The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-20
FROM CALIFORNIA,

The latest advices from the Mohave Expedition
afford serious grounds for the apprehension that il
will prove failure in whole or in part in conse-
quence of the inexperience incompetence of Col
| Hoffman, its commander. On the 4th April the
| party were only forty-eight miles from Fort Yuma
up the Colorado, where the Colonel had estab-
| lished his intrepot His men and trains were six
| days in making the distance named, having lost
their way several times, notwithstanding the river
was at their side, to prevent wandering in one di
rection.
When the party arrived at Fort Yuma they had
four months provisions for the campaign before
them. One half of these were consumed by the
command before their departure from the fort. The
river boats were used for carrying detachments of
troops up the river, when they should have been
employed in transporting the supplies leaving the
men to march up. This bit of mismanagement mas
cost two months of time, and so reduced the sup
Plies that 1t is not believed possible to take any
thlng like all OF the command into the Mohave
country. Even on the 4th the Colonel was still
waiting for the remainder of his supplies to reach
lie would be compelled to divide his command and
| proceed with only part of his men. We hope to
hear that he has done this for an attempt to carry
them all tar into an enemy's country-and thata
! desert-wth limited supplies, could hardly fail to
result in suffering and disaster.
The danger of the failure of the expedition lies in
their lnabllity-tor want of sufficient supplies-to
follow the Indians up until they can force battle
! we await further Intelligence from the Colorado
| with much anxiety
| PAY OF THE SALT LAKE U. s. TRoops.-We are
informed that Major Prince, the paymaster of the
D. army, left here on the steamer Senator on the
10th inst for Salt Lake, by the way of Los Angeles
with money to pay the T. S. troops at Salt Lake.
| lie Will be accompanied from Los Angeles bv
large escort of dragons, under command of Major
Carleton lie has received the greater part of the
amount Sl5O0OO coined in the Mint here in one dol
lar gold pieces.
| WHOLESALE INDIAN SLAUGHrERs IN RoUNp VALLEY
The Petaluma. Journal, of April l5, SAYS that ex-
tensive Indian killing has taken place and still is
occurring IN the vicinity of Round Waller. lnfor-
nation has been received in Petauma, through
| gentleman just from there, that within the mast
three weeks from three to four hundred bucks.
squaws and children, have been killed bv the
| whites. The cause of this wholesale killing il
stated to be the continued depredations by the
Indians upon the stock of the settlers and re-
| slstance to the Reservation officials in their at
| tempts to collect the Indians upon the Reserva-
| ton.
THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE GENERAL ADMIRAL.
This vessel, built in New York for the Russian
government at an expense of about $1,000, ,OOO,went
| on her trial trip on Thursday, having on board
| from SIX to eight hundred invited guests
| The building of the General Admiral was consid-
| cred formally commenced September 81 1857,
when, the keel having been laid, the Russian cere-
| m0ny OF raising the stern post was performed
The occasion was the anniversary of the Grand
| Duke ConStantines birthday, and the Russian Min
lister to the United States Baron de Stoeckle Cap
tam Shestakoft, Schwartz, lvastchenko, Sererlan-
! OIL and Lleutenants Mojask, Belevanitz and Kole-
| bin besides other distinguished personapes, were
present The Russian Minister placed a silver plate
IN cavity in the heel of her sternpost, on which
was the following inscription in the Russian lam
! guage: "tfeneral Admiral, commenced Septem-
per list 1897, in the presence of Baron de Stoec-
kle, Russian Minister in the United States, on the
plan OF VIM: IL. Webb, American ship builder, of
| New York"
| On September 81 1858, just one year after the
launched.
The length of the spar deck is 3O7 feet; width, 55
nCrth nvar oil o,p,t G. 4
deck "a feet. She has A side and two stern ports
on the lower deck and on the spar deck 80 side
ports, four forward and four after ports. Her arm
ament Will consist of seventy forty pound guns, and
Two large eleven-inch she'll swivel Dahlgren guns
! This size (forty pounders) is peculiar to Russia
and the guns will be placed on the vessel on her ar
! rival at Cronstadt. Her will consist of 800
men, and she has capacity to carry water and pro-
! visions for their Sustenance for six months and
stoWage TOR 200 tons coal, and will not, when
! 1ully loaded, draw over 25 feet. The sheathng of
the vessel is of cold-rolled copper, value Sl4 600
There were 5,l50 sheets of "copper" weighing so 900
pounds each sheet requiring ii0 nails to secure it. so
| that III 900 nails, weighing 5000 pounds were
used in the coppering alone. The whole vessel, at
the time OF launching, weighed $3.50 TONS
The General Admiral will probably sail for Cron-
stadt about the middle of June she will touch at
| Cherbourg on the way. She will 90 out in com
mand of Capt; Joseph Comstock, with Capt Cavcn-
| dy as Sailing Master, Capt. Fletcher as Chief Off
GER and Mr.. Williams, late of the Adriatic as Sc
| cond officer.
