The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-30
[ From the Ne1o York Post !

From the Neto York Post
The GREAT SLAVE TRADE CITY.-We publish else
where list, furnished us by well-informed cor
respondent, of the American vessels which are
known to bave been in the slave trade during the
last few years. 1t will be seen that the greater
part of them sailed from this port, and the number
of them justifes the dsgracefu phrase of the Lon
don Times, when it denounced New York as the
greatest slavetrading mart in the world. Indeed
it has become so common now for the foreigners
who carry on the infamous traffic to make the
metropolis their headquarters that the business is
scarcely conducted with secrecy. 81 could tell
you" said merchant to US the other day, "of at
least twenty firms who more than suspected of
a connection with the Cuban importation of Afsi-
cans"
This trade has been usually carried on by means
of small cipper-built sailing vessels, capable oil
running up the creeks of the African coast to take
in cargOes from the interior, or to conceal them
selves in case of pursuit But it is not about to
assume bolder face. Schooners and brigs have
been found insufficient for its purposes, and the
mighty agent steam is to be used. The Journal OF
Commerce, of this morning, has the following sgnif
cant paragraph:
"Whitker Bound?-The steamer City of Nor
folk, it will be remembered, cleared from this port
few weeks since, bound for st. Thomas and a
market. We understand that the captain has re.
turned to this city, having transferred sold the
steamer there. There was some difficulty about
clearing the steamer from this port as it is said
she would go without papers; and one two
houses refused to ship by her. Her future move
menIS were pTOuduiy all arranged OelOfe Sne lett
this port. Her clearance, of course, would an
swer just as we'll for st. Thomas at the mouth of
the Congo river, as the West India Island of the
same name. 1t is fact that half the vessels
which clear for St. Thomas with regular papers go
to the little island of the same name in the Blight
of Biafra."
At the time the City of Norfolk sailed from this
port it was intimated in some of the papers that
her objects we're illegitimate, but the report was
Indignantly denied. Now we are told that her
future movements were all arranged before she
the parties which denied the allegations of the
journals? 1t so. they may be ascertained, and
ought to be exposed
MEDAL FOR THE PRINCE OF WALEs.-There is now
on exhibition in the show window of Tiffany d Co.
the city of Montreal to be presented to the Prince
of Wales, the occasion of his laying the last
stone of the Victoria bridge. The medal is about
two inches in diameter and elab0rately engraved.
On the diverse side, in the centre, are recorded
statistics of the dimensions weight and cost of the
bridge. At the top is the English coat of arms;
the left medallion likeness of Queen Victoria; on
the right similar of Prince Albert; and at the
bottom likeness of the Prince of Wales. On the
reverse side the Canadian coat of arms are en-
graved at the top, and underneath the tubular
bridge in bas relieUo. Beneath the latter is the
following inscription: ''The Victoria Bridge, the
greatest work of engineering skill in the world,
pablicly inaugurated and opened in 1860. Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada."-Nev York World
July 2S.
We learn from the Mobile papers that personal
collision occurred in that city Friday last be-
tween Mr.. Sossaman, of the Tribune, and Mr..
Hotze, of the Register. No serious damage was
the result to either party.