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The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

ARREST OF A WEALTHY SCoUNDREL-A MAGIs-
TRATE AT THE HEAD OF A GANG OF CoUNTERFErTEEs
Deputy Marshal Cable, of jefferson county, o.
came up this morning on the Cleveland and Pitts
burg train, having in charge Joseph l.. Ball, in
dicted at the present term of the United States
Court for making and passing counterfeit COIN
The arrest was made yesterday at the residence of
the prisoner in Newburgh, Jefferson county. The
arrest is one OF the most important that has been
made for some time. Ball is old man-sixty
years of age, and is reputed to be wealthy. He
has fine house and large farm, and ranks among
the substantial men of Jefferson county, For a
long time he has been suspected of being connected
with an extensive gang of countereiters, but his
position and power in the neighborhood were such
Ball is magistrate, and his position was used to
shelter the counerieters and oppresS any one that
was suspected of interfering with their operations.
Several instances have been known where members
of his gang have been brought before him. and
either released at once in defiance of law and evil
dence, or sentenced in such manner that they
escaped by legal quibbe. In one instance no.
torious cOunterfeiter wa brought before him, and
the circumstances were such that commttal of
ingly committed, but after the examination Ball
secretly advised the prisoner to consult lawyer
who was cOgniZant of the proceedings of the gang,
and have him sue out writ of hdbcds corpus, on
the ground of a legal defect in the commitment
paper. The writ was accordingly sued out and
legal defect having purposely been made in the
commitment, the man was dismissed. 5. s. Com,
who has been tried and sentenced to the Penten-
tiary for years for passing counterfeit money!
a favorite pupil of Ball, and it was probably
on Conn's trial that the facts developed that
led to Balls Indictment and arrest. He has been
lodged in Jail. He has wife and four children
Ciereimd Herald, april 10.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

A fight occurred in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tues
day last, in which one hundred ond fifty men were
engaged. The Argus says that pistols were drawn,
knives, hatchets, brckbats clubs, etc., were bran
dished and freely used. During the melee ten or
fifteen of the combatants severely injured, and
one OF them so badly that his recovery is consid-
cred doubtful
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23
The Town OF Lewisburc, Ark, DestroyCd
nv

LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 20.--The Memphis En-
qWer OF the 18th instant, reports that the town of
Lewisburg, Conway county, Arkansas, was entire
ly destroyed by fire several days since No par
ticulars are yet received.
The Lawrenceburg Bank of Tennessee has sus-
in few DAYS
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23
ALTIMORE, MONDAY, APRIL q, 1860.

S75; Rodgers do, 500. Many of these leads have
adverse claims, and are involved in legal processes
The discoveries Of gold are extensive-equal to the
best of California. An immense immigration will
be here in two or three months. The Mormon
laws are entirely abrogated, and no law but that
OF Sufferance exists
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23
BALTIMORE MARKETS.

SATURDAY, ApriI II, 1850.
COfFEE.-Thcre is 4 moderate demand for Coffee and
the market for it is steady We note sales day of 200
bags damaged Rio at l34 cts $50 bags sound do. at
134Gl3& cts and 100 bags do. at II cts. We publish
below the usual weekly report of Messrs. White Il Elder
Coffee brokers, and refer readers to it for quota
tions, and a statement of the stock
WEEKLY COFFEE REPORT.
Stock Of Rio Coffee April H. 1860. 700 bags
Received since, per bark Stella. .3.7lS "
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Mr.. Willis Graves, of Cleveland, who was false
y charged with suffering his own mother to die of
starvation, has instituted libel suit against the
Cleveland Morning Leader, laying damages at
$4,000
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

number of large cities, of 10000 inhabitants,
and upwards, are not here included, because the
net proceeds are less than $4,000.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

