The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-14
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/ CoUNTERFEITING ON LARGE ScALE-It has been
ascertained that from the 20th to the 25th Noyem.
Der last, between 5000 900 and $780, 900 in counter
felt notes of $50 and Sl00, on the Bank of Phila-
delpma, were successfully put into circulation in
the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri be-
ing exchanged for genuine money mostly Mis-
souri,, currency This is the largest and most sue
cesstul villainy of the kind record, and it must
have been concocted and consummated by ouite a
number of persons Only one of them. named Bs :
corde, has yet been detected and he is on trial at
-. Louis, where efforts are making for the detec-
ton OF others Of the gang Bacorde was taken in
Canada, after laborous search.
One OF MAYOR WooD's OFFIcERs.-Mayor Wood,
OF New ork city, has appointed a man named
FATTY" Welsh to a lucrative position in the CITY
Inspectors office ''Fatty's" qualifications for the
office, as summed up by the New York Tribune
are various. "Fatty' belongs to the Dead Rabbits;
was in the 4th of July riots in 81; was in the Dead
Rabbit riots and was nearly killed, but was cured
at the citys expense by being sent to the Hospital;
he was last summer in the Sunday riots and again
shot, and again cured by the city surgeons; and at
the time OF his appointment by Mayor Wood, he
was framing Tor prize-hght. Pleasant city, is
New York.
DUELLTNG IN New oRLEANs.-Two duels ware
fought on the 18th ult., near New Orleans. The
first was at the Oaks, with small-swords between
young man named Query, and another whose name
is not mentioned. The latter received a slight
wound in the right side. The other was back of
the Halfway House, between MeSsrs Ernest Can
onge and Victor Gerodias; the weapons, shot-guns
loaded with ball. the distance, forty PAGES Gero-
dlas received his adversarys ball in the eshy part
OF his leg, back of the knee, the ball passing
through and grazing the front part of the right
leg, and inficting wound which may render
amputation necessary.
SMoKE-CoNsUMING LoCoMorvE.-The Superin-
tendent of the workshops of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad at Altoona has introduced an improve
ment IN one of the locomotives of that road, which
consumes the smoke. So that instead of the vast
volume of smoke which the ordinary locomotive
oelches forth at every revolution, a little steam
only is seen escaping from this invention. In con-
suming the smoke, great saving of fuel is effect
ed. 1t made the run from Atoona-a distance of
III miles-upon % bushels OF coal, maintaining
high rate of speed all the time, and evincing the
possession of extraordinary power.
BANK DEFALCArIoN AND FAILURE IN RHODE ISLAND.
"A despa tch from Providence states that it was
announced in that city yesterday that the Rhode
Island Exchange Bank, of East Greenwich had
failed and that the cashier was defaulter to the
amount of 900. The capital is $50 0OO and the
Circulation SD, 900. He is also defaulter to the
Savings Bank in the same town, of which he was
treasurer, to the amount of $4,000. He has lost
the money in stock speculations The assets of the
bank are ample for the redemption of its circuIa-
ton, and the holders of bila ought to sacrifice
them.
THE CHAMPION SwMMER.-A Sandwich Island
boy recently deserted the whale-ship Franklin
when twenty miles at sea, jumping overheard about
eight o clock at night, and swimming all night for
the land. BY daylight he within half a mile
OF shore, but there encountered strong opposing
current, and after buffeting the waves in a vain
effort to reach the beach, he saw a sail sew
eral miles to the leeward, changed his course for
the vessel, striking out to sea again. and was on
her deck by nine o'clock on Friday morning,
nothing harmed by his fourteen hours swim.
POSTAL DEoGsoN.-The Postmaster General, on
complaint recently laid before him, has decided
that
Under the Virginia statute, where a single copy
OF any particular paper contains matter decided by
the State authorities to be incendiary in its char
acter 1t does not therefore, follow that any sub
sequent numbers Of the same papers are to be con-
demned for that cause, but every number of the
paper must be acted upon and disposed of separ-
atey.
PorsoN TAKEN FOR MAGNEsIA.-A woman named
Mrs Sanders, residing at Ga HOyt street, New York
had been sick for some time, and was under the
medical care of DR.. Chapman, who on Sunday last
ordered her to take dose of magnesia. person
was sent to drug store in Atlantic street to pro-
cure some, and shortly after Mrs. Sanders took it.
she was seized with violent spasms and had all the
appearance of having been poisoned 1t is sup
posed the druggist gave arsenic by mistake
BANK RoRBED OF SIT SS2-On the nipht of the %
instant the Branch Bank of Tennessee, at Clarks-
vile, was entered and robbed of Sl7,692 most of
which was in twenty dollar gold pieces principally
new gold. The locks to the doors were all as they
were left locked the night before Ii il sunnosad
the locks were picked. Thus far no clue has been
had to the discovery Of the robber, nor is any par
ticular person suspected reward of SO, 500 is
offered for the discovery of the thief and recovery
of the money.
