The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-04
Maryland AFFAIRs.

From the Carroll County Depocrdt1
IHE w EsTERN MARYLAND RAILRoAp.-Ihe cars
on the Western Maryland are now running up more
tnan mile into Carroll county and are daily filled
with passengers. The company have lately placad
a new car on the line, which is one of the hand.
any road = = '''i'
The road is graded to within three miles of West.
minister, and the track laid to within six and mncb
OF me grading M has been done between Westminster
ana Union Bridge; and the road will. no dopbt he
6uit and equipped to Westminster this fall and To
Union Bridge by early spring. -
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WATgRrowx Fir. D.
sons Carried OUer the Falls and Dro,rned = ho
people at Watertown were suddenly startled about
four O'Clock on Saturday afternoon last bv the an.
houncement that boat containing five persons
the Suspension bridge. The news spread tbronHh
the town like wild fire, and crowds were immed;
ateiy seen pouring towards the designated snot
ana In very few minutes at least one Thousand
people mad congregated on the banks of the river
on either side, below the Falls all anxious to learn
the truth or falsity OF the dreadful report The
report proved to be no false rumor. for in the
ioaming: seething waters could be seen the body of
rst one lemaie, and then another, as they passed
rom the boiling cauldron Immediately under the
fans into the swift, changing current that
rushes through narrow channel for distance of
i0rty rods, with a velocity scarcely equalled by
Niasar ltseif. At first nothing definite could be
ascerained as to who the unfortunate persons WERE
OF OF the causes attending the dire calamity and
Tor several mnutesa thousand such interrogatories
as ''Who are they? "What are their names ?"
and chow came they to go the Falls?" as thew
were eagerly propounded along the line of anxious
spectators that lined the shore were either entire
| ~ or quite unsatisfactory answered. Some fif.
teen or twenty m nutes, however, had only elapsed
before 1t became known that party of four ladies
| and one child-a of one of them-had in at
tempting to the river in small boat a short
distance above the Falls, ventured too near and
were drawn, first over the DAM which is some four
or ve rods above capszing the boat, and all passed
| over the Falls The party consisted of Mrs j. J
| Il. Primeau and child, Mrs. J. j. NJ. Primeau, Mrs
BeausOliel and Miss Louisa Bebaud, all of whom
were French, and not one Of whom remains to tell
the tale. The names of those yet missing are Mrs.
| Beausoel, Miss Bebaud and the child of Mrs Pri-
meau. Miss Bebaub came to Watertown about a
years since from Montreal and has for the last few
months been employed compostor in the office
OF the French paper, lie Phare DIES Laos. The two
| brothers Primeau who have so suddenly been be-
reft of their families, are young men and highly
respected IN the community, one being employed
as clerk in the grocery store of v S. Hubbard, and
the other in Cadys dry goods store, Court street.
| The affair spread gloom over the community
similar to that caused by the burning of the wooen
| factory in 1859, when about the same number OF
persons lost their lives We understand the search
| for the missing bodies is to be continued to dav
(Monday).-Utico Morning Herald, July 81.
MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
| FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science met al
the State House in Newport, Il. l., on Wednesday.
Alter an address of welcome by the Mayor, the As
| ISOLATION organized by the selection of Dr. Isaac
Lee, of Philadelphia as President for this year
| The business of the meeting then commenced, and
| balotngs were held for members of the standing
committee for this meeting. resulting in the cleo
| ton OF Messrs. Agassiz VIM. b. Rogers b. Sill
man, Dr., Josiah d. Whitney, John Leconte, and
| A. ID. Bache.
The announcement of papers to be read at the
| meetings of the Association made. Among
them were the following: On Donati's comet, by
| Prot. Norton, of New Haven; several papers on
chemical topics, by Prof. Horsford, of Cambridge:
| several papers on magnetic observations, by Prof
Bache; several papers on geological topics, by
Edward Hitchcock, President of Amherst College
| papers on frozen wells. their formation and causes
and on the aurora borealis of last fall paper OF
the1recent meteor, by Mr.. II. NJ. Hartman, of Bati
| more.
X motion was then carried that the meeting adj
| journ to organize in two sections for the space O
half an hour. and, on re-assemblng, paper wa
read by Professor Bache on the magnetic observa
tions of Grard College, and the mathematical me
thods employed to separate the various effects o
the sun upon terrestrial magnetism Professor
Bache occupied about half a hour in discussing hi
topic. He explained the mathematical method
by which the daily and the annual effect upon the
sun upon the variation of the magnet were distin
| guished, and how a long dstur bance in the imagine
with period of ten eleven years had been shown
| to coincide with fuctuation in the occurrence oil
solar spots. The subject was illustrated in a re
markable clear manner by diagrams representing
| the variations observed in the magnetic needle
The meeting then adjourned, to re-assembe a
| halfpast p NJ
About fifty members are present, among whom
| are Professor Agassz, President FELTON, of Harvard
College; President Hitchcock, of Amherst College
Professor VIM. B. Rogers, President Thomas Hill
| of Antioch College; DR.. Bache, Professor Henry o
the Smithsonian Institution; Miss Maria Mitchell
the astronomer of Nantucket, Mass, and DR.. Vol
colt Gibbs, of New York.
Senator Fitzpatrick is out in letter refutng tn
assertion that has been published by the opposition
and Douglas journals throughout the country, tina
he sought the nomination of the Front Street The
atre Convention in its disrupted condition.