The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-15


fers OF olhcers and men from vessel to vessel The
general health of sailors and officers was good ot
the time OF the sailing of the Supply.
THE IMPRISONED COUNTY CoMMIssIovrRs.-
three County Commissioners bear their conine-
ment with somewhat different degrees of equanimi-
ty. Mr.. Patterson is quite pleasant and cheerfulv
philosophical. Mr.. Brauff is little irritable and
restlve, and even indispOsed to relish A Guet
loKe' looking on himself as very badly used. We
rear @ he WIZ not bear canonzation a saint how
ever resolute MARTYR Mr. M'Elbinnv ex-
presses grave fears that those who have boased So
much will generally be found WANTING vbon +bo
hour OF shouldering muskets and of actuaI rneist
ance shall come; but he, like all the others is reso
lutte in determination to keep their pledge NOT to
levy tax, and as they were elected under those
pledges, 1t seems they cannot do otherwise until
the people release them. Mr.. M'Ehinnv is evj-
IDENTIFY very ILL., and should not be suffered to remain
where he is one moment longer than NAV be una
Voidably necessary.-PHtsburg Dispatch.
MONUMENT TO IRvNG.-A tablet has been placed
IN the Episcopal Church at Tarrytown to the
memory of Washington Irving, bearing the fol
lowing inscription:
WASHINGTON IRVING,
Born in the City of New York
April 3, 1888.
For many years
A COMMUNICATE and Warden
OF this Church, and repeatedly
one OF Its Delegates in the Convention Of
| the Diocese.
Loved, Honored, Revered
he fell asleep in Jesus
Nov. 2S, 1859
This Tablet is erected to his
Memory by the Vestry.
REAL ESTATE IN New YoRK-The Tribune in an
article on the value Of real estate ia New York
says: Property in outofthe-wav downtown 10,
calitles, except In the first ward, has undergone
little change. In that ward however sales are e,-
cessiVely dull, and there is marked falling off in
the value of even the most desirable localities-
Even IN Wall street the stagnation is felt; property
there will not command its last years price: the
leeng Is that Its climax of ValnatinD ia d.
passed. and that "Wall street will have to come
further up town" On Broadway, below Wall
st5gee go e9e decrease OF value is also apparent No
press Company, rented for Sl4, 500 until within a
year. but now rents for S8, 900 only! The hniIdinr
Is hye stories high, and through to New
street. "
AMOUNT OF FREE MAIL MATTER SENT FROM Avn
RECEIVED AT THE Posi- OFFICE, WAsHryGroy CRY
The amount of free mail matter sent from the
| Washington City Post Office was for the month of
January, 1860: Letter postage, 81, 4,366.27; newspa-
pers and pamphlets, $50 .96 books S5Ol22 So
total for January, S54 5790i For February: letter
postage, Sl,625 68; newspapers and pamphlets.
S69.lO books S5S, ,504 j0-tota for February SG9,-
77S 50.
The amount of free mail matter received, amount
ed for the same period in letters to S8,2l847;
newspapers and pamphlets, S266 II; and on books TO
SlZI6-total for January and February, So 497 35
Iotal amount sent and received in January and
February, Sl26.275 81.
The ARTEsIAN WELL AT READING.-Mr Lauer has
indue contract WIN the gentlemen who have
been boring his artesian well to carry it to depth
bi -oVG eIC ~ has alreauy Teached IOo eet,
pelng the third IN depth IN the United States. One
at Columbus, Ohio is 2S40 feet, and one at st.
Louis, ,282 feet This one is ali its dentb tbronoL
solid rock; the bore is four inches and the drill is
driven by steam engine, and requires but three
men at a time who alternate with three others
so as to keep the work in constant operation and
then sometimes not making more than four inches
rods screwed togatbar and baistad 1I 0Io Gu
turned bv the steam mower Tba nresant norSo oa
is stated at about $50 day-Reaoipg DaHv Time
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CHANcE FOR An lNvEsrIGArING CoMMITTEE.-An
ingenious hepu0Ilcan vermont paper alluding to
| Edmundson- : IIickmon scan9 ora,I 49,, LIE LIE I! o
tinguished gentleman to task for an S.important
omission from his letter. This important omis-
p';dn. law P"pti P,".e.uS 70 say was tne wee
a sestu?ft :f heS'ec' 10 h0tlce report "to the
tnrS ..tI| al + noI us'aNeh' "e quote the edl-
~. P ',;. "'''' ''"'e P'eC'o"$ 10 me "s?G"t mr.
