston even more injuriouSly |
than the sun itself The heat has been, unfortunate
lv, associated with total want of rain throughout
large agricultural districts and it is to be feared
that next years crop will suffer very seriously in
consequence.
In this neighborhood there can be scarcely said
to have been any rain since last November We
had heavy showers in June, but they were not
the customary rains, and beyond that no rain has
fallen for 5 months
The public health is ALWAYS better in the absence
of heavy rains. We have, therefore, no fever of
any consequence to report
We are happy to announce that the Directors of
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company have com
municated to their Superintendent in this Island
their satisfaction at the prospect of the erection of
patent ship dock in this harbOr and forewarn-
ing of the business which such dock would receive
from the company.
We have very little to report on mining matters.
The following is the latest published report from the
Wheal Jamaica Copper company: Since | wrote
YOU Yesterday July 23) there has been a favorable
change in the end of the Goth level South. We
have met with good branch of ore, and have TAX
en- out some very good stones of copper ore:
| The same paper adds: The question of the slave
trade is literally one of life and death to the mate
rial interests of this colony. So long as cOmpeti-
ton shall be confined to present populations, slave
free, JAMAICA as well as the OH IT
colonies, have long since made up their minds to
meet it. But there is wide difference between
competing with slavery and competing with the
slave trade. In these colonies we have ceased to
fear slavery competitor. We are willing and
prepared to compete with the present slave popula-
tions. Nothing, however, resist the slave trade
1t is as impossible for us in Jamaica to compete
with the smuggler it is for the honest trader to
to do so anywhere.
Havana is the nest of this piracy. The
who there hatch and carry out all the treason
against humanity are not less American than Span
| ish. The American Consulate ut Havana Is not
clear of the charge of completely. If it be true
| that the schooner Cortes, lately condemned as Il
SLAYER, received clearance papers from the Ameri-
can Consul it is certain that the American
| Consul was a criminal participation in the lille
galitv of the COrtes' expedition. more thorough
| ly defined SLAYER never traversed the ocean. She
had everything that SLAYER ever had on board her
water casks to the number of one hundred and
! twenty, some of them of immense size, and full of
water; genuine slave copper; fitted slave deck
slowed lumber, but sawed to actual dimensions,
and exhibiting manifest token of having been al
ready used; tin mess pans, and wooden spoons; rice
and caravances, large cargo of rum, the ordinary
currency she coast in exchange for slaves. Yet
the Yankee Spaniards at Havana have got up, I'M
der the auspices of the American Consulate, a case
against the captOrs. The is remarkable for its
monstrous exaggerations.
The Colonial Standard of the 2Sth of July re-
marks:-The Anti Slavery Society has published
budget of missionary testimony on the subject of
labor in this colony. The budget is not worth the
paper which it is printed. The Anti-Slavery
Society is an obsolete idea. 1t has not at this mo-
ment even the influence of name. The age OF
| forced philanthropy has gone by, expedited to an
end chiefly by the gross inconsistencies Of those
who assumed to represent the mythology of by
gone age. The legislation of 1916 blotted over, to
all practical purposes, the phylacteries which
adorned the legislation of 1888. The first cargo OF
slave sugar imported into London under free trade,
was consigned to a member of the Society of
Friends-one, probably, who had piously attended
| the last meeting of ''the Society in the ancient
hall in Bishopsgate street. and had dropped his six
pennies with reverential clatter into that money
box, which is the centre of philanthropy on such
occasions 1t is notorious that leading members of
the Anti Slavery Society have been the most rabid
free traders in England, and that at least onethrd
of the subscribing members, if they still subscribe,
| are dealers in slave sugar.
THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE GENERAL ADMIRAL.
THE LARGEST WOODEN THE WORLD.
This magnificent vessel, now building in the
yard of VIM. II. Webb, Esq, foot of Sixth street,
East river in this city, for the Gar Alexander is
rapidly approaching to completion. \ recent visit
to her shows that she is fully panked and all the
decks laid. portion of the outside, and most
of the inside works are painted and the workmen
are now engaged setting her head and putting
the carved work, which consists of an immense
double-headed Russian eagle The men are also en-
gagged in fitting the large and heavy brass castings
at the stern, which are intended for the propeller
| and shaft.
