The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-18

SELL.-We are warned to be on the lookout
ior fellow named Lovett, who on Saturday night
last perpetrated a swinde upon the people of Co
lumbus, Ohio. He went to Columbus and adyer
tised in the papers and issued flaming bills and
lengthy programmes for performance by the
"Dixie Mnstrels and Loyett's Pantheon two shows
in one! On Saturday evening Lovett was on
hand selling tickets at the hall, having previously
shown counterfeit Geographic despatch that his
troupe would arrive by railroad precisely at ~
O'Clock. He had hired brass band which dis
coursed sweet and Turing strains and the hall was
rapidly filling up with victims. About the time
the troupe was to have arrived Lovett requested
confding and sympatbizng gentleman of the
press to sell tickets for him while he would 90 to
the cars. He pocketeG the funds, amounting to
about eighty dollars and left. The crowd in the
hall becoming satisfied that they were duped, dis
persed as quietly as possible under the crcum-
stances. The lessees of the hall were sold, hotel
and saloon keepers were sold, the printers were
sold, the band was sold, and finally the audience
were sold. Upon leaving the hall be went toa cloth
ing house, bought suit of clothes counted out
the money to pay for them, and in gathering I'D
MS purchase, managed to steal part of the money
which he had counted out. He is said to be the
most omnipotent rascal that ever turned up-
There is something of such bold daring charac-
ter about this trick, that the people were disposed
to admire and laugh at it, rather than become in
dlgnant, but the police are nevertheless on his
track Wheeling, (Vo.) htelligencer, Jan. Is.
A SENSATION ITEM-All day Yesterday. a large
number Of citizens arranged themselves in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the Custom House, par
tcularly in the front and Olive street. and it is
quite safe to say that the building was never so
thoroughly inspected before. 1t was a very mot
ley gathering, and very ludicrous one, a things
considered. 1t seems that about the ordinary
breakfast hour, some forty United States troops,
under the command of Lieut.. Robinson marched
up to the Custom House, building commonly be-
ieved to be the property of the United States and
after time quietly disposed of themselves in the
thlrd-story OF that establishment There they re-
| MOI mad 1trrr n IL.
to protect the property of the Government there,
it does not strike us a very extraordinary de,
parture from propriety, seeing that in these DAYS
nobody,s property is very secure but they kept
themselves quiet, and gaping and eager crowd
kept themselves very much exercised in looking I'D
at the dark walls of the Custom House, to see if
perchance, they could get the sight of "soldier."
The thing had an end, however. About five clock,
L. NJ, the troops were marched down to the Arse.
nal, and will remain there until some other order
may take them away. Their temporary soiourn
in the Government building was the result of mis-
apprehension, and we can see no justification for
the amount OF senseless Indignation which
pressed on the occasion. Gen. Scott undertake
to say, knows great deal more about his business
than those who volunteer to criticize bis acts-St
Louis Republican, 12h.
ANOTHER Row.-Rochester has had second edi.
ton of the abolition convention recently held here,
with the same prominent longhaired men and
short petticOated women to make speeches. The
Democrat styled them the "sham abolitionists"
evidently not being willing the Republican party
should be robbed of its laurels The telegraph re-
ports that the meeting last night broken up in
a row, and that resolutions in favor of the Union
were passed and cheers were given for Gen. Scott
and Major Anderson. A flag, bearing the inscrip-
ton "No compromise with Slavery" was not al
lowed to be suspended across Buffalo street. The
authorities prevented general riot.
INTERESTING APPLICATION OF THE STEREosCOPE.-
When two pages, printed from the same type, are
combined In the stereoscope the printing appears
to be in the same plane. In the most careful at
tempt OF the printer to set up page or few lines
alike the words and the letters will in the stereo-
scope, pe sure 10 De In dlnerent planes. BY this
means, when genuine and counterfeit bank notes
combined in the stereoscope, the difference is
at once detected.
The Charleston Mercury mentions several cases
in which letters addressed to that paper have been
it upon the department at Washington,