The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-03

1he correspondent of the New York Hero5J
writing from Washington on Thursday, saws:
Inc senate Committee Territories, at their
meeting TINS morning, had under consideration the
territorial organization for Pixies Peak or Jafar
son Territory. DR.. Willig, delegate from tba+
Territory, was before them lie stated tbot tbnro
were from thirty to fifty thousand people aIrnodr
there, and that by the lst of June newt tbero i
be upwa of one hundred thousand There W
he SAID, eight thousand square miles of gold region
and some ten thousand square miles in the vicnitV
adapted to agricultural purposes. The subject was
postponed until the next meeting '
Caption Hooper, delegate from Utah was also
before the committee in regard to Mormon affairs
lie IS deslrous, as are also his people, of a STATE
organization, and wishes to be admitted into the
Union without further DELAY He states that tbno
are from one hundred to one hundred and fen
thousand people now in the Territory. There
were, he says, in 1856, by a census which was
f4dHen, 4H, seventy-six thousand people. Captain
hooper Is to appear before the committee at itc
next meeting when he will enter fully into detail
in regard to the matter iD'0 "e'"''
:, Juage Cradlebaugh says there are NOT moro
INA oldn thousand people, including Indians
ana all, IN the Territory, and not more than eiht
| thousand males. 0isHt
The Secretary of the Treasury has received .
proposluon from responsible parties in New York
TO perform the labor in the public stores for tbirt
per cent less than is paid to the present contract
ors. Mather d Co., and other parties have offer
ed to do it for S25,OO0 less. The government NAV
derive SOM some benefit after all, by the petitions pre-
/
ry to revoke the present contract
Leading Republicans of Illinois and elsewhere ex-
press much interest in the of the municipal
ticket at Chicago, notwithstanding the local onpo
stion to which it has been subjected
EASTERN SHORE RAHRoADs.-The PhiladeIpbia
North American, in publishing a correspondepee
from Chestertown, Md, the subject of the hill
before the Maryland Legislature, known as the
"Eastern Shore Railroad bill" speaks in tba Cl
lowing manner:
The aid here referred to is probably that which
forms the basis of a bill which passed tba Morriad
House OF Delegates on the 22d, by which the sum
OF one millioHOf dollars was appropriated for oh
Eastern ohore Railroad" as the telegraphc des
patch phrased it, but most likely for RAILROADS ~
the eastern shore. The single line which beors tho
designation of the Eastern Shore Railroad is that
which is the continuation extension of the Dala
ware kallroad southwark from the Delaware State
boundary to S0mers Cove on the Tangier Sound
as part OF the through route from Phiiadelphia to
Norioik. 1t is perhaps principal object of the
Dill IN question to complete this yery desirable
"oFk, "hlcn propises to do so much for the east
ern shore OF Maryland by furnishing if with direct
railroad communication with Phadelphia The
other roads to which our correspondent alludes as
seeking State aid are the Maryland and Delaware
hallroad, from oxford, on the Choptank River, by
way OF Easton and Greensboro, northeast to SmvT
ma on the Delaware Railroad, traversing Talbot
and Carroll counties, Md, and Kent county, Del
| the Mispillion and Choptank Railroad from Pot
|
on the Delaware Railroad, very short and easily
made the Harrington and Queenstown Railroad
from Queenstown on Chester River to HARRINGTON
on tne Delaware Railroad, through Queen Anne
ana carroll countless Nd, and Kent county Del
anu anu the lne spoken of by correspondent from
Ghestertown, Md, to Middetown, bel which we
40 not as yet find laid down on any of onr mana
Wd WHEN Would traverse Kent and Cecil counties
Nd, and New Castle county, Del We hove
spoken OF some of these projects before bnt rs tbo
no" appear TO be assuming a definite shane it Is
worth while for Philadelphia to pay some attention
to the subject. These roads when huilt os NO ~,
sumo thai most, if not all of them will be nrst
transfer to Philadelphia nearly the whole of the
trade of the Eastern Shore of MARYLAND which now
goes to Baltimore, while from the populous North
VIII pour down into that section an industrious
race of farmers tradeSmen and operatives which
will make it like different place OF the effect
OF all this on the Delaware Railroad and the
Philadelphia and Wilmington line we need not
speak.
Mons. FELIX BELLY AND THE NICARAGUA CANAL
| a report was put in circulation in England and
circulated in this country, that Mons Belly had
abandoned his Canal project Monsieur denies
the report in the following letter to the Ladepen-
dance Beige:-
PARIS, Feb. I, 1860.
