The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-03
PERSONAL

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The Rev. Mr.. Wheeler, who lately failed in North
Bridgewater, Mass, is trump to his creditors as
ne owed SS0,000, and will pay fortythree cents on
the dollar. This is, however, better than the luck
OF the Englishman, who received four postage
stamps as his final division bankrupt estate.
The Portland Transcript states that the poem
in the Atlantic Monthly for October, entitled ''The
Artist-Prisoner:" attributed to John G. Whittier,
was written by Paul Akers, the distinguished scup-
"A correspondent of the London STAR writing
from Paris, saws:
"Rossuth was in Paris September 18th, and all
the journalists of every color and degree paid him
a visit in the hope of learning what his intentions
aims and views really 1t cannot as yet be
known whether these are in favor of immediate ac-
tiOn, or whether they incline towards taking time
to consider whether he means to replace the sudden
and decisive movements which characterised his
mode of warfare before it was submitted to the
rules laid down By Louis Napoleon, or whether he
means to wait and see if the Emperor of Austria
will relent and BY degrees yield the freedom
which, according to Austrian rule, it would not be
prudent to grant all at once. The account to be
given by Kossuth of the principle upon which he
has been acting, has been waited for with the
greatest patience, and it has been agreed that
judgment is to be formed of the conduct pursued by
kOssuth, as it appears upon the surface; and that
all verdict is TO be suspended until the leader him
self has submitted it with his appreciation to
the fiat of their opinion"
MIR. Brunei, the famous English engineer, though
of very small stature, had a commanding presence.
His industry was untiring, and the paralysis of
which he died in his fifty fourth year was the natu-
raj result of overtasked brain and careless regi-
men. He was an inveterate smoker, and at the
commencement of his engineering career was never
without cigar in his mouth. He frequently
worked twenty hours a day, and frequently all
night; and the writer of his memoir has known
him abstain from going to bed an entire week.
With the exception of smoking, he temperate
and even abstemious. In 1885 he married Miss
Fanny Halsey, of KensingtOn by whom be had one
son. His great engineering achievements IA
miliar to the world Few of the enterprises he
projected profted the stockholders and by many
he was condemned for the extravaganza of the
means he employed to effect his objects From an
interesting biography in the North american we take
a noticeable anecdote of the great engineer:
''He had a remarkably narrow escape from death
on one occasion. He had invited Juvenile party
to his house. and by way of amusing the children
performing some conJurlng tricks One of
these consisted in pretending to swallow piece of
money and bring it out at the ear. He took halt
sovereign "a coin about the size OF a halfdime) and
erked it into his mouth but so violently that it en-
tered the windpipe where it stuck edgewise.. Sur
geons were sent for, but all their efforts to extract
1t proved fruitless. He remained two davs in a
state of choking, but at last cured himself by means
OF a frame that he caused to be constructed, which
was so contrived to hold him upside down; and
while in this position, by ncessant patting on the
back, the obstinate coin was at last dslodged and
MIR. Brunei recovered from his imminent danger.
We believe this to be the only known instance of
substance remaining in the windpipe without
ing DEATH"
-"Honorable Grantey Berkeley" the "mighty
hunter" from England, who has so much trouble
with his dogs railroad cars, has lately been
in Kansas City, busily engaged making prepara-
tons for his proposed hunt for buffalo, elk and ante
lope, upon our great Western plains. On the 23d
of September he had his arrangements nearly per-
fected, and was about going to camp. He has Sc
cured the services of MIR. John Cantrell, who will
go out in the capacity OF general superintendent of
the expedition. Nine men are employed, and his
travelling outfit consists of four horses and one
pony, four saddle animals, six mules, one provision
wagon, a private carriage, and wagon for his FIVE
dogs. The party will take the Santa Fe road to
Walnut Creek, near the ranch Mr.. George Pea
cock, where they will bear away to the plains hunt
ing far north as the Platte and then home by the
kaw valley. The hunt will last probably about
two months. They are well supplied with fire
arms OF both English and American make.
-Messrs. yadal and Frankand have just made
successful ascent Of Mount Blanc. On August 2l
these two English savans reached the summit
where they placed their tent of India rubber the
south side, and prepared to pass the night with the
intention of returning at 10 O'Clock the following
morning, which they accordingly did.