The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-07


The negro of the north is an ideal negro; it il the
negro refned by white culture, elevated by white
blood instructed even by white inauity: the negro
among negroes is coarse, grinning, hat-footed,
thlck-skuled creature ugly as Caban law as the
LATEST of brutes chiefly ambitious to be of no use 70
any in the world. View him as YOU will. his stock
IN trade is small he has but the tangible instincts
OF all creatures-lOve of life, of ease and of nH:
spring. For all else he must 90 to school to tba
white race. and his discipline must be long and la
Dorlous. Nassau, and all that we saw of il suo
gested to us the unwelcome question, whether com
pulsory labor be not better than none. But as a
question gladly leave it, and return tn the simnI
narration of what befell"
From the Orleans ~ ~ Republican,
UNPARALLELED BRUTALTTY-A ,n;fe StornoJ h.,
her Husband. On the "Ridge Road,' in the town
OF Murray, about two miles east of the VILLAGE of
Sandy Greek, there has resided for some wears past
man named John Fullerton. He occupies a com
Portable house in thickly populated and wealthy
nelghborhood, and is the owner of farm and other
property valued at near $1,000.
The community has long known Mr. Fullerton to
be tyrant in his family, cruelty beating his wifa
and daughters and turning them out of doors; but
not even this general knowledge of his character
mad prepared the citizens Of that vicinity for the
revelations that have recently been made of his
hendlsh barbarity towards his wife.
One night, near the last of March, proans wera
heard proceeding from the house, as of some one
IN IN great distress, and the neighbors recalling the
fact that Mrs. Fullerton had not been seen for n
long time led to entertain suspicions of a
new atrocity on his part. Mr.. Birch a neighbor.
called at the house the next dav, and was reIuc
family permitted by Mr.. Fullerton to see his wife
lie found her in chamber destitute of furniture
save miserable bed in which she Law buried in
straw, with dirty feather bed as COVERING and
apparently without particle of clothing upon
her person. Still more shocking was her emacia-
ted condition. She reduced to a mere skele-
ton-her hair matted and clotted with blood and
her face badly bruised. The scene was so sicken-
ing that Mr.. Birch speedily sought the open air.
The ladies near were soCn enlisted and repaired
the following morning to the house, where thew
were met with repeated threats of violence from
MIR. Fullerton, but they finally proceeded to nut
the skeleton form in a more tidy and comfortable
condition. Their representations of her situation
are too revolving for repetition In several naces
the bones had worn through the flesh and her body
was was covered with stripes and terrible bruises
When nourlshment was given her she ate like one
iamlshed and her mind seemed to be in a condition
bordering upon idiocy. There was every indica
ton OF her having been kept for a long time with
out lood, hre, or clothing and subjected to fire.
quent beatings by this legal proprietor of her
person. nv
Notwithstanding the pitiable condition of the
Wretcned woman, four or five days elapsed before
the ctlzens-through fear of conflicting with the
constituted rights and authority of her lawful pro-
tector secured her proper care and relief
through the interferences of the Poor authorities
Mrs. Fullerton was at length removed to more safe
ana comfortable quarters, and is now at the resi-
dence OF James Burnett mile west of Sandy
Greek, where she is tendcry cared for Her atten-
uihS physician, Dr. Nicholson attributes her pre-
sent reduced condition entirely to brltality and
stdrUation, few hopes are entertained of her ra
covery. " "' te
Fullerton is about sixty years of age. and some
mnat educated. lie is not strictly temperate, but
cannot be called an inebriate nor has he peneraII
committed his brutalites under the infnanca Gr
strong drink.
Mrs. Fullerton is an American woman. az vears
OF age and is said to have possessed fair abilities
before they demented by inhuman treatment
She formerly resided in PenGeld-now Webster
Monroe county, where they were married 80 wears
ago. She is the mother of eight living children
One, born some twenty years since, and few
months after the mother had received a terrible
whipping, from which she fed through the snow in
midwinter to the house of relative for protection
was a lifelong idiot.
The only children at home are two bows. but so
fearful are they of their fathers wrath that it is
difficult to learn much from them. Some time du-
ring the past winter, another brother ventured to
carry his mother food in his fathers absence for
which he severely whipped. He then ran
away, and has not since been home.
