The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-05
From WilEes' Spirit of the Times
LETTER FROM TOM SAVERS.

| CES e" lhGES SPIRIT OF THE TIMEs:"-Dedr SIR
since mad the pleasure of meeting Won at the
Gordon Hotel, in London last Monday. If has
| struck me that you would not perhaps consider II
iGst tlme' alter having come so far to look after
the ''blg match YOU made between TJeenan ord
! me, Just to run down here and see how no ~ ~
| with my training, and to have, if you like an bonr
| or two's walk with me. Whether | win or lose
feel obliged to you for getting this chance, and
II | can afford you any information, or be of anv
service to you, why should like to do so In fact
! sir, have nothing to conceal make mystery Of
| in my preparation and, only am ''not at home'
to general visiers, because it would interfere with
my work, and bother me if | had to see everybody
that called. As said BEFORE / have no secrets
about my method of getting ready for the light:
only take the usual means of keeping in good
health, and nearly all my training is confined, as
old friend, Bob Fuller, who YOU will recoect
meeting with me at the Gordon. | am happy to saw
| am as well as could wish to be at present; and
assure you am also glad to hear that vonr fr;and
Heenan is doing equally we'll hone Won will nv-
cuse me for taking the liberty to saw, that the ra
ports which have been spread about NV bainr 90
greatly disappointed in not meeting Hee-
nan soon after his arrival in this conn
try, are n good deal overdone | was
rather disappointed, it is true, but il
was as much on account of my not being able
to give him, a stranger, the hOspitabe greeting of
an Engllshman, as from any curiosity to know the
Kind OF man have to contend with. | SUPPOSE
however, he had good reasons for the course he
took, and ii it is likely to be Of service to him. |
he may derive from it. He is a stranger here: and
if there is to be any chest of it" before we 90 into
the ring, am more willing that he should have it
than myself. vii do my best, when we do get
there, you may rely upon it. My colors are the
British flag, and if my countrymen do not object
to my upholding them, will try to make sure that
no disgrace to them shall occur through me, even
though / should not come off victorious And
now, sir, as may not see you before the dav of
the fight, (unless you can spare time to run down
here wish you would say in your paper for me,
that eel grateful to the newspapers of your coun
try Tor the kind manner in which they have always
spoken OF me IN connection with the national
match with Heenan. So far as | am concerned |
have not heard of single unfrendly word, and
you cany II you please, say for me in acknOwledp-
ing it, that hope and trust Heenan will have
nothing to complain of from me whilst he is
here, from first to last however the battle NAV 90
After 1T IS decided, and whether win lose, |
thlnk 1T likely may pay visit to America; and
II DO, will in person thank the Americans for
the iiberaity of feeling and great good will that
Chey nave all along shown towards me. Hoping
you may find it convenient to come down. i re.
nam, oear SIR, yours, very faithfully,
Tow SAVERS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN FRANCE.--In conse
quence of the death of Grassot, the comic actor
from the effects Of absinthe coming soon on that of
Alfred de Musset from abuse of the same insidious
beverage, the committee of the Academic de Med
ecIn has Just ordered researches to be made upon
the various results of absinthe- drinking, which
has OF late years assumed an Importance uneaualI-
Gu ny Tue Rul-uTlnklnS OF England or the schnapps
OF Holland. The consequence of this habit are
proved upon examination to have become fearful
all over France and Algeria. The most remark
able OF these, and one which may be considered
unique, is the frequency of hallucination generally
OF the most horrible kind, fancied guilt of murder
and crime every kind, which renders the poor vic
tim liable to suicide, when in apparent pos
session of every security and blessing. The cata-
lOgue of ills brought or by absinthe is painful in
the extreme, when associated in ones mind with
the memory of the joyous, miTth-moving Grassot
or the sensitive Musset The sevent cen symptoms
mentioned i'll the report of Dr. LegrOnd de Saule,
each one more horrible and hideous than the other
as following sure as the death which comes after
ALL to be characteristic of the Indulgence in alb
sinthe should be sufficient to deter the young be
ginner from placing the "emerald poison as poor
Musset has POLITICALLY called it, to his lips, for any
one of them seems to at the poor patient
from all the pleasures and enOyments of the world
and even to deprive him of his place amongst his
fellow-beings.- from Por,s.
The AsroR LIBRARY GHosT.-Burleigh, the New
York correspondent of the Boston Journal, in his
last letter to that paper, writes-Dr. johnson said
-"Say that house in London has the plague,
and all London will 90 and see it." have spent
a few days at the Astor Library. It is quite anus
ing to see the crowds that drift in to see the
place where Dr. Cogswell the ghost of Dr.
