The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-26

ing of an infde tendency, are DR.. Temple, chap
lam to the Queen and master of Rugby; Dr. Will
Powell, of Oxford (now deceased); Rev. H. B.
Wilson, Vicar of Hants; c. W. Goodwin, Rev.
Mark Patterson and Professor B. Jewell, Regius
Professor of Greek, Oxford.
The Able Larigierie recently visited Abd-el-Ka-
der, and has graphically recorded the interview
The old Emir spoke warmly of France, the kind
ness he had received there and the friends who
had obliged him and his family. In relation to
his own conduct during the Syrian troubles he
claimed no credit beyond that of performing his
duty.
The betrothal of the Hereditary Prince of Ho.
henzollern and the Infanta Dona Antonio of z ortu-
gal took place on the lst in the Palace at Berlin,
and the King and Queen of Prussia gave on the
occasion grand dinner to all the members of the
royal family, to the Ambassador of Portugal, and
to all the Knights Grand Crosses of Portuguese Or
ders who happened to be in the city.
There is rumor from Madrid that Marshal
O'Donnell is about to come to Cuba, and there or
ganize military expedition to Mexico to obtain
satisfaction for the dismissal of the Spanish
Minister.
Ten ships OF the line seventeen frigates eighteen
sloops and about twenty small craft, constitute the
whole of the British navy propelled by sails.
Upwards of five hundred and sixty others are
steamers.
An ingenious English inventor proposes to rem
edy the want of bust in ladies of "a given thinness,
proper shape, and, as Willis would say, "plumpti-
tude."
Religious liberty of the most unrestricted char
acter has been proclaimed at Naples. All former
concordats and treaties with Rome are abrogated
and ecclesiastical power is limited to the punish
ment of ecclesiastical offences merely.
Only one citizen of slave State has lately had
an audience of the French Emperor, and be was
General Stevenson, of Tennessee, who was intro.
duced as chairman of the Pacific Railway.
Alfred B. Street has been elected honorary
member of the Literary Union, in Nuremberg, and
bis poems have been translated in the Album deS
Literartschen VereinS, at that place.
A leadership on jurisprudence and the civil law
has been established by the Inns at Court, sYmp
tom of a more liberal view of law and justice thar
has been wont to be taken by British lawyers.
The perturbations of Mercury, long puzzle tc
astronomers, is attributed by NJ. Liais to continu
Gus showers of aerolites, which affectits mass ano
its momentum.
A bride has been invented in France, with
which runaway horses nostrils are suddenly
closed, an effectua method it is said to stop the
animal.
beautiful stone mansion near Funchal with
Offices terraces, shrubbery and every convenience
is advertised for sale at $4,000. This gives u
some idea of the value of estates in Madeira.
An English traveller writing home from Russia
says OF it, that its "civiliZation is small, bribery
and corruption deemed only finesse, religion
Is superstition and morality myth"
The large increase of the number of lunatcs il
England is attributed by eminent psychologists o
that country to the deleterous substances mixet
with food.
1t is stated that both carbon and iron have re
Gently been found not to be elementary substances
the former being convertible into silicon, the latte
into rh 1dium.
The Clydesdale horses famous for thei
strength, frequently drawing four tons and hal
at one load.
The London Omnibus Company calculate tina
the "knock downs of their drivers are at leas
$780, per annum.
German chemist asserts that he has found gu
how to manufacture pure silver by artificial means
at cost of seventy-ive cents an ounce.
The London Times has hired three of Wheat
stones electromagnetic wires in London. Thu
rent paid is twenty dollars per mile per annum.
Handsome velvet pile carpets are now sold il
England at seventy-hve cents per yard (our money
about half what is asked for them in New York.
Fret ghts of cotton from Bombay to Liverpool
on the 10th of January last, ruled at e. los, and
to London 81 rs. Cd.
There have been for many years, up to this time
nine hundred monasteries in the NeapoIitan pro
vinces.
Captain Ericsson is about to obtain patent il
England for his hot-air engine.
A subscription has been opened in all the town
of Italy for the relief of the inhabitants of Gaeta
Vancouver's Island is said to be the Medera of th
Pacific.
The Cunard Company have offered the Arabs
and Niagara for sale.
The best London omnibuses cost S665 each.
Lord Congleton is now Baptist clergyman.
