The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-30

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| ward Stanley, from New Orleans.
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From the KnicEerbocker Nrgqzine1
A BULL RACE.
We have been heard to laugh 6some' at times
in our sanctum, believe; but we doubt if a hear,
tier gufaw came from it, than was awakened
by the following Grace with Bull" fer which we
have to thank new correspondent in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. 1t almost eclipses "'The COck-Fight
in Havana which published some time ago; in
which an American sailor unbagged an uncouth
bird in the "pit," which, after receiving unre-
sistingly two three powerful "dips' from tBlack
Sultan, his game antagonist, put one claw on his
neck, and with the other-pulled his head off He
was an American Bald Eagle. Like the horse
racers below described, the Spanish "sportsmen"
growled and grumbled; but they were compelled to
submit to an "ingloriOus defeat"
"Some forty years ago the members of a race
course near Brownsville, on the MonongaheIa pub
lished notice of race, mile heats on a partic-
nar day, for purse of one hundred dollars free
for anything with four legs and hair on
"a man in the neighborhood named Hays had a
bull that he was in the habit of riding to mill with
his bag of corn, and he determined to enter him for
the race He said nothing about it to any one, but
he rode him around the track number of times
on several moonlight nights, until the bull had the
hang of the ground pretty well and would keep the
right course. lie rode with spurs, which the bull
considered particularly disagreeabe, so much so
that he always beloved when they were applied to
his sides.
"0n the morning of the race, HAYS came upon
the ground on horse back-on his bull. Instead of
saddle, he had dried ox-hide, the head part of
which, with the horns still on he had placed on
the bulls rump. He carried a short tin horn in his
hand He rode to the judges stand, and offered to
enter his bull for the race but the owners of the
horses objected. Hays appealed to the terms of
the notice, insisting that his bull had -four legs aud
hair on, and that therefore he had right to enter
him. After good deal of swearing, the Judges de-
clared themselves compelled to decide that the bull
had the right to run, and he was entered accord
inglv.
"When the time for starting arrived, the bull
and the horses took their places. The horse-racers
were out of humor at being bothered with the bull,
and at the buresque which they supposed in
tended, but thought that it would be
as the horses started.
''When the signal given. they did start.
Hays gave blast with his horn and sunk his spurs
into the side of The bull. who bounded off with a
terrible bawl at no trifling speed-the dried
hide Tapping up and downand rattIing at every
jump, making combination of noises that had
never been heard on a race.course before. The
horses all flew the track, every seeming to be
seized with a sudden determination to take the
shortest cut to get out Of the RedstOne country and
none of them could be brought back in time to save
their distance. The purse was given to Hays.
"a general row ensued; but the fun of the thing
put the crowd all the side of the bull. The
hOrsemen contended that they were swindled out of
the purse; and, if it had not been for Hays horn
and oX-hide, which he ought not to have been per-
mitted to bring upon the ground, the thing would
not have turned out as it did.
"Upon this HAYS told them that his bull could
beat any of their horses any how, and if they would
put up one hundred dollars against the purse he
had won, he would take off the ox-hde and leave
the tip horn, and run fair race with them. His
otler was accepted and the money staked They
again took their places at the starting post and the
signal was given. HAYS gave the bull another touch
with his spur, and the bull gave a tremendous bel
low. The horses, remembering the dreadful sound,
thought all the rest coming as before. Away
they went again in spite of all the exertiOns of their
riders, while Hays gaoped his bull around the
track again and won the money!
Bully for the Bull!
ANOTHER ROYAL MARRGAeE.-The London Court
Journal, which ought to be authority on such
subject, has announced the coming bethrothal of
her Maesty's second daugher, the Princess Alice
to Prince Louis of Iesse Darmstadt a nephew of
the reigning Grand Duke. This union is only to
be noted in political sense, inasmuch as it will ce-
ment still more strongly the close alliance already
existing between the royal families of Great Bri-
tain and Prussia, the bridegroom elect being
through his mother, cousingerman to the King
and to the Prince Regent of the latter Kingdom
Hesse Darmstadt is by means the smallest of
the many German principalites. Its area is 3,76G
square miles; the population, eight years since,
numbered $4,000; the army upwards of 10000
men; the chief cities Darmstadt and Mayence;
the chief rivers the Rhine and the Neckdr. The
personal qualifications of this young couple be-
long to the realm of gossip, which we no not de-
sire to aid in extending beyond the enormous linn
its that it has recently attained. But may add
that if in years-23 and l8-the pair will be fairly
mated also is the match a suitable one in anOh-
er respect. We should scarcely care to see the
fortunes of daughter of England linked with
those of Abs0lutism. Hesse Darmstadt is consti-
tutional monarchy.-N Y. Albion.
