The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-30

OPEvINe OF THE ERIE CANAL.-The opening of the
Erie Canal Is generally an s'event in the business
OF Buffalo and other cities located upon that line of
communication. This year, it seems, is an excep-
ton. The Buffalo Courier thus describes matters
connected with the opening:
Since our last weekly review, navigation has been
fully resumed between this port and the upper
Lakes, number of propellers and sail vessels hav-
ing arrived from Chicago and Milwaukee, and the
Erie Canal has also been opened for business. Not
withstanding the opening of water communication
between the seaboard and the far est which In
former wears synonymous with the resumption
of active business, have hardly the first evidence
of an vthing like revival of trade. Large numbers
of steamers, propelers, and sail vessels line the
sims and ship canals without the first sign of pre-
paration for business; the few already in commits
sion find scarcely enough to fill up with at Western
ports and it would be useless to fit out more under
such a state of things. Nor we alone in this
condition. Gentlemen direct from other lake ports
inform us that they bad offthat dullness and
inactivity prevail everywhere. One vessel that
came in from Milwaukee on Saturday, with cargo
of OATS gets but cents per bushel on some II 500
bushels, amounting to 1887 freight money. She
returns to Milwaukee light or in ballast consuming
in the round trip at least four weeks After paving
wages, towage, insurance, and other incidental ex-
penses, We should like to know how much will be left
out OF the S3S7 to go towards paying for her fit out
The Captain informs he tried to get charter for
lumber, but did not succeed, and took the best
freight he could, and this is the case all over the
Lakes.
The canal opened on Friday last and up to the
hour the office in this city closed not single ap-
plcation was made to clear the first boat On Sat-
urday, one boat cleared light to Rochester one
with lumber to Albany, and one also with lumber
and shingles to Albion. Such state of things has
not existed before to our knowledge. For years
past large numbers of boats have generally drawn
up in front of the Canal Collectors office. to be
ready on the opening day, and there has not un-
frequently been strife among Captains to obtain
the first or among the first clearances issued Last
year on the opening day 40 boats cleared from the
Buffalo office, paying over Sc 1000 in tolls In the
shipments that day. were included 626 bbls -four
LOO, 235 bushels wheat, IL 9Ol bu corn and 900 bu
oats, and some % boats were towed down tbe
river and entered the canal at Tonawanda. On the
second day nearly as large business was DONE and
the daily average for weeks, was nearly equal to
the business of the second day. Freighs last year,
opened at 45c. on -four, lac on wheat and lSc ON
corn to New ork: l2c. on wheat and lie. on corn
to Albany. The opening rates this wear will be
about Soc on flour, l0c on wheat, and Sc. on corn
to New York. As yet the only engagements we
hear of are one boat with wheat to Troy at &c., one
to Rochester at Sc. and few loads of slaves at ST.
@1.37 per ton toll.
LADY MORGAN died in London on the 18th inst
She was the daughter of an actor named Owenson.
and was born in Dublin about 1888. She became
known as an authoress by collection of poems
called the clay of the Irish Harp" and by the
"Wild Irish Girl and one or two other romances
She married Sir Charles Morgan, physician, in
continent. During this time she published s'Flor-
ence Mccarthy" "O'Donnel," and the "Missiona-
ry," and other romances, besides "France' and
"Italy," very clever books on those countries
That on Italy gained the praise of Byron. She re-
turned to Ireland in 1928, and visited France again
in 1899, and Belgium in 1885, She afterwards pro-
duced "France in 1929" "Woman and her Master"
the "Book Without Name" to which her husband
contributed and some very entertaining notes to a
new edition of the "Wild Irish Girl" In 1S4s she
had controversy with Cardinal Wiseman concern
ing the chair of st. Peter at Rome, in which she
was thought to have entirely defeated the Cardinal
Her last production was her Autobiography"
published in London few months ago.-N. Y
Tribune
New Use OF THE STEREoscoPE.-Professor Dove
Prussian, has discovered that the best executed
copies of steel or copper-pate engravngs can be
distinguished from the originals, by placing them
together in binocular stereoscope, when the
difference between the print produced by the origi-
nal plate and the spurious copy is seen at glance
This will be sure method of detecting counterfeit
bank bills.
BRITIsH ANNExATIoN.-The English have taken
possession of another island in the Red Sea which