The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-30

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A Rata Nan ond
Child Bitten-Fatal Result Feayed.-The ALBANY
papers give an account of horrible affair which
lately occurred in that city, and from which we
extract the following
1t appears that Mr.. I. GrOteruth who occun;ad
the upper part of a house on an avenue had con.
cluded to move. For that purpose a cartman wa
engaged, and the furniture removed In the attic
OF the mouse MT: IT, had several articles stored
away. Among other things was a pile of old news
papers tied up in bundles. In the centre of these
papers number of rats had formed nest. Ont
side the papers looked as though they had not been
touched since they had been placed there. Inside
however, the papers bad been all eaten away, and
the rats had actually formed nest into which they
carried everything they could lay their laws on
The moment Mr. q. undertook to remove the pa
psrs the rats flew about in all directions The ma
pers were nearly all destroyed and underneath
Thorn was great collection of bones and other
things sufficient to form museum. One of the
rats rushed down stairs, and got into the room
where Mr. G.'s wife and children were seated. He
rushed between a trunk and the wall. Mrs G. saw
the terocious looking aud dreadful creature. She
screamed; the children cried. Mir. G. came down
stairs and inquired the matter. Mrs G. was so
much frightened that she could hardly utter
word Her features resembled those of a "ghost''
She finally managed to calculate "a rat'-
"Where?" "Behind the trunk Mr. G. armed
himself with the arm OF a rocking chair, which lay
near by, and made an attack on his ratship. The
rat was all fight. While Mr.. q. was attempting TO
squeeze the rat to death between the trunk and
wall, the animal got loose from his vce-like posi-
ton. 1t ran across the room and jumped into a
cradle where lay an infant. Mother again screams
Tor baby. Husband makes another sOrtie. Rat
bites baby on arm. Baby wakes up. Its cries
start!e rat Rat Jumps out and rushes into cupboard
Mr.. G. pursues Mr.. G. looks at rat. He is crouch
ed up in one corner, seeming to realize that his
last moment had come. Mr.. G. made rap at the
rat The blow missed its aim. The rat jumped at
Mr.. 6. 1t caught his hand. A dreadful bite was
inflicted. Rat was shaken off and made speedy
exit out of the door and down the stairs. The
wounds inflicted upon the child and Mr.. &. are not
only painful but serious. The bite of rat is
venomous and hence dangerous. DR.. Cox was
called In to attend to the unfortunate victims he
being the nearest at hand. DR.. Wasserback was
sent for, but he was not in. Dr. Cox did all that
was in his power for the sufferers. The man being
OF strong nerves. he expects to treat the wound in
flicted upon his hand with success. That upon the
child, however, he fears will prove fatal The
little thing suffers the most excruciating pain Her
arm is all swollen and mortified. Amputation is
talked of, but it is feared that it will terminate
fatally.
SPAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE-The Madrid iour
nails OF the 9th contain reports of what took place
in the Congress on the preceding day with respect
to the incident mentioned by telegraph-the inter
pellatlon on the subject of speech of Lord Pal
merston ATTACHING the conduct of Spain with regard
to the slave trade, and the reply VIII icn the Duke
de Tetuan (O'Donnel) gave to it. 1t was NJ.
Gonzales Bravo who drew attention to the Ian
guage of Lord Palmerston, and who demanded
explanations from the government respectinp il.
and, in doing so, he described that language as
"soveregnly offensive to Spain. The Duke de
Tetuan, in answer, said: 81 rise to give ample
explanations to show the injustice of the accusations
which have been brought not only against the
Spanish government-which is a very grave fact
but against the Spanish nation-a circumstance
which augments the gravity of the language used
in the English Chamber a: The Minister then pro-
treaty to put down the slave trade and he main
tanned that she had faithfully executed it. in proof
of which be dwet on the fact that the yalue of a
slave In CUBA Is now three or fourfold what it was
then. He affirmed that the different Captains
General of Cuba and especially Generals dc la
COncha and Serrano, had always exerted themselves
actively to prevent the introduction of slaves
into the island. He stated that the English
Cabinet itself had more than one occasion
borne testimony to the efforts made bv the
Spanish Government to put down the slave trade. |
and he contended that if certain Spaniards had en-
gagged in that illegal traffic neither the government
nor the nation was responsible He next went on
to say that probably the language used by Lord
Palmerston had fallen from him in the heat of de-
bate, and would not be repeated in calmer mo. |
ment; and be then made the declaration, briefly |
by telegraph, which was as follows:E
''The government declares that it has received no
official communication cOuched in the terms used
in the House of Commons, nor in anything like |
them, and it hopes that none will be sent. But if
such an one should be forwarded the Spanish Gov
eminent will not receive it, or, at least, will not
give any answer whatever to it." This drew forth
ioud applause, and the Minister, after limiting that
perhaps the language ascribed to Lord Palmerston
III s1t not have been correctly translated, repeated
Due a;sclaration M. Gonzales Bravo thanked the
OF the Council for what he said, and the
s;ous h that, though in Spain party OLSEN
sSns mgn. exist, yet that when the honor or the
ali spaniards ., uns spanish nation was attacked
This, also. warmly applaudaS sn 70 u . It..
ended.-London Times l2M. eu' ana tue matter