IMPROVED OPHTHALMosCOPE.-An Ophthamoscope
fitted with adjusting tubes, rests for the patients
head, by which the merest tyro may be enabled to
see the deep structure of the eye has come into
use, made by Berlin Optician 1t is large, cum
brous affair." and requires to be fixed to the table
or elsewhere before use. The patients head being
fixed against a rest, the telescope slides of the in
strument adjusted to proper focus, and, this
once effected, dosen observers in succession may
look through the eye-piece, and all of them see
actly the part of the retna without any
trouble 1t is like looking through a microscope
tube; the object never gets out of focus, and tie
proper adjustment having been effected by skill
full hand, any one can see the object.
News FROM THE HAYES AacrIC ExpEDITIoN.-The
United States Vice Consul at Copenhagen, Dem
mark, furnishes the gratifying intelligence that
"ofiicial' package from DR.. Hayes, commander of
the Arctic Expedition, has been received by one of
the Royal Greenland Company's vessels from Up
ernavik. This assures the friends of the expedi-
ton of the prompt arrival of Dr. Hayes at the port
nearest the field of his labor. The next European
mail brings letters from the Arctic voyage. DR..
| Hayes promised his friends that they should hear
| from him about the lst of November. That prom
| ise has been fulfilled
SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN SHTPs.-The clipper
| ship Lightning, built by Donald Mckay, in Boston,
Mass, for Bain's line between Liverpool and Aus
tralia, has beaten every ship on that route In IA
| voyages out and back, her average time was onlv
II days, the shortest passage being 6SK days, the
| longest So days. The American built ship Red
Jacket is also very FAST and s in the same line. In
| II voyages her average time, out and back, was
only 50 days.
THE CHEsAPEAKE AND OHIo CANAL for the past
week was not quite so busy as on the previous
week, yet the tolls collected at Georgetown amount
| ed to almost S5, 500 A detention of boats
| Cured above WilliamspOrt owing to the sinking of
a boat at guard lock, which has caused consider
able delay and collection of many boats above the
spot. No other difficulty is known of throughout
the line-Notional hteUigencer Of Monday.
RACE BETWEEN FLORA TEMPLE AND PArcHEN.-The
| between the celebrated horses George Nj.
Patchen and Flora Temple, over the White Spring
Trotting Park, at Geneva, resulted as follows =
| The first heat Flora Temple in 2.32, Patchen
leading to the three-quarter pole four lengths in
advance, and Patchen throwing a shoe in the first
| quarter. Patchen won the second heat In 22S;
! Flora the third heat in 20. Patchen diStanced
Flora in the fourth heat. Very heavy track.
The of the State of Delaware has been
! completed, and shows the following results: White
and free colored inhabitants ll0, ,542; slaves l,SO5;
| number of dwellings 10 257; families 10 264; farms
! 6,666; slave owners els. Total population of the
| State liz, ,347 against 81 ,532 in 1850. There
! 1920 slaves in the State in 1850
1t is said the wine crop of France is likely to be
| very poor this season, and the opinion is that 1t
will fall short of the last Vines are affected
by the Oldlum, IN the south OF France prlnclpaly,
and the grapes are nearly destroyed; in some places
sulphur has been employed successfully to destroy
| the disease.
A mill is now in process of construction at Lee" Lev
istown Maine, which will cost sum total oil S!0o-
OOO-tbe buildings 100000 the machinery, $780,
600 Its working capacity will be 900 spindes,
and it will give employment to about ioOo persons;
II will be in operation about the beginning Of
April next.
The New Orleans True Delta states that the day
after the receipt of the news of the Pennsylvania
election, forty-seven letters addressed to his eek
celency" Abe Lincoln were deposited in the Post
Office there for transmission to the raispltter.-
Wonder if the writer's want a Job.
Excellent Baldwin apples are said to be now sell
ing at Worcester, Mass. for IS cents per barrel
The crop is enormous, and one farmer alone mas
raised over 500 barrels.
The body of Alexander Quinn, the man VINO SO
mysteriously disappeared at Philadelphia some Two
weeks since, was found in the Sehuylklii river ="
Sunday morning. -
A letter from Kansas published in the Chlcago
Tribune of Saturday last, says that there are
thousand persons in that territory must ~o
or perish before spring.