The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-15
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Tr.I'aa 'a aPPOihteu Col Il. V. Sumner Brigade
il "euerai IN the United States Army, to the DOS
rendered vacant by the dismissal of brevet Maio
"ehefai ~. Il. Twiggs. General Sumner ha
er'eu III tue army over forty years. having entered
anc Second eglment OF infantry in 1919. At The
q organization of the First regiment of drapoons br
was transferred to that regiment Most Of his life
mas been spent in the saddle west of the Mssissnni
n umver' lie participated throughout the war with
= r and was promoted for gallant and merito.
s NT conduct In the battles or Cerro Gordo and
SIM. i,.o uei Key. AT the battle of Cherubusco Gen
hi -, pau r MN the high compliment of assigning
Wn.nto3 i"G command of another regiment-the
f reoiment ,Uan ,Ut.II-aIthough field officer of that
D ~ sn' Cs was then on duty with it. After the war
Gehera sumner was placed in commend of tba
W tuieht OF New Mexico, and at the formation
n 9eE 'ohp m new regiments authorized by Congress
IA 1902 ne was appointed Colonel of the Eirst oa
AIRY, the position which he now holds Sou -
~ arose between this regiment and tba Saood
Dragons, of which General U,rra,1 oe'oIu
Colonel. was 'he
EoTABLEs IN CmCAGo.-The notabilities resident
IN Chicago are numerous, if we may credit letter
writer who states that there are there the son of
an English Earl, formerly in the Guards now en-
gsSed IN the by no means aristocratica occupation
OF packing pork; son of the late Bishop of Lon
don, and graduate of Oxford busy in the mann
iacture OF soap; nephew of the gallant Lord Col
| lngwood, Nelson's Coingwood,) J fattening cattle
Gaj a an auJacent iarm younger son of one of Eng
cnr,. noDeSt families, specializing in wheat and
| corn; reduced but genuine German Raron who
| mas hobnobbed with humboldt and tho titIod ua
mates OF London fashionable circles dispensinp Ia
FER Deer at hall a dime glass; an ACCOMPLISHED
atiIn ' nIne' engaged in tresco painting at 81
| auay; brother of Charles Dickens who bpars a
strlklng resemblance to the gifted novelist He
| is clerk In the land department of the l. c. r. r
ana IL Is from him that Dickens received the nom de
| plume of "Boz. "'
"A NoRTnEaN GRL's TRlDUrr" TO PRESIDENT
DAVls-Ihe Montgomery correspondent of the
of February 9th:
president Davis received present today of
some some twenty very beautiful cockades, from a
young iady living in one of the interior towns of
NE" orK. They are made very tasterully and
some are ornamented with the Palmetto button.
and others with the seal of Alabama on the button'
The young lady says she is descendant of ono of
the heroes OF the battle of Ticonderoga she con-
graduates Gen. Davis in very handsome terms an
bis election as the first President Of the Confederate
States OF America, and in conclusion says:-'A
Northern girl pays this tribute of her heartfelt ad
miraton of the gallant soldier who led the Iorions
charge at Buena VISTA"
ROBBERY AT THE Posr OFFICE, Within a fau
months past several letters have been missed at the
fost Otilce in this city, and everv effort made to
Getece the supposed thief but without success On
tuesday one OF the pOrters, named Cochran was
seen in the act of secreting package of letters in
an old shoe. He seized and the parcel taken
from him. 1t was from the South and contained
remttances to several banking houses in this citv.
had the thelt OF this package not been detected
would not some persons have been very willing to
believe that it was taken bv some Southern most
master or clerk? May not other instances of the
alleged breaking open of Southern correspondence
also nave been perpetrated at the North?-N Y
journal of Commerce.
FRINGE HUMBERT, the heir to the Kingdom of
United Italy, and a youth whose prospects in life
are only surpassed by those of the young heir to
the BRUSH crown, has been passing with a younger
orother the recent carnival at Florence, minglinp
with the people freely. A Florence correspondent
writes that the speople seem to have been pleased
with this visit of the children of their new soyer
elgn, although they were not able to discover any
promise OF intellectual superiority or manly beauT
winch would make them feel proud of them
TriHcg humoert who is now about eighteen, is
undoubtedly sufficiently good bow and will m ke
resoute man; but his face is likely to become.
IN ieW years, even coarser and ugIier than his
fathers" l'
The MARVELLOUS CROWN OF FWIsCoysry--Itis
remarkable fact that the census of 1860 renders
Wisconsin the fifteenth State of the Union
counting slaves and whites in the Southern States
1t has a larger population than louisiana a State
that has been settled one hundred wears and
which contains the fifth city in the Union. Wis
consin is the growth of barely twenty-five wears
yet it has population larger than any of the New
England States, except Massachusetts, and in 1870
may pass even that old and 1Ourshing common
wealth The population in 1860 was 7GS, ,OOO In
Io'o IL may have population of 1000
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES IN FRANCE-Locomo.
tlVeS, to be driven by American anthracite coal
are now constructing by the Paris aud Orleans
Railway Company, at their workshops at Ivry,
under the direction of Philadelphian of the name
ct Mdlholland The coal can be laid down on the
line for Sc IS per ton, and the experiment annoys
the English coal dealers very much. 1t is said TO
be owing to tho enterprise of a French nobleman,
recently IN tins country, whose attention was drawn
to the subject while travelling with Lord LYONS
the British minister, over the Reading railway.
