The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-16


DREADFUL CRUELTY Canadian P,iaons.--The
Montreal Advertiser says that great cruelty is
tced in the Ide-aux- noix Reformatorv Prison and
gives the following, as the way the boys are re.
formed
Poor boys have been hogged there with rods cut
green from the woods (six dozen strokes each J
It'll the flesh was ploughed out of their bodies
literally cut in pieces and when the poor sufferers
begged for mercy's sake that the punishment might
be inflicted upon their backs, even that was denied
them, and the strokes delivered so that they would
strike the hardest, under the arm and round upon
the breast-the warden standing by all the while,
and repeatedly giving orders to strike hard. One
poor boy in particular, received eight ashes after
he was perfectly insenSible, and remained in state
OF Inconsistencies for TWENTY-FIVE minutes after
the thongs were loosened and he was let down
upon the floor. Another boy has been known to
faint three four different times from exhaustion
and cruel treatment. 1t is also true that persons
have been selected to infict corporal punishment
upon prisoners against whom they were well known
to harbor feelings of the strongest hatred Others
have been confined in dark cells for three months
chained to the wall with two feet of chain, and are
described as IN state bordering upon insanity.
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPs.-Mr. Charles Lunplev.
shipbuilder, Deptiord working on the ideas Of
Charles Wye Williams has produced the model of
a ship, which you may set on fire. dash AGAINST
rocks staVe IN, and tear to pieces but which il is
asserted, you cannot sink. His plan consists in di
viding the lower part of the ship, or vessel into
two or more closed water-tght compartments. and
IN aifordng to these Commandments for the in
PRODUCTION of cargo or stores by means of water
tight trunks or passages, led up from them to such
height that their upper or open ends shall never
in any practicable position of the ship, be brought
quite down to the level of the water Compart-
ments thus formed ma be used as ordinary CARGO
spaces, storerooms, chain lockers or for any other
Ike purposes and may be ventilated by suitable
trunks or tubes, always providing that all trunks or
tubes OF every kind which enter them shall be
made water-tight and shall rise to the height be.
lore mentioned, In order that if by any mischanee
either compartment should be broken into and the
sea be admitted to it, the water should have No
means of escaping therefrom into any other part of
the ship. The details vary with the class of vessel
but the principle is the same in alL,-London
AtheRdeUm.
LATEST FROM PENsACoLA.- Warrington, April sth,
lS6l.-Dear Observer: There was large acces
sion to our military force yesterdays the Mississip-
plans came in countless numbers, making the 'wel-
kin ring" with their cheers. The steamer Tom
Murphy brought two cargoes, numbering about
eleven hundred, and schooner came down from
town with about two hundred on board. The arri-
walls Yesterday fully amount to thirteen hundred
brave and determined men, who are resolved to
rous every vestige of the aggressor or die in the
effort
Captain Jones, of the sIoop Isabel, disappeared
rather mysteriousy on Friday. Upon inquiry,
learned that he went on board the Z. s. steamer
WyandOtte, and from thence conveyed on
board the U. s. steamer Brooklyn, where his friend
the correspondent of the n Y. Tribune, and ly-
ing N. Y. Times, have no doubt gave Kim warm
greeting.
The correspondent on board the Brooklyn is said
70 De DR.. McClelland, the surgeon of that vessel,
one whose position, one might suppose, would in
auce him to be little more'truthful, but his violent
partisanship has entirely blotted out his better
quantities. correspondence ofhe Observer.
Berger has been invited to visit California and
upon neng requested to make known his terms.
responded that he would make an enaaranat go
eight thousand dollars, and travelling exnensss
there and back; also the expenses of bis nanhaw
who accompanies him, and of gentleman Who
acts as his interpreter. AA "ho