The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-18

Reynolds et. al. Us. The Mayo and City Coun-
Gil: Before reported. The Court delivered its
opinion on the prayers submitted and argued and
counsel went before the jury. On trial.
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AMERICANS IN PERUGIA.
From the Washington Star we learn that Mr..
Stockton, the United States minister at Rome. is
taking energetic measures for obtaining satisfactory
reparatIon IN behalf of highly respectable Amer-
can citizen, who in Perugia at the time of the
conflict, by which he was sufferer to a cousidera
BILE amount This is Mr. Edward Newton Perkins,
OF Boston, who had arrived in that unfortunate
town from Rome, on the 18th instant, with Mrs
Perkins, Mrs. Doane. widow of the late Bishop of
New Jersey, Mrs. and Miss Clements and two ser
wants, and was staying at the Hotel de France
with the intention of looking for villa in the
nelghoorhood as summer residence. About five
O'Clock in the afternoon of the Goth after the town
had been taken, and when Mr.. Perkins and his
party had sat down to dinner band of soldiers in
Vaded the hotel, rushed into the dining-room, and
Killed the waiter before the eyes of the Mortified
ladies, shot the master of the hotel also and pro
ceeded to destroy the furniture and carry off all
that was valuable and profitable. MF. Perkins and
his party saved their lives by escaping with the
mother OF the hotel keeper into an adjacent bed,
room containing a secret passage into which they
all crammed and remained hid for fourteen hours
At the end OF that time they ventured out and sur
Feyed with dlsmay the wreck left by the military
Plunderers. Amongst the booty they carried OF
was the best part of Mr.. Perkins and the ladies'
iNSS SdSCJ COnslSJluS Oh seven trunks ana eight
pet-bags, and containing much valuable property
watches, jewelry, and objects of art purchased al
Rome. The actual loss amounts to about 81 500
out many things, such as Mr. Perkins private pa.
pefs, can never be replaced
The following letter contains some of the par,
ticulars of the affair;
Correspondence IF the Providence Jou7naIl
FLORENCE, June 25 1859
The public mind here is at present in state Of
unusual excitement, on account of the intelligence
which has just arrived, of the attack of the Papa
troops upon the town of Perugia, and the cold
FLOODED massacre consequent upon it. have heard
from the lips of highly respectable citizen of Ros
ton, who, with his family of five persons had been
passing few days in Perugia-and who was not
only an eyewitness of what occurred, but severe
suterer-an account of the whole transaction
The soldiers of the Pope engaged in this affair
consisted OF a body of about two thousand men
mostly Swiss. They left Rome on the l4th of the
month, and accomplished the march of sometime
like one hundred and twenty miles in six davs 4
few days before their arrival the townspeople OF
PerugIa, being aware that they were to be brought
oa' to their former allegiance BY force made pre-
paratlons to resist the expected attack Barrcades
were erected upon the road, outside the town. and
such other means of defence as they found it
IN their power to make were hastily adopt
ed. The town was ill-prepared for defence. a;
SIX or eight hundred Of the young men were
gone as volunteers to the war, and those left were
not provided with arms. Notwithstanding an en-
ergenc resistance was made. 1t was however en-
urelY Intellectual, as two pieces of artillery in the
hands OF the PaDal troops soon succeeded in demol
lshlng the barricades and forcing the gates The
lighting continued several hours Once within the
town there followed a succession of barbarities
such as soldiers maddened bv the SIGHT of blood
and the love of plunder, are too often capable
o. The Secretary of the Gomfaloniere was
killed by stabs with their bavonets as he came
forward to meet them with a flag of truce in
his hand. Others were killed or wounded nv
muSkpt shots with hn ;r ii,
and in the streets, as the troops advanced even
after resistance was no longer offered but the
victims We're on their knees pleading for mercy.
For several hours the town was given up to sack
The hotel in which the American gentleman wa:
lodged was a scene of slaughter and ruin One per
son was killed and several wounded, and every art
Gle IN the house, that could not be carried off was
lndlscrlminately smashed. He succeeded, partly
by the friendly aid of subordinate officer and by
conceallng the ladies OF his party in remote part
OF the house, in saving them from harm, but every
article OF their property, except such as they had
upon their persons, was carried off. A statement
OF The amount OF damage sustained by them Ito the
extent OF SZOOO) has already been forwarded tC
Mr.. Stockton, our minister at Rome who will make
requIsition npon the Papal government for the
payment OF the sum. The amount of mental suf-
ferlng experienced by the delicate ladies of the
party, during almost whole day and night OF
dreadful suspense i'll their gloomy place of con
cealment, can be easily imagined. They have all
arrived safe in Florence, only too happy in the
VI llleE escape from all personal
injury. 1t is reported here that tiles and other
missiles were thrown upon the soldiers from the
roofs OF the houses, but informant is not aware
from anything with he saw or heard that such was
the case.