A GIRL Four YEARS OF AGE MURDERED BY Boy
OF FIFTEEN.rA boy named F. Horton, aged Is
years. is confined in the Troy JAIL on the charge of
numbering Martha j. Horton a child about four
years OF age, by pounding her with stick and
stamping upon her with his feet. he parties
lived at Poestenklll, few miles from Troy, in the
nelghborhOod known as coax Hill" in the family
of Mr.. Martin Wheeler Utica (N " Observer
SPLENDID DREss.-From an English papers cor
respondence we learn that, at Calcutta, at the
Governor Generals ball, beauty appeared who
was not ''put out" though apparently on fire. In
countless dimunitve bags of gauze she had i'm
prisOned fire flies, and these, tackled on to her
dress, far outshone the diamonds of the Oriental
ladies. As she walked in the more dimlv-lirhted
alleys of the garden and grounds she was indeed
most brilliant belle!
THE CoNTNENTAL HOTEL, PmLApELPHTA This
new and largest hotel in Philadelphia was last
night thrown open to exhibition to the stockhold-
ers. The building is six stories high is 23O feet on
Ninth street, and l70 on Chestnut street 1t is pro
Vlded with every accommodation which art, taste,
and science can supply for the convenience Of its
accommodations for one thousand persons.
PROBABLE SUrcrDE IN CECm CoUyTY.-A Young
man named John Mcguire, in the employ of Mark
Manlove, on Grave Point, on Saturday last left
home ostensibly to walk over the Sassalras river
at lis mouth, to shoot geese. He was by two
persons standing on the ice near large air-hole,
and as he disappeared in less than two minutes is
certainly lost. 1t is believed that he walked into
the water with deberaton.
MPoRrArIoNs OF AFRICAN 'sAppaGxrrces The
Havana correspondent of the New Orleans DeIta
writes | learn that it has been arranged to iIpport
into Cuba, in the least time practicable from 25 OON
to 5000 free Africans, under contracts for twelve
years service. If this business is once commenced
by introductions under contracts which, it is said
have been authorized by competent authority, it
will be continued as long as sugar-cane is one of
the staples Of Cuba.
A LARGE REwARD.-A proposition is now before
the Legislature of Ohio to offer S. 600 reward for
the production of the person of John Breslin late
treasurer of the State who fled to Canada as a de-
taulter. As the crime of which he stands charged
is not covered by the treaty with England, by
which persons charged with crime shall be surren-
dered the reward is an offer to anv one who would
kidnap him and bring him to the United States.
THE NAVAL AcADEMY.-W learn that the appoint
ments to the Naval Academy to the number of one
hundred and twenty-five will he made this wear
from those Congressional districts which have no
mdshipmen in the service, or have had but one ap-
pontment prior to 1853. The full number allowed
by law could be appointed it not for the lin
tied cOnveniences at the Academy.-Norfolt Her
ald
BUILDING RAILROADS SOUrH.--A new way to
build railroad has been discovered down South
The House Of Representatives of Alabama has
passed, by large majority, the charter of bank
in Mobile, with provisO which requires that the
stockholders take an equal amount of stock in the
great central railroad from Montgomery to Deca-
tur, Alabama.
The San Francisco Board of Education has fixed
the tariff of teachers wages for public schools. All
but principals of grammar schools (males) have
$500 month; first assistants, 500; all other as
sistants, $50. Principals of primaries (females)
have Sl05; their assistants, $50. But the vacations
are not reck0ned in, and the year really has but
ten months.
Mills SrATUE-Critcs say that the new statue
of Washington will be more admired than the sta
tue of Jackson. 1t will be placed on a square,
plain pedestal of Maryland quartz marble, but an
attempt will be made to obtain an appropriation
for a higher and larger pedestal, ornamented with
embematical figures, like that of the statue of
Frederick the Great, at Berlin
LoNG LINE OF RALRoAD.-By the completion of
the Mississippi Central Railroad last week, was
finished the last link in the continuous line of road
from Bangor, Maine, to New Orleans. There are
included in this line eighteen different roads whose
aggregate length is 1894 miles, and whose aggre-
gate cost is S92 7s4 ,0S4.
New JERSEY FRUIrERs.-A bill is before the New
Iork legislature whose provisions NAV be of inter
est to the fruit growers OF New Jersey 1t proposes
prohibit the sale of Strawberries in baskets con-
aiming less than pint each; or of peaches in bas-
lets containing less than three pecks each undera