The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-07

THE CEREMONY OF ExcoMMUNIcATIoN.-A CORES
pondent of the Independence Beige gives the follow
ing account OF the ceremony that would be per-
formed at the then expected prOmugaton of the
Popes accommodation of Victor Emmanuel King
of Sardinia. AS advices received Yesterday
state the bull had been issued doubt but the
emony has taken place 'The ceremony will take
place in st. Peters Church, with great pomp. All
the Cardinals will be present; the whole church
will be hung with black; the cruc6x will be veiled
and torches of yellow wax will be lighted and ex-
tlnguished one after the other. There will be
grand procession of all the monastic orders to
Rome, who will afterwards depart for their monas-
teries and converts, chanting the Mserere as they
pass through the city. The person who gives me
TINS information docs not think the sentence of
communication will be pronounced by the Pope
himself, but by Cardinal selected for that pur-
pose.
IMPORTANT CASE OF SALvAGE-The attention OF
the United States District Court, of Pennsylvania
has been occupied with very interesting case of
salvage during the past week. The British bark
Ferris had been abandoned at sea, and was after
wards picked up by the bark c. E. Tay, and
brought to this port by part of the Tays crew
The Ferris was estimated at eighteen thousand
four hundred dollars, and the Court, after hearing
full argument, allowed the salvors five thousand
dollars.
PoCKET-PICKING BY WHoLEsALE.-A gang ofpick-
pockets made descent upon Lancaster city, Pa,
last week, and succeeded in making the following
rODDerles: DaVlQ LanOlS l0St S9Ul; Isaac Miller,
Sl,5lO; James Passmore, 81 OOO Mr.. Denlnger
So, l00 Notes and other valuable papers, amount
ing to some Si5,000 also stolen. An English
man, about forty years OF age, giving the name of
John r. Froderberry, was arrested on suspicion of
being one OF the thieves.
PASSENGER RAILwAYsIN PHILADELPHIA.-TbeP Phil
adelphia Inquirer says that there are now in that
city, in active operation, nineteen passenger rail
road companies, who transport from one section of
the city to another daily between one hundred and
md fnrty .fva
persons, and receive from seven to eight thousand
dollars per day, which would exceed two millions
of dollars annually.
At meeting of the Washington National Monu-
ment Association, held in W ashington on Tuesday,
the secretary submitted a letter from Mr.. Joseph
F. Joy, of New York, enclosing check for S29O,
contribution of tie employees of the Panama Rail
road Company and other residents the Isthmus
of Panama towards the completion of the Monu-
ment.
On Thursday of last week the Custom House
officers at New Orleans made prize of war boat
containing no less than fifty kegs of powder, which
they placed in the keeping of police officers The
Crescent asks whether the powder belongs to Juarez
or Miramon?
A terrible encounter took place in Powell coun-
ty, ny last week. between a man named Hall and
his sons, and one named Bowler and five of his
sons. Old Hall was mortally wounded and one of
his sons was killed. and another was severely
stabbed. Old Bowler was also severely wounded
The United States Court, for the district of
South Carolina, commenced its April term at
Charleston, Monday last. Several important
cases will come up before it this time; among them
the case of Captain Corre of the Wanderer, and
the India Rubber Patent case of Horace H. Day.
Schiller's only surviving daughter, Madame Won
Gleithen Russwarm, having requested the public
to forward to her all the speeches. &c. relating to
the recent Schiller Festival, has received not less
than two thousand sets of memorials from different
places.
In exhuming some bodies at family graveyard
near Charlottesville, S. c., lately, the body of a
woman, buried twelve more years,
was found petrifaction, with each article of dress
perfect.
The Austin, Texas, Intelligencer says several bod
place and mysteriOusly disappeared. Whence they
came and whittier they are gone time will doubt
less tell.
A duel recently took place in New Orleans be-
tween Mr.. Plume, of Newark, IN. J.,) and Mr..
Stone, of the former place. In the first round
ball passed through Mr.. Stones hat; in the second
he was killed.
The editor of the Bellevue Uowa) Courier has
tried the experiment of raisUg cotton in that State
with considerable success. He has raised some
eight or nine pounds from single strip five feet
long.
Madame Colson has been engaged to sing for five
weeks at the French Opera at New Orleans. For
this period she has So, 500 salary, half full benefit
without deduction for expenses, and $3.50 for trav-
elling expenses.