The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-31
THE RAILROAD CONVENTION

| The Railway Convention, which met at Wiards
Hotel, Washington, on Thursday morning last, ad-
journed on Saturday morning, after Iaborious
and animated session. The Presidents general Of
fcers, and agents of the four great railway lines
were present, at the convention, which numbered in
all nearly thirty attendants. The accusations of
violating the st. Nicholas compact, which the re-
spectve parties to that agreement brought against
each other and the acrimonious discussion to which
! those charges gave rise have already been pub
! lished in the Washington correspondence of The
Erchdnge. On the last night of the session, Mr..
Moran, ofthe Erie road. refused to treat with Mr..
Corning, OF the New York Central, account of
severe personalities passing between them in the
morning session, and in order te have the meeting
continued to proper conclusion, the Vice Presi-
dent of the Central acted its chiefrepresentative
general attack was made upon the Baltimore and
Ohio road, for its policy of low rates between Bal
tmore and the West-the other parties all con-
demning it. No action was had, however; Mr. Gar
rett declaring it to be his cornerstone resolu-
| tion offered by him to add Molasses and Syrup to
the articles in the fifth Special Glass; was not
adopted. Mr.. Moran, Of the Erie Road, objected to
the entire classification of the Fifth Class as an un
necessary sacrifice, but it was sustained by Mr.
Garrett and was not disturbed. The latter con-
tended that the steady fostering of the Coffee
and Sugar trade would withdraw it from New Or
leans and restore it to the Atlantic cities This
freight is carried to Cincinnati by the four lines for
| twelve cents per cwt. less than freight of the
| Fourth Glass. Some notifications were made in
INC TdteS IN l0e ulHefenceS DY all
and water communications but no serious altera-
tions of the agreement were carried. The Conven-
ion adjourned with the determination to correct all
the errors exposed, and to meet again in New York
| on the I'D of February next An application from
| lhe Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, asking for re-
duced fare from the West, to the New York celebra
tion in April, was presented and advocated by the
Southern lines but was not granted DurinG the
session great results were claimed to have been eff
tected for the past season. in the economical work
ing OF all the roads represented. At the final ad-
Journment the indications were, that each of the
lines was anxious to perpetuate the agreement that
had been entered into.
| The Buffalo Advertiser says that the peach crop
| of Western New York destroyed by the exces-
sive cold of the 10th inst Reliable information
from fruit growers in various parts of the country
shows that on the examination of many hundreds
of fruit buds all were found dead. 1t is a well es-
tabshed fact that the fruit buds of the peach Or
dinarily cannot endure more than about forty-four
degrees of FROST and consequently when the ther
mometer sinks to II, Is, or 20 degrees below zero
the germ of the peach will be destroyed.
! Francis D. Martini of Clinton county. Ohio. has
received in law suit S26l.30 from Eggleston &
N,yee, pork packers of Cincinnati. The amount was
claimed as due for lot of hogs which weighed
before leaving home 80 63l lbs nett, after deduct
ing the usual allowance for decrease in weight after
they started for market The defendants paid for
2S,779 lbs. The defendants have given notice ola
| appeal
Mrs. Rogers. the wife of Henry D. Rogers, of
ilttaoawassee, Michigan, has been presented with
six hundred and forty acres of land by the State
legislature because she gave birth on the lst inst
to four healthy chdren-three girls and one boy.
1t is stated in the Buffalo Commercial that there
are ftythree steam canal boats built and in process
of construction for the. coming season of naviga-
tion on the Erie Canal.
At the late Democratic Convention, at Frankfort,
KY, there were 672 delegates who consisted of
Governors, IA Generals, 493 Colonels 81 Majors,
80 Captains, lS Squires. The candidates were all
Colones.
Mrs. Charles Dennis, of Syracuse, New York,
was fatally burned on Wednesday by an explosion
OF camphene lamp.
The English thoroughbred stallion "Flying
Dutchman" has been sold to the French Govern
ment for S2l 600.