The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-20

Mr.. JoHN a. WAsHINGroN.-A paragraph has
been passing through the newspapers to the effect
that Mr. John A. Washington had lost all the
money paid to him for the purchase of Mount Yer
non, in consequence of mortgages and liens on the
estate. An extra of the Mount Vernon Record con-
tradicts this statement, by publishing letter ad-
dressed to Miss Cunningham, Regent of the Mount
Vernon Ladies Association, by Mr.. Alfred Moss
clerk OF Fairfax County Court Virginia, las follows:
''John A. Washington, ESQ, of Mount Vernon. has
title to twelve hundred and twenty-five acres of
land in this county, known as the Mount Vernon
Estate. 1t was conveyed to him by his mother Mrs.
Jane q. Washington, on the 18th of ofSeptember lS49
under the authority vested in her by the will of
her husband, John A. Washington, the elder The
conveyance was in fee, without any charge or
reservation whatever, except to Mrs. Washington,
the fishing shores thereon during her life, and a
charge Of six thousand dollars to Mrs. VIM. F.
Alexander. The property at the time of the con-
veyance was clear of all encumbrances whatever,
and Mr. w Washington, since the said conveyance to
him, has never mortgaged the same or otherwise
encumbered 1t, nor is there any Judgment against
him, or other lien upon the said land, except that
in the deed from Mrs Washington to him as fore
said. The contract between the Regent of the
Mount Vernon Association and Mr.. Washington
is dated the 9th day of April, 1858, and was ad-
mitted to record in this Court on the 10Th day of
April, 1855"
The message Of Governor Sbley, of Minnesota re-
views the financial difficulties under which Mime
sofa has Iabored since she became State. Though
there is still scarcity of money the pressure is
somewhat diminished by the bountifu crops of the
past season, and the crisis is now believed to have
passed.
The loan of the State credit, of s., 900, 900, to
the Land Grant Railroad Companies, is pronounced
a decided failure. and has bV no means accompIish-
ed what was hoped for it, either in providing
means for the issue of 4 safe currency. or ofaidinp
the companies in the completion of the work upon
the roads.
These companies having made default in the nav
the he 4,
the passage of an act giving authority to any State
officer to purchase the property of any such COM
pany as may be sold under foreclosure of the
mortage or trust deed.
The banking system of the State is pronounc-
ed to be worse than useless, and repeal is re-
commended
From the French West Indies we have news
dated at Martinique and Guadaloupe on the 9th f
October. The journals state that the quantity of
sugar of the present season exported to France
from Martinique, up to lst October, was 52,777
casks, and that 323 were to be sent off thew con-
firm the preceding adyices that the prospects of
next years crop are very promising.
RAILROAD MEETING.-The stockholders of the
Maryland and Delaware Railroad held a meeting
at the Courthouse in Easton on Tuesday last We
learn that several offers have been made bv par
ties to contract for the completion of the road and
that the resumption of the work upon the line is
very soon expected.-Easton Star.
The Virginia invasion has been dramatized by
County Constable Little, of Washington, who, as
is well known to MANY Washingtonians varies his
official duties, occasionally, by donning the sock
and buskin, and not unfrequently performs in his
own pieces. He takes the part of "0ssawatomie
Brown" In his new play, which, for want of the
atrical facilities in Washingt gton he is about bring
ing out in Alexandria.
The citizens of Louisa county, Virginia. held a
'large meeting" at their Courthouse on the 18th
inst, and
Resored, That the election of VIM. H. Seward,
or of any member cfthe Black Republican party to the
Presidency OF the United States OUGHT to he in,ma
diately followed by the secession of all the slavehold
ing States from this Confederacy, and the preven-
tlon OF any organization of Federal Administration
under such President
BOARD OF NAVAL ENGINEERs-A Board of Naval
Engineers will meet at the Navy Yard, Philadel-
phia, the 5th of January to examine candidates
for promotion and also those for admission into
that corps Application for permission to be exam
ined for appointment must be made in writing to
the Secretary of the Navy accompanied by testi-
monials of good moral character correct habits
and sound constitution.
ANONYMOUS WARNING- -LErTERs-The Jackson
Mississippian says Governor Pettus has received
through the post-ofce two letters purportinr to be
warning of an insurrectionary movement of
the servile population, which, according to the
writers, had been proposed to be made in Missis-
sipp and portions of Louisiana on the 25th of De-
cember instant.
NEGRO LoYALTY.-A correspondent of the Staun
ton Spectator states that two free blacks in that
town subscribed SIS each to the fund for the Har-
per's Ferry volunteers from Augusta county, and
that number of slaves wanted to contribute and
insisted that they should be permitted to do so
should like occasion ever arise again.
man supposed to be an Abolitionist of dark
! complexion, with black hair, and scar over the
left eye, about five feet eleven inches in height cal
| ling himself James w. Rivers, was taken up on the
| 18th instant by the Vigilant Committee of Gra-
hamyille, 5. c., who had him tarred and feathered
and the right side of his head shaved.