The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-05

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: BARBARIAN PLor TO MASSACRE CHRISTIANS
r a letter from Tunis, (Barbary,) dated September
zoth' contains the following item of news ''There
was ueep ald plot, extending over the whole Re-
: gency, TO massacre the Christians and Jews, la
! Damascus, Hastega, ETC. 1t was set ON foot bv a
Chereet, descendant of the Prophet,) who landed
somewhere on the coast with party of followers
lie was one OF the ringleaders at Damascus, and
"hen that place became too hot for him, transfer
red his attentions to Tunis. The Bey gave orders
that dead or alive he must have that Chereef He
was taKen conveyed to Bardo, (the Bey's palace,)
ANA ANA lke the banners, hung on the outer wallis
diious interesting episodes occurred-among 9TH
ers that of Dervshe paradinp about town in a
cool undress, with marks his knees, and CRYING
mat ne intended to wade in Christian blood nm to
those marks. He was put in ail The Rev went
to Algiers to meet the Emperor, and Monsieur
Roche, the French Consul General went with him.
He was conveyed in French steam frfpate The
English sent line-ofbattle ships to take care of
Tunis during his absence"
The New YoRK CHAMBER OF CoMMERcE AND THE
CoAsTING TRADE-At the monthly meeting of the
NeW ork Chamber of Commerce held on Thurs
daya report was adopted touching the liabilities of
| snlpowners IN case of collision, and recommending
| that the laws OF England and America should be
uniformly the same; that the Consuls of both coun-
tries should have jurisdiction over all petty crimes
| committed on board the vessels of either and de-
| serters be dealt with by the same authority ac-
cording to the laws of either country; recommend
ing that foreign ships should have the right of reg
lstraton in the United States as the ships of other
nations have in Great Britain and also recommend
ing the discussion, in the Chamber, of the propriety
OF throwing open to British shipping the coasting
| trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports, it
being understood that Great Britain would recipro-
cate, by abolishing all "ght due" " "passing tolls
| "local charges" and Compulsory pilotage" in the
Colonial trade of the American lakes.
PROBABLE CLEARANCE OF A SLAvER-The bark
Romulus, recently arrived at Cold Spring Harbor
anu was ntLed Tor rather unusua yyav
the lower hold being filled with casks of water &c
Whlle ostenslb y she was to have been used as a
Whaler. From time to time while she Law at anchor
| small steam tugs arrived during the uioht (nroha
| bly, from New York. and delivered articles or n.r
sons on board the bark. At last on Wednesday
nlght last, she slipped out into the sound where
| steam tug was waiting for her, and after a long
| time spent in shipping or transhipping cargo she
| started for sea through the Race. No doubt re-
mains In the minds of many who observed her
movements that she had gone on a slave trading
voyage. 1t is said that the custom house officer at
Cold Spring is decided old fogy-never without a
pipe in his mouth-and that is no difficult matter
| Sun, Nog. 3.
STEAM EXPANSION ExPEGIMESTs--A series Of or.
| perlments have lately been made by MIR. B. F. Ish-
erwood, chief engineer in the United States Navy
| 10 test the capabilities of steam expansion. The
results proved so novel and so different from re-
celved notions on this subject, that il has bann
| thought to be of the utmost Importance both tn
| our naval and commercial steam marine that these
| experiments suOuu De repeated such scala
might make the tests and their results satisfactory
TO all. The matter has been brought to the notice
| OF the navy Department by some of the most ex-
tenslve engine builders and manufacturers reouir-
Ing great steam power in their operations of New
orK; ana the Secretary of the Navy, in accord
ance with their representations, will shortly have
those experiments repeated on a large SCALE
Wash Cor. N. Y Herald.
FROM HAYTI-We learn from correspondent at
JaSmel ST. Domingo, that the Hayten Govern
ment has ordered full and complete census to be
taken on the French side of the island. AT the
opening OF the House of Representatives the Pres
ident, in his message, referred in the most comp-
mentary manner to the recent colony of emigrants
from Louisiana, settled at st. Mare and ex-
pressed hope that the example might be followed
| on larger scale. The government encourages
emigration in every way, the public domain being
thrown open to settlers, and, if necessary, a part
OF their passage money will be paid, and they will
be provided for at the public expense for eight
Gays after their arrival The coffee crops which
| promised to be more than an average Weld, was
| rapidly coming to market The new crop was SELL
ing at SLY (Haytien) per hundred lbs.
CoTroN CRoPlN NORTHERN MIss1ss1PP1.-The Ok.
ford Miss Mercury, of Thursday last, says:
gentleman just up from Bolivar county gives
| us cheerful account of the cotton crop. To use
| his own language can of ground IS lust as
good for bale of cotton this year a sxpence is
for ginger cake in Bolivar" No sort Of land can
be purchased for less than S25 per acre. while many
plantations are actually held at S75, while the
holder is perfectly Indifferent about selling. One
gentleman, he says, who works only sixteen hands,
will make 250 bales this year; suppose these bales
bring $50 each, the production of sixteen hands one
| year Is Sl5, 900. Many plantations work one hun
dred hands; at the above rates one hundred hands
! would earn S90, ,000 and this will give you some
idea OF planting cotton in the Mississippi bottom.
