The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-26
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persuaded him to look into the case of watch, in
which was chloroform, and whilst he was laboring |
under the effects of the inhalation, took from him
the key of his bureau, and stole therefrom 1000
in gold, with which they decamped The New MARI
ket (Shenandoah) Spirit says that several gentle 7
men passed through that place on w ednesday last,
in search of band of gpses who had stolen 81 900
from an old gentleman in Prince William county.
The pursuers had traced the thieves to the top of
Massanutten Mountain, where they passed on Tues |
day night. The gpsies had two carryails and seF-
eral horses. They were arrested. I
Edwin Forrest is lying on his oars, dramatical |
" speaking He has informed the managers, and |
some Of his personal friends; when urged to accept
engagements, and again appear in public on the !
stage, that he will not do SO until all his Difficult
ties are settled with his former wife. This means
that he will not again perform until he has broken
down the divorce granted to her. and is relieved
from the payment of the three thousand dollars all
mony. E, II, s., r. ~. m 4
The Protestant Churchn.dn gives the first an
nouncement of the names of the Bishops who voted
aye on the molten of Bishop McCoskery to restore
Bishop Onderdonk without any conditions: The
ayes (report says) were Bishops Otey, Kemper,
McCoskery, De Lancey, Chase, Nottingham and.
0denheimer. l
Della Bacon, whose name has for some years
been familiar to the public, in connection with her
theory as to the authorship Of Shakespeare plays
died a short time since in the Insane Retrea at
Hartford, where she had been an inmate since her
| return from England, last spring.
A young New Yorker ftbroke the bank three
times at Baden-Baden this season--once for TWEEN
tysix thousand francs, second time for forty-fve
| thousand francs, and third time for-not stated
what. The bank 'fbreaks'' at whatever sum it
! pleases. ,--t ,l, -; - ..t b.
"A correspondent Of the Boston Journal says
| that Louis Napoleon, when he returned from Amer
ca left little bill at his lodgings in the Hotel Ma
| poleon, in Hoboken, which remains unsettled to
|, this day. L,,
MI. Thaekeray is still on the Continent NV
last news of him, says the correspondent of the
| Manchester Guardian, is from Bordeaux, whence
he contemplated trip further south or east, either
to Italy or Constantinople. He must be glad to
| have got rid of the "Virginians.' ! believe the
history of that novel, if told by its author, would
illustrate, one mischief Of monthly publication
/ When he began it, it was certainly Mr.. Thacke
rays intention to spend less time in London, and to
throw into stronger relief the effect of the Ameri-
can war on family, members of which took differ
ent sides in the quarrel. But once on the famil-,
lar ground Of the London Of 177O,, and then
| Thackeray stuck 'in a rut' Ito use his own ,ex-
pression) and could not move on to the less known
scenes Of the war of independence. In this way,
| imagine the whole story assumed a character en-
tirely different from what the author first meant to
MIR. Lowe has got his great aerial balloon
nearly completed, in, which he intends attempting
voyage to Europe. 1t is made of strongly woven
wicker work, about two inches thick; the ropes that
attach it to the balloon being woven into the sides,
which are about four feet high. The basket is six
feet in diameter. and in the centre of its flooring
there is circular aperture, large enough to admit
mans body, and intended to afford, by means of
.
be suspended beneath This boat is thirty feet long,
! and provided with a caloric engine and paddle
wheels, and it is estimated that $4,000 feet of gas
will be necessary to initiate this monster balloon
persons will probably accompany Mr.. Lowe upon
his expedition Prior to the ascension, the time
for which has not yet been fixed, exhibition will
/ be given by the proprietor. .l h. - q
f. Daniel Lock, plasterer Of London, who earn
ed Sos. week. before the strike, recently commit
ted suicide by taking laudanum. In his possession
vas toa3d p scs q Rg paper uP99 9 which was writ
must be right. The strike-the rninous strike
God protect my unfortunate family" I" .1,,'af'
1t seems that the girl abducted by Rev. Mr..
was given to Mr., Ciey upon the death Of its moth
er, while the child was infant and that she has
lived with Mr. G. as an adopted daughter until very
A letter from Paris, dated Oct 9Th saws sena
tor Seward would leave England in two or three
| or more days for home. t - -
Mr.. La Mountains balloon, the Atlantic Which
/ was abandoned by him in the Canada woods, has
been secured, and returned to Waterfowl, - some
4 what torn, but serViceable. e. 90 80
Intelligence was received by the steamer Afri-
ca that the outward bound steamer Bavaria encoun.
tered severe gale on the 22d ult in the course of
which Mr. John Sayers, Of Cincinnati, was washed
overheard and lost. Mr. Sayers, says the Gazette
| was one of the most valuable-beca1se useful-and
I highly respectable citizens of Hamilton county
and his death is a,seyere1oss to the community.
+ Col, Martin Rosenkiewicz, distinguished Po-
fish exile, died in Cincinnati on last Saturday, in
the 9th year of his age He was one of that noble
band Of patriots who contended for the nationality
of Poland until the last hope Of liberty was crushed
/ out by Austrian and Russian tyranny. or noble
/ birth, connected BY blood and family with the
princeiy house Of Lithuania, he held commission
! of Colonel in the armies Of his country. After the
termination of that final and fruitess struggle for
recognition among the nations of the earth, be was
confined for a year in an Austrian prison, and at
last with over two hundred of his compatriots was
/ nSila 70 fhaT oI pha h. ho., I'll
| for the last q gears. - ''' ''i-'i' ,
l..,-D B. Hughiett, who killed James R. Cough,
| near New Baltimore, Fauquer county, on Friday
last, has been arrested, and upon an examination
before; Justices Frances and Klipstein, committed
to Jail to await his trial I '' ''h y - 7i'' o.
At the present term of the United States dis
] triet court in session at Albany, New York, w m.
G.. Follet of tansingburg, was Convicted Of forging
bounty-land claims. and sentenced to five years in
4 the penitentiary. James Van Rtten, of Yanetten7
vile; was also convicted of frauds upon the Pen
!. sion office, under the revolutionary pension laws
and senteneedto three years imprisonment in add
I ton to the fine imposed. o'T "'i-'f' !. ,l'2"
II Clay Pate, the pro-savery leader who was
saptared BY Br0 Sy in Kansas gives the following
4, As to old Brown he has been an OUTLAW all his
life, Protesting to be Jealous Christian, he is a
4 fanatical hyppcrite. Living at different times in
almost every State in the Union he has been every
thing by starts and nothing long, except as mean a
man as horse thief can be, and as treacherous as
an heir of hell and joint heir of the devil. 5g
I said of Brown in the st. Louis Republican in
"He told me. he would take the life Of man as
quick as he would that of a dog, if he thought it
necessary. He said if a, man stood, between him
and what he thought was right, and he considered
I as he would eat his breakfast. His actions show
1 what he is. Always restless, he seems never to
I sleep. With an eye like snake, he looks like a
demon. apparently a miserable outlaw, he pre-
fers to peace that pilIage and plumber may the
more safely be carried on. And this is leader of
the Free State party in Kansas ~ l, .,,
i most fattering portrait. & % - :,