The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-26
OF OCEAN STEAMERS
TO SAIL
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
The subjoined story is copied from the Calcutta
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The subjoined story is copied from the Calcutta
EngIishmon:
On Thursday, March IA, the two sons of Colonel
Thomas, Godfrey and Frederick, left Mussoorie to
ride down to Jeripani. 1t was dark when they
started. The elder, Godfrey, Il Young man of about
IS, insisted on taking the lower road known as
Mackinnon's, and his brother, rather than allow
him to ride by himself a dark night, agreed to
go with i'm. The road is both difficult and danger
Gus, and Frederick horse fell twice with him. God
frey, most dashing rider, then changed horses
with him, and on they went again, Godfrey leading
at headong gaIlop. The second fall had rather
stunned Frederick, and he soon lost sight of his
brother. Thinking, however, that he must have
gone on, he rode slowly home to his mothers haus
but his brother had not arrived. The whole family
were ieariuIly alarmed, and though Frederick was
too much burt to do anything himself another
brother started off with men and torches to search
for the lost one. Step by step for six long miles
they traced, they thought, the hoof marks Of
both horses right up to where the upper road
turned off hope then sprng up in the minds of
the anxious relatives that Godfrey might have ia
Ken the upper and longer road. The natives, too,
said that he had passed on to Dehree, and a man
was Immediately sent off both to that place and
Mussoorie. Daylight came, however, and no til
dings Unable to bear any longer inaction, the
other brother, Frederick, started off again on the
over road. Six miles back he again followed the
hoof marks, and there, the edge OF a fearful
precipice or khud, they are here called were
the deep ndentations made by the hoofs of strug-
Cling horse. He crept forward to the brink and
peered into the abyss. Far down beneath more
than hundred feet, on little ledge uttipg out
from the face OF the nearly perpendicular rock lay
human form, and that form was his brothers.
faint sickness came over him, and had it not been
tor two near him, be would have fallen As
soon he recovered he shouted to his brother but
with little hope of being answered The answer
came, however-a low, feeble whistle-his brother
was alive ten hours after his fall.
BY this time the other brother and some friends
had arrived. and thew manauaG IN o,at
where Godfrey lay. One mass of bruises, faint with
loss of blood, and face scarcely to be recognized
for cuts, he still sat up and spoke to them. He
knew them, too, addressed them by name calmly
and coectedy. With some difficulty he was raised
from his perious position and carried home, where
he still is, slowly, but glad saw surely re.
covering. The fresh track of leopard was vsi-
bic the road above. and it appears that his
startled horse in his headlong gallOp went clean
over the precipice at bound. The merciful finger
OF Providence is wonderfully apparent throughout,
out godfrey Thomas owes no small share of his
preservation to his craftsmanship. With the natu-
raj instinct of rider he must have got his horse
together. as he felt him going, so as to keep his
feet straight under him. Man and horse must have
touched that ledge together, and the sudden shock
on reaching it must have in good time unseated the
rluer, lett him lying there and hurled the animal
still further dOwnwards. The BODY of the horse
was found literally smashed to pieces more than a
hundred feet lower down. His rider had not bone
broken, though 40 fearfullv shaken. AS we said,
N'uheg Is sun awe, out IL Will be many
days ere the recollection of that fearful leap of a
hundred feet sheer descent in the dark khud and
the long, lonely night passed On a ledge of loose
stones, not four feet wide without even single
shrub or stump to prevent his bruised body from
rolling over to certain destruction fades from his
memory.
MORE OF THE NEWSPAPER MoRTAL1rY.-We have
heretofore adverted to the fatality which has be-
fallen the newspapers il consequence of the war
some dead, some dying, including the Journal of
Commerce, reduced by four columns, and now on
its last legs. Another big sheet is about give up
the ghost, and suffer transmi gration into body of
a very different kind from that which it now in
habits. On the LIST of July the Courier and En-
qnirer is to get into the bowels of the World and
the lion will become one with the lamb. Colonel
"eno, whom we have known for thirty years, thus
departs from the editorial scene. He is dead and
tpuIieu, and the place which knew him shall know
MN no more. Alas, poor Webb if not witty and
hirti I'll himself he the cause of wit and mirth
feathers. '1' las '"s' AA
This week the illustrious Wsbb :. seIliro off b;s
property at larry town preliminarv ~ his s,rtinn
OFF as Minister to Brazil; and the remains of his
nemsPaps are 10 De swallowed by the WOrId-an
i IN meal-which will prove the death of
that concern; Tor no paper lives thar sw.loys
another. The Courier once swallowed . ;. .
called the American, and it has never reSorarad
from the effects, till now it is gobbled up in ,nrn
N. N. Herald.
! THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERING WITH Trade
The surveyor of this port notifies shippers that
OF and after Monday next "permit' from him
will be necessary to enable them to ship any thing
over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. This
is road, it is true it was built with money;
our people now taxed heavily to pay the in.
debtedness incurred by the city IN building it this
has been supposed to be free country, in which
the citizen only required to obey the laws; but
we are now officially informed that permission
must be obtained from federal officer before a
cask OF bacon from our pork houses, barrel of
nour from our mills, plough from our manufac-
tories, bushel of wheat from our farmers-befOre
any thing can be shipped on that road from Louis
vile to any place-before lawful act can be done.
And II the administration is permitted to do this
tn9ing, to what extent may it not 60 ?-Lou,sville
Courier.
ihree spans OF the Ohio and Michigan Railroad
pridge across the Big Miami river near Lawrence
ourP, were blown down on Friday evening by a
tornado. The bridge will be rebuilt at the earliest
possible moment. Passengers change cars there
| I0r the present. Tho =