The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-03

Baden-Baden has long been celebrated in Eu
rope for the curative properties of It's medicinal
springs. If elderly gentleman, who ha!
lived mot wisely, but too WELL" finds himsel
suddenly visited with twinges of the govt, fol-
which colchicum fails TO give him relief, he
posts across the continent TO Baden and trun-
dies himself into one of those world-fmous baths
of 'weak chicken broth" which, from some
subterranean laboratory, the Ursprmg fur
nishes 10 all corners. If, also, another gentleman
has tasted like anchorite until his gastric secrc-
tons have become vitated, and he has acquired,
not only "a lean and hungry look, but terri
bly, irascible temper, under the pressure of that
Protean imp, Dyspepsia he, too, seeks relief
from the ''chcken broth of Baden, which flows
forever translucent and pure from the rocky hill
To Baden likewise resort, during the height of the
season, pleasure-seekers of both sexes, and from
many lands-Counts, Dukes and Marquises, sham
and real; military men on leave, and on the
superannuaed list; fashionable women and
women from the quarter Breda antiquated dow
ayers, and managing mammals with daughters
matrimonialy inclined; spendthrlts and roufs;
Crooks" and ''pigeons'' without number. Bath
ling, make a summer sojourn at Baden one cease
less round of pleasure, dissipation and-regret.
In that little Rhenish town many a princely
fortune has been lost, and many a reputation
compromised. Yet, if there be vice in its gided
saloons, there is also virtue in its waters The
bane and the antdoe companion each other,
and while the former may be provocative of
worse pains than the govt, and more distress
ing consequences than dyspepsia the latter-the
medicinal waters-have proven themselves to be
literally "founts of healing to thousands of in
valids, both saints and sinners.
But Baden-Baden, though it has not often been
honored by the presence Of any higher dignitary
than the Grand Duke, who farms out its gambling
saloons, and draws large revenue from its
health-giying fountains is destined, henceforth,
to acquire additional notoriety as the place
where NAPOLEON III. held conference with
the Prince Regent of Prussia and the minor
sovereigns of Germany. In that little town
were assembled at the last advices, the Kings
of Wuremberg, Bavaria and Hanover, the
Crown Prince of Saxony, and the Dukes of
Baden, Saxe-W eimar, Coburg- Gotha, and Hesse-
Darmstadt. At this social gathering of royal
personages, Invested of all diplomatic formali-
ties, explanations with regard to past mat
tiers were doubtless freely made, and assuran-
ceS with respect to the future cordially exchanged
The times, in Europe, as our readers must be well
aware, n little out of joint, and at this Royal
Congress it was proposed to set them right. Con-
federated Germany has long been watching with
suspicion the policy of the French Emperor, and
ole
revival of the old Imperial theory of natural
boundaries. That theory has been officially disa-
vowed by NJ. THoUvENEL, so far as the Rhenish
frontier is concerned, but the absorption of Savoy
and Nice has rudely shaken German faith in the
pacific intentions of NAPOLEON. This jealous ap-
prehension recently found vent in private letter,
which was addressed by the Prince Regent of
Prussia to Prince ALBERT-the consort of Queen
VICTORIA. BY some means or other it fell into the
hands of the French Emperor, who, learning that
the Prince Regent was about to visit Baden de-
manded of him private interview at that place.
for the purpose of reaching a frank understanding
upon points which, though not exactly in dis
pu,e, were yet susceptible ofkeeping up chronic
irritation between the two countries. Apprehen-
sVe lest the interview thus suggested should
awaken distrust in the breasts of the minor Ger
man rowers the Regent consented to meet NApo-
hEoN a' baden, but only on condition that "a
many Oh the petty sovereigns of Germany &c chose
'h'en' oe P'e'e"t on the occasion. Naporp
promptly assented to this modification oe a.,
inal proposition and this is low = ~ i' o'is
that at the last advices from Europe Tho G1 leneu
royalties were gathered at Baden 10 bold f. :,a
converse with the man they hate and fear e.
the old Congress of Erfurt, there has beon
no such assemblage as the one now under notice
Originating in the most trihing of causes-a
stolen letter-t may yet be productive of singular
ly imposing results. But whether the German
sovereigns have returned home, from the Congress
ofBaden, perfectly healed ofthe idiosyncrases with
Wnlcn they have been heretofore afflicted ,orwhether
they nave exchanged the role of the invalid for
that Of the gambler, and only retire from The place
after they have played for stake which, when the
card is finally turned up, may prove the ruin of
their fortunes, will, in all probability. depend
alike upon the forbearance and maeuanimitv of
NAPOLEON and upon their own prudence and wis.,
dom.