The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-23


vested in whale ships, and, besides their capital
and experience, and good port, with wharves,
sheds and storehouses, the place affords the best
facilities for selling and for speedy transportation
to consumers. Of the yearly sperm-oil "catch,
amounting to S75, 500 barrels, one-half, valued at
81, 800, 900 goes to England. The bone, valued
yearly at 81 600 900, is mostly sent to France and
Germany, while the whale oil finds ready sale
and is all consumed in the United States.
Within the last year six vessels from New Bed
ford and five from New London Connecticut, have
gone to Cumberland Inlet, Davis Strait, and will
return this fall. The result of this new enterprise
will have an influence in determining the future OF
the right whaling business.
At all the whaling ports of the country, while
the increase from 1914 to 1857 only twenty
vessels, the decrease since 1857 has been one hun
dred and forty -one vessels, comprising an aggre
gate of As 1853 tons.
STARVING KANsAs-Not SO much Suffering after
aH.-The Cincinnati CommerciaIo of the 10Th (Rep.)
publishes a letter from W. c. Mcdowell, Esq, a
gentleman wellknown in Cincinnati, and now re-
siding in Leavenworth city, contradicting emphat-
cally, the startling starvation dispatches of
Thaddeus Hyatt, Pomeroy, Army, &C. The COM
merciuI believes that Mr. Mcdowell is incapable of
classifying this matter, and quotes in his support,
an article in the Leavenworth Conservative of the
14th, which pronounces Thaddeus Hyatts recent
declaration that "the whole population are fast
rageous falsehood'' Mr.. Mcdowell writes on the
18th of February, and says that Hyatts stories are
terribly exaggerated. He continues;
| say, frankly, that there are good many fam-
lies in the State, who poorly provided for
some doubtless, lacking the necessaries of life
There not, however, $4,000 paupers in the
State, nor 10000 Much aid has been donated to
Pomeroy's Relief Committee-both in money,
clothing and provisions. How it has been dsbursed,
we are left to lecture. lie has only favored us
with a long table of pounds distributed-we ask
pounds of what?
The impression in this locality is that perhaps
$3.50, GOO has been given in money, provisions,
clothing, &C., by generous neighbors through
out the United States to aid the suffering people of
Kansas Most men would say surely that ought to
suffice. Those whe disposed to give, to aid
those still in want, should send their donations to
men whom they know, and whose character would
be guaranty that their charitable offerings would
reach the sad objects, upon the plea oil whose suffer-
ings the gifts were rendered.
| Here, we are in possession Of some information
that gives easy explanation of the late telegraph
| ic dispatches from Atehison, PemerOy and Army,
par mobile frdrun, are candidates for United States
| Senatorial honors. The Legislature that elects
| Senators meets in March next. Many candidates
in the field, and it is supposed by many that the
power of money will be tried by certain aspiraLts
| The telegraph from the east but few days since
told the world that "Thaddeus IL yatt had started to
Kansas to take part in the election of United States
| Senator'S" and "that Messrs. Pomeroy, Army and
| Graham were the most prominent candidates. y
| Hardly had Hyatt reached Atchson until quivered
over the lines his late heartrending despatch, call
ing for S200,000 Immediately, Sin the name of
Christi to $4,000 people who chad but some
ten DAYS between them and death from starva-
tom This countersigned by Pomeroy. There
is strange Inconsistency in that telegram which
you doubtless noticed
l have said this much protest in behalf of
slandered people, and in vindicaioa oil the re-
sources and wealth of our new State.
Yours, W. C. MCDOWELL.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Mr.. Doxat has retired from the editorship of
the London Observer, after ffty-four years and six
months service, aud, happy to hear, with
good fortune. o! 81 sac omne8.
| A company is forming in Liverpool, with a cap
ial of one million of dollars, to establish hotel
with the American features of public breakfast,
dining and dressing rooms, with accommodations
for resident boarders at fixed prices. The plan is
| approved of and the site chosen.
| A patent table lamp, called the Belmontine, has
been invented, giving light equal to six candles,
at cost of farthing hour; the wick lasting
three months and requiring no cutting.
