The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-28


THE GUBERNAroRIAL NoM1NArIoN OF THE PEOPLES
PARTY OF PENNsYLNANIA.-The Philadelphia North
American has the following notice of the nominee
of the Peoples party of Pennsylvania, at their
Convention held at Harrisburg on Wednesday:
Mr.. Curtin is a resident of Centre county, where
he is very much respected and quite popular
Thoroughly identified with the interests and feel
ings of the people of Western Pennsylvania, he has
ever been to them in some sort representative
man, characterized by that love of material pro-
gress, ardent pursuit after intellectual and educa-
tonal development, and restless activity and enter
prise, which have made Western politicians and
public men persons of mark everywhere. In Penn
syvania affairs he has long been well known, though
still a comparatively young man. He was an influ-
ential member of the Whig party, and when the
Hon. James Pollock was elected by that organiza
ton Governor, he was appointed Secretary OF
State and Superintendent of Public Instruction,
which offices he filled with credit and distinction
during Pollock's administration. He prOmi-
nent candidate for United States Senator in the
unfortunate difficulties at Harrisburg in 1855, be-
ing the chief competitor of General Cameron
TAKING THE RAILROAD TAX HARD-The Browns
vile, Pa, Times says: The people of Washington
county seem determined to offer at least passive
resistance to the collection of railroad tax. A
few days ago we noticed the case of man who
had his horse levied upon by the collector; but, in
asmuch as no bidder for the animal could be found
he returned him again, the tax gatherer not
even making his expenses by the operation. This
week we have to announce the seizure and sale of
| the Hon. W. Montgomery's library, for railroad
| tax. The gentleman is one of the most steadfast
opponents of the impost in the county, and permit
ted his books to go to sale that he might bring the
matter to legal test in a higher court. What
the result will be remains to be
CURIOUS LAw.-There is law in Pennsylvania
| which requires that all wills which contain be-
quests for charitable and religious purposes shall
be made twenty days before the death of the testa-
tor. 1t will be remembered that ex-Mayor Gilpin,
who died recently in Philadelphia, bequeathed a
large sum OF money 10 various cnarltaDle ana 1T
| erary societies. The munifcent intentions of Mr..
Gilpin are likely to fail through legal defect in
| his WILL which was made only twelve days before
| his DEATH
| The chain-gang, as a mode of punishment for
! crime, is extensively patronzed in many the
| Western cities, and is working wonders The
| papers complain that the principal material for
items drunks and dsorderlies, have subsded into
| the chain-gang.
charge of bribery was lately preferred against
Sinclair Roberts, member of the lower house of
the Kentucky Legislature and it is said to be the
first charge of the kind brought against a
member of the Legislature of that State.
few mornings since, the dead body of little
girl, about ten years DID, was found on the ice in
Muskegan Lake, Michigan. She had been across
the Lake to church, and her return had lost her
way, and eventually her life on the frozen ice.
The New York Tribune thinks the postponement
of the Chicago Convention, to June, grave mis-
take, both in loss of time and the opportunity
given for breeding dissensions among the Republi-
cans about rival candidates.
Intelligence has been received from Lieutenant
Mulan's Expedition to the first of December. A
severe snow storm had overtaken the party in the
Rocky Mountains, and that many animals had been
| lost and men frozen by the severe cold.
Jerry, the slave convicted in Clarke county, Va,
of melting insurrection and sentenced to be hung,
but whose sentence has been commuted to imprison-
ment for ife has been taken to the penitentiary at
| Richmond.
The citizens of Columbia, South Carolina. have
| had manufactured cane of palmetto, which was
suitably inscribed and sent to W Washington, to be
presented to Mr. Edmonson, of Virginia.
Seventy-fve thousand dollars worth of the capi-
tai stock of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central
Railway has been taken by the citizens of Hartford
county, and muck more is expected to be subscribed.
Hon. VIM. L. Dayton, of New Jersey, has been
named by his friends as a candidate for the Presi-
dency
Ex-Governor Wise is spoken of as the successor
of Mr.. Millson, in Congress, from the Norfolk dis
trict.
The Uniuers the only Paris journal which, in
1852, extolled the law under which it has now been
suppressed.
Rev. Dr. E. Yeates Reese, of this city, delivered
lecture in Alexanria, Va, on Friday night.
The Bennett divorce case is again up before the
Philadelphia courts.
The late city Treasurer of Milwaukee, has been
found to be defanlter to the amount of Ss,723l6