The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-05

Mr.. WHITLooK's THOUSAND AcREs.-A New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
at would fill the pages of half dozen Harper's
Magazines fully to describe the country seats at
Westchester. One of the most extensive is that of
Mr.. Benjamin Whitlock, a merchant in Beekman
street, who for several years has been buying and
buying, and buying houses and lands, until now he
Is the lord of about thousand acres lying together,
large portion of which commands fine view of
Long Island Sound, and which for beauty and
diversity of scenery-hill, dale, walk, drive, cop
piee and forest-possesses charms that my poor
pen lacks the force and the fancy to describe The
principal edifce on this superb estate (there are
several in all, some of them luxurious enough to
satisfy the fastidiousness off Sybarite, is oil paa-
tla proportions, built after the style of the Tuie
ries, and when completed will be, by all odds, the
largest and costest country seat in the State. The
house possesses all the luxurious appliances to be
found in Fifth Avenue. A stable of sixty horses
opens its doors to whoever may fancy a ride
drive; ball-alleys for those having the requisite
muscle and endurance for tan-strkes and spares;
billiard-tables for ladies and gentlemen who I'M
derstand the scientific manipuations of mace and
cue, and saltwater bathing for those who, like Mr..
Mantalini, are occasionally inclined to make them
selves 'demnition moist unpleasant bodies
"But why undertake to particuarize the points
of place that has already cost its owner half a
million of dollars, yet seems but partly finished !!
Mr.. Whitock, in the two-minute view had of him
by your correspondent, appeared to be jolly chap
full of dash, enterprise, shrewdness, TASTE and any
amount of pluck, who proposed to himself the en-
joyment of the ample fortune he has acquired, and
is yearly augmenting, and to leave to the 'hers of
his body lawfully begotten, the finest country seat
on the Western Continent
THE "MoUNrAIN MEADOWS Cn1LDREN. -Arriral of
Fifteen Of the number at Fort Leauen,gork. lester
day morning train of fourteen wagons arrived at
Fort Leavenworth from Utah. 1t left Salt Lake
City on the 26th of June.
Accompanying the train fifteen of the chill
dren who escaped the terrible massacre at Noun
tain Meadows, in u tab, some two years since.
We saw the children at the Fort yesterday morn
ing when they arrived-ten are girls and five boys
The oldest little girl did not appear to be over ten
years of age, and the majority are much younger.
All were comfortably clothed-in good health and
fine spirits. We little rosy cheek girl, not
over, we should think, four years of age, whose
right arm was entirely helpless. At the time of
the massacre the child was in its mothers arms and
the bullet that sent its protector to an untimey
grave, passed through the little ones right arm,
just below the elbow.
An agent from Arkansas-said to be relative of
some of the children-most Of whom supposed
to belong to johnson county in that State-s ex-
pected here to take charge of the children and
duct them to their friends.
Two of the little girls-the oldest of the seventeen
are retained in Utah, to give testimony in the
courts in relation TO the massacre They will be
kindly cared for and sent to Arkansas as soon as the
bloody murderers-several of whom have been de-
tected and apprehended-are disposed of.
There also came in with the train, under the es-
pecia care of Sergeant Black, 1.-THE three Foster
children, of whom much has been said in the pa
pers. The father and mother lived in Connecticut
The father espoused the Mormon faith several years
ago, and left for Salt Lake City, carrying with him
his three little girls. The mother remained be-
hind, and all efforts to retain her children were
abortive. About year ago the father died, and
now, through the efforts of the Secretary of War
her children have been reclaimed, and will soon
be where they can receive mothers love and de-
acknowledgements Kansas Herald Aug. q.
ACCIDENT IN THE CoUNTY.-The Baltimore Coun-
ty American states that Mr.. Samuel Feast, the well
known horticulturist met with severe accident
near Cockeysvle.
ole was walking about mile and half from
Cockeysville, on his way home, and the night be-
ing dark, missed his footing and fell over an en-
bankment into gully 20 feet deep. Mr.. Feast,
helpless and unable to move, lay there until s
o'clock the next morning, when he was found ex-
hausted with suffering and wet with the rain that
fell during the night. He taken home and
physicians called, who with the family, did all in
their power to alleviate his suffering. Mr. Feast is
6S years old.
Since the above was in type, we have heard that
Mr. Feast is improving. Only the smaller bones of
his legs were broken, the ankles, and the
wound on the skull is not of nature to excite
alarm"