The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-12


turns show the following result:
Main Stem. Wash Branch N. W. Va. Total,
Mar 1860 800 ,sS7S1 40 2947O 29,3545l 54s7.oS
Increase. 25,aS5Ol ........ 49,. 2l,5O2 40
The financial year of the Company commences
with October. Comparing the revenue so far
of the present with that of the past fiscal
year, the following result is shown:
1859. 1S5S
October SAG, 500 81 1891 S95 10
NoVeHDtr..... ........... 431 ,2S7.56 3SOS7975
peoehocr''''. ...'...'..... 355,6621S 336, 202 %
1860. 1850
January .''''.......... S2S2,07O64 1914 2Ol 90
March $ $321s3a y sOS 6Slas
s2,2n18O7e $2,127, 2e4 e5
2,244, lSO.79
Increase present fiscal year. sS614
The transportation Eastwardly, into the City of
Baltimore, during the month of March, on some
OF the principal staples, has been as follows:
Bark AZ Tons Lime .......... . Tons
Coal ........3l,3 S4 " Live Stock, viz:
Flre brlck...,. 81 " 1899 Hogs....
tlreWood....... -. a. 2l59 Sheen
Llour...., ..43,979 bbls. $50 Horses
Grain. 1,097 Tons. and Mules.
G In 60 2,4s4 Horned
iron ........... 1873 " Cattle
Iron ore & man, Meal and Shorts Asa
ganese ..... 699 " Pork and Bacon 5,O56 -
Lara Butter. 9l7 " Tobacco. $50 hhds.
Leather ........ 299 d" Whiskey..... 14,OSl bbls.
Cotton $685. bales Muscular eous l. 2s9 Tons
Mool'..:..... sS - Hay............ 121 -
Flaxseed ...... 1 Tons Hemp. ....... s
Soapstone " Flour from W.
Lard OIL" BY " Branch ........2,7 100 bbls.
Lumber 1916 q" Copper 0rc....... Tons
The following business transacted
A letter was received from Henry S. Taylor, Esq,
resgning his position III the Board, which was
accepted, and Richard II. Miles, Esq, elected in
his stead. committee waited on Mr.. Miles and
informed him of his election, and invited him to
attend the meeting of the Board. He appeared,
and on taking the required oath he admitted
to seat. No..
The Committee on Transportation and Machinery
reported series of resolutions, directing the
mOval of various frame buildings connected with
the horse department, deeming the same necessary
as security against fire. Also directing the cree
ton of tire-proof buildings Pratt street. on the
site OF the frame structures recently destroyed by
fire. Also recommending the adoption of the re-
port of q. III. Parker, Engineer, in reference
to the railroad track through Washington city to
connect the Washington branch with the Southern
connections. Also recommending reduction of
70 per cent. on all freight sent from Baltimore and
Washington to be used in the erection of the Pres
byterian church at Beltsville Also recommending
the building of ten additional large rstclass stock
cars
The regular monthly report of the Master of the
Road was submitted and referred to the appro-
pirate committee. ....
NEW BOOKS
FROM ApplelOnS TO-, new i OK ana London;
for sale by James S. Waters:
VOYAGE Down THE AMoOR. With Land Journey
through Siberia and incidental Notices of NIanchooria
kamschatka and Japan. BY PERRY MCDONoUGH COLLINS,
United States Commercial Agent at the Amoor Riycl |
vol, l2mo, PIP. $40. 1861
Some books of travel derive their chief interest
from the novelty ofthe regions explored--others from
the personal character and adventurous disposition
of the writer and his art in telling his story, while
the best and rarest are those which combine all
these sources of attraction. The volume before us
is not of this description, however, for although
| Mr.. Collins occupies new field and does not lack
energy and perseverance, he falls short in the i'm
portant matter of authOr-craft and his work fails
! to present any stronger claim to attention than
that which belongs to new views of strange lands
| although unsatisfactory. Judging by his name we
| infer that Mr.. Collins comes of an intensely
patriotic family, and his own nationaism
is amusingly apparent throughout his book.
