The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-27


THE ESCAPE OF Hon. WILLIAM Preston FROM
DRowNTNG.-The Louisville Journal of W ednegday
gives us the particulars of the escape of Mr. Pres
ton, our Minister to Spain. 1t says:
BY letter received in this city yesterday from
Hon. William Preston, our Minister to Spain, we
learn that on the I'd inst he sailed with his family
from Marseilles in Spanish vessel, on his route
for Madrid. They had not proceeded far, when
the vessel struck rock and all the passengers were
In imminent peril. Col. Preston placed his wife
and two daughters in one boat, three daughters in
another. and embarked himself with his son in
third. The ladies were all landed in safety, but
the boat in which the Colonel and his son were,
was stranded on rocky shore: the Young gentle
len was thrown out, but was rescued by the in
habitants who had gathered on the beach, The
Colonel himself was drawn back three times bv the
receding waves and undertow, and though event
ually he was saved by the desperate exertions of
Maltese and Catalan boatmen, he was in an an.
parenty llieess condition. RestOratives were eff.
GENTLY administered, and we are pleased to state
tnat at last advces the Colonel and all his family
were entirely recovered and had gone back to Mar
seiiies. inns fortunate termination of an accident,
which was so fearful in its perils, will carry low to
the many friends of our distinguished townsman
OBITUARY.-Mrs. Edward S. Livingston, reict of
Edward Livingston, the statesman and jurist, died
at her residence, Montgomery place, yesterday af-
ternoon at five O'Clock. Mrs. Livingston was in
the seventy -nnth year of her age, having been
born in the year 1881. She was afflicted With no
special disease, and expired simply of old age and
debility. She leaves behind her but one child. Mrs.
Barton, wife of DR.. Thomas L. Barton, of Phiadel-
phia. Mrs. Livingston was one of the few remain
ing representatives of the of the active po-
tlcal period which followed closely upon the revo-
luton. Her husbands distinguished position must
have brought her into familiar acquaintance with
many OF the most illustrious personages of our
earlier annals. In the latter part of her life Mrs
Livingston was wholly withdrawn from society, al
tnough she always retained the livelest recollec-
lions Of the brilliant scenes through which she had
passed.-N Y. Post of Thursday evening.
- New FUsIBLE MErAL.-Dr. B. Wood, of Nashville,
lenn., has discovered valuable alloy which fuses
at l5Oo F., much lower temperature than the fus-
ing point of any metal previously known. 1t is es-
peclaily adapted for light castings and is composed
OF to parts of cadmium, Z to parts of bismuth
of mercury the fusng point may be lowered to al
most any extent, without impairing the tenaciy of
the metal. Cadmium is well known to possess the
property of promoting the fusibiity of several met
ais, as copper, tin, lead, and bismuth, though
on silver, antimony, and mercury, it has no such
effect. These, and other properties possessed bv
cadmium, will probably render it as valable in some
OF the useu arts as 1t Is interesting to the scientific
| enquirer.
THE CATTLE DIsEAsE-Great apprebensions were
felt in Massachusetts,, when the cattle disease sud
denly disappeared in the early part of the summer
that it would break out again, and perhaps more
violently, at the period of the autumn rains and
irosts. But this fear has been agreeaSly disap.
n,
OF the justly dreaded epidemic are visible The
empirical put efficient measures of the commission
| ers probably checked and limited its course Yet
there is no certainty against its recurrence and
| every means should be taken, not only to Guard
against it but to determine its diagnosis lat
ter has not been done. Pleuro-pneumonia is oply a
name, and this designation of the disease has done
nothing to nix a knowledge its causes or cure.
| STREET LOCOMOTIVES The Cinciunatians are de-
slrous that the proprietors of the passenger rail-
| locomotive rpcnntlU riad kbaE To-
engine upon their city railroads. They do not
raise any objections, and have no fear of their
horses being scared. In various populous cities ex
perlments are being made for the introduction of
street locomotives. In Paris, as in London. con-
siderable success has attended them, though tbey
have not, as here, city railroads creating the neces
sity for such kind of locomotion. 1t is only in
Philadelphia that the horses have such sensitive
nerves that they are frightened at car drawn bv
steam, at moderate speed. Ii our horses are SO
easily frightened, the steam supersedes them
the better and safer will be our public travelling
Phil. Ledger.
The undertaken of Roxbury, last week, exhumed
the remains of the father and grandmother of the
| Revolutionary patriot, Gen. Joseph Warren. They
were taken from the old burial ground on Eustis
street, and to be carried to Forrest Hill Gene
terry, for reinterment. The thigh bone and one of
| the teeth of the father of Gen. Warren were the
only portion OF the remains preserved entire
Mr. ancey, OF Alabama, is step son of Rev. n
.. .. Bernan, ID. d., of Troy n Y who when a
young man, was teaching in that State. and mar.
| rieo Mr. L ancey mother, young widow with
two or three small children. DR.. Beman settled in
| Troy, bringing Mr.. Yancey then with him, when
! he was fitted to enter Williamtown College,