The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-19
d O III E S TIC.

A slight ripple in the placid surface of fashiona-
Die society has been observable for a few DAYS in
consequence OF the elopement of fair girl of
"sweet seventeen" with her music teacher The
professor of crotchets and Quavers is man of fine
personal appearance, and it seems that the subtle
magic OF his presence awoke that feeling of love
winch Is always latent in the heart of a madon of
that romantic and susceptible ace This frnIinr
was as warmly reciprocated. Of course it would
be madness to ask the parents consent to such n
match, and so the nfallible cure of Il stolen MARI
age was successfully invoked. The unsuspectino
old folks were kept in the dark until il was oo Iato
for them to interfere with any good effect: and
then, like sensible parents, they put I'D with what
could not be mended, had the marriage ceremony
re-performed in accordance with their own faith,
ana magnanlmously gave away the wifebrde.-Neao
York Tribune, Nay II.
The First Wine Fair of Missouri opened at st.
Louis, on the 18th inst About seventy specimens
were exhibited, contributed from Illinois New
York, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky.
Tennessee, and Missouri. Seventeen gentlemen
were selected as board of judges to compare spec
mems offered and award the premiums They re-
port that all the specimens are very superior in
character and indicate great Improvement in the
manufacture of native wines. 1t has been decided
by the Missouri Wine Company, to hold hereafter
in St. Louis, an annual fair.
week two ago two men were arrested
IN Warren county, Mo-, charged with aiding
in the escape of slave from his master in that
county. One of them was pursued. captured
in st. Charles, and the negro found with him.
Facts afterwards disclosed led to the arrest Of Lee
as an accomplish in the business, and he arrest
ed and put in prison. OF his guilt no doubt exists
On Tuesday last he attempted to commit suicide
by opening the veins of both his arms, and at the
last accounts there very little hope of his re-
covery.
The Portland Argus reports that twelve iron
bridges have been put on the Grand Trunk Railway
line within two years, being substitutes for the
wooden bridges originally built. 1t says the terri
Bile accident on the New York Central Railroad, by
the breaking of decayed wooden bridge, suggests
this notice OF the praiseworthy efforts which the
Company is making to prevent the possibility of
such accidents the line from Portland to Mon
treal.
Intelligence has been received from Lecompton.
Kansas Territory, to the effect that band of ma
rauders committed numerous depredations in that
on the 18th, robbing several settlers
and the store of William S. Wells, some fifteen
miles from Lecompton. The gang is said to num-
Der sixty men, completely armed, and is asserted to
be the that recently perpetrated the robberies
and murders at Fort Scott No pursuit was at
tempted.
The Ohio Cultirator of the LIST instant SAYS of the
prices OF the coming wool clip: ''The wool buyers
apProaeh their work very cautiously and we pre-
e prices will open eight or ten cents lower than
sne ruling rates of last year Many of the manu-
d;licnIt need to buy on time, on account of the
cash. as goi,atng their paper in banks for
mntod mo Aiiston, of South Carolina has COM
mu nhe sentence of death passed on Thomas
g asne 9 To ' be n "s6, The prisoner to
follows:-25 lashes on the io,t IN the Jail yard as
nth and 10 on the 2sth Ten DAYS after t % o on 'e
is to be banished from the State forever the Sth he
In the Investigation of the burning of tbo a..
Spray at st. Louis, of the steamboat o, oeean
swore that they always carried turpentne on Mn
sssippi river boats, to be used in case of raco
few days ago, Adams 4 Co.'s Express was rob
bed of $4,000, between Charleston, S. c.. and 60
iumbus, Ga. The Company promptly paid over
the amount to the parties who emit listed it to their
care "
Don Fermin Ferrer, ex-President of Nicaragua.
a aS taken 70 wife Martha Z. Winterbotham young
est sister Of Mrs. Ann S. Stevens, the authoress