The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-27
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ton, where field evolutions performed as if in
sight OF an enemy, Colonel McMurdO made a speech
to the men, which is important enough Just now to
be reported " All that you have learned in the
way OF soooting, all your zeal and patriotism, will
be OF no avail in the day Of battle without thor
ough knowledge of company drill Where the men
in each company steady and well drilled, the
whole army will be steady and we'll drilled like
wise. 10 have battalion or brigade act like
machine is to be effected only BY company drill
1t Is this very system which has made the Seventh
and other New \ ork regiments what they are.'
The herring fisheries of Norway have produced
the last year 100000 tons, sold at francs 10 CEN
times per ton. 100000 were consumed on the Bal
tic; 10000 in England and Ireland, and the rest at
home. These fisheries employ % ISL men. The
Norwegian cod fishery is on large scale also. 1t
employs q, 2G6 men, and produces annually 49, 900
tons, each ton l, 600 kilos They are sold, when
fresh, at 26 francs % confines for the 100 pounds
or large hundred. Thousands OF tons of oil are
extracted from them, and large quantities of them
are dried and sailed for expectation.
y, me Sn'day Revieo eFiti6e e% cut Jh
Keats Laaia, and Coleridge's Chr,sta5e', to say
nothing OF minor works; that he " has not a very
delicate hand or very artistic touch" and that
he is an instance of the truth Of the assertion,
that without very great amount Of cultivation
and selt-control, power in literature like all other
power, is power wasted"
Mr.. Roebuck, NJ. p. for Sheffield, recently met
his constituents at their call, to defend his charac
ter. lie was charged with having,received 10000
for aiding the Galway Steamship OOmpany in get
ting subsidy, and with corruption in recently sup
porting Austria in the Fenetia question. He W as
frequently interrupted that be could not 90 on
in his defence at the first meeting, but at an ad-
Jonrned one got vote OF confidence, and came off
with flying coors.
The Prefecture of Police in Paris is in the prac-
tce of giving rewards to those drivers of carriages
and coaches who show the greatest honesty in re-
storing articles OF value lost in their vehicles. In
the past year valuables have been restored in Paris
by those persons, to the amount of about SIS 900.
Forty-three drivers were thus hOnorab!y rewarded.
At recent sale of paintings at the residence of
the Countess Lehon, in Paris, a battle piece by
Decamp, brought 5000 francs; a sea-pece by
Backhuysen, 1900; lady and her dog, by Hoog,
5000; figure, by Ostade, 81 400; portrait, by
Rembrandt, 3O0O and dog, by Weeninx, $1,000.
If officer of the French army incurs debts
without paying them, oneifth of his pay is retain
ed to discharge them. If he continues to do so he
may be degraded. An under officer, or soldier, is
under similar circumstances liable to discipline and
the loss of grade, and Imprisonment.
Messrs Roebuck and Lever have had their con-
tract with the Austrian government completed for
running line OF steamers between Southampton
and Trieste. This may account for Mr.. Roebuck's
support of the Austrian right to Venetia.
Agiers is beginning to be much frequented by
nvalids during the winter season, in consequence
of its beautiful climate. 1t contains numerous
two hours from London.
Baron Zychlinski, 50 called, who entrapped the
daughter of an English clergyman into marriage,
has got clear and discharged from arrest ''amd
deatening plaudits." Why, we cannot learn.
Major Yelverton has appealed from the decision
In his case. The opinion appears to be that be will
succeed, as neither the Scotch nor Irish marriage
can be sustained.
Since the port of Hakodadi in Japan, has been
opened to foreign trade, its population has in
creased from 10000 to 2S 900. Two of its largest
exports consist of sui phur and satpetre.
During nine months of the year 1850, twenty
two American, nineteen English and one French
merchant ships have traded with Japan.
The government of Spain has projected the in
PRODUCTION into Cuba of 60, 900 free negroes with
the appreciation of the Cuban authorities.
The cultivation of the sk-worm has been COM
menced in Brittany with great success.
A NEW MIRACLE.-The Moaitenr du Pun de Dome
gives an account of miracle of which it saws
everybody in France is talking. A sportsman shot
his dog by accident, and while he was cursing his
own awkUardness priest appeared in the distance,
whereupon he exclaimed, az would rather have
killed ten priests than that dog" The "basphe- |
nous" words were sooner out of his mouth than |
the earth opened under his feet and he sank up to
his shoulders. The peasants in the neighborhood |
came in great numbers with spades and pickaxes |
TO dig him out, but the earth closed in as fast as |
The laborers shovelled it out, and the wretch re-
named three parts buried, his head and shoulders
alone sticking out Of the ground The wondering
'wains, who were impotent to extricate him, bring
God to his mouth, and at the date of the last ad-
7ices bis position remained unchanged Although
eports differ about the exact locality of this mira
,le-sOme assigning it to the village of Ceyrat and
others to ROcheiort and Herment-it stands great
chance OF being recognized authentic by the
church, which will not now permit the Salette i'm
be called in question.
CLEVER ZoUAvE TRICK,-During the spring
If 1860, in Agers, the tribe of Benz Suassin were
neditatng an attack on the French. Being short
If powder, they tried to obtain it from the enemy;
fering one dollar for a cartridge, they found the
upply equal the demand. Soon the transaction
eaked out among the officers, who laid trap and
aught an old Zouave in the act of pocketipg four
ollars for four cartridges. Being brought before
he court martial, old Iou-Zou pleaded guilty, aud
equested the favor to blow his own brains out and
void fOrmalities. This being granted horse
lan's pistol was brought in, loaded by the cuprit,
nd applied to his temple. Click! the cap only eI-
loded. "Try again. said the commander. So
e did. Click! The Court began to laugh, for it
aw the cartridges which he had sold were made
| coal dust, and not powder, and that, as demon
trated in his attempts at selfpunishment, they
'ere not likely to go of-save to the Arabs. Old
ou-Zou was permitted to return to bis duty.
ARRIVAL OF THE PRIZE SrEAMsHIP.-The prize
eamship Star of the West, Captain Van Buren,,
efere reported at the bar, arrived up near the
arracks, where sac is now anchored, at an early
our last evening. She has ON board about eighty
exam volunteers from Galveston, by whom she |
las captured, as before stated, off Indanola,
Yednesday night last. BY them she was first
sken into Galveston, where she took on board
aptain Farwel and engineer Seymour, and soon
fter sailed again for this port. The Star of the |
Vest has on board about 900 barrels of provi-
ions, originally destined for the United States | ,
oops she to take from lndanola On her :
assage up the river and when Fort Jackson, '
ne was honored with a salute of eight guns by !
In m wh |