The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-07

The King of Prussia has not been much improved
by the "skies of Italy," if we may credit the
following account from Florence correspondent
of his eccentric behavior ut the dinner table:
''The royal patient perfectly sane all day, re-
ceived his guests, chatted, laughed and was quite
jolly; the dinner announced, the company
marched in, the King of course took his place at
the head of the table, and everybody waited for
him to set the example to put their spoons in their
mouths. But instead of doing what was expected
of him, his Majesty deliberately washed his face in
the soup, and then sat compacenty smiling on his
friends, the long strings OF vermiceli hanging
down his eyes and nose and in his hair and
moustache. You may imagine the effect; no one
dared to laugh, however, and they had to sit out
the dinner with this ridiculous fgure-head covered
with gravy, tor he sternly refused towels talking
to them all the while.
PAY OF NAVAL OFFIcERs.-The bill reported by
Senator Mallory on Tuesday, proposes to increase
the pay of naval officers in this manner To cap
tans and commanders in addition to their present
paw one per cent thereon for each full year OF SER
vice; to leutenants, masters, and passed midship-
men two per cent addition to present pay; to sur
geons of all grades pursers and engineers twenty
nNS per cent. tho prnsnnt Pay, to professors of
mathematics the same as is now received by pro-
fessors of the Military Academy; and to boatswans,
gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers five per cent
their present pay (less the two per cent allow
ed bv the act of 1859 for each full year of service
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald, of the 21st
ut., has the following: We learn from reliable
authority that Major Sprague, United States Ar
my, who is now in Cincinnati, but whose station is
in New Mexico, has organized silver mining com
pany in Cincinnati, with a capital of 81, 100000,
to work the mines in New Mexico, and that the
company will soon make up their outfit and be at
work.
Prices OF NEGRoEs.-The ten negroes belonging to
the estate of Rd. Dorsey, sold in Easton, Talbot
county, last Tuesday, brought the sum of Ss,O70
three men brought respectively $l420, Sl445 and
Sl455.
Several negroes belonging to the estate of the
late VIM. Wingate, sold at Cambridge on
Saturday. Jane, to six years, Sl55; Frank,
u years to serve, S327 Margaret to serve 20 years.
S2O6 infant boy to serve 80 years, Sl2O
Horace Greely's friends complain that he is
ruled by Charles A. Dana in the New York Tribune,
and made to play subordinate part when he is
tensibly the head. This, it is said, may induce him
to leave the Tribune and take charge Of the Cen
tury.
The favorite little comic operas popular in
Paris are being produced at the New Orleans
Theatre. Such composers as Clapsson, Maiard,
Mace, &C., vie in popularity with Meyerbeer and
Donizetti We seldom see one of Verdi's opera.
announced for production at New Orleans.
The Blue Ridge Republican say that the emolu-
ments OF the Superinten dency of the Harper's
Ferry National Armory, to which Alfred NJ Bar
bour, Esq, has just been appointed amounts all
told, to mot less than $4,000, year."
The City Council of Galveston, Texas, has passed
an ordinance timing any person who shall ride drive
or Introduce any camel or camels within the city,
except for immediate shipment, not less than fifty,
more than one hundred dollars for each offence,
and for each camel
REpEALED-The Florida Legislature has repealed
the law providing for the incarceration of free ne
gro sailors while their vessels are in port South
Carolina believe, is now the only State that has
such enactment on her statute book.
Bayside Lodge, No. sc |. o. o. F. have offered
$50 reward for the recovery and delivery to them
of the body of Capt. r. d. Mansfield, lost of the
schooner Amelia, near Sandy Point, December
23d, 1868.
The Buffalo Courier states that the Baltimore
morning papers are received there as early as the
New York city papers of the same date They are,
| of course, conveyed via the Northern Central
Railroad route.