The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-16

creased to forty per cent
In reforming the printing this branch of the
business as well as those of engraving and litho-
graphing, have been overlooked.
The regular weekly statement of the Treasury
was not made up last week; owing to the pressure
at the close of the fiscal year.
The available balance in the Treasury on
Saturday the 9TH inst, .......... 81 235 OO8 %
Receipts between the 1st and 1lth nst... 433 969 O8
Ds Draits palu 4027 100 q
Since adjournment of Congress desperate lobby
can be seen daily hanging around the Public De-
partments here, driving their schemes of specula-
ton, and aiming to make ont of the Executive
what they failed to realize from the Legislative
Department of the Government.
1t Is understood in the War Department that
capt Meigs would be again placed in charge of
the fotomac Water Works, as directed by the law
making an appropriation for the completion of the
aqueduct. ~
Robert Barth, of st. Louis has been recognized by
1ne fresdent as Consul for the States of Missouri
iowa, ARKANSAS, Louisiana, Texas California, Ore
gon, minnesota, and the Territories of New Mexico
and Utah. ''oAA''
Capt: Franklin is pushing the work at the Cani-
tol with great energy, and proving the wisdom of
his selection for this responsible post.
From the San Francisco Herqldl
SHOOTING OF A CULPRIT in A COURT
ROOM BY A WOMAN.
Mrs. Help was visiting a lady friend, at her
residence in Carson Valley, California. Her hus.
band and daughter, about seven years old, were
WIFI ner 1ney came over the plains last r.
The wife, in order to help support the family had
Just opened laundry. 1t appears that during the
Spring they had allowed a sick and frosted man to
come to their house, and to whom they frequently
gave meals He was a thickset, bad looking man,
apparently mixture of Mexican, Indian and negro
blood has always been suspected of having been
| one OF Tom Bells gang of murderers. lie lately
returned there, and has constantly nsulted Mrs. H.
| by making improper advances, which resulted in
| his being often sent away. They lived in a small
boarded house, at the. lower end of Carson street.
Night before last the fellow fired several balls
| through it, very nearly killing the husband and
| daughter. The wife escaped with her child to a
neighborlng tavern. Yesterday afternoon there
was deal OF excitement in relation to it, and about
the middle of the day he came in advance of mob,
and took his seat some lumber, directly across
the street from the door, and it supposed that
they were then going to lynch him. 1t was subse-
| quently ascertained that Judge Cradlebaugh had
issued a warrant for his arrest, and that he had
| avowed he would kill the woman and her family,
| and which, Judging from his desperate character
| he would have done.
On the I'd instant, about 3 p. NJ, those in the
| room occupied by Wells, Fargo & Co., were star
tied by the near report of pistol. On going to the
| door they found that the disturbance originated in
the next ROOM 1t was ascertained that the fellow
having been arrest ed, had been undergoing in that
room a preliminary investigation before Judge
| Cradlebaugh who decided to hold him in $500
bail for trial, which he sent for, the Judge tempo
| rarily clearing the room. Mrs H. was an impor
|
| in her evidence. So soon as she ascertained tha
| he was to be set free on procuring ball. she mad
her husband get up and go out, and she FOLLOWED
| imme diately. She had to pass directly behind tn
fellow, who was sitting down, leaning forward
| with his head resting upon bis hands,
AS she came behind him, she suddenly drew re
volver, which it seems she had kept cooked, from
under her shawl, coollv placed it within few
inches of his back, between his shoulders and free
| before the person nearest could arrest her arm
He started up, partly dropping the blanket from h
shoulders, walked two or three steps, seized q mar
| by his shoulders to support himself, gave a gast
| or two and expired. Mrs. II. calmly walked of
through the crowd, with her husband, to her owl
home. Subsequent examination showed that the
| ball had passed through the heart, and came just
below the left nipple. Popular feeling is generally
| on the side of the woman, many justifying her a!
| having done an act beneficial to the entire commu
nifty, as well as essential to her own safety
| ARAhRoAD INCIDENT.-The Chambersburg, (Pa
Repository, in speaking of Col Thomas A. Scott
| the Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
incidentally gives the following:
ga gentleman from Mercersburg, and his wife
in very feeble health, visiting relatives in
| Philadelphia, when few weeks since, the lady
| whom all her relatives supposed could not with
stand the tatigues of the trip desired to be brought
| home to die. The opinion of eminent physician.
