The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-10


Custom HOUSE RECEIPrs-Tbe now tar;ef
toiore announced, went into onaro,ior -, 49,,
inst, and the receipts for the mas, vool, :,
were $40, 4l053, being two-tbirds Of thoso for a.
whole month of March. For the corresrordinc.
week of 1860, the receipts were s27 47Gn IT,
p'aiheo' TINS would go to show that the new tariff
~ what Its friends claimed before Congress- II
"ouiu prove, revenue producing act; but such is
not the case. On the first dav. pndar This toriT
'ne receipts were within fraction of $50 900.
three fourtbs of it being paid upon sugars with
drawn. The heavy Withdrawals of this article from
the warehouses on that day arose from the fact
our importing merchants had made previous soies
OF sugars to be delivered on the first delavino tho
withdrawal and payment of duties until tben IN
account OF the great reduction of duties tbarsnno
Dy the new tarif-the reduction, in a nupbsr of
eases reaching fifty per cent. Upon the with
uia"eis LOT that single day, under the oner
a'iohs OF tee new tariff, the Government
sustained IN this port alone loss of oro-
9o'ooo as compared with the old tariff. Very mar
" all tne operations at our Custom House So far
unoer the new tariff, have been in the withdrawal,
from tne bonded stores, all of which were filed 70
'ueif utmost capacity, principally with sugars, du-
rug Tue three months previous to the LIST instant
Anticipating the reduction Of the duty under the
he" tarlii. Comparatively nothing has, so far
kone INTO the warehouses in their stead and from,
present lnoications, when the supply of goods in
ponu becomes exhausted, the main source of reve
nus at THIS port Will be upon sugars and molasses
"hlcn trade would require to double itself to ena
pie tne revenue here to even approximate what it
was under the Old tariff. The prospects are that
the lmportations in all other branches of trade will
greaty depreclate, and in fact, in not few CASES
De quite destroyed under the prohibitory workings
OF the new tariff. This will prove to be the case
with both railroad and other iron, and salt-arti-
cies previously of considerable Importance in tba
matter of revenue
YELLOW FEVER IN BRAzIL-A few DAYS non -
was telegraphed from Portland to New Orleans
that the yellow fever was raging at Rio de- Jaroro
AS many families in this country are represented
in the seafaring men at that port, we have taken
pains to examine carefully the list of deaths in tho
formal do Commerce. and the Correio Nerconta of
Rio de Janeiro, and find that up to the last date
| (l6th Feb. the telegram in question is almost
without foundation. BY a wise provision of the
Brazilian law every physician must report for pub
ilcatlon the name, age, sex, and disease of each
person dying under discharge. We are happy to
say that up to the middle of February. Rio de-
Janeiro has not enjoyed better sanitary status
for many years. The following DAYS, with the
number of deaths, will show our statement to be
| true:-
From the 7th to the 18th of February, inclusive
the average number of deaths each day from every
disease was 26, which, in tropical city of 800 600
inhabitants, is very small proportion On the
18th, Sth and 9th, six of the deaths were from the
yellow fever. On the 1lth and 18th one fell from
that dreaded malady.
/ SoUTHERN EXPRESS CoMPAYY.--Fve hundred
thousand dollars have been Subscribed at Richnoorf