The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-29
PERSONAL

Mr.. George F. Thompson of the New York
Ne'os, who was so brutally assaulted by McCabe,
was very low on Tuesday and not likely to recover.
Private intelligence from Kingston c. w an
nounces the safe arrival at-that place of Prof La
Mountain, the intrepid aronaut, aud Mr.. HaddOck
OF the Watertown, n. Y, Journal, who made
balloon ascension from Watertown, n. Y, on the
22d inst, and about whose safety serious apprehen-
sions had been entertained Mr.. La Mountain will
therefore be on hand for his grand experimental
trip from Jones Wood on the 4th of October, in
the great balloon Atlantic.
-lsambard Kingdom Brunei, the engineer who
designed the Great Eastern and whose death was
announced by the Circassian, was born at Ports
mouth in the year 1906, where his father the illus
trlous French engineer, who died in lS49, was en-
gagged in constructing the manufactures of dock
puleys. While very young he was sent to France
where he was student in the College of Caen, and
on his return, from 1926, he was employed in the
opening of the Thames tunnel. The irruptiops of
the water caused him to run more than one risk
especially in 1928, when over six hundred feet of
water broke through the opening, and he was care
ried away by the force of the current and cast sa
and sound upon the bank. In the year 1888 he was
appointed Engineer of the Great Western Railway
and directed all the appliances of perfect art to that
line and its branches, among which the bridges of
Maidenhead, Chepstow and Thamar may be named.
To him also is due the suspension bridge from Hun
gerford, IN London, one of the longest in England
as well as part of the constructions of the Sardo
Tuscan railway, and he took part in that most
difficult work, the establishment of the Conway and
Britannia tubular bridges, for which recourse had
to be had to the reunions of the most eminent en-
gineers of the day.
Mr.. Brunei also equally applied himself to the
construction OF vessels and steam machines. 1t was
he who launched the Great Western the first colos-
sal steamer that traversed the Atlantic
During the last war with Russia he was CHARGED
with the duty OF erecting the Hospital of Reakioi,
situated on the straits of the Dardaneles and which
was to contain three thousand sick person He
was member of the Royal Society of London since
aFNHtr nrO1-,, 49, III
Civil Engineers, with the Society of Arts the As
Economical Societies and the Geological and Geo
graphical Societies. He received the cross of the
Legion OF Honor at the hands of King Louis Phil.
lppe lie was too i'll TO be present at the success OF
his last great work, the Great Eastern, on her re-
cent trip from the Thames to Portland He lived
however, to hear of her great triumph
.-George Bethune, Esq, one of the Oldest native
Goth year of his age, His father of the same name
in October, 1854, married Mary Faneuil, niece OF
Peter Faneuil, the donor of the Cradle of Liberty
to the town of Boston. The deceased was the pos.
SCISSOR OF the family plate, pictures &C., of the Fan
euils, and has left many interesting documents re-
spectng the Huguenots, from whom he descended
-Gov Newell, of New Jersey has been invited by
the Mayor OF Portland Maine, to be present at the
festivities on the arrival of the Great Eastern and
has accepted the invitation.
Ills Eminence Cardinal Wseman has recently
been requested to visit Rome in his official charac-
ter as Prince of the Church. No doubt the i'll
hess oi tHe rope mas something to do with this.
DIR. A. NJ. Gillian editor Of the Dover Tenn
lnteaigencer, died suddenly on the 18th inst He
was native of Lynchburg, Va, and was an U. S.
Consul in Mexico during President Tyler's admin
lstratlon. A work called "Gilliam's Travels in
Mexico" was published by him at the end of his
consulate term.
Charles Dickens writes to Mrs. Foster, of Boston
that he has no intention of visiting America thi,
autumn.
Major W. W. Chapman, Quartermaster at Fort
Monroe, committed suicide yesterday by cuttinn
his throat He was found lying on the beach out
side the fort, dead, with the razor with which the
deed was accomplished by his side. No reason wa!
given for the act. Major Chapman was native O.
Massachusetts, entered the army in 1897, and wa.
made Major by brevet in 1S47.
AS personal fact of much interest, it is stated
that Prince Lucen Bonaparte has printed a cata
logue of the works edited by him in the various d
alects of Europe, also list of works now in the
press. The more recent Works the Canticles il
Basque, the Gospel of St. Matthew in the vulgar
dialects of Venetia Milan, Naples and Bergamo-
Among other labors, the Prince has printed tn
Song of Solomon in four English diaects-LowlanC
Scotch, and the dialects of Cumberland, Newcastle
and Westmoreland, preserving, for the use of lin
gusts and historians the state of language in
those districts, as spoken by the native population
in the reign of Victoria.
The LANE CAsE-The further examination into
the facts of this case was continued Yesterday but
I nothing new developed.
Young Lane, it appears, was occasionally rallied
by his intimate acquaintances, before the news O.
the defalcation was made known, upon his expen-
sive habits. Some weeks previous to bis arrest, al
an evening assembly, such an instance occurred al
acquaintance asking him how it was he could live
so well a salary of $500 per year, and saving, a:
he pulled Is cent cigar which Lane had kindly
furnished, that he liked those cigars as much al
| Lane did, but could not smoke them and make botI
ends meet He added, jokingly, that he should have
to visit the Fulton Bank and post up its officers
and was ready to hear that Lane had run off with
| cool hundred thousand ofits funds Although {
score ofintimate eyes were directed against Lane
| at this sally, he cool and undsturbed as i
| the conversation was upon trifes He pufed a
| long stream of smoke from his cigar simply sale
his companion was mistaken, and was silent.
The Rev. Mr.. Wright, clergyman of Cleveland
| is under heavy cloud, being charged with licen
tious conduct in connection with nine young ladies
of his congregation.