The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-07
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4 NOVELTY IN SHTPBUILDING A steam vessel,
named the ConnectOr, SAYS Manchester paper, is
attracting great attention, owing to the peculiar
features OF her construction. She is built OF iron,
and is in three distinct compartments, each being
connected with the other by means of their socket
like shape at the ends and firmly secured by means
of longitudinal movable iron bands on the outside.
The stcrnmost portion is appropriated to the en-
ginero0m and captains cabin, and the torepaIt to
the lorecaste, &c. The middle portion is devoted
to the purposes of the hold, and may, in few
minutes. be detached from the fore and aft por-
tons The steamer is to take in a cargo of
Goals for the London market. She has been built
as an experiment. for the purpose of proving the
feasibility of the scheme of the inventor, which con-
sists in having a vessel constructed, that when
the demand in the market is inactive, the cargo may
be cast off another hold attached, and the vessel
Immediately return to her loading port for another
cargo, thus avoiding the loss of time and expense
incurred in waiting for a market. The steamer Is
about ninety feet long. and nine feet broad, being
remarkably narrow beam. She was built at Green
Wich by the Mcssrs. Joyce, and it is intended,
should the experiment prove satisfactory, to build
vessel ON Il similar plan, of 1000 ton burthen.
y strange affair has occurred at ConstantinOple:
\ resident physician, DR.. Sallon, an Austrian was
called in to prescribe for the avorie wife of great
Turkish parsonage, and questioning her in the
harcm. he found that she was suffering from an in
lammaton of the bowels. He slightly touched with
his finger the part affected; on which an eunuch,
who was in attendance, misnterpreting the act,
rushed on him, knocked him down, and beat him
until he was half dead. The woman's husband,
hearing the noise, hurried n and being told what
had taken place. stabbed the physician in the thigh
with dagger. The blow was so violent that the
weapon broke. The wounded physician, bathcd in
blood, removed to the street and left to get
home as well as he could. DIR. ZallOni, a few days
after, died of the injuries which he had received.
While laborcrs in the county of Kilkenny, Ire
land, are engaged in crusade against machinery,
the prime OF distress in that quarter, the
Iuam Ncr1id announces that in the west the scale
lgs al in tlpT nv b.in
drug i'll the market they are become scarce that
they can almost command their own terms The
agricultural demand in England, too, adds to the
scarcity, and induces thousands of the peasantry of
Mayo and Galway to migrate to that country, to
the great discomfort of the Irish farmers.
\ Dutch commercial firm. Mcssrs. Spengler Il
Co., has established branch house at Decima in
Japan. The fact OF a private firm establishing it
self at the seat of the former Dutch factory shows
that the monopoly hitherto maintained by the
Dutch government has been definitely abolished.
ukase has been promulgated prohibiting the
teaching of the Latin tongue in all the colleges of
the Russian empire. The hours hitherto devoted to
that study will be devoted to the positive sciences
There is less water in the rivers of France than
any body remembers to have seen. Many of the
mills have stopped, and those situated on larger
streams not able to do more than half the usual
amount Of work.
The drought is so great in the provinc of ARA
gon, Spain that the fields have to be watered, and
the peasantry fight with each other to obtain water
from the Ebro
There is talk of an expedition against Madagas-
car by combined English and French force, to
punish the piraccS of which the savages of that is
land have been guilty.
Reliable information from Naples speaks of the
growing disallection in the ranks of the native
army.
4 member of the Sydney Jockey Club has named
4 tayorite horse the "Reverend Spurgeon."