The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-21

On Lynn Creek, Giles county, Tennessee, there
is iardshell Baptist Church, supported by num-
Der OF wealthy COMMITMENTS of that ''persuasion"
who for several years past have had for their regu
lar pastor a negro man, black as the ace of spades
named George-known as "Bentlev's Old George
and belonging to the estate of one Matthew Bent
ley, deceased. George is said to be most excel
lent man and good preacher. Sometime ago, he
had noted public discussion, lasting four days,
with white preacher, on the subject of Baptism,
from which the white man is said to have come off
(if any diference) 'second best" The Church
wants to buy George, but he is unwilling to be
sold out of his masters family and is wihai regu-
lar Southern, pro-slavery parson. George is the
"preacher in charge" of large congregation,
nearly all of whom are shareholders, and who pay
him salary of 5000 or 500 for his pastoral servi
ces.-7enmessee Quid Nitnc.
A PoLTrE SUTCIDE-The Spanish Consul for Aus
tralia, Don Antonio de Ayala, lately blew out his
brains while in England, but before doing so wrote
a letter of apology to the Duke of Marlborough
for destroying himself in his Graces Park, which is
perfect curiosity in its way. There is a wondrous
deal of simplicity as we'll as poteness in it:
WooDsToCK, April IA.
My LORD: | humbly ask your Lordship's pardon
and forgiveness for the great liberty have taken
in coming to put an end to my dreary and miserable
existence in your park. 1t nav be a childish feel
ing, but one cannot blow his brains out in a com
mon road, or one of those cultivated fields full of
cottages, and life, and civilization, and railways
and establishments of all kinds, ofwhich your bless
found another proper place to die decently than
your handsome park, and you must bear the incon-
venience of dead man in your grounds. | mean no
offence.
/ have yesterday visited your house, hoping the
sight of good things, and chiefly good paintings
could do me good and soften the wild ideas that
had led me to put an end to my life; but all of no
Your manor is one of the most noble, splen-
did things saw IN my life, and have travelled
about and seen nearly everything worth seeing
You have the finest Rubens that can be seen:
that should have great attraction for me under
other circumstances, but now they have been Of no
use.
hope, with that splendid house, and park, and
paintings, and library, you are happy, my Lord.
1t that is the case, you will have kind heart, and
pity poor devil come to die in your grounds.
Ii, on the contrary, you miserable also, as
wealth is medium, and does not constitute happi-
ness, then you will say, like old Dico,
''NOn ignara mall, naiseris Succurere dtsco,
and pity me, and order that they shall leave me
quiet, and bury me in the spot have died, and put
a cross on it, in the Spanish fashion. | will be
very grateful to you in the other world for it, if
you do so, and wish not to trouble any more your
Lordship about me.
am, my Lord, yours, respectfully,
A. ARRoM De AYALA.
THE Growing WHEAT CRop.-The Cincinnati
Price Current says: The advces we have from all
points, speak very encouragingly of the favorable
prospects of the growing heat Some complaints
have reached of its being scaded by the unusual
wet weather of April, particularly in cold clay
lands, but they not general and it is pretty GER
tain that ifnothng should arise to nure it before
the harvest, the crop will be most abundant, and
will be gathered two or three weeks earlier than
usual The weather, during the present month has
been very favorable for it, and the indications of
good crop in this respect, far, are exceedingly
good.
Inc following officers have been appointed as a
board to witness the annual examination of Midship
men to take place on the lst of June Commodore
;. II. Stringham, President of the Board; Captains
Samuel Mercer and Hugh Y. Purviance and Com
manders Henry H. Bell and P. Drayton.
Alexandria papers announce the death of s. 7.
Mccormick, Esq, City Auditor.