The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-09

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! back at four O'Clock. He asked witness to leave
! draft that was accepted and message at another
| American house. which DONE About three
| O'Clock, when witness returned from dinner he
! found deceased suspended from rope behind the
| door. He called Mr.. John Charlesworth, archi-
tect whose place is in the building, to his as
sistance. He was cut down speedily as possible,
and medical man sent for, but all efforts at restor
alton were in vain. The jury returned a verdict
that the deceased hanged himself whilst in un-
Stowell has left widow to deplore his loss
Manchester Eraminer. Aug. 23d
EXPERIMENTS DURING THE AURoRA.-We were seat
ed in the magnetic telegraph office on Friday
night last, about the time of therappearance of the
aurora bOrediis-between and 10 o'clock and our
attention was called to experiments which Mr..
sees, the operator was making. In order to test
the relative election power of the electricity wh.
the aurora was at its height, or rather the most
brilliant, he moved lille lever (calcd the circuit
Dreakerl, which plays over brass plate hav-
ing an ivory knob in its centre, and which is
used for the purpose of breaking off the connection
between the several wires this lever VAS moved
to the ivory knob, there would be most brilliant
sclntlatOns, and by keeping it over the knob some
fifteen or twenty seconds the ivory became igritad
to flame, and was considerably burnt, emitting
strong smell. This was repeated several times and
with different results-varying with the briliancy
OF the d"rora-and after GS disappearance Mr.. :.
continued the experiment, but without percpiying
anything unusual. We give this simple statement
leaving the scientific to measure and davelope any
Importance 1t may contain.-HGTris6"rg Telegraph.
N P ot 1 HT ihNI or VgAlN
The ORGANIZATION Of coroman f no =, Ys
establishing a line of Steamships hat,rcnb III.
,ort o,J IT, u. g - ''''' "s''cCh I"'.
satsfaction to o%%c nort" g I'e stt@'
- I'll III a. W II &c iol I"n "i the community
IL L; ~ .lle podi" - 0 uirec'1is erected YESTERDAY.
WH wien comprises george Ii; Stuart, ;. Morris
" alhi W. w baloWIn, Inaries Manchester, ana
.h Jo!lh huEar ihomSon, eHlcleht action may he an
ticipated in obtaining the capital stock for the ell
teFprlse Wlth such steamships as are contemplate
"a, anu Mlth the aoilly 10 pass goods through our
nuStolh IlouSe a lS low hgGfe as 1t can be done
III we" iorN, ,here can De no laliure TO secure both
profitable Phadel hia has vast interest in this
subject, and so, indeed, has the whole State
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1t Is Sald by the United States Eco""miio be pro
Daoie mat the exports OF the coming year may be
PushGu 10 ihree ana quarter millions at price
equal to that of 1851, say average $50 per bale
and ten millions of dollars and impart 10 the Soutb-
ern section OF the country greater degree ofpros
PETTY Inan ever YET leH 10 us lot' iha chafacter
oi the Northern business will probably change II
Is always the case that rise in the value Of the
material induces change from coarse to foe
material into the fabric. At the same time the
cheapness of food, which ayors the development of
city business at the expense OF the agricultural
sections, causes demand for the finer qualities Of
cloth rather than the coarser kinds The demand
for material Is once more active since the settle
ment OF the peace questions, and the industry Of
the manufacturers is daily on the increase.
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IMPORTS OF DRY GooDs.-Therc is an enormous
increase in the impors of drv goods at Nay, York
thus far for Is 50. as compared with former years
Thus
First eight months of 1855 .' ~ n f9I 2il
First eight months of 1859 Observation-Disclosures. .Sj95GG4
The importations still continue to BE- very large,
and the New Iork Courier, spseuating on the sub
Ject, says that great proportion of these goods
much larger proportion than has been usual for
some years--s imported on foreign account; AMI
it is not as if our own merchants had put them
selves under obligation to pay for them, whatever
OUR CLAIMS AGAINST New GEANADA.-The Official
paper of Bogota publishes cor plcte list of the
claims of the United States citizens AGAINST that
government. They add up as follows:
Proportion of Columbian claims S2I29 223l7
Granadian reclamations. 423 600 90
Do for 18th of AnriL IS56 G3I rS7 ~
Total, S3 1872 91Ge,
Among the items we notice a claim of SI59T4S91
by the steamship company and SlSS,5 SO BY the
Panama Railroad Company, for damages during the
sedition, and S52,l9O by the L. ). mail company.
for pecuniary losses during the riot.
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CoNGREssIoNAL NoMINArIoNs.--Thc Democratic
Havre-dc-G Grace on Thursday, and on the third bal
lot nominated Col Ramsey McHcnry, of Hartford
county. The following gentlemen were his
Pettors VIM. W. Dallas, OF Carroll county; Col.
" m ,. Cuttings, OF Baltimore county; and G.. N.
Eldridgc, Of Cecil county. On motion, the nomina-
tion of Col. Mcllenry made unaEimous.
On the same day, the Democratic Convention ia
the 9th district met at Cumberland aud renomi-
who is ibe 1,resant ronrnsarta taifir, "
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DEsTRUCTIyE FIRE IN NoHFo1y VA ds..r-,a
five fire occurrad in Vorf,iI obop, f, ;,Iol a.
wednesday morninr drstrorino VocLo,,ir.. uali
and six large stores The loss is csfimato5 Of
$50 OOO with considerable insurance on thc bnd-
m pnno f ~ EIi1 ~ ooo
On Which tbnre I,,s M ia, r. 81 ] ]
oncwniod b Co".dor,1 W. hn nlo E. ~ d,-i4
Cno W = E"t i ~ ,e q J,' ~. u. @
Eins' furnitnra waTeroon,s, Waite. 4 Co I,+,
hanocrs. Prnncr's restaurant. prdtI ;. rsstai,rnt
onJ Tril,,an,ss ilI,oo star. oil ar ~, r., .:ii
" injured.
OLp Wurrry Many of o,,r rc,dor, ~, d,,bt
racoIIact I.0ld Whit; ), tb h, C,r 1,,i
rode at the b,ttir Of Rnono WI, WLfs a,
Ianoir = c,u JaT,s o,,o q ,t,a+io,,, fa,,.J n
f CI 1y;II;o' co " '> ''I,' ,"g
ybicb tho yiJaro Of Icnnir CnI3oI, ,,i r
stands abont tSa war iS@i and WAS ttan b, ino