The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-11

HORACE GREELEY on THE RAIL.-Horace Greely
now on his way to California by the overland route
is writing series of characteristic letters to the
Tribune. They are entertaining and suggestive of
course, but the idiosyncracies of the philosopher
crop out at every inequality of the surface Just as
the coal shows itself in Mexican County wherever
the face of the earth is in the least degree uneven
He made a small ex pertinent in a sleepinp car ON
the Michigan Southern Railway, but he was awful
~ bothered by the breaths of the boobies who bore
him company. Greedy is in constant danger of sti-
fling unless he is in the midst of gale of wind stiff
enough to capsize ship of-the-line in New York
harbor. He can't sleep in anything milder
than ten knot breeze. He would sufocate for
want of air in an ordinary Lake Erie zephyr We
have heard of the wind blowing so hard as to re-
quire the efforts of two men to held the hair ON a
third mans head. Greeley needs no such service as
that, for he lost all his hair in the notable Sep
TENDER hurrcane-since when he defied the wind,
and is nearly all the time whistling for breeze like
sailor becalmed on the Bahama Banks.-Bufalo
Courier
1t is to be hoped, that Mr.. Greeley will be able to
make himself comfortable somewhere in the great
desert or on the top of the Rocky Mountains
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRIsE.-C Convention of Rail
road Presidents.-ln nothing is the value of time
more fully exemplifed than in the appreciation of
rapidity, and directness in travelling. If mode
of shooting men from city to city, by means of NOR
tars, were put in vogue, there isn't the slightest
doubt that seats would always command high
premium The latest project to facilitate travel is
one to maintain a system of continuous trains on
the different southern roads. By the proper COM
bination, the route from New York and Philadel-
phia to New Orleans may be done in three days.
To do it at present requires six and half, which is
the schedule time. To arrange upon the proper
plan, convention, comprising the presidents of all
the southern roads in the same interest, was held
yesterday, at the office of the Baltimore Railroad
Company. The result of their deliberations will in
all probability be new line from New York to
Havana and New Orleans to the gulf side of Flori-
da. This will be of the most important lines
streams of travel, than any other route now extant
1t will bring the entire travel of the south through
this city, and doubtless will ultimately be made the
California route. Its course is from Philadelphia
to Charleston by railroad, thence by steamers $50
miles to Fernandina thence $50 miles by railroad
to Cedar Key, thence by steamer to Havana 345
miles, up to New Orleans, 400 miles The ad-
vantages of this line, independent of reducing the
time fifty per cent, will be such as to divert very
large portion of the river and steamer travel and
cannot but prove advantageous to all the roads
composing it. As far as comfort is concerned no
thing can surpass it. Travellers can enjoy their
rest, and pass from the temperate to the tropica!
zone with as little fatigue would be involved in
attending an old fashioned wedding. The consum-
nation of these arrangements will be looked to with
special nterest.-U. S. Gczeae.
THE NoRTHERNMosT PAPER.-A newspaper ia
about to be started under Canadian auspices at the
Selkirk settlement, on the Red River of the North
The press and types are now on their way thither
Mr. Laurie, late of the Owen Sound &C. W. Times,
is to be the editor. Selkirk is $50 miles North
of St. Paul, and has about 10, 900 inhabitants.