The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-08
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"""l DECAAE OF THE PAPERS OF THE UNITE
STATES BANK ?-The New York Historical 5yooo
@tne for March publishes, under this cantion
communication, which is signed with the initial
-. j. s." and which is dated at Germantown
The communication is as follows:
When the Government bought the building q
the United States Bank in Chestnut street PkiIa
delphia, to convert it for the purposes of custor
house, the vaults. closets, &C., were found we
stored with books, accounts, correspondence, al
the documents relating to its various branches an
wagonOads Of miscellaneous PAPERS tied nm wifi
red tape and carefully docketed The governmen
ohacer5 were in a hurry to take possession, an,
there was nowhere to store this vast amount o
ruoblsh; contract was therefore made by some
Dody or other with paper maker to grind it al
| up; lucky 1t was, no doubt for some people tha
! their autographs were thus to be cancelled
without examination or notice to any one these
| precious documents were got on board of sloop:
ana ana sent TO paper-mill at Trenton, n j. These
co5 cuTPs came ana went many voyages before they
could dispose of the tons of material thus indus.
FlouSiy accumulated. Two sets of "coIlectors''
scented the trail at last, and went to Trenton in
not pursuit; one of these had 'permit' from the
purchaser OF the whole lot to examine and appro-
pirate to himself the "rarities" he might recover
Inc others had no permit, and Jared more sparinp.
ly; these latter got aboard one of the soons as !,
was unloading and were opening the oyster with
! eager hands and eyes, when they were ordered of
Dy tne manufacturer; not, however until thew had
| found some pearls of price, in correspondence Of
eminent borrowers and so forth from the good old
milch bank But, though they had worked hard
In not sun, On the deck, and went without dinner
and scarcely got into the lldcer at all thev fopnd
| very rare things, which the m-owner afterwards
heard OF and claimed! but was shamed into return
! ing. The other party with the permit had more
time allowed him; and though both of the
curiosity hunters had to miss their dinners and 70
hurry to the trains, great additions were the result
ana now adorn the cabinets of some of our auto.
graph collectors. Among these, when we take into
consideration the dispute between Nicholas BiddIe
anu andrew jackson, it is little "historical" to
see preserved Andrews autograph, appointing
Nicholas to be government director of the Bank
deposits. Wv
This short notice of the final ssremoval of tba
deposits, will cause many collector to sigh over
What was lost. Now collectors of the cus-ons
tread the stately marble halls of the bank Auto
sraPh gatherers must regret that it is not the
custom TO examine papers more minutely before
making them up into newspaper sheets.
A. A BosroNI NoTIoN-Grand MASKED Ball The
Mdseers and their CostumeS-Sinqular Mass Meet
Eng OF L1Uing and Dead Celebrities.-The people of
boston are anticipating the pleasures of the tsBal-
10 In Maschera." by masked balls of unusual splen
a0r. Ihe third annual festivity of this kind took
place at assau HAIL. in that city, last Wednesday
evening, ladies from New York and other cities
participating with the Boston bellies and beaux.
Among the characters present were Anne Boleyp,
IN 10 whlte Dress with silver trimmings; Miranda,
Regiment, the Greek Slave, not after Powers but
attlred in white satin embroidered with gold. the
front of the dress richly embroidered with gold
ana colored howers, and rich scarf and head dress
10 match; several ladies of the French court; Re-
becca the Jewess the Duchess of Sutherland in
gold and crimson velvet; Mary, Queen of Scots in
maroon velvet with pearl and lace ornaments one
OF OF the hneSt costumes in the room; Anne Page;
MRS. Fry, the Quakeress, in grey, of course a
Swiss peasant; Esmeralda the Empress Josephine
who, in blue brocade with pearl ornaments, at
tracted much attention; anun of surprising beau
W; turkish maiden in cherry-colored silk skirt
over French grey plush, profusey embroidered in
gold, white satin waist bearing Turkish devices
turoan OF silver and crimson tarletan Bird of Par
adlse plume; Norma; Nourmahal at the Feast of
Roses, in exquisite Turkish Dress canarv-colored
underskirt, embroidered with silver and blue silver
overskIrt full trousers, sash and turban to match
costume; Clrcassian, hungarian and Venetian la
dies; Scottish lasse; Lady Teazle; the Queen of
Night Grace Harkaway; Maritana; Queen Eliza
9etn; kea hiding Hood Conrad the Corsair; Count
SobleSki; Claude Melnotte; Figaro; Zouave Sir
Thomas Clifford; Sir Peter Teazle; Rob Roy: Sa-
TAM an Egyptian Mummy; Friar Lawrence; Don
Caesar de BaZan Sir Walter Raleigh; Charles H.
OF SPAN; Highlander; Osceola; Iago; a Spanish
matador IN carnation pink velvet trimmed with
GOLD and green; Romeo Knight Tempar, clad
in complete steel with shirt of mail and helmet;
Duke Altonzo, from 'Lucretia Borgia;" Sir Oliver
surface; Brigand; DR.. PangOss Count Dor
say; Shylock; and among those which attracted
the most attention, Major Anderson and Garibaldi
The Mayor of Boston joined the maskerg, but
did not appear in costume.
