The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-18
M CELLANEOUS

Among the visitors of the city at the present time
says the Washington hteligencer of Wednesday
% we nave been pleased to see in good health
anu preservation, the veteran and gallant Captain
Samuel =. Reid, OF the privateer Armstrong celeb
rity. Inc battle of the prvateer brig General Arm
strong with the British fleet, at Fayal in 1914,
occurred during the war; al & well remember the
thrill OF enthusiasm that the news of the fight sent
through the public heart singular coincidence
occurred in the Senate yesterday in connection
with this gallant gentlemen. Senator Foster, of
Connecticut, was debating the fishing bounty BILL
and, in abiding to the noble deeds of our brave
sailors on the ocean in the naval battles during the
last war; spoke in high praise of the glorious defence
made by the privateer General Armstrong, when
just at this moment Captain Reid, who commanded
the brig, entered the Senate chamber.
=, Accounts reach us, from various directions, of
the extent and severity of the storm in which st.
diana, we hear that the rain commenced falling
Sunday night, and prevailed, with brief intermis,
sions, until Yesterday morning The amount of
water that fell was excessive in that direction az
we'll as northward, beyond Bloomington, Illinois,
The effect is seen in the swollen streams which are
generally over their banks, and gradually extend
ing over the bottoms for a mile and towards
the highlands. The Sangamon and Kaskaskia riv-
ers and the lesser streams are pouring down large
Hoods. The big and little Wabash are too full for
thelr usual bounds, and have taken wider range
over the rich lowlands through which they rum
The big Wabash was still rising rapidly yesterday.
ST. Louis Republican, Nay II.
The schooner Star of the North cleared on the
18th at Detroit, with cargo for Liverpool being
second clearance from Detroit for that port this
season. The schooner Colonel Cook sailed this week.
to be followed during the present month by six
others, all loaded with slaves and lumber, for Lii
verpool direct.
On the 9th instant, fire broke out in Chicago in
large two-story frame building on the east side of
North Desplaines, midway the block between Ran
dolph and Lake streets, owned and occupied by
Messrs. MCammon Plumsted, planning and
moulding mill, and before it surrendered, $25 900
worth of property was destroyed.
The Investigations of a joint committee of the
Council of the city of New York show, under diff
ferent heads, the discovery of clean swndle of the
City Treasury to the amount of two hundred and
seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty
five dollars, and the end is not yet.
The members of the bar of Columbia South Caro-
lima, upon the announcement of the decease of Sena
tor Evans, held a meeting and adopted resolutions
of coincidence with the people of the State of South
Carolina at his loss and extending to his family
their sincere sympathy.
Owing to the infrm state of the Rt Reverend
Bishop Potters health and the onerous duties of an
ecclesiastical jurisdiction extensive as that of the
diocese OF Pennsy vania, he has recommended the
election OF an assistant bishop, agreeably to
on OF the Episcopal church providing for such
case.
An enterprising citizen of Canastota, New York,
is ornamenting that village by setting out maple
acres OF his farm for village park. Such man
is public benefactor well rs a udicious improv
or of the value of his own property.
The rite of confirmation was administered to
seventy-eight candidates, says the Fredericksburg
Recorder, in the Episcopal church. Wednesday
morning, by the Right Rev. William Meade, of the
Diocese of Virginia.
Subscriptions are being made in New Orleans for
the relief of those who have suffered most by the
inundaton,-many of whom have not only lost all
their crops and personal effects, but are left desti
tute of the means of subsistence.
Lewis Paulsen, the celebrated chess player is now
playing ten games blind-toded, against ten of the
crack players of Chicago.
The North Pennsylvania railroad increased its
April receipts over 1851 $780, and SAT 089 up to
the LIST of May over last year:
Rev. W. L. Breckenr idge, D. D., has felt con-
strined, by illhealth, to resign the charge of the
First Presbyterian church at Louisville.
Capt. Lawrence McDonough, well known Mis-
sssippi steamboat captain, died at Florence, Ala,
the 9th inst.
The steamer New Boston, was sunk with valu-
able cargo, on the 25th ult., her way from Gene
va, Ala, to Pensacola, Fla.
Hon. Asa Child, formerly Lieut.. Governor of Mas
sachusetts, but of late years resident of Norwich
Conn.,, died very suddenly ON Wednesday.
The New Orleans Delta, we see by notice in its
columns is to be published in future by Joint
stock company.
The Missouri Banks, it is said, will certainly be
paying specie by June.