The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.

corning the San Juan affair, and the suggestion of
an amicable settlement under the treaty OF 1886
only the assertion of the British claim under
the British construction of that treaty. All the
correspondence between the two Governments
since the joint occupancy was restored by Gen.
Scott proves the impracticability of reaching any
conclusion satisfactory to both. Each dogmatica-
ly asserts positive right, and as war is mutually
discountenanced for such cause, the question
must ultimately be settled by arbitration. Our
Government will not submit to a reference to any
crowned head and therefore it is probable that as
final resort, some eminent statesmen or publicists
will be selected as referees.
The main body of the troops in q tab will not be
moved till about April, when the grass begins to
sprout. Gen. Johnston will command them until
they reach their new destination in Texas and New
Mexico, and may afterward, unless relieved. One
alleged object of this movement is to throw large
force the Rio Grande, to check the collisions be-
tween our people and the Mexicans, which are
growing more frequent and dangerous, and to re-
press the Indian outbreaks which have occasioned
so much alarm and injury. The force to remain in
Utah will consist of one company of flying artillery,
three of cavalry, and six of infantry under COM
mand of Col. Charles P. Smith, one of the best
officers in the service.
A special committee of nine members was to be
called for in the Senate yesterday to consider and
report bill for Pacific railroad. The bill intro
duced by Mr.. Wigfa, of Texas, loaning to two
companies, the Southern Pacific and the Northern
Central Railroad, equal amounts of money and
land, seems to meet with general favor. Mr.. Scott,
of California will introduce the same bill in the
House, and it will be referred to a special commit
tee of thirteen. The opinion prevails that the bill
will be adopted by Congress without much delay,
probably before the meeting of the Charleston Con-
vention.
Dispatches were received at the War Depart
ment Monday morning from the Pacific General
Harvey was at Vancouver, and the Indiaas in that
neighborhood were peaceable and wedisposed.-
At San Juan, Captain Hunt. with his company,
in possession of the island, in accordance with
his instructions from General Scott. No fur
Their troubles had occurred, and none were ap-
pretended. The English had naval force in the
vicinity, but would enter into jointoccupancy
until they heard from the home government.
Some additional adylces were received at the
State Department this morning in regard to firing
into an American vessal near Brownsville by some
Mexcans. 1t is supposed they connected with
Cortinas' band of flaws, who have been commit
ting depredations upon Americans, by numbering
them and stealing their property. There has al
ready been ordered by the War Department large
force of soldiers who are now in the neighborhood
of Brownsville, and who will undoubtedly bring
those outlaws to subsection, even if they have to
pursue them into Mexican territory.
Private accounts from Rio Grande represent the
statements regarding affairs in that quarter as
much exaggerated, the object being to afford
restless set of adventures pretext for crossing
into Mexico. Apart from Cortinas' band, the Mex
leans are represented exceedingly friendly.
The total emigration from all foreign countries
into the United States for the year ending Deem
Der 81, 1859, 100000, being about ten per cent
gain on 1888.
EFFORTS OF OUR MINISTER TO OBTAIN A
CONSULAR CONVENTION BETWEEN
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED
LETTER FROM TIE HON. GEO. NJ. DALLAS.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES /
LONDON, April %, 1858.
SRI have received your letter of the 10Th
inst, in which you ask advice to the prop
er to be pursued in any future similar to the
one of Anderson, deserving seaman from the John
Fife, Lawton, master.
1t is to be regretted that no Consular Conven-
ton exists between the United States and Great
Britain, establishing mutual authority in the two
countries, and presenting the mode of proceeding
for the arrest and return of seamen absconding
from merchant vessels before the voyage has ended
made an attempt at an arrangement of the kind
more than year ago. Ny predecessor, Mr.. Blu
chanan, urged one with great zeal. But nothin G
could be effected without the offensive and inadmiss
BILE exception in favor of deserving slave.
You perceive, therefore, that if a seaman on
coming from the United States into any British
port chooses to violate his contract of service and
to abandon his ship, the captain has no right to
retake and detain him by force. If he has OBJ
tanned an advance of wages to an extent which
makes him debtor to the owner he may be sued
for the balance; but other compulsory remedy
exists, is it material to inquire whether he be
a citizen of the United States a British subject
the contract of service cannot be enforced to
either by compelling return to duty on board the
vessel.