SToPPAGE OF THE MAILs-WHo Is TO BE THE GREAr-
Err SUFFERER?-The news of the passage of the Col
fax bill, authorizing the Postmaster General to sus-
pend mail facilities in the seeding States at his
discretion has started discussions in the Journals as
to who is to be the greater sufferer North or
South-should the power be exercised. The New
Orleans Picdyne reasons in this wise:
ain the matter of newspapers, the Interruptions
may not be so vexatiOus to them as it might be to
US Tor while, because the currents of the trade
and intelligence between this continent and Europe
flow and re-fow mainly through Northern ports -
This disadvantage will not, however, last long and
the excess on our part be borne But in respect
to letters, the commercial people Of the Northern
States have very deep interest in the means of
reaching their correspondents in the South, and
will groan under the nhction ftheir own Govern.
ment which stops their letters. The Postmaster
General may therefore hesitate before he proceeds
to establish degree of non-intercourse which
would be considered as unwise and unfrendly be-
tween nations entirely foreign. The South is will
ling to adjust this matter on fair and liberal
grounds, to recognize existing arrangements, and
to pay her proportions of the costs and to enter
INTO hoeral compacts for organizing a inter-
national system. If Mr.. King chooses to vent the
Black Republican spite upon the South by stopping
up the avenues of intercourse between them and
their Northern merchants, we shall hear some loud
soon as possible to relieve them from their mani.
fold inconveniencies of the threatened nou-inter-
course
The editor, we may add, produces a formidable
array of official tistics, to upset the Republican
alleg that no Southern State contributes to
the revenue department equal to the expen-
ditures within the State.
RUSSIAN Prince AND HIs MoNEY.-We are
still talking, says Partisan, about New Year 5
Day, or rather, we are talking great deal about
the folly of Russian prince, an old bachelor, who
has an income of two hundred thousand dollars an
nually. He distributed forty thousand dollars here
New ears Day, in the shape of presents, to per-
sons he was uDacquainted with; and this when so
many poor people are starving. He sent to fifteen
OF the prettiest actresses note in these terms -
"Good for twenty five dozen pairs of gloves at
Bovln's shop, No. Rue de Castiglione Charge
to the account of admirer of Mile.
(Signed) Prince--off.' He sent thirty ladies
presents, not Of which was of less value than
four hundred dollars, and the majority of them
were worth twelve hundred dollars. Several of
these presents were returned, for he was unac-
qualnted with the ladies to whom they were sent.
One lady sent her present back, with this note =
"Mme. de- cannot have the pleasure of re-
ceiVng present from person she has not the
honor of receiving in her drawing groom" The
wealthy simpleton became quite angry, and sent
the present to Madame Doche. There was no
danger of her sending it back. He sent gold
/
| pearls, to Mile Edie Riquer, of the French
Comedy, with this note :-"Prince off begs
Mile Edile Riquer, of the French Comedy, to be
so good as to accept this Russian opera-glass, which
having been used yesterday, during the perform
| ance of Les Etrontes, in observing her grace,
elegance, and sympathetic beauty, must no longer
be directed by the same hand on another face"
Of course, this old is laughed at for his folly,
even by those who receive his presents. What
pleasure can he find in spending forty thousand
dollars to be proclaimed idiot by all Paris!
REvACCINATloN.-M Heminckx has detailed to
the Belgian Academy of Medicine the results of
the revaccnatons put into force at the prisons of
Client and Vilvorde, the subjects together amount
ing to one thousand six hundred and sixty. Of
these, three hundred and seventy -nine or sixteen
per cent, were vaccinated with success; there
were in seven hundred and sixteen manifest traces
OF prior vaccination, and four hundred and
seventy-one exhibited marks of smallpox. OF the
seven hundred and sixteen, sixteen per cent, and
of the four hundred and seventy-one, forty-sx per
cent. were vaccinated with success. The authors
conclusions, from these and other cases. are as fol
lows:
First, the revaccnation of subjects who have
been well vaccnated, produce generally but very
few useful effects; second, persons who have been
the subjects of variola have much more cause to
be reVaccinated than those who have undergone
proper vaccination; third, revaccinatiOn is sue
cessful in proportion to the length of time which
has elapsed since the first vaccination or the attack
of varola; fourth until the age of twenty-five it
is generally useless fifth, from that age to thirty
five it gives rise to useful results in certain num-
Der of individuals, but this number is so extremely
small, that without prescribing it in such persons
| it need not be warmly recommended to them;
sixth, after thirty five it becomes preserva
| tive, and consequently necessary; seventh, it:
failure at one period furnishes no reason for not
having recourse to it at other epochs, as there i:
no reason to suppose that the receptiyitv NAV moi
return between the one and the other operation.