Indeed, the entire hull of the ship is very nearly
completed, and presents fine opportunity for those
interested or curious in such matters to examine
one of the greatest ships ever built or designed by
man.
| The General Admiral will be launched very soon,
the "ways" being in process of construction, and
when launched, she will be taken to the Novelty
| Iron Works, to receive her engines boilers. &c.
| The parties interested in her construction keep
| matters quiet that but little notice has been ia
ken of her by the press and the public consequent
| ly know but little about her.-N. y. Hcraid.
LONDON OYSTER TRADE.-The oyster season opened
in the London Market in accordance with the civic
regulations of Bllinsgate Market at four o'clock
Wednesday morning, the llth of August. Sixteen
| oyster vessels present. Oysters classified
| in England as dotives, pearls, cules, barleys and
common. The best natives brought in the London
! market $1,000 per bushel; inferior natives, $40;
pearls, $3.50; cullies, from So to $780, and com
mons, from $3.50 to SO per bushel. The railway
vans brought immense quantities. in addition to the
water borne from the oyster beds at Backwater,
Colchester Burnham and other fishing towns
When we think of an English oyster, a coppery
| taste in the mouth involuntary recurs. There are
no oysters in London that an American could or
| would swallow in New \ DIRK. 1t would be rejected
| as bad but when man pays $40 bushel he can
not afford to be fastidious. 1t is of our Ameri-
can privileges and blessings, for which we cannot
be too grateful that our lines have fallen good
| oyster beds and that a reasonable price commands
| better article than Europeans get at eXtravagant
prices. No wonder that, as Dickens says, the poor
| of London are the largest oyster buyers 1t might
prices.
| AN AMERICAN INVOLVED IN THE PENE AFFAIR-A
correspondent of a German paper, writing from Ba-
den under date of August 4th, says that Mr.. NJ
| "a wealthy American at present s0jOurning in
Baden, has been, like NJ. dc Pene, called account
| by French sub-lieutenants 1t having transpired
| that Mr.. n. was the author of an article in an
American journal rejecting severely upon the char
acter of the French subieutenants, several of the
| aggrieved party Immediately sought him out and
| dame cd fonf;o fnr fhni
The American promptly accepted the challenge,
and at noon to-day the parties repaired to the ada
cent frontier, where the American and one of the
lleutenantS to settle the difficulty according to
| the rules of the ''cOde." After the first fire. in
which neither party was wounded, the Americans
| second an Austrian ex-oiiicer ntimated to his
principal that, as he was in fact the aggressor and
had satisfied the demand of honor, he should now
make the dmcnde honorable. With this request the
American complied, and thus the affair terminated
| without bloodshed'
| FIRST MAPLE SUGAR.-The nportant discovery
| that sugar can be made from the maple tree has
! been attributed to New England, and its date fixed
as far back 1861 in an article which has gone the
| rounds of the press This statement has called
forth unanimous, indignant and patriotic protest
| on the part of the French Canadian press and with
pleasure we give currency to their claim for prior
ity of discovery. They state that maple sugar was
| in general use in Canada previous to the Revolu-
ton, and long before Dudteys Register recorded in
| 1865, its first manufacture in New England. In
deed, the Jesuit priest Chareroix, in his history of
New France (Canada) wrote early as 1921 an ac-
count of the process by which the sugar was obtain
ed, stating that the sugar unknown to the In
dams, thus favoring its French origin. All honor
then, to the French Canadians for the maple sugar
unless our New England contemporaries have re-
cords to substantiate their claim beyond the year
1921.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.-Theb best cotton now costs,
when delivered either in Providence Boston. 49,
cents per pound 1t has been steadily advancing
in price for eight or ten years, notwithstanding
rapid increase of production. In lS4S the crop ex-
ported from the United States Sl4 PA 600 lbs;
the average price was 7.Sl cents per h. The crop
of 1916 exported was ,35l l3l 70llb lbs at 94 cents