The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-08

PRICES IN UrAH.-A correspondent at Great Salt
Lake, to give idea of the price of living there,
furnishes the following rates of 'tari charged by
the merchants of that city:
Grocertes-Tea, 50 per pound; sugar 65970c.
per pound; coffee SOC. @Sl per pound rice 40c per
pound; candles, moulds, 759S0c. per pound; citron
Sl.25 per pound; raisins 81 per pound; dried
apples and peaches 60c. per pound; green apples
So per dozen; common whiskey Ss per gallon; COM
mon MADEIRA wine Sl2 per gallon; cognac brandy
$50 per gallon molasses So per gallon: vinegar Sc
per gallon; canned fruits S3@4 per can; butter 81
per pound; lard 5O@60c. per pound cheese 75c
per pound; pork 60c. per pound; beef l5@20c. per
pound; -four Sl2@l5 per barrel; wood Sl8@2O per
cord
Dry Goods.-Bleached shirting muslin, 45@5Oc
per yard; Domestic unbleached 100000. per yard;
domestic checks, 4Oc. per yard; ticking, 50@75c.
per yard; drilling, 50@60c. per yard; towelling,
75c. @Sl per yard; common calicoes, 4O@5Oc per
yard; t1annels, red and white, $l.25@2 per yard;
coarse satinets, S2@2.50 per yard; common cloth,
slO@15 per yard; merinoes, So. 2.5O@3 per yard lin
en-, S150@2.50 per yard; common silks, S2.50@4
per yard; common delaine, S1@1.25 per yard;
mems coarse boots, Sl2 per pair; fine do. $40 per
pair; gum shoes, $3@3.50 per pair; ladies' CATERS,
So per pair; common ingram carpeting, $3@4 per
yard.
Wages here are about the same as in the States;
SO you can judge how the common people make
their ends meet
The Cincinnati Gazette saws that the business of
"body snatching is carried to an inconceivabe
extent in that city There are four medical schools
in that city, whose dissectng rooms to be sup
piled with bodies. 1t is estimated that from one
hundred to one hundred and twenty-five bodies are
exhumed by professional resurrectonists during the
four months of the year that they are in session.
The price paid for body is from Sl2 to Sl8-ac-
cording to the demand and supply
The Sussex On. J.) Register says that on the
night of the 10th January, (the coolest for many
years,) Aaron Vanalker, aged 60, attempted to
cross the Delaware in skiff, and getting caught
in the ice, he lost his oars, and drifted until after
daylight next morning, when he was rescued near
the ater Gap, after Is hours exposure to regu-
lar Artc temperature, without so much as a
frozen toe or finger.
Capt. John NJ. Otey, Cashier of the Virginia
Bank of Lynchburg, died by paralysis on the 4th
He had been citizen of Lynchburg almost from
Its commencement and an officer of the Bank from
the period of its establishment. In order that the
citizens generally might Join in the funeral services
Mayor Branch recommended that business be sus
pended between the hours of ii and l o'clock.
TELEGRAPHIC FEAT.-0n Saturday evening, the
National Telegraphic Line worked in an .unbrokeI
circuit from New York to Leavenworth, Kansas
and subsequently to Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin.
Messages were sent and received with the SAME
promptness with which they could have been SEN
fifty miles. The distance by the wires to Leaven
worth is nearly 1000 miles. Dispatches were als'
dropped at all the principal cities on the route