! To the CHEF Editor Of tie Ildependapce:
In your issue of to-day you publish a telegraphic
despatch from London, stating that the Belly plan
for the construction of the Nicaragua canal !: abar
doned
do not know how far the newspapers have a
right to accept news which might cause a serious
prejudice to great interests from such an irrespon-
sible source as a teegraphic agency. But for the
truth sake, give the most formal denial to what
you publish to-day concerning me- and intend to
proceed against the writer thereof by all legal
means.
SO far from the plan of the canal being aban-
d0ned there has recently been despatched an expe-
| dltlon OF men, tools and steamers which should
| have arrived on the spot by this time had it not
been for the frghtfu storm of the Sth of January
been al thnl Of Il, I,,Il-
| Cesar VI '''' '"'eS
The Paris convention granted me, moreover.
wv! tw1 years Delay to commence the work. and as
its last nouhcatlon Is but from the month of June
last, have still sixteen seventeen months before
my abandonment can be possible
issue. FrIIv R~rrT 2~' Wa
HENRY WINTER DAVIS IN NORTH CARo1ryA.- the
Opposition Convention at Raleigh, which closed its
session on the 2Srd ult., after approving the nom
nation OF w. A. Graham, of North Carolina for
President, and Washington Hunt, of New York
for Vce-President, pending one of the resolutions
Mr. Rayner offered an amendment sustaining all
the Southern Opposition members now in ConTrnss
IN the position they now occupy before their
| country.
The amendment was opposed on the ground that
their resolution included Henry Winter Davis, of
! Maryland.
Here very debate sprung up, in which
Mr. Smith, Of Halifax, Rogers, Manly and Syme,
of W axe, took issue with MIR Rayner, who refused
to change his amendment not to include Da-
Wis, of Maryland, but who made speech paving a
glowing tribute to his abilities and purity as a pol
tician. " F
This speech created considerable dissatisfaction
and the debate continued in high state of farment
1or some time. The amendment was then acted on
winch was almost unanimously voted down, and
the original resolution as offered by Mr. Smith of
Halifax, was then passed unanimously.
;, AN ELECTION Scene IN A CANADIAN CIrY.-The
Ehghsh papers have quoted freely from American
journals, accounts of rOtous election scenes in
our cities, as illustrative of the failure of Repub-
can institutions in this country An election took
place IN Montreal, on Friday last, for Mayor and
other city officers, and the Piigf thus describes tbe
scenes there enacted:
eve regret to state that the services of the Ac-
tive Volunteer Force were to-day called into requi-
stion; that horse, foot and artillery surrounded
the city hall; the guns-we know not if thev were
| Loaded with grape-shot canister, but the effect
was the same-were placed in position command
ing thelngress and egress TO the BOnSccOurs market
and that apparently, without any cause much SEN
sation and excitement has taken place. That par
ties were assaulted and beaten yesterday is bevond
a doubt; but that anything done to constitute
a riot, to cause this frghtful military displav
we have yet to learn"
New CoNrRIvANCE FOR REPLACING Cans ON THE
| TRACK.-Mr. f. III. FurnisS, Of the Cleveland and
Pttsburg Railroad Depot has produced an inven-
| tion of great value to every railroad. 1t is con-
rivance for easily and speedily replacing cars that
nave got OH the rails. lie calls 1t Sliding Jack.
When one end of car gets off the track this con
| trivance is placed under the 'rock-beam" like an
| ordinary jack. When elevated sufficiently, a screw
is turned that moves the jack, and the car with IT,
| forward or backward along short rail placed on
the bed-plate Of the jack, and thus replaces the car
on the track. BY this contrivance car can be re
| placed in about ffteen minutes instead of taking
as it now frequently does several hours. This i'm
| proved jack is very simple, and weighs but little
more than a common jack. The practical men who
have seen it say it is just the thing that has long
been needed, and should come into general use. 4
patent has been applied for.
The CINCINNATI CALAMITY.-The falling of the
wall of a church and the killing of several men, in
Cincinnati, on Thursday, was mentioned in our
Geographic column yesterday. We have received
some further accounts, which say that the building
was the oldest Catholic church in the citv and
was being torn down for the purpose of givins,
place to new one. The accident was caused by
an attempt to overthrow a wall twenty feet hiph.
one foot thick and thirty feet long, by updermin-
ing. The rain yesterday affected the foundation
and as soon as it was little loosened this morn
ing 1t unexpectedly fell in. Fifteen men were al
work at the time in the range OF the falling wall
Only one succeeded in escaping. Thirteen were
crushed to death. and the fourteenth man mortally
wounded All were labOrers and have large fami-
lies. The coroner is now holding an inquest
The CHESAPEAKE AND ONO CANAL.-His Honor
Mayor Berrett returned yesterday morning from
brief visit to the seat Of government of the State
of Maryland, where he had a conference Win tha
Attorney nd +ba uo,