The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-02

for patents for new inventions, chiefly from our
own country, has amounted in all to seven thou
sand six hundred and ffty-three, and the sum of
money received on applications, reissues, &C. has
reached the large amount of two hundred and fifty
six thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars
and fty-nine cents. 1t is not surprising that with
such an income the Department should be seEsus.
tanning and stable not depending for its support in
! the least on the Federal Treasury. The eXpendi.
| turesoi the year have been two hundred and fifty
two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars
and eighty cents, leaving a balance in the Treas
ury on the lst January, 1861 of eightY-nine thou
sand four hundred and thirty.seyen dollars and
| lortv-One cents.
Attached to the report is table exhibiting the
business of the Office for twenty four wears ending
December 31st, 1850, and which contains some curt
Gus facts, startling by their contrast Thus in the
year 1887, four hundred and thirty-fTe patents
were issued, and twenty-nine thousand two hun |
dred and eighty-nine dollars received. But in
1860, four thousand eight hundred and nineteen !
patents were issued, and the cash paid into the |
treasury on account of the office amounted as we
HS Have oeiore SEEM to the sum of two hundred and
utty-SlX thousand three hundred and tifty-Wo dol
lars ana nifty nine cents showing that the oripina |
and valuable inventions Of the country and the |
income derived from them, have, in the lapse of |
less than a quarter of century, increased more |
! than in ten-fOld degree. Indeed although some |
successive years fall short in these respects of the
| preceding, there has upon the whole, taking one
| year with another, been a progressive advance |
|
the smallest in the series to the year 1860 when il
reached the largest number it has vet attained |
since the origin OF the Government. There is not
PROBABLY another country the face of the globe
that can exhibit such record of inventions in |
mechanics and the arts, during the last quarter of
! century, as the United States And to what is |
this progressive spirit attributable but the influence
OF CIVIL liberty acting the Saxon element of Our
| genius and the general spread of intelligence |
among our people? Nor is the number of patents |
issued the only evidence of the inventive talents of
our countrymen, but the applications for patents
rejected on account ofinterterence with inventions
already patented but unknown to their authors |
and Tor other !causes, furnish additional evidence
that the minds of scientific inqurers among us are |
perpetually active, though not ALWAYS successful |
because they have been anticipated in their labors
by others, or because the discoveries they have |
made independently by the operations of their own
genius are not valuable and important to society
as they themselves imagined. Thus, of applfca- |
tionS Tor patents during the last year, there were
seven thousand six hundred and ffty-three but of
patents granted to citizens of the United States
there were only four thousand seven hundred and |
eighty, one, and only thirty-eight to applicants
from all other countries.
ANOTHER STORY OF THE TIMES SromED.-The Mo-
bile Advertiser publishes the following retutation |
OF late despatch TO one of the New York scnsa- |
tiou papers:
BRITlsH CONSULATE, J |
MOBILE, Feb. l3, 1861. { |
Slhs-in this days paper my attention was called |
| to telegraphic despatch, in which am repre- |
sented to have been maltreated and | accordingly
write this note merely to- show its utter falsity |
nave never, at any period, been upon better
terms with the authorities and citizens than at this
time.
lnG writer OF the despatch alluded to must either
Law I oeon iaooilhg unueI some strange mistake or
d,se n"'e Oeeu acluateu oy mean aeslre oil pro-
uuclHE an unia'oTaoie ana pltter leelng against
%oyepuun on unG Part OF tne brth
tative. trusf that This rnav bS fnrod hi @
notice from vonr nannr aS aJ1rooi h oS sIile
me resnectino the matter orS rId Si Iair" 4n
| nrevent anv faIse imnroSsion rn, - - - LS " |
particularly in tbe nrasant stota of si;tnsI ffi
/ have the honor to he sirs vour otyt sarr;t '''
CH1rIEs T,prl1y JT
II. B. Maiestv's actng consnI
To Nnssrs RaIIantinn & r. noh;I a. '
| - w., oo' ala
The New ORLEANS PICAYUNE HorEFUL-The New
Orleans Picau,,,e of Nondav last hos on or.ioI, !
undar tbe c,nIinn or serb -, S,, @ m " ICY
Iybicb corcI,i,da. -. W. g H. '' ''o1'i'" i"""S'''
In viaw Of tbe rocaDt onJ d,;I, ooo,,.u;,,. -.
rastations of nnbiic nion a. ~ N mani
ho ,,saIos d IS s T Pii S 'e ~ w. IL Noulu
| ~ oant 80 , a. % IL - AZ Jil oN ~ t::ePuoicah writer's
coin viii nayor consont tn ~, 'aI lIu
wont unon orTr otbar .p @ tne govern
ced in the Cbicsao pIatToro Tha 'osG az "Lnoui-
Gortb Portios on5 H. .fn. "o nat nas gone
tb odt,a "tb H. ns mus @ sne way wneh
nao1,e of fha Nortb IisoyiGad Ga 'ne f country Inc
now be made to believe that they must give to par
ty the allegiance which is due alone to country
We said some time ago that the issue being fairly
iishness of Black Republicanism being made mani
fest, they would not prefer party to country that
they would tear down the platform based in injus
| tce, and consign its constructors and prominent
| supporters to long and dreary exile from public
| favor and public station. The signs point rnmis-
| takaby to such a result, and are among the most
gratifying as they most conclusive, Of the many
indications of the good time coming.
