The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-07

vice almost to an equality with that or England;
and the conditions of his tenure of power make it
essential that he should keep so. His eortsare
questonably devoted to that object, but such de-
sign scarcely renders him amenable TO the suspicion,
much less the Charge of being actuated by an in
ordinate spirit of conquest nor does it afford even
decent preteXt for arming against him. The
latent enmiy of other sovereigns may vet develope
itself in open hostility, and his only security
against it rests upon the strength of his army and
navy, and is his justification in declining to weaken
either.
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CONFESSION OF YOUTHFUL iNCENDARY.-On Mon
day night last there occurred fire in New York
under circumstances which led the detectives to be-
lieve that 1t was the work of an incendiary. One
Simon katz and his nephew with young man
| named Jacob Davis, were arrested Suspicion
| The following is the confession of the nephew
My name is Louis katz; am sixteen years of age:
| was born in Germany, and have no parents living
| NJ uncle is Simon katz. On Monday afternoon
| the day OF the fire, my uncle said that must burn
out the store that night. at about O'Clock that
afternoon saw him place lot of paper between |
some boxes and barrels within three four feet |
| from the can which contained three gallons of fluid
On that evening my uncle told me how to set the |
place on fire. He told me that he was going to the
Lodge in Delaney street. and that was to shut up
the store between 10 and IL o'clock, then to turn |
off the gas light candle, and wait until Jacob was
| asleep, when | was to take candle and set fire to
the paper; as soon as had done this to 90 to bed;
then was to wait in the back part of the store
until the fire outside, and the alarm given
then to go in the entry out at the side door, and
call fire, so as to wake the people up stairs, and
| give them opportunity of saving themselves |
did just my uncle had told me to do. | had Sc
| of my own money, and with it bought an over
coat on Sunday last that coat took to my unce's
house on Monday, so that it should not be burned
| asked my uncle if | had not better take NV other
clothes from the store to the house. He said ooh
never mind; they did not cost much and will buy
you some more" David slept in the store with me
| for about six weeks. He was not a clerk in the
store My uncle told me to wait until Jacob was
asleep before set fire to the paper. | thought |
was obliged to do as my uncle told me, as be said
nothing would be done to me If ] did. The above
statement is all true.
[Signed,l Louis KAGz.
| FALL OF A CHURCH STEEPLE IN New HAvEN.-On
Saturday evening very severe gale Of wind, az
companed by rain, came upon us from the North
east, and ragged with great fury for several hours.
At about eight O'Clock the tall and slender spre of
the Wooster-place Baptist Church was blown over,
| with a crash which was heard half mile or more
to the eeward, and yet the gale was so strong that
it was not heard in the lecture-room of the
church to which the steepe belonged. The spre is
about 235 or 24O feet high, and has long been the
terror of the neighbors, who feared some such ca
| tastrophe. Fortunately, the wind was Just in the
right direction to send it clear Of the neghboriug
houses, and it fell in precisely the spot in which it
could do the least injury. 1t fell across the street.
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force which mashed the timbers like ppe-stems,
and broke the lighter woodwork up into innumer-
able splinters and fragments A young tree which
stood in the track of its fall stripped of every
branch, as if with Ratchet, and its upright trunk
| stands amid the ruins smooth as if trimmed by
hand. Aside from crushing two lengths of the iron
ience of the Green, this was all the damage except
to the church itself The tower OF the church is of
brick, twenty inches thick, and the tmbers of the
spire were carried down into the tower about
twenty feet, to n level with the roof only 1t was
| Of fhn hasn & = ,,F Al.
the front wall being thrown out BY the spire which
carried with it the gabe-end and front of the por-
| tco. and three of the pillars which supported it.
but doing no further damage to the body of the
| church than breaking few panes of glass. The
bell fell with the tower, and the top of it was bro
ken otf.-Neo HaUen journal, Noe. 5.
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF RICHMoND.-The Lord Of
the GoodwoOd races is dead. We mean no disre-
spect in thus naming the Duke of Richmond, whose
death at London, on the 2lst of October, is an
| nounced in the late news from Europe. His Grace,
| as proprietor of Goodwood Park, near Chichester
and as the patron of the famous races held there in
July OF every year, is better known to the Ameri-
can world than he is as one of the great mobiles of
England. His rank, lineage and the chief events
OF his life are summed up as follows:
| Charles Gordon LenOX, Duke of Richmond, born
1871, succeeded his father fourth Duke, in 1872
married in 1917, to Lady Caroline Paget, daughter
of the Marquis of Anglesea. lie was in the seven
| tieth year of his age at the time of his decease-
The following were his titles 1675-Duke of
Lenox, Earl of Darnley, Baron of Torbolton in the
Peerage of Scotland. In the Peerage of England
lG75-Duke of Richmond, Earl of March, and
Baron of Stettrington. In the Peerage of France,
1884, Duke d'Aubigny; he was also Knight of the
Garter. He is now succeeded by his son, Charles,
Ru Lsds seats HUH THE
Scotland; Goodwood Park and Weststoke, Sussex,
England. His residence in London was 81 Port.
