The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-08

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The ordinance supplementary to an ordinance to
establish paid Fire Department for the city, with
proposed amendments was received from the First
Branch
On motion of Mr.. Cook, the ordinance and
amendments proposed were ordered to be printed
The Branch then adjourned until tomorrow af-
ternoon at O'Clock.
NATURES GREAT DISINFECTANT.
Monsieur Scoutteten, head hysician of the Mill
tary Hospital at Metz, has published book ON the
new-found body caedby chemists ozone which pro-
badly contains the newest well the most reliable
facts in reference to this interesting subject. A
very careful ANALYSIS of this work was published
in recent number of "Household Words,'' and we
gather from this source few points of interest,
which we believe are not generally known.
The latest and most accurate experiments of
French chemists have proved that ozone al first sup
posed to be an odorous principle emanating from a
simple elementary body, and afterwards compound
OF oxygen and hydrogen, is nothing more nor less
than oxygen electrified. 1t is colorless of pene-
tratng nauseabund smell, and is the most power
full agent of oxidation known. 1t oxydises cold
silver and mercury, when both are moist DESTROYS
organic cOloring matters as well as ligneous and
albumlnous matters. 1t is produced naturally in
the air whenever an electric discharge takes place;
and may be prepared artifically in the laboratory
the simplest mode being to plunge stick of phos.
phorous half in air and half in water. The odor CIV
en- on by artifcially prepared ozone, is identical
with the odor which spreads itself around a spot
stricken with lightning, and it is believed that the
odor OF the air traversed by lightning is owing to
the formation of ozone.
Passing all that has been said in reference to
what this new found substance is expected to ac-
compllsh In the arts, in chemistry and in agricul-
ture, we come to the main fact that it has the now
er to destroy sulphuretted hydrogen; that it is
readily absorbed by great number of vegetable
and animal substances; that it extrpates all oxyda
BILE mlasms, and is the most powerful disinfectino
agent yet discovered. Stranger STILL this invisible
fluid pervades the whole earth it is manifested in
Q6 ffna ntIf Iacn AVIAN CHI
the air, In its normal state, contains one ten
thousandth part OF ozone. When the proportion is
raised to one or twothousandth part it is powerful
enough to kill small animals. So delicate are the
calculations in the mammoth laboratories of Ma
ture!
Although the study of ozone has scarcely ad-
vanced beyond its rudiments, the facts already
known are curious and interesting. By the means
OF slips of paper, mpregnated with odide of potas
SUM aud starch, of the chemists have carried
on series of experiments by which they can mea-
sure the quantity of ozone in the atmosphere at any
gwen time. The prepared paper is called an ozon-
ometer; and there is an ozonometrc scale, running
from one to ten. These tests are not always salts
factory, but it has been found that ozone is more
abundant In the upper regions of the air than in
the lower strata,-an observation which is iusti-
he'd by experience in reference to the healthy eff
fects OF mountain air. 1t has also been ascertaned
that ozone is found to be absent in inhabited dwell
ings, upon which the writer whose statements we
are colating, remarks that "a clue is thus given to
the different effects upon the health produced by
indoor exercise and out door exercise, by town life
and country life. by labor in metropolitan work
shop, and labor in the open fields" Experiments
were made in the hospitals at Versailles and Metz.
for days together, without showing the slightest
trace of ozone, while slips hung outside of the win
dows gave seven, eight and even ten degrees of the
oZonometric scale.
The all pervading ozone comes to us continually
from the thunder storm, or the invisible electric
current, from the surface of the rivers and seas:
put from the owners of the oyererowded tenement
house to the whole of sections, ianitors and
car-conductors, no one to take the hint given
by natures great disnfectant, although the best
physicians have asserted, and dinned it into the
ears OF the public for years. that scrofula consump-
ton, and other malignant forms of disease are pro-
duced and perpetuated by neglect of a proper
system OF northumberland Of Commerce.
GEN. ISRAEL PUrNAM-At the meeting of the Con-
nectlcut Historical Society at Hartford, on Wednes-
day, the battle sword of Gen. Putnam was pre-
sented IN behalf OF the representatives of the late
Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor of Pomfret.
hon; judah Dana, a grandson of Putnam, and
once U. 5. Senator from Maine, left this graphic
sketch of Putnam:
"ln his person for height about the middle size:
very erect, thickset, muscular and firm in every
part. Ills countenance was open, strong and ami
mated; the features of his face, large well proper
toned to each other and to his whole frame; his
teeth fair and sound till death. His organs and
senses were all exactly fitted for a warrior; he
heard quickly, to an immense distance; and
though he sometimes stammered in conversation
his voice was remarkable heavy, strong and com
handing. Though facetious and dispassionate in
private, when animated in the heat of battle his
countenance was fierce and terrible, and his voice
like thunder. His whole manner was admirably
calculated to inspire his soldiers with courage and
confidence, and his enemy with terror. The facul-
ties OF his mind were not inferior to those of his
body his penetration was acute his decision rapid,
yet remarkably correct; and the more desperate
his situation, the more collected and undaunted-
With the courage of a lion, he had heart that
melted at the sight of Distress he could never wit
ness suffering in any human being without becom-
ing sufferer himself; even the operation of blood
letting has caused him to faint. In viewing the
field of BATTLE his distress was exquisite until he
had afforded friend or foe all the relief in his pow
er. Once after battle, on examining a bullet
wound through the head of favorite officer Capt
Whiting, who died on the field he tainted and was
taken up for dead Marshal music reused him to
the highest pitch, while solemn sacred music set
him into tears. In his disposition he was open and
generous almost to fault; he never disguised,
and in the social relations of life was never ex-
celled''
The sword is a plain old weapon, singleedged.
HAT backed, and slightly curved.-Asso. Prese.
The New Haven PALLADIUM, of Thursday, saws.
The skating furor reached its height Yesterday and
all the remarkable scenes hitherto witnessed on
Lake Saltonstall were eclipsed. The excursion
train on the New London Railroad took out four
teen cars filled to their utmost capacity with ska
ters and from the number of tickets sold it is known
that not less than $50 went over by that train
alone. Large numbers had also taken the regular
Ii o'clock train; great crowd, of which it is i'm
possible to form any estimate, went over by omni-
buses, carriages and every species of conveyance,
and on foot. The number on the lake during the
afternoon could not have been less than two thou
sand and, usual, all classes, ages and occupa-
tions were fully represented. No description can
give any idea of the fine spectacle afforded when
thousands of merry skaters, both male and female
were gliding about in every conceivable direction
all over the lake. 1t is estimated by the Hartford
papers that about 81 675 worth of skates have been
sold in that city within two weeks.
Washington, for the past three or four weeks
has been visited by prominent Democratic politi-
clans from all parts of the country The States saws
that the sentiment among them appears to be uni
versa that the leading issues of the next Presden-
tlal canvass will be the tariff and acquisition of ter
ritory, coupled with bold and energetic foreign
policy. "And the impression is equally universal
that the man who six months hence is the best type
in popular esteem of these ideas will be the nominee
at Charleston. Platforms are voted nuisances, if
man is not put on them of the stuff to live up to
them. The platform this time will be the candi-
date"
Stephen Elwel, aged S., the oldest of the "Light-
house tribe" of Indians, died at Winstead, Conn,
on Monday. The tribe resides in four huts and is
miserable remnant of the once powerful Nara