The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-06
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL
Hon. Robert N. Ogden died at his residence on
the bay Of st. Louis, on the 10Th ult. in the ftv-
sixth year of his age. Judge Ogden was natiyya
OF North Carolina, of the best Revolutionary stoct.
m ms mother was daughter of that ardent patriot
governor Aoner Nash, and niece of General Fran
els Nash, who fell at the battle of Germantown
while his fathers family of New Jersey. were
among the foremost in their c0uutryg service in
the war of Independence
M. Ledru ROllin is in the painful position of
being able to enjoy neither the substantial adyan-
tage OF accepting the French Imperial amnesty.
nor the sentimental luxury of refusing it. Accord
ing to his own account he celebrating whe-
ther he should act more usefully in quietly con-
senting to be pardoned, or in protesting against
the indignity of forgiveness in the Ercles vein of
MN. Victor Hugo and Charras when it was unpx.
pectedly revealed to him that M choice was left
MN IN the matter He is excluded from the gen
eral act OF grace the ground that he is not al
lowed to be simply political convict having been
found guilty ofparticipation in the plot of Tibaldi
Grlll and Bartolotti against the life of the Empe-
ror Napoleon, Tor which he was tried and sentence
by default In the autumn of 1857. On this discOve-
ry he addresses the English press with Characters
tic fervor asserting in the first place. his innocence
OF the crime laid to his charge, and in the next
MAINTAINS that, II the conspiracy had ever had
real existence, it would be by law and reason SIM
ply political offence
General Atchison, according to the st, Josepb
(Mo.) Journal, has given up politics and is devot-
ing himself to farming. He has about ZOO acres
of land under fence, all of which is as beautiful as
man could desire to see.
The New York correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury says ''AmOng the celebrities who ira
verse the broadway trottoir, day after day, un-
known to the busy million, is the giant form of NJ
Marc Caussidiere, who, you will remember was
the Minister of Police under the short-ived Provi.
slonal French Government of lS48. Caussdiere is
the tailest ana stoutest man in the city, with the
exception, of General Scott The ey-Police Minis
ter is now Nqrchdnd du Ving on Broadway His
gigantic frame and Commanding mien seem to oual-
ny hIm for the responsible and dangerous duties of
ms former office, and one can readily believe the
stories which told of his determination and in
trepidity during the brief and bloody whirl of the
last revolution.
F. W. Cumberland of Toronto. has been ap-
pointed General Manager in America, for the Great
Eastern Steamship Company.
To-day the great prize fight takes place near
Buffalo, between Australian Kelley and Ned Price
Price is to be seconded by John C. Heenan, the
Benicia Boy, and Kelly by Harry Gribbin and
Jem Massey. To avoid loss of time and disputes at
the ring, referee is to be selected before leaving
Buffalo.
AN attempt at economy by one of the Roths-
chlids is told IN French paper. Going to Paris
he registered eight trunks at Metz but only seven
arrived. He was very anxious telepranbed tn
Metz and learned that the eighth had been left be-
hind on account Off excessive weight In reply
to question, he said it contained million twenty
franc pieces The price of registering was at once
augmented from 100 fr. to 625 fr., much to the
capitalists chngrin, though he got the valuable
baggage.
The London correspondent of The Manchester
Guardian has the following:
The death of lsambard Brunei has excited much
sympathy. The verdict on him might be 'sKiled
by the Great Eastern-but less by the anxiety con-
sequent upon the completion and starting of the big
ship, than by the modification and disappointment
at the cost and bungling Of her launching. With
that daring Independence, or rather defiance of
settled opinion, which distinguished Brunei, he had
made arrangements for the moving of the Leviathan
to the water which were in contradiction with
many doctrines hitherto accepted as axioms in ship
launching. Mr. Scott Russell made an offer to the
Company to contract for the launching for an ex-
pense OF fl5,O0s Mr.. Brunei pooh-poohed the
figure as needlessly costly. His own arrangements
cost the Company close on fl00 600. Yet he never
swerved, after once determining on his course. Au-
dacy was one leading feature Of BruneIs engineer
ing character. | heard an anecdote which illus
trates this strikingly. Brunei held views in contra
dictiOn to those of his brethren as to the employ
ment of peculiar kind of Roman cement in rail.
way bridge building. Other engineers objected to
Its use, as 1t hardened too fast to allow the work to
settle properly. Not so Brunei. Trusting to his
own view, he used this mortar in of the first
large bridges constructed by them for the Great
Western line 1t fell after its erection. Brunei
entered the room where the Directors were assem-
bed, IN discomfitted conclave, to discuss the acc
dent. 81 congratulate you, gentlemen, on the fall
of -- BRIDGE was Brune's entry on the sub
ject. Congratulate US on an accident involving
disaster and the loss of - pounds ~ was the
angry and amazed rejoinder. ''Certainly," said
Brunei coolly. "I was just about to put up two
hundred bridges on the same principle"
-Signor Verdi. the celebrated musical compo-
ser, of the deputation from Parma who
proceeded to Turin to ask Victor Emmanuel to ac-
cept the annexation of Parma to Piedmont. When
the carriages of the deputies were proceeding to
the Royal Palace, the population of Turin singled
out that of Signor Verdi for especial notice. and
cries of EiUa Verdi were heard all along the line of
procession. 1t will be reco!lected that it was un-
der this cry Of VipG Verdi that the people Of Italy,
before the war, expressed their wish to have Vic
tor Emanuel their King, the letters of the word
Verdi composing the initial letters of "Victor EN-
manuele Re d'Italia"
Admiral Hope, who was repuIsed at the Pei-ho
was Captain Of the British frigate Eudymion
which had the engagement with the President
commanded by Decatur, at the opening of the last
war with England. After long and sharp en-
gagement it will be remembered, the American
vessel surrendered to the British Squadron.
"A jocose allusion to his peculiar mode of ad-
vertising, made in Bonner's presence the other
day By friend. In answer. he told the following
anecdote: He said that highly esteemed friend
once demonstrated with him concerning his extra
ordinary advertisements. and asked, 'Whv would
not few lines do as well as the repetition OF the
same words, in that ridiculous manner, all over a
whole sheet, or sheets" Bonner replied, IF you
had seen only the few lines, would YOU have asked
more appropriate? This advertising method struck
people as strange, made them take notice. and con-
sequently impressed the fact of the Ledgers exis-
tence upon their minds"
Mr.. Richard Wordell, of South Carolina, sailed