The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-29
FOREIGN MJsCEJLANY,

A DUEL IN DENMARK-A curious duel has just
taken place near the town of Rander. The com
Datants were two journeyman tailors, who, AFTER
quarrellmg over their cups, determined to settle
the dispute in gentlemanke manner AS no
pistols were at hand, they procured two muskets,
which loaded and the distance was liked at sixty
PAGES. The person considered the aggrieved party
fired first, and his opponent fell to the ground
The former, thinking he had killed his man, threw
away his musketand took to his heels when the latter
who had merely fallen from fright at the report,
jumped up and after him, calling on him to
stop, as he bad a right to have shot also. Both
We're shortly afterwards arrested, and the muskets
coniscated.
RUSSIAN TELEGRAPH TO AMERIcA-The st. Peters
burg accounts up to the 25th inst. mention that
among other schemes projected, there is grand
line of telegraph between Russia and North Ameri-
ca. The plan is to lay the wire through Siberia,
thence under water from the northeastern point of
Asia, to the coast of the Russian possessions the
American continent, and finally, to be then joined
to the wires of the United States. Although this
gigantic undertaking, when mentioned NAV lead
many persons to look upon the matter with aston
ishment and to consider the project belonging to
the fabulous, yet its execution after all NAV not be
doubted as possible, when the vast Improvements
and inventions OF recent times be duly considered.
MAKING LITTLE OF HIS WIFE-The Paris CORES
pondent of the Glasgow Herald states that Rus
sian nobleman, now in Paris, wears his wife on his
finger His much loved spouse having died lately,
the grlevng husband besought celebrated chemist
to reduce her remains to concentrated essence,
and a few days afterwards presented with a
stone about half inch in diameter, and of green
ish tint, being the residual product Of his defunct
lady Set in a ring, the count thus carries on his
hand a never-dying memory of his lost love in the
shape of precious stone. witty lady remarked
that the said count thus makes ''precous little of
his wife.
PoLITIcAL VICTIMS IN FRANCE.-Signor Mazzn
has published a copy of one of the sentences,
ders for the deportation to Algeria, of suspected
Frenchman In his communication Signor Mazzn
adds that thirty or forty of these unfortunate per-
sons have, since the l4th of March, arrived at Mar
settles nightly, and been silently conveyed to the
penal settlement. The intended victims are he
says, usually invited by the project to his Office to
hear communication relative to their private in
terests. When they arrive, they are arrested, and
sent off without further ceremony.
The CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY.-Accountsf fir ON Bos
mia give frightful accounts of the atrocities per-
petrated there upon the Christian rayahs by the
Turkish landholders Forty tenants at place call
es stripped stark naked and bound to trees two and
two together-the weather was bitterly cold-and
water was then poured over them, until, (adds the
Gazette des Postes) coat of ice formed upon their
limbs. They left in that condition for one Who'll lie
night. Next morning three were dead and the re-
naming 81 were in deporable condition.
GAMBLING IN GERMANY.-Prussia is about to max
third attempt to put down gambling throughout
the Germanic Confederation, having given notice of
motion in the Frankfort Diet for the compulsory
closing of the various casinos, kursaas, &C., which
bic, however, whether her efforts will be successful
The fact is the Governments that tolerate gambling
cannot afford to be moral, and abolish it. The cas-
mos by far their most profitable of revenue
and the crowds of foreigners they attract enrich the
population.