The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-04

"orhing as Journeyman blacksmith. Different
versions ot the story have been given, but the Phil
aue'Pnia inquirer claims the following as the true
one, winch proves the Baron Wentworth to be
as bad a mechanic as he is a lord:
W hen we saw Lord Ockham now Baron Went
WWorth, a few months since, he was at work at the
names Iron Shpbuilding Companv's establish
ment, at Blackwell, cutting bolts nj twent sfonr
STilhSs, TL English, or less than six dollars week
- Dalon wentworth is twenty-five or twenty
ry yIars oL age, and appears to inherit his
Rrahdahers taste for gin but as for his Caste and
talent Tor mechanics those who know him baat
| pronounce him poor tool 1t is true that he was
employed for while at Mr.. John Scott RussePs
| works. where his example to the rest of the hands
was by no means worthy of imitation. He lodged
with the head pattern maker, to whom he had often
expressed the strongest desire to become the skip
per ol coal barge on the Thames. Lord Ockham
ran, or walked away from Scott RusseIPs to Aber-
! deen, hive hundred and fifty miles North of London
wnere, Tor one month"; he induged his taste and
skill Tor mechanics in menal employment in a
machine shop He then went to New York and
| worked there for two months in a machine sbop
WIN the usual results-drunkenness and DISCHARGE
| lie contrived to get back to London and NAV very
HHheIy, nave lett the Thames Iron Shipbuiding
| Companys works for better wages in Woolwich
| Arsenal. At Blackwa he was often dead drunk
| although he would then manage to hoist the Am
erlcan colorS over his lodging.'to be hauled down
on the return of soberness for the Union Jack.
now much love there may be at the bottom of all
this we cannot'say.'
DISTINGUISHED FoREIGNERS IN ERICA-Notwith-
standing the increased facilities for crossing the
Atlantic incident to the invention of steamboats,
there are not so many eminent persons from Europe
In the United States this year when Baron Renfrew
Is visiting America, there were more than sixty
years ago, when his grandfather, the Duke of Kent
was mere AT that time the following named prom
inent persons were in this countrv:-Mr Alexander
Barring, afterwards Lord Ashburton; Louis PbiIipne
| afterwards King of France; the Duke de Montpen
sier and the Duke de Beauiolois Younger brotbeIs
| Oh Louis Illllppe hiScnunt NOaS in
Lafayette, and DR.. BOllman German friend oF the
Marquis; Volney, the celebrated French writer.
Sonn S C0Pley, the present celebrated Lord Lynd.
hurst; THOMAS Paine, and many others of lesser
note. Ialleyrand was in Boston in July and Au-
gust, 1874. Volney great friend of Mr. Jeffer
son, but Washington was always rather shy of
rFeneh Philosophers The stranger solicited letters
OF recommendation from Washington to be used in
MS tour through theStates. He received one which
contained only these words: &c. Nolney needs no
recommendation from George Washington "-Bos-
| ton Transcript
TUE GREAT HoRsE-AND-HoUYD March IN Eye1.yn
! This important and interesting match was wa
are given to understand, definitely appointed to
take take place on the Tuesday after the Houghton
Meeting at Newmarket, which commenced Sent
ZZd; The change in the date, we believe, has been
made In consequence Of the mpracticability of
running it during the Houghton week, from the
number OF engagements on the list, and the early
hour at which the racing is of necessity commepc.
cd The horses at present intended to take part in
| the contest are Defender, Starke and Newcastle
| Sptru Of the Times.
The BURcn Divorce CASE IN CHrCAGo.-The Chi
cago Press amt Tribune, September 20, states that
the early part of November is the period appointed
lor the hearing in the Burch divorce case before
the Circuit Court of Du Page county, at Napier
vile. Both parties now, or were recently in
Cmcago, and counsel on each side carrying
forward their preparations. There have been some
overtures made for settlement without brinrinr
the case into the courts, but nothing definite has
been reached, the parties being as wide apart as
| ever.
A PERSONAL CONTROVERSY is going on in Geor
gia between the Hon. William II. Stiles, ex-United
| States Minister to Vienna, and Mr.. j. r. Sneed
| editor of the Savannah Republican. A very indir-
nant card from the latter gentleman denies an as
seItlon made by MIR. Stiles, to the effect that the
| original Sneed was ga Hessian, sent here by
the British Government to shoot down American
citizens for 80 cents month"; Mr.. Sneed occu-
pies half-coumn in the Republican in clearing his
escutcheon of this foul blot and throws back the
slander upon Mr.. Stiles with the proper seasoning
| of epithets.
NAVAL INTELLIGENcE.-0rde have been sent to
the u 5. flag ship Susquehanna, which arrived at
| Vera Cruz on the 4th utimo from New York tn
proceed to the Mediterranean to Join the squadron
| there. The sloOpof-war st. Louis has arrived at
| Pensacola from the Spanish Main, and is now under
orders to proceed to Vera Cruz. The U. s. practice
| ship plymouth, which arrived at Annapolis on Sa-
turday, Is to be sent to Norfolk. The slOop-of.war
| lroquois, Commander Palmer, was at Naples on the
Sth utimo, and it is expected that she will remain
| ~ 'iNlhlIy until dHdlFs lueTe become more
settled
A VENERABLE BRDEGRooM.-The hymcnial altar
was surprised on Wednesday last by the appear
ance of Walter Williams, Esq, of Larno county
n.y., aged eighty-four years, who accompanied
by lady not over forty years old, and demanded
| to have the rites of matrimony solemnized, at IL
o'clock at night. Mr. Williams has been married
three times; once when young, once when atseveu-
ty-seyen, and now again at eighty four. He is q
grandfather and great grandfather to more than
one hundred children, several of them older than
his wite.-Phaa. Press.
Tue MoRMoSs must be peculiarly happy in the
possession OF certain privileges which their 'Pro-
phet freely accords them; for instance, the folio W.
ing which we find laid down in n recent discourse
by Brother Brigham: ''rhe woman that saws q
will follow my husband to he'll will have the priv-
lege. The man that says q will follow a woman to
hell but what will have her, will have the priyi-
lege OF following her there. 1t is disgrace to a
saint to love anything that he would not drop or
iorsake for his religion"
LAND SALEs.-The estate at Church Hil!, former
| ly owned by Dr. George, and containing 40 acres
was sold on Saturday week by p. b. Hopper, trus-
tee, for S4,550; Solomon Belts, Egq., purchaser
On Tuesday, JOS. f. Wickes, ESD, trustee, sold
the farm belonging to the late Capt. Jno. Smith,
on Chester river, containing 2l7 acres, for S53 70
per acre, Geo. NJ. Smith, ESQ., purchaser Centre
rHe Times.
An amusing incident occurred in New York on
Monday evening. 1t was known that exp resident
Fillmore and lady were in town, and stopping at
the Laiarge House. In the evening a number of
his friends got up fine serenade in his honor, but
after waiting and playing more than an hour
they learned that Mr.. Fillmore not in the house,
, but at a theatre, and consequently could not ac-
knowledge the compliment.
BEEcHER AND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION OF New
YoRK,-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is engaged in
crticisng the doings of the late New York Epsco-
pal Convention, account of the refusal of that
body to pass anttsave trade resolutions. He made
the topic the theme of his discourse on Sunday last
In the course of the sermon he pronounced the
course of the Convention, in declining to express
an opinion on the slave trade as failure in Chris
| tian duty.
Tue News From MExIco-Advices have been
received in Washington from Vera Cruz, to the
18th, and from the city to the 10th ult The news
is unimportant. Miramon had already rallied
pretty large force, and it was being augmented
daily. He would thus present a formi-
dable array against the advancing liberal forces.
The Spanish Minister, it was understood, was Sc
crety aiding Miramon.
Mr.. W. S. Lindsay NJ. p, whose name has be-
come familiar to our readers in connection with the
efforts of the British Government to obtain some
modification of our navigation laws, entertain
, ed with complimentary dinner at the fremont
House, Boston, on Monday evening last. 1t was a
private affair. Mr.. Lindsay was to leave that city
for New York on Tuesday.
$ A planter in Lafourche parish, La, a few days
ago discovered that his wife was too intimate with
D his overseer and sezing doube-barrelled gun he
killed him instantly, and fired the second barrel at
woods, and up to last accounts had not been dscOv
cred She was the mother of thirteen children.
In New York, about one o'clock on Tuesday
morning, two men, sleeping at No. % West Thir-
teenth street, and named William Rigby, hack
J., man, and Robert Wynne, had an alteration while
in bed about taking up too much room, when Rig
by reached and got his knife and stabbed Wynne
n in the side, and cut him badly upon the head
: A Liverpool gentleman possesses a papyrus man
d uscript which Mr.. Constantine Simonides SAYS is
written in Greek character and hich he pronoun-
5 ces to be portion of st. Matthew's Gospel bear
. ing the date Of the first century. The proprietor
e ofthe document proposes publish it Immediately
C DR.. B. Hibder, of Berne, Switzerland believes
himself to have disposed of the question raised re-
specting the historic reality of William TELL BY
d proving unmstakably that he a veritable per
n sonage, and not patriotic myth. His work is en-
n titled "Researches in Swiss History respecting
;, William Tell"
y The member of the asteroid group discov
cred by Mr.. Ferguson, of the Washing ton National
Observatory, and whose position in space was Civ
: en-, without any of its other elements, has beer
;. since noted at the Cambridge Observatory. 1t.
If diameter Is calculated to be only forty miles.
n 4 negro man named Daniel Browning, living
l. near North Kingston, R. L., killed his mother on
/, last Sunday morning by cutting her head with an
He alleges that he believed her to be a witch
and it was necessary for him to kill her. He is be
lieved to be insane.
: The conquest of Naples by Garibaldi is remarka
=, bic in many respects, but the most remarkable cir