The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-20


A slip from the Provincetown, Cape Cod, Banner,
gives the following melancholy intelligence:
eve are at last reluctantly compelled to admit
that there is little or no hope that the three miss
ing 'Bankers'-the Mountain Wave, James Porter
and Palestine-of this place, will ever return
They must have foundered in the severe gales of
October and November, as otherwise something
would have been heard of them this. By this
disaster half dozen families in Provincetown are
bereft OF husbands and fathers In vessel there
were three brothers by the name of Kilburn. In
all, some twenty-four pc, sons supposed to be
lost belonging in various parts of the country
These vessels were good and staunch and would
not have succombed to any ordinary storm or sea.
There was but little insurance on the vessels 1t is
common to lose vessel year from a given
town, but to lose three is calamity of an unusual
character.
From BERMUDA.-By the arrival of the brig r. NJ.
MAYHEM, from Bermuda, files of the Royal Gazette
to Jan. 4 have been received. The Gazette, in re-
chronicle of Bermuda:
ga serious falling off occurred in the expectation
OF vegetables during the year. The sweet potato
crop, owing to frequent and heavy rains, in great
measure was failure. A severe gale on the oath
of October visited in its strength our little island
and swept over nearly the whole Atlantic Ocean,
causing much destruction to life and property on
land and sea. An unusual visitor, earthquake,
called on US during the year, doing no damage,
however, except the frightening of a few nervous
ones. Ship building is in a Furnishing condition;
the keels of several handsomely modelled and sizea
Bile vessels have been laid down. and their hulls are
nearly completed. In Parliament, which com
menced in May, several wholesome and important
laws were enacted and some amended; amongst the
latter we may mention the Election, the Education
al, and the Imprisonment for Debt bills
Hiram Powers was savagey assaulted in Florence
on the nth OF December. A private letter to the
Charleston Courier SAYS:
=, "There is young American here, painter,
the name OF M, who is deranged. On the 18th,
he came near killing Mr.. Powers, who. was en-
deavoring to persuade him to return to his resi-
dence. He inflicted blow on the face of Mr. Pow
ers, and endeavored to draw a knife, but was for
tunately disarmed by NJ. P. He was taken to the
office of the American Commercial Agent and the
affair is yet under consideration. His friends are
watching him as closely and delicately as possible,
and all are anxious to avoid the Necessity of com
initial either to the prison or hospital"
The trustee of the Cumberland City Banrekre-
ports its liabilities at S24 6933l, of which 1923 1857
consists of notes in circulation, and S83631 of
bankers and depositors Its assets are set down at
1904, of which Sll ,603.02 are doubtful and
worthless, ''from which something may be realized
after awhile;" S3,418.50 in cash, S22 SO3 OF con-
sldered good, and 81 ,6l2.45 banks and bankers 1t
Is proposed to make dividend at an early day. and
therefore noeholders and other creditors must file
their claims with the trustee, and receive certif-
Gates before the 1st of March. The assignment
makes preference in favor of noteholders and de-
postors