The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-02
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appearance of a city in state of SIEGE On the Sd
Instant when the letter containing this news left,
people were pouring in from the provinces, and it
was expected that the movement would not end
| without boodshed.
The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously reject
ed the charges against the Minister of War.
corr espondent of the Continental Reuie,o writes
| from Cologne: GAS for peculiar demonstrations,
we have the theatres, where every chance alluson
to Germany's honor, valour, &C., is greeted with
thunders Of applause. The last of these patriotic
demonstrations are reported from Weimar and from
| Wurzburg, and they will doubtless take place in
all the theatres great and small. Actors are always
eager to avail themselves of which, to use
their own language, brings down the house. AS
for patriotic songs and hymns, their name is legion.
Most popular just now is 'Wehrlied, by Henri oh
| Struck, in which it is said that
The German heart and the German Rhine,
| And the German land and German wine,
| Shall German be for ever
and other self-evident propositions bearing strong
| family likeness to the Heswegh songs, which were
| so popular some IL years since. Other writer's in
prosy verse and poetica prose discuss the natural
frontiers of Germany and demand the immediate
! restitution and GermanZation of the Alsace and
Lorraine. Our patriots, when once fairly aroused,
are quite as aggressive as the emperor Napoleon,
and they have altogether capacious swallow
for territory"
At Leghorn, the last day of the carnival, a
person disguised the Emperor of the French
walked down the streets with volume in his hand
on which were inscribed the words, "The Treaties of
| 1915" At every few steps the mimic Emperor
stopped and tore page from the DO k scattering
| 1t upon the ground in fragments After some time,
however, the police interfered and put An end to
| the representation.
DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell, who has been practising
for the last seven years in New York as physician
for women and children, has delivered during the
| last two weeks, at the Maryebone Institute Lon
don, series OF lectures to ladies on topics connect
ed with the subjects of medicine and hygiene in con-
nection with special duties of women in the spheres
OF domestic and social life. One lady has offered
to contribute the sum of IS 600 towards the endow-
ment of female sanitary professorship and woman 8
hospital, provided such an Institution shall be es-
tablished in London. The fair lecturer, on whose
desk were boquets of flowers, delivered her discour
SEES with much ease of manner,
The second volume of "The Correspondence of
Napoleon l.. contains order of the dav issued by
hlm when commanding in Italy, which shows that
the young general was not disposed to treat with
much tenderness the class of ladies who followed
the camp The order was to this effect: All women
who have not the permission of the commissarat
are required to leave the division within TWENTY
four hours; in default of doing so they will be ar
rested, smeared over with black, and exposed
Tor two hours in the public square. The Cen
eral-in-chef is informed that the disorders which
prevail attributable to these abominabe wo
men, who incite the soldiers to pillage.
The Madrid journals publish letter addressed
by Poerlo, Settembrn and the other exiles, to NJ
Oiozaga, thanking him for having when they were
at Cadiz, attempted to procure their release
The Times correspondent says: ga few days
ago the Catholic municipality of Vienna gave
striking proof of its spirit of religious federation by
contributing $4,000 fs. (f5O0O) towards the con-
struction of Protestant school-house"
Out of 1895 ems which, three years ago. adorn-
ed the Champs Elysees, in Paris, $500 are dead
and 1000 in dying state. Upwards of 500 are
stated to have persisted by gas exhalations.
Several French Chambers of Commerce. includ-
ing that OF bordeaux, have expressed opinion in
favor OF reduction of the duties on sugar and cof-
fee. The Chamber of Commerce of Boulogne-sur-
advocates al Sc A. ii.
coffee, in order that "the consumption of sugar
may be thereby increased
The operation of pruning the vines is now being
proceeded with throughout the greatest part Of
france Everywhere the state of the plants is des-
crlbed to be most satisfactory.
According to an account made up from official
documents, the number of cigars and cigarettes
consumed IN France in 1857 was follows: Hav-
ana and Manila cigars, 36,0S6, 800; cigars made in
france 4sl OIL 500; cigarettes, 6,47S,OO0; total
| 523, 636. 900.
The Christy Minstrels continue their perform
ances in Paris with increasing success. Their
humor and originality, at first not understood by
the Parsians, are said to be now fully comprehend
ed and enjoyed.
Mr. Rarey has been engaged for five thousand
dollars, to impart to fifty in the British cava-
| ry his system of horse tanning.
Amongst the events of the fortnight" says the
Dengdt Hdrfaru, "are an ordination on the 18th,
at the Cathedral, at which three natives from the
| Northwestern Provinces were admitted to the or
| der of deacOns; and three combinations. At the
first, at Barripore, 1G miles south of Calcutta on
the 9th of February, l02 native Christians were
confirmed at the second, at the Cathedral on the
Ind ult., l6S Europeans; and on the following day
the solemn rite was administered, at the same
| place, to SIS natives.
