The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-27

" "A .
| gro boy named Tom, possessing extraordnarv
musical talent, is creating considerable excitement
| in Charleston. The Mercury of Tuesday states
that the master of the boy invited a number of the
citizens to hear his performance on the pano-forte
| and says he played several pieces, some of which
were exceedingly difficult, others short and simple
! and all with equal facility and correctness. He
| strikes the keys with all the confidence of one
largely gifted with the musical faculty, who had
devoted many years TO the cultivation of the talent.
his manipulation is most graceful, his touch is
exqusitely delicate, and then all the strength of
his tral body is thrown into his hands, and he
strikes the instrument with mpassiOned earnest
ness. In his execution he not only re-produces the
pieces with perfect fidelity, giving every note its
sound, but the style of the performer is likewise
exactly initiated. Several of our most distin-
guished musicians performed in Toms hearing
long and complex operate pieces, and the boy
reproduced them without committing a single
mistake.
ANOTHER MAILrRoBBER ARREsrED.-United States
Deputy Marshal Dougherty arrested young man
named BARLEY Thompson, at Huntingdon, on Mon
day, on charge of robbing the post-ofce at ill
creek, in Huntingdon county. The post-oflice is
Kept IN a dry goods store, and Thompson, as is
alleged, besides carrying off number of letters,
also appropriated to himself some dry goods, which
were found in the woods where he was in the habit
of loating. lock and key belonging to the mail
bag in the post.ofice was found on him. The Mar
shal brought Thompson to the city on Tuesday,
and lodged him in Jail. 1t is said he halls from
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dag.
THE NEGRO DISTURBANCES IN CANADA-The De-
troit Free Press of Monday, has the following in
relation to the reported outbreak in Canada:
Now that the African newspapers in Canada have
had their say, and, by dint of admitting very
slight portion of the real truth, confirmed our
statements, we will reiterate what we of our own
personal knowledge, and they of their practical
experience, know to be the fact, viz: that the
accounts given in regard to their outrages on the
white citizens has not been overstated, and that
the occurrences alluded to happened as they were
described.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RALRoAD.-The New Orleans
Picayune says the cars on this road are now making
daily trips, Sunday excepted, from Marshall to
Swanson's Landing. Passengers from Marshall
Texas, reach Shreveport in six hours. A consider
able business has grown up this route, which
promises to become profit to the company. Pro-
posals have been issued, says the Marshall Repubi-
can, for contracts to build tW Wenty-fve additional
miles of the road, and engine is daily expect
ed to arrive from Philadelphia for the use of the
road.
FREE CoLoRED POPULATION IN TUE SoUTH.-A
writer in Nashville paper has compiled the prob
able number of free colored persons now in the
slave States, which is about 265 OOO distributed as
follows: Maryland, 80,000 Virginia, GO, 900; North
Carolina. 10000; Delaware, 10000; Louisiana,
20,000 Kentucky, ii 900; District Of Columbia,
II ,OOO South Carolina, 10000; Tennessee, 5000;
Georgia, 5000; Mississippi, 5000; Alabama, 5000;
Arkansas, 1000.
BAKED TO DEATH-An Indian was literally baked
to death in Hannibal, Oswego county, n. Y, last
Thursday. While under the influence of liquor,
he had been induced by an Irish woman to enter an
oven, which was large old-fashioned of brick,
where she confined him, intending to take him out
in short time. Meanwhile the oven was heated
for some purpose, and he was allowed to remain in
this hot prison for nearly hour, when he was
found bstered and swollen and entirely dead.
From VENEzUELA.-Capt. Jensen of the brig Con-
quest, from AngOstura, arrived on Wednesday
morning, with Venezuela dates to the oath Decem-
Der. The revolution was still going on, without
any decisive results. The navigation of the river
somewhat impeded, thereby preventing the
forwarding OF merchandise for vessels in want of
cargo. The British gun-boat Skipiack in An
gostura, from Trinidad and would remain
time in port.
