The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-02
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There is a little hutter of excitement at the New
York Custom house as to what shall be done with
the Charleston steamers. Hereafter their cle. :
ances from Charleston will be made out in the name
of the State of South Carolina a Power inde-
pendent of the United States and the custom house
authorities are bothered as to what they shall do
about it.
The Charleston Courier says the schooner W. A.
Ellis arrived there from New York on Wednesday,
with 500 barrels of cement for Fort Moultrie, and
that their delivery to the United States officers
has been prevented for the present. For week or
two past, adds the Courier, Northern vessels have
brought all kinds Of supplies for the forts, from
cannon to cement.
The Alexandria Gazette says that on Saturday the
citizens residing in the immediate neighborhood of
the White House, in Washington, were somewhat
surprised to behold, floating from the equestrian
statue of Jackson (Which is just in front of the Pres
dent's mansion,) an American flag, with streamer
bearing the words-"By the Eternal
The Indianapolis Journal states that the prosecu-
tinr attorney has entered a noHe Drosegue in the
cases of A. H. Hager and Isaac B. Hussy, charged
with aiding the owners of the Boone County Bank
in the circulation of the fraudulent notes of that
institution. They have accordingly been dischar
ged.
The failure of Edward Lambert & Co., the great
New York silk iobbers, is said to ue very bad
one. To one French importing firm they indebt-
ed Sl25, 900. The personal expenses of the head
of the firm, who has been living in quiet way in
Brooklyn, are stated TO nave Deen Sl6i UUU In ten
years.
The report of the Commissioners of the General
Land Office shows that the coal fields of the United
States cover upwards of two hundred thousand
square miles, and are capable of supplying steam
power equal to the whole physical force for the
present population of the globe.
The wear 1861 will be the first of the 660th olym-
mad. There will be an annual eclipse of the sun on
| the llth of January, another on the fth OF July,
and a total eclipse the Slst of December. There
! will also be partial eclipse of the moon on the
| 18th of December.
| The Seventh Regiment of New York have con-
cluded to decline the invitation to visit London.
On the 9th and 10th of January they are to have
grand public reception, for which 10 600 invitations
have been issued.
One of the miserable consequences OF disruption
of the Union, will be the destruction of all patent
| right property, there will not be any Supreme
Court of the United States to give it its usual pro-
! lection.
| On Christmas morning, agreeaby to previous
notice, the first street railroad in Mobile, Leading
from Royal street to Lafayette, was formally nau-
| gurated and opened to traffic.
| The great French dramatist Scribe, has an in
come of $50, 900 a year, the fruit OF his literary
| labors.
| The New York Republican Assembly Caucus on
Monday nj hit nominated Mr.. Littlejohn iof 0PeaAer'
| after several ballotings.
Hon. Pierre Soule, in a card published through
| the New Orleans Bee, avows Ms preteFehce ior co~
| operative action of the States