The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-21

FROM THE WEST INDIES.


The Cunard West India mail steamship Karnak
Captain Brownies, which left Havana ON the 18th,
and Nassau, New Providence on the 14th instant,
arrived at New York on Tuesday.
The dates are Turks Islands, March 10; San
Domingo, March %; ST. Thomas, the 1st.; Porto
Rico the 2nd: Havana, the 18th, and Nassau, N
P, the l4th of April.
important edict for the importation of foreign cat
tie fowls swine and eggs, for food, for six months
from the Sth instant: in Spanish vessels from Span
ish ports, free of duy in foreign vessels from span
isb norts four per cent ad vaorum; foreign vessels
from foreign countries eight per cent. do. The val
uation for beef CATTLE 500 each; sheep, So each and
swine, Sc each.
for New Orleans with his family, on a months
leave He found on his arrival here twenty-ope
months arrears of labor belonging to his predeces
sors He leaves with every paper and record closed
IN it's day and date, and all covered with tbeir
proper accounts and returns to the Department
The notorious slave-trading captain, Eugenio.
who has been lettering about Havana for some time
past sailed two or three days ago for the coast of
Africa, IN clipper shlp-some say under the Span
ish, others under the Peruvian flag. He is under
stood to have made thirty nine successful VOYAGES
the coast OF Africa, and of course has attained
great wealth.
Sr. THOMAS, April 1.-The British shin Glaumana.
Rodgers, 995 tons, in distress, leaking, mainmast
sprung, loaded with cotton and seed, arrived here
3lst ult.
Our provision market is getting reduced in stock
if we have no arrivals prices must advance
Our quotations will at any rate be sustained
FIour-Philadelphia and Baltimore ST. Brardvwine
aad Ohio SIPS to $3.50; Richmond and George
town $3.50 to IS; meal S.; bread, navy and pilot.
S375 to 81; mess beef Sl4 prime do $40; family
half bbls $3.50 to $40; hams Sl3 to Sl4; butter Isc
to 24c.; lard l4c to l5c No Goldfish in the market
Mackerel, No. 3, $40; tar 81 to 81 so; pitch &c
50 $3.50; spirits turpentne soc. to 55c per gal
lon. White pine lumber SIS to SIG; D. D. d.. $40
to $40; shingles, cedar, $3.50; cypress 1925.
Freights have not much improved, but there has
b,n, inv D. n
Cork and orders, 60 Us. 3d.; brig to New York
from Faardo, with molasses, So so under and So on
deck schooner Arroyo to New York, sugars SOC.
Several freights at these and corresponding rates
for New York and other Northern ports Of the
United States have been made in the last fortnight
Salt freight at Sc 9l0c. per bushel from the sew
eral shipping ports for Northern ports of the
United States.
S4.92]9; Paris, do. $500 to S525 frs United States
bank drafts par, sixty days sight do, per cent
premium three days sight; private bills, sixty days
sight 215 discount.
Health good; weather fine
Mails lst Of each month for the United States,
and on the 18th or 18th do. Same for Europe.
ST. JOINS, PoRTo Rico, April 2.-The employ
ment OF interpreters between the government and
the masters offoreign vessels entering our ports
no longer to be matter of bargain between the
master and the cOnsgnees of the vessel and the in
terpreter, as formerly. The interpreters to be ap-
pointed by the government; to be good scholars in
general, but particularly familiar with the terms OF
commerce, with arithmetic and geography, and
their salaries to be paid by the Experimentation
the port of San Juan de Puerto Rico 81 900; for
the three next ports in Importance, $780, for
Others $3.50 per annum. Charges against every
vessel for interpreter fees will be: For translation
OF each manifest 81, and for each invoice 49, with
the understanding that M invoice translated by
other than the interpreter of the Custom House will
be valid
The charge for manifest will always be 81
Business is toleraby good for the season of the
year.
Our health remains at the winter average
TURKS ISLAND, March l9-James Winter, ESQ,
has been recognized as United States Consular
Agent at West Calcos
There has been very little done during the past
week or ten days in shipping salt. The weather
has, however, been very favorable, and small
quantity has been gathered. The advices last re.
ceived from New York, that salt was worth 2Oc
per bushel, have not caused any advance here-the
price remaining at re to &c., and export duty of
one-half of one cent.
The health OF our ports and country is good and
everything promises favoraby for our peculiar in
dustry. Socially, we are very quiet
The Trinidad Sentinel of March 8 saws that the
brig I. F. Knox, with arms for Gen. Soto, the
leader OF the Venezuela revolutionists, had been
stopped at Cedros, and placed in charge of the In
spector of Police.