The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-26

ue resolution was rejected by the following vote:
Comas-S 0'i'on anu Ni0
NaEys,;:-Messrs. E,:-rs. President, Cathcart, Cook, Tay-
LOT, Elhcott and Musselmau-6
Mr. McCoMAs offered a resolution diractipg tba
| City Commissioner to examine the sewer ar the cor
ner OF South Paca and st. Peter street and renort
What repairs are necessary. Read a second time
The Branch then adjourned until tomorrow af-
| ternoon at O'Clock.
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The "HELLs" OF New YoRK-A PEEP AT THEM.
| In no city IN the United States is the Sabbath
| uay so desecrated by public anusements as in New
York. Amusements of the vilest kind and intend
| ed to decoy not only the youth from the path of
principle and recttude, but of maturer years
many OF slender means, too who cannot resist temp
| tation. allude to Sunday evening concerts of
| grossly miscellaneous nature. These musical en-
tfeftalnments are given in numberess places
throughout the city, the most conspicuous of which
will be found in the Bowery and Broadway. No
attempt OF cOnceament as to their true character
Is made, which plainly shows that the City Gov
erHmeht are fully aware of their existence
NOW Tor the programme of performances First,
| you pay an admission fee of ten cents and are
ushered into large hail. in when are placed
numerous tables and chairs, all arranged the
same as at any fashionable restaurant These
are occupied chiefly by young men, varying
IN age from sixteen to twenty-five years.
large bill of fare Of drinkabIes, with the
dlnerent prices attached, hung promiscu-
ousiy upon the walls, such as brandy, ten cents;
smashers, ten cents; gin, six cents; grinders,
SIX cents; champagne two dollars; cigars six cents
flne-looking girls and women, dressed as harlots
alone Know how, for the purpose of extorting
orders for cigars and drink from the incautious
anu 700 pllable are constantly moving around with
pewltching smiles and winks and by making them
selves very agreeable and conversant, add large
quantities of grist to the bar mill. stage is
erected In the rear OF the hail. upon which appear
several male and female singers Also an orches-
IRA OF eight pieces These performances 90 on
without any fall of curtain until midnight The
orcnestra performs polkas and quicksteps. and the
singers lnduige In comic songs and hornpipes
slonally interspersed with ballad such as 'Thou
art gone, or 81 would were a boy again.
During all this, drinking, smoking, laughing,
talking, and flirting are going among the audi
ence. When all is ended young men 90 home,
after having spent, perhaps, every shilling of their
weekly or daily earnings; rise in the morning with
ieVerlsh brain and stiled senses, no appetite for
wholesome breakfast, merely a cup of coffee car
RED to their lips with unsteady hand the nerves
haVing become all unstrung from the previous
night s debauch.-Corresponden Boston Post.
RAILROAD SPEED.-Dr. Lardner, in one of his re-
Gently published scientific works. endeavors to con-
vey to the reader some idea of the enormous speed
Oh the locomotive going at the of seventy miles
| an hour Seventy miles an hour is, in round num-
oers, one hundred and five feet per second that is
motion in virtue Of which passenger is carried
over thirtyhve yards between two beats of common
| CLOCK Two objects near him, a ward asunder pass
es ms eyes In the thrty-ffth part of a second and
II thirty-hve stakes were erected by the side of a
ROAD one yard asunder, the whole would pass his
| any strong color, such as red they would appear
continuous flash of red. At such a speed therefore
the objects on the side of tba road are not dist;n'
| guishable.
When two trains having this speed pass each 9th
er, the relative velocity will be double this, or sew
| enty yards per second and if one of the trains
were seventy yards long it would fash by in a sin
gle second To accomplish this, surprising the driv-
ing wheel seven feet in diameter, the piston must
change ITS direction in the cylinder ten times a Sc
como: But there are two cylinders, and the mechan-
n lat cd hot tha
| are alternate. There are, therefore, twenty dis
charges OF steam per second equal intervals and
thus these twenty puffs divide second into twenty
equal parts, each puff having the twentieth ofa Sc
| cond between it and that which precedes and fol-
| lows it.
| The ear, like the eye, is limited in the rapidity
OF ITS sensation and sensitive that organ is is
not capable Of distinguishing sounds which succeed
each other at intervals of the twentieth part of
| second. According to experiments that have
peen made, the Hight of cannon ball was six thou
sand seven hundred feet in one quarter of aminute
equal to hive miles per minute, three hundred miles
per hour 1t follows, therefore, that a railway train
gong at the rate OF seventytive miles per hour has
| the velocity Of one-fourth that of a cannon ball
Many OF the accidents which happen to persons
attempting to railroads, are the result of TO-
norance OF the velocity of the iron when fair
| ly under way.
