The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-20

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the inevitable "Helen of Troy :" "
a wis, Is pay thirty shillings week have seen him
am" ~ III m te shop with as much pluck industry as
any OF MS mates. Between ourselves tbara - ~ -
oottom-or rather at the top-of this az ne
Young and pretty girl of the lower order whom bG
Lordshp IS unwilling to abandon, even To live in th
highest and most enved sphere of society =" 'ne
we regret to spoil ''sweet a romance " hut
the iaets in the case do the mischief and not we
LORD entwOrth has exhibited a verv decided tasto
! ana talent for mechanics, and has for wears mast
| been pursuing his studies practically under the
supervision of Mr.. Scott Russell. Love laughs We
are toid' at Iocksmiths, and once made painter of
blacksmith; but he has not yet succeeded in fas-
tenlng peer to the forge.-N. Y Times.
LOLA MoNTEz-Of this remarkable woman we
have this sad picture:
"Lola Montez is stopping at Astoria with Kind
1r!end, but, alas! in what condition of body and
mlnd! She is not exactly imbecile and vet what
term Will more clearly express her mental helpIess
ness physically she is an invalid of a melancholy
description. female friend of mine saw ker day
or Two ago, and 1t was enough to make ones heart
bleed to note her picturesque Innings of the won
derfully changed woman. Lola was costumed in a
haltnight and hafmorning robe, and she sat in
pretty garden, her hollow cheeks sunkeu eyes and
cadaverous complexion forming a remarkable CON
trast to the gay flowers. She unable to utter
an lntelligible word except spasmodicay and after
repeated efforts. Her mouth was frothing like that
OF one IN partial commissions, and she was uncon-
sciousy wiping it, little boys do, by drawing it
across the sleeve of her dress. In fact she had the
strange, wild appearance and behavior of a ouct
the world ar1GS I ,osI 0 vo %.Ts M interest IN
her eventfu history! What a study for the brilliant
ana thoughtless! What a sermon on human
vanty!'
THE New PLANEr.-The following is the official
notice of the discovery of the new planet at the
Washington Observatory:
Observatory, WAsHIXGToY,
September H. 1860.
SIR: planet was discovered here last Saturday
night by Mr.. Ferguson at Oh I9m 38 Gs in 23b
Am. Is. 5S. of A. r.. and 80 90f
nation 1t was first seen by him the night previ-
Gus, but the observations not conclusive as to
its true character. This is the ffty-nintb in tbn
family of asteroids, and the third discovered by this
indefatigabe assistant
it remains to be whether we have been
anticipated in this discovery. If we have not and
unless you direct otherwise, propose to name this
new star from the Indian mythology of this conti-
nent Respectfully, NJ. F. MAUnY,
Superintendent.
Secretary of the Navy, Washington.
A SOLDIERS ESTIMATE OF GLoRY-Sir Charles
Napier, so distinguished for his military services in
India, on receiving dispatches from the English
Government making him Governor Of Scnde with
additional pay, and ordering a trumphal column
TO be cast from the guns he had captured, wrote:
"l wish the government would let 20 back to
my wife and girls: it would be to than
pay glory, and honor. This is glory, is it? Yes
Nine princes have surrendered their swords to me
on the field of battle, and their Kingdoms have been
conquered by me and attached to my own country.
L care so little for it that the moment | can, all
shall be resigned to live quietly with my wife and
girls no honor or riches repays to me, is agreeable
only as it may enable me to do good to these Door
people. Oh, if / can do any good to serve them
where much blood has been shed in accursed
war, shall be happy. May never see another
shot fred
From OccoQUAN-The Georgetown correspon.
dent of the Washington Star, says: "The Repub-
lican fire at Occoquan is not altogether extinct, it
seems but still shoulders and occasionally blazes
up. They caught one of the active participants in
| cutting down the pole day or two since, and
| shaved his horses tall talked of riding him
of Abes rails, and played a number of other prac-
! tical jokes on him. Our informant states that it
| being understood that General +. Hutton was to
address Democratic meeting at that place, the
| Republicans in spirit of bravado, erected anoth-
er pole on Saturday last; but not of the magnf-
| cent proportions of the former one"
A DAUGHTER OF ABDEL- KApEn TO BECOME A SrsTEn
OF CHARIrY-A letter in the Nord, SAYS: ga
| daughter of Abdel-Kader has recently arrived at
Iarls Tor the purpose OF entering the Order of the
| Grey Sisters. When the Emir, her father resided
at Breussa, he sent the young lady to Constantine
| pie to be educated. There she occasionally met
with Christian women, and was so struck with the
admirable selt-devOtedness Of the Sisters who at
tended the hospitals during the Crimean war, that
! she determined to join their Order Her father,
who is capable of appreciatng the sublime features
OF Christianity, consented to her wish, and she is
now IN Paris passing her nOvitiate."
| SHOCKING TRAGEDY Frank Miller, Orderly Ser
|
| In Camp Floyd, but now in Mexico, recently shot
woman (name not given) who accompanied the re-
| glment from Utah. 1t appears that the parties
we're engaged to be married, and the ceremony
| was to have been per formed ia New Mexico but
! after their arrival she for some cause or other
"boted, - and while they were sitting in a tent to-
| gether, he drew a revolver and shot her the ball
entering her throat. At the same time he discharr-
ed the contents of another barrel at his own breast
! the ball penetrating to his heart They both ex-
! pred at almost the same moment.