NARROW ESCAPE OF FAYETTE MCNIULLEN.-On Fri.
day last, Fayette Mullen, Ex-Governor of Washing
ton Territory, and at present residing in Smvthe
county, met with very narrow escape from death.
1t appears that he was riding on horseback and on
approaching the Railroad near Marion, discovered
the train at hand, and running very rap
idly. He at once checked his horse; but the ami
nal becoming frightened dashed off, and reached
the track where the road crosses At the very mo-
ment the approaching train got to that point.
The horse was over and instantly killed, and
McMulen thrown on the cow-catcher, where he
remained for some moments until the engineer
able to reach him and succeeded in dragging
him on the engine, the train all the while being in
rapid motion. The most singular part Of the whole
transaction the fact that the Governor was not
injured in the slightest degree. Fayelte is evi-
IDENTIFY in high favor with the gods, and we shall
confidently look for his nomination for the Pre-
sidency, at Charleston, this week.-LynchbUrg VIZ
ginidn.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23
CIRCUIT COURT OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
IunGF RRRMER

JUDGE BREWER.
ANNAPOLIS, April 2l.-James Rehell Esq, at
torney for the State prosecuting.-Statep rs. VIM
HOberry, indicted for resisting police officer James
W. Parkinson, while in the discharge of his off
cial duty, was tried before the court and adjudged
"guilty." Fined 81 and costs.-The jury in the
case of VIM. Grove Deal Us. the Mutual Fire In
surance Company of Baltimore county, rendered
a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for 81 $50 An
appeal will be taken by the company
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The late General Assembly Of New York passed
an act abolishing the New York city Board of
Almshouse Governors, and constituting IN Its
office for ten YeaTs
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Mrs. Chestnut, of South Carolina, the Vice-Regent
of the Mount Vernon Association in that State, is
eighty-hve years of age. She was one of the
young girls who strewed flowers in his path, when
in 1889, Washington was received with public
hOnors at Trenton.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

ACCIDENTAL DROwNING OF Two LADGEs.-Thc Cum
berland AHegoni"r says that damage to property
was not the only result of the freshet last week,
but we regret to say it was attended with loss of
life. We hear of two of accidental drown
ing. The first occurred near Flintstone on Wed
nesday, in an attempt of Mrs. Twigg, a resident of
that neighborhood, to cross Murey's Branch, on
horseback, behind n male acquaintance. The horse
stumbled and fell about the middle of the stream,
and before assistance could be rendered, Mrs
Twiggs was drowned. The man with whom she
was in company escaped. The other occurred in
Cumberland Valley, Pa, about twelve miles from
this place. and was the result of attempt to cross
Evitt's creek upon a log. Two young ladies,
daughters Of Mr.. George Miller and Mr.. Thomas
Elliott, residents of that vicinity had been upon an
errand of mercy to afflicted family in the
neighborhood and were returning home, when Miss
Miller accidentally slipped from the log into the
stream, and was swept down by the current. The
alarm was given at once but her body not re-
covered until life was extinct.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23
Arrival of the Vigo at Halifax

HALIFAX, April 2l.--The steamer Vigo from
Liverpool on the 4th inst. for New York, arrived
here to-day short of coal. Her advices have been
anticipated.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

A coal vein was recently discovered in Amador
county, California. The stratum is ten feet thick
and equal in hardness and quality to the Peacock
coal in Pennsylvania. Several tons have been
tested and found to be good.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Eighty vessels arrived at the port of Bangor,
Maine, last week during thirty-six hours.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

