The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-26


The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, owing to
break which occurred in wing gwall at or very
near dam No. A, on Sunday, the 18th instant, did
but little business last week We learn, however,
that the canal will be passable at the dam by Tues
day or Wednesday at the farthest, and that as
there has been accumulation of boats laden
with coal at that point, to a number exceeding one
hundred and sixty, there will be gut of arrivals
at Georgetown and Alexandria towards the close
of next week of more than usual extent. The
canal is elsewhere in good condition. The ship
ments of coal coastwise from Georgetown during
the past week were very large and vessels are re-
quired now to carry coal to Eastern ports-Nd-
tionaI htelHgencer.
A Coon IDEA.-Some of the volunteer companies
of New Y ork periodically practised in harbor
defence. They are allowed facilities for drilling
with heavy artillery at the forts in the harbor and
practice with casemated guns. This feature ought
to be adopted in all our volunteer organizations
where facilities exist Forts of very little use
a defence unless there practiced artierists
to work the guns. little practice in this KIND OF
instruction would supply the knowledge
which would enable us to man every one OF our
fartresses in case of necessity, with skilled art
| Ierists The United States Government has been
encouraging the idea among the New York volun-
teers and it might extend, with advantage, the
instruction to every large seaboard city.-Phila-
delpkia Ledger.
Fraudulent MARRIAGE SET AsIDE.-In New York,
last week, Judge Leonard annuled the marriage
of Agnes Kidder daughter of a wealthy ship
owner, and only fourteen years of age, and Walter
Kidder, a waiter in a saloon, one and twenty
With the connivance of domestic named Emma
kidder, he induced the young girl to enter a store
on Cherry street, where he doctored her handker-
chief with a very powerful narcotic, to which he
had impaired something of the odor of cologne.
He then took her to the residence of a clergyman
who married them, in the presence of Emma The
girl told her mother the next day, stating that she
did not know what she was about at the time
SoNs OF TEMPERANCE.-The report Of the NJ. W.
Grand Patriarch of the National Division of Sons
OF Temperance gives the following information IN
| regard to the progress of the order: In twelve
| years previous to and including 1859, there nave
been initiated 756 SAT members, or an aVeraSe 80 ~
g., 900 per annum. These members nave pau NJ ~
their subordinate divisions, in the I" 9ore
sum of S5,0S4 All. The suboTolnaite i',S " SI7A 80
paid to sustain their grand ulFISio FS.o; tLoO.a
The GRAND divisions have paid 10 a. ne .i Ia
tionsi division the sum OF $500 far hono6ts 70
| wears 81 AIS, 400 nave ~
| members in sickness
| 1r.,,,,NcE CoMMITrBE VIRGINIA-A vigi-
'rnmittee composed OF one hundred ana
! ss.r nersops, has been formed IN orange county,
nlty PPr The nurpose of rdding the county of GER
a. disrenntable characters who suspected of
rar;ons .a, crimes, the principal being dealing with
slaves thereby melting the latter to steal several
of the suspected persons were arrested last week
| ond ordered to leave. One of them was hrst pub
| licly whipped.
THE RICE CRoP.-1he Charleston Mercury OF the
18TH saws that should the fortune that mas at
tended the crop thus far continue to the END OF the
season. the biggest crop ever MADE VIII De the re
| suit The rice is very handsome and pure, the
rains having kept down the grass, and the planters
are in high spirits.