The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-10
THE WAY DOGS ARE TAKEN IN AND DONE
FOR IN NEW YORK

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THE WAY DOGS ARE TAKEN IN AND DONE
FOR IN NEW YORK.
The dog pound is an old hulk, moored close to
the pier at the foot of East Twenty eighth street.
The visitor steps on board by means of plank, and
enters door leading underneath shed, which has
been constructed deck. Close by the door is the
desk of the clerk, who keeps account of all dogs
and puppies received, giving the persons who bring
them checks on the Mayor for their respective
amounts. Long before the visitor reaches the pier
his ears saluted by medley of canine sounds,
not by anymeans melodious the deep baying of
of the beagle, while engaged in the chase; but it is
not until he is fairly in the enclosure where the an
imalS are kept that he receives the full benefit of
the discOrd Along each side of the shed is nailed
stout lath, to which on Monday afte: noon about
two hundred dogs, of all sorts and conditions,
fastened with ropes; one end of the cord being
slipped around the neck of each animal There
were the Scotch terrier, the spaniel the bull dog
the pug, the poodle, the cur-in short there were
Puppy, mongrel, whelp and hound,
And cur of low degree''
And they kept up deafening noise, of yelping,
bowling, swapping, snarling, yelling and barking
from the short sharp yell of the poodle to the deep
bow-wow of the house dog. There very few
ofany value, while many were decidedly of the
SnarleyOw character, as far appearance goes. A
pretty large regiment of them might have been col
lected, NANCY and otherwise Objectionable, that
canine Fastaf would have refused to ego through
Coventry with them-that's fat
At the further end of the deck is placed large
square cistern with grating covering it over on
top, in which the dogs are drowned secundum ar
tuna very delicate bit of job, as will be shown
in its proper place. Descending into the hold,
the visitor enters another kennel of dogs, where
sights to be seen, and noises heard similar to
those deck. 1t is unnecessary to inform the
reader that the etliuva of the entire vessel is by
no means ambrosal, particularly those of the els
tern, in which large number of dogs had been al
ready placed.
At about So O'Clock the time arrived for the ex-
tn n how ctofin
ed himself on the grating upon the cistern and
opened trap-doer forming part of the grating,
and large enough to admit good sized dog a
man stood the step leading to the top of the
clstern for the purpose of receiving the dogs which
were handed to him one by one or, in the case of
small dogs, by couples. The modus operandi was
to first coax the dogs, calling out in wheedng
manner, "Jack, Jack, poor ellow!'' (poor fellow,
indeed y accompanied by that peculiar sucking
sound of the lips well known as the dog language
but which, in the present imperfect state of the sci
ences OF chlrography and Typography, it is impos
sible to delineate upon paper. This was rather
Judaske proceedings but it had its effect, and the
unsuspecting dog thus attered soon had his tether
severed by knife, and himself lifted up by the
"scrutf OF the neck and handed to the man on
the step, who threw him incontinenly into the els
tern among his fellow CANNES, when the attendant
Juvenile Immediately closed the trap over him.
With small dogs this was an easy job, but it was
otherwise with the large fellows and the execution
er had to take purchase By their cauda appen-
dages to pitch them in There was no offer to bite
the men engaged in the work, except in the case of
one pug nosed and pugnacious little fellow with
hair as rough as, and about the color Of rat and
not much larger than that interesting ouadruped
| lie was determined to die "game." and so showed
| fight to the last. The man who had to catch him
went very gingerly to work, and at last succeeded
in laying hold of him in handy part and popping
him in limbo.
Whenever really valuable dog is found he is
put aside and kept for sale While this operation
was going on, the man who was handing up the
dogs, passed a dark coored spaniel, when he who
was pitching them into the cistern, and who is ey
IDENTIFY Cockney, to Judge by his rernacular, ex-
claimed, "W OF are you passin' by of that ERE
dorg tor, Charley. He hant worth nothin'.'-
To which Charley replied, that the owner had
promised to call for him. He was respited accord
ingly.
The last dog-a huge black female in an inter-
esting condition-had been put in, and the trap
was fastened down. And the yelling was
frightul. A noxiOus exhalatiOn rose from the
packed cstern, and an intense heat was emitted
Long before the water could be applied, the dogs
at the bottom must have died from suifocatiOn; for
upwards of two hundred dogs of all sizes were
packed in cstern of about twelve feet square and
about seven feet deep. 1t perfect canine hole
of Calcutta; and if the mind can conceive of Mayor
| Tiemann's Sarajah Dowlah, Marshal Stephens, who
superintended the whole affair, as the sentry and
the dogs the British soldiers, (all Christians are
dogs in Mahommedan eyes, the parallel will be
plete.
