The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-25
MARYLAND AEEAIRS


Is now pending in the Charles county Court
Judge Grain, in session at Port Tobacco. We are
informed by an intelligent gentleman, who has lust
returned from the Court, that the case is based
upon a claim for letters of administration. Dr.
David A. Crawford, of Prince George county, died
intestate, leaving estate valued at S220000 to
100000. DR.. Blackwell, Of Virginia, a cousin of
the deceased, applied to the Orphans Court of
Prince George county for letters of administration
as the oldest heir There he was met with the ap-
pication of George L. Crawford natural son of
Thomas Crawford, deceased, a brother of the late
DR.. Crawford, who claimed the letters of admins
trat0n as the legal son Of Thomas Crawford, and
entitled to administer. Upon this question of le-
gality the Orphans Court was unable to decide and
appointed DR.. Blackwell administrator for the
time, and made up the issue which was sent to the
County Court for settlement The Craw fords
chose to remove the case to the Charles County
Court where the trial is now pending. Fourteen
LAWYERS, classed among the highest Of the Mary
land bar, are engaged in the trial. 1t is said that
fees depend upon success, consequently hard con-
test may be expected Washington Star
CHILDREN SUPPOSED TO BE Poisoned Port To-
baccO Times records the death of three children un-
der circumstances painful mystery. 1t says: Died
at Cedar Point, in Charles county, the 23d of
April, George, in the llth year of his age: on the
26th of the month, Benton, in the 9th year of
his age; on the 9th of the same month, James, in
the 4th year of his age, children of John H. and
Elizabeth Burroughs. The circumstances attend
ing the death of these three children-the sudden
ness and short period of illness-the quick success
sion of their deaths-their previous good health,
and other reasons, induce their friends to believe
that they met their untimely end at the hands of
the poisoner-how, or by whom the poison was ad.
mlnstered, is not positively known.
SALE OF FARM.-Dr. Richard X. Osborn has
disposed of his fine estate, HBillingsly contain
ing three hundred and thirteen acres, situated on
the Patuxent, about two and a half miles from this
village, to E. &. w. Hall, Esq, (of the firm of
Hall Anderson,) for S24, OOO-or at $50 per acre
This is one of the most productive estates of its
size in the county; and whilst the figures are
little high yet land is regarded by good Judges as
cheap.-Planter's Adrocate
PoLITIcs IN ST. MARY's.-The Democrats of ST.
Mary's county, Md, are to hold mass meeting at
Leonardtown on the 9Th of June, to express their
views of the conduct CT that portion of the delega-
ton from this State to Charleston who sustained
Mr.. Douglas and voted for the minority platform.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The CovoDE 1NvEsTIGATIoN-THE MEXICAN From
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Mr.. Wendell again appeared before the Covode
Committee, and testified that while the President
or Cabinet did not specifically direct him to apply
money to carry the Lecompton bill through the
House, his intercourse with them at that time fully
justified the inference that he was to be benefited
by the expenditure. Otherwise he would not have
appropriated $50, 900 or $4,000 of his own money
The expectation was that he would receive re-
muneratlng patronage, which was subsequently
realized in part. All his testimony on this and
other delicate points has been constrained and evil
IDENTIFY embarrassed by the knowledge that every
disclosure affecting those in authority would in
yolve acknowledgements received at the
w ar Department on Wednesday morning from COL
Lee, commanding the Department of Texas, dated
Fort Brown, May 8, 1850. He communicates the
details of the operations of Col. Stoneman, whom
he had despatched with a small force of men to
pursue and capture Cortinas, who, it was alleged
was in the vicinity of the Rio Grande He saws:
From reports which have received consider that
Cortinas has abandoned the frontier and retired to
the interior of Mexico. He is said to be around
hn ran nf OF thn fool 3 M
about one hundred miles from the Rio Grande. His
recent visit to the river valley was not for
the purpose of depreciation, but to collect
and carry away his property.-Henry D.
johnson, of the Department of State, has
been nominated Consul General to CONSTANT
nople. This is regarded as most excellent an
pointment.--Mr. Douglas is confined to his house
by severe attack in the throat, to which he has
been occasionally subject for the last year or two
EXCURSION TRAIN CHANGING ESGINrs wurN At
HEIGHr OF SpEED.-The lightning train which car
ried the New Iork delegates from Detroit to Chi
cago, on Monday, says the Advertiser, made but
five stoppages between the points. These were at
Ann Arbor, jackson, Kal amazoo, Niles and Calu-
met AT Marshall, the wonderful feat of chang gin O
engines while the train at full speed was adm-
rably performed. Before reaching that station,
the locomotive Challenge unoccupied and
shooting away from the swift pursuing train reached
the station and switched on. The Racer the await
ing engine, started, the needless train meantime
laundering on over the rghted switch in pursuit of
the ny locomotive. and without slackening of
speed the two were united Without jar or u6nfu-
sion. The same feat was successfully performed at
Michigan City, where the Racer was exchanged
for the Rambler. The train from Gaesburg to
Kalamazoo, nine miles, in ten minutes and several
times mile per minute was accomplished 1t
reached Chicago ten minutes before tme-viz: eight
hours and thirty minutes from Detroit.
Mr.. J. d. Green, whose exploits in diving, with
or without submarine armor, are among the won
ders of this age, is now in Philadelphia, a sadly
crippled man, his lower limbs having become par
ayzed in his extraordinary labors to recover the
iron safe of the steamer Atlantic in Lake Erie. He
will probably never again be able to return to the
business to which he had devoted the energies of
his life