The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-24
THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE !
In response to invitation from the trustees of
the Maryland Agricultural College, committee |
of both Houses of our Legislature visited that In
sttutiOn on Saturday last. On their arrival they
were greeted by Chas. B. Calvert, Esq, President
of the Board of Trustees, in address in which be
described the aims and objects of the Institution.
suggested the advantages it might be justly ex-
pected to extend to the of improved agricul-
ture in the State narrated the history of the efforts
and abors to bring the enterprise to its present ad
vanced condition. and solicited for it the continued
favorable regards of the visiting Senators and
Delegates, and the whole Legislature and people of
Maryland, whose honor and benefit it was intended
to subserve. He was responded to by Col. Antho-
ny kimmell of Frederick county, in terms expires
sive of his warm appreciation of the object, and his
favorable wishes for the success of the College.
Following Col. Kimmell a series of declama-
tons by the young men of the College, who
quilted themselves to the great satisfaction of the
yislters. These young gentlemen Messrs.
James j. McCalop, of North Carolina c. l.. Beatty,
OF South Carolina, B. Mclean Hardesty, of Balti-
more, X N. Smith, of Georgia, A. T. Randall, of
Baltimore county, Nd, and William B. Sands of
Baltimore city. The speaking was concluded by
some happy remarks from Hon. J. Dixon Roman,
| OF w Washingtou county, Maryland OF the Col
lege Board of Trustees He spoke of the necessity
OF the continued Improvement OF society for the
attainment of its true ends, and for its main
tenance in tolerably satisfactory condition. Men
would always love their country and their State all
the more for their being worthy of love.
IhGre were some men, he knew, who made 1t a
! pride and boast to vote for nothing except the
| barest necessaries. and there were not wanting
those who made it point to vote even against
them, so anxious were they for reputation for ex
cessive economy He trusted there would be found
none who would refuse to an institution such as
this, uniting the economical, the useful, and the
beautiful in so many respects and to the advantage
of so many of the principal avocatons of civilized
life, the aid it requires, that it has made such
progress, and It's prospects are so fair.
| Alter the vislters had the rounds of the
large and lofty edifice and examined the beginning
OF such collections of varieties as the museum con-
talns, dinner was announced, and table Of ateast
eighty feet in length quickly lined on both sides
with adult and adoescent trenchermen
The College building is situated on the high
ground back of the old Rossburg tavern, on a verv
commanding site; it is of sx lofty stories including
the basement where the dining hall is placed, and
also unusually ample accommodations for washing
and bathing. The whole house is heated by two
| furnaces in the basement, and for ventilation no
edhce can excel it. There are, besides, series of
roomy and lofty recitation and lecture halls and
fifty-one dormitories the same style, capable of
accommodating an indefinite number of students
The present number is fty-four, and fine looking,
| healthy, and intelligent set of youths they are.
They are under the instruction of five professors
The committee from Annapolis lef: the College
soon after p. NJ, to take the express train
east at 81 p. NJ on their return to the capital Of
the State.
NOVEL LAW SU1r.-A novel and interesting law
suit is now progressing in the Sixth District Court
OF New Orleans. The plaintiff is the St Joseph's
Orphan Asylum, and the defendant is A. Magnier
proprietor of the hat store on st. Charles street
under the Amphitheatre. From the papers on file
and the testimony taken, the following appears tc
be the state of the case:
In April of last year, the principal hatters Of the
First and Second districts covenanted among them
selves to close their stores on Sundays. The arti
cles of agreement were regularly drawn up or
parchment with this clincher OF provision, that
whoever should violate the compact, should fol
each offence forfeit the of Sl00 to be appropria
ted to the St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. This doc
ument was signed by A. Magnier, the defendan
here involved, by Johnston & Turner, E. l.. Au
bert, A. D. Arcy, Albert, Drex. Boultroue, Dawson
d Co., and LIE Ronde d Co., all heavy dealers il
hats as the public will at once recognize.
Lately comes into Court the St. Joseph Orphan
Asylum, and, through Durant 4 Horuor, repre-
resents that, under the provisions of the compac
above described, A Magnier is Justly and truly in
debted to said Asylum in the sum of $780, for this
that in violation of said compact with his fellow
hatters, said Magner did, on six separate Sundays
keep open his store on St. Charles street. and di
display expose, exhibit, offer, and SELL the same
on any other day of the week, his hats
And now, through Field & Blocker comes MAG
ner the defendant, and gives for answer this tha
the Orphan Asylum is not party to the compact
, that defendant signed said compact with the ful
understanding that all other hatters were to sig
| it; and that, seeing his nearest opponent in trad
(the halter on the other side of ST. Charles street
near Vannuchi's Museum kept his store open O
Sundays as usual, he did not feel the compac
binding, and so continued to keep his store open
Sunday, as before
l. CHINESE PAPER.-The Boston 9roreler says
"We have received copy of the Pekin Gazette, III
organ of the government. issued daily, and the onl
paper in the Chinese language now published i
tnat country of four hundred and fourteen milior
OF people. 1t is printed on rice paper, of ding
3, drap color, with yellow paper cover. Each pag
contains t@entysix lines of seven characters eaci
In all there are seven pages of fonr inches each
. width, and ten in length Its entire conten
would not fill half column of the Trapeler. 1t
l. remarkable fact that this paper was received Vi
japan and California"