THE SOUTHERN LOAN
LOAN FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES
Five millions of this most advantageous invest
ment will be offered to the public on the 18th o
April ensuing, and every citizen throughout thu
Confederate States will have the opportunity o
taking share of the benefit, and at the SAM
time of sustaining the of his country.
Bonds, with coupons, will be issued in sums from
$1,000 to $50, and where it is preferred stock GER
tifcates in the usual form may be had. The int
rest is at eight per cent. per annum, payable every
| six months, at all our principal cities.
The debt has the very unusual and important Sc
curity OF duty of one-eighth of cent per pound
about sixty-two cents per bale on Ill cotton ex
ported. This duty, under all circumstances O
peace or war, secures the punctual payment of the
interest, and furnishes sinking fund for the re-
demption of the principal. The coupons when due
are receivable in payment of the duty cotton
and are thus made available as coin everywhere in
our country. In order to enable all portions of our
people to take part of this valuable investment and
to exhibit their common interest in raising funds
for the common defence, books of subscription will
be opened at the cities and principal interior towns
five per cent must be paid in cash at the time Of
subscription, and the remainder or before the
first of May, interest to from the date of such
payment. Persons DESTROYS to secure their sub
scriptions, may pay in cash the whole amount and
take a receipt for the delivery of bonds or stock
10 equaize the rates of subscription at all points
and to enable all persons conveniently to subscribe
current bank notes of the place will be received
at their market value in coin.
In case of an over subscription preference will
be given first to those who pay down their whole
subscription, next to subscribers of $50, next to
subscribers of 500.
c. G. MEMMINGER, Secretary of Treasury.
MONTGOMERY, March 16, 1861.
1t will be seen from the above circular that no
part of the Confederate States fifteen million loan
has yet been presented to the people for their
tributons. The first call upon them is named for
the 18th of April, and five millions of the fifteen
will be offered on that day, when "books of sub.
scription will be opened in the principal cities and
towns of the Confederate States"
WAR TERMs.-The Columbiad or Paixhan (pro-
nounced payzan) is large gun, designed princi-
pally for firing shells-it being far accurate
than the ordinary short mortar. mortar is a
very short cannon, with a large bore, some of
them thirteen inches in diameter, for firing shells.
Those in use in our army are set at angle of as
deg and the range of the she'll is varied by alter
ing the charge of powder. The shell is caused to
explode at just about the time that it strikes by
of fuse, the length of which is adjusted to
the time of fight to be occupied by the bal which,
of course, corresponds with the range. The ac-
curacy with which the time of the burning of
fuse can be adjusted by varying its length is sur
.prlsing, good artilerists generally succeeding in
having their shells explode almost at the exact in
slant of striking. In loading mortar, the shell is
carefully placed with the fuse directly forward and
when the piece is discharged, the shell is SO COM
petely enVeloped with flame that the fuse is nearly
always fired. The fuse is made by filling a wooden
cylinder with fuse powder, the cylinder being of
sufficient length for the longest range, to be cut
down shorter for shorter ranges, as required.
nahlgren gun is an ordinary cannon, except that
It is made very thick at the breech for some three
or four feet, when it tapers down sharply to less
than the usual size. This form adopted in con-
sequence of the experiments of Captain Dahlgren,
of the U. S. Navy, having shown that when a gun
bursts, it usually gives way at the breech The MD
CARA is armed with these guns, and at the Brook
Ign Navy Y ard there are sixty, weighing about
5000 pounds each, and six of r. 900 pounds weight
each, the former of which capable of carrying
nine inch and the latter ten inch shell distance
of two or three miles; and there is one gun of this
pattern which weighs 1876 pounds, and is war
ranted to send an eleven inch shell four miles.
casemate is stone roof to fort, made sufficiently
thick to resist the force of cannon balls, and case
mate gun is one which is placed under casemate
Barbette is one which is placed on the top of the
fertilization. An embrasure is the hole or opening
through which guns are fired from Notifications
Loop holes openings in walls to fire musketry
ugb.-Scientyfc American
Iron RAILROAD Cause.-The car, with twenty
which plunged through the draw of
the Hackensack bridge last week, on the New York
and Erie Railroad, was built of iron; and when it
was taken out, it found to be little bent, but
not otherwise materially injured. The safety of the
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