AN ABANDONED SLAvER.-Nassou, bahamas,
March 10, lSG0.-I send an extract from local pa
per, with some explanations:
From the Nassau GUurdidR Of Murch III
ABANDONED SLAVER.-The Lighthouse Yacht ar
rived on Sunday March IL, having in charge
brigantine, which boarded by Capt. Stewart
in lat. "a 40' N, lon. 100 lG' W., name unknown
Sail set, with halyards and running rigging all cut,
and anchors and chains taken away; hull appar-
emily American built, with two American ensans.
and eagle painted on the stern; had a slave deck
throughout, with many casks of water and tierces
of rice under. Had no doubt landed a cargo of
slaves lately, and then been abandoned.
She was in a very filthy condition, and has been
taken to the quarantine ground to be fumigated.
Subsequent examinations as well as the envelope
of a letter directed to Capt. Temple at Lisbon,
which was found in some nook crcvice, shows
that the vessel above described was the Frances
Ellen. On reference to the Marine Register, it ap-
pears that vessel Of that name, 277 tons burden
was bailt at Rockland, Me-, in 1854, and that
Temple was master, A. +. Knowles, builder and
Mansfield agent, at the time she came under the
cOgniZance of the Underwriters at New York
The deck named in the above article was not a
prominent one. The vessel was generally in fine
condition and good repair. Her hull was painted
nearly possible the color of sea-water in re-
pose. She now lies in the harbOr, subject to the
decree OF the Court Of Admiralty a derelct. The
spot where she picked up is about so miles east
from the extremity of the Peninsula of Florida
and about $50 miles north of the coast of Cuba
She could not have been abandoned on the Florida
coast, because she could not have dried across the
Gulf Stream; but, if cut loose within 10 TO 50
miles east of Havana she would have been likely to
have drtted nOrth-casterly towards the spot where
she found at the rate of three or four miles per
hOur.-COFreSpOHde Of " y. Tribune.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

ANOTHER EXODUS FROM IRELAND.-The London
Times, of the I'd has article devoted to the Irish
emigration. from which it appears that the causes
which for the last four years have suspended emf
grafton, Fave no longer that effect, but that there
is regular flight of emigrants from the western
part of Ireland. Three hundred passengers were
embarked at Queenstown, on the Edinburg, for
New York. large number on the Anglo-Saxon
for Portland. Two hundred passed through Sligo
for Liverpool, and many more we're going by way
of Galway. The great maority of them was from
Belmuet. in the county of Mayo. A considerable
number also belonged to the county of Sligo. The
tide of emigration (says local paper) has set in
in right earnest from the western province.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Comranv G.. first artillery, under command of
Cont I 4 Rickets, have arrived at Old Point
Comfort. The company number 49 men, and are
from Rinopold Barracks, Texas.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The celebrated six-year-old trotting horse, Ben
Higdon, died at st. Louis of lung fever, on Mon
day evening. He had trotted mile in 2.27, the
fastest time ever made by a six-year.old. Three
weeks ago, his owners refused 81 900 for him.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The new Bleacbery at Lewiston, Maine, is the
only of the kind in the State; it will turn
over six tons of cloth per day. The quantity of
drugs and chemicals used is immense.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

EXPERIMENTS WITH FmEARMs.-The numerous
military companies that have lately been organ
lzed IN the different counties of the State having
all been well oflcered and uniformed have all been
much interested of late in the experiments made
before them by the inventors and agents of i'm
proved firearms. So far, wherever tried in com
parison with every other arm, Merrill's Patent
ch-Loading Carbine, seems to have carried off
the palm. "A series of experiments was also made
at this place on Saturday last before committee of
the Howard Dragons, with a view to the adoption
OF the Patent Breech-Loading Carbine invented bv
Mr.. James II. Merrill, of the firm of Merrill
Thomas Co., of Baltimore. The carbine present
ed only weighs six pounds, and is so well propor-
toned that it feels like feather in the hand and
can easily be used with one hand. Light as it is it
made its mark on Saturday last on the tree it pep
pered at half mile distant Que hundred and
fifty shots were fired from the carbine with great
rapidity and accuracy without any change taking
place in the working of the machinery OF
the gun, which is of the most simple construction
and not liable to get out of order. After firing
the above number of shots scarcely more dirt was
iound in the barrel than the first shot left and no
ccogglng or leading took place, and not one miss
hre. We feel satisfied that any number of shots
could have been fired without cleaning it. The
committee expressed itself highly pleased with the
trial, and will no donbt at the next meeting rccom
mend its adoption by the company EHicoi's MIS-
Enterprise.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The passage of the Sunday Law by the New York
Legislature has created great excitement among
the lagerbeer dealers and others of New iOrk city
A meeting was held on Friday evening preliminary
to an organization to effect notification of the
obnoxious law in the best pOssible way.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