The ship Boston Light, Capt. A. II. Holway,
from Calcutta in ninety eight days. arrived at New
York on Tuesday night, bringing Mr.. Law, the
chief mate, and five of the British ship
John Lowry, lost the 23d of December in the
Indian Ocean. They were picked up in a greatly
exhausted state in latitude % deg. 50 min. south
longitude rs deg. east. The captain and twelve
men, in another boat, have not been heard from
but it is believed they reached Rodergues Island.
The ENGLISH LoRDs number four hundred and
twenty seven temporal, and thirty spiritual Three
of the former, the Prince of Wales the Duke of
Cambridge and the Duke of Cumberland (King of
Hanover) are of the blood royaI The spirifuai
lords are twenysix English and four Irish prelates
The temporal lords include prince prnce-con-
sort, twenty-seven dukes, thirtv-fve maruuises
one hundred and seventy earls thiryone viscounts,
ana one hundred and sixty two barons.
From CuARLEsToN.-The Columbia Guardian. of
March 9th, has these interesting items of informa-
tlon from Charleston. 1t says that four hundred
artierlsts or more are wanted for the guns on the
Islands. The portion Of Col. Gregg's command
previously left on Sullivans Island Joined the
others on Morris Island Wednesday evening"
General Beauregard has called for more troops He
is changing the position of the largest guns, and
preparing for protection from
TIE SEA GIVING UP ITS CLAMs-The clans in the
vicinity of Eastern Beach, near Boston were yio-
lently perturbed by the storm of last Saturday,
which tore the bivaves from their ocean homes
while their tribulatiOns increased by the
ground swell OF Sunday, which threw up an i'm
mense quantity on the beach. The people near by
hastehed to the sea-shore, and secured large auan
titles. The clans were enormous in point of size
The new tariff will add something to the cost of
ships, and so tar be in furious to the builders The
duty upon nearly all articles from abroad used in
ship building has been increased. The Bath Times
| estimates that the advance iron alone will
| amount to nearly dollar ton ship of one
thousand tons The effects and defects of the new
| tariff are just beginning to be discovered, and
cause great deal of dissatisfaction.
The improvement of city railroads having been
once started in England, it is making friends as
rapidly as it did in America. Nine different COM
panies have lately applied for grants to build as
many railroads IN the city of London. Seven OF
| these roaGs are to be tunnels, and two yiaducts
| These schemes gigantic in their conception,
and will cost vast sums to complete, but they will
! be effected.
Among the bills acted in the Pennsylvania
| Legislature on Wednesday was one authorizing the
| Archbishop OF Baltimore, Francis Patrick Ken
rick to sell and convey three hundred acres of
| land, which were granted to the said Archbishop
| for the use of the Catholic Church, by Thomas
Mains, of Washington county, Maryland. The
The Fremont Democrat says that at the recent
| post office election in Republic, Seneca county,
| New York, Mrs. Meter, a staunch Democratic
lady, was the successful candidate. There were
four Republican candidates of the male persuasion,
| whose chagrin over the result may well be i'm
| agined.
| Eighteen live American partridges, sent by Mr..
| Cunard, of New York, to the English Society of
| Acclimatzation have arrived out safely, and are
cared for by Lord Malmesoury. This nobleman
has also received sixteen live prairie hens, which
! he expects will soon become naturaized. and one of
these days afford ''food for the million"
Bids for carrying the mails on nearly nine hun
| dred routes in New York and in the New England
| States will be opened on the 3lst inst. The
nual cost of carrying the mails in these States under
existing contracts is 81 002 065 of this, S72S 762
| is paid for the transportation Of the mails over
| 5444 miles of railroad.
The Board of Trade publishes in the Gazette an
imperial Decree permitting the importation, free
of iutv of unbleached tissues of in the piece
intended to be printed in France for reexportaton
only. The re-exportaton of the tissues when
printed must take place within period in no case
exceeding six months.
Mary Baldwin, of Oneida Depot NY, has re-
covered verdict of So, 900 against a man named
Stevens, for breach of promise. The parties are
respectable, and the only defence attempted was
that the engagement was broken by mutual con-
sent.
William H. Dayton, of New Jersey, in place of
Richard Rush, deceased; William B. Astor, of New
York, in place of Gideon Hawley, whose term ex-
pired, and Cornelius c. FELTON,, Mass. reapponted,
are in the new Board of Regents of the Smthsoni-
an Institute.
, Capt. Jackson, of Kentucky, with whom Senator
Wiufau had the Misunderstanding last week, states