The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-16

Mrs Cora v l.. Hatch the speaking medium
and her husband, DR.. Hatch have separated The
n. Y. Post says:-Dr. Hatch states that up to July
last they lived happily together; that during that
month he went West, and while absent received,
he expresses it, "a beautiful and affeconate let
ter. But upon his return, or sooG after, she took
a decided dislike to him, would have nothing to do
with him, nor scarcely speak to him. Since that
time they have li:ed separately. The Doctors
theory of the matter is, that his wife is possessed Of
demoaiacal influence and he further believes if we
understand him correctly, that this is the inevta-
BILE result of such mediumShip hers; that under
this influence she has become reckless of moral
principle, as have nearly all others of her class.
The writer of this has been shown list of forty
trance speaking MEDIUMS of both sexes, which will
soon be made public, who have either separated
from their husbands and wives, or living in
treme unhappness. The list includes most of the
prominent speaking mediums of the country. Some
women have abandoned their husbands for other
'aflinities." One who has figured in the recent
Free Love Convention, is set down as having aban-
doned two husbands, both of whom are living-and
one woman traded husbands with 4 sister spiritual
ist. The male mediums represented as of the
same sort.
Mrs. Hatch gives the cruelty of her husband as
the cause of the separation. DR.. Hatch was up
wards of forty at the time of his marrage-two
years ago-and Mrs. Hatch sixteen, and his fourth
wife,
The anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie was
celebrated with great spirit at Put-in-Bay Friday
last Among those present were DR.. Usher Par
sons OF 1fONluence, IL. l., VINO was surgeon OF the
Lawrence; Capt. Champlin, of Buffalo, n. y. who
commanded the Scorpion in the action Capt
Brownell, sailing master of the Ariel, and Mr.
William Blair, of the thirty-six volunteers from
Gen. Harrisons army, wha fought in the fleet. A
number of soldiers of the of 1912 were pres
ent. A permanent association organized, with
Hon. Lewis Cass as President, and Hons. Millard
Fillmore, Isaac Toucey, Edward Everett, w. II.
Seward, and Gen. Scott, among the Vice Presi-
dents
The Keokuk Post gives the following picture of
the state of affairs in Iowa. 1t compares their
dition to the ''doomed city of Jerusalem They
have creditors without and creditors Within
"Every third man is a lawyer, (Heaven help theml)
every other man virtually pauper, and all stand
ing in stless and Improbable idleness" except the
police and consables. Three millions of dollars are
to be sued for in the courts of city, and 'ruin
and degradation" is given the probable result.
A correspondent of the Cleveland Rerie,o, writing
from Chicago, says: 81 should say that every real
estate man is mortgaged for five times what he can
pay. As general item upon this point, will state
upon the authority of friend who saw the records
that the assessed valuation of the taxable property
of Chicago last spring, S36, 600 000 while the
amount recorded upon bond and mortgage. whchit
was pledged to secure, was over one hundred and
nine millions of dollars!
The 81. Joseph Mo- Journal says '.Our farmers
t7re beginning to cut their hemp. We understand
satt the yield surpasses their most sangune expec-
talon; 1t is of fine height, and the lint, it is
lnolgh twill be excellent. In this and Andrew
county neigop, it is thought, will be far better
thanit was vas "a" year. This is cheering news as
tnt tbe staple of the upper country, and
sont MI ftS pSs'oF He came to in Beaver county, Pa,
we're but three white famihtt county when there
Ohio river He the deiicathheg 9i thg
the Ohio river"