The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-24
LETTER FROM GRANT THoRBURN-ANEC-

LEI ThOM UhANI IaOhBORN-ANEl En-
D0TE OF GEN. WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Printer-ln 1876, heard the farmer referred
to, narrate the following incident: Said he, when
the British troops held possession of New York,
and the American army lay in the neighborhood of
West FONT, one morning at sunrise went forth to
bring home the cows; on passing clump of brush
wood, heard moaning sound, like person in
distress; on nearing the spot, heard the words of
man at prayer stood behind tree; the man
came forth; it was George Washington, the Cap
tain of the Lords host in North America.
This farmer belonged to the Society of Friends,
who, being opposed to war under any pretext,were
lukewarm, and in some opposed to the cause
OF the country; this man was Tory.
However, having seen the General enter the
camp, he went to his own house. "Martha," said
he to his wife, eve must not oppose this war any
longer; this morning heard the man George
washington send up prayer to heaven for his
country, and know it will be heard"
This farmer dwelt between the lines, and sent
Washington many items concerning the movements
OF the enemy, which did good service to the good
cause.
From this incident, we may infer that Washing
ton arose with the sun to pray for his country; he
fought for her at meridian, and watched for her in
the silent hours of midnight
Every editor OF newspaper, magazine or jour
nal, between Montague Point and the shores of
Oregon, having three drops of American blood in
his veins, should publish this anecdote on the 22d
OF February, (Washngton's birthday, while
woods grow and waters run.
GRANT THoRBURN, Sr.
New Haven, Feb Is, 1860.
This day enter on my SSth year. | voted three
years while Washington was President.
Wool AND CoTToN TRADE IN FRANCE-It was at
first feared in France that the wooden trade would
be destroyed by the introduction of cotton, but it
has continued to increase. Previous to the revou-
ton of 1879 the production of wooden goods was
estimated at 225,000,000 francs annually; at the
close OF the empire it amounted to 37O,OO0,000
francs, and last year it exceeded 500 900 900 francs
with the limits of the empire reduced by the trea
ties of 1915. Previous to the revolution the export
of wooden goods amounted to % 900 900 francs and
atpresent they amount to l60 900 900 francs which
leaves for home consumption only $50 900 900
francs. The native wool is the produce of 35 600 :
600 sheep, and majority of these animals produce
very inferior wool. France produces 80 900 900
kliogrammes of coarse wool, and sc, 900 900 kilo-
grammes of fine wool. The proposed reduction of
the duties on foreign woods is expected to give
further impulse to wooden manufactures.
RAILWAY AcRoss THE AvnGs-At the last meet
ing of the Royal Geographical Society, in London
paper was read by the Secretary, Mr.. William
Wheelwright, on proposed '.Railway across the
Andes That gentleman has been engaged for a
series OF years in an examination of the country in
reference to the project of uniting the Atlantic
with the Pacific, through South America and has
concluded that it could be accomplished through
the pass of San Francisco. The road would be one
thousand miles in length, and would have to over
come an elevation of sixteen thousand feet. The
route has been surveyed and found to be practical
bic, by corps of competent engineers, who have
estimated the cost of its construction &C. 900 per
MILE The gradients would not reach five hundred
feet per mlle A large amount of land required
has been coded by the Argentine Confederation.
SUPERHEATED SrEAM.-Mr. John II. Church. of
Cambridge, England, read paper on Thursday
evening, before the Polytechnic Association of the
American Institute, on "Superheated Steam" He
advocated Its use as possessing many economical
and sanitary advantages over steam which has only
the heat and power generated in its production
Several practical engineers who were present
agreed that superheated steam was superior work.
ing agent, and pointed out the analogy between it
and the motive power of caloric engines. 1t was
stated that the economy of using dry steam was
certained by actual experiments to be equal to a
saving of about 80 per cent.
ENGLISH IGNORANCE OF AMEnICA-The London
DAILY Ne'cs, paper of considerable ability in
speaking of the United States, says the nation has
a Postmaster General, Secretary of Foreign Rela-
tons "a Secretary of Coinage, of Customs and of
Public Lands. These are the five departments of
the United States government, and these are all!
The Americans have no Secretary of the Treasury,
OF War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, and
therefore there can be no just comparison be-
tween the legislative business at Washington and
London
In reply to the question, Can women vote at the
elections of school trustees? DR.. Reyerson SUPER
intendent of schools in the Upper Province, Cana
da, stated in Sarna that, if they rated on the
collectors roll there was nothing in the act to pre-
vent them.
Frederick William Geilhausen, editor of a Demo-
cratic paper at Peoria, Illinois, has been ANNOYED
by the publication of proclamation by the Prus
sian government for his arrest for swindling, for
which he had been convicted and sentenced to i'm
prisonment.
On the 3lst ult. little child, twenty months
old, the daughter of Mr.. Shearer in Scotch Valley,
Blair county, Pennsylvania, fell backwards into a
t9o OF scalding water, and was severely injured
that she died in five hours.
The Kentucky State Senate has appropriated
$4,000 toward the erection of a monument at the
capital of the State to the memory of Daniel Boone,
the pioneer, and the first settler in Kentucky.
On last Thursday morning the back building of the
National Hotel at Frederick, Nd, was DESTROYED
by hre-loss about seven hundred dollars
Another Union meeting was to be held last eve
ming in New York. Gen. Scott was expected to
be present.