The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-27

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delightful days sightseeing, wandered into the
Prlnelpal Alameda to gaze upon the dark-eyed
naIuehs whose charms, sung by Byron, had
Tt TIen haunting my brain ever since my arrival
fan6ion evening was pleasant, and the beauty and
| rasnlon OF Cadiz moved before nv eyes--
| oeating myself near beautiful fountain 7
watched the light forms as they fitted nost drau
ing comparisons between them and those that
moved IN the land beyond the sea. In their
| beauty, as class, was, as all elsewhere dison
| pointed. Beautiful faces | saw, it is trno bIt
| they were exceptions to the mass beheId In nv
! Judgment, the American woman, as a general
thing, is as superior to the vaunted Andansian in
personal as she certainly is in mental attractions
do not bear this testimony to hatter, Il believe
they have too much good sense to be vain,) but
because it is true. Yet many charms has the
Spanish maiden which forcibly arrest the attention
OF strangers. Her pquant head-dress, half-reveal-
ing, halfconcealing her wealth of glossy hair; her
iree' erect carriage, and graceful, gazelle like
S5tep, all combine to invest her with interest as
oeeP as CHARACTERISTIC. Manners, too has she
essentially her own. She gives not her arm TO
escort IN promenade; she extends not her hand TO
gentlemen acquaintance in greeting; and he who
woes her must breathe his sighs through the
lattice of her chamber. She is fond of en,rs;c.
dancing is second nature, and life and grace are
IN every motion. She dislikes books or study; She
cares but little for literature of any description:
her pleasure is in the actual of life."
THE LONDON METROPOLITAN UNDERGRoUvD RAIL
wAY:-The London Illustrated Ne,cs of the 7th,
Iontalns description ot the tunnel now being
built under the streets of London, for the purpose
OF connecting the city with the series of RAILWAYS
at the north of the Thames To have a railway
alter the American fashion, passing through a
densely populOus district, and crossing on a level
and over-crowded thorOughfare, was considered
utterly out of the question. Therefore, the pIan
was resorted to of avoiding the surface altogether
leaving that to the ordinary local traffic and tray-
ell and going entirely under the city with all the
passenger and freight trains. The London railroad
tunnel was constructed by making an open cut
from the surface of the street down the distance re-
CURED, building the archway, and then replacing
the suriace-a cheaper mode than tunneng The
work has been contracted for and is now in pro-
gress, the company engaged in it having a capital
OF four millions two hundred and fftv thousand
dollars, in shares fifty dollars each. To avoid any
annoyance from smoke the combustion offuel in
the tunnel, the traffic is to be worked by lioht To-
comotives of novel and ingenious construction
They have no irebox; but will be charged with
hot water and steam at a certain. pressure to be
supplied by fixed boilers at the termini, and will be
furnished with large heater to assist in main
tanning the required temperature. 1t is believed
tnat a each locomotive can be supplied with power
sufficient to run the whole tunnel distance The
tunnel Is expected to be finished and in working
order by 1867. This plan is evidently the best one
which can be devised for passing over the snace
occupied by crowded cities. 1t will ultimately
have to be resOrted to wherever practicable bvsaiI
roads which require the crossing of such spaces,
no matter what the cost may be-
ORIGIN OF THE Two.rHIRD RULE-This rule in
Democratic national conventions for the nomna-
on of candidates for the President and Vice Presi-
dent, was adopted at Baltimore, in 1892 when
Andrew jackson was renOminated for President
and Martin Van Buren for Vice President. That
was the first Democratic national convention ever
held. The Democratic members of the Legislature
OF New Hampshire made the suggestion that led to
the convention. Their argument was to let the
District and States that did not have Democratic
members of Congress, but still had large Demo-
cratic popular vote, have choice in the selection
OF candidates. Under the old system of Congress
iOnal caucuses, they were excluded. We now hear
partisans decaim against the very idea that led to
the organizations of national conventions. The
two-thlrd rule was reported in 1892, from a Com
mittee of which the late Vice President King, of
Alabama, chairman. An attempt was made to
substitute the majority principle, but it voted
down. In 1885, the second national convention was
held in Baltimore. The two-third rule was adopted
after long discussion. The majority principle was
at first carried but was finally stricken out In 1910
no action was taken on the twO-third rule, at the
third national convention, as Mr. Van Buren, was
re-nOminated for President BY accamation. In
1914, at the fourth national convention, the two
third rule adopted by close vote, after a long
discussion. At the national conventions since held,
it has been adopted without opposition Union and
American.
