The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-14

japanese norman is announced in the San Francisco
papers, as one of the passengers by the last vessel
from the land of the No-Kams. The Alta Cahfor-
mia, says:
owe were yesterday permitted, in dreadful Sc
crecy, to witness the opening of the box. The lid
w! was removed and the norman sat revealed in all
its contorted hideousness. No description could do
IT Justce-but though we despair at the outset we
will attempt it: The norman is about three inches
taller than the mermaid he sits squatted like
sIIperahIuated aigger Indian, and appears like
SKINNY, dried up mummy. The body, legs and
arms are long and bony, and here and there
appear little tufts of hair, though the body is
nearly denuded of such covering. The creature
Is PROVIDED with hands something between the
human appendage and the fppers of an otter
ana terminate In three fingers and sharp claws. II
appears to have been amphbious and must have
propelled In the water with great swiftness The
rlos underneath the skinny covering, are apparent
and look like those of human being The most
curious part of all is the head which Connects with
,ne p0dy by narrow skinny neck, and its shape is
like that of the mermaid, but gu. Of the top of it
grow two veritable horns, giving to the creature
singular appearance as he grins from between his
shining rows of diminutive teeth. Little tufts of
hair appear on the spot where the hair ought to
grow, and also about the ears. Had his satanic
majesty ever taken it into his noodle to become
hend lncarnate, and vet preserve his identity he
couu scarcely have studied out more appropriate
shape than this
The FAILURES IN CALIFoRNIA.-The failure of
Brewster Il Co., of Marysvile, California, has al
ready been announced by telegraph. The San
Francisco Herald of the 2lst says:
On Monday evening, intelligence was received
in this city of the failure of two large mercantile
houses in the city of Marysville--W Hawley
Co., and Scott, Vantine & Co. These firms were
| indebted to II. f. Brewster & CO., of this city, in
the sum of $4,000, and after the Mary sville
| disaster became known, the announcement
that Il. Il. Brewster Il Co. had also been forced
into Al.
estimated to be $500 600 and judgments in favor of
various parties have been confessed to the amount
| of SlO4,9 Naturally the event occasoned much
| excitement in mercantile circles, and rumors prob
| ably unfounded, were current of other expected
| events of the kind. The disasters are attrb-
| uted to the new Attachment law although that
law will not go into effect until the 18th inst. Fail
ures are reported OF persons engaged in the grain
trade, but we are assured-that matters will be sat
lsfactorlly arranged to-day.
The CHICAGO ZoUAvEs IN TRouBLE.-We learn
from the Chicago Democrat of the 10th, that the
Zouaves have telegraphed to that city for more
funds as they had short and cannot extend
their excursion without material aid. The Demo-
crat explains the matter follows:
"Now it is generally supposed that the gallant
Zouaves took away with them some Sc 900 or
$1,000, which had been cont buted by the beraliy
of citizens, for the expenses of their triumpha
tour, this call for more of the needful naturally
caused great wonder. 1t was generally feared that
the Zouaves had allowed somebody to charge them
tearfully Now the fact is this: The amount raised
for the Zouaves was only So, 500. The corps was
very greatly in debt-and no sooner did the money
subscribed for the tour begin to come in than the
importunate demand of threatening creditors fol-
lowed in rapid and close succession. The Zouaves
were placed between two fires, and the result was
as we are told that So, 800 OF the money raised was
paid away to creditors in this city, and the Zouaves
commenced their triumphal tour, which was to last
six weeks and cost 81 O00 with 5000 in their mill
tary chest"
RUSSIAN EMANCIPATIoN.-From the special ST.
Petersburg correspondence of lie Nord we translate
The question of emancipation is near a solution
In some way or another it seems to be definitely
settled that the serfs shall be emancipated during
the coming autumn, that is, after the close of the
harvest The imperial ukase, decreeng this great
measure, will therefore appear about the last of
october, or during the month of November The
Central Emancipation Commission, which had been
awaiting the conclusion of the labors of the Com
missions on the elaboration of the plan of emanei
patton, has already commenced its sessions. The
place of the sessions is about to be changed from
the building of the First Cadet Corps, where they
were held during the presidency of the late Gen
tice, Count Panin the present President 1t is said
that Count Panin has promised the Emperor to
finish the labors of the Committee during the course
OF the present month of June.
PARsoN BRowNLow.-Parson Brownlow, of the
Knoxville Wing, has brought out his paper in
ing at the event, says:
ave are now conducting a self-sustoining press
but we have labored long time, say q years, to
build 1t up, and we deserve a degree of success
We have fought the Devil, the Democrats, and
Renegade Wings, together with "Beasts at Ephe-
sus," with zeal that deserved success. We claim
to be free white man, of lawful age, never having
degraded ourselves by wearing the collar of any
man, and never having polluted our pockets with
bride from any quarter. Never having held Office
and never having had the control of any BODY
funds but our own limited resources we have never
proved defaulter in any instance"
The SCHUYLER FRAUDs.-The New York Journal
Of Commerce says: at is currently reported that
as many as eight suits have been commenced by
the old stockholders of the New York and New
Haven Railroad Company, against the directors I'M
der whose nominal management the Schuyler over
ISSUE was permitted; on the ground of negligence
ana lnattentlon to their duties. If it be trna as
intimated in Judge lngraham's decision, that a
proper examination of the books, and due atten-
ton to the cOmpanys affairs the part of the di-
rectors, would have prevented the loss now likely
to fall upon the company, these suits will become
a serious matter, as the total ee:...s t.e
company muet be upward of one million Of dollars
| The WASHINGTON AQUEpUcT.-We have learnt,
on what we deem reliable authority that il has
been determined the works for completing the
Aqueduct shall go on, and that within very short
time. We need not say how great the gratfca-
ton of the people of the whole District will be for
this. not only account of the advantage to be
enjoyed by them in the completion of the work it.
self, but for the sake of the hundreds of poor la
borers who are meekly waiting the decision which
shall point them to means of providing for them
selves and families at time of unusual slackness-
National LatelIigencer.
THE DEFoRREsr DOUBT CLEARED UP.-Dr John
l.. DeFOrest, of Watertown, Conn, has received
satisfactory assurances that his son was at the
latest accounts, alive in Australia, and that he lett
New lork under an alteration of mind and after
wards failed to apprse his father, from a mistaken
dehcacy that will be satisfactorily explained here
alter" lie is an only and quite wealthy,
which may account for his "aberration. "-Boston
Courier.
A Pole RAlsING.-The Detroit Free Press gives
us an account of the first pole raising that has come
under our notice during this campaign. The Press
of the 10th says: The Democracy of the sixth ward
assembled at the house of John Bahring, on Marion
street, last Saturday evening, where fine hickory
pole was raised to bear aioft the banner of the ma
tlonal democracy-Douglas and johnson. After
the pole was raised enthusiastic cheers were given
for the nominees.
The Washington Constitution says that the story
going the rounds of the papers about quarrel be-
TWEEN the President and Senator Gwin is entirely
destitute OF foundation in truth or fact. The rea-
lions between the President and the Senator from
California up to the hour of the departure of the
latter on Tuesday last, were never more friendly.
MARRIED
On the 18th instant, at St Paus Church, hy Rev DR.
c. htero f he Late Wn