The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-28

FRAUDS UPON THE SOLDIERS Northern HOucsfy-
The loud complaints which have come Fl on, the
various camps, of the clothing and food furnished
the volunteers called into the service OF their coun-
try, have at last aroused public attention to the
matter, and we are getting, b. degrees, something
more reliable than rumor, and something which
will lead eventually to full exposition of the trans
actions which have produced this state of FEELING
1t is The misfortune of our public business gener-
ally, that it cannot be managed honestly and un-
rightly as private transactions are but that every
call Tor the expenditure of public money no mattar
| now pressing the public exgency, Immediately
draws around the treasury in competition with the
| tair Gea'er, host OF dishonest men, jnbbers and
! piunderers. seeking to divert the public money
from its proper and Legitimate channel to their own
private pockets class of low politicians looking
out Tor jobs, manage too frequently to get public
contracts into their hands, and to deal them out so
that between the contractor and the person fur
| nlshing the work supplies, then Contracts clll
tor margin of thousands Of dollars is allowed or
prices are put up to an extent which will afford
thousands OF dollars of profit to persons parties
the trans actlonS. The consequences to the public
| are Injurious in every Respectable people
| are not only required to pay double the prices
| which the same work or material could be supplied
Tor In private transactions, but the materials and
work are usually OF the most inferior quality, for
II Is not only necessary that the contractor should
receive a large profit, but his favorite friend who
supplies him, must have similar gains and between
the two, the public are the sufferers Philadelphia
Ledger
IROOPS.-The
Chlckasaw Indians having called on Gen. Y ouug
| tor protection, through Gov. Harris of the Indian
Natlon we learn that the former has crossed over
Red River into the Indian country, at the head of
t or seven sweva TnG and will eve
had refused to deliver up their arms at the COM
mand OF Gov Harris, and are now ostensibly march
ing to Fort Leavenw orth, in Kansas
Gen. Dung had some time ago been authorized
to raise a regiment of thousand men for the
protection OF the frontier. He had also en- pro-
vlded with ample instructions to enable him to al
ford every protection needed BIZ people. Con.
siderable excitement exists in Northern Texas and
1t is believed by many that attack is medt ated
upon it, and will be headed by the friends of Bully
and Crawford, hung at Fort Worth, and of Mckin-
ney aud Blount, who were publicly whipped and
| made to leave the country. However this NAV be-
that portion OF the State will soon be in such a
condition Of defence that an army of ten Thousand
Black Republicans will not be able to force them
selves through even the Indian Nation. We are
preparing to give them a hot reception Texas
State Gazette, Nay IL,
UNITED STATES MAksHALs ~ IhUsr-The follow
ing note was in reply to a communication from a
marshal who was impatient for the settlement of
his census expenses:
CENSUS OFF1CE,)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON, May 18th, 1861.
SIR have been notified by the accounting
oncers OF the Treasury to suspend all payments to
marshas, except few specified cases, aud until
TINS Is superseded by permit to pay, have no
alternative but to observe the order.
Truly yours,
j. G. KENNEDY, Superb.
Thos. L. Dohoney, Louisville, Ky.
''Blood must have bood.N "A life for lifen
W hen Ellsworth fell his assassin died. Both have
already appeared before the dread tribunal the
one to receive the sanction of his God, the other
10 answer Tor his crime against that Union which,
after the Christian Church, is the best emblem of
God on earth.
The above choice extract we take from Forney's
Press.
MINUTE GUN.-An enormous rifed cannon is
just being finished at Pittsburg for Fortress Mon
roe. The length of the gun is l6 feet length of
bore IA feet, diameter of bore II inches diameter
OF the gun at the breech As inches diameter at the
muzzle 70 inches. The ball will be II inches in
diameter, and the weight about 600 pounds. The
rough casting of the gun weighs 49, 900 pounds:
finished, it will weigh $4,000 pounds. The cham.
Der has Il grooves.
There is strong desire in the est for the DOS
session of the city of Memphis Tennessee and il is
said that Gen. Mcclellan intends soon to make an
ADVANCE movement towards it with the W isc0nsin
brigade. Memphis is two huDdre ed and fifty miles
below Cairo, on the Mississippi. The Confederates
have twelve thousand men concentrated there.
On the 26th instant. GEORGE THoRBoRG, in his 18Th
GA the 2sl instant, MARGARET ELIZABETH, only
da ~ the q Eha vi and fp sPuE Nk
and N: a Mekew, aged wears ard month
HEALTH OFFICE, Baltimore, May eth, 1851
Report Of Deaths in the City Of Baltimore for the leek
ending Monday morning.
Apopexy 2; cancer l. casualty cd-bea l. collie 3. con
sumption ~ convulsions croup2 dropsy 8 dropsy the
head drowned !; catarrhal scarlet fever TYPHOID
lever inflammation bowels /; inflammation Of Brain 4
iniamm ation OF lungs q infamma stomach /; in
temperance old ages organic disease heart l. "a sy 2
t-ethng o. tumorl unknown adult unknown inante l6
who ping cough 3-total 50
Under ~ between and 2, IL between and s. I2
between and TO- between and H. g. between h and
% between 20 and 80 and 90 q between 20
and 80 g. between so and o. s. between and TO- & be.
tween 20 and So and 90 g. between % and ION
l. above 100, D. Still births ~ '
Males 80 females As OF which number II -ara cororoj
persons-l5 free; slaves. By order = ~
CHAs. 81. BRApFOap COMM sion er of Health