FoRT MONROE, JOLD PoINT CoMFORT, VA) is
now said to De rendered one OF the most formida-
Bile fortresses in the country. Its armament has
been improved in many respects, and looks truly
formidable. The number of guns mounted is
less than two hundred and eighty-tive, which throw
| twelve thousand four hundred and seventeen pound
| OF iron There are, besides these, ten mortars and
| i've siege howitzers. The new fort, commonly
known as the Rip Raps, will, when perfectly com
| pleted, have hundred and eight eight-inch
Col umbiads, and ty-four fortv-two guns all case
mated; and eight ten inch Columbiads, and forty
| SIX ninench ditto, all embarbette. Nothing that
! could be done to perfect the battery has been
| neglected.
| SHlPBUuDING AT THE EAsrwARD.-At Calais (Me1
there are now five vessels the stocks. Mr.
Charles Ii. Kelley is building a brig of 220 tons.
and schooner of 100 tons. Master William Kinds
Is building schooner of 14O tons, and BeImore
Young schooner of about $50 tons; Mr.. Tarbox
Is building one of about l40 at Red Beach. There
are seven vessels to be built at Pembroke between
now and next summer, consisting of three barks
ana four schooners. Ship timber of all kinds is
rising rapidly in price, is every kind of material
used in shipbuilding. Messrs Chapman Bolton
received orders to build two or three large class
vessels for parties in England but have declined on
account of the low price per ton.
| CLOTHING MANUFACTURING TRADE-Accordipp TO
to the New Y YOrk Herald, there is a large number
| of extensive firms in that city, engaged in the
| wholesale manufacturing clothing trade for the
South, whose capital invested ranges from one hun
dred thousand dollars to half a Million and in some
| few cases probably nearly reaches one million of
| dollars. These houses give employment to from
twenty thousand to thirty thousand operatives in
cuding males and females, and comprising poor
! Americans, Irish and German families During the
I height of the clothing business, many of the man
utacturers pay in wages one thousand dollars a
day.
SINGLE BorToMs FOR SHoEs.-The Shoe and
Leather Reporter says The plan for using shingles
In the bottom OF shoes originated about thirteen
! years ago, the first lot being cut in New Hamp-
| shire; the use of paper and straw board began
about the same time. To give some idea of the
tent of this branch of the business during the past
year, hive or six acres OF heavy pine timber have
been used for wood filling, nearly all by tie manu-
tacturers of Natck, Massachusetts,, and the adioin-
ing towns, in the soes ofbrogans.
"BEwARE OF THE VIDDERs."--A short time since
in Cincinnati young man in a joke, he says,
| introduced friend to a widow lady of some means.
An intimacy sprung up between them, which result
| ed in an engagement of marriage. The was to-be
| groom, the confidence of his intended
to borrow from her sixteen hundred dollars,
with which he soon made himself scarce. The Sc
| quel to the affair is that the widow has brought
suit against the man who introduced her to the de-
ceiver, as party to the swndling transaction.
|
| gagged, in Detroit Michigan, in endeavoring to
chrystalize the lints agates and cornelias of the
| Lake Superior region and secure such a point of
brilliancy to equal the diamond. He showed some
disintegrated agates, some of which were burned,
others showing the action of acids which seemed to
have eaten out the impurities and left the flint as
clear and transparent as crystal, which doubt
less the nearest he had come to the perfection of the
| sparkling diamond.
SINGULAR PRESERVATION OF PRoPERTY AT New
| YoRK.-On Thursday afternoon, during the confu-
sion attending the departure of the steamship Bien
| vile, trunk containing 5000 worth of iewelry
slipped from the shonlder of the porter, and strk-
| ing the wheel house was broken open and the con-
tents scattered in the river Two officers of the steam
boat squad, at the risk of their lives descended to
the surface of the water and succeeded in recover
| ing nearly all of the property. The jewery, being
attached to cards, hoated about until picked up
| "NoTHING TO WEAR."-The executors of a lady
named Desmond who died in Brompton, England,
| last May, sold the extraordinary number of eigh-
teen hundred silk dresses, seven hundred velvet
mantletS, two hundred bonnets, ,and upwards of one
hundred pairs of shoes, with innumerabe kerchiefs
and scarfs of all coors of the rainbow, which had
been purchased by the deceased lady within ten
years of her demise.
The women of the town of Canton, Ohio alarmed
at the drunkenness which has prevailed there,
| made descent last week upon a rum-shop and