The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-23
AN APPEAL FOR SALISBURY

The committee appointed by the citizens of Sails
bury for the purpose of presenting the claims of the
sufferers by the late disastrous fire to the charita
BILE of their countrymen, have published the follow
ing:
1t is right Of the bereaved and unfortunate to
appeal to the sympathies of their fellow -men-to set
before them their sorrows, and ask their aid for
lief.
The undersigned, a committee appointed by
meeting of the citizens of this desolated viii
age, propose to present to the friends of humanity
brief statement of an event which has brought ruin
to many hearthstone and despair to many a heart
The town OF Salisbury, on the Eastern shore of
Maryland, was fired (it is supposedly by incendi
airy on the morning of the 9th inst. The fire origi-
mated in clothing store in the very centre of the
business portion of the town, and in four
hours (the buildings being frame and rem
dered exceedingly iulammable by the long
continued drought) sixty houses were in
ashes, after almost superhuman efforts to arrest the
progress ofthe flames. About forty families have
been turned out of their homes; and about twenty
stores among which were some of the most extern
sive on the shore have been destroyed-largeq guam
titles OF goods have been lost and DESTROYED; and
the business of one of the most enterprisinp towns
on the PENINSULA has been arrested. Our condition
is still rendered more distressing from the fact that
we can expect very little aid from the Immediately
surrounding Countrywide drought having to
great extent cut off the corn crops and relief if it
be obtained at all, must from the neighboring
cities and towns.
Much might be urged by detailed statement of
the facts; but we think that the same spirit which
prompted relief to famishing Ireland, to unfortu-
nate Lawrence, and to our western towns desoa-
ted by the recent tornadOes, still exists among our
countrymen, and will excite to rendering us speedy
and liberal relief. Those who feel disposed to rem
der us help under this dspensaton can do
so by forwarding any amount to either of the
dersigned, by whom, in behalf of their suffering
townsmen, it will be thankfully received and faith
fully and mpartially applied. We also respectful
10 coll +hn ftny,
of the public to this our appeal.
James T. H. Waite, Vaughan Smith,
Robert H. Ellegood, w. W. Thorington,
t. W. Humphries, :, MA, Thomas B. Smith,
Salisbury, Md, Aug. Is, 1860.
Many of our citizens have already contributed to
the fund for the relief of the sufferers and generous
sums daily being.added to the list.
THE TRUTH RIGHTLY SPoKEN.-Mr. John John
st on of New York, lays down these telling facts in
brief, which we presume no farmer will deny, and
we hope all will apply, whose shortcomings brings
them within the pale of the implied reproof
nuuce that those farmers who have most diff
Guilty to make ends meet, always plough most and
keep most stock. Now these men take the true
plan to keep themselves always poor, because their
crops and stock are always poor and bring little.
1t is good profit to raise 300 bushels of wheat
from ten acres; but when it takes thirty acres to
raise that amount, it is at loss; it is with cattle
and sheep; you will see the thinking farmer making
four year old steers worth from $50 to $50 each,
and his neghbors, at the same age, not worth over
S25 to $40. Now this ought not to be- in country
where all men are born free and equal; if the farm
is rich, then labor inteligently employed will soon
make the owner in easy circumstances; if his land
is exhausted, and great many farms are) then
he should plough no more than he can thoroughly
manure. Seed with clover and grass, and let it
rest for two years. and that field will not only
pay well for tillage, but it will furnish manure (if
min tltt or-aIAf 70, q 1
size, rich also; it is bad policy, when field is once
highly MANFRED, to continue cropping it with grain
until the manure is used up. The latter end of that
land will be worse than the first; but let that land
lay in clover, year, but two is better after
it is manured and then it will stand, perhaps six
good crops before it requires manuring; if clay
subsoil, know it will.
CASE FOR THE LAwYERs.-A conductor and dri-
yer in the employ of the Market Street Railway
have had hearing before Alderman Cahen, on the
charge of assaultng one G. w. Hammerslev pas
senger. Mr.. II. testified that he took passage on
the car on Saturday, of which the defendants were
in charge, and being on the way to his family in the
country, was anxious to connect with the going
to Abingdon few minutes after the car started
the conductor came to him for the fare, and upon
feeling in his pockets he discovered that he had
nothing less than ten dollar note, which he handed
to the conductor, who refused it. He was then on
the front platform, and the conductor told him that
he must get Off Mr.. Ii. demonstrated with him.
reminding him that he was anxious to make con-
nection with the cars, as before stated. The con-
ductor insisted upon it that he must get Off and the
car being in motion, he took hold of his arm to
push him off Mr.. Hammersley held on, and the
conductor asked the assistance of the driver and
by his aid the prosecutor was put off. A
witness testified that, had Mr.. Hammersley been
pushed off when the conductor first took hold of
him, he would, in all probability, have been run
over. By the time the attempt to remove him was
successful, the car was brought to stand still.
The conductor, in his defence, said that, by the
r.,1a nF Ahn L..
passenger without the fare being paid, which he
explained to Mr.. Hammersley before he attempted
to eject him. The defendants were held to answer
-Phila. Pennsylvania.
DEATH AT PRAYER MEErING.-At the prayer meet
ing in Trinity chapel, about nine clock on Monday
morning, our well-known and much respected fell
low-citizen, Mr.. Benjamin Howard, addressed the
meeting upon the happiness inspired by religion.
he was proceeding to give some account of the
conversion OF lawyer, when he hesitated,
and sat down. His head dropped. Upon going
to him, it was apparent that he was passing
or had passed from the present happiness, which
he had so fervently commended to the uncouded
JOY OF the life which knows no end. Mr.. Howard
was formerly of the welkn9wn firm Of Chandler
Mr.. Chandler, his former partner, died some eight
or ten years ago, leaving the bulk of his property
to Dartmouth College, to found scientific school.
The and late partner of deceased, it will be re-
membered, was suddenly killed by an accident near
the mill dam, few years since. Mr.. Howard was
one VI Tue OTlRlndl lOunuerS Oh Urace cnurcQ In
this city, and has taken great interest in reli
gious matters. He was the father-in-law of the Rt
Rev. Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, and the Rev.
George w. Wides, rector of the new Episcopal
church, of Salem.-Boston journal.
The term so commonly spelled "dough-face' by
the New York Tribune and other journals, which,
from their frequent of the expression, would
seem to have patent tor its invention, was first
uttered by John Randolph, and applied by him to
class Of politicians who are like the doe, or fe-
male deer, which is frightened by seeing its own
lace reflected in a streamlet. AS the New York
journals use it, there is meaning attached to it
at all. --.
The war in China seems likely to create great
demand for shipping. late letter from Singapore
says the government are having occasion for from
$4,000 to 100000 tons of shipping merely for trans
ports. An order just came over to London for a
large steamer (transport) for government use from
Paris, and the parties applied to, though having
many steamers, at command, were obliged to de-
cline the order.
PINE APPLES.
500 just landed from steamer prime order for low
by A. J. HAMPSON,
ju29tf 81 North Charles street.
MOSQUITOES.
These annoying little pests eectually driven from
in fa nv h,rn Of