The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-29

| little or nothing in music. But the latest maila
| from Europe announce the production of a new
opera from the pen of the "Swan of Pesaro" as he
Is called, because he born in that stupid little
Adriatic town. left it soon as he could and reso-
lutey and unpatrioticaly refuses again to set foot
IN it. The work is on the story of Joan
OF Arc, and was performed privately at the resi-
dence OF Rossini in Paris Alboni taking the part of
the heroine. 1t will probably be shortly produced
in public.
There are other composers who are constantly
producing new operas of various degrees of merit
faclnl, who was well known composer when Ros.
d. SIM was BOY, still writes good operas Merca-
Dante Is yet busy at Naples and there is nn real
reason why our operatic managers sbonld NOT brinn
out the works of these excellent composers (
Signor Ferrar is also attracting attention in TtaI1
ana ms tteSe Is now the most popular comic opera
on the Italian stage.
TROUBLES or TELEGRAPHERs IN INDIA-The teIe-
graphers In India make great complaint, not only
that the rebels cut the wires but that the elephants
and other animals rub against the posts and pros
trate them, while the monkeys, under a complete
misrepresentation of the objects of the telegraph svs
TEN, delight to use the wires for athletic sports and
pastmes. Mr. Russell says:-'1 have seen half a
dozen great monkeys or balloons at work on one
feeble stretch of wire, pOsturing, grinning. and
chattering away in the highest spirits-some walk
ing turvy along 1t, others tugging itup and
Gown with main FORCE considerably increased by
the circumstance that other monkeys were hanging
one by their tails and others striving to detac6 the
WIRE from the posts, so as to give their friends
""N'SH Idll; WHlle ants eat the base OF the DOsts
away; sudden gusts of wind blow miles ofwire and
posts fiat to the earth
In addition to this it is hard to transmit the mes
sages IN smart, active, wide awake and intelligent
nn | % When the thermometer is ranging between
W and l2O degrees.
Preaching IN THEATRES A FAlLURE-The New
l lork correspondent of the Boston Journal writes
in his last letter: N
The trial of Sunday preaching in theatres has
been fully tested in New York i think II viii not
| De repeated another As
pastors OF the city do not approve of it, And the
wisdom of hiring theatre at the cost of from SIO0
70 sloo per night, calling people from many
churches, thinning those churches that are kent
open and shutting up many that would be open
put Tor this, is not apparent The great crowds
that attend come not from the masses that do not
attend anywhere, but from the mass who are among
tue elite OF our churches. On last Sunday the
Academy OF Music held large audience but il was
not crowded as of old. The National Theatre is
closed as house for preaching. Niblo's Saloon
VIII De closed with the last Sabbath in April and
those who have led in the experiment are satisfied
that churches are the place to hold services ON the
Sabbath. VA NV
WALKER IN CALIFoRNIA.-The San Francisco R,I
tet'H says: General William Walker arrived in
town by the steamer Of yesterday, travelling under
an assumed name. He is accompanied by one ~
his Nicaraguan officers, Col. Bruno Natzmer The
arrival has created quite stir among the restless
auTenturers In our midst, from whose numbers
housteT expeditions never fail to draw their larg-
the Golden Age state that he never made the
slightest ailusion to future movements, though he
conversed freely in relation to the events of his
past career. His avoidance of the topic presents
solid evidence that he is contemplating some new
movement violative of the letter or spirit of Amer
can law; and we understand that the revenue Off
GERS OF tins port have already got their eyes upon
Vessel lying IN the harbOr, and are inuuirinp
whether she is not really destined to relieve oup
community of a new load of enterprising adven-
turers."
PICTURE FRAMEs.-The uniform use of gilt frames
Is a oarbarism, especially in regard to landscapes.
where all illusion is banished, however real the
iollage and good the perspective, by the broad mar
gin OF gold which limits and materialises the whole
Mr.. Church has improved the occasion ofexhibt
ing his magnificent South American landscape to
innovate wisely upon this puerile CUSTOM Through
the tasteful skill of an accomplished English decor
ator-Mr. Whitlaw-he has caused to be manufac-
tured lofty, deep, black walnut cornce elabor-
ately carved, capable of being taken apart and put
together easily, with sill at the bottom of ten or
twelve nches within this massive and appropriate
frame work, the effect ofhis landscape is infinitely
increased and improved; drapery above and around
completes the illusion, and you gaze you seem to
be looking from palatia window or castle terrace
upon an actual scene of picturesque mountains
tropical vegetation, light and Ioveliness.-N Y
cor. Boston Transcript.
