The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-09
IMPORTS AT BALTIMORE.
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POLITICAL,

The Governor of Florida in his message to the
Legislature of that State, recommends a re>or-
ganlZation OF the militia system, and the enforce
ment Of the patrol laws. In reference to the con-
dition of national affairs, he says:
Florida, as the youngest and least pnpulous of the
Southern Sovereignties can only follow in action
the lead of her sisters, yet this constitutes
why, at a time demanding the freest confer
ence and trankest expression among those joined by
a common destiny, she should remain silent. =
believe that her voice should be heard in % tones
not loud but deep" in favor of eternal separa-
tion from. those whose wickedness and tanaticism
forbid longer to live with'th in peace and safe
ty. There good grounds for the hope that
most OF the Southern States will not consent to see
the General Government pass into hands avowedly
hostile to the South. such is their purpose it is
not unlikely that they will prepare for the emer-
gency of the approaching Presidential election.
During the past year the receipts into the State
Treasury have been Sl06, ,022. .35. Expenditures
Sl0i, ,S79l2. The Governor recommends more
economy in the management of the financial affairs
of this State. In the matter of internal improve
ments he says State has accomplished more
in so short time, thAre being now about $50 miles
of road graded and about go miles of iron rail
laid upon which the running daily, and
the iron purchased to complete the balance of the
roads graded
d. Hailston Read, of Charleston s. c.. has in
troduced a bill into the South Carolina Legis-
lature for the better arming and defence of the
State.
The bill provides for the creation of a Board of
Ordnance to be composed of the Board Of Visitors
of the State Military Academies, and four other per-
to be elected by that body. This Board is to
examine the condition of all ordnance, stores, mu-
nitions and equipments belonging to the State, to
take the proper means for their preservation. All
purchase Of ordnance, &c, is to be made under
their direction.
The Board is to have power to purchase sites and
erect arsenas at Georgetown, Anderson, and per
haps other points, which they empowered to
complete and stock with arms, &c.
The Charleston Mercury opposes the passage of
mere resolutions. 1t says let the Legislature pass
| only resolutions of action. These may be three:
| !. To arm the State. 2. TO decline any caucus
or Convention with any Northern State 3. To
| vote for candidate for the Presidency or Vice
| Presidency, who does not distinctly support the
! rights of the South.
THE SHOOTING OF G. G. Po1NDExrER, AT NASHVILLE.
1t appears from the examination of Allen A.
! Hall charged with killing G. G.. Poindexter,at
! Nashville, that the latter started out with the in
tention of assauting Mr.. Hall, account of a card
which he had published in the Ne'es. He had been
provided with pistols the day before His plan on
| the morning of the encounter was to call at Halls
Office, slap his face strike him with his umbrella;
and then, If necessary, use his pistols. Hall was
standing at the door when Pondexter approached.
| PoiudeXter did not expect to meet him there, and
suddenly changed his purpose, with regard to the
mode of the assault, and drew pistol. AS he was
advancing, Hall told him to stop. Poindexter paid
no attention to this order, and Hall fired
In the Massachusetts, House the following section
to the bill regulating divorces was adopted:-"A
divorce from the bond Of matrimony may be de-
creed in favor of either party for extreme cruelty
I or desertion by the other, provided the deserton
shall have continued for five consecutive years. and
in favor of wife deserting her husband, when il
appears that such desertion shall have continued Ol
three consecutive years, and caused by gross
| wanton or cruel neglect of the husband to provide
suitable maintenance for'her, he being of sufficient
ability to doso."
Section was also amended by adding to thu
LaIst
intoxication contracted after marriage, cruel anc
| abusive treatment"
DR.. Gouyon, a French surgeon, recommends
new and singular method of cure for the choleri
! viz: making the patient swallow certain guam
tity OF grains of zinc, tin, iron etc., of the size
a cherry-stone. Their ingestion into the intestina
tube would then lead to the formation within thu
stomach of a voltaic pile which would generate ar
electric current calculated to stimulate the system
and restore vital sensbiity to its previous tone
| DR.. Gouyon goes further still, and would have hi
cholera patients swallow whole chaplets of thes,
grains.