The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-22

Liverpool, was at once telegraphed for, and arrived
on ON board late on Monday night. Under his direc
uon snree OF the principal mooring chains re-
PaIneu, ana new one of greater strength, and $50
neiis long, taken out to the centre ofthe river and
win these the big ship easily held on till yesterday
mfoIrhlng, when, the weather moderating, the rest
vi tIe enains were repaired, and the vessel easily
worked back to her old position It is now intend
eu TO lay down, in place of the old mooring chains
part OF the new cables of the Ieviatban herself
% Mn.cn nave We oeen manufactured by Messrs Brown,
LenoX Co., and which were tested we believe 70
STRAIN OF $50 tons. If these chains had been com
pleteu at the time the moorings were laid down.
none Others would have been used
From the London Times
! ORSINPS LAST LETTER.
mat Orslni was vulgar ruiian is proved bv
the letter which he wrote to the Emperor Louis Ma
| poleon when his last moment was at hand A man
VINO could so write when reason had reasserted its
! sway must have had within him many elements of
nigh and honorable thought which, under other cir
cumstances, would have borne appropriate fruit in
action. Thus it was that Felice 0rsini when his
Wild dclusion had passed awav expressed bimsaIf
upon the subject of that foul deed for which he was
just ABOUT to suffer an ignOminious death: "In few
hours shall be no more but before drawing nv
last breath, wish it to be known and declare It
WIN that frankness and courage which up to this day
have never belied that assassination in wbatavnr
form it may disguise itself, does not enter into INV
principles notwithstanding that, by fatal mental
error, allowed myself to be led into organizing the
attempt of the l4th Of January" Nothing can he
more complete than this recantation of the DIVING
man, nothing more earnest than his PRAYER that his
own death and his pentence may be accepted as
an expiatlon for the crime into which he had been
Led by "a fatal mental error" There will not be
found IN his letter to the Emperor any contemptbe
effort to prolong life which could hencefortb
be nothing but burden to himself Thinking
as felce orsln thought death to him was mer-
cy There is much that is very worthy of re-
spect in the concluding paragraphs of his let
ter. The dying man trusts that his memory NAV
be purged of the guilt of his crime for what exnia
could kp he has n,o5a and IA oho
MAKE lie willingly offers his own blood as a
sacrifice for the innocent blood which he had
shed ON the fatal 18th of January He trusts that
his countrymen, when the day oftheir independence
comes, will make such compensation as can be made
to those who suffered injury from his widely-scat-
tered missiles Finally he asks, not for his own life
put Tor the lives of the wretched creatures whom he
has induced to become his accomplices To his
countrymen he says, with all the energy and all
the conviction of who has not time left
Tor many words: "Let my cOuntrymen, instead
Oh putting faith in the system of assassination
utterly reject it, and know BY the voice of diving
patriot that their redemption must be won by selfcon
troi, py constant unity of struggles and sacrifices
ana by the exercise of true virtue" Surely, there
was good In this man. had he not been led astray by
the Wild delusion of political assassination The
lew bequests in his will are rrcpr0achabe and the
arrangements he makes for the future of his two
little girls such any good and proyident father
would make upon his death bed. Every act and
word seem to denote who but for one fatal
error might have lived in honor and fair repute-
Atroclous as his crime undoubtedly was it is impos-
SIDE not TO draw 4 broad mark of distinction be
tween Felice Orsini and the rulans who deal in no
tlcal assassination as an ordinary incident in their
career. Orsini, moreover, had the courage to exc
cute what he had the audacity to conceive. He did
not, IKE one notorious cOnspratOr, depute the muir
derous task to other hands, and retire himself intoa
position of security, to watch the result of his own
scheme. In an evil moment he became an assassin,
put he was not 4 coward Let us trust that his dy-
ing words will not be without effect upon his cOun-
trymen. Liberty has never been won, but often
lost, by the side blow of assassin.
From the London Mercantile Gazette ADrH G.
LOSS OF THE AMERICAN BARK PETREA.
PORTSMOUTH, April 5.-The American bark Pc
trea Osborne, from Havre for New York, OFT
French and German passengers, and general car
co. got on shore on Sunday morning, at about
~ O'clock the shoals off the harbor of Chiches-
ter or Chichester's Pool. On the ship being dis
covered in her perous position by the cOast-ouard
at East Wittering, under the command of Lieut..
WoastOn, |. N, every assistance was rendered by
that officer and his crew. At about three o'clock
r: NJ, boat manned by twelve hands was
dispatched by the captain to the chevalier Pap
palardo, United States Consul at Portsmouth,
informing him of the disaster and asking assistance
The Consul Immediately embarked and returned in
the boat to the wreck, distant about twelve miles
from Portsmouth. On boarding the bark he found
the emigrants in a state of great alarm for their
and property although all had been done by the
captain that he could to calm their fears and in
splre confidence. Mr.. Pappalardo at once gave
such directions necessary, and engaged a
gang of men to man the pumps and endeavor to keep
her Tree from water, the crew being exhausted. A
steamer had been sent to the assistance of the ship
IN the course of Sunday from Portsmouth, by the
French Consul, Chevaer Nandenbergh, a report
having been made to him that it was a French ship,
but the power of the steamer was found too limited
to admit of her assistance being effected in moving
the wreck, and she returned Yesterday, at day
break, the wind blowing gale from f 5. F., fear
ing that she would become total loss, Consul Pap
palardo acting in conjunction with the Captain,
deemed it expedient no longer to delay attempting
to land the passengers Accordingly, he personally
superintendent the hoisting the side all hands,
by means of a barrel and whip, the women and
children being attended to first. heavy serf was
beating on the beach; but another gang of coast
guardmen and Others by ropes, helped to drag the
boats to land, and these combined efforts were so
successful that all landed, to the number of 239
souls without an accident of any kind