In different quarters strong doubts are expressed
whether the Armstrong gun is the fine invention
which it has been represented to be- and the asser-
ton of General Peel that it will sooner or later
supersede the whole existing armament of the coun-
try Is treated by writer in the Times as gross
| exaggeration founded on ignorance. Guns of very
long range he says, are not required on the field
OF battle nor in naval engagements; they are only
useful as swivel gun for gunboats, for arming
forts and for siege service, and the guns required
tor all these purposes form but trfing proper
ton of the armament of England and require to be
OF the largest calibre. Now, it has yet to be
proved that the Armstrong gun can be made of the
largest calibre without the risk of bursting; for all
the experiments hitherto made have been with
guns of small bore.
CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
The Aspinwall correspondent of the New York
Times, under date of March %, gives the following
items in addition to those already published:
The Sandman treaty, now under discussion will
be signed and passed.. This information is from
Managua, under date of 18th instant. The
treaty with the United States will not be rat
fed.
The English treaty does not settle the MOSQUITO
question. 1t remains in the unsettled state as
heretofore. 1t is reported, upon good authority
tnat separate artcle, additional, proposed by
Nicaragua and accepted by Sir VIM. Gore Ouseey
was agreed upon, viz: "That nothing in the pres
ent treaty shall be construed so as to preclude
Nicaragua from her rights upon the Mosquito cues
tlon. 1t this should prove correct, England has
not surrendered any of her pretensions over the
Mosquito Territory, although she has acquired new
rights such as the navigation of the rivers of Mic
caragua by her subjects, under her own flag and
under her o'on protection.
The entrance to the port of San Juan del Norte is
| IL lv
deep and 40 wide; while the distance from the end
OF the spit to the main land is but 36O feet The
new opening made by the sea at the old Transit
Company depot, has deepened to 6 feet and con.
tnues gradually to deepen.
Mr.. Thomas s. Bell, the newly appointed Com
mercial Agent in place of Mr.. B. Squire Cotrell
arrived at San Juan del Norte by the Clyde, and
assumed the duties of his office
Her Britannia Majesty's ships Vaorous, Basilisk,
Caesar, Diadem, and a small tender of about 100
tons, (which arrived in company with the Diadem
from Jamaica, on the 18th inst were still at San
Juan del Norte. The Caesar and Diadem were ex-
pected IN few days to leave for Vera Cruz, and
the Nalarous for Jamaica.
learn that protest has been made against the
Nlcaraguan Government for the seizure of the
steamers CASEY rissar and Catharne Maria, and it
Will go forward to-day by the Northern Light to
the Secretary of State. 1t is said to have been
made before our commercial agent at San Juan del
Norte, by the celebrated fbuster Louis Schles-
singer, who claims to be an American citizen. If |
!
subject, and has no claims whatever upon the pro-
lection of our country. He deserted Walker at,
thinE, the battle of Rivas, and became Colonel in
the Costa Rican army. Of course, he cannot now
be an American citizen. Thus, the Nicaragua n
lmbrogllo becomes more than ever complicated
The Brooklyn will leave tomorrow for Vera
Cruz via Porto Beo, where she is necessitated to
touch to fill up her water, as it cannot be procured
here at present 1t will not detain her longer than
day or two.
Yours, very truly.
CALIFoRNIA.-Caitornia is "going ahead like a
steamboat" The increase in horses during period
OF two years is 5000, and in cattle 100 600 The
exports of hides during the past year amounted to
S5l6.1l2. The quantity of land cultivated in 1856
was oil 1868 acres; in 1858, 1885, 34; being an in
crease of pa, III This is exclusive of land
fenced in for grazing purposes. The crop of wheat
Tor the year 1858 is set down at $685. 500 bushels;
and that of barley at 1882, III. This is 2lS 79S
more bushels barley than the amount raised in the
whole Union in 1850, according to the census
In the cultivation of grape and manufacture OF
wine the Golden State of the Pacific already stands
foremost in the Confederacy. The increase in thi.
interest has been one hundred and fifty per cent in
two years. The number of vines in 1858 was near
ly 1000, 900, and ofthis large number one-third il
found in a single county-Los Angeles-while tho
average yield Of each vine estimated at fourteen
pounds. During the year 1858, there were manu-
featured in California, of wine 1856 900 gallons anC
of brandy 10000 gallons, making total of nearl
400, 900. 1t is estimated that in 1860 900 900 gal
Ions of these liquors will be manufactured in Cator
MIA.
considerable share of attention has been devo
ted to the rearing of sheep, for which experience