The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05

THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHANIEs-At the meeting of
the Teachers Association held on Saturday even
ing, Thos. F. Harrison, ESQ.,, prominent teacher
OF this city. delivered an essay on the Physical
Geography OF the United States, with view to its
probable future development. After describing
the continent at large, be dwelt particularly upon
the Southern Alleghanies. These mountains, he
showed by Schroeder's maps, expanded in the
southern states over considerably wider sphere
than in the North They different in char acter
from the Northern Alleghanies in that they were
exceedingly well adapted to habit alton, to farming
and to manufactures. There was no end of water
power and the valleys were very fertile and climate
admirable. The woods were magnificent and the
mineral resources not inconsiderable. They were
also connected with the seaboard by navigable
rivers it was the destiny of this large stretch of
hiy region to be the leading district of the South
both as to education and material prosperity.-N
Y. Times.
FLAX CorroN.-Much interest is expr ressed in the
modes recently discovered of making fax into
substance closely resembling cotton BY the Ceaus-
sen process the fax bres are chemically separated
and by the LYMAN plan they are separated BY
being hred once or twice from a steam cannon, the
explosive force used being about two hundred
pounds to the square inch. new mode has Just
been tried at the mills of Sampson & Tappan, at
hoxoury, Mass, and samples give much satisfac-
ton, as showing that the product will be well
adapted tor mixing with WOOL for making fine
thread, and for other purposes By this last mode
the lax is passed through rollers of an inch diam
the
limited amount of work that can be done bv such
small rollers. Mr.. Lyman is about to make ar
rangements for securing sufficient supply of fax
from Illinois and other portions of the great West
to Keep his steam guns busy.
ADDITIONAL FROM Texas. - Washington, March g..
Some additional intelligence was received to-day
by the government from the Special Post Office
Agent, who has been travelling in Texas and who
was in San Antonio three days after Gen. Twiggs
mad surrendered the property and stores of the Uni
ted States to the State authorities of Texas
Gen. Tviggs' conduct, he says, was severely
condemned by all the officers and soldiers of the
United States When the troops were ordered by
Twiggs to vacate the barracks in order that the
Texas troops might take their place. the band
played Yankee Doodle, and they kept the stars
and stripes flying, to the great annoya of the
Texans.
The United States troops were only allowed a
sufficient quantity of supplies to last them until
they could reach the coast and very scanty at that
-Heratd's correspondence
SAD AFFA1R-WEsr CHESTER, Pa, March g.
Marshall Bailey, young man of good family, shot
himself yesterday morning, at his MILL in Elk Dale
village, New London township, Chester county, Pa.
Whether or not he intended to commit the act is
not known. His friends generally think it was an
accident-that the pistol exploded while he was
loading it. The ball entered his right eye passing
through the top of his head, and lodged in the
ceiling. No present at the time; but his
apprentice entered the mill after hearing the
report of the pistol, him lying his face and
gave the alarm, when neighbors soon came but
the wounded man never spoke afterwards, and
soon died. He was about twenty eight years old,
very prepossessing in his manners, and had been
married but two months.
GENERAL DsARTH OF MoNEY.-A letter from Tu-
rin says the present year bids fair to embarrass
Ine % Ministers of Finance in many quarters In
india there is deficiency of six millions sterling,
IN England of two, and in France of four, while in
itay loan OF twenty millions is required to meet
tne expenditure and armaments of the new king
dom; ana In Austria the confusion is so great that
not even the Minister is able to prognosticate the
eventual wants of the empire
The banking law now pending action before
the Pennsylvania Legislature reduces the amount
OF specie required to be kept in the vaults of the
banks as basis for circulation, and authorizes the
issue of 10 per cent of notes of the denomination
Of one, two and three dollars.