Post. Ladies, especially, come in in couples, in
fOurs, alone and with male attendants; with soft
tread and an awe in their looks, with a trembling
voice. they step from alcove to alcove, as if they
thought the form of the spirit would start out and
greet them. And when the Doctor is seen behind
the counter (fOr he has come backl the small talk
runs-"There, that is he" "there he is''- show
ing how deeply the public mind is interested in the
story of the haunted library, and proving that af-
ter all that has been said and written on the mat
ter, men as readily believe in the existence of
ghosts to-day as they did eighteen hundred years
ago, when the disciples thought their Lord was
"only spirit"
CAUSES OF INsANITY.-Dr. Penney, for many
years past the resident physician of the New York
LuQatlp ASVum. i'm nG no
posing or existing causes Of insanity, remarks as
follows:
Misdirected education, by cutivating particu-
lar faculty or faculties, at the expense of the 9th
ers, and thus destroying the balance between them
lays the foundation for arrangement from any
slight exciting cause. The high culture of the rea-
sonng powers, with an entire neglect of the moral
produces an intellectual but bad man, while the
cultivation of the "heart" at the expense of the
"head produces the of feeling, the fanatic The
emotions hold an important place in the produc-
ton OF our happiness, and if they become morbid
y sensitive and particularly separated from intel
lectual control, the harmonious action of a we'll
balanced mind no longer exists For the perfec-
ton OF the mental faculties, the physical organs
must also be developed.
New VIRGINIA GUN.-Mr. Lorenzo Sibert, of
Mount Solon, in Augusta county, Va, has lately
invented new gun, which he calls the "UniOn Pa
cificaor," the capabilities of which he describes as
follows: at has six parallel chambers, which will
discharge 600 balls per minute cOnsecutiyeIy for
II hours. The plan is free from a combination of
complex machinery, cheap of manufacture and can
be easily transported" There are three plans for
discharging the gun-each specific in itself-one of
which he describes account of its novelty: "Af-
ter the magazine has been charged, the gun, when
put in notion will discharge 100 or 500 balls con-
secutively, giving the soldier opportunity to
shelter himself behind anv convenient wall or tree
that may be near by.
LIABILITY OF EXPRESS CoMpANIEs-In the Court
OF Common Pleas of New York verdict has been
recovered against Harden's Express for S2lS, for
damages to goods while in their possession. The
goods consisted of two boxes containing silks ho-
siery, &c, which the defendants undertook to de-
liver at Selma, Alabama The goods were de
ivered there, but part was in damaged condition.
The defendants denied their liability as common
carriers, and set up the agreement expressed in the
receipt of goods, limiting their liability. The jury
rendered a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full
amount claimed.
FIRES IN FREDEBIcK CoUNrY.-On Thursday last
the barn of Mr.. VIM. c. Landers, about one mile
and half north of Franklin Mills Frederick cOun-
ty, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss about
$1,000. The fire supposed to have been
caused by matches that had fallen out of
the pocket of one of the hands working in the
barn On Friday evening the barn, stables, corn
house, and farming implements, and about fifty
bushels of corn, belonging to Mr.. Stephen A. Tho
mas, on Carrolps Manor, was burned up.
At New York, on Tuesday morning, a man whose
name is said to be John q. Glynn, was sent to
Webster, Mass, to be tried for double murder.
He is charged with having, on the 9th November
1856, murdered one Peter NaughtOn and his wife
He escaped immediate V after the murder, and
trace had been obtained Of him until his arrest on
Monday evening.
A new Roman Catholic church is under course of
erection in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, the 9th of
March, it ascertained that volunteers were
wanted to dig the cellar, and soon army of men,
with horses, carts, picks and shovelS, the
ground and commenced the excavation, which
completed on Saturday, without cost to the church.
The Philadelphia papers say that the steam
rigate POwhatan, which is expected to bring the
Japanese Embassy to this country has been ordered
% that port for repairs So it is thought probable
hat the foreign officials will first be landed in that
,ity.
The steel bell, manufactured in Sheffield,
England, for San Francisco, was tried in the New
York Park on Saturday and voted humbug. 1t
said the sound made by it is sharp and quick but
lot strong loud lasting as that of bells of the
common bell metal.
DR.. Huntington, of Harvard College,w recent
Y renounced Unitarianism, was Confirmed in the
manner and form prescribed by the Episcopal
Church, by Bishop Eastburn, in Christ Church,
Mass, last Sunday. The Doctor is
candidate for Holy Orders.
On plantation in Washington county, Miss,
negro murdered two other slaves, and made at
empts on the lives of others. He was captured
lfter desperate resistance, chained to post and
burned to death.
1t is said that after the New York Seventh Regi-
nent move into their armOry, they will have