He evidently felt himself a representative
man, responsible for the flights of the
American Eagle in unaccustomed places-and was
ready to bind and to loose in the name of the peo-
| pie of these United States. Thus when Mr.. Perry
| McDonough Collins first saw the Amor, he ex-
claims:
at must be confessed, as l stepped on shore, l
| felt high degree OF exutation. | had not been
the first to discover this river, neither was | the
first white man, like De Soto the banks of the
| Mississippi; but was the first live Yankee who
had seen it, and the road had been a pretty long
one, and some of it rather hard to travel, felt j
must admit, little proud Of Tie american people, in
| asmuch as had perseveringly set my face towards
| it two years since, and had never for a moment
turned my back upon it, and had confidently looked
| with hope and faith, as well as works. to the day
when L should stand at the head of the Amoor.
| p $50.
| "The American people, doubtless are highly
gratfed at this graceful acknow ledgment of their
enterprise, and also at the following conclusiv,
proof of their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS circumstances
a little trying, namely, the breaking open o
a private letter by foreign hands Crest assured
sir" writes Mr.. p. Med. c., to His Excellencv
Northumberland Mouravieff ILL.,, Governor Gen
eral of Eastern Siberia, Irkutsk in whose keen
ing the accident seems to have occurred CHA
81 have not the least uneasiness in regard to thu
accidental opening of the letter. = Amey-ice
has secrets she ,ooud conceal from 50 noble frieuf
as she finds IN you"H If we imagine this to have
been an epistle from Mrs. p McD. c., in esse O,
posse, we can appreciate the risk which was rur
of betraying the ''secrets of America"
Mr.. Collins attracted towards this northern
, tour of exploration by reading Won Wrapper,
, narrative, and for some years previous to 1855
, when the news arrived of the Russians having
seized upon the Amoor country and while residing
in California, he had been studying the commercial
resources of the Pacific coast of the United State
in connection with the opposite shores of Asia
Fully approaching the Importance of this step O,
the part of Russia, he proceeded to Washngto,
b to obtain accurate information on the subject
f While there he had conferences with MIR. Pierce
as well as with Mr.. Marcy, Secretary of State, an
b the Russian Ambassador, which resulted in hi
V appointment on the Oath March, 1856. as CONNER
e cial Agent Of the United States for the Amoo
e River. With this commission in his pocket. an
resolved to traverse the Russian Empire from xvas
to east, to the head waters of the Amoor and
possible, descend them from their source To tbai
mouth, he left New York on the 18th day of Anr
1896, and reached Cronstadt on the 18th of Nav
in the first steamer which entered there that year
: From that time Mr. Collins appears to have po
along surprisingly well. In a country where off
cia position is highly honored, he seems to bav
- made the most of his rank, whatever that ma
have been, and to have penetrated the salons of 81
Petersburg before attempting the steppes of 81
beria In fact, he found that Siberia could NOT b
comfortably passed over except in winter. AM
therefore spent the summer of 1856 near the Court
and had the advantage of witnessing the splendi,
ceremonial OF the coronation of the present Empero
III MOSCOW, On the 9TH OF September After this h.
remained in the ancient capital of Russia tbre
months continually practising himself in the Rms
. sian language, wandering daily about the streets
markets, bazaars, and shops of the CITY, TAKING hi
If meals at the native eating houses many of Their
: sufficiently curious places, drinking great ouant
ties of tea in the tea-houses and visiting theatres
. gardens, and all kinds of places where he coul
d acquire the tongue, and study the habits of tn
people" On the third of December. 1850 in cnm
Q pany with Dir. Peyton, a countryman, who aprea
. TO go to Irkntsk and Captain Analsom nm nmce
n of General Mouraveffs staff, he left Moscow. FL
an eastern sleigh ride of some four or five thousan
: miles, To those who derived their Impressions r
n Siberia from the novels and biographies of I'll
. last generation, and learned therefrom that !
consequence of certain nitrous properties in tn
e atmosphere or soil, the cold was so intense, an
r continuous, that the earth never thawed more tha
few inches on top in the dog days-that the su,
afforded quite little light for the greater part
the year as gas company that the sole employment
OF the natives was shooting sables and that of tn
/ immigrants lamentng over their unbapnv fata-i
will bea relief to hear that in these particulars thor
has been great change for the better in Faster
d Russia. -
Our author certainly travelled under great az
vantages He was furnished with passport fro,
: Gen. Monravieff, which he found of marcal Of