The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-25

Some fifteen or twenty years ago, an English
military officer. who had been twice widowed and
was intent upon matrimony for the third time,
came to this country aud after making careful
reconnaissance, laid siege TO 'Ladies Seminar
on Long Island So secretly were his approaches
conducted that before the petticoat garrison
were aware that the place was actually invested
the besieger had captured one of their number and
carried her off in triumph OF course, in making
his selection from among the body OF fair damsels
assembled within the walls of the Educational for
tress, the gallant Captain EDWARD W. H. ScHES-
LEY, took especial care TO choose the wealthiest.-
His choice fell upon the youthful Miss CRoGHAN
of Pttsburg an heiress, and nearly related to that
famous Major CRoGHAN, whose heroic defence OF
Fort Stephenson against superior British force,
commanded bv General PRocToR, forms one of the
most snirt.stirring episodes in the history of the
war of 1912 We are told that the prize thus car
ried off, by the adventurous Captain ScHENLEY,
was worth her weight in gold;' that the pro-
pertv. to which she was heiress, in and around
Pittsburg. was, and still is, ofimmenSe value; that
her immediate relatives felt deeply outraged by
this unexpected act of ''Britsh aggression upon
American soil, u" and that various Intellectual at
tempts were made to wrest the ''beauty and booty
from the hands OF the conqueror. Finally, how
ever, these asperties were smoothed down.
Having won the lady, the Captain next
set himself TO win the hearts of her
triends-and succeeded. He took up his
residence in Pitsburg, and the good citizens
of that smoky town rejoiced to think
that the CRoGHAN tenements, many of which were
in a sadly diapidated condition, would speedily
give place to ''palatial structures and that the
CgOGHAN lands, which were, for the most part
vacant lots would be either built up into hand
some blocks of warehouses, or converted into trim
gardens. These dreams not, however, des-
tined to be realised. "The Honorable Captain,
mournfuly exclaims the Pittsburg Post, "though
''among us, was not of us" He had won his
money by coup de main, and he soon showed that
he was determined to take care Of IL People had
called him Cosmopolitan" but they soon dis
covered that he was insuar. They imagined that
he would prove generous and liberal, but they
finally came to the conclusion that he was mean
The city Of Allegany brought bill against him
for thirty thousand dollars 'for paving improve
'ments in front of his property" which he refused
to pay. The corporation instituted suits against
him for the amount ''for which judgments have
"been obtained in part" but the Captain still de-
clines to fork over He, moreover, strenuously
recommended the reputation OF the Allegany
county bonds that were issued for railway pur-
poses, and, leaving his pavingtax still unsettled
contributed the sum of five hundred dollars "to
Sustain newspaper which advocated resistance
''to the law, and which advised the people to alb
'rogate the decisions of their own courts.' Find
ing that the people were not disposed 10 sanction
any such hgh-handed measures, the gallant Cap
tain concluded to shake the dust of Pitsburg from
off his feet and return to England. We told,
in this connection, that the parting benediction,
which he bestowed upon certain journals in that
city, did not sound exactly like blessing In
deed, one of the recipients most unqualifedy des-
cribes it as Glow flung" Bnt if Captain EDWARD
W. II. SCHENLEY has lost caste in Pittsburg, he has
gained distinction in his native country. Dart
mouth has added fresh rose to his chapet Dart
mouth wanted an NJ. P. The Captain presented
himself and was accepted. By what 'little ar
'rangement' this prompt recognition of the Cap
tain's tlanscendert merits was brought about, is
not stated in any contemporary history. But the
fact is patent that the Pittsburg repudiator has
become member of the British Parliament tits,
perhaps, fortunate for his eqnauimity of temper
that SYDNEY SMITH did not live to see a quasi
American repudiator answering to his name at
roll-call in the English House of Commons. His
trenchant sarcasm would have kept the new men,
her for Dartmouth more uneasy in his seat than
was that medieval gentleman, who once upon a
time, sat upon a cushion which was stuffed with
the hair of St. GENGULPHUs.