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THE EVIL AND THE RENED y

To the Editors of the Exchange.
While all good citizens are deploring the past and
present awlessness of our city, and seeking RENE
dy in the more rigorous enforcement of existing
laws, might it not be we'll to inquire whether part
of the protection longed for cannot be attained by
the enactment of new laws whose enforcement lies
outside OF criminal courts and criminal practice,
and Is wholly foreign thereto We are in a few
weeks to elect Senator and Delegates Is it not
possible to elect men with enough of brains and in
tegrity to find and apply remedy such as | have
indicated?
For example, cannot just and equitable registry
law be framed and enacted, whereby the right of
every individual 10 vote can be calmly canvassed,
with opportunity for investigation of all doubtful
cases before the day of election and the Judges re-
eyed OF the necessity for deciding blindly as they
now do in so many cases?
Cannot a new arrangement be made by which the
citizens shall vote at forty, fifty, many places
as may be necessary to enable them to vote with
ease, and without the pretext for any that some
votes must necessarily be kept out and "they sha
be our side''?
Cannot some wholesome check or control be put
upon the promiscuous removal of causes under that
provso in the 2Sth Sect of the 4th art of the Con-
sttution, ''that such further remedy in the prem-
ses may be provided by law as the Legislature may
from time to time direct and enact"
II no existing party is willing to adopt prin-
cpie based IN justice and protecting the rights of
the minority, as they would be protected under laws
ike the nrst and second above indicated are there
not enough who are tired of being cheated and
have desire to cheat, to organize in opposition
to the powers that be, and to secure by such or
ganization equal rights election day to all citi-
Zens? .-
The Democrats in minority have groaned for
measures which they opposed and defeated when
in majority; and another party is running the
course to the same goal with longer strides. But
meanwhile, whichever party is in power, the rights
OF the citizens trampled on Then let the citi-
zens secure the enactment of laws which shall Sc
cure the rights of all, and render fraud impossible
and violence in that connection useless 9
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From Henry Taylor
Up AND Down THE IRAwADDI or THE GOLDEN DAGoN bainp
passages OF adventure in the Burman Empire BY DR.
W. PALMER. - " -
From the Press of Rudd Carleton. New York.
1859. Also
KNITTING WORK. WEB OF MANY TEXTURES wrought nv
1859. ' sE" 'h"se'
SHAKsPEARE's Dogberry, and SHERIDAN's Mrs.
Hdtaprop, are the originals of SHII1ABER's Mrs
Partington This lady, like her prototypes, has be-
come celebrated for her humorous misapplication
OF the meaning of words We understand what
she intended to say by catching the remote resem-
blance between the word misused and the word
that ought to have been spoken and we make mer
ry over the queer fances to which her suggestive
blunders give rise. The humor of her speech lies.
not so much in the matter of it, as in the associa
lions which it conjures up. If any one wants
book wherewith to while away an idle hour, and
is not particular to the quality of the humor he
can scarcely fail to be amused with the sayings and
doings of Hrs. Partington and her son Ike, as re-
corded in ''KNITTIYG WORK"
MAGAZINES RECEIVED.
From John Freeman, Agent No. 450 W. Balti-
more street:
The EDINBURGH REVIEW, for July, 1859.
The Southern Literary Messenger, for August is
on our table. We also acknowledge the recent of
the Rural Register, of August 18th.
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Captain EDWARD W. H. ScHENLEY, after having
turned up a member of the British House of
Commons, has been summarily turned out. 1t
was proven, on investigation that the free and in
dependent voters of Dartmouth were troubled with
ian itching palm;". that Captain ScHEyt,Ey admin
lstered TO them the most potent remedy for this
particular form Of disease that is known in the
political pharmacopoeia, and that in consideration
OF the curative results thus brought about. his
grateful patients sent him to Parliament az their
representative. So far, then, the account was
balanced, as between the Captain and his con-
sttuents, to the satisfaction of both parties. He
expended in their behalf the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars, and they were, by just so much
the richer, if not the better for his sudden arrival
in the midst of them. But, although he has de-
monstrated-the opinion of ADDISON to the con-
trary notwithstanding - that Fortune" does
sometimes command success Committee of
the House of Commons have decided, peremptoriy
that it does not always 'deserve'' it. The Cap
tain, therefore, has been politely requested to
withdraw his papers and retire into private
life. He does not, however, retire alone. Mr.
LEATHAM, the brother-in-law of JOHN BRIGHT
was also sent to Coventry" at the same time,
