The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-12

SOCIALISM IN AREANsAs.-Some time since,
community OF men and women was established at
harmony Springs, in Benton county, A kansas for
the avowcd promotion of ''moraI, social inteilec-
tual and spiritual happiness" According to a
paper published by the community some of its
principal tenets were community of property a
vegetarian diet, reform in the marriage relations
and general seeking after the true with a cor
responding disregard of the artificial Dele.
Spencer and wife stood at the head of the concern
managing its affairs and exercising general su-
perintendence. Recently, saws the St Louis Re.
publican, some members Of the Society became
skeptlcal OF the Doctors antecedents and bepan
an investigation. Among other things it was as
certaineG that the Doctors "wife" was only an
affinity for whom he had deserted his IeraI
spouse, and that the virtuous pair had run away
from Rochester, y. Y, to escape being mobbed
The Doctor and his ''allinity' got wind of what
was going on, and packing up all the goods belong
ing to the community which they could lay their
hands on together with all the money in the trea.
sury, and the titles Of all their estates suddenly
left, under pretence Of being absent few days.
But the runaways pursued on horseback,
overtaken and carried back, when they were COM
PEELED to make restitution of the stolen articles
They were then suffered to depart. The Doctor
was postmaster at Harmony Springs, and among
the Developments alluded to was the discovery
that he had been in the habit of opening letters,
reading their contents, and re-sealing them with
paste, being thus able to foreell the arrival Of
lettersby mail, and what they would contain. Won
derful mystery of spiritual power
Iron PLATED SHTPs.-Both France and England
are building war vessels in armOr, and it is time
that our attention were turned to this important
element of strength on the seas. The English say,
as we learn from one of our foreign files, that the
French Gl0ire is wooden ship with iron armor
plates, while they claim that their Warrior and
Black Prince are iron ships 'with timber intro
duced into certain parts"
One of the most extraordinary things about these
ships is their great size. The Warrior and Black
Prince are upwards of 6,000 tons each, and their
extreme length more than 400 feet. They are thus,
with the exception Of the Great Eastern, the lar
gest ships afloat. They are building in the Clyde
The Warrior will take, from the beginning, about
nineteen or twenty months to complete it. From
the bottom up to about five feet below the water
line, it is wholly of iron. From this point to the
level of the upper deck, it is fortified by armor
plates, bolted upon blocks of teak. The plates are
~ inches thick, and the teak inside is inches.
The bulwarks are of wood.
The head and stern are unprotected by iron to
the length of 100 feet, the iron amidships being
300 feet. There are, however, fore and aft, bulk
heads partitions fortified with the iron plates.
The sls of the main deck ports, she lies, are
eight feet above the water line. She is expected,
or hoped to make fourteen knots. The deck ports,
however, have opening of twelve square feet.
1t is necessary, of course, not only to protect the
vessel, but to make her sufficiently light, buoyant
and sea-worthy. The cost is expected to be ST.
100000.