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

The GREAT FIRE IN NALPARAIso.-The Salem
Mass Register publishes letter written by Geo.
T. Gray, OF that city, who has been doing business
at at Valparaiso va tor about year, giving an account
of the great fire there by which he was burnt out.
The fire broke out about 81 O'clock A. NJ. in the
cook house of the English Club Room, and from the
nature of the building burned very slowly, so that
1t might easily have been confined to that locality
had the firemen understood and done their
duty. As soon the adjoining buildings, which
were of wood, took fire, the firemen gave up all
hope OF saving anything, and stopped working the
engines, and the flames had uuobstructed progress
famed by strong northwest wind and checked
only by the rain storm which prevailed
The buildings destroyed contained splendid stores
as fine as any in Boston New York, filled with
elegant goods. The factory of Messrs. Williams &
20. OF New York, with the great stock of lumber
in its yard, made terrific blaze. One attempt was
made to stop the career of the dreadful element by
blowing up house with gunpower, but the opera
ton was delayed too long to be of any service The
confagration had its own way, and the people
trusted Providence to stop it. The scene at three
o'clock in the afternoonwas frghtful one. Three
or four lumber yards, with hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of lumber and twenty or thirty
very large buildings, were all burning at once; the
rain was pouring down; the sea was running very
high, and the waves were breaking on the beach
and throwing the spray upon the fire, which burn
ed till seven O'Clock in the evening" when the wind
shifted, and it rained violently thateth fire
gradually died out.
The loss, which is immense, falls chiefly on the
Il Amerl-
| cans 1t is estimated at four or five millions of dol
lars the greater part of which is insured This fire
will make business good in Valparaiso for some
time to come and carpenters wages will be high.
The Chilanoes were nightly pleased to see the fac
tory burn, and expressed their joy by shouting
'Vivi Chilli clapping their hands, &c. Quite
number of lives were lost by the fire, and great
many persons badly injured
| A JURY REBUKED.-Recently, in Illinois, Melchoir
Stoepel, German, killed John Ritmier. The evil
dence of the murder was complete, but the jury
turned verdict of manslaughter in the third de-
gree. Judge Dixon pronounced sentence, and in
doing so expressed his indignation in plain Ian
| guage. After stating the proved, he said
Such is the history of this brief horrid tragedy
| and your connection with it. 1t can be called by
no better name than assassination. Under such
circumstances and with such proofs you have been
found guilty of one of the lesser degrees of man
slaughter. AS you are a stranger, unacquainted
with our laws and language, for your information
| should say that the crime of murder existed
in our laws, and was recognized in our courts 1t
was once even punished in Wisconsin, but now, |
fear, such is no longer the Criminals of your
cast put upon their trial only to be relieved
from the penalty of their crimes. If Ritmier, the
deceased, had been the owner of a malicious but
favorite dog, and that dog had attacked you in the
night time, and you had kille: it, and he had inst
tuted prosecution against you for so doing,
twelve citizens could probably have been found
that would sit and listen with stern Indignation at
the story OF such violation of his rights; if not
doubts of the propriety of your conduct. But take
his life in the manner you did, the case becomes
different; it is then plain and clear you are nno-
cent you must be acquitted or very slightly pun
ished.
For the offence of which you have been con-
victed the highest punishment prescribed by law is
four years in the pententary. In being obliged to
pass the sentence upon you feel if every rule OF
reason, law and justice is violated. The sentence
of the law in your is that you be punished by
confinement in the State Prison at hard labor fol-
the period of four years from this day at noon and
that you be solitariy imprisoned for the first ter
days of each and every month of said term.
The Turin journals relate strange affar-tht
condemnation to death, by the Court of Appeal o
that city, of certain Baron Profumo on the charge
of having attempted, last Christmas, to poison, by
means of bonbons, a French gentleman nance
Hinard, who had been sent from Paris to supersed
him, on account of certain Irregularities of his a
manager of the Credit Mobillier. The condemna
ton took place by default, the baron having fet
to England In the course of the proceedings i
was stated that in order to deceive NJ. Hnard tn,
poisoned bonbons were placed in box which bor
the name and address of a well-knowp Partisan
manufacturer of bonbons.
A large number of the citizens of the New Havel
Conn District have invited Ex-senator Baldwin
to permit his name to be presented a candidate
for Congress.
The gross revenue of the Ohio public works 70