The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-06
A COMFORTABLE ESTABLISHMENT

A correspondent of the New York Iadependent
thus describes the domain of the Duke of Devon
shire at Chatsworth
''The domain of the Duke of Dcvonshire would
cover one of our largest counties. The park imme-
diately surrounding the palace is eleven miles in
circumference, and contains three thousand acres
The principal garden for vegetables fruits green
houses. ETC., is twenty-five acres There are thirty
greenhouses, each from fifty to seventv-five feet
long We went into three or four containing moth
ing but pine-apples, ripe; others contained nothing
but melons and cUcumbers One peach tree on the
glass wall measures tilty-one feet in width and if
teen feet in heimth and bears one thousand peaches
1t is the largest in the world. The grape houses five
six in all, are six hundred feet long and
such grapes We saw pine apples weighing ten or
fifteen pounds each. One greenhouse had only
figs, another ony mushrooms But what shall be
said of the great conservatory filled with every va
riety of tropical plants? 1t is of the wonders
Of the world 1t covers an acre of ground is one
hundred feet high Of oval shape. and cost $500,
1t is heated by steam and hot water pipes, which in
all are six miles in length. The apparatus CON
sumes six hundred tons of coal in year. We saw
banana trees twenty feet high, with clusters of
fruit, sugar-cane, coffee trees, bamboo and in short
every tropical plant that can be named Several
of the palm trees from fifty to sixty feet high
The smoke of the immense fire underneath is car
red in pipes under ground to an outlet in the woods
The coal is brought in a tunnel six hundred yards
under ground. One fountain throws a Jet of wa
ter to the height Of two hundred and seventy-five
feet
COMPLETION THE DETROIT AND MILWAUKEE
RAILwAY-To-day the first through passenger train
will be run over the Detroit and Milwaukee Rail
way, from Detroit to Mill Point its western termi-
nus. distance of one hundred and eiphtv-three
miles. The occasion will be improved by the Di-
TectOrs and officers of the road with their families
who will pass the entire line in the first train
Mill Point is situated the northern side of
Grand River, directly opposite in a north easterv
course from Grand Haven, and distant from Lake
Michigan about two miles. The depot grounds Oc-
cupy point formed by the confluence of a broad
bayou, which here sets in from the main channel of
the Grand River. The River at this point is some
thing mile wide, thus forming most excel
lent harbor, and also furnishing an abundance of
wharfage. The heaviest draft Of lake steamers
will have no trouble in entering the harbor, or APP
preaching the wharf, in any stage of the weather
water. The construction of the road to this
point has cost the company in around figures s. $780,
900, or fraction over $4,000 per mile.-Detroit
Free Press, Sept. l.
FALLING OFF IN EMIGRAuON-For the first time in
the history OF emigration to the United States from
the British Islands. there is now a preponderance
in the movement towards Australia and Canada over
that towards these shores. The official returns made
up in England show that for the first three months
of 1858 the aggregate number of erniorants from
for the United States against 72G for the CORES
ponding period of 1851. OF the rest, SGT were for
the Australian colonies. Emigration for all parts
of the world has not been at so low figure for tif
teen wears past as it now is. 1t attained its maxi
mum figure in 1853, when it reached 372 1875. This
was reduced to less than one-haf in 1857 when the
emigration only reached some 0,000.-Notional
hteiligencer.
A, onnosition meeting held at Salem T