The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-29

A SAD SCENR.-Quite a crowd collected at the
Asylum street depot, last evening, when the south
express train came in, bearing the Express rob
bers, Stebbins, Kellogg and Roberts, on their way
to the Wethersfeld State prison. Stebbins, who
has been the road between Boston and New
York for eight years, is spersonay known to large
number of friends connected with the railroad, and
scores of them were waiting to bid him farewell.
Colonel s. A. Cooley was on the train with the
prisoners, and did what he could to cheer them up;
he had previously secured the promise for Steb'
bins of the stewards berth in the Prison Hospi.
tal-a less vigorously severe position than the
dreadfullY monotonous one of common prisoner,
with its repugnant associations; but Stebbins, who
appeared totally ignorant OF the experience IN
store for him, disposed to refuse the proffered
kindness, enormously believing be could pick out
pretty much his own place in the prison lie had
a long, full, silky black beard, and he said that
the shaving of this would be his worst punishment
(The prisoners have their hair and beard cut close
at once.) Andrew l.. Roberts, another Of the pri
soners "a keen and bad little fellow) said he would
be glad of the stewards place. Porter Kellogg
large and gOOd-looking man, from Amherst, Mas
sachusetts fairly broke down, and wept, before th
cars reached this city. He and Stebbins have
families. They were all shackled together, ant
were also shackled to three other prisoners, hors
| thieves The crowd seemed to sympathize will
them, especially with Stebbins, and bade him
kind farewell on their departure for their livin!
| tomb. Stebbins says that he is guilty, but tina
''he ought not to have been convicted such evi
| dence" They are in for five years.-HdrYor
| Times, 24h.
New POSTAL ARRANGEMENT.-As the postal con
| venton between the United States and France doe
| not stpuate any condition of payment for news
papers and other articles of printed matter addres
sed to countries to which France serves an inter
mediate point, and to which the prepayment o
| postage on printed matter is obligatory upon th
/ French public, and as the French post office has n
vi Aas of collecting at destination the rates of post
age which chargeable for the sea transports
ton Of articles of printed matter between Mar
settles and tbeports fdebarkaon in Asia, ,ria Sue7
| or to the Spanish Peninsula, a request has beel
made that printed matter of every kind sent froI
the United States for Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar
and places on the Indian Sea and Sea of China
may not in future be dispatched to France. but i
the British mail ria London. National Ltetigencer
A lady at Janesvle, N. Y, had a narrow escap p
from death, by pin which she was holding in be
mouth dropping into the windpipe. Her agon
terrible; but skiful surgical aid being at hand
she was relieved while under the influence of chic
roform, by opening the throat and extracting tn
pin, after an operation which occupied three hours
With the new year the officers of the Sing-Sin
| Prison have instituted new mode OF punishment
called the japanese Comb. The hair on both side
of the head is closely cropped and sort of comb
left standing.