TIE GILL-NET QUEsrIoN.-The introduction into
the Senate of the United States of the bill now be-
fore that body to suppress gill-net fishing in the
Potomac, may fairly be regarded as the culmina-
tiOn of the war of words waged for years past be-
tween those who fish with mile long seines, and
the great mass Of the Potomac river fishermen who
fish, each on his own hook, for the support of his
own family. The former may be counted by dozens;
while the latter number hundreds. Few ofthe for
mer are citizens of the District; while nearly all
the latter belong in this city. Being unable to
comprehend any just right of the seine hauers to
monopOlize the fish of the Potomac, or to appreci-
ate the force of the reasoning that attributes the
decrease of the supply of shad and herring to the
multiplication of small nets, rather than to great
increase in number and length of the shore selnes,
and to the increased navigation of the river by
steam, we trust that Congress will not make the
bill to which we refer above, law Wash. Star.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Mr.. j. d. Dougall, author of the Rifle Simpljfed,
thinks that the perfection to which firearms so
rapidly attaining, contributes materially to the
peace of the world.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Iti expected that the Mobile (Ala.) and Great
Northern Railroad will be opened through IN time
to take off the crop of 1861. The total cost Is esn
mated at 81, 500, 600.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

For Europe.
New oRK, April 2l.-The steamer Edinburp
sailed hence at noon for Liverpool, with 500, 900
in specie.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Macready, the tragedian, has again entered the
state connubial, having been recently married in
London.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

IhE NEW YORK CoURT OF APPEALS AND THE LEM
MoN NAsE;[Ihe Albany papers come to us with the
uPlhIoh OF Judge DEMO given in this case which
Ine @ court OF Appeals has decided adversely to the
w hhEgInla claim of the right to bring slaves into
thls otdte. Judge DEMO sums the matter nm in
sentence, IN saying that Mrs. Lennon. when she
brought her slaves to New York did NOT also brino
the laws OF virginia along with her. hnnco tbn59
are Tree. The claim to hold them was mo6o o1
the ground that, as citizen of the United Sto+es
Mrs. Lennon was entitled, under the Constitnt;on'
to all the privileges here that she had in Virinio
Judge DEMO denies this and contends that tba
privileges and immunties' to which a Virginian
is entitled here, not those of a citizen of Vir-
ginia, but those of citizen of New York. And
the right to hold slaves, he says is not one of the
privileges and immunites of citizens of this State
u Going back to the history of the Constitution he
processes to show that it was framed after the fa-
nous Somerset Case established that slaves taken
from a. slave community to free one, could not be
heId and that the trainers of it believed that the
iegai effect OF a slave entering free State was
Chat ne became free aThey therefore inserted re-
strcton providing that this should not be the case
win lugltlves. But they inserted no other The
TACT that they did not, shows that thew intended
the restriction to apply to fugitves onlv Bv thns
specifying the single exception in which sIayary
was to continue, they recognized the general rnia
that in all other cases it does not continue This
Is about the sum and substance of the Judges ar.
gument.
Five of the Judges-Denio, Davies, Wright. Ba-
con and Welles-cOncur in pronouncing the decis-
ion. Three-Comstock, Selden and Clerke-dis-
sent.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

A fire has been raging in the Dismal Swamp for
the last five days.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The RESULT OF THE GREAT FIGHr.--By Spiritual
Tetegroph.-The Troy Times says:-We have re-
ceived a communication f, ON Mrs. Mary Wilbur,
trance medium, of Clarendon, Vermont giving the
result of the great prize fight. She wishes it put
on record. The despatch is from the ghost of old
j i'm Harrington. 1t is-"Fight just over. Great
excitement Immense crowd. Seven rounds
fought Mr.. Savers got the first knock-down
on the seventh round. He got in a left hand blow
which knocked Mr.. Sayers' jaw completely off,
Heenan is not much hurt. He offers to fight Mr..
Morrissey in two weeks. Mr.. Sayers is in a dan
gerous condition" medium in South Troy
says the fight lasted the entire day without deter
mining the result.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Diptheria has been unusually fatal in Lancaster
Co., Pa, for several months. Whole families have
frequently taken the disease, and died in few
hours
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