APPLAUDtNG IN CUUpCUEs TTbo oLoloto 4.
of appauding preachers was revived in seyerai
churches on the National Fast Day. The Rev. Jacob
| NJ Manning at the Old South Cbnrcb in Posto
the Rev. sumner Ellis in the UniyersaIiSi GbnrnL
in Salem, and the Rev. DR.. Cbanins in his cburcb
in New York, uttered sentiments which csned
fourth strong marks of approval from their croWded
| audiences. This course is not to be commended bnt
it is merely the revival of an ancient practice of
the Christian Church. as in the fourth cantnrv thn
preachers were loudly apnIauded dnrn tbo oriro W.
ry OF their disc9urses The frequent cries of cor
f t G '"S ctapping oi tne hands and stamping
" " 'oeU III Chui ches' were us common In that
pviluI DO siuilISl P'oceeonsS now are at popular
""SSSsnD1aseS "Ss VI inc people: ~ Is related that
Iy DIty soseon, tne celeorateo CnrlStlan Father,
Tnoso noee' Pla'er was salu IN the Episcopal
I 80 oH tnat uay, was aPpaudea IN the great
I: Lo lC oonStanunopie oy tne peoples waving
lueI. PIumeS' their Danukerchles and their gar
ireHi.s, %hu ~ o'neIS grasplhg thelr swords and
L5 5iG ouS WIN loua voice, "lhou art worthy OF
'"0 Piles'hoou. -DoSloH Ir0nScrPt.
| Discovery OF A New SUBSTANCE IN THE ATyOs-
| PHERE.-A writer in the National I,tcLI;ocncor
states that the theory of Mr.. Clemson head of the
e,
living organisms in the atmosphere which lie made
public In 1856, has been adopted by French chem
| lst named Barral, and announced to the French
! Academy. Mr.. Clemson's theory is that the air
! like water teens with minute LIVING orrarisrns,
eat mere Is phosohorlc acid IN the air, derived
~ - e SuCceSsNe generations after generations
a. au' VI 'n1se organisms produced, living and
y;tH "a tno htulosPneie' .haC such organisms
oAU "iu are .' "orA, assmllatlng from one to the
pthe PleparlhS lood lot more perfect organisms,
rom rom Tue microscopic point OF lille up to the most
pelIect anlna eSlstences 1t Is expected that this
VI ,scottiy WIN explain why the earth Is increased
"a ' my ~ Wy ueluS pioNen UP ana exposed TO the
"a Ill CoLinoGts I mSteo,oIoSy WIN agriculture,
tu q. ~, VIZ, "nen lui,y ueVelopeu open new page
" tne ieafheu Oh she reaton OF the spots on the
frir,i ob Nl Gl the earth, and cleo
! cnnd;t;on - H. W II @ atmosphere anu mdShetlcal
FORT SUMTER.-We have the authority OF an off
GER at Fort Sumter for stating that there is no
truth IN the statement circulated at Charleston and
published in some of the papers, that Major Ander-
son had been sick DIR. Crawford, of the medical
nad Geen 9ut1e H. puT hao recovered. The
Snit Tha " -, iitay Huan,y f anu IN tne pest oil
bad oxiod bt .ha hd i vi sole Vi the men
their comrades mill The ternnati " of t an " i
ties Great activity prevailed et the dfarent rnrr
around the fort The batteries at C,no,i;
| roirt bo6 boon oI.torJJ 81 tnx 80 Nv o"tinliinS tS
commenced Thooa 90 49, oratI r ~" etio' a suies
gnne haoriro, on tIo raiD . ~ tt - ~ neayy
nr A. nTd Frt InbradS ave az .ne iGd[ ., tne
t;a ol bad boa, oyno ~ u "aes Isiahu' dc-
prt fa,, assols I 80 ~ -. I 0 - 0 IT, @ 'I =: petIel l
Tho fort disnIa,,od fora;anP d. a. ia.o - aPg PSnng
was on dntv at Cummn%,s noint and stanInars nare
were LANDING materials and men every dav.WPLT