The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-02
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NAUTICAL AND SURv EYING INSTRUMENTS,
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GLOBES
NJ THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF TIE ABOVE
GOODS IN BALTIMORE.
PETER WALTHER,
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Formerly with and now SOLE AGENT FOR f. h G.
Nan V.,

oi iFngrTmery gT with and now SOLE AGENT FOR +. y G.
CHARLES LAnB-Any new glimpse of Charles
Lamb is always pleasant A true-hearted admirer
of his, DR.. j. W. Alexander, thus describes pill
grimage to the India House in August, 1851. in his
"Forty Years Correspondence Just publishing
by C. Scribner: 81 inquired of the doorkeeper
about Charles Lamb. He said, Il have been here
since was sixteen wears old, but never heard of
any Mr.. Lamb The doorkeeper of the Museum
remembered him well. 'Oh, yes, Sir; he was
very little man, with such small legs, and wore
knee breeches.' He directed me to private stair
which would take down to the Accountants
Office. went into place below like bank, and
was shown to a principal person. 1t was the room
in which Lamb wrote for many years. Mr.. w.
showed me mis- window and where his desk was. I
look out at the high blank wall, not five feet be-
yOnd, and understood Lambs India House. Mr..
W. showed me a quarto volume of Interest Ia
bles,' with remarks like these in Lambs fine rouEd
hand on the fy-leaf: "a book of much interest,"
Ed. Review "a work in which the interest never
flags.-Quar. Review we may say of this
volume that the interest increases from beginning
to end-Monthly Review Mr.. W. knew Lamb
WELL He was small man-smaller than you
and always wore shorts and black CATERS" Poor
Ella! what would he have said il he had known
that the memory of his combinations" alone
vlVed TO distinguish him from his fellows? But il
he process OF the ages the very India House itself
is now shortly to be sold and will probably be re-
placed by railroad station. In the general clear
ance OF the Company, it is said f5 900 has been
allzed by the sale, at so much per ton, to the
paper mills of the duplicate archives alone so cir
cumlocutory were all the processes of business in
this princely corporation. In this mass Goubtless
ly was included what Lamb emphaticallv called his
'true i1orks."
THE GREAT EAsTERN.-About four hundred men
are at work on the Great Eastern, getting her
ready for sea, and it is expected she will be ready
for her first Atlantic voyage about the middle of
June As there no floating docks sufficiently
large to take her on, it will be necessary, in order
to give her bottom a thorough examination, to
beach her. 1t is said the spot selected for this
purpose is between the Southampton dock entrance
and the Itchen floating bridge. 1t is also said that
St. Aubin's bay, Jersey, may be chosen for this
purpose. The President of the Southampton
Chamber of Commerce stated, at the last meeting
of that body, that there was every probability
that Great Eastern craving dock would soon be
built at Southampton.
NAvAL.-Advices from Montevideo state that
the members of Capt. Papes exploring expedition
we mere all in good health and progressing well.-
me United States side wheel steamer Pulaski and
Ligate Congress were at Montevideo the 10th
Vi reoruary, all WELL The United States steam
gunooat Mohawk Capt. Craven commanding, was
az 3agua Ia Grande on the 10Th ult all well; the
y IN n excellent order having recently been
Sverhauied at Key West. The following United
States vessels were at Vera Cruz nm The 18th
ult;; Corvette, Preble, Saratoga and BROOKLYN, all
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