The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-07


Robinson Crusoe. The family poor; the father,
a carpenter, died in 1857, at the age of eighty
years, after long and painful struggle with pow
erty.
Diptheria is not new disease. DR.. Greenlow
says it known in the sixteenth century the sew
en- teenth and eighteenth 1t does not arise Il ON
any known combination of physical causes. 1t is
communicable, but not highly contagious, and at
tacks families.
The National hfeIigencer states thatthe Govern
ment has established two daily lines of trains from
Washington for Annapolis, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, and other points North. There
two trains each day. The management is entrusted
by the Secretary of War to Mr.. Thos. A. Scott.
An old soldier, who has seen service, says Do
not wear cotton socks; your feet will be bl listered
by six hours march. Wear woOllen socks, and
if you find the means to dip the Soles in melted
tallow before starting, your feet will not be blis-
tered at ALL
While thirteen appointments, foreign and domes-
tic, have been given to editors and attaches OF the
New York Tribune, not single man connected as
editor correspondent, with that paper has vol
unteered to fight. The men who talk the loudesr
not the men who fight.
At the recent term Of the Circuit Court in Hamp-
shire county, Virginia, Abraham j. Alger, indict-
ed or marrying his niece, found guilty. and
fined $500. Mrs. Barbarv Ann Alger, the wife o
said Alger for marrying her uncle, was also tried
and acquitted
housekeeper in Manchester, England, COM
plains that the gas company there brought him IN
bill for the consumption of seven hundred feet OF
gas, when in fact, they had not even completed lis
couplings with the main. Queer people these gas
companies.
The Richmond Dispatch says:-We have no doubt
that the United States Government will make an
attempt to regain this Yard Troops will probably
be concentrated there in sufficient numbers to de-
fend it.
1t is stated that Major Anderson, who arrived in
Washington city on Saturday from New York, was
accompanied by a remittance of 81, 900 in gold
from the Sub-treasurv at New York.
Two of the ONO State Senators had fracas at
Columbus on Thursday last. pistol was drawn
but missed fire. The parties engaged are named
Cummins and Cuppy.
Letters announce the departure from Pensacoia,
for Virginia of the Orleans Cadets, Capt Charles
Druex; the Louisiana Guards, MAJOR Iodd; ana Inc
| Chasseurs-a-Pied Capt St Paul.
! Professor Lowe, the famous aeronaut, will make
| another ascension from Cincinnati IN few DAYS,
! carving with him n number OF passengers. He
hopes to reach New York city before descending.
| The Richmond Examiner states as singular fact
that Virginia was the Sth State to Join the Federal
! Union apd she is now the Sth State to leave the
same.
| The Richmond Whig of Saturday says We beg
to suggest to all Southern papers the propriety OF
| emitting all mention of the movement OF troops
| within our borders. A word to the wise!
Hon. Asa Biggs, of North Carolina, torTaTIedd Mnited
his resignation as District Judge OF ihe 0"'''N
| States, to A. Lincoln. on the 2Sd OF Ap
Lieut. John N Maffit, late Of the " o. tS,1, w
| tenders his services to North Carolna VI " 'ne
| Confederacy.
Tbo onore throughout Virgins are pitching
into the grocers and provision merchants LOT tneH
| extortionate charges