Your course as to Anderson was, therefore, as
fortunate as it was prudent. Seamen often
more accessible to persuasion when they have been
improperly treated, than to threats or violence
At all events, in the absence of international ar
rangement on the subject, you cannot take other
measures without mourning risk and responsibility.
| have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient
servant, G. NJ. DALLAS
TO Hon. George Vail; U. S. Consul, Glasgow,
Scotland.
H. Z L, 4
The RHODE ISLAND BANK DEFALCATION.-The
community were startled yesterday morning by
the announcement that Daniel c. Kenyon, the
cashier of the Rhode Island Exchange Bank at East
Greenwich, was defauter to that institution to a
large amount, well as to the East Greenwich
Savings Bank, of which corporation he was treas
urer. The discovery of the embezzlement was
made by the cashier of the Merchants Bank in this
city. That bank had received information from
New ! ork that the bills of the Exchange Bank had
been hypothecated in Wall street to raise funds
As there had been repeated charges against the
bank, at the instance of the management of the
Mechanics Bank, the cashier went down to East
Greenwich on Thursday, to satisfy himself Of its
actual condition. The first evidence Of wrong was
found in discrepancy of a number of thousands of
dollars in his accounts with the Merchants Bank
But as soon as an examination of the note account
was made, which disclosed deficiency of some
$4,000, concealment was no longer possible, and
he confessed to Mr.. Robbins that he a default
err He also confessed that he had added to the
crime Of stealing the still greater crime of perjury.
On the 9th instant, in the return he made to the
State Auditor of the condition of the Bank, he had
sworn that the circulation was Sl9,26S, when, in
fact, it was S4t 600. He also swore that the de-
posts only S3,756, when they exceeded the
of ST., 900. The whole amount of his dealcation
to the Bank is about S72 900. The capital is only
100000
Kenyon has also confessed that he has robbed the
East Greenwich Savings Bank of $4,000, one-half
of the whole amount Of its deposits. These depos.
its were the savings of the industrious poor in his
neighborhood, and this faithessness to a most sa-
cred trust, will bring upon him the excavations of
many ready to perish The large sum which he
has embeZzled-Sl09, 000-kenyon alleges he has
wholly lost in stock speculations. He commenced
his stock gambling some years ago, and was at first
successful, having made SO 900 in his early opera
tons. His losses have been in Erie Railroad, and
in mining stocks.
SINGULAR AgD FATAL ACCIDENT CAUSED BY THE
LATE GALE-A WOMAN BLOWN INTO A WELL AND
DRowNED.-The Cleveland Herald of Friday last
says: most remarkable of drowning oc-
Cured last evening at gainesville. The wind last
night blew furiously making it extremely difficult
to stand against it. About o'clock Mrs. Westruf,
wife of Edward Westrutf, living on Elm street, in
gainesville. went to the well for the purpose of
drawing pail of water The well was without a
curb protection of any kind. Mrs. Westruff
lowered the pail, and was in the act of bending
to fill it when furious gust of wind lifted her
off the ground and precipitated her into the WELL
1t is supposed she have been stunned by strik
ing against the sides of the WE'LL and drowned al
most Immediately, nothing was heard after she
fell. She missed from the house after some
time and search made for her, but the darkness Of
the night prevented her fate being discovered until
she had been dead some time Mrs. Westruf was
35 years of age She left husband, but no chill
dren.
PROFESSOR LOVE- THE ERoNAUr.-Prof. Lowe, of
balloon celebriety, is in Charleston, S. c., and was
to have made ascension in the ''Pioneer in that
city, Saturday last. The Professor is on an ex-
detrimental tour down South. Having ascertained
that at high elevation there is invariable
rent of air running eastward from this Continent,
and, in fact, around the globe, and which insures
the success of balloon or air-ship voyage to Eu-
rope, he now desires to discover if corresponding
westernt current on lower or higher stratum
exists. He expects to find it in the vicinity Of the
trade-winds which from the west strike the south
ern boundary of the United States.
ANOTHER BANK MOB IN MIssoURI.-An agent of a
st. Louis banking house presented, Friday last,
S28, 900 at the Chilicotne branch of the Bank of
Missouri, in the notes of the branch, for redemp-
ton, but mob prevented the agent from drawing
the coin This is an institution that made an ex-
hbit on the LIST of January, of Sl54 in cash means,