The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-14

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A CRISIS PUBLIC AFFArRs.-The anti-tax COM
mittee of Allegany county, Pa, have called
mass meeting of the ak payers of the county, in
| the court house, in Pittsburg, the DIST inst,
and have requested the people generally to assem-
BILE in their respective districts on Saturday, the
18th, to deliberate upon the presen alarming crisis
in public affairs, and to recommend such measures
may be necessary to protect the rights ami pro-
perty of the citizens of this county from judicial
usurpaton and plunder.
! In lot of Peruvian guano, received at Peters
burg, Va, has been found the remains of the hand
of human being, about twice the usual size of
that member of those living; which shows
that race of men of extraordinary size once in
habited that part of the world.
The following students, from Maryland, gradua
! ted on Monday at the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia :-Wm. j. Addison, John Butter
baugh, S. S. Maynard, George H. Roberts, J.
Thomas Simms, Hugh Maxwell Wallace, j. For
| ney.
Mr.. Ludwig Richter, young German artist
| has nearly completed bust of the German poet
Schiller, in bronze, which it is intended place in
the Central Park, New York. The bust is four feet
high, and weighs about 600 pounds
A boy thirteen years old has been arrested in
New ork charged with setting fire to the resi-
dence of his parents, times, before be was de-
tected. The only reason he gave for doing so was
that che wished to see the engines play"
While a party were fox hunting in Caroline
county, day last week, OF the number,
named Draper, had his horse shot dead by person
named Pinkine, through whose farm they were
riding.
The charter election in New York city takes
place on the Sd prox. The inspectors of the
eral election districts met yesterday for the regis
tration of voters.
C. j. Bartlett, Esq, editor of the San Francisco
Daily Bulletin travelled thousands of miles to
seal an old engagement and was married In New
Orleans on Saturday to Miss Ellen Perry.
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last trip from New York to Norfolk, in the brief
time of 2l13 hours, being the shortest passage on
record
OF the whole number of one hundred and seven,
! ty medical students thet graduated at Jefferson
College, Philadelphia, on Monday, one hundred
and twenty-six were from the Southern States.
The CITY of New Orleans is endeavoring to OBJ
tain the removal of the seat Of government of
Louisiana to that city and offers to furnish the
State accommodations free of expense.
N. Bottgeu, a German chemist, has discovered
that union of carburetted hydrogen and nitrate
of silver will form material more explosive than
illuminate of mercury.
DR.. Israel Putnam, who was recently elected
Mayor of the city OF Bath, Me-, received all but one
of the votes cast The name of the opposition can
didate is not given
One thousand three hundred and thirty-two
geReral acts, and thirty joint resolutions, were
passed the recent session of the Legislature oil
Kentucky.
A norton of the rock, forming the precipice of
Passic Falls N j., has fallen into the upper or
narrowcst part of the chasm, partially obstructing
the descent of the flood.
At the late election for city officers in George
town, D. c., tie vote occurred between two Of
the candidates, causing a election to be held,
which takes place to-day.
gang of burglars now infest Jackson township,
York county, Pa. Several dwellings have been
robbed and considerable amounts of money taken.
No arrests made.
A petition has been presented to the City Council
of Louisville, Ky, praying that the dress OF the
police be the uniform worn by the army OF the Re
| volutiOn.
The number of children rendered orphans by the
late calamity at Lawrence is fifteen, the friends OF
whom will be aided in their support by the Relief
Fund, which amounted to about S45,OOo-
A man named Kane was Knocked down and bru-
tally beaten in Philadelphia, on Sunday night, by
a gang of rowdies called the "Spiekets''
The Edgefeld Is. C.) Advertiser announces that
tba merchants of that village will go to Charleston
for their supply of goods for the spring market
The new police force of Philadelphia will consist
of seven hundred and nineteen men-oincers IN
cluded.
Three persons fell into the canal at ashlngton
! on Monday One of them, man named William
Powers, was drowned
The Missouri papers say that the present pros
| meets indicate a large emigration to Pixies Peak
, gold region, the coming spring.
The Railroad Committee of the Ohio Senate have
reported against prO-rating the railroads of that
State.
, The Ohio Legislature has resolved upon having
an extra session.