The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-20

joined article gives some interesting details of the
late achievement of carrying the mail in ten DAYS
from San Francisco to st. Joseph, Mo. We gave
summary of the news received by this mail in the
EXCHANGE of Monday last. The official dispatches
from Commodore Tatnall to the Government bv
this conveyance are now due by the regular
mail.
The st. Louis Democrat of April 16 SAYS We re-
cord to-day of the grandest triumphs in the an
mails of American enterprise. The California news
presented an ertenso to our readers this morning
was made up in the city of San Francisco, express,
ly for the Democrat only little more than n week
ago. 1t left that city at p. NJ. on the Sd instant
by steamboat, arrived in Sacramento, the capital
OF the State, on tn morning of the 4th came
twenty-seven miles by railroad to Folsom thence
twenty-nine miles by stage coach to PlacerviIla
and thence by relays of horses eighteen hundred
miles across the continent. Thus it came Avino
from station to station-empl0ying thirty-six cour
iers and nearly one hundred horses on the trip-to
the Missouri river, and BY railroad to this citv
By the free use of the telegraph every city in the
Union was at an early hour on Saturday morning
placed in possession of news from the Pacific Ocean
only ten DAYS old. Had not the wires unfortu-
nately given out on Friday evening" the news
would have been received in New \ ork the same
evening, or only nine days old. We have hopes
that the ar-famed Adriatic, which left New York
on Saturday for Europe, will cross the ocean in
ten days, and thus deliver California news in Eng
ihuu NltHlH twenty udyS. lllS Will complete the
triumph, and the moral results cannot fail to ava
ken profound sensation. When we compare this
fast time with the long and: tedious journeys be-
tween Cali and the Atlantic States of other
days, it almost seems like dream Going back
ten years the emigrant trips across the plains used
to occupy from four to six months Ninety DAYS
was the shortest trip known up to 1853.
lI .ARRoNA.--A gentleman who formerly resided in
Dubuque, but who is now an officer in the II. :
army, wrote to friend his opinion of Arizona 90
follows ''We have just travelled over the mucb.
talked-of territory lof Arizona. Such another
Godforsaken, untimbered, unwatered and unfnish.
ed country, never before fell under my vision and
my optics have run over good deal of what i
called bad country. The only thing that grows
with any luxuriance is the pillar cactus. Some of
these plants are thirty and forty feet high, and.
with their straight, uneaved columns. look az
barren as the country around them. As To The
stories that are told of the agricultural attract;on
of the territory, they are all lies. | believe that
Gcd in His wisdom, has supplied these hills With
considerable mineral wealth, but beyond that tber
are worthless. ''-DubuqUe Times.
PAwNBRoKER's BANK.-Tbe Pawners' Bank re-
Gently established in Boston, for the purpose of
efecting loans personal property at fair rates.
is doing a good business, and affords much relief
to persons whose circumstances oblige them to
raise money in that way. The loans range from
twenty-five cents up to thousands Of dollars.