The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-31

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producing country like America should be draining
the bank vaults of the old world with freedom
that threatens to seriously embarrass both France
and England. The extent of this drain is seen in
the following receipts at this port, per steamer
during ten days past:
Teutona, Hamburg ..,............... 100000
Edinburg, Liverpool. I.....--.--........ IOO767
Asia, Liverpool. Observation-Disclosures. 3SS S93
City of Washington, Liverpool, 100000
Arago layre...... Observation-Disclosures. 3S2,S70
Niagara, Boston. ......--...... 10S0,0O0
f'tud, Liverpool OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES l,5u9,000
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. "A 2O1 300
When the Niagara left rum0r ran that the
Bank of France had suspended specie payment but
the Etnas advlces do not confirm that statement.
On the contrary, 'the very latest via Queenstown
announces thati was believed that the Bank had
made some temporary arrangement to carry it
through the present dillicuty.-Ne,0 York. Ecpress
CELEBRATIoN OF THE BIRTHDAY OF THOMAS PAINE
The l24th anniversary of the birthday Of the
"lnhdei SAINT, Thomas Paine, was celebrated in
! New ork on Tuesday evening bv ball at the
| City Assembly Rooms. About $50 were present.
In front OF the orchestra hung portraits of Abner
kneeIand, Voltaire, Thomas Paine Robert Owen
and Frances Wright d'Arusmopt FANNY WriqhtI
Alter the supper, the President, Mr. F. Pares road
the toasts, as follows:
The Day we Celebrdte-The birthday of one of tbe
greatest saints in the calendarThomas the apostle of
Thomas Iaine-whose great intellect and moral cour.
age stamped their impress on mankind leaving rich
legacy for all mankind in his fearless advocacy of the
rights of man.
Freedona-May the battles nobly fought in 1860
speedily terminate in the universal recognition of mans
lnaenaoe right to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness
W0man-0ut of her proper sphere until she finds one
for herself.
Mrs. E. L. Rose, usual, made the great speech
OF the evening.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT on THE HUDSON RIVER RAIL
| RoAD.-As the three o'clock p. NJ express train
from this city was approaching ManhattanviIle, on
| Monday, fange of one of the driving wheels of
| the locomotive suddenly broke. The train was
| running very rapidly at the time and the locnmo
tive Immediately ran off the track, leaped over the
down track, swung completely round, and fell
! down the embankment into the river. The shock
| broke the coupling between the tender and the
baggage car. The train continued the track,
and ran some distance before it was braked up The
tender was capsized and left on the bank. By a
J miracle, almost the engineer and fireman escaped
! instant death. The fireman jumped into the river
| and received only slight scratch and cold bath
The engineer got off the locomotive after the acci-
| dent and was not hurt at all.
The jar to the train slight that many of
| the passengers did not know that anything had
| happened until the cars had stopped. One gentle
man in the smoking car happened to be looking out
| OF the window, and seeing the locomotive in the
river, remarked that some down train must have
met miShap The patent brakes, however, soon
stopped the train. No passenger was injured in
| slightest degree.-N. Y. Express
Loss OF THE BARK UNCLE SAM, OF CHARLESTON
! despatch has been received here by Messrs II
! Cobia & Co., owners of the bark Uncle Sam in
! forming them that she down at sea by an
! unknown vessel on the Sd of January; details
are given. The Uncle Sam sailed from this port for
| Bordeaux on the goth of December last, and had
| on board the following cargo: 3S6 whole and 80
| half casks rice, and 423 bales upland cotton The
cargo is insured in Bordeaux There is Sl2 900 in
surance the vessel in New Orleans and So 900 in
! the South Carolina Insurance Company of this
| city. The freight is insured for $500 in the
Charleston Insurance and Trust Company of this
| place.-Nercmy, Jan. Is.
Private letters state that Young America Train
! (the successful proprietor of Trainways in Eu-
rope), in connection with Mark Lemon (Punch),
Judge Halliburton (Sam Slick, and others, has
got up associated company, with capital of
! $4,000 900, for the purpose of building great
"American hotel" in London. They have got pos
session three acres of ground in the Strand and
are going ahead like "bricks."-Ne'rs.
Major George Middleton died at Syracuse, n
| y, January 10, at the age of 81. He was claim
! ed to be the senior member of the Masonic fra
ternity in the United States. II is said that the
Major was present at the Fort Griswold massacre
| in Connecticut, when Col. Ledyard and most of
| his garrison were massacred in cold blood after
their surrender to the British under the command
| of the traitor Arnold.
Hon. w. l.. Yancey was one of the candidates
for election to the General Convention to assemble
at Montgomery, Ala, on February 4, but only four
votes cast for him district delegate, while
Mr.. W. p Chiffon received 81 votes. As candi-
date for delegate from the State at large, he re-
| ceived but 3S votes, while Messrs. Walker and Il
| IL. Smith had SIS and so respectively.
Lady Champion, formerly Victoria Balfe, the
opera singer, was lately presented to the Empress
| ofRussia, and received with the most lattering
marks of grace and favor. This reception is deemed,
in fashionable circles, direct rebuke to certain
arstocraic ladies, who greatly shocked at the
introduction of plebeian element into the diplo-
! matte corps.
Mr.. Timothy Osgood, weILknown shipwrigbt
| of Boston, long associated with the famous Nc
kays, died very suddenly on Monday morning, in
the Boston Courthouse, of disease of the heart
| Mr.. 0sgood was one Of the jurymen of the Superb
or Court, and at o'clock was going up the stairs
leading to the Courtroom, when he tainted and
fell on the first landing.
Elder Pratt preached in Boston on Sunday, on
! the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church.
che nronbet said there to be a downfall of ma
tons beginning with the rebellion of South Caro-
lima as has been revealed to Joe Smith twenty
efght wears ago, but the Saints would be gathered
together and saved. There are about 100 Mormons
in and around Boston.
In view of the action of the Governor of Missis-
sipp in planting battery at Vicksburg, the Gin
cinnati Gazette says: "By breaking down en-
| bankments, we can easily overflow all the country
Of the lower Mississippi, and drown out the towns
and plantations
Mr.. McGrath the new consul at Liverpool, it is
said will not enter upon the duties of the consulate
on account of the short term of service before Mr
Lincoln's Inauguration, and the present conoltlon
of the country. Beverly Tucker will therefore re-
main in the office until displaced by tne fresiaent
elect.
Col. C0lt,s nistoI and rifle factory at Hartford,
commenced The 24.hour system last week, and will
beraafar rive employment to adouble set of hands.
!, Orders from the South are multiplying.
We are authorized to state that the rumor that
A. Iobn Bigelow is about to purchase the World
nawsnaper is not correct:-Irioune.
rhe nroprietors of W anut street Theatre, Phila-
doinhia. will bestow the proceeds of this evenings
entertainment on the needy peor of that city.
Ex-President Tyler, it is said,will be elected to
| the State Convention from Charles City county,
! Va.