The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-26
C0LrMRrS RAILROAD CONVENTION

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a. and sent to Philadelphia and New York says:
The following resolutions offered by Mr.. Garrett,
President Of the Baltimore aad Ohio Railroad,
adopted:
Whereas, the moderate speed of passenger trains
contributes largely to the economical working,
and consequently to the net results of railway prop
ertv;
Whereas the extraordinary cost of high speed
should command relative remuneration for pas
senger service;
Whereas the experience of the managers of the
railroad system of Europe has adopted this princi-
pie in their tariff of fares as the legitimate result
of their experiences;
Therefore, Resolved, That in order to inaugu-
rate this economical and valuable principle in the
American SYSTEM each through line to competing
points may at its option charge 81 less between
New York and such competing points, all the
trains using schedule time, ii not less than thirty
six hours between Cincinnati and New York, and
forty hours between Chicago and New York.
The time specified above seems to be satisfactory
to the various roads interested and it said be
so arranged to be better adapted to the general
public convenience by all the lines, than any here
tofore adopted. The Pennsylvania road provides
for bold and active competition with the New
York Central by rapid speed, and the Baltimore
and Ohio road, while maintaining moderate
speed provided in the above resolution, will COM
pensate for it by reducing the fare 81 for each pas
senger.
The freight rates occupied but little attention,
although the following resolution passed, viz:
Resolved That committee of one. represent
ing each of the Western roads be appointed by the
| respective companies, to arrange the rates of
| freight eastward bound; that they be instructed
to fix the differences between all rail- rail and
lake, rail and river and rail, lake and canal tran
! sit; and that this committee meet at Dayton,
! Ohio, on the 3lst instant. Also, that repre-
| sentative from each of the four Atlantic lines be
| invited to be present at the sittings of the COM
| mttee.
The convention is still in session, but will proba-
| bly, adjourn tonight.
NAPOLEON III. AND SIR FRANCIS HEAD.
Sir Francis Head, having cut out from the Lon
! don papers, and forwarded to the Emperor of the
French the various letters which he wrote some
months ago in defence Of Louis Napoleon and his
policy, has received in return the following reply,
| which he sends for publication
"PALACE OF THE TUuEEGEs, March 1.-Ny Dear
| Sir francis: | thank you for having collected to-
gether, in order to send them direct to me, the diff
ferent articles which you had inserted in the En-
! glish journals, for you thus give Opportuni-
| ty of expressing to you all my gratitude for the
sentiments of which you have not feared the spon-
! taneous manifestation in my favor. | have seen in
them, and | much touched bv it, a new proof
that my old friends in England have not for
| gotten me, and that they know how much | al
! ways preserve for the English people the es-
TEEN and the sympathy which | felt during my
exile in the midst of them Even in writing to you
| to-day detect myself in recollectirg a happy
time the epoch when, prescribed, saw you in
| England It's that in changing ones destiny one
only changes one's JOYS and sorrows. Formerly the
Affections of exile alone appeared to me- to-day |
see plainly the cares of power, and one of the
greatest of them around me is, without doubt, to
find oneself misunderstood and misiudged by those
whom one values the most, and with whom one de
slres to live upon good terms, (rlrrc bonne intel
Hgence.)
"Thus (ainsi) | consider it very natural that the
parties whom it has been my duty to oppose and re-
press, should bear ill-wil and seek the to
injure me- but that the English, of whom have al
ways been the most devoted and the most faithful
ally, should attack necessarily in the journals in
the most unworthy and the most unjust manner, is
what cannot comprehend; for in truth, (de bonnie
foi,) | cannot discover any interest they can have
in exciting the public mind against France If, in
my own country, chose to act in this manner, it
would be impossible for me afterwards to restrain
the passions which l should have set loose de
chances
81 have always entertained great admiration
for the liberties of the English people; but regret
deeply that liberty, like all good things, should al
so have its excesses. Why is it that, instead of
making truth known, it uses every effort to OBJ
scure it? Why is it that, intead of encouraging
and developing generous sentiments, it propagates
mstrust and hatred?
ri am happy, then among all these manoeuvre
of falsehood (nensoRge,) to have found defender,
who, guided by the sole love Of TRUTH has not hes
itated energetcay to oppose to them his loyal and
disinterested voice.
"Beieve my dear Sir Francis,
''ln my sentiments of friendship,
; "SIR FRANCIS HEAD, Croydon" NAPOLEON
LAST WEEK a New York house advised, from
Chicago, that package marked 50, 600 had been
lost and instructing the house to send on proof
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company would pay it. On referring to their books
they found that the package contained So, 300 and
that in consequence there would be loss of 81 300.
, visit to the office of the express company
made by Of the firm who informed the cOmpa-
ny that he had also interest in the package
its marked value, and that he was about to start
with detective for Chicago, and look into the loss
of the parcel. On this determination on his part,
the express company informed him there was no ne
cessiy for this course as they had his package and
two others since received and had broken the SEALS
hold tba,,, ftp,-
panv offer to return the package, provided the
house gives list of the amounts sent by this ex-
press for the last two years, and pays up the extra
insurance or risks they did not take. 1t is time
that such serious question this. involving as it
- does the largest interest, was settled The ques-
: ton whether or not any carrier has right to
break the seal of packages entrusted to his care,
= and detain them because thcydfer in value from
= the amount for which they have been Insured, can
I not be determined too soon And the other ques-
: ton connected with the same case, whether bank
e e er has right to claim $4,000, when he holds the
{ receipt of the express company for only $4,000,
!, equally demands legal decision.-Phd. Press.
!, MtssrssIppI LEvEEs GIVING WAYNE learn from
is the New Orleans Pjcnyme that the river has COM
it menced washing through the levee at Carroton in
IS several places, in consequence of the planking o
|, the levee being very rotten. The levee above De
h Soto City gave way the 10th, making crevasee
C some five or six feet deep and twenty feet broad
? The Sun adds that several hands were at work
the break at the time of its giving way but in
consequence of the rapid rush of water through the
e crevasee, they compelled to abandon their
work. The azoo river, says the Iazoo Americonl
of the 10th, is rapidly rising at that point and
above; The Mississippi is rising up to Helena, ant
e as high as it last year The evee is broken a
10 Cammack's Landing. The gap is about three hun
" dred yards wide. The river had fallen at Memphis
d about nine inches Thursday The Levees have
If given way in several places in Washington anS
l. Issaquenna counties. The first is Kentucky Bend
OF The is said to be rushing through at fear
le full rate. A. NJ. Gwin's place, at Brunswick
x Landing, has succumbed and the lower portion o
in Washington county, and nearly if not all OF lssa
ms quenna.
O. The Honorable Daniel Cady, Of JohnstoTn
ne Montgomery county, N. Y, awoke last Saturda
ch morning entirely blind He had had severe pan
or in his great and in his temples few days pre-
no viously.
no The Coroners inquest in the case OF the convict
p shot at the Auburn N " Prison riot results Il
ne in verdict fully ustifying the course oil the of
gn GERS Muskets have been sent from Albany to arm
n ,r the guard.
ry Miss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, spreparin
" to establish an observatory at suitable positio
nj within the limits of Nantucket her native town,