The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-28

i-hgiahu-haVlng won every match OF the five she
had fought-and her trainer, who reioices in the
cognomen of Sheffield George had not the slight
est objections to crossing the tantic if his expen-
ses were guaranteed. The match, therefore. was
readily made for $3.50 a side.
| THE FIGHT.
At about nine o'clock, the dogs having been dried
and the referees calling time, the curtains were re-
moved and the dogs sprang together With low
saarls OF rage, with every muscle rigid, with jaws
| closing and holding like keen vices, the Champions
| fought more like exqusitely arranged machines
than like animals. Cor the first few moments Rosie
had the best of the bargain, and her admirers
shouted accordingly. The trainers stood each be-
| hind bis own dog, swapping their fingers for the
animals to keep their hold; stamping to order them
| to make brsker fighting, encouraging, advising
and assisting them by word and gesture but re,
training from touching them with even the tin of a
nnger. In ten minutes Bess victory was begun
The instinct of the dogs, their education and their
| skill was wonderful. Now they rose upon their hind
feet and wrestled and tripped, like champions Now
bess allowed her opponent to retain painful but
not dangerous bold, until she had breathed herself
little. Now Rosie. by quick summersault A
sudden rally, or by sezing one of her contestants
legs, succeeded in shaking herself loose from fatal
grip. Now Bess threw the American dog heavily
several times in order to weaken it, and then Sc
curing good hold, crouched her back and bored
Derset into her opponents very heart. Then
came quick rally, in which each tried to secure
the best tgrip-tencing, lodging, moving like light
ming, watching each others eyes, and, the moment
an opportunity occurred, fastening its teeth ike
spring-trap, and pulling the other dog backwards
and forwards around the pit by main force 1t is
impossible to express the agility of the dogs move
ments, their celebrity, the scientific precision and
certainty of their attack and defence the instinc-
tive passion which made every limb ike iron and
every muscle like steel; the knowledge which they
seemed TO possess of every thing which would favor
or defeat them; the indomitable pluck with which
they endured the pains of the combat the GOODNESS
with which, while suffering terribly or inAictinr
equal punishment they heard and obeyed the COM
| N 1andS nt fhntr frot
silence, the low snarls with which the combat he
gan having ceased as the dogs warmed to their
work. In fifteen minutes low murmur from the
English benches, and defiant shout from those of
the Brooklynites, announced that Rose's tail had
| dropped-a sure sign of distress-and in seventeen
| minutes from the commencement of the fight
the pet of Brooklyn, who had never been
made to complain before, began to cry for quarter
ana now lay helpless the mercy of her adyersary
| perceiving which Bess paused a moment to take
breath for the coup de mort, but even then Law
upon her opponent so as to deprive it of the power
OF respiration. A moment, and with hind legs
hrmly braced, Bess pushed her way to Rosie's
throat and the contest instantly ceased.
BEss' Victory.
Bess' trainer now called his dog away for
scratch, or turn, which is almost equivalent to
round In pugsm. The dogs were taken to their
corners, sponged and again let co. Bess flew across
the ring at her adversary and worked hard to finish
her task as soon as possible. All the while Rosie
uttered weak, Plaintivs erics, aud tried feebly
beat oil those sharp teeth which were gnawing out
her life Mclaughlin now used every means to
carry Bess away; Sheffield George excited an
prehenslve, anxious, encouraged his dog to make
eeath OF 1t. Finally, at just thirty-one minutes
from the beginning of the fight, the dogs were again
! scratched Mclaughlin accidently touched Bess a
moment before, but the referees took no notice of
this on account of the obvious defeat of his dog
| Under the circumstances, this careessness would
have lost Mclaughlin his fight. The dogs were
again sponged, and brought out it being Rosie's
turn to cross the ring and attack Bess. The pride
OF brooklyn was humbled, however. She was
pushed foot or two towards her adversary who
| was anXious y endeavoring to get at her. and then
sank down so nearly dead that she is not expected
| to recover, and Bess was declared the winner of
the tight and the champion dog of the world
| How Nor TO Do Ir."-The Washington CORES
pondent of the Nashville (Tenn. Patriot thus hap
ply describes the way government "jobs' are apt
| to be done:
The way the government gets its work done is
| curious. As an illustration, you and your family
meet In convention OF the whole, and adopt reso-
| luton authorizing the construction of hen-coop
| In your back yard. You at once appoint me su-
| perlntendent OF the work, putting a thousand or
two OF dolls in bank for me to check on l get you
TO appoint my brother in.law chief engineer |
appoint TWO OF my brothers assistant superu ten
dents, and my brother-in-law appoints two of his
| Drothers assistant engineers-all at your expense.
