The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-20

SUCCESSFUL CoUNTERFEIr.-On Tuesday in New
oF&, customer of the Metropolitan Bank paid
INTO the /. :. Su5-Ireasury number of gold ca
giles which he had received from the Bank named
The specie clerk rejected one, apparently as fair
in appearance as the best of the heap. This coin
was returned to the Bank and in spite of the well.
known skill of the specie clerk in the detection OF
spurious coins, about thirty bank tellers to whom
- was stiv"", Pr'uUunvud 80 SurruiIrr
to take it at its face. Some were so sure of the
correctness of their judgments that they won Id
bet SlOO to $40 that 1T good. And well they
might be thus confident, since it cred all the
tests OF weight, sound circumference and thick
ness In fact, externally it was standard coin;
but upon being cut in two, the cheat was made pal
pabie, The piece had evidently been split edge
wise, both halves filed quite thin, and in place of
the stolen gold piece of whitish metal placed be-
tween the halves, and the whole re.milled. What
metal was substituted for the gold is not known,
but some Judges pronounced it platinum; but it is
not likely that so costly and scarce a mineral
would be employed in cOunterleiting; and vet il
must have been of very dense body to equal gold
in bulk and weight
ARMY lNTELLIGENcE.-Breyet MAJOR Irwin Nc
DOwell, Ad djutant Generals Department, has been
relieved fron duty at the Headquarters of the
Army, New York, and ordered to repair to San
Antonio, Texas, and report Cor duty to the depart
ment commander thereof.
| Captain Ii. D.. Waen, Fourth infantry, is di-
rected to repair to the city of Washington, and re
! port in person to the War Department. for special
country between the Columbia river and the valley
| OF the Great Salt Lake.
Company Il, Fourth infantry, is directed to re
| sure its former position at Fort Cascade, Oregon
Company Il, Third artillery, is ordered to take
post at Fort Vancouver.
board of survey has been ordered by the de-
! partment commander of Oregon, to assemble al
! Camp Pickett, San Juan Island, to assess and re-
port upon the value of material that used in
buildings that erected at Camp Pickett for the
| use OF portion OF the Fourth and Ninth infantry.
| MANUFACTURERS IN ERGINIA-Evervbodv will be
gratcd to learn that the manufacturing interest in
Virginia has lately received powerful stimulus
| The Richmond Enquirer says many new factories
! are in course of erection, among them a wOoler
mill in Richmond, which will be in operation by
the first OF March next, and will consume weekly
from 900 to 10000 pounds of wool. A large su.
| gar refinery is nearly completed, and four five
| gentlemen, with abundance OF capital about to
establish great tannery, with which extensive
boot and shoe shop is to be coRnected. In addition
! to these, mandatory of firearms, in which Col
! Colt is interested, will soon be q! work.
1oUNG LADY kmLEn.-In Woodbridge, New
Haven county, Conn, on Tuesday night, Miss Eliza
| Thomas. daughter of Charles Thomas, was killed
/ by being thrown from a wagon. She had been to
party, and going home, got into the wagon before
| her brothers and companions, and the horse made
| cold by long waiting, started off at a slow trOt
with the lines over the dashboard Miss T. called
! tor help, and several female companions came out
! and by their frightened the horse into q
run, and Miss 7. was thrown ont, and be: Aead
struck on stone, killing her alos. instantly. She
was "A years old.
| CoLD-WATER CURE.-lt is stated that there is a
man in Boston who takes a bath at one of the
wharves regularly every day at five \. NJ and five
| +. NJ. When there is no ice he dives from boat,
if frozen over, he places carpet on the Zoe, and
| goes in where there is an openirg. tie has done
this al times during the winter when the thermo
meter has stood eight degrees below zero. lie
does it for his health and is rapidly recovering
under the treatment. His disease is dyspepsia
and he has been nearly year in the Massachusett:
| Hospital.
| A CoNDInoSAL PAED1N.-E. 7. Nichols formerly
manager of the Cleveland AheHaUm, who was two
years since sent to the Ohio penitentiary for six
years for forgery committed upon his brother-n-
| law, p. T. Barnum, the great Snowman, has been
| conditionally pard0ned by Coy. DennisOn. The
| condition OF the pardon requires the prisoner tC
| return Immediately to Cleveland to be tried OF
another indictment still pending against him tol
| forgery.
! SUPPOSED MURDERED BY NEGRoEs.-Mr. Jno. Burga
an old and respectable citizen OF Butler county, KY
is supposed to have been murdered, robbed, anC
| then burned in his own house. Mr.. Burga a
bachelor, and had lived on his farm for many year,
with his negroes 1t is supposed his negroes robbed
the house, and then firing, it burned his body tt
prevent suspicion and TO convey the idea that the
house had accidentally caught fire, and he burned
while asleep.
|
Detroit the other day, between aged female o
sixty-fve, and young man of twenty-one. They
were cousins, and on uniting themselves in matri
mony became possessed of ten thousand dollars by
bequest The donor of this money had, upon hi
death-bed, willed them five thousand dollars each
under condition they married in the family sPros
tituton of hand without heart"
Last Sunday, two large and influential churche
in AccOmac county, Va, formerly belonging to tn,
Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episco
| pal Church, by unanimous vote, placed themselve
under the supervision of the preacher in charge o
the Eastville Circuit of the Virginia Conference.
Henry McAuley, a wel-known citizen of st
| Louis, was killed Monday evening last in al
affray with p. F. Shecken. Shecken charged
McAuley with insulting lady, and struck him il
the face with his clenched hand, breaking th
| bones.
On last Monday, the St. Charles and st. Loui
hotels in New Orleans had jointly 1854 paying
boarders. Both houses owned by the SAM
parties.
The explorations of Capt. Page, of the Soutl
American exploring expedition have been extende,
| to the headwaters of the Paraguay, two Thousand
miles above tde-water.
Miss Siddons, pupil of Macready, and linea
descendant of the great Mrs. Siddens, is shortly t
appear on the stage, in London, as Lady Macbeth
A lecture was delivered in York, Pa, on las
| Monday evening, by the Rev. DR.. John C. Orricl
of this city.
A white lead factory is being built in the Piken
District, s. c., and will soon be completed. 1t vii
be supplied with ore from the Cheohee mine,