The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-26

FROM THE LOWER MIssIssIPP1-The Vicksburp
| True Souhron of the 10th saws:
The news from the river bottoms in this State and
Louisiana Is absolutely Sickening. MANY Of the
finest plantations in the world are hopeessly sub
merged, and present scene of desolation and ruin
that beggars description.
The Vicksburg Wing of the same date saws:
We learn that break has occurred in the leyee
Immediately opposite this city, but we have been
unable to get any of the particulars 1t is of little
consequence however, as almost that entire county
had already been deluged.
we learn that the river is rising rapidly all the
way down from ST. Louis. Floods were nonring
out OF the Cumberland and Tennessee which with
the rise In the Ohio above their confluence will
pour large volume of water into the already over
! flowing Mississippi.
Between Memphis and Vicksburg, the waters.
which had begun to recede, have again commenced
rising. rise is reported in the Arkansas; also in
| the " hite and ST. Francis rivers
The prospect of the river going down in tn,a to
enable planters to raise crop of cotton is gloomy
enough. Ii the water does not rise beyond its pres
eht nelght, the giving away of the levees MANY of
winch can not reasonably be expected to hold out
much longer will cause great destruction.
A New TYPECOMPoslNG MAcHINE.-On the 9Th
several gentlemen were invited to a private view
OF new typescomposing machine, in practical one
ration In the printing establishment of Messrs
Bradbury Evans Whitefriars, London. The ma
chine is the invention of Mr.. Robert Hattersey. of
Construction
and effcacious for its purpose. The letters are ar
ranged in rows on table, and by pressure on kew
the desired letter is made to pass down groove
INTO composing stick" A compostor was at
work upon it, and though he stated that he had
only used the machine three days, he appeared to
thoroughly understand it, and to use it with the
greatest ease He stated that he could compose and
Justify ''stlck OF matter" in seventeen minutes
the time ordinarily employed to perform that opera
tion being thirty minutes. He further stated that
he could ''set up $500 letters an hour but that
with little more practice he thought he could do
5,oOo the ordinary rate of composition by hand be-
ing about 1000 an hour. One advantage of the
machine which was pointed out was that mistakes
are less liable to in setting up the TYNE than
by manual composition, and consequently less time
is spent in correcting.
NAvAL.-Advices have been received here from
the north coast of Africa, to the 18th of March
Inc U; >. snip Dale had spent week at Goree-a
French fortified standard exchanged salutes with
the frgate Joan of Arc and the fort. Three French
steam war vessels were in the harbor The Dale
departed on the 10th of March for Porto Prava.-
Inc oheers and crew were in tolerabe health
Lieut. T. Il. Winder is to be transferred to the o.
). ship vincennes, at Porto Praya about the LIST of
April. The Dale was twenty-four DAYS making the
voyage from Monrovia to Goree, only 900 miles;
Gains and light winds are the characteristics of
African cruising.-W Star.
INTEMPERANoE IN MADEIRA.-The Hon. James
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statement:
When in the Island of Madeira l saw few cases
OF lntoxlcatlon among the poorer people, And
mad from nine years resident clergyman this
explanation: That before the failure Of the wine
crop in Madeira, formerly the annual Weld was
about 5000 pipes wine, now five or six hundred. \
there was scarce any drunkenness on the Island
but the failure had placed wine beyond the reach of
the poor, they now cultivated the sugar cane from
which was manufactured a strong spirit now in
common use; and the result was drunkenness had
appeared as the wine disappeared.
Lucius A. Bowers has brought suit in the Supe-
rIor Court at Columbus, Ohio, against Ira A. Pres
t. ton, his wife Margaret Preston, and Aaron D.
Gtitn, to recover fifteen thousand dollars damages
sustained by the plaintiff Bowers, by the alienation
OF the affections of his wife, Mary Z. Bowers, and
the eventual separation of the pair, produced by
the unlawful conspiracy, confederation and contri-
vance OF the said defendants. The Statesman saws
that the parties are all highly respectable.
At Tecumseh, Kansas, one hundred and forty
acres OF land, fortyeight town lots, and 81 2lO in
money, have been ordered for an Episcopal Female
Seminary, providing building worth SlO 900 shall
be erected The subscription has been raised to
$4,000, leaving Sc, 000 to be collected in New York
Philadelphia and other cities.