land Place The Duke was descended from Charles
the Second, of England, the first Duke being
natural son of that monarch. The following Offices
were held by the late Duke Chancellor Of Mare
schal College and University, Aberdeen; Priyv
counsellor, Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, Vice Adj
nlraI OF the Coast OF Sussex, Colonel of the Royal
sussex Militia, and Aid-de-camp to the Queen.
MoRE GoLD.-Gold is likely to become drug, if
Its value is to be governed by the law of supply and
demand. new gold field has lately been discoy
cred IN the far-of island of New Zealand, which
bids fair to be one of the richest in the world Tho
particulars OF this discovery first made known
by Dr. Hochstetter geologist of the Austrian Elk
ploring Expedition in lecture delivered by him at
Nelson, In New Zealand, and have since been com
munlcated to scientific bodies in Europe Ii sounds
strange to hear of scientific lectures in New Zea
| land, an island which, but a few wears since was
seldom spoken OF, except in connection with canni
ballsm The geoogist referred to states that "the
whole region on the eastern side of the Aorere val
ley, which rises from the river bed towards the
mountains, a superficial extent of about 40
English miles, is gold field" This bed consists of
conglomerate deposited on the top of slate rocks
reaching in some places thickness of twenty feet
and ''seems to be prepared in gigantic manner by
the hand OF nature, from the detritus of the noun
tans, Tor the more detailed and minute operations
OF man." An examination of given quantities of the
drtor soil give for the cubic yard from 25s to 3Os
| when the earth has been washed from the surface
the product would be less in proportion With these
| data, the following calculation has been made |
Reckoning the gold field at so English square miles
and the product of the conglomerate containing |
the precious metal at but 5the cubic yard its total
value would be t22, 600 sterling or SIP 100000.
DIED OF JoY.-A singular French love story is |
| MT I'D harn 10 ~
young lady OF Marseilles in love with a cousin
who was supposed to be drowned on lost steamer
Inc young lady,sick with grief, about entering
convent, when she dreamed thrice 1.-THE old sinner
stltious number) that "Charles' her lover had an
peared and told her he yet alive. So she re-
fused to become nun and came back home from
the convent.
Her first thought was for her little room, where
she gathered so many dear tokens and souvenirs
from her cousin. She hastened up stairs and went
so last that her delighted parents could hardly fol-
low her. But when she was on the landing whom
did she see standing in the door of the room, 90
long shut up? Charles, her aianced, who looked
at her, smiling with happiness, and opened his
arms to clasp her to his bosom. 1t was no longer
dream Charles held her locked in his arms kiss
ing her and mingling his tears with her own But
when he opened his arms again. to receive the caress
OF her parents, she sunk and dropped heavily on
the floor. She was dead dead with surprise and
happiness dead without uttering one crv without
heaving sigh
To PREVENT SHIPPERS IN HAMs-In n communi-
ton to the Cotton Planter, Mr.. w. Melville saws:
"There is, according to my experience nothing
easier than to avoid the skipper and all worms and
bugs that usually infest and often destroy so much
bacon. 1t is simply to keep your smoke house
dark, and the moth that deposits the egg will never
enter it. For the past twenty five years have at
tended to this, and never had my bacon troubled
with any insect. have now hanging in my smoke
house, one, two and three years old and the Oldest
are as free from insects when first hung up | |
am not aware of other causes for the exemption of
my bacon from insects, but simply from the fact |
that my smoke house is always kept dark Before |
adopting this plan had tried many experiments
but always either without success or with injury
to the flavor of my bacon. | smoke with green |
hickory. This is important, as the flavor of bacon |
is often utterly destroyed by smoking it with i'm
proper wood.'
TIE PRINCE IN THE UNITED SFATEs-The last |
number of the London Punch contains the following
verses:
THE NEXT DANCE.
Yes, dance with him, lady, and bright they are
Believe us he's worthy those sunshiny smiles |
wave Ger him the flag Of the stripe and the star
And gladden. the heart of the Queen of the Isles t
We thank you for all that has welcomed him-mo
For the sign of true love that you The Old Land
Proud Heress of all that his ancestor lost S
You restore it in giving that warm, loving hand.
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