ana for having been engaged in similar malprac-
uces. In commenting upon the conduct of these
parties, the London Times remarks, sarcastcally,
that, mo doubt, through being novices in the art,
their friends have rather overdona tto tb;n,, !,
tine way OF bribery How they s'overdidp 1t,
may be understood from the fact elected before tbe
Committee Of Investigation, that during the pro-
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We publish elsewhere a communication demon
stratlng the danger to which railway passengers
in this State are constantly exposed from cattle
being turned out by their owners to browse on
the sides of the railway 1t is undoubtedly an
evil that demands prompt and efficient remedy.
Numerous accidents occur every season from this
source, and although they may not have al
ways resulted in loss of life, in MANY
instances the escape of the passengers has
been little less than miraculous, while the amount
of damage done to cars and locomotives forms an
nually very considerable item in the expenses
OF companies. Our correspondent recon-
mends that it should be made imperative ppon
all railway companies to fence in their track The
plan has certainly worked well elsewhere, and is
therefore entitled to due consideration. Indepen-
IDENTIFY of the peril to life and limb which would
thus be averted it has the further merit of SIM
pliciy, and if cattle cannot be kept off the track
by any other means it ought to be adopted by the
companies fonly on the score of ECONOMY. There is
however, another view which may be taken of this
matter. Accidents of this kind are not so much
due to the carelessness of Railway officials as TO
the Wanton disregard of consequences which char
acterzes those who as deliberately turn their cattle
on the track to Craze, as if it were an open COM
mons and free to all Corners There was a time
when those people, not content with jeopardizing
human life, had the hardhood to claim damages
for the loss of their stock In some instances they
succeeded in obtaining awards in their favor; but
atterly the Courts have decided most emphatically
against them If one step further were taken it
would go far towards securing exemption from any
accidents of the kind in future Let law be
passed authorizing the impounding for trespass of
all cattle found wandering at large upon any rail-
way track, and making their owners liable for all
damages that might accrue either to person or
property in consequence of their neglect to provide
for the safe keeping of their stock 1t appears to
us that it is the cattle owners who are primarily to
blame, and not the railway companies. Still in
view of the difficulty of enforcing such law by
reason of the general poverty of that class of often
ders to which it would apply, we are constrained
to believe that the only really practicable remedy,
is for the companies to fence in their roads and
keep off all intruders
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gress of the election there were in the rooms occu
pied by the managing friends of the respective
candidates, open drawers containing large sums of
money, to which the electors had free access The
moral which has been drawn by The Times from
this exposition, is an obvious one While doubt
ing whether such patriots would make good SOL
diers in the event of being called into the field to
repulse an invader, that journal aids: eve are
ashamed to confess it, but we would rather trust
"our lives to those political desperadoes. buvinp
'and selling votes, and committing all sorts of
"offences against the Constitution, than to the en-
frightened gentlemen who wish the ballot-box to
''be the only medium between the Englshman's
"heart and the House of Commons 1t is GER
tainy quite evident that if electors can be bought
up where the uiUa system of voting is adopted,
and where, as in small communities, the political
principles of every voter supposed to be tolera-
bly, accurately known, corruption would prevail TO
much greater extent if the vote were taken by
ballot Had Captain SCHENLEY been the only person
expelled, his conduct would, in all probability,
have been attributed by English journals, to
certain disreputabe lessons taught by
American politicians during his long residence
in this country but as three others were also de-
clared to have been guilty of like offence, we are
happily spared the taunt, We wish, however, we
could point to the course pursued in the House of
Representatives by our COMMITTEES on Contested
Elections or by the Committees of Investigation
which have become so frequent of late years, as
exhibiting as decided regard for the cause of good
morals as was evinced by the Committee of the
Hans 49,
referred. If Captain ScHENLEY had expended but
the one-half of one hundred thousand dollars in
eorrupting the voters of the Congressional district
in which he formerly resided assuming that he was
naturalized, and that the voters could be brbed-
it is very doubtful whether he could have been
unseated so promptly.
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CATTLE ON RAILROAD TRAcKs

