The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-18

DISASTROUS FIRE IN BRooKLYN-A Woman Killed
About O'Clock Friday morning last fire
broke out in the upper story of the building No.
lo4 Orange street, Brooklyn, the upper portion IF
which was used bv the American Hoop Skirt Com
pany as a mandatory of hoped skirts The fire
broke out just by the landing the 9th floor and
first discovered by Mr.. George Abrecht. H.
instantly to the street and gave the alarm, and
Engine Company No. 3, whose house is in the i'm
mediate neighborhood, were quickly on the ground.
Just as the engine company got to the ground,
they met by Mr.. Wilson, the ianitor of the
landady, who informed them that his daughter
and another woman were sleeping in room
adjoining the place where the fire broke out, and
impored them to go up and save their lives. Mr..
Robert Barr a member of the company, on hearing
this, instantly ran up the stairs to their relief 1t
will be necessary to state, that the room in which
the fire originated is a small garnet room at the
head of the stairs, used kind of store room by
the Hoop Skirt Company. Nearly opposite the
stairway is door leading to the room in which
the girls slept, the apartment extending to the
rear of the building. The bed in which the girls
slept situated nearly in the centre of the apart
nent, and some few other articles of furniture
all that the room contained.
Next to this room another room of the same
size, used paint shop. The fire broke out just
by the door of the apartment occupied by the girls
and the smoke soon filed the room. The girls,
awakened by the noise and sense of sufocation,
jumped out of bed and ran to the windows;
and one of them, Susannah Wilson, the daughter of
the janitor of the building, in her despair, wildly
jumped out of the window to the yard, five stories
below, and was instantly killed. In her descent
her body struck the window stills of the second and
third stories, which this morning still covered
with the blood of the unfortunate girl The other
girl, named Margaret Trainor, remained by the
window until she became insensible from the
smoke. Mr.. Robert Barr, on gaining the head of
the stairway, forced his way through the flames,
and found the door of the room, broke in one Of
the panels, and crept through. lie CROPPED his way
to the bed but found no person in it,, the girls as
before stated, having gone to the window. Being
nearly sufocated, he was obliged to recede to OBJ
tain air. He returned again. but although he
heard the girl breathe in the room, owing to the
density of the smoke, and having no light, he did
not succeed in finding her until he had made five
successive attempts when he discovered her lying
by the window in an insensible condition, and bore
her to the street. The flames we're soon extin-
guished by the fremen, and did not extend beyond
the place in which they originated.
New COMMISSIONER OF PArENTS.-Y esterday
afternoon it settled in Cabinet council to APP
point Mr.. Holloway, of Ind, late member of the
| House of Representatives, to be Commissioner of
Patents. Mr.. Holloway is man of clear head,
excellent Judgment, much energy of character, and
unapproachable integrity. He is a mechanic rath-
er than lawyer, by profession, though through
connection with the general business and public
trusts at home and here, he is sufficiently familiar
with the principles of law (as shown in the manner
in which he discharged the duties of his late posi-
ton in Congress) to enable him to make a very
successful administration of the important trust
about to be confided to him. Washington Star,
March IT,
A CAPTURED SLAvER.-The English papers state
that the bark Clara Winsor, of New York, carried
into the island of Ascension in December last by
the British steamer Espoir, had 720 slaves
on board, though she was only 260 tons. Her crew
were fearful-looking miscreants, % in number, Of
all nations. Her slaves, if they had reached Cuba
would have sold for 100000 They cost on the AZ
ricsn coast $50 each, or $4,000, price which
shows an improved state Of the market The Brit
ish government allows prize money SIS for each
slave captured by its cruisers and delivered alive
and half that sum for each slave who may die after
the capture CT the vessel.
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is STILL SrRoNG.--
The town elections in New York have as yet ex.
hibited no material change of the popular feeling,
either for against the Republican party. The
may be found in the fact, that the party is
mostly made up of office hunters, and they IN
willing to throw away their chances for pre-
ferment Wait until the offices given out, and
it is found that there not enough to 20 round by
many thousands. We shall then hear the howlings
OF disappointment and witness the rush.-Boston
Courier.
GEN. SCOTT, to his correspondents begs to say
that, of their innumerabe letters he does not find
it practicable (being quite inirm) to read one in
i've, nor to answer one in thirty. Applications
for autographs and offices are most burdensome
The former increase with his inability to use the
pen, and of the latter he has within his own gift
but two small places (Iong well flled); and he re-
commends no one whatever other than an old SOL
dier, nor for any office whatever, out of the army
-NationdL MteHigencer.
Judge Mclean is in poor heath-so much so tina t
he has been unable of late to take part in some of
the important consultations with his colleagues of