The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-26

SINGULAR CAv1NG.-The following letter from
planter Of West Baton Rouge La, in the Advocate.
describes singular and remarkable caving of the
banks of the Mississippi river in that parish The
writer says:
About three hundred yards below the point known
as La Blancs, the caying began about sun up, and
when arrived there, at eight o'clock, it had gone
IN about half an acre in depth, and was crumbling
in rapidly. The noise made by the crumblng Of
the earth was so continuous that it resembled dis
tant thunder. When ] returned at shutdown it had
taken in the house of the widow Godeau at least an
arpent from the bank, she having but barely time
to escape, having saved only half her furniture 1t
had also taken in large oak tree behind the house.
at least seventy-ive feet in height which had dis
appeared entirely, and the cavng extended back to
an old gin some distance in the rear. Upon measur-
ing with line the next morning, the depth at the
mouth was found to be eighty feet; where the
house stood it was seventy live feet and fifty feet
near the bank where it had caved as il was safe to
approach. BY the known lines of the proprietors
in front, it it about hundred and eighty to two
hundred feet wide and two hundred and fifty steps
or seven hundred feet in depth.
When examining the cave to ascertain its proba-
BILE cause, We found that two springs were issuing
forth from the point where it had caved, one Of
them dlscharging quicksand, until by the abrasion
OF the current the body of it had been reached and
discharged into the river thus producing the crum-
bling OF the bank. Another conjecture was that it
might be the ancient bed of a stream which had in
former years flowed out from the Mississippi at this
point. =.
The house taken was one of the oldest in the
parish, and has been standing nearly half century
and no caving has been known to have taken place
at this point, of any Importance within the memo
~ of the oldest inhabtant
CROP AND WEATHER NEws.-The news REGARDING
the growing crops being of vital Importance, we
make it our business each week to obtain all the
reliable information we can with reference to them
and give 1T in a condensed shape under this head.
Until Monday the weather had been dry, and rain
was neededin this locality. Monday night and yes
terday morning heavy and general rain fell,
thoroughly saturatng the EARTH and greatly ben
citing the corn and grass.
The adyices which have reached US during the
week, are, without an exception, favorable for
corn, and there to be little doubt entertained
by the agricultural classes, that the crop must be
good one, with favorable weather in September
In Illinois, advised, that so sure do the far
mers feel of big crop, that they have already com
menced feeding it to hogs. The grass is growing
rapidly and the indications of excellent fall pastur
age are now as favorable be desired. As re-
CARDS the yield of wheat, we have only to repeat
what we have before stated, that it is below what
was expected, and considerably below an AVERAGE
in this State, Indiana and Kentucky, and though
better in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, yet is not ex
cessve. .i.,:.t ~. .f-.f.. '.s.. =.
Late potatoes are doing better than was EXPECT
cd and the crop under the present favorable weath
er promises well.-Cincinnati Price Current
AN EDITOR IN PURSUIT OF HIS PocKET-BooK-Th
editor ofthe Nashua Telegraph gives readable
chapter of his experience in Boston on arecent oc-
casion: ..t I'D. -l..... .-.I ..-s....
''The other night, when we stayed in Boston, we
got up in the morning-(a very singular conci-
dence, some people may think) land came down
into the office Of one of the big hotels when we
suddenly discovered that our pocket book was miss
ing from its accustomed pocket There was rather
lively getting up stairs, on the part of this de-
ponent. Everybody knows, in state of excite
ment how very active the mind and imagination
are. As we mounted the stairs, we queried with
ourself, are we robbed individualY Has some
scamp OF 'nlpper thief been practising his art
our costY and various other queries equally unan-
swered and unanswerable, at that instant, rushed
through our mind. And then we imagined if it
was so, what our city contemporaries would say of
1t. One, to add meanness to the robbery would
head his paragraph, "A Country Editor Robbed
Another, to add Nervousness to the crime would
startle the world with, "a Country Mayor Robbed
Another to excite indignation and curiosity too,
would commence an 'Atrocious outrage And so
we went Oh, and, before we had run through the
probabilities in that regard we had reached the
room we had occupied, and there was the pocket
book all safe and sound. But there wasn't much
money in it," ...
ANCIENT BEEswAx.-T The Houston (Texas) Tele-
graph, says: .r.
The stage driver and passengers on the last trim
from VelascO picked up a number of cakes of bees
wax, along the beach, Similar waits have been
found from time to time since residence on
the lsland-2l years. We are told that vessel
reghted entirely with wax for the use of the Cath
ollc churches in Mexico, foundered in the Gulf in
1883, and these cakes are supposed to have formed
part of the cargo, and to be freed by the gradual
decay of the hull.
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