Aessrs Editors The terrible accident which
happened a few days ago ON the Alexandria Lon.
don and Hampshire Railroad brings to my mind an
incident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which
thought at the time would communicate to the
press. About month ago was returning to Bal
tmore, via Frederick. We had a very long and
much crowded train. When perhaps halfway to
Baltimore, there being an almost perpendicular
bank at the right hand side of the cars, my atten
ton was aroused by the whistle of the locomotive
and the laughing EXPLANATIONS of gentleman be-
hind me, who was looking out of the window.
looked out and saw that the locomotive had Just
passed cow, and was continuing at a speed
thought, of twenty miles an hour. the cow running
In the same direction as the train, and barely room
rocks. Had the end of one of the cars struck her.
as feared at every moment would happen, she
would have been dashed against the rocks and from
thence back on the track, and the result probably
would have been that the train would have gone
over the bank.
A few days after my return friend started north,
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BURGLARY IN Observation-Disclosures CARR, GIEsE
Co., OF this city, have information that a bur
glary was committed in Snyder county, Pa, at
the store OF JOHN NJ RINE situated on the canal at
Mckee's Falls, and about three hundred and fifty
dollars in money and land warrant for 16O acres
stolen therefrom. The land warrant was issued to
Mrs. SusANNAH BARMAN, and was assigned in blank.
Nearly two hundred dollars of the money were in
five dollar bills of the Delaware City Bank, and
some segenty-five dollars on the Bank of Northum-
berland, DC. Fifty dollars reward is offered for
the arrest of the robber.
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE COUNTY
AT the Democratic Convention held at Reisterstown
on Saturday last, the following gentlemen were
elected as delegates to represent that portion of
Baltimore county belonging to the second Con-
gressiona district in the nominating convention to
be held at HavredeGrace, for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidate for said district, viz: John Ba-
con, D. p Magll, Robert T. T. Spence, VIM MAY
and Thomas II. Moore Esors
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THE DAILY EXCHANGE, AUGUST 16 1859

cia the Northern Central. few miles out of Bati-
more COW, to escape the train, ran up bank, and
the locomotive passed her. but she fell back and got
under the passenger cars, and threw them frsm the
track. The forward wheels of one car (which
make sort of platform for the car to rest upon
became so reversed that they partially ripped the
bottom out of the car and nearly let the passengers
on the ground. Providentially the train at that
moment stopped, the loss of life might have been
terrible. There are but two remedies for these ac-
cidents. Either fence in the roads-the proper
plan-or stop the train when animals obstruct the
track. - ".. NJ
Annnsf 18th 1870
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NAVIGATION OF THE HARLEM RUER.-The MAORI
tt{ OF New Workers know hardly more about the
Magellan. Many of them do not know as much,
Tor they learn something about Magellan in their
school days. But the Harlem is beginning to assert
It's claims to attention, and before many years the
mantle banks line of floating omnibusses, pro
PEELED by steam, now carry few adventurous
passengers through its winding course, and under
the huge arches of the High Bridge, but the travel
is very small when compared with the population
OF the city and the attractions of the route The
removal OF McComb's dam and the old bridge has
greatly benefited the river, and when the two
bridges below the aqueduct shall have been recon
structed-a work which must be undertaken before
long-the steamboats,, which now are compelled to
stop at the first bridge, will be able to make the
passage Of the river as far as the crooked channel
viii permit. But the improvements which the
exigencies ofour improving commerce will demand,
are the removal OF obstruc tons in the channel and
canal to connect the waters of the Hudson with
the East river.-N. Y Times.
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5. HARRINGTON,