| we buy US each fast horse and buggy, and ride
around town, drink hot cocktails and play billiards
until the bank deposit gives out, when we make
out printed report of seventy-three pages, fur
nishing you complete typographical survey of
your back yard, and vast amount of statistical
information with regard to the number of hens YOU
are likely to have for the next forty years We
| wind up the report with the announcement that
the site of the hen-coop has been selected and a
call Tor another appropriation to prosecute the
| WORK, which we assure you will be done with "vig-
or You place another thousand or two in bank,
| ana we employ two hundred hands at three dollars
day to transport seventy-fve cents worth of lum-
Der (Which costs you under our mana cement about
thaf fpnan n dnll, -
tions, which requires about three months In the
meantime we drive around and go on vigorously
with the liquor and the billiards. We then come
| up with another report and demand for another
appropriation. With this we get the walls of the
structure up, and with one two more appropria-
| MONS and great many more cocktails and bill
lards, we get the thing covered in, and at the end
OF twelve months, which we very appropriately
style our "hscal year, put you in formal pos
session of a ten thousand dollar hen-coop that anv
negro carpenter would have been glad to knock up
some Saturday afternoon for a suit of your old
clothes.
THE BODY THE SuN.-Two German chemists.
working together in their laboratory, at Heidel-
berg, have analysed the body of the sun. 1t had
been discovered several years ago, by another
German philosopher, that the solar spectrum
exhibits numerous dark ines crossing it in parallel
directions lat certain though irregar distances
and OF various thicknesses These lines were coniec-
tured to be occasoned by the absorption OF some of
the rays OF light in of those parts of the spec
trum by causes unexplained. Further researches
have made known that the rays emanating from
other sources exhibit different spectra when de-
composed by prism, each kind of light having its
peculiar and distinctive spectrum. The variously
colored lights produced by the combustion of the
metals, for example, when they pass through a
glass prism, and the images are received on white
screen, present separate spectra which never yary
Tor each metal This distinctive property is so we'll
preserved that when the light produced by the
combustion of several metals mixed together is
| QecOmDOSeQ, SpVnral pfopo
separate, and the combined vet distinctive image
shows the spectrum of each metal as separately as
it its light alone were decomposed.
by varying the experiment, this combined col
ored spectrum may be converted into a negative
| image OF dark lines only. This is done when the
rays of more powerful light pass through the
colored flame. The dark lines thus formed CORES
pond exactly with certain of the dark lines in the
solar spectrum. 1t is therefore inferred that the
lines observed crossing the decOmposed colored
light are caused by the absorption of portions of
the intense light from the body of the in pass
ing through incandescent vapors that surround it.
Proceeding on that hypothesis, those hitherto in
explcaole dark lines have been closely scritinized
in order to discover whether they correspond with
the spectra OF the metals. 1t has by this means
oeen ascertalned that the negative spectrum of iron
exactly comedies with certain number of those
ines that the spectrum of nickel comedies with
others. OF the dark lines and that the negative
sPeutle vi magnesium, sodium, and of some others
vi tne hetaihc bases of the earth, also have their
exact counterparts in the solar spectrum. By this
means IL is ascertained, in a manner quite convin-
clng TO tnose who have witnessed the experiments
that the bocy of the contains large portions OF
iron and of other metals and earth common on tbi,
globe of ours.
A GENEROUS DEED.-Mr. j. NJ. Raum, of this city,
has received from Mr.. James Smith, of Glasgow
Scotland, consignment of firearms and munitions
of war, which the latter has sent as present to the
city of Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Smith is Scotch
man, who came to this country, resided several
years in jackson, and then returned to his native
land. Hearing that trouble was anticipated here
and that there was prospect of war, his hear
yearned toward the people among whom he resi-
ded, and he voluntarily sends them per ship Nelson
from Liverpool, three cases and one cask, contain
ing 25 Quitman rifles, with sword bayonets, l six
ponnder gum so rounds of shot, IL rounds of canis
ter shot, and II cansters and not to do the thing
by halves, he paid the freight on them across the
ocean to this city. This is a handsome deed, aud
noble deed, on the part of gentleman having nj
further connection with this country, but actuateG
only oy kindly memories of the past. And it il
credltaoie too, to the people of Jackson that thei
.ormer citizen is so warmly attached to them; ant
!ney VIII no doubt feel properly proud of this man
i,estatlon OF his good will-Ne,o Orleans Crescent
frince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde will
;,;o ay IN their own yacht, to attend the festi
rllles gwen IN honor Of the nomination of Victo,
emmanuel as King of Italy. The iourney. IL 4
alleged, has no political meaning.