The history of Austrian rule in Italy is q record
of atrocities. This it is hardly necessary to repeat
One OF the most recent examples, and one which
has moved all hearts with feeling of uncommon
adherence, is the story of the cold-blooded mur-
der, a little more than week ago in Lombardv, OF
n hn
the account that these simple country people were
sitting before their cottage in the evening with
some of their friends, when thev were SURPRISED by
party OF Austrian soldiers, who were securing
the neighborhood, searching in the houses of the
peasants Tor concealed arms and warlike munitions
In the cottage of these people was found a BAG con
tanning powder, which they were in the habit OF
using III their hunting excursions. For the crime
OF having this IN their possession, the whole of nine
persons were marched off to the camp, a few miles
distant, where, after hearing before the officer in
command, an order was given that thev should all
be shot, which was Immediately executed The
youngest OF the party was lad of seventeen
and the eldest an old man of sixtv-four The
shot did its work as promptly as usual in all tue
cases, except that If the old man, who fingered O.
his wounds, and died the next day in the hospital
Can 1t be that such things done in countrie.
calling themselves civilized, in the nineteenth cen
tury of the era of our Lord
Within few days past Florence has become all
alive again with o,diers These are all volunteers
and they continue to pour in from the Romagna in
thousands. They are obliged to wait for a longer
or shorter period for their equipment during which
they are put through their drill which has become
more or less perfect before they are sent here Sew
and stitchers in cloth and in leather are as busy
as bees In hive, making coats, shirts, trows ars
knapsacks, cartouch-bOxes, and all sorts of cavalry
and artillery. AS to the young volunteers fneI
specimens of the animal man than hundreds oil
these are one would not care to see; not tall but
with broad shoulders and well rounded muscular
limbs They come from the mountains, over there
towards the Adriatlc where the population is not
corrupted and weakened by the life of cities They
bring their teeth together like animals that car
bite and declare in very spirited way that they
toW mot hare the Pope for their Governor and that
they will not be ruled by an ecclesiastical TYRANNY
One sees that they have the souls as we'll as the bode
OF men. 1t does me good to look out of my win.
dow at them, as they pass. Most of these were Re
pubcans, with the hopes that Mazzini and his par
ty raised, but, inspired now with admiration for
Victor Emanuel and Piedmont, they are content tC
accept the chances offered by the present situation
BY the way, heard good story the other day
which, if not true, might be, as it accords with a
spirit justified by the present circumstances of the
country. The convent of Santa Maria Novella
possesses in the very centre of Florence property
consisting of closters, dormitories chapels courts
and gardens, covering, in a single mass. tract Of
ground as large as that on which stands the Parlia
ment house of England. In this great convent live
and range about undisturbed, not more than doZer
lazy monks. When the volunteers became numer
Gus and they were slowed away in all sorts of places
the General in command here sent word to thi.
convent, to the Others that he would like to have
accommodations for his men. The reply of thu
monks was, that they had law suit with the late
sovereign Leopold II, who wished on one occasion
to use the convent for such purpose and had wor
the case; their right to do rs they would with thei
property being confirmed by the court. On hear
ing this, the general said that as he had no tim,
for lawsuits AMI had some five six hundred fin,
youth, had come to offer theirlive for the
try, and whom be wished to have decenty lodged
for tea days, if the doors of their convent were
not Immediately opened, he should Just plant two
cannons before the walls and if thus an entrance
to their stronghold could not be effected. 1t is un
necessary to say that on hearing this peremptory
summons to surrender, the gates were thrown aside
and the young men permitted to enter.
CANADIAN DEPUTATIoN TO THE QUEEN.-This in
teristng event came off the 25th, when hel
Majesty was graciousy pleased to receive the depu
taton, consisting of Lieut Colonel Jarvis, the
Hon. Henry Smith, Speaker of the Commons o
Canada; Mr.. Langevin, Mayor of Quebec Mr.. Cas-
sault and Lieutenant Colonel Rylands, in her roya
closet previous to the general reception where tht
Speaker presented the address, with which heI
Majesty expressed herself much pleased, SAYING
81 am much pleased to receive this address from
my Canadian subjects" The deputation was intro
duced by the Duke of Newcastle, assisted by the
Lord Chamberlain. The address was as follows
''To the Queens Most Excellent Majesty:-Most
Gracious Sovereign-We, your Majesty's dutiiu
and loyal subjects, the Legislative Council and
Commons of Canada, in Provincial Parliament as
sembled, humbly approach your Majesty with re
newed assurances of devotion and attachment to
your royal person and government. We have long
hoped that your Majesty would be graciously