ESCAPE OF SLAvEs.-Four slaves belonging to
Capt. F. S. Jones and Mrs. NJ. Z. Poole, absconded
from their owners in Liberty, Frederick county,
Md, last week On the evening of their escape
Mrs. Poole had cause to suspect some such move
ment on the part of her negroes, and induced
of the women to send her youngest child to sleep
in her chamber. In the morning, after the STAN
pede had been made known, the lady examined the
supposed negro child and found it to be rag baby
A BOHEMIAN NEwsPAPEa.-T Bohemians re-
siding in the United States, and particularly those
living in st. Louis, rising from dav to day in
Der, as we'll as commercial and political influence,
have resolved to establish newspaper in their
native language. The name Of the paper will be
"Narodry Morning." National GazeHe.) It's ten
dency is Republican. The editor is Mr.. T. B.
Erben.-,S. Louis Democrat.
New CoAI-M1NE.-The Borden Coal Company
have recently sunk shaft in the property lately
purchased by them near Frostburg, Md, and at
the depth of $50 feet reached vein of coal of
sual thickness and purity. The Frostburg Gazette
says that for purity and richness, we have not the
least hesitation to give it our opinion, that it
equals if it does not surpass any coal we have yet
seen in this or from any other coal district in our
country"
John G. SAKE, the poet, was delivering poem
at Trenton, New Jersey, the night before last,
when suddenly the gas went out. The audience
bore the delay good-naturedly that Mr. SAKE
complimented them on their patience, and, remark
ing that he understood the difficulty was in the
metre said that if the audience would promise not
to find fault with his "metre," he would never
mention the defect of theirs.
A SOLEMN REBUKE.-Some of the citizens of Phil
adelphia, thinking to rebuke certain of the city
officials for neglect of duty, gathered up large
quantity of street dirt and fashioned it into the
shape of a grave and placed a head-board to it
with the following inscription: "Sacred to the
Memory of the Commissioner of Highways" The
board was removed by the police.
SEVERE Cold IN FRANcE.-The weather in the
south of France has been intensely cold that a
sentinel was recently found dead from its effects,
in his sentry box, at Lyons Several persons, in
pursuit of game, had perished in the snow, in the
mountains of Dauphine and two boys of 81 wears
of age, had been frozen to death while returning
from school.
MURDER IN CHESTER County, PA.-Mary Poul-
son, mulattO, who resides in Unionvile, Chester
county, Pa, asked for fire-wood the
l4th instant, by Alfred Miller, a colored man, who
stopped in the same house; she refused, when
alteration ensued, and then scufile, in OF
which, Mary killed Miller with an axe. She was
sent to West Chester Jail.
Nrrr oF NJ;
consin, lately made partially new nose for man
named ward. The doctor cut piece of flesh from
the patients arm and attached it to his nose, and
having, by process peculiar to such operations.
covered it with a cuticle, in a few days he had
as sound and good-looking nose as ever the natu-
raj one
VIRGINIA LEGIsLATURE.-Bills have been reported
to the Honse, granting pension to Mrs. Burey,
whose husband was killed at Harper's Ferry, and
pension to Ed. McCabe, wounded at Harpers Fer
1t is said the whole expense to the State of the
Harper's Ferry affair will not exceed 100000.
The Richmond Wing proposes to publish, before
the spring trade commences, classified list of all
articles manufactured in whole or in part in that
city. Also, list of all articles manufactured in
other parts of the State, and the Southern States
generally, which find market there.
The st. Charles Hotel, at Richmond, Va, was
sold last Monday, at auction, for S35 900, to G.. w
Yancey, r. II. Dickinson and Joseph Brunei 1t
cost the former owners over $4,000 and rent
The prospects of the grape crop in Connecticut,
for next season, said to be favorable. The
Diana, Hartford, Prolific Isabella and Concord,
are the kinds recommended in the order enumera-
ted, for cultivation in Connecticut
Owen Finlan, aged 20, was lodged in the jail of
Pittsburg, Pa, by the Deputy i. S. Marshal,
charged with robbing the post-oflice at Towanda,
Bradford county.
A flock of wild-geese passed over Augusta, Me-,
on Monday, on their way North. Probably they
mistook the January thaw for the approach OF
spring.
The notorious Joseph A. Scoville is said to be
the author of letter to a Southern paper, stating
that Helpers book written in the office of the
New York Herald.
1t is said that Elder Peck is making clean breast
of the Maine treasury defalcaton. He says that he
expended S36, 900 to elect various Republican Con-
gressmen from that State
Late accounts from Porto Rico very
ging regards the crops which promise to be fair
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