The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-20

IONA RUSSELL, tLLj
ALBERT GALLATIy, (Lsl
BALTIMORE Represented AT THE CoTToN PLAN
TIERS FAIE.-The Cotton Planters Fair at Column
bus, Goo! gia, last week quite successful The
exhibition of Southern manufactures is reported to
have been very creditable. The Milledgeville
Journal thus notices the goods of the Baltimore
houses there represented:
We were especially pleased with the wooden
goods displayed by Wethered Brothers from Balti-
timore and could hardly believe such fine cassi-
meres and d0eskins were manufactured south
They could readily be passed off for French goods
Also their kerseys, nseys, jeans and negro cloths
were superior articles
The display of manufactured boots, shoes and
CATERS, by Levi Perry & Co., Baltimore, is quite
deserving. The leather depot, at Baltimore, by
Francis II. Grupv, from the display presented in
his line is worthy of notice.
Mr.. Rhodes, the manufacturer of Rhodes super
phosphate manure, Baltimore, is on hand, ready to
give any information to planters, relative to the
merits of his manure
Articles from other parts of the South are also
mentioned
The wooden goods manufactured by Kelly, Tack
EFT, Ford Co., at Fredericksburg, Va, were of
excellent quality and deserve the notice of South
merchants.
North Carolina and Tennessee had good display
of manufactured goods. The North Carolina cass-
meres are too well known to need Recommendations
line articles OF foreign manufacture by Robert Ad-
ger d Co., OF Charleston, rich and inviting
The company does large importing business, and
we understand intend enlarging it still more Also
Messrs. Lathrop & Co., Of Savannah had fine
display of imported goods, worthy of notice Nor
should we fail to mention the goods manufactured
at Roswell, Cobb county, and the goods of the
Eagle manufacturing company, at Columbus, Ga.
W. have merely mentioned those things that struck
fancy and taste at first sight, and in which we
felt most interested, and got information upon.
TERRIFIC CoLLIERY EXPLOSION IN WALEs-One
Hundred and Serenity Lices Lo8t.-On Saturday
December lst, mine explosion happened at the
b'ack Vein Pit, Risca, about six miles from New
port, " ales, and the property of the RiSca Coal
Company. The coliery has been in work some
years in the production of steam coal; aud as gas
Is IN such pits more or less generated the usual
preventive measures were adopted. The pit was
examined according to custom on Saturday morn
ing, after which, between five and six O'Clock,
some two hundred men descended. About nine
O'Clock terrific explosion occurred, which was
heard far above the surface; and upon inspection
it was found that at distance from the bottom
Of the pit the gas had fired. Considerable damage
was done to the workings. As soon as the ventia-
ton would allow, dead bodies were found in several
directions. By twelve O'Clock eleven had been
sent up; and at four, forty more had been col
lected at the bottom of the shaft the whole being
brought up in the course of the evening, and, in
carts on hastily constructed biers conveyed to
their respective homes.
Additional particulars given by the London
NeUs of the 4th inst:
Instead of l20 persons having fallen victims, the
propanlity Is that at least fifty more dead and
that the fearful roll will swell to at least 10 names.
During yesterday and the ast two nights (savs the
NeCs) the search in the workings was continued
and corpses found and brought to the surface num-
bering, with those brought up on Saturday about
100. One portion of the workings is now discover
ed to have fallen in, cutting off all communication
with 60 or 10 persons beyond. To reach them
will, it is feared, occupy considerable time: but
little or no expectation is entertained that one of
the party will be discovered alive. When the ex-
plosion occurred about two hundred men and bows
were in the pit, of whom only about thirty have
escaped
RIGHT SPIRIT.-A Richmond lady who has been
raised in the very lap of luxury, proposes to form
an Association of her sex, to support and protect
home manufactures. So entirely Southern is she
In her feelings that she is not only willing to give
up her jewelry and all other trinkets for the
general cause, but she proposes that all young
ladies, instead of spending the money given them
by their parents in silks, satns, and other fnery
to dress in homemade checks and linseys, and
apply the surplus to arming and uniforming the
volunteers of the city. What say our fair readers
to this proposition? Are they prepared to make
the sacrifice suggested? If so, now is the time to
begin the good work.-Richmond Despatch.
SHOCKING AND FATAL AFFAIR IN PaILADELpH1A.-
At an early hour on Tuesday morning a melan- |
choly accident occurred at the residence of Mr.. S.
Morgan Ramsey, No. 347 North Third street, which
has plunged family into grief and added another
lessness in reference to firearms. 1t appears that
at the hour indicated, a son of Mr. Ramsey, aged |
nine or ten years, picked up, pistol which was
lying upon the table, and while PLAYING with 1.-THE
weapon went Off the load entering the heart of his
sister Catharine, aged about seven years. killing
her instantly. The occurrence was entirely acct
dental, but is none the less distressing on that &C
count.
RUMoRED REsIGNATIoNs.- National Intelligent
GER, of Yesterday says:-We learn that there is no
truth in a paragraph which has obtained extensive
currency through the newspaper press stating that
Commodore Shubrick and Capt Ingraham have |
resigned their commissions in the navy Can't |
Ingraham is at present absent in the Mediterra- |
mean in command of the steamer Richmond, and has |
probably not yet even heard of the troubles at the
South, and Commodore Shubrick is daily and &C
lively engaged in this city with his duties Chief
Of the Lighthouse Board.
A PHILADELPHIA SHAREHOLDERS PErITIoN.-The |
Bulletin of Tuesday evening publishes a petition
to Congress from Mr.. VIM. W. Hubbell, of that |
city, who owns slaves and real estate in South Car
DINA. Mr.. Hubbell denies the right of secession,
and asks that it be prevented by the Federal Gov
He claims the Federal protection for his
property in South Carolina as we'll as in Pennsy-
wanna, and while he is as severe in his views to-
wards the Northern people as any of the South |
Carolinlans, he feels that the greatest injury that
the South could suffer would arise from Secession
The Norfolk Day Book says that the celebrated
Aztec Children, now exhibiting by Barnum in New
FORK, are humbugs 1t asserts on authority, that
they are the children of Indian parents living now
near San Miguel, San Salvador The children at
home were considered idiots, and were brought to
the United States by an enterprising Yankee, I
who transferred them to Barnum for fconsidera-
on."
The last foreign news announces the sudden
death, by apoplexy, of the Count of Syracuse
This was an uncle of the young eX-King of Naples,
Francis H., and brother of the late King. His
The third son of King Francis l. He was born May
I'D, 1913, aud married in 1887 to the Princess
Marie, of Savoie-Carignan, who survives him,
without heirs.
The steamers South Bend and Good Friend came
in collision on the Mississippi, Memphis, on
W Wednesday last The South Bend sunk in three
minutes after she was struck, taking down with
her a haauu carno and drowninn fnur Of the cram |