All being prepared the hose was run from the
plug on the street to the cstern, and the water let
in. To those on top the cooling bath must have
been temporary relief, and they seemed rather to
enjoy it; but it was not to last. The water rose
higher, the yelps became fainter and fainter and
in a short time all was still.
Carts were now brought on the pier, and the dead
bodies taken from the eistern and placed therein
for conveyance to the place where such carrion is
usually deposited, after which another batch of
| dogs underwent similar operation, till all had
given up the ghost, that is, supposing the metemp-
sychosis to be true, and that dogs have ghosts to
! give up.-Erpress, June 5h.
From the London Times May 23.l
| Napoleon Ill. has one great advantage which
was seldom enjoyed by Napoleon the Great-the sea
| is open to him. While England is his friend, the
Mediterranean is to him the railways of France.
| lie can throw his troops at moments notice upon
any spot on the long Italian coast line and he can
raise instructions and arm insurgents in hundred
places between Leghorn and Cape Passaro. OF this
facility he has not been slow to take advantage
| We may now guess more confidently at the object
Of those corps separes the destination of which has
| been much debated. The landing of force at
| Leghorn can, of course. have other immediate
object than to consolidate and protect the revolu
tionarv action in Tuscany and to raise Central tia
| ly This demonstration appears to to be of
| greater Importance even than the battle at Monte
| bello. If the French occupy Tuscany at all they
must do so in force, and the corps now landed at
| Leghorn must be ony the advanced guard of an ar
my strong enough to protect itself and able to make
| a formidable demonstration. Any serious threat
! compcate their position in Piedmont and would
| compel them to fight at the disadvantage of having
the broad, swollen Ticino behind them, or else to
try another cast with Fortune upon that spot of i'll
| augury the field of Marengo. To the Austrian
military mind, more open to the influence of mate
rial than of sentimental difficulties the present con-
| sciousness of having unfordable river in their
! rear will, we apprehend, have greater weight than
| all the "reminiscences of the Consulate, and if the
Emperor Napoleon succeeds in raising Central Itaiv
and concentrating strong force of French and
Italians in the hereditary States, shall scarcely
expect that the Austrian General will await bat
tie in the position he now occupies.
The third item of the news contained in this days
paper is quite as significant as those upon which we
have already commented. The blockade of Venice
and of the surrounding coast announced on
Saturday. Rumor had been for some days rife that
the blockading squadron was intended, not for
Venice, or not for Venice only, but first, and prn
cipally, for Trieste. the most important Austrian
harbor in the Adriatic Master of the sea, nothing
would have been easier for the Emperor of the
French than to blockade this port, and thus to
parayze the small maritime industry of Austria,
and to cut off her German provinces from all com
municatiOn with the countries bordering upon the
Mediterranean Any attack upon Trieste would
! however, be considered by the Germanic Coneeder-
alton one of those acts which would warrant
direct interference on the part of that powerful
| body, and would spread the contiagration beyond
| its present confines. The emission postponemen
of a blockade, then, seems to argue that the Empe
of the French has, at least for the present, i'm
pOSeu upon nlmSell a certain moderation IN respect
of the German provinces of Austria, and that he
is not anxious, under existing circumstances, tC
adopt measures which would bring Germany into
the arena on the one side and Russia on the other
and which would ultimately imperi the neutral po
stion which all classes among are so anxious tt
maintain for England.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF LITERARY
PEOPLE.
correspondent of the Springfield Republican
gives the following pen-and-ink sketches of promi
nent literary people:
Emerson looks like refined farmer, me ditativt
and quiet. Longfellow like a good-ratured beef
eater. Holmes like ready-to-laugh little body
wishing only to be Gas funny as he can" Everett
seems only the graceful gentleman, who has beer
handsome. Beecher ruddy, rollicking boy
Whittier the most retiring of Quakers. And thu:
| might name others. Not one of these gentlemen
can be called handsome, unless we except Beecher
who might be deal -handsomer. Mrs. Sigourney
the grandmother of American "female' literature
in her prime (if may believe her portrat) wa
quite handsome. Katherine Beecher is homelv.-
Mrs. Beecher Stowe ordinary in looks that sh
has been taken for Mrs. Stoves "Biddy." Mrs
E. F. Ellet looks like a washerwoman. Margare
, Fuller plain. Charlotte Cushman has face a
, marked as Daniel Webster's, and quite as strong
So has Elizabeth Blackwell. Harriet Hosmer look
like Mrs. Oakes Smith is considered hand
some. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been a New