t ,aye J"S see" ~ c'ose "macy "H me ds'
H. IN =" 10 ' ' !''J '''t s"'''' '"9 run HthH an
nl.,, y as #"s "i9"'Hy "!$
'II'''"' q "e o9a4aH ""'c@ '"S "1o" to take poce'
TENNYsoN's PoEMs.-The Mobile 7ribune mus
snsg Gnscks OH the incidents OF Iennysons poem
a M "'th tt ie was PaIi % zen PouhuS line. for IN
Ine 4Pen'hg Gost - oo' a passage IN which
SEEn. th n-l nusoanu 10 lTrGlVe a IN m an, costs
rnSb11t of thn ~ 49, ,t u.s. ;epiS py d, oooo' ana inc
| Sinns +b bL ~ g' I - t'l'O 'lt E'oou om woman
S,,Sf ene napy TO Steep at cost OF $500 to the
pid % vi 1Gc~I"oI H@goE"e; the husband
d tI " al I' lLe MS llgnu, no" mat ne Is dead;
of three hundred and thirteen lines cost ahont
$4,000.
Tgp W,s,o,, C,,,-., y-,----1r 1ri c.,..
nall hh ~. w ASIoA silver MiNEs.-lhe Cai'"rnla
moss of tbas Wh ~ 2 tuui.'inR I ne" VI tne Fich-
;ii ~ iG e " "Snoe sI'FSr mines fotosl SINKS INTO
ricl1nss af w ~. ~ "''i nv, L"c "iH"St idpu"uS
San Fra,mi y" " estrln 'an. me recent assays IN
cI9 400 nc IL iis J ih tIe tHtFaoruInary FleId or
mated that the Weld Of the veins already onened
will amount to $40 600 900 for the ensrino year
and no possible conjecture can cover future dnveI
opments 80, 900 Californiaus are patiently await
ing the disappearance of the SHOWS To rracinitata
themselves upon this new country.
AxorrvD V-or,,, o1 ~ P--o-s--,- !,
II ioi,% of oLD DEo"S HALD.-A cor
r.ar. r,l.-I.s, W - -, f'''''' "''''"s
~ N"'ileS'o"n' ' d. Ma'cn 9tl, says:
- Mrs Allbone, the oldest sister of George W.
turner, VINO was slam by John Brown and his
associates, was buried here to-day by the side Of
her brother. She died at Mt. Hope Lunatic Asy-
Ium, whittier she was taken shortly after her
der but confined to sink untI bor b.eF MS
burst its earthly bonds Annther ,,rrnor ~ L
added IN tho Uornar,s Forrr Et ~ "0
- : ~ - ISe.
lNAUGURATioN OF THE CLAY STATUE AT New On
LEANs.-on the 18th of April next the Inauguration
ceremonies OF the statue OF Henry Clay will take
"oe anu 'ue otGasiom VIII oe one OF unusual IN
Ules'' 10 1n oratlou VIII pe ueliVered oy W. H.
In II
Uvepall. an oGe In Erench has been written for
sne occasion on oE Mr. flaclde Cononge and set to
ln"slc oy Mr. ". Curto
ANOTHER TRAxszArLAYTrC VoYAGE PRoposrp.-
In the Common Council OF Boston, on Monday,
communication was received from Mr.. John La
Mountain, OF Troy, ~ Y, containing PROPOSE
tlon 70 maze axe an aerlal voyage to London IN the
onon non oi nay OF June next, provided the su OF
o4ooo Is raised 10 deiFay necessary expenses. The
the celebration Of 4tb of Iulv 0l
otEAA + IRE ENGINE FOR kUsSIA.-lhe Philadel-
Pnla Da"et" states as evidence OF the TACT that
nussi' Is Ae1PlnS up WIN the mechahlcai progress
VI Ine age, tnSt 81 am nre engine mas oeen oult
Petersburgh. The metal work of the engine was
chiefly done in Philadelphia, but the machine itself
was built in Richmond, Virginia.
T,. NJ $3.50 I,---------- M
statns that tbo Dbori n; DtntGH Jo%rnol
'uav te ~ tt vlcny ul1 more
years past at this season, and better than at any
period during last spring. Herrings sell
ing at 81 per hundred. Shad, which have not
been very plentiful as yet, sell for 90 cents pair.
There has been introduced into the Massachusetts,
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report Immediately to some local authority when