>. HARRINGTON,
Would respectfully inform old friends and the pubic
IN general that he prepared attend to all orders in his
line of business
lie VIII FARNIsH OR RE-VARNIsH AND Polish OR CLEAN
UP AND POLISH KINDS OF FURNITURE. REpAIR Ann
MoDERNIsE OLD FURNITURE; UPHoLsTER AND Re COVER
DO UP MATTRESSES AND FEATHER BEDS &c sc &c
twenty years practical experience in working the best
FAMILIES in the cities of New York. Philadelphia and Ba
more enables him to suit the scrupulous and to 90 his
ork better and for less money than any other
one this side ofPhiladeIphia
NBAl orders left at his Dwelling, No. 90 Forest street.
with N Hynson Jennings Co, So ~ Charles street
will Immediately attended to. apl-6m
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The "GREAT EASTERN English papers re-
port that the engines of this big Ship are now
erected the propeller is in its place, and the floats
are on the paddle-whees. The machinery, indeed,
Is so TAR complete that the steam has been got up to
try the accuracy of the bearings and so forth. OF
her six masts, the first, fifth and sixth are in and
rugged, The carpenters having put up the deck
bulwarks, the painters are giving the boards the
hrst coat. In a short period the Great Eastern
will be coaled and provisioned, and ready to take
her trial trip to sea-
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tFrom the Albion. ]


A SINGULAR Acknowledgement the curiositias-
not of lterature-but of letters, the Anagram was
wont to be favorite in the days of by-gone gen
Grafton. Who, for instance, has not smiled bandIy
over that famous transposition, which aptly CON
VeTts "Horatio Nelson" into Honor est N.lo'2
The taste, however, for this laborious triilin ba
almost passed away; nor do we propose 70 open the
SUBJ ect OF cabalistic lettering. Our only purpose
IS to offer new specimen of its eccentricities,
which came upon us recently during a vain attempt
to solve certain mysteries that occupy inst now
serious minds. 1t is commended alike to snappers
up OF unconsidered triaes. and to readers who
chance to be imbued with little tinge of supersti
tlous constituencies We strive to hope, that though
almost as curious, it is not SO unimpeachablv ap-
prePriate as the one quoted above. The name, so
much in men s mouths, 'Louis Napoleon Bona
parte,' may by this method be converted into, An
open ptot-arouse Abionl
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To COUNTRY MERCHANTS AND OTHERS. WHO r,

To COUNTRY MERCHANTS AND OTHERS, WHO Buy
HERE AND EtsEwHERE-Having established Agencies in
New York, Philadelphia and Boston, for the sale of nv
ROSEMARY and CASTOR OIL for the growth and pre-
servaon of the HAIR dealers be supplied by any of the
undersigned manufacturer prices
Carey, Sanger & Howard New Y ork.
X. Bazin Philadelphia.
C. W Fowle & Co. Boston
Fred. Hickey & Sons Baltimore
Jseph Boury l. Sons Baltimore
And of the Proprietor, DC DRISCOLL
j3Gtf IS Baltimore straet
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On Monday afternoon, the 18th instant THOMAS WIFE
Ian, in the SD year of his age go
W ti r PoUDER departed this lie the 18th instan
On the I4th instant, A NJ THOMAS only son of Jas and
on the l4th instant THOMAS ELLIOTT in the 47t Y.
of his age - " e nm "a
NJ. Virginia elliott ~ ~ anu
On the 18th instant GEORGE HALL in the 18th wear If
nus agS Also W: H. HALL! in the 18th year his age
On the l4th instant, Mrs BRIDGET HUGHES, AGED 81
years, consort of the late Patrick Hughes =
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ADVER TISING RATES
TO CORRESPONDENTS

No notice be taken of Anonymous Communications
Whatever intended for insertion must be authenticated
by the and address Of the wrterno necessarily
publication, but as guaranty for his good faith
- We cannot undertake return rejected Communica-
tons.
Letters to be addressed "To THE DAILY EXCHANGE
Baltimore, Maryland - .-.
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TEXAS E1rrrInN

