The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-14

SUICIDE OF A LITTLE GIRL.-The Greenfield Ga
zette gives the following accouRt of touching
OF suicide by little girl eight years old; daught ter
of Warren Leonard, at Deerfied Mass, on Satur-
day, April 80: ''About 4 O'Clock in the afternoon
her mother had occasion to correct her for some
little misdemeanor, when she became very much
excited, and shut herself in room, where she re-
mained about an hour, when her mother called her
to the kitchen. Her little brother, aged six and
onehalf years. then requested her to go out to play
with him She then left the house with him, say
ing she would go to the river and drown herself,
and started across the meadows upon run, her
little brother following. When they came to the
river, she said to him if he would take her clothes
back to the house, she would take them off. He tried
toprevent her, but she said she should be happy afr
she should be in the water, and took off her bon.
net, when her brother caught hold of her dress to
prevent her going in. She broke from him, and
walked into the water where it was low at the
shore. BE watched her until she reached suffi-
eient depth for the current to carry her out ofhis
sight, when he ran home and gave the alarm. 1t is
the opinion of both parents that she was insane.
She had been easy child to govern before, and
the correction at this time only done by talk
ing. No other method was used
The FRENCH IN COCHIN CHINA.-There has evi-
IDENTIFY been subtle and preconceived policy at
work, which has led to the transference of the
French fleet and the enlistng of Spanish mercena-
res to carry on war of aggression and acquisition
of territory, with the ultimate object of conquerng
Cochin CHINA country with which other foreign
Powers had no connection or trade, and against the
people of which there old standing grievance
to redress. But they do not seem to have demand
ed redress, and territorial acquisition appears clear
ly the object. We cannot but regard the formation
of a naval and military depot at TOuron by a pow
erful European State as fraught with expense and
annoyance to the permanent interests of Great Bri
tain, both as respects the trade of the China Sea
and the Straits settlements. So long as the French
expedition intended to throw open Cochin
China to trade, to insure adequate retribution
for the frightfu cruelties committed on the Roman
Catholic missionaries, it had our hearty sympathy.
But the extension of French dominion in Cochin
China, or even the foundation of French settle
ment, invovles questions of the most grave i'm
portance. 1t is no light thing for England to lose
that isolation which has long been of the most
valuable attributes of the Eastern Empire. Hith-
erto the British empire in Asia has had no enemy
within 10000 miles capable of menace-China
Telegraph.
A Mrs. Emerson, woman's rights woman, not
entirely "unknown to fame' in this place, turned
up in Nobesville, in this State, on Saturday,
where the Patriot says she promenaded the streets
in company with dog. She posted bills for lee
ture that night, went to n drugstore and got some
whiskey and turpentine to make burning fluid,
drank the whiskey, got asleep before the audience
arrived, and, when last heard from, was asleep in
the courthouse, awaiting an audience. Franklin
County Indy Democrat.
They have made chair of the Charter Oak, in
Hartford, called ''the Governors chair to be
placed IN the Executive Chamber.