The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-22


this session. The feeling in Congress is decidedly
in favor of it,
Mr.. Dodson, Marshal of Utah, has resigned The
delegate of Utah Territory has no knowledge that
Judges CradIebaugh and Sinclair have been re
moved and denies the statement of New York
print that he has had interview, or has in way
been consulted by the President relative to judicial
appointments in u tab.
STATISTICS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN
MAssACHUsETTs.-The annual statistical report of
the births, marriages and deaths during the wear
1858, IN Massachusetts,, compiled from official re
turns, has just been made public summary of
the contents OF the volume has been made by DR.
Curtis, who thus condenses the facts which it pre-
sents:
"The records for the year cover 81 49l children
born alive, 2l,O54 persons (l0,527 couples mar
ried, and 2O,776 deaths besides TAI stiilboru; or
facts which in the aggregate relate to upwards nf
serenty-Seren thousand indiridtals.
Ihere has been on an average, each dav in the
year no less than "a births, 5S persons married and
81 died. Besides these there a daily average
OF two shll-births June, usual, was the least
fatal month, in which there was an average of
As deaths day; and in September which is gen
orally the most fatal month, there was an average
OF u deaths day, being nearly 80 day more
than in June.
The most fatal cause of death, according to the
records, was consumption of the lungs, ascribed to
which there was an average of 25 deaths every
two days during the year. 1t seems worthy OF
serious consideration that in given population in
Massachusetts the records show three deaths from
consumption, while in equal population in
England only two deaths take place from this
disease.
As compared with the records of 1857. the
records Of 1858 exhibit decrease of S29 births
Z424 persons married (or l,2l2 marriages), and
504 deaths.
The excess of registered births over registered
deaths in 1857 IA ,040, and in 1858 it was
1915, indicating, according to the records as the
rate OF increase OF our population from this source
alone l.l8O per cent in the former, and l.l26 per
cent in the latter year, the population being est
mated for the middle OF each of those years
After the financial disturbance and distress which
broke out towards the close of 1857, it was to be
expected, as predicted in theI last report, that
there would follow diminution in the number of
marriages in 1858. The result is quite marked
the number registered in the latter year being
somewhat less than nine tenths of the number
registered in 1851"
NEWSPAPER LAw.-The House bill authorizing
publishers to print their papers the date when
subscriptions expire, has been amended in the
Senate to provide that there shall be no word or
communication printed on the after its publ
cation, upon the cover wrapper thereof, nor
any writing nor mark upon it, not upon the cover
or wrapper thereof, except the name, the date when
the subscription expires and the address of the
person to whom it is to be sent An amendment
was also added, providing that all laws declaring
that postage, at the rate of EACH shall be
post-oflce, not for transmission, but for delivery
only, be repealed, so far applies to drop letters
delivered within the limits of any city or town, by
carriers under the authority of the Post Office De-
partment, on which letters the rate of postage i'm
posed for the support Of the carrier system in such
city or town shall be collected, and no more
Washington States.
GENERAL TELEGRAPH LAw.-Henry ORiely,
the constructor of the first telegraph lines that
electrically connected the different sections of the
United States memOrializes Congress for general
law to facilitate communication between the At
lanic and Pacific States, by giving right of way to
all teegraphers across the continent and thus Sc
curing increased facilities at moderate rates bv
encouraging sautary competition in telegraphing.
The two mates of the American bark Anna
arrived at New York on Tuesday last, in the steam
ship Fulton, having been sent home by the Ameri-
Consul at Southampton for trial, on the charge
OF killing six OF the crew of the bark, by course
of cruelty so revolving as to appear almost incred-
BILE. They were committed to prison for examina-
ton.
The Republicans of Hartford Conn, are erecting
"camp-tent," one hundred by seventy, ten feet
wider than the Fremont camp of So and capable
of seating $500 persons, with standing-room for
about thousand more. There will be two gale
ries exclusively for the ladies, sufficiently cOmmO-
dious to seat about four hundred.
SEwING-MAcHGNEs EXEMPT FROM ATTAINMENT
An act exempting from attachment one sewing
machine, Of a value not exceeding 500, in actual
use by the debtor the family of the debtor has
passed both branches of the Legislature and re-
ceived the approval of the Governor of Massachu-
setts.
Very extensive ruins of an ancient city have been
discovered in New Mexico, ninety miles northeast
OF Fort Stanton. They are said to rival in magn
tude and architectural decoration the gigantic
ruins of Thebes and PALMYRA. They were evident
lY built by war ike race
The Alto California warns the public against be-
ing too credulous about the riches of Washoe.-
The Herald takes the opposite view of the Washoe
diggngs, and thinks that the richness of the silver
deposit is sufficiently attested by uncontradcted
and reliable reports.
A bill has been introduced into the Tennessee
Legislature to tax outside drummers and merchants
who pass through that State selling goods by sam
Piles, as to make them pay taxes to the State for
vending merchandise, equal to the taxes paid by
resident dealers.
In the New York State Senate, a concurrent re-
solution for an amendment to the Consutuuon eX-
tending to negroes the right to vote has passed by
| IL to 9.
Those who are interested in the recent salt dis
coyeries at Saginaw Mich, think they will be able
| to drive the Onondaga salt out OF the Western
market.
Camel coal has been discovered near Waverly,
Missouri living in a stratum three feet in thickness
The coal is of such fine quality that it NAV be easily
gnited with candle.
Prof Greenough, of New Orleans has succeeded
in rendering camphene unexplosive, by combining
that dangerous fluid with carbonic acid gas
One thousand persons, it is said, will attend the
Charleston Convention from Illinois,
The propeller Sophia, of Philadelphia, was lost
OH the coast of Texas on the 18th.