The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-08


New AYECDorE OF BENEDICT ARSoLD.-The HIS
toricat Magazine has some interesting extracts
from the private journal kept BY Mr.. Nathaniel
Cutting, of Massachusetts, during his residence
abroad in the service of the United States. This
journal has recently fallen into the hands Of Will
liam q. Brooks, Esq, Of Boston, who prepared the
article allowed named. In 1913, Mr. Cutting was
appointed by President Washington to proceed to
Lisbon with secret dispatches to COlOnl David
Humphreys, the American Minister, and to act as
Secretary to the Mission to Portugal. While Mr..
Cutting serving in this capacity, he was an in
innate acquaintance of Mr.. Mattra, the British
Consul at Tanger. This English officer related to
Mr.. Cutting the following story of Gen. Benedict
Arnold ''that despicable traitor to the cause of
American fire DOM" 1t reveals his odiOus charac-
ter in new aspect of treason against his native
land. The statement stands thus recorded in Cut
ting's journal:
''Several years since, as early as 1855, when Mr.
Mattra in England, he became slightly &C.
quainted with Arnold, who, knowing his situation
in Morocco, solicited an opportunity of proposing
to him a scheme of business that could not fail of
being lucrative. Mr.. NJ. at length gave Arnold
the hearing. The plan he proposed was that Mr.
NJ. should, by his interest at the Court of Morocco
procure commissions for sundry corsairs, which he
(ArnOd) would come and fit out from Tangier-
'But,' observed Mr.. NJ, who would you cruise
against? The Emperor of Morocco has no mari
time enemy; nor does he wish to provoke rupture
with any of the European powers Arnold re-
piled, But the Americans have yet no treaty with
Morocco; ! would capture their vessels; | know
very well the track where to find them; by such an
expedition we would soon acquire ample fortunes
Arnold pressed the matter very seriously for
time, but finding that Mr.. NJ. rejected the ne
farious scheme, and steadily refused to exert the
smallest influence toward obtaining the commits
sions in questions the arch renegade solicited that
he would assist him in procuring Algerine commits
sions. Mr.. Nj. heartily disgusted with such yilai-
ny, assured Arnold that he had no interest and
scarcely any acquaintance at or near Algiers, and
therefore explicitly excused himself from partcipa-
n a Aiahn oil
once, said Mr. NJ, but perhaps dozen times, that
Arnold seriously addressed him to the foregoing
purport. Boston Transcript.
THE Story OF A FRENCH GIRL.-The New York
correspondent of the Boston Traveler writes:
GA short time since one of the many agents that
are abroad selecting musical talent for America,
sent to the care of Adams Co.'s express, a
French girl who engaged to teach for one
year in a Southern institution on salary of $500
per year. On her way to New York she saw
German merchant of this city, who was smitten
with her, for she was a young lady of dazzling
beauty. He followed her to New York, and made
a formal proposal for her hand. The gentleman
was well known to the bead OF the house of Adams
& Co. as gentleman oc wealth and STANDING =
But the young teacher declined the proposal at
least till her contract for teaching should exnire
and the consent o. her parents obtained But the
gentleman was not to be put off The lady had
great confidence IN the integrity of the company,
and relied on what the house of Adams & Co.
said OF the honor and position of the suppliant-
She reiented and yielded, and cards now out
for the wedding at one of our most fashionable ho-
tells and this young adventurer, with nothing but
her talents and beauty, will soon be at the head OF
an establishment with husband worth $780, 000
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