! was that ii her home was on the line of the Penn
| sylvania or some other railroad leading out O
| Philadelphia, so that she would not be compelled
! to change from car to car, and if bed could bt
! placed in car, she might live to reach her place
of destination; but if she to be obliged to bt
| removed as often there are different trains o
| cars between the two points, she could not survive
the fatigue of the journey. These facts were com
| municated to Col. Thomas A. Scott when without
the least begging, coaxing or solicitation he had
hrst'cass prepared, hauled to within one square
| of where the lady staying, and she was taken
to the car, placed comfortably in bed, and, with
| out the moestation of any strangers, with the
| whole car given up to the accommodation of the
| sick lady and her husband and mother, had her
| conveyed from Philadelphia to Greencastle, with
+, out once having to leave her bed in the car
"THE CHAPEL OF THE PYsE, in Westminster Alb
bey," says Once Week, "is only entered by the
representatives of the Exchequer, Treasury, and
| GOldsmiths' Company, and then armed with siz
| mighty keys, when they come to assay new coir
! with the standard of the realm, which are here
| preserved. No other Sesame can open this mys
terious door, admit to the secrets that lie behind
And gloomy, murky, low browed den it is, afte
all, with presses against the wall, containing
records of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and retaining
drawers labelled in the handwriting of painful
Master Agarde.' The small windows are doubly
! grated, to prevent mischance from itching palms
they were probably added, according to the pro
verb, on the principle OF shutting the door after
the steed had been stolen, subsequent to the loss
900 laid up prudently by Edward |. for hi:
Scottish wars-a precedent worthy of imitation by
modern Chancellors of Exchequer, in these evi
days of income tax The abbot and forty monks
benefit of clergy, judge and jury, to taste the
| cold comfort of the Tower"
THE WHoLE-SoULED JERsEYMEN.-We have heard
| of men so mean that they would abstract coins
| from the eyelids of defunct colored person. We
were not, until lately, aware that more despicable
| mortals existed. The Times of Saturday convinced
| us of our They have them in Belvider re-
N. j. Have them very bad, too, if what the Time
| tells US is true:
"Great efforts were made to induce Sheriff
| 10 10 uor Nd e..
| for so doing would have been $780, which the cit
zens of Belvidere offered to make up on condition
| of his so doing. The reasons given were, thou
sands of people from the surrounding township.
| and villages would come to witness the execution
and their coming would benefit Belvidere pecuni
| arily speaking, very largely.
We promise our readers to desst, in future, from
satirizing the actions of the Jerseymen. The mere
mention of "Belvidere" will, we think, be sui
ciently aggravating. At all events we shall cen:
tent ourselves Win making that little remark from
| time to time.-Vanity Far. ..-. ....--
From HAvANA.-By the arrival of the steamship
! Philadelphia, at New York, we have Havana dates
of the 7th instant. There is nothing of Importance
| in the Havana papers. Sugars were firm. AS
freights declining, in consequences of the large
number of vessels offering, the present rates of su
gar will probably be maintained during the summer
| Quotations last reported. Stock 325 ,00O
boxes, which will hereafter decrease daily, all the
| plantations having finished grinding. Molasses
! firm at 371a@405s cts. per keg for clayed Musco-
vad0es active at 5Ug5bI4 cts. per keg. Cigars
Large sales under recent arrivals of new tobacco.
| Tobacco-Seyeral lots new sold at lower rates
Lard fraction higher. Lumber nominal Money
Little Improvement. Exchanges firm at 12@l3
on London, and A@l19 premium on New York, &C
"No BUTCHERS MEAT."-The high price of pro
visions in England is causing general discomfort
among working classes. At great meeting in the
open air in London, the dearness of the necessa-
ries of life attributed to the scarity OF food,
but to monopoly the part of rich provision deal
ers, and government was asked to appoint COM
mission to probe the question. meeting OF sim
liar character has been held at birmingham, at
which the persons present pledged themselves to ab
stain during the month of July from beef, mutton,
lamb, and veal in the hope of breaking up the mo-
nopoiy A public meeting at Sheffield came to a
similar determination. American beef and pork,
which can be had at comparatively low prices, were
recommended. The result of this "strike" will
probably secure temporary decline in prices. m
STATUE OF LuTHER.-Luther's name and fame is
yet more enduringly enshrined by the genius of the
great Dresden sculptor, Reitschel, who is engaged
in executing monument of magnificent proper
tions. The, statue of the great reformer, eleven
feet high in bronze, is to be placed lofty pedes-
tai, to be assembled by steps; the pedestal having
Philip the Magnanimous, Meancthon and Reuchlin.
At the four to be seated figures of Huss
Waldo, Savonarola and ycliffe, all, like tn OF
Luther, to be in bronze.-N. Y. Post. ~
Friday was gala day at the camp.of the Seventh
regiment on Staten Island. Crowds of visitors, a
large proportion of them ladies' arrived at the en-.
campment by every train, and il is estimated that
at least ten Thousand spectators witnessed the eyo
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