The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-15
NEWS VIA WASH NGrOy.
From the Washington Star of last sverirc-
take the suboinrd items:



LSce@iai Corre pond n ? oftLe 0nrl
ALEXANDGiA july Is. The FIRST Michigan R.gi-
ment, Cot Wilcox, aud the Nv Y-,k u,v-<,
have ma ched forward from Shutter, Hin to sbovs
Clouds Mill. in Fairfax coun v
Three reg 1menr> are now 81 c4mhed at H4yf .Ia
f"rme ~ IL Foote's, now Il WiudS,,'- ulacr
seven m''rs south Of Alexandria LHg~ b.di of
troops continue t" arrive here Two New Yn,k
regiments passed through here to dar ard pr, c .,-
ed int" Fair AK, and large lumber e bagsag.
wagons with camp rqupagr, pas..d through
here Yesterday
Every ndic,tion looks like forward movement
into Virginia At very early day.
ooe OF the South Carolina regiments is in the
ne'ghborh""d "t Ocnquan. Their ten, ca be seen
from the Potomac.
THE KANSAS SENATORIAL QUESTION
An enae"te about the seat in the. S.nat. occu led
by General James me, of X ,nsas is b ewing
acting on Uenerai Lanes proclamation fer K4rsas
volunteers, announcing bis appointr rlept as Bri,a
deT General in the Unted : ates arfny IN. G w.
eraor OF Kansas has Conferred on tn. Hon Feeder
lex r. stanton the Senatorial seat, which would
necessarily become vacant If Gen L. pnps Inns intn
the Unit, States military s,ryic. Mr St,ntop
has arrived here with bis letter of appointment in
hand.
General Lane however, is believed to hold that
he has not yet positively accepted the Briuadi,r-
ship, and proposes not to d. So prelerring to bnd
on to the Senatorship. Mr.. Stanton designs car
rying bis claim to the seat to the Senate's Judi.
cary Committee, before which there will doubtless
be "high old time" over the affair.
DISCHARGED.
The services OF nine clerks in the Land Office
have been dispensed with, owing to the decrease
/ OF its general business.
MUNITIONS OF WAR.
The propeller James Jerome came up this MORN
ing with heavy cargo of naval ant military stores,
and is to-day king on board an immeuS amount
of solid shot, shells and canister, together with
several heavy gun carriages, for annapolis, Md.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EXPORTS FOR S6O.-The
following table, taken from the Official returns,
shows the amount of our exports for 1850, produc-
ed by each section of the country:
UNITED STATES ExPoRTs-NoRruERN ORIGIN
Products of the sea......... 81 l564SO
Forest: 9,36S go
PROVISIONS. - 25226
Bread stuifs is - qOl
Manufactures. 25,5 5l7
Total Northern orgin.....,...... s77,36a,O7o
SOUTHERN ORIGIN.
Forest So CS5 931
Breadstuiis ...... Observation-Disclosures. 9567 399
Cotton .........:. :..-...,............. 19l 1858
Tobacco. ........................ 1925 62I
Hemp, &c...., .,...,.....-'..'''.'. IIb"7O
manufactures lO954,i9o
Total Southern orgin............ s238, GO
Total exports s8l5 74o
Imports consumed 1886 $50 l72
Thus it will be seen that the Southern States
produced more than three fourts of all our exports
last year.-Bangor Democrnt
WINDS ON THE PRARIEs A correspondent of the
Newark On. J.l Daily Advertiser, writing from
Henry Illinois, June y, describes the eff -ct of the
hot winds on the prairie crops:
The fierce and blasting winds that frequently
sweep across the prairies, unubstTucted for many
miles by timber form feature in our Western
experience with which you eastern people are nap
PLY unacquanted. Very frequently one will see a
house braced on its eastern side with strong poles,
and the dwellers therein often in great fear
We have recently had two three days of these
severe winds, which remind US Of the burning
simoom. | have seen clouds of sand sweep across
| 49, s..Ls llInu
blasts and covering the OF five or SIX inches
| high so as entirely to "bliterate II.
The winds to " hich have referred as prevailing
bara have a blighting effect on all vegetation,
/ marching the leaves of the trees and whipping the
foovas nd stalks of oats, wheat and corn, that
,bav look as if they have been subject 10 a severe
| frost.
| HEALTH OF rHE FEDERAL TRooPs.-The following
extract is from the appeal of the army Sanitary
Commission to the public of New York II is based
Dr. Bellows official report of his tour inspec-
tion among the Western camps. The condition OF
the troops must certainly be bad:
Men and women of New York! We beg you to
awake to instant action. Death is already in the
breeze. Disease, iusidious and inevitable, is now
stealing through the camps, scorchIng plain, In
midnight damp, menacing our dearest treAsure-the
very flower of the nations youth. You surely Will
not permit them thus ingloriousy to perish
| Reauties generally die old maids. They set such
| a value on themselves, th't they don't find pur-
| chaser until the market is closed.
| A solemn requiem was celebrated in New
| York on Saturday, for the late Sig. Amodio.