The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-29

h DchNiNt NEdRO AT THE STAKE.-A correspond
emit OF the Maysville Eagle gives the following par
hculars of the burning of negro at Troy, Ky, for
the murder of his master:
On New Yea, $ day the annual negro sales took
place at Troy, the county seat, and there was quite
collection of people there everything went on
smoothly until about o'clock in the evening, when
Mr.. james Galway, brother-in-law of the de-
ceased, mounted upon an old goods-box before
store door, and addressed the people for about f-
teen minutes He said if the mass of the people felt
as he did, and would do their duty, which he be-
lieved they would, that they would take the black
murderer out of Jail and burn him at the stake, in
the presence of all the negroes that were there to
set an example before them, and to show them what
will be the result of all such conduct if there should
ever be such again. Then he closed by saving
"All that feel as do will follow me-" He then
leaped from the stand, and there was a general
shout given, and he led the way to the iail, and
nine-tenths of the multitude followed On arriving
at the Jail they found the sheriff and ailor who did
all they could to suppress the mob, but all to no
purpose.
They now mustered some 800 or l. 900 strono -
They then commenced with sledge hammers, crow
bars and axes and in about an hour entered the
Jail and brought forward their victim 1.-THE negro
murderer) They marched him to the centre of
the jai-yard, drove down large stake and chained
him. in an erect position hand and feet fast to the
stake. There was abundance of shavings and
fine split wood piled around him-this consumed
some half hour. During this time the negro talked
to the negroes that gathered round him. He told
them that he had good master, and that he was
always treated too well and given too many lber-
ties, and for them to take warning in time and
never do as he had done. Then the torch was APP
piled, and he seemed to be entirely Indifferent about
it until the flames began to burn as high as his
knees. Then he began to twist, and snort and
groan and IN about a minute more he commenced
to scream. He gave some of the most hideous
screams that ever heard come from any human
being.
could not stand to see any more and left When
LETT the flame were burning as high as his head
was only spectator, took no hand either for or
against. think that there some 1,50O to
1000 people to witness this dreadful scene and 200
or 300 negroes.
PHILADELpHIA-Mayor Henry presented his an
nual message to the City Councils on Thursday.
The finances OF the city during the past year
have been embarrassed, owing to the insufficiency
of taxes provided for the payment of the appro-
priations to the different departments and for the
discharge of the outstanding liabilities of the pre-
cedng year.
Besides the revenue of the city derived from
other sources, the net amount of proceeds from
taxation needed to provide for the appropriations
of 1858, and for the deficiency of 1857 was about
S2,959,OOO whilst the net amount to be received
from that source under the rate as fixed by Coun-
cils could not exceed 50, $50, 00O The deficiency
thus caused, together with the inadequacy of the
appropriations for the necessary current expenses
of the government, has been provided for BY the
adding to the funded debt of the CITY.
The receipts of the City Treasury during the
past year amounted to S4,744 ,963.A, which, with
the balance on hand January LIST, 1885, made to-
tai of ,OOl. 81. of this sum s5,O35, 1888
have been expended, leaving on the LIST of January
1859, balance of Sl97, 3S3.2O. temporary loan
OF $500, 900 negotiated in November last will ma
ture In March OF the present year-but will be am
ply " provided for by the outstanding taxes.
The statement of the City Controller exhibit
the entire funded debt of the city to mature after
the LIST of January, 1859, to be 500 1888 7O5 3l-of
winch amount S3,l73 1882 are of five per cent
and ST., ,2s1.79 of six per cent. loans In ad-
dtion to such amount the sum of $50 368 ~ has al
ready matured, but has not been presented for nav
ment.
This amount of $40, 1888, 1851 will be increased
by the loan of 5000 900 authorised for the construc
tion OF culverts, but not yet issued.
In regard to the collection of taxes he SUGGESTS
that instead of the rate of II per cent per annum
tor prompt payment of taxes Councils should adopt
the arrangement of allowance of the rate of one
halt OF one per cent. month for the first six
months and charge of one per cent. for the other
six months. The total valuation of property real
and personal, for taxable purposes is Sl55 697 $685.
taxables, $50. The Mayor desires an increase
OF the police force, which now numbers seven hun
dred rnd ten men, and costs yearly $780,, $50.
SIBERIA AND THE AMooR.-From the lights now
before u.s. it is pretty evident that at no distant day
San Francisco will monopolize the greater portion
OF the trade OF Eastern Siberia Mongolia and Mant-
chouria The population of these regions cannot be
lar short OF ten or twelve millions. They are in
want of almost everything except breadstufs. They
now derive their supplies of liquors. tobacco, cot
ton, clothing, cutlery, crockery, sugar, &C., from
Novogorod, distance of several thousand yersts
These commodities are conveyed for the most part,
on sedges and 1t not unfrequenty happens that six
months are consumed In the transit. From San
Francisco they obtain all the necessaries or lux
uries, OF which they may stand in need in less than
two months. The Russian government is project
ing the construction of line of railroad from Cas-
tries Bay; in the Gulf of Tartary to a contingent
AmOOr oh
vlate the necessity of navigating the narrow strait
at the head of the Gulf of Tartary through which
the Russian frigate Diana escaped from the British
heet In 1888 into the Amoor river, and which up
to that time was not laid down any chart or map
the general belief being that saghelien penin-
sular and not an island. By this strait the mouth
OF the river is now reached.
The Amoor may be denominated the Mississippi
OF Northern Asia. 1t is navigable for steamboats,
for upwards of two thousand miles, and from its
head waters to 1rkoutsh goods can now be speedi-
y and securely transported, the distance being no
more than three hundred miles, with lake inter-
venmg some eighty m.es in width, upon which a
steamboat regularly plies Some idea of the set
tlement and growing Importance of the regions
watered by the Amoor may be formed from the fact
that no less than six steamboats, are now employed
in making regular trips from Nicoaiovsk to Trans
Baikalia. 1t is stated by the Revue des Deur
Wondes, and we have no reason to doubt the cor
rectness of its information, for we know that one
steamboat sailed from this port to the Amoor and
there.-Aha California.
A QUEER PAPER.-A traveller, writing to the
Boston Recorder, Civ es account of the northern
most paper in the world, the from soc Times 1t
printed at Tromsoe little island village of about
four thousand inhabitants, the coast of Norway,
at three degrees within the polar circle. The sum
mer sun kindly looks in at the offce-window at
midnight to see that the forms are properly set up
The Times is four PACED semi-weekly sheet, with
only two columns on page, and is about the size
of quarto book form. The style of type is the
Gothic, which mas been discarded in Sweden and,
to a considerable extent, in both Germany and Dem
mark. The latter the only nations which retain
the Gothic handwriting.
In his of Chess for 1858, Herr Lowenthall
has the following passage:
:. "ln India, Mr. Green still keeps Chess alive, and
if we may rely upon his Judgment there is an East
ern as well as Western prodigy He has been
playing series of games with Brahmin, named
Rhumchunder Kurranchicer, who, Mr.. Green
thinks could give odds to any living player We
can hardly expect the Brahmin to visit the West,
or Mr.. Morphy to journey to the East, but if the
latter conquers all the Occidentas who venture to
oppose him, only one thing remains to be desired,
and that is, to the East and W est pitted against
each other"
MARRIED.
on the 9th instant, by Rev. Mr. Doan JNO F. CLARKE
TO Mrs HARRIET CLARKE, all of this city: