The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-26
From the ". 2. Express, May %. ]

by the executors of the sunerh coiiaai; was 'ne
inSs belonging to the late w y Rnrton Tbe
th n dhu @ ol the collection, coupled with
the wei known taste OF their late owner drew To-
gether one OF the largest assemblapes eyer see a+
a sale of this kind. There were one bnrdroJ I'D
ffty-six pictures on the catalogue one-hafof which
were sold. The sale proceeded, the bids being
spirited. The largest prices were paid for minor
paintings, fancy sketches and small-size pictures
The heavy pictures, by some of the finest masters,
were sold at great sacrifices, as the annexed bids
Will show: The first pictures of any account sold
were Nos. &c to so, five sketches of Shaksperean
characters, viz: "Fastaff in the Basket, "Mac-
beth and the Crowned Head" "Macduf's Wife
anu anu Cnlldren Slain "Death Of Lady Macbeth" and
l;! ine W itches in Macbeth These sketches were
originally intended for an illustrated Shakespeare.
painted by Stothard. They cost $500 and were
sold for S17; Mr.. Fowler being the purchaser.
No. 33-"Dead Came" a highiv-coIored and
cost S2O-sold for $40. to Mr.. King 4O.MShee1
ton panel), an original picture by Geo. Morland.
purchased in England many years since at the sale
of benjamin Vests collection; cost SlO-sold for
SS6, to Mr.. Strickland. 41.-Landscape, &c, very
fine in color and effect, by Van Velze; cost SIS
sold for S34, to Mr.. Spier. 42-Landscape and
Figures (Sheep), by Dietrich; an elegant paint
ing; cost S75-sold for S27 44.-Cupid and
PSyche l0ral), by Anglica Kaufman; cost SIS
sold for $50. 45.-The Nurse (Euterpe aud Cupid),
by the same cost S7O-sod for $40. 46.-Female
Saint lltalian School, on copper)-a beautiful
work of art-unknOwn master; cost S60-sod for
Sl6 4I.-St. Elizabeth, by Giotto; cost S6O-sold
for $40. The buyers did not seem to relish the
saints, there being but one bid 5G.-Two Por.
tralts-Dwyer and Mrs. Hilson. These paintings
were OF high order. Their execution was at
triouted to Rembrandt Peale. They cost S25, and
sold for SIC. 57.-Shakspeare, a superb painting
IN OIL by Matteson, made to order; cost $50, sold
for Sl9. 5S.-Three Shaksperean pictures Mea-
sure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and The Merry
Wives of Windsor, by Hamilton, all originals, and
imported from the Boydell Gallery, London, by
Mr.. Burton, at cost of $500; sold to Mr. Bates
for 500. 59.-Venus and Jupiter; artist un-
known a very bold and highly effective picture
figures in nude state; cost $50, and on the second
bid Knocked down for $2l to Mr.. Porter. Co.
Winter; artist unknown; one of the finest pictures
ofered-it represented an old man holding his
hands over pot de fen; cost Sl00, and sold to Mr.
hing for SIG. 6l.-Murillo's Virgin (copy), life
size; artist unknown; very effective and life-like
4 ne onIoolng on this was very spirited, starting
from $40, and running up in ives and tens till it
was Knocked down for Sl05 to Mr.. King; orig
painted by Bengough very pretty storm piece:
cost 500, sold for Sl5. 63.-venice the Rialto,
by, Pennington. A very good picture; cost SlOO,
sold. to Mr.. King for S2S. 65.-Interior of
all the delicate finish peculiar to this artist figures
by Breughel; cost Sl00, sold for SIS to Mr. Strick-
land. 66-Judgment of Paris. A good copy,
(atter Rubens) Cost 500, sold for S23. Venus
and Adonis, attributed to Rubens, and said to be
original by connoisseurs. Cost $500, and sold to
MIR. Strickland for $50. Go and 66-Portraits of
Louis XIV and XIV; by Mignard; said to be origi-
nails. Capital specimens; cost $3.50, sold to Mr.
Porter for $57. II and 72-Brd and Flowers and
PENDENT, (game piece by Mignon. Original and
ofgreat rarity; cost 5000, and sold for $50 These,
with number of minor pictures closed the sale
for the evening. The most costly paintings will
be sold this "wednesday evening The amount
realized by the sale on Tuesday evening, was
Sl,752. About an hour prior to the sale an in
junction was served upon the executors, Miss Ce-
celia Burton and DR.. Crane, and upon Mr.. Cram,
their counsel. The injunc cton had been granted
by Judge Leonard, upon the complaint of Mary
Il. Gritten and George W. Morton. The complaint
set forth that Mrs. Gritten had owned the picture
entitled Queen Victoria, by D. Orsey, which had
cost So ,000 that the picture was on exhibition at
the store of Mr.. Lambert, in Broadway, from which
place. in 1856, Mr.. Burton had wrongfully taken
1T. The plaintiffs were now the sole owners of it,
and by the injunction, all persons were restrained
from selling or purchasing the same. Mr. Cram,
on behalf OF the executors, and Mr.. w. II. Browne
on behalf of the alleged owners entered into a
stipulation by which it agreed that the picture
should be sold at the sale, without reservation:
the proceeds to be restrained and be the subject
of the litigation instead Of the picture which will
be sold in its regular order on the catalogue. The
picture was then put up, and sold for $3.50; Mr..
Young becoming the purchaser.
TnE IRISH HEGRA.-The Irish emigration is be
coming serious and perplexing business. 1t is
perpleXing, because there is getting at the truth
about the condition and prospects of the eigrants;
and 1t is serious, because the lage of the land in
Ireland now requires every hand that can be OBJ
tanned Nothing can be more dismal than the &C
counts given in American newspapers of the power
ty and helplessness of mutitudes of immigrants in
the United States-accounts which are confirmed
by the warnings and entTeaties Of the Catholic
priests in America, who ought to know most of the
condition of the Irish, who their special charge
On the other hand it appears that these shoals of
emigrants are carried over by funds supplied to
them by relatives who have preceded them: and
we are informed that the priests have twofold
N oh tFIFtg thA Il,
in the distress of the Irish priests who are losing
their hocks, and left almost alone and destitute in
their parishes; and they see a large proportion o
Immigrants leave their religious profession behind
them, or speedily become heretics when they settle
among the Sons of the Pilgrims, or the Protestant
Germans, who are almost as numerous in the States
as the Irish Amidst all the contradictions that
we hear 1t is evident that Ireland at present offers
a more certain and profitable field for labor than
the American towns and large proportion of the
country. The increase of the Irish element will
no doubt facilitate the abolition of slavery in the
long run; but meantime there can be no doubt that
there is more steady certainty of ell-paid en-
ploynent in Irish than in American agriculture at
present If the facts could be got into the Irish
mind, the stream of outfOwing labor would no
doubt be checked; with the class concerned it is not
matter of reasoning of statistical inquiry, it is
an affair of sentiment and impulse. They receive
entreaties from relatives who remember Ireland as
scene OF poverty and mourning, and who will
never believe that it is field of profitable in
IL
The strong family affections of warm-hear ted
people stirred up. Their hearts glow at the
thought Of reunion across the and off they 90,
in spite of remonstrance and threats from their
priests, and the offer of good wages from their
neighbors; and in spite also of the spectacle of
numbers who have returned disappointed and who
tell of a yet larger number who would come
back if they had the means. The going and the
returning is always in stream. 1t is matter of
impulse, and not of prudent considerations
don Daily Ne'os.
A FREE NEGRO SEEKING SLAvERY.-The Concor
dia hteliigencer has the following incident The
first case of application off free person of color
to become slave was presented at this term. Da-
vd Singleton, free man of color, applied to be-
come the slave of Alfred V. Davis. After proper
legal investigation he was, under the provisions of
the act of the Legislature of 1859, and of his own
voluntary choice, admitted to the coveted privilege
of becoming the slave for life of master of his own
selection. This case was not without interest be-
of the previous history of the individual.
Several years since he was plantation slave of
Mr.. Davis, from which position, being smart, in
elligent person, he to that of valet and conf
dental body servant ofhiS master. His master go
ing to Europe, Dave left plantation, and
falling under the dispeasure of the agent, he dsap
peared. For some time nothing could be heard of
him, until one day in Florence his master was sur
prised by a rapturous greeting from Dave, whom
he had supposed to be thousands of miles awav
He had followed in search of his master, through
the nonslaveholding States of our own country,
across the Atlantic, through England, France and
Italy, until he found him in Florence. Thence he
returned, with his master, to enter again slave
ry at home. Not long afterwards he was emanc-
pated, and Travelled at pleasure through the free
States. But he tired of freedom, and begged of
his master to be permitted to become again his
slave. He is young, active and strong, sharp-wit-
ted and industrious, capable of making his way
anywhere.
AMERICAN VESSELS BURNT AT SEA AND PoRT.-
The extraordinary destruction of American vessels
by fire still continues. We have accounts now from
Melbourne of the burning OF the third American
ship at that port within six months and it is stated
that this has caused such disrust of American yes
sells that it is now with difficulty that business can
be obtained there for one. Few no British ships
have been lost in this way, and yet within srteen
months, besides other vessels, eighteen American
ships, with cotton cdrgOes, have been destroyed
The amount lost in these vessels was tlco and half
millions of dollars! The underwriters have now of
fered a reward for the detection and conviction of
any person setting fire to vessel in port at
Boston Traveller.
AN ELoPEMENr CAsE.-On Wednesday an excite
ment was created in Havre de Grace, by the arri-
val of a runaway couple from Wilmington. The
Young man was named Cox, and was about 10
wears of age and hailed from Georgia The Young
lady was named Watkins, Ia years of age, and from
Tennessee. The young man was attending the
Military School at Wilmington, and the young lady
was pupil at Dr. Grimshaw's School, at the same
place. The telegraph was put in requisition, and
officer undertook to arrest them. but he pro-
duced his marriage certificate all right. The lady
is very handsome, and her parents are said to be
wealthy. He and his bride returned South.
yellow FEVER IN New ORLEANs.-Y elbow fever,