A WOMAN TARRED AND FEATHERED.-The West
field IN. W Republican of the 23d Instant saws:
''On Friday night of last week fifteen young men
and five young women, including one married wo.
man, went to the house of Elisha Whpple, in the
south part of Portland, broke it open and took one
of his girls, young woman, out of bed, and tarred
and feathered her. The reason alleged for the act
is that she of disreputable character and the
house was disOrdery. The perpetrators were on
Wednesday all arrested and brought before JUS
tice Young of this village, and gave bail for their
appearance at the next criminal court. For the
credit of the crowd engaged in the act perhaps we
should say that the women did the tarring and
teathering-the men retiring while the ceremony
was being performed. As far as we are able to
learn the facts, Mr. Whipple some time since lost
his wife, and left with a family of small chill
dren, and this young woman, who had been living
away, came home to help take care of the family,
and recently suspicion has been excited that the
house was disOrderly; and this refined method was
adopted by the young people OF the neighborhood
to reform it"
BALTIMORE AND ITS LADIEs.-A Kentuckian has
been visiting our city and thus writes to the
Louisville Courier:
If this continent contains more beautiful city
than baltimore, have not seen it. And it is nv
deliberate opinion that crinoline has more charms
in just this locality, than in any other with which
| acquainted-with one solitary exception
which have too much Kentucky modesty to name
Whether the beauty of the Baltimore ladies is a
hereditary endowment, in the main, is chiefly
dependent upon the pure atmosphere of the Chesa-
peake Bay, derives its unquestionable qualities
in part from each of these, cannot say; but re-
cord the fact of its existence, q simple act Of
justice, and if any city feels aggrevcd and chooses
to dispute the saying shall consider myself under
obligations to ''vindicate the truth of history" and
will stand by the Baltimore ladies to the last.
RECEIPTS OF CoTroN.-The receipts of cotton at
Southern ports falling off, usual at this sea-
son, but still they keep in advance of the cores
ponding receipts of last year. The total receipts
up to the day of sailing of the last Cunard steamer
were l27 900 bales, against $40 600 to date
last year, and 1854 600 to date of 1855 The
cotton which remains behind is generally poor in
quality, and full of dirt that it is being shipped
at merely nominal prices Many planters are will
ing TO accept advance of three cents pound
but the advces from Liverpool are that they have
already received more dirt than is wanted in that
market. The carelessness with which much Of the
cotton was picked last season is doing a great
deal of injury to the trade and the planting in
terests.
AN INSANE MAN AND WIFE ON A JouRNEY.-On
Friday last, Barney Mcmahon, with his wife and
two children, arrived at Buffalo from the West.
The and woman exhibited unmiStakable symp-
toms of insanity. The man placed in the In
sane Asylum, and the woman and her two children
in the Poor House On the way out, the woman
handed her husband about SO in change, which he
threw away. She afterwards handed him razor.
In the of the night he nearly tore his throat
to pieces with piece of sheet iron, and his wife
jumped out of third-story window of the Poor
House in the morning.
REV. HENRY GRATTAN GUINNEss.-Says the Pitts
burg Despatch The Rev. Henry Grattan GUM
ness breaches every evening this week at the First
Presbyterian Church Opinion is divided as to his
merits as pulpit orator. Our own opinion is that
he aims at no rhetorical effects is deeply impressed
with the importance of his mission, and is thor
oughly in earnest in everything he says He has
singulary musical and effective voice, and great
deal of action, which is the result of the intense
feeling which he mantests while expounGing the
truth. He is by no means deep, but rather an
earnest thinker, and not at all original His power
lies in his earnestness.
THE OPERATION OF THE STEAM PASSENGER CAR IN