The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-21

them, or to presume upon their favor, do any
thing with it but work hard and Justify it. | have
( always endeayored to discharge that duty.
/ My conspicuous position has often made the
subject OF fabulous stories and unaccountabe state
ments Occasionally such things have chaed ne,
/ or even wounded me, but | have ALWAYS accepted
them as the shadows inseparable from the light of
my notoriety and success. have never obtruded
any such personal uneasiness of mine upon the gen
eiIus W aggregate of my audience.
toT the first time in my life, and believe for the
h,W 1Sv, now deviatc from the principle have 50 long
y; @ eu, py presenting myself in my own Journal
! ~ "" private character, and entreating all my
nretnren as they deem that they have reason to
tnihh wei OF me, and to know that am a man who
n"s ever Deen unatlectedly true to our common call
present words. ny
Some domestic trouble of mine Of long stondino
on Whlch Will make no further remark than that
1t claims to be respected as being of sacredly pr
Vate nature, has lately been brought to an arronUc
ment which involves no anger or ill-w of any kind
| and the whole origin, progress and surronndinT
| circumstances of which have been throughout with
IN the knowledge of my children. 1t is amicabIy
composed, and its details have but now to be forgot
| ten by those concerned in it.
by some means arising out of wickedness, or out
OF folly or out of inconcevabe wild chance or out
OF all three, this trouble has been made the occasion
OF misrepresentation most grossly false, most mon
| strous and most cruel-invOlving not only me- but
| innocent persons dear to sy heart and innocent
persons OF whom have no knowledge, if, indeed
they have any eXistence-and so widely spread that
lines by whom some touch of the breath of these
SANDERS will not have passed like an unwholesome
air.
Those who know me and my nature need no as
surance under my hand that such calumnics are as
irrecc@-.lable with as they are, in this frantic
| lncoherencc, with one another But there is a
| great multitude who know me through my writ
ings, and who do not know otherwise and |
cannot bear that of them should be left in doubt
| or hazard of doubt, through my poorly shrinking
from taking the unusual means to which | now
| sort of circulating the truth.
most solemnly declare, then,-and this do both
/ in my own name and my wifc's-that all the lately
whispered rumors touching the trouble at which !
/ have glanced abOmnably false, and that who
ever repeats one OF them after this denial will lie
wifuy and as fouy as it is possible for any false
witness to lie before Heaven and earth.
CHARLES DICKENS
FRANCE.
The Times Paris correspondent saws, that it is
generally admitted that there has not been more
commercial distress experienced in Paris since the
Revolution OF lS4S than at the present moment.
PRUSSIA.
The Times correspondent saws that the powers of
the Prince of Prussia to act as Regent will be pro-
longed for three months more 1t is said that while
at Coburg, Prince Albert signed the document by
which he makes over his hereditary rights to the
Duchy of Coburg to his second son.
TURKEY.
The news from Constantinope of the Goth ult.,
states that the number of the Insurgents in Gambia
is increasing. Five other districts of the island
have risen. Curaki, the principal leader of he
volt, is advancing on Canea at the head of l0O0
men.
The London Morning Herald gives the following
on the authority of a correspondent in India
1t is perhaps not generally known that gold is
found in all the rivers of the Punaub before they
leave the lower ranges of the Hinalaya at Dekun
on the Sutey; Nadown on the Beas and Aknoor ON
the Chenab gold washing is carried on to some con.
siderable extent.
ea,s tI,o bo o,,o r +I,,
eX-king of Delhi has been forwarded to the Court
of Directors for final decision.
ITALY.
THE ERUPTION VEsuyIUS
The terrible eruption of Mount NcsuviuS which
commenced on the 2Gth of May, was still active at
the latest advices. The following extracts from
correspondence OF the London + INES show the char
acter and progress OF the eruption:
NAPLES, MAY 81
Since Saturday the eruption has proceeded with
constantly increasing violence. and has presented
night a more and more magnificent spectacle. In
my last letter | mentioned that there issued from
the great basis fire in the Atro single stream of
lava, which, after Il tortuous course was descend
ing the declivity of the mountain This stream has
continued its course, varying in breadth according
to the accidents of the ground, and seems now 10
direct itself to a point between Portic and Tore
del Greco. but much nearer the latter than the
former 1t approaches close to the scattered farm
houses which lie above the towns at the foot of the
mountain many Of which it can scarcely fail to de-
strOy.
In the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday two
other streams of lava broke out of the great basin
and are descending the mountains toward the neigh
Dorhood OF POrtici. These streams seem to follow
the direction of ravnes, which run nearly parallel
to the ridge which the Observatory and the Her
mitage stand. These buildings have been hitherto
saved from submersion by the lava by their great
elevation, the fluid naturally following the direction
of the lower ground at either side of them.
Last night. the spectacle was peculiarly grand and
imposing. The lava was poured in increased guam
uty along each OF the streams already established
and being in high state OF fincandescenCe, present
ed peculiarly splendid appearance.
At about O'Clock immense torrent Of lava
broke over the ridge which confines the basin of
craters, in the direction of the Somma; it flowed
down the.declivity of the Somma immense
torrent of liquid fire, and with such extraordinary
rapdity that in less than an hour it had descended
through considerable portion of the mountain
Its progress was then retarded, partly by the di-
minished steepness of the ground, and partly by
transverse ravines which must be flied before the
fluid can advance Nothing could exceed the splcn-
dor of this torrent of liquid fire, forming the fourth
principal stream ottawa: but the most extraordna-
ry burst of splendor which has been presented since
the commencement of the eruption, took place
after o'clock when all the mouths seemed to be
simultaneously called into violent action, and to
vomit forth such torrents of lava that the entire
mountain seemed one blaze of fire. the varied colors
produced in different parts owing probably in part
to reflection, presented beautiful and striking ap-
pearance. The lurid light diifused from this enor-
nous burning mass rendered visible the subiacent
country, the towns, the coast and the bay.
On each night several thousands of persons Of
all ranks, from the peer to the peasant, urged bv
curiosity, repair to the scene of this extraordinary
spectacle. The darkness being complete and the
route in many parts difficult, each party is furnished
with torch, and the view of these hundreds of
torches fitting about between the streams Of lava
is most curious, presenting the appearance of null
titudes of frefes.
The Hermitage, which is close to the great basin
of craters and rivers of lava is approached bv a
tolerably good carriage road, and, as may be sup
posed, hundreds of vehicles of every description,
from the caleche of the millionaire to the humble
coricolo, are collected there toward midnight.
Donkey parties abound, of which ladies do not fear
to form part.
JUNE 1.-The state of the mountain last night
nearly the the preceding night, the
eruption, perhaps, being little less violent. The
great streams of lava already described continue to
flow slowly in the same direction.
Part of the extraordinary splendor of the specta-
Gle Sunday night was due to the burning of
forest, which the lava passed The Neapolitans
congratulate themselves on the circumstance of the
lava having been directed to so many different
streams; for if as in former eruptiOns it had been
thrown into channel. the destruction which
must have ensued would have been tremendous.
The lava begins where it did in 1855. At the end
of one of the streams of lava, that on the Castea-
mare side of the Hermitage there has been a ccre-
mony, suppose to stop the lava. There were
SAINT and some priests in attendance.
DEPARTMENT NEWS.
DIsPATcnEs CAPT. HCDsoN-EyPERMENrs