TAPER1NG OFF.-The Black Republican majority
in the late election began to taper, and continued
tapering, the nearer we came to the true figures of
the returns The official result now published
shows what a narrow escape they have had, on tn,
largest poll ever given in State election The
average majority of their State ticket, Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Comptroller and
Secretary, Is but 595-the aggregate mai0ritics of
their Congressman still less, l,50G-and OF their
Senator's still less, S42 They elect three of their
thirteen Senator's land without these three they
would have been in Il minority in the Senate by
votes OF >, y and Az and two others, by votes Of
SO and IA, respectively. Their mearre maiorites of
hye members in one house of the Legislature, and
/ lrnT mn SIrtt-f f,nn1 E,all
than any party had in this State that succeed
ed in getting in their State officers by popular
Vote.-Neto HGUen Register.
| The New GovERNMEyr OF HAyrL-A Roatoni,n
at Port au Prince, writes to his friends in this city
| that, having business with the government of
that country, he obtained interview with Presi-
! dent Getfrard, of whom he speaks as a rood man
too good, he fears, for the country which he il
called upon to govern. Many adherents of the
late Emperor have left for the adjacent islands and
! for Europe. Another American lately returned
from visit to the island, saws some dissatisfaction
is already expressed by the pure blacks at the elec
lon OF one not of their number to the chief maps-
tracy OF the nation. The poorer classes of the
country are suffering severely from the business
! stagnation which has followed the late disturban-
ces.-Boaton Traveller April 25.
| New COMET DIscovERED.-Mr. James c. Watson
OF Ann Arbor, Michigan. writes to the Detroit Ad-
certtser under date Of April 80, that at 9 O'Clock
that evening, he discovered new comet near tI.
star numbered II IN the constellation I1jDr
right ascension is 6 hours 5S minutes and 30 So
cond its declination 60 degrees and 81 minutes
| north.
1t has a tail about quarter of degree in LENGTH
ana the nucleus is as bright as a star of the ele-
! venth magnitude.
The observations made show that it is moving
west about two degrees, and south one degree and
! fifty minutes, daily.
At highly interesting meeting of the French
Academy of Sciences, the discovery of a new
! thpnT1 nF DlrtV1ni hnrh
/ production is of extreme hardness and durability
and does not break like ordinary bronzes 1t is adj
mirablc for works of art, as also for gunbarr els
! The inventor even demands permission to be al
! lowed to cast cannon of the new bronze at his
own expense, and submit it to all the usual expert
ments. Marshal Valiant attended the meeting ard
seemed to pay great attention to all that was said
as to the military uses of the new metal.
| Prosper Ferrand a cotton spinner in France.
has been sentenced to death for killing his wife and
her paramour, who he found sleeping together. by
stabbing both with knife. 1t was shown on the
trial that Ferrand had been too often before cogni-
zant of his wife's infdelity, to make this occasion
one for murder. This case shows that accordinr
to the criminal law of France. the antecedents Of
the husband who kills the seducer of his wife have
much weight in determining the character of his
| offence, and the measure of his penalty.
Mr.. Brooman, of London claims to have dis
covered method of producing cast-steel from auv
kind of iron by operation. The claim of the
patentee says the process consists in 'cementing
portions OF iron steel of any description in 4
crucible or furnace by of alkaline or earthly
materials in states Of oxvds of salts" For the con-
version OF superior quality of iron steel into
superior article, he uses about per cent. of aka
line material, and from - to per cent of carbon
or carbonaceous matter, such as rosn or SCOT.
On Tuesday, William Lyons, a convict in the
Washington Penitentiary, refused to obey orders,
| and struck Deputy Warden G.. p Sengstack, Jr.,
| two blows. The Deputy Warden drew his
revolver, and at this movement another prisoner,
Joseph Cunningham, seeing Lyons actions, eaped
at and grappled with him, and received the bali in
| his side, causing an ugly wound. Lyons final
! ly secured and placed in double irons He is re-
specially connected and was at one time midship-
man in the Navy
A BALTIMORE SURGEoN.-A correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from on board the Mis-
sissippi at Hong Kong, Feb. Is, says:
Assistant Surgeon Wales, of this ship, performed
three or four very important operations among the
Chinese, and one two among the crews of the
| ships. He is very skiful young surgeon. He is
from Baltimore, and well may she be proud of him.
few nights since, an Englishman, who had
amassed considerable money in agricultural pur
suits in the West, on the boat from Albany for
| New York, in company with his wife and six chill
dren in transitu for England, intoxicated and
heeced of 81 600 by party of gamblers. The
was made known to party of gentlemen on board
and the gamblers compelled to restore the money.
The sum of 81 900 has been subscribed by the
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