The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-05
EOREIGN ITEMS


says:-"l have recently witnessed the celebration
of religious festival which the Romans always OBJ
serve with peculiar fervor-I allude to the festival
OF ST. Peter in Yinculis during which the chains
that ettered ST. Peter in his dungeon at Jerusalem
and Rome are exposed for week to the generation
OF the faithful. 1t is well known that, by divine
permission, and in order to remove the doubts
which had arisen in certain minds the two chains
used to bind st. Peter at Jerusalem and Rome clung
together when brought into contact and became so
closely Joined that it is impossible to tell where
one ends and the other begins. These chains are
preserved at the church of ST. Peter in Yinculis
6ullt A. D. 442, by the Empress Eudoxia, wife of
valentine Ill, Emperor of the West This prin-
! cess presented to Pope Leo the chain with which
st. Peter was bound by Herod's command, in the
prison OF Jerusalem. having herself received it as
gltt from JuVena, the patriarch of that city. The
church was rebuilt in the 18th century, and mod-
fed in the 17th 1t contains the magnificent statue
OF Moses, by Michael Angelo, and many admirable
paintings by Guercino, Domenichino Guido and
Giulio Romano. During the week the church was
crowded with people, all the more anxious to kiss
the chains sancted by the sufferings of the Prince
OF Apostles, as these venerable relics are only
posed at this festival and cannot be seen at any
other time, without express permission from the
Pope"
| The following is the text of Deputy Ginori's mo-
ton just adopted by the Assembly: "The Assembly
| declares that the dynasty of Lorraine which on
the 9th of April, 1859, voluntarily abandoned
Tuscany without leaving there any form of govern
ment, to join the enemy's camp, has rendered itself
absolutely incompatible with the order and welfare
| OF Tuscany, declares that it does not know anv
manner in which that dynasty be re-established
and maintained without hurting the sentiments of
| the population, without constant and inevitable
danger of seeing the public peace necessarily dis
turbed, to the deriment of Italy for which reasons
it formally proclaims that the dynasty of Lorraine
cannot be recalled received to reign again over
Tuscany"
MoDENA, Aug. 15.-The elections have been fol-
lowed by admirable order A great number of
took IA apdd icf;p eboJ
persons and honorable patriots of all classes of
society have been elected.
MoDENA, Aug. 16.-Signor Farini opened the Ma
tlonal Assembly amidst enthusiastic paudits After
having spoken few eloquent words respecting the
history of Modena during the present century that
OF the Sandman government and that of the diff
1erent provinces, and respecting the late dictator
ship, he placed the powers conferred on him as
Dictator in the bands of the Deputies. He urged
them to express freely and calmly their wishes for
the definite settlement of the constitution of the
country, and addressing himself to Europe he said
we are ready to give to the ciyilised world all the
guarantees OF order and peace, condition that
liberty is assured to u.s. and that Italy shall belong
to the Italians" The Assembly voted an address
of thanks to Napoleon III. At the close of the Sit
ing the the Modenese troops fired salute.
RIFLE CANNoN.-Experimenta trials continue to
be regularly made at the Washington navy ward
on this interesting branch of projectes. The guns
tried are of various weights and sizes some proving
more efficient and comfortable than Others There
was trial yesterday morning, for instance where
in five classes of were tested by actual fir
ing. Of these, Nos. and s, which were from
boat gun throwing a ten-pound SHE'LL were deliver
ed at distances very close each other viz: 343O
and 3,446 yards, each of them just short of two
miles. These shells, We believe, are two pounds
heavier than those which were hurled with such
execution by the French in their recent battles in
Italy. A large and most formidable looking iron
gun, made apparently of the best materials, has
been cast at the yard, and is ready for rifling
it will throw flty-pound she'll, and must prove
terribly destructive. 1t remains to be seen what
the range will be, but three and half to four
miles we should hardly deem to be extravaganza.
From the appearance of things in the ordnance
shops it is plain that keen intelligence and watch
full vigor preside their operations leaving it
manifest that no country will be allowed to be in
advance of this in whatever appertans to effective
weapons of war.-Nat. Intel
MYSTERY OF THE PAsT.-An immense catacomb
can be seen at Rothwe, in the interior ofEngland
near the direct route from Liverpool to London 1t
is an immense vault built of masonry, under
church which dates back apparently for its first
erection to about the year 1850, and contains the
skeletons of thirteen thousand men, probably war
riors of great sze piledup in regular order, that
skulls and large bones only appear on the out
side of the piles The skulls show marks of spear
and Ratchet, but no gunshot wounds, and their ow-
ners probably fell in mortal conflict anterior to the
invention OF gunpowder. The vault was discover
ed by accident one hundred and sixty years ago,
known; in fact the mystery is that there is no his
torical evidence nor Evolutionary legend which
throws the least light upon the obscurity of its
erection. No anatomist, historian ethnologst, an
tiquarian nor savant of any stripe, has been able
to decide the people even, to whom these bones
once belonged. Were they native Saxons or Ro-
mans, Danes, Normans, or what? Nobody has more
than guessed. A plausible theory is that they be-
longed to Danish invaders, slain by the Saxons
about the year HOO; still this is but probability
Most of the Madrid journals of the 18th, publish
articles which protest in violent terms against
declaration made in Washington newspaper by
Mr.. Dodge the ex-Minister of the United States at
Madrid, to the effect that Spain, notwithstanding
her present reluctance, will end by selling Cuba to
the States.
About 1000 people attended the Democratic bar
becue, held at Paris, Kentucky Thursday, in
honor of the election of Capt W. E. Simms to Con-
gress, and Col John A. Pratt to the State Senate
Vice-Presdent Breckenridge addressed the crowd,