total eclipse OF The sun viii take place next
July, and Lieut.. Gilliss, U. s. N, is to take OBJ
servations in Labrador. Arrangements have been
made to take simultaneous observations on the
Pacific coast. The War Department has been de-
sirous to take advantage of the probable presence
of the expedition for the exploration of the Yellow
Stone River, commanded by Capt. W. F. Reynolds,
of the Typographical Engineers, near the belt Of
total observation at the time of the eclipse, to
have observations made in the interior of the CON
tinent, and as that belt is north of our territory,
and in the British possessions, application has been
made to Lord Lyons for permission for Govern
ment party to enter the British territory for the
above purpose. Lord Lyons has replied, signify
ing in courteous terms the assent of his Govern
ment to the proposition. If the observations can
be made, the results will be exceedingly interesting
and will afford excellent determinations for longi
tudes, at present but numerically known.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

Much anxiety is felt in New Orleans in reference
to the ship st. Patrick, which left tnat port for
Liverpool with cargo of cotton on the lst of De-
cember last. From reports that have been received
it is feared that she has been burned.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

The Petersburg (Ya.) Erpress says that new
Irish potatoes were for sale in that market on
Monday
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CoMPANy's
RoUND HOUSE AND MACHINE SHoPs IN RuTNs-This
morning, at one O'Clock, n conGagration occurred
destroying the round house, machine shOp and
olacksmith's shop belonging to the Illinois Cen.
Irai hairoad Company, located on the lake shore
uirectiy at the head of the inner breakwater The
machine shop was !our-storv buiIdinU of limo
stone, with slate roof about on hundred fnat hv
lorty In size. The ilames made rapid headwav
owing to the oil and grease with which everything
was covered, and the whole interior of the huiId
ing was soon wrapped in flames The shon ron
tanned four locomotives, Nos. C, S, "a and so
which were being repaired, and which are priced
at an average value of $4,000 each, and in
sured for $4,000; about 81 800 worth ofpatterns:
twenty-five lathes, valued at from $500 to 50 900;
large quantity of drawings, books belonging to
the General Office of the Machine Department, as
well as personal property belonging to Mr.. Hayes
the Master Mechanic Of the road; also several
copper tlues, all of which were prey to the flames
The flames soon spread to the blacksmth's shop a
building OF about the same size and material and
TINS too was soon consumed with its contents COM
prlSlng eighteen torges, stationary engine water
tanks, and large quantity of tools At G O'Clock
this morning, after five hours of intense heat only
the blackencd walls OF the three buildings enclos
ing the skeletons of locomotives and heaps of
ruined machinery, remained standing, where YES
terday all was astir with the hum of business
The ire Is supposed to have originated fl ON spark
from the copper room, which must have lodged
and smouldered for long time in the roof until
the herce gale OF this morning famed it into a
conflagration. BY this fire, l7j men are thrown
out OF employment The steamers did noble ser
vice in saving the adacent buildings one of which
directly opposite the blacksmithS shop, exposed to
a continual cloud of cinders, containing 500, 900
worth of oil, escaped without any damage CHI
cago journal, 18th inst.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT ALL
persons having claims against the estate of SUS ANNA
late OF the city of Baltimore, deceased, are hereby
Warned TO exhibit the with the vouchers thereof to
% suscrlper on before the Both day of October next,
b they may be by law excluded from all benefit OF
estate All persons indebted to the said estate are
bapS @ % 70 make immediate payment Given under my
oro,,ow, l.. NJ. REYNOLDS,
RALTiMORE, February 22d, Is6O.-NOTICE.
cosina p tSa NJ Se made the City Council for the
lying betwse. . Fremont street and Kirby's Lane.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

An idiot has burnt four churches in Lincoln
county, N, @. He has monomania on the sub
ject,
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

PosT OFFICE PRoCEEDs.-We arrange table OF
the Post Offices in this country, the net proceeds
of which amount to Sl4, 900 and upwards, in the
order according to the official returns. Some re-