This ship is the largest wooden vessel afoat,
Everything pertaining to her is of American pro-
duchon' even to the china, glass and porcelain.
From the ST. Louis Democrat Mtv16I
kISE IN THE EsTERN RIvERs.-A rise in the river
at TINS polnt almost unprecedented in rapidity oc
| Cured on Saturday, commencing at an early hour
1t rose so fast that the men deputed by some mer-
chants to remove quantity ofgrain from the wharf
were unable to do so before the water had mount
ed upon the pile, submerging one tier and mart of
another. In the course Of few hours in the morn
ing freight on the wharf was so disposed of as to
leave space of ten or fifteen feet as a bed for the
encroaching water.
We had the curiosity to measure accurately, on
Saturday, the amount of rise in thrty-five minutes
and found 1T to be two inches. 1t could not have
continued swelling at that rapid rate all day how
ever, for the total rise in the twenty-four hours
ending at 10 y. NJ. yesterday, was about two feet
and six inches From 10 O'Clock to o'clock, six
hours, the rise was only inch and the river is
expected to be found declining or at a stand this
morning.
On Saturday, merchants on the levee were under
tie necessity OF raising goods from their cellars and
plllng them IN upper stories, and the sidewalks
and others were doing the same Yesterday A
force OF men was engaged yesterday in raising the
railroad track that runs along the river as the wa
| ter threatened to run over it. Some of the ,n;nor
dykes and made roads on Bloody Island, were cav
ing in, and foundations of low living parts of the Is
land threatened.
Although the river nearly on stand yester-
day and may fall a little by this morning Tor TO-
day. we would advise continued vigilance on the
part of all who may have anything to risk by n
Hood. The last boat from the Missouri reports not
only great outpouring of the Lower Missouri and
| its tributaries but another and unexpected swell
at Saint 10; and people just down from that neigh
bordood shake their heads and saw "there's no
mistake about an awful flood coming from all along
| the Missouri
At Dubuque, on Friday, the Mississippi was swell
ing fast, and at St. Paul the rise has taken a new
and very impulsive start.
In addition to this, we have information that the
Illinois is swelling not only at the lower end but
from Lasalle and the headwaters
we are no aarmists, but when whole seas of
rains have fallen on the whole provinces North,
East and West of us, and when the Missouri the
Upper Mississippi and the Illinois, and their thou
sand tributaries are pouring out their greatly
swollen streams, we do nothing more than our
duty in warning those interested to ''look out for
a flood"
BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILRoAD.-The editor of
the Ohio State Journal, says:
In recent trip over this road, we were pratifed
to perceive that the continuous and successful efforts
OF this Company to promote the safety and COM
tort OF Its patrons, are being rewarded by LARGE
increase to its business. The whole length of It's
line line from Wheeling to Baltimore and Washington
City, evinces the utmost care and skill fits mana
gers. Its bridges of iron and stone its tunnels
enduraby arched its system of exclusive telegraph
wlres and its elegant and substantial cars convey
to the mind of the traveller pleasing sense of en-
tire security. Fine sleeping cars are attached to
all the night trains. The Conductors are gentle
men whose chief aim appears to be to render the
trip over the road one Of pleasure to his compoq
mons du royage.
We would describe the scenery were it possible
to do it justice. Many have seen it, and MANY have
written about it, but language is Inadequate to ex-
press one tithe of its grandeur and subiimity
The Central Ohio Railroad, from Columbus To
Wheeling, the most reliable Western connection of
the Baltimore and Ohio, no sluggard in t,is pro
gressve age. Its track and equipment will com
pare most tavorably with that of any other road
! in the country.
This consolidated line from Columbus. being
the shortest to the Atlantic is noted for the
punctuality and regularity of its trains and con-
nections.
The GREAT SToCK OPERATOR OF New YoRK.-Fe is
equally the hero and the dupe of the American
| Stock Exchange the heir of Ouvard--the conf.
dant of bank presidents-the untiring protector OF
time bargains, and at last he becomes so aded and
out of breath that he cannot be 'called to time
He has for thrty-fve years thrown an air OF
enchantment about speculation; has devised more
pitfalls for the creduous well as the cautious than
any man of his time; repeatedly losing or impair.
ing his financial power and as often regaining it.
He was made to wrestle with fortune, and to fall
with laughing face.
Hundreds of satellites revolve about him, set
when he SETS and rise when he rises He is ALWAYS
greatly attended, whether signing or soaring
He performs feats in the Wall Street Circus. that
bring down the house; but his invncible assn
rance always seduces him to attempt s.donhle
somerset" and then he is picked up for half dead
mat Is his condition now. In month hi: