The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-19

ROME AND ITS CogRITIoN.-We notice the follow
ing extract from letter in the Providence Journal
| dated at Rome
"Rome is going from bad to worse in respect
| to the honesty of its inhabitants. If it was moi
before, it is rapidly becoming, den of thieves. Ii
| may seem strong language to use, but the expires
sion is justified by the actual condition Of things
| Robberies are becoming common in open day, and
| IN the most frequented streets of the city. | can
not tell how many cases of understanding and
pocketpicking have been reported within the past
| few days. The sufferers are usually foreigners.
st. Peters, on days of ceremony, is the great the
atre where the knights and professors of the art
OF thieving perform their most brilliant exploits.
While you are listening to the music of mass by
| Jomelli, you are relieved OF your purse or your
silver tobaccO-boX. One of the most daring cases
OF highway robbery was practised upon Mr.. j. 7.
| Hazard, of Rhode Island, within the past week,
| Mr.. Hazard was returning to his hotel, between
i've and six O'Clock in the evening, when he was
set upon by three men, at the corner of the
Corso and the Via Condotti, and his valuable gold
watch snatched from his pocket. Mr.. Hazard,
being powerful, resOute man, and not disposed
to be robbed of his property in open day, gave
battle TO his assailants. He succeeded in seiz-
ing and holding on to two of the scoundrels for
some minutes, determined to make sure if possible
of the one who held the watch. He did not sue
coed, however, and all three escaped. Although it
was broad daylight, and the scuffle witnessed
by scores OF people passing in the street, not the
slightest assistance was rendered. At the police
being able to recover his property. There and
elsewhere he has been told that the reason no as
sistanee was offered in bis struggle with the mis-
creants, was fear of thrust of their knives But
worse case than that of Hr. Hazard has been re-
ported. At six O'clock in the morning few DAYS
since, some English people were driving from the
hotel where they had been staying, to the railway
station. When near the Doria Palace in the Cors0
an attack was made upon the party by gang of
robbers with the intention of deSpoiling them of
what vauables they had about their persons. But
among the other treasures. one of the company
happened to be furnished with a six-barreled re-
voVer, by skiful use of which two of the villains
were brought to the ground, and their bodies, in
bleeding If not dying condition, were borne by
their companions from the field Our Minister,
Mr.. Stockton, from the windows of the palace in
which he lodged--which stands by the side of the
Doria-was a witness of the whole transaction
From such examples, one would naturally conclude
that Rome was rapidly falling into the condition in
which it found itself in the time of the 0rsini and
the Snvolli, in the rady dsordcrod middle ages. -
ART INCIDENTs.-The last week, says the New
York Ecpress of Monday, has been rather memo
rable in Art, from the fact that it has witnessed
the almost total destruction of a remarkable his
tOrical picture-Leutze's justly celebrated paint
ing, representing incident in the early life of
Frederick the Great. The incident selected by the
artist occurred at grand ball given by the King,
Frederick's father, who, charmed with the con
duct of one of his daughters, quietly sent to the
prison where the Prince confined, and ordered
him instantly into his, the Kings, presence
Frederick, then handsome young man, dressed in
suit of plain black, Obeyed the summons, passed
through the antechamber of the palace, and reach
ed the grand ballroom unrec0gnIzed until his
sister, who was singularly attached to him, sprang
forward, when the young Prince fell on his knees
before her, and was the next in slant in her en-
brace This painting Mr.. Leutze, a few days
since, left hanging, in apparent safety, in his studio
in Tenth street, where it remained in quiet, the
artist himself being out Of the city. Unhappily
the cord which suspended the heavy frame broke
and the picture fell, face forward, upon the top of
easel standing below the consequence was that
the wedge shape of the easel entered the canvas
ably destroyed the magnificent specimen of art-a
fact that will be received with regret throughout
this country and Europe.
WONDERS OF THE WESTERN ALLEGANY SLOPE
The Kanawha (Va.) Republican says: "The
wonders of the Western Alleganian
slope, continue, from time to time, to be develop
ed to the establishment of the intelligent dwellers
upon the surface. Near Maiden, on the Kanawha
river, in the spring of 1884, in boring salt WELL
at the depth of 1000 feet the augur struck the
ervoir of gas. The stream of gas that rose to the
upper surface so powerful as to shoot the |
whole boring apparatus, consisting of one thou
sand feet of poles and sinker weighing five hum
dred pounds, into the air, like an arrow. The |
stream of gas is three inches in diameter and has
been blowing up with undated force, day and |
night, for sixteen years. When our railroad is !
this gas may be turned to some ae- |
count. Pipes may be laid along the road so as to |
light up by night the whole road east to Rich |
mond, and West to Cincinnati, and then enough |
to spare to light up three cities. In the same re-
yion there is an extensive subterranean manufac-
IOry of oil. The oil makes its appearance on the |
waters of our river, and in places comes up to the
surface of the earth. Barrels of it have been |
gathered.