All the news received at Galveston up tc Thurs
day, the 4th instant, was unfavorable to the De
mocracy, even from their strongholds. The Negs
(Democrat( of that date speaks in the following
discouraged tone
owe feel indeed that there is reason to be dis
heartened, believing, as we honestly do, that the
election has been decided on false issues-that it,
such as were expressly gotten up to deceive the
people, and we are now firmly convinced that the
time will come when very many of the voters of
Texas will find they have been deceived. But our
motto is that the will of the people must rule,
and we shall accordingly pay our respectful hom-
age to that will, as Gen. Houston said he would
to Fremont had he been elected
The Houston Telegraph heads its returns with an
inverted cannon and exclaims:
.'Ihe city of Houston wrong side up! the country
ruined! What's the news in Travis, Marshall De
Morse, how about the Red river county T? Oh, for
word from 81 Paso! Somebody please send us a
crumb of comfort from somewhere
"The election was held in Harris county on Mon
day. and the Democracy got the worst whipping
perhaps: you ever did see. We do not feel able to
do Justice to the subject to-day. We can only saw
that the Opposition polled a larger vote in this
city than even the most sanguine Of them expect
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f. WHITMAN & Co.,
WAREHOUSE, No. s. EXCHANGE PLACE.
Baltimore

Manufacturers and Dealers in
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY. AND
SEEDS.
Farmers, Merchants and others can be supplied with
ever article in our line the favorable terms
i26-eo3m
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COAL.

Thankful for the patronage extended for the past
TEN YEARS, solicit continuance of the same, are
prepared to supply COAL OF THE BEST QUALITY, guar
anteed equal to any in this market at GREATLY RE
DUCED PRICES
2240 lbs to the ton
Certificate weight sent with each load
J. HENRY GEESE & co,
.. Office South street.
al5tsi Yard Spears wharf
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JoHNsToN's INSURANCE RooMs,
70 and rs SECOND STREET.
MARINE, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
M4RLNE DEPARTMENT.
MERCANTILE Mutual MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YoRK
Assets over
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
EILwooD WALTER, President CgAs NEwcoNR.y p
scrip ao Cash Dividend TO dealers and stockholders in 1858
81 per cent
Hu Cargoes and Freight insured against Marine Disas
tiers on the most favorable terms
Losses adjusted and paid promptly and literally
LYNcHBURG INSURANCE COMPANY OF Va.
Assets
Three Hundred and Eighty Thousand Dollarz
FIRE DEPARTHENT
SECURITY FIRE INSURANCE Company OF New YORK
Cash Capital,
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
seventy FIVE cent of Profits returned Policy holders
annually, thereby reducing the rate of Premium
at least Fifty per cent.
REsoLUTE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NY.
Cash Capital and Surplus
Two Hundred and Forty Seven Thousand Dollars
Dealers receive Sevenyve per cent of profit annually
PHENIx FIRE Insurance COMPANY OF n. Y.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Nearly Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
NEW WORLD FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY OF N. Y.
Cash Capital and suplus,
Two Hundred and Forty Five Thousand Dollars
MoNTAUK FIRE Insurance. COMPANY, OF Ny.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
LoRHLARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY oFN. Y.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Two Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand Dollars
CHARTER OAK INSURANCE COMPANY OF Hartford.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Three Hundred and Forty Thousand Dollars
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA,
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
ALBEMARLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
LYNCHBURG INSURANCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA.
Cash Capital and Surplus,
Three Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Dollars
NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.
Assets
SIX MILLION DOLLARS
Guarantee Fund for the payment of Losses
in the United States
deposited with
DUNCAN, SHERMAN Co,
Bankers,
New YORK
Fire and Life Insurance Policies issued in the above Conn
pany.
Slaves insured at Low rates Of Premium
Policies in all the above old and reliable COMPANIES issued
without the delay of comforting with the parent office
Losses adjusted, and paid promptly and literally /
THoS. D. JOHNSTON,
Agent,
alitu,th&'u 70 and Is Second street
j. h R. CAMPBELL,
..- 22l BALTIMORE STREET, corner OF Charles
Invite the attention of purchasers
TO THEIR RICH AND
MOST ELEGANT SELECTION OF
JEWELRY,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
Which win be sold at exceedingly low prices att
MILLER AND BEAoHAM's
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MUSIC STORE,
No. 10 NORTH CHARLES STREET.
R7- Catalogues furnished application
~ Agents for MARTINS celebrated GUITARS. m2stf