The MoRrHY TEsTINoNIAL.-The following des-
crption of the set of chessmen, which is TO be nre
sented to Mr.. MOrphy upon his return from Europe.
appears in New \ ork paper: The white pieces
are of solid silver, and the black pieces of solid
gold, standing upon bases of cornelian-the metal
being covered, in all cases, with elaborate and deli
cate workmanship. The Pawns, Bishops Queens
and Kings, are all human figures; the Knights are
horses rampant; the castles elephants each with
SufmOunted
eagle The white Pawns are Gothic belligerents
with clubs and helmets, and are dressed in skins
with the horns of the animal projecting from their
heads. The black Pawns are less barbaric soldiers
armed with the shields and short swords of the
Roman legionry. The Bishops evidently belong to
the church militant, being stalwart warriors with
elevated swords, bucklers, helmets and even pair
of Mercury's wings All the royal personages bear
globes or balls upon their heads in place of the
crowns, which lie unused at their feet Upon
the shield of the white King is seen the motto,
"Liberty''
The chess-board is splendid piece of workman
ship, and artsticaly nlaid with ebony and mother.
| of-pearl. The border is made of silver, and will
exhibit at each corner, encircled in wreaths, the
letters "P. NJ, the initials of the greatest chess
genius that yet lived. The sides of the border
are chased and beautifully designed.
| On the first side are seen one pyramid in the
| foreground and two in the background Two allie
gorical figures, denominated Sphinxes, lie in bold
relief at each angular base of the front pyramid,
and on its face engraved the names of the fol
| lowing eminent chess players: Morphy, Mcdonnell,
La Bourdonnais, Lopez, Philidor, Szen, Bilguer,
Petrof, Kieseritzky, Won der Lasa Andersen, Low
| enthal, HarrwitZ, and Lange.
| The second represents a shield, with the arms
of the State of New York, and a sphinx at each
side.
The third is illustrative of a shield surmounted
with wreath, and surrounded with flags At
the top OF the shield, is seen the inscription,
"To-."
The fourth side is surrounded with shields and
lances In its centre is also a sphinx coupled with
the names of the Testimonial Committee.
CAUSES OF INsANITY.-The annual report of the
Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital saws that out
of ,049 cases since the institution went into on
Grafton, only 502 have any recognized occasion
Of them, los have been from i'll health; 1877 from
domestic trouble; 81 of these being females. re-
| gous excitement of all kinds, including Milerism
and spiritual rappings, II; intemperance 81; and
| opium eating, mortified pride, politics. loss of
money, with other excesses and mmoralities, foot
/ nm nnra lhnrn
| owed men insane to 2l9 married With famolos
however, there are about as many married as
single and widowed who out of their minds
1901 10 the previous occupations of those who have
become insane, though farmers and laborers nigh
De expected to furnish less than the average pro.
| portion still, by taking in the weayers the pro-
| portion Is about kept up. Private asylums no
Ioi Iouot take on large proportion of the insane
oeiohglng 10 the weatheir and more intellectual
classes. STILL there are or have been. about twice
| as many students in the hospitals as there ought
TO be, according simply to the proportion of their
NUMBERS: The merchants, from the exciting
nature OF business, furnish more than the proper
proportion, very considerably Thus, out oils, ,0OO
merchants, % have been in the hospital, while out
OF q, 200 carpenters but II have been there.
The Washington correspondent of the journal Of
eommerce says:
The United States Consul at Bangkok, in Siam,
Mr.. Matoon, is now here, and brings to the Govern
ment an interesting report concerning our CONNER
cial intercourse with that Kingdom. The number
of American vessels which took cargoes at that
port in 1858, was ifty-our. They took rice, hides,
and Sapan wood. Most of these vessels sailed from
Siam for Singapore, ,China, ana san francisco. The
Siamese have commercial marine of their own
with foreign captains, but native sailors. They
, have a regular packet steamer between Bangkok
and Singapore. The two Kings and the Chief Min
listers of State have steam yachts of their own and
under the exclusive management of native Siamese
The two Kings both read and write English with
fuency.