| 1t is said that Mrs. Ryves, the grand-daughf er
of the Duke of Cumberland viii, after all, gain
neither titular rank any estate OF the for
mer there is to descend, and as TO the latter
the statute of limitations will step in.
| Valerie, an Italian engineer, has proposed to
| throw bridge across the straits of Messina, and
| the government is examining his plans
The price of Kossuth notes in Hungary has ad
| vanced as much as 40 to 60 per cent
| The Houses of Parliament are said to be crumb-
ling to pieces, being built of false "doomite,"
! (magnesa limestone,) which is acted on by the
ammonia in the air of London. 1t is proposed to
protect it by glazing Of soluble glass-a material
| which has been introduced into our own city.
| In paper read before the London Royal Geog
| raphical Society, by Captain Allan 1ourY, he
| stated from personal knowledge that the extreme
cold of Iceland was less than that experienced in
Canada, the mercury rarely falling below lS0 to
| $50 Fahrenheit
The Court of Sessions in Scotland has unanimous
ly decided that by the law of Scotland, marriage
| with deceased wife's sister is ciyilly null.
| The Prince of Wales Joined the Cambridgeshire
| hunt ON the 2Sth ultmo. His Royal Highness
erode well up and took his fences CALAMITY and
! we'll"
The Official Gazette of Turin announces the dis
covery of an nallible cure of CHAMBERS, By prep
| aration of arsenic and strychnine.
| No taxes are now paid in Hungary, in conse-
quence of the political troubles.
FAITHFUL FoREvER.-The Evening Post, some
what Indignant at the familiar mention daily made
of "Bob Lincon,' the ''Prince of Rails'-the
youngster now before the country in attitude
rather less dgniied than that of poor "Tommy'
last summer-has the following:
Robert 7. Lincoln, the eldest son of the Pres-
dent elect, and who is accompanying him to Wash
ton, is student at Harvard and will shortly return
| to his class. He is young man of fine abilities
ana mucn dignity OF cnala cter. Inc reports IN
various papers intimating that his course of life is
what is popularity denominated "fast," are strictly
erroneous, and no less painful to him than to his
| excellent parents, to whom he has ever been duti-
| full and affectonate son.
The Rochester Union tells different story about
Prince Bob's habits, and illustrates its remarks as
| follows:
When Old Abe started from Springfield, he gave
Bob carpet bag and told him that it was his espe-
cal and sole duty to see it safely delivered in Wash
| ington The bag contained some private papers of
the President elect, and the Inaugural Message. At
indianapolis Bob got tight and lost the carpet bag.
| 1t was not found, and the Presidential party left
without it. 1t is yet missing. There is, however,
another copy of the message in existence, SO that
| Mr.. Lincoln will not be compelled to re-write that
| or write a new one. Mr. Lincoln was yexed at the
earelessness Of his son, but Bob did no appear to
care much about the matter, and remarked that
| the old man might as well scold about that
something else.
| A TRUE MoTHER.-The following extract from an
English paper will serve to give an idea of Queen
Victoria's notions of the kind of education which
she thinks best calculated to secure the happiness
of her children
| At the seaside residence of Queen Victoria, in
the Isle of Wight large portion of the grounds is
appropriated to the young Princes and Princesses,
| who have each flower and vegetable garden,
greenhouses hothouses and forcing frames, nurse
ries, toolhouses and even carpenter shop. Here
| the royal children pass hours of their time. Each
| is supplied with set of tools, marked with the
| name of the owner, and here they work with the
enthusiasm of an amateur and the zeal of an Anglo
Saxon. There is no branch of gardening in which
| the royal children are not dU fat. Moreover, on
this juvenile property is building, the ground
floor of which is tied up as kitchen, with pan
tries, closets, dairy, lardersa complete in their
| arrangements; and here may be seen the young
Princesses, arrayed la cutSinfere, toured to the
elbows, deep in the mysteries of pastry making,
| like rosy New England girl.
Cooking the vegetables from their own gardens,
preserving picking, baking-sometimes to partake
| among themselves, or to distribute to the poor of
| the neighborhood the results of their handiwork.
The Queen is determined that nothing shall remain
unlearned by her children; are the young people
ever happier than during their sojourn at Osborne
| Over the domestic establishment is museum of
natural history furnished with curiosities collected
by the young parties in their rambes and research
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