The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-22


There is report that Com. Armstrong will be
tried by court.martial for surrendering his COM
mand to the FOridians
Orders are daily expected at the Philadelphia
Navy Y ard for the equipment of the three men.of-
war which ready for active service there.
The Pawnee gunbOat, the sailing frigate St. Law
renee, which last served as flagship on the of
Brazil, and the frst-cass corvette jamestown, are
all in good condition, and could be put in commits
sion in ten days.-N. Y. World.
Costume IN RoME-The ladies in Rome manage
with much ingenuity to combine in portions of their
dress ornaments the three Italian colors, without
making the intention so apparent as to look like
challenge to the authorities. white dress, with
red flowers and green leaves in the hair, is favor
ite costume, but as it would be mprudent to adopt
it too generally, combinations and badges small
Ter scale are used.
The UNITED Brethren CoNFERENCE.-The Vir-
ginia Conference of the United Brethren in Christ
will meet in Hagerstown, Md, on Thursday, the
Oath of this month. Bishop Glosbrenner will pre-
side. The conference embraces all Eastern Yir-
ginia and the whole of fMaryland except Baltimore
city and or two of the lower counties, and
numbers about forty ministers.
While 1876 600 guns have been sent South from
the Springfield Armory, says the Hartford Times,
during the last year, something like 10000 still
remain, and better description of weapon than
those sent away. The guns of the latest model,
with Maynards primers, are taken up for the mill
tia of the several States North and South, as fast
as they can be made.
A correspondent writing from Rome to the New
York Independent says that there has been much
speculation to what the Pope will do. Cardinal
Antonelli recently told our minister that the idea
of leaving Rome has never been entertained by the
Pope. Things have come to such pass that to
leave Rome would consummate the unity Of Italy.
The telegraphic lines of Russia have advanced
into Asia, and are progressing with an extraordi-
nary rapidity. Siberia will soon be traversed by
them; and it is said that the Russian Government
D.. h,r
means of a submarine line along the Aleutian ISL
ands.
Mr. l.. Boury, of Baltimore, who resided for
several years in Paris, is now in London. He is
engaged in his art, that of landscape and figure
painting in Paris, and is illustrating incidents
connected with the American Revolution and In
dian life
One of the Paris journals states that AbdelKa-
der has received letter from Schamyl, congratu-
latng him on his noble conduct in the massacres of
Syria; it is signed-''Schamyl who is in the pow
er of the inlidel."
The Journal of Commerce has long article de
signed to prove that MIR. Seward has been guilty OF
gross plagiarism in his late speech. 1t is charged
that he has borrowed largely from the papers of
Jay and Hamilton, in the Fedsralist.
Among the articles taxed by the supply bill re-
ported to the South Carolina Legislature, bv the
Committee of Ways and Means are the following
Slaves SLIGO each; free negroes, mulatoes quad
rooms, &C., 1925 each.
Lieutenant Nelson, of the ordnance department,
at the Washington Navy Yard has pronounced the
George Law rifles purchased by the State of Ala
bama, superior weapon.
Another decision has been rendered in Philadel-
mia AGAINST negroes riding in city railway cars.
The udge decided that each company had the rig BIT
TO make its own regulations about the matter.
prize of 81 800 is offered by j. Silver smith, of
San Francisco, CAL, for the discovery of process
whereby gold and silver can be prO6tably separa-
ted from the sulphurets of California
The London Court Journal says:-''The demand
diamonds has, for some years, far exceeded
he supply, that the price has advanced, within the
ast ten years, more than 100 per cent
party of Germans has sailed from New Orleans,
to establish colony in Nicaragua, where Mr.. Aud
leburg, wealthy German, has bought Ice square
miles of territory.
The amount of coal annually taken from mines in
Ohio, is estimated by the commissioner oil statistics
to exceed 1000, 900 TONS
Saturday was the coolest day experienced in
Quebec this winter The thermometer stood at 81
degrees below zero.
machine has been invented in Eng and, which,
beino attached to the stern of ship, pumps her
ont with rapidity in proportion to her speed.
II is stated that Mr.. J. S. Rarey's profits by his
exhibitions in New York, amount to over $4,000
per week,