The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-17


nia-brldge represented the most scientific distrbu-
ton of material which could be devised at the date
of It's construction it has since been improved upon
by the same engineer in the Victoria bridge, now
In the course of construction the river St.
Lawrence, near Montreal. The Victoria bridge is
without exception the greatest work of the kind
in the world. For gigantic proportions and vast
length and strength there is nothing to compare
with it in ancient modern times. The entire
bridge, with its approaches, is only about sixty
yards short of two miles. 1t is five times longer
than the Britannia bridge the Menai Straits
seven-and- "a half times longer than Waterloo bridge
and more than ten times longer than the new
Chelsea bridge across the Thames The Victoria
has not less than "a spans of 22 feet EACH and one
great central span-itself immense bridge of $50
feet The road is carried within iron tubes 60 feet
above the level of the st. Lawrence which runs be-
meath at speed of about 10 miles an hour, and in
winter brings down the ice of some 1000 miles of
lakes and upper rivers with their numerous tribu-
taries The weight OF iron in the tubes will be up
wards OF 10000 tons, supported massive stone
piers, each of solid masonry. So gigantic a work.
involving so heavy an expenditure, has not been
projected without sufficient cause. The Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada-one of the greatest ma
tonal enterprises ever entered on-is upwards of
100 miles in length, opening up a vast extent of
fertile territory for the purposes Of future immgra
ton, and, by connecting the settled provinces of
Western Canada with the seaboard States of the
American Union, calculated to afford full scope for
the development of the industrial resources of that
magnificent colony. Without the Victoria bridge
ifestly Incomplete the extensive series of Canadian
railways on the north side of the ST. Lawrence,
terminating opposite Montreal would for all pur-
poses of through traffic, be virtually sealed up dur
ing the six months the year that the St Law
renee is closed against navigation by the ice and
the Grand Trunk system must necessarily have re-
manned to a great extent nugatory, in consequence
of the province being cut off from the coast to
which the commerce of Canada naturally tends
Quarterly Reuie,o.
The CHESAPEAKE AND ONO CANAL continues the
excellent business previously reported. During
the week last past extraordinary degree of ac-
tlvlty has pervaded this end of the line, showing
what a trade must and will be developed when the
canal shall have become quite reliable and suggest
ing the necessity of great extension of facilities
for unloading and shipping along tide-water Since
our last weekly report there have been entered at
the Georgetown collection office one hundred and
twenty y-nine boats, ofwhich twelve laden with
wheat corn, limestone, wood, and general country
pro luce, and the remaining one hundred and sew
enteen with coal, bringing total during the week
of little less than 700 tons The receipts for
the week were So, ,450, one of the very best exhib
its since the canal has been in operation The water
was let off the Georgetown level on Saturday night
in order to remove large stone in the bed of the
canal, which it is conjectured was blown from
blast hard by on the line of the Washington Aaue-
duct. All is right by this time and the level re-
| flled.-National h,telligencer.
FROM MExIco.-Dates from Matamoras to the
18th of July are received via New Orleans. Du-
range had fallen into the hands of the forces under
the Governor of Chihuahua who declared for the
Constitution of 1857. Guanajuato, Guadalaara and
Lacatecas had also been conquered by the Liberals
| General Cara had left Matamoras to superintend
IN person the movements of the Tamaulipas forces
General Vldaurri was to take the field on the 9th
at the head of the main body of the army of the
| North. Immediately taking San Luis Potosi
| General Zuazua banished the Bishop and thirty
| priests for encouraging the reactionary forces to
| resist his entrance.
Miss FoX.-An interesting ceremony took place
! at st. Peters (Roman Catholic) Church. New
| York, on Sunday, the occasion being the baptism of
the famous Miss Margaret Fox, for some years past
| well known to the public as one of the highest
priestess of Spiritualism. Marget having recently
renounced that heresy, has been received into the
| church, and bids fair to become of its shining
lights Miss Fox entered the vestibule of the Church
| previous to the mass, accompanied by numerous
friends of both sexes, among them her mother, her
sister Kate, (who still is spritualist, and Horace
Greeley who remained at her side all the while she
was in church. The officiating clergymen were
Kew. Mr.. Owen, the pastor, and Rev. Mr.. burning,
OF Rondout. Andrew jackson Davis, and sundry
otner % eminent Spiritualists were among the spec
tators of the ceremony.
! . The BLoUNTDE RryIERE AFFAIR.-A SLIGHT
sLANt.-oome r ~: OF our cotemporaries, in writing
Vi ,nis curious romance, seem to think the object
OF the Louave is to marry the subject of his adora-
ton, Miss Blount. This is mistake. The vounp
lady asserts unqualifedlv that they ,yara
married before they made the tonr to Non W
and had lived as man and wife for weeks before tbe
separation. The secret of his pertinacitv' tbon
is simply to hold on to the prize already won Tbes
fact of his having another wife now living in tho
State of Pennsylvania, seems to be, in the present
status of the case, the only family obstacle to his