! ANrI-RENT OUTRAGE AT SANDLAKE, n Y-On
Thursday night last the anti-rent fever revived at
Handiake, n. \. and under its influence a body of
men, disguised in masks and calicoes, robbed con-
stable of his papers, although they rerained doinr
any injury to his person. Seeing resistance useless
| ne gave up the documents they were in search Of
On surFendering his papers he allowed to 60
nome unlnJured, after having been absent only
ABOUT an hour The affair is creating intense eX-
cltement. Whether the ant-rent troubles are 20
! be revived, or whether this is only a political
! dodge, IN view of election, is not known.
THE SLAVE TRADE IN CUnA.-A Cuba letter to the
| Charleston Mercury, says: ga cargo of slaves has
| been landed near Canimas, but one or two Others
have been captured Government seems in earn
! est to put down the trade, obeying, no doubt.
orders recently received from Madrid. Several
officials have been disgraced lately, and | am in
! formed that the late Governor of Sagua has been
! removed and ordered to continue his services in
Spain, for having allowed a cargo two to be dis
| embarked"
DUEL BETWEEN Texas EDITORS The San An
tonia Herald of the 2Sth ult. learns through pri-
vate letter from Austin, dated August 22d, that
| Major John Marshall, of the State Gazette and
! Hon. A b. Norton, of the B,feIligencer have gone
out to have hostile meeting. The parties are
said to have retired to some point on the confines
| of the Cherokee Nation. Much excitement exists
in Austin on account of the expected result.
THE Quincy FAMILy.-The father of the venera.
BILE Josiah Quincy named Josiah His oldest
son is also named Josiah. The oldest son of Josiah
Quincy, Jr., is named JOSIAH and his Oldest son is
lI,,gf lI,,., ,,lF
the father of President Quincy, still living. Jo-
sah Quincy, of New Hampshire, who has filled sew
eral prominent Offices, and is the leading lawyer in
that State, belongs to the same stock.
commission was appointed not long since in
England, charged with the duty of examining into
! the efficiency of the national detences, and more
particularly to decide upon the relative merits of
floating and fixed batteries Their report has been
published, and from it we learn that they recon-
mend the use of floating batteries preferable to
stationary Notifications.
Mrs. Hoey, the leading actress at Wallack's the
atre, New York, after riding home on Friday night,
left jewel case, containing 81, 500 worth of art-
cles, in the carriage. The driver and his friends
got merry and distributed the jewelry among their
female relatives, but on Saturday were compelled
to restore it, and were locked up for theft.
The seizure of Irish linens from the firm of
SmeetOn & Brown New York by the Custom
House authorities, has not yet been settled. About
fifty bales of the goods have been carted to the pub
lie stores, on Broad street. and officials placed in
cnarge OF the remainder OF the STOCK at Lne mouse
of the firm.
The grandfather of the Hon. John COvode of
Pennsylvania was picked up at Amsterdam when a
child of three or four years, put a vessel, and
brought to Philadelphia, where he was sod by the
captain as "redemptOner" until he was 2S years
of age, the captain giving him the name of Covode.
Rev. E. P Rogers, of Newark n. j., will sail for
Africa on the 18th of October, under the auspices
of the African Civilization Society, to make the ne
cessary arrangements for carrying into operation
the plans of the Society in the Horuba country.
The annual session of the Virginia Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South will be held
in Alexandria, in November next, commencing
the 2lst of that month. Bishop Payne is expected
to preside.
, A man named Knight was killed at Strausburg,
, Va, on Monday. He and another man, both intox-
cated, engaged in a fight, which resulted in Knight
! being stabbed. He died about fifteen minutes after
!, receiving the wound.
A new steamship for the Cunard line is now
building the Clyde by Messrs. Napier & Co.
Her hull is to be of iron, and she will be larger
than the Persia and will be named the Scotia
Capt. Judkins, of the Persia, will command her.
Messrs. Smith, Elder Il Co., of London, have
printed the Hon. Edward Everett's speech on Amer
lean Institutions, delivered last fourth of July in
Boston.
, The extension to the Treasury building in Wash
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