The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-01

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! ard is prodgious There is end to the rows Of
| mighty anchors and guns. Great shell guns NAV
| be seen by the hundred We presume there are
1900 pieces OF artillery at the Navy Yard, and any
| quantity of balls and shells.
THE CRITrENDEN REsoLUTIoYs-A memorial has
| been put in circulation in this city, among the
! electors who voted for MIR. Lincoln, and who ask
| that the Crttenden resolutions with the Bigler
| amendment shall be passed as peace measure be-
tween the two sections. The memorial contains the
names fifteen hundred persons, one of whom had
his name upon the Republican electoral ticket for
| President, another is President of Republican
| Club, and many prominent and leading persons
| in the Republican party. memorial of this kind
will have its influence among the Republican mem
bers of Congress, and is another indication that
! people of all political opinions favor this measure,
practical one for the settlement of our difficult
ties and preserving peace in the country.-PhH.
! LedJer, Jan. III.
SUIT AGAINST RAREY.--An action for 500, 900
| damages has been commenced in the Supreme
| Court by Denton Of1ut, Ct New Orleans, against
! John S. Rarey, the famous horse tanner, for an al
! legged violation of a contract. Mr.. Ofut claims
that he is the originator of this system of horse
| tanning, and that in the year 1850 he taught it to
Rarey, who bound himselfin the penalty of $50 for
each case in which he should impart the secret to
| any other person; that he gave Rarey a book of
the system, which he (Rarey) has since republish-
ed and has further violated the contract by i'm
parting the secret of the system to Civers persons
! in Europe and in the United States
THE LEvANT.-An officer of the navy, who re-
Gently returned to the United States from the Pa
cic ocean, ria the lsthmus, states that he came in
company with several of the crew of a whaling
| vessel, who informed him that they met with the
! United States ship Lcvant at or near Honolulu
Is. |. }, and that she was then bound to island
| or islands, either to the southwark westward of
that place, and that this may account for her
! arrival at Panama soon as expected from her
instructions. 1t is frequently the that COM
! manding officers of vessels of-war, under orders
from port to port, Obliged in the exercise of
discretionary power to deviate from their instruc
tiops for the protection ofAmercan interasts.-Na-
| tiondl Lnteligencer.
In Philadelphia there are seventeen hundred and
| ffty-fOur persons rejoicing in the of Smith,
| of which one hundred and twenty are Johns,
! and ninety-four are Johns with middle name.
| There are one hundred and seven plain William
! Smiths and fifty nine with middle name. There
| are thirty four ashamed of the plain old "Smtb''
| who have changed it to "Smyth." There eight
hundred and forty-six Browns in the Directory, of
| whom sixty seven are Johns, and thirty five ar
| John Browns with middle name.
GREELEY's CHANCES FOR THE L. S. SENArE-As
! the dav approaches for the election Of United
States Senator to fill Mr.. Stewards place, the poll
| ticians of Albany are considerably exercised upon
the matter. 1t appears now that Greeley's chances
of the succession reviving, and it is said that
the old barnburner element inciines in his favor
! 1t is very curious that this party, who 60 in so
strong for saving the Union, should sustain Gree
ley, who is the staunchest abolitionist in the Re-
! publican party, and the strongest noncOmpromiser
of them all.--N Y. Herald.
STREET INDrcAroR-An ingenious contrivance
has been placed in one of the Chestnut street pas
senger cars, designed to indicate the cross streets
1t is operated by the driver, and opening the
door aud calling out the streets, which is so great
an annoyance to passengers, especially in cold
| weather. The attention of the passengers is at
| traced by the ringing of a bell, and at the same
moment the name of the street appears in letters
sufficiently large to be easily distinguished. 1t
will, no doubt, be generally adopted by the CITY
railroad companies,-Pha. Ledger.
MErEoRIc MIssTEs-We learn from the Beyi-
dere (IN.) Standard, that meteoric stone fell on
Friday morning last, about two miles from Syca-
more, on the road to Genoa. 1t fell with such a
shock as to jar the ground like earthquake, on
a small scale, and with noise like heavy thunder.
The stone is judged to weigh about aton and is re-
ported to look like fit hafiron. The ground
about it, for the space of half an acre, is strewn
with a substance like ashes or cnders.
For the past ten years the single article of sugar
has paid the duty of htty-seVen mllhons OIL aoHars
in the United States Treasury, as stated in the last
annual report of Secretary Cobb, of the Treasury
| Department.
! A hillock on the coast of Normandy, above Cha
teau Giard has just fallen into the sea, carrying
with it the ruins of the old chapel of Richard
CCeur de Lion, of which all traces have disap-
peared.
The depth of snow in New Hampshire at the
! present time, is said to be almost unparalleled.
Measurements made of the quantity fallen up to the
present time, show that in all there has been about
! seventy inches.
There was much talk of new cannon, called the
mortar cannon, which promises fair 70 suP H te
invention of Armstrong and Nhitmoi' 'n' ~ avs
simultaneously as cannon and norlet.
"a b Of England and Scotland have
been discovered in lnala. ,c
,-..oror's palace of Pekin, the slippers OF
In the EN- we're found to be invariably for those
who vIe had had not oramped feet: ;,z u .,.,,
Tbs English newspapers TEEN with e melancholy
sure nurs to the cold.
novle,s Hotel at Hagerstown, Nd, was seriously
damaged by fire on Saturday last.