The LION AND THE CoCk.-Cbapter I-Once upop
| a time there a bad fight between cock and
non, and the cock flew into the lions face and peck
ed ms eyes so that he could hardly see and scratch
ed his nose so that it bled badly while the cock was
| SO spry that the lion could not catch him. nor do
him much harm. But the other beasts we're afraid
that II the cock should beat the lion he might next
hght them, and so some of them helped him; and at
last they beat the cock and broke his spurs and
pulled out his fine tail feathers and bit off his comb
until he was a sad bird to see
chapter ll.-SOme time aterward the cocks
| spurs ana tail feathers grew out again. and his
comb grew up as fine ever so that if anv of the
beasts growled at him, he flew at them and taught
| them to let him alone. One day one of the beasts
| that mad helped the lion beat him got saucv, and
| the cock gave him good drubbing and drove him
back into his den and got his dinner from him and
ate 1t himself; but the lion never once came near to
help the beast that helped him. Then the COCK
| turned around to go back to his roost, and as he
stretched himself up and held up his head to crow,
he saw the lion whose lair was Just beyond the
| cocks roost, and the lion was shaking and trem
bling and everybody that he was in mortal
terror for fear that the cock was lust then cominr
TO hght him again, when the other beasts might not
care to come and help him as they did before But
the cock, after laughing from ear to ear took pity
about his business
Now, all you little boys, don't YOU think that
Waterloo is dUenged?-Boston Post
Mrs. PARTINGroN PLEAsEp.-Tbe old lady time
speaks of the success of her new volume i'Kn nit
ting Work." just published by Brown, Taggard
| Chase, in the Boston Gazette:
I'm shore Pm grateful for sch favor Pva
Always observed that book sells in lest the pro-
portion that there S people t. buy it; and though
q uas
| or as vouminous the northern igbt it seems IN
| please people full as we'll a book ofsermons or A
quarter dictionary. Well Pm always Glad when
people feel happy, because | know they are enjoy.
ing themselves" '.DO you know" queried old
Roger, "why your book is like the corner of Wash
| lngton and School Streets 81 don't" said sbn
trying very hard to think ''Why,'' said he, ''it IS
because great many people 90 by buy it," She
smiled at what was really very old Joke and Ike
laughed outright as the old lady in her agitation
| gave him new dime, instead ofa penny, for which
ar hna ho-
FASTENING Trunk BY CLockwoRK.-The impos.
slblilty OF rendering a strong box altogether safe
| against theit by means of skeleton KEYS has led
locksmith in Frankfort the Main to hit unon the
ingenious idea of constructing a strong box N,tba
out any keyhole at all, and which even the owner
| cannot open. Why, what's the use of such boxP
| you will ask. But observe: inside is a cInckwork
| the hand of which the owner places at the bouT
| and minute when he again wants to have access 10
| the box. The cockwork begins to move as soon as
the lid is shut and opens the lock from the inside
| at the moment which the hand indicates Time
dependent upon the owner, is the KEY to the lock
key which can neither be stolen from him nor i'm
| itated.-LoRdon Globe.
ELEVEN PERSONS MURDERED.-A horrible tragedy
| has Just been perpetrated in the small VILLAGE f
| Weizeargrun, Saxony, and letter from Treyen
| gives these rather incredible particulars:
" esterday morning, the only wine-shop in the
| VllIage, Kept by a man named Zetegrah, remained
closed to the great astonishmen of inhabitants
as during the present season, when the peasants oo
| early to work, it usually opened at daybreak. As
| the house still remained shut up all the mnrninr,A
the Mayor of Wetzeargrun proceeded to the SPOT
with locksmith and two witnesses. He knocked
several times at the three doors of the house. and
| receiving no answer, had the front one opened
10 the great surprise of the Mayor and those
with him, the shop was completely empty; even the
two heavy counters, covered with zinc, had disap-
| peared. He then pursued his Investigations in 9th
er parts Of the house. when dreadful spectacle nre-
! sented itself. All the inmates eleven in nnmhar
| viz: the landlord, his wife, his three voung chill
! dren, two female servants, cellerman stableman
| and two men who worked in his fields werS ali
found murdered. All of them had their bodies Iita
rally covered with wounds made BY a sharp pointed
weapon; and handkerchiefs were tied tightly round
the faces OF the females doubtless to prevent their
! screaming. The floors of the rooms where the bod
les were found were covered with blood partly CO.
agulated, and in part of the house was there IN
| be found the smallest article of furniture
"The police were Immediately sent in all direc-
tions to make inquiries but up to this time no t,aces
OF the murderer have been discovered. Two inbabi
tants OF Wetzeargrun, wheelright and a carnen
ter were arrested on suspicion, but they were i'm
medlately set at liberty, there was nothing to
warrant their detention. Every one is lost in CON
lecture as to how the murder of eleven persons and
the removal OF a quantity of furniture some of it
large and heavy md ma