The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-11

miserable paper money, which sooner or later must
| bring to condition of bankruptcy"
| The Carnival festivities were duly celebrated
with all the semi-barbaric ceremonies of the occa
sion. But that which augmented the charm of this
Carnival, says the Ruvue de Commerce, the idea
| of caricaturing the court of SOulouque.
Nothing could have been more ridiculous than
that courty procession, surrounding the mock EN-
peror, and marching through the streets, with its
train of dukes duchesses counts countesses, barops
and other of the nobility of the deunct empire.
| Other maskers represented Soulouque fleeing
from the kingdom, bis fright and terror, his appeal
ing to his fetish idols for succor, and other facts
| connected with his downfall.
| USEFUL INFoRMAToN.-The washerwomen of
| Holland and Bel GUM, so proverbially clean, and
| who get up their linen SO beautifully white, use
refined borax a washing powder ntead of soda,
in the proportion of a large handful of borax pow
der to about ten gallons of boiling water. They
save in soap nearly one-half All the large washing
establishments adopt the same mode. For laces,
cambria, ETC., an extra quantity of the powder is
used, and for crinones (required to be made very
stiff, strong solution is necessary. Borax being
neutral salt does not in the slightest degree njure
the texture of the linen; its effect is to soften the
hardest water, and therefore it should be kept on
every toilet table. To the taste it is rather sweet
is used for cleaning the hair excellent dentri
ce and in hot countries is used with tartaric acid
and bi-carbonate- o. soda a cooling beverage.
Good tea cannot be made from hard water; all wa
ter can be made soft by adding tea-spoonfu of
| borax powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water
in which it should boil. The saving in the quantity
of tea used will be at least one-ffth. To give the
| black the flavor of the green tea, add single
leaf from the black currant tree-Seiemtifc Amer.
Mr.. Joseph Wyon, promising young medast,
the and grandson of excellent engravers, has
received the appointment of Chief Engraver of Her
Majestys Seals.
According to an Official estimation of the dia-
monds of the of France, their value 81 000,
600 francs. In that amount, the Regent is set
down for II, 900, 900 francs.
The number of ENGLISH who nprmanentlv reside
in Paris is estimated at 10000. The last returns,
however, show that they have dwinded down to
1000.
The Earl ofArlie has been installed as Lord
Rector of Marschal College and University, Aber-
deem, in the presence of distinguished assembly.
| DARING OUrRAGE.-On Tuesday night as the
jailor of the Ross County Jail, in Chiicothe,
away in attendance at a wedding, leaving only
servant girl to guard the building man wearing
a mask succeeded in etfecting an entrance and
Selling the young woman, he pointed pistol at
her breast and demanded the keys Of the cells
threatening to shoot if she did not comply with his
request The terrified girl delivered them to him,
and he forthwith proceeded to liberate Cadwallader
| Wallace, who was awaiting his trial for murder
and two other cuprits, who confined in ad-
joining cells, when the whole party made off, and
at our last advices had not been recaptured. Gin
| Com.
| The March term of Howard County Court closed
| quite unexpectedly on Monday last at IL o'clock.
Judge Brewer arrived in the morning train at half
past 9, when the Court was opened and the trial of
Adam Link, indicted for receiving stolen goods,
taken up After brief trial, the case given
to the Jury, who soon returned with a verdict of
''not guilty" Judge b. then rose and discharged
the Petit Jurors, and sentenced the prisoner at the
bar to five years and three months in the peniten-
tiary, for stealing bacon, on which charge he had
been found guilty last week. The Court then adj
ourned, and Judge, Jurors, loungers and witnesses
cleared away in the II o'clock train.
STEAM FIRE Notwithstanding to the Report
of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of St.
Louis, the expense Of the Department has been
for the year-that of the old system of hand
engines about $4,000. But the losses by fire
have fallen from ST, 1902, $50 to S211 ,623-showing
a saving of over a million of dollars to the property
owners and the insurance companies. The eompa-
MES have reduced their rates of insurance one
| fourth, and have purchased and presented to the
Department two steam fire engines, at a cost of
| Sll,000 SO far as the experience OF st. Louis is
concerned, the great superiority of steam fire en-
gines over the old system is decsivey established.
POSTAGE TO TURKS IsLANDs.-It is no longer ne
cessary to collect in the United States any British
postage upon letters addressed to Turks Islands,
| and forwarded in the mails to st. Thomas, arrange
ments having been made by the British Post Office
for levyng and collecting such postage on the de-
hyerlng OF the letters at destination. In future,
therefore, the United States postage only is required
to be prepaid upon letters for Turks Islands, which
is III cents the single rate if the distance does not
exceed $500 miles; and 20 CENTS if the distance is
over z, 500 miles, ash. Union.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal says that
some OF the young men engaged at the Overland
| Mail station on the Utah route making them
selves very comfortable building houses of cedar,
erecting ice-houses and filling them, gardening,
hunting buffaloes and preserving their meat A
few days since, of them sent in an order for
some agricultural implements, flower seeds, rifles,
and copy of Webster Unabridged! The last-named
article will certainly be novelty among the bufa-
loes and Kioway Indians.
TExAs-The New Orleans papers contain ac-
counts of additional murders and robberes by In
dians. The st. Austin State Gazette of the 26th ult.
says that hostile Indians are ranging all over Lam
pasas county.
Gov Runnels has not dismissed the Rangers as
was reported. They will be in service for six
Ford, at last dates in hot pursuit of party of
CaddO Indians who have murdered several persons
near the Lower Reserve.
A Galveston paper exposes cheats in the Cotton
trade. 1t says: "Our letters from Liverpool are
full of complaints of false packing, mixture of cot
ton of different grades in the receipts from Texas.
There was also, in many instances, censure upon
inequality of staple, founded perhaps, upon the
fact that many planters have been changing their
seed for part of their crop, and then putting diff
erent picklngs together Unfortunately, when
ginning.
ing notice of the death of Sarah Holly, of that
place: ''The widow of Christopher Holly, free
woman of color was buried yesterday: She died.
owning thousand of good land and thirty
negroes. Her husband lived town very many
years. and was esteemed a gentleman. Holly and
his wife as black as any of their slaves, and
always conducted themselves WELL"
CUBAN SUGAR PLANTATION BURNED.-The Portland
Advertiser of Wednesday says: awe learn that let
ter has been received by firm in this city from
Havana, dated 30th ult., stating that despatch
had been received from Cardenas, giving informa-
ton that several sugar plantations had been des-
troyed by fire, and that twenty or twenty-five 9TH
ers werethen burning"
Allegany County Bank was organized on We'd
nesday last; fifty thousand dollars was subscribed
to the capital stock of the Bank and the amount
paid for in gold, and duly certified according to
law by the Commissioners 1t will take some thirty
days before the Bank will be ready for business
Aueganian.
EXAMINATION OF MIDsHIPMEN.-A board of officers
consisting of Captains Fl. HI. Bell, W. NJ Glendy
and Franklin Buchanan, and Commanders R. F.
Pinckney and John Rogers, has been ordered to
final examination of the class of midshpmen which
graduated in 1885, Wash. Star.
NRw GRANADA MIssIoN.-The rumor that Hon.
R. j. Ryan, of Indiana, has been appointed minister
to Bogota is incorrect. Ex-senator Jones, of Iowa.
has recently withdrawn his decension, accepted
the appointment, and is preparing for his de-
parture- Wash. Star.
Deputy United States Marshal Tyler, who killed
Captain Jones, of the brig Concord, while in the
discharge of the duties of his Office, has been sem
fenced By the United States District Court of De-
troit to one months imprisonment and to pay
fne of one dollar.