The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-25
THE TURKISH RATU IN FYC1.Nn

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the poet had become the pet and the idol of all
England"
THE TURKISH BATH IN ENGLAND.
The London Critic, in mentioning the opening of
a Turkish bath in Pimico, gives the following ac-
count of the operations and sensations connected
Herewith: When you enter you are requested to
take off your boots, and are furnished with a pair
OF sippersa precaution necessary to keep the mat
ted floor Of the salon. E'cooling- ROOM" perfect
ly clean. You conducted to a dressing-ro
where you dlvest yourself of your clothes, and an
apron is handed to you, which you straghtway
grid about your loins then a sheet, with which
you drape yourself; and straightway you are CON
Quoted down stairs to the bath. Your conductors
are, like yourself, dressed in an apron. They are
stalwart fellows, and look as if they had never
been dressed in their lives; for, GO they are naked
and are not ashamed" These lead YOU into the
bath, which is a sombre chamber, lit up with color
ed windows, and admitting what the French call
the mi jour; it is well ventilated and the air is
quite dry, but the temperature is one hundred and
thirty degrees of Fahrenheit.
As you enter you lay aside the sheet, and when
you have been seated some seconds every part of
your skin begins to itself with profuse per
spiration. AT first bl eathing is little oppressed;
but that wears off rapidly, and in short time Won
respire with perfect freedom. Presently YOU are
aware that you are in bath of your own max ing
In drops, in streams, in rivers, it runs over YOU;
your hair is full of it; your face is bathed; your
limbs are inundated. The seven millions of pores
freeing themselves from the bonds of long if un-
conscious, Imprisonment. In fact, you are in the
most protuse perspiratiOn you ever experienced in
your life. What was the ten mile walk on the Au-
gust day to this? What the gaop over the Downs
or the sport to lfiley, or even the training walk
under Heaven knows how many pea-iackets? All
these made the shirt stick to your back: but this
would soak whole weeks washing of shirts And
so you sit quietly communing with yourself on
these matters, until of the bath-men tells YOU
that 1t is time to into the hot no lot
room! Why, you have been sitting for half an
hour in a temperature of one hundred and thirty
degrees, and now you are to go into the hot room
Great is the power of human endurance: your
body is now seasoued and ynn walk into room
where the temperature is one hundred and seventy
degrees, without feeling in any way oppressed; and
now the streams pour out afresh All around is
dry, but you like Gideon's fleece The heat is
great, but you do not care for it. The seven mil
lions OF pores are now all free, aud are rejoicing
IN their freedom. You thought yourself cleanly
person, because you have taken a sponge-bath
every morning all your life, and an occasional
warm dip. Clean! why you were quite otherwise
80, at least, the bathmen prove to you presently.
For they take you back to the former room, they
extend you upon slab; they knead your muscles
and your flesh; and then they roll off YOU such a
mass OF dead skin, used up epidermis that, but for
the evidence of your senses, you never could have
believed had once belonged to you. However
cleanly you may have fanced yourself to be, that
is what the Turkish bath will take from YOU not
only on your first visit, but every week after
The sensation of relief which follows this olsen
cumbrance is amazing. But what follows is the
browning joy Of all. The Tritons, having sham
pooned you, lead you into q cool room they anoint
you with soap, and turn upon you shower of cold
water, following it with dOUche. Oh, the enjoy
ment, the delicious enjoyment of that sensation i
There is pleasure of the senses to compare with
it. The reaction calls the blood back to the surface
and your newly polished skin gows with health
and vitality. You court the cool water and EN-.
brace it; you reve in it, and cannot have too much
of it; the Tritons have difficulty in leading
you forth; and, sheeted once more, you again as
cend to the cooling room," where, lying on a
couch, you expose your body to the fresh and cool
ing air, giving it as much oxygen as you can in
exchange for the carbon of which you have been
purified. In this stage of the proceedings good
cigar is not to be despised.
After this you quit Paradise; you resume your
clothes, the consequences and memorials of our de-
graduation, and you walk forth a regeuerated man.
What difference between yourself as you walked
IN, and yourself as you walk out of this magic pal
ace! loa almost doubt whether you have not
changed your limbs for those of some one else,
leaving the weary old ones behind, and taking some
OF very superior construction, bran-new, muscu-
lar, untiring. You could walk twenty miles with
out Wearying those we-oled joints. You could
ny ii you had wings. As you have not you con-
tent yourself with turning into st. James Park,
where you amuse yourself las King Charles H.
did with feeding the ducks, and cheriShiDg Sec
ret feeling of superiority all the rest of man
-'' WV -"'C ieNG ndu Il uThlSn pain.
THE ENGLISH MONEY MARKET.
The Times, of January Sth, announcing that, on
the previous day, the Bank of England had adj
vanced their rate of discount from six per cent
which it was fixed on the last dav of the wear, to
seven per cent, says "This is higher than any
point attained since the panic of 1851" and thus
states the reason for the advance:
'The step came unexpected, and few minutes
previously to its notification money was obtainabIe
in the discount market at fraction below the bank
terms then current. The reasons assigned for it.
however, are sufficiently important Not only did
the Asla take out further sum of $500 900 for
New York on Saturday, but the Teutonia, from
southampton, this morning, has carried go, 600,
and 1t may therefore be inferred that the CITY of
Washington, Arago, Yigo, North Britain, Marathon
and Niagara. to sail during the week, with ALL or
most OF them, have additional totals especially as
the accounts to-day likely to excite the conf
dence OF remitters. At the same time, the adyices
from Paris are diScouraging with regard to the DO
sition and prospects of the Bank of France which
IN its approaching monthly statement, is expected
to show a further very considerable reduction
OF bullion, the effect of the American panic
having relatively been quite much felt in France
as IN England. In addition to these considerations
there Is also the fact that the last weekly return of
our bank showed falling off of 81 024 260; in the
reserve OF notes, and that the accounts from India
although they confirm the statement that no new
lie improvements are to be continued in that coun-
try on any extensive scale, it must be BY funds
drawn exclusively. from this side. These things
seemed to warrant some additional action on the
money market, and hence, although the public
were unprepared for the movement, it has created
no dissatisfaction, especially as there is not the
slightest symptom of internal pressure or discred-
1t, and all commercial men are disposed to believe
mat the progress OF business later in the year. W i'll
fully compensate for the abnormal circumstances
now in operation"
The whole remaining amount of gold to be taken
from England to the United States, this season is
believed to be about $500, 900. The report from
Paris is that the absence of the usual orders for
French produce for the United States has been Sc
verely felt by many who had provided themselves
with heavy stock of goods for that market.
FiGHrrNG AGAINST HEAVY ODDs-Mr Taylor
Meadows. English Consul at Shanghae, while on an
excursion up the YangtZe river, China on the
goth Of October, in his yacht, was attacked by
three piratical junks, manned by sixty men, and
amply provided with warlike implements, including
five guns, either six or nine Founders. Mr.. Mea
dows had with him one Englishman and ten Chinese
non-combatants. He was well provided with guns
including Sharp's breech-loader, which he highly
cOmmends, with several other fancy English guns.
The pirates commenced the fight with discharge
without wounding any one. The Englishmen re-
piled with continuous discharge of rifles, doing
great execution. The pirates sent nine charges of
grape and one round shot at the brave English
men; but at last, finding that their men were fast
falling before the murderous discharges of their
opponents, they put about and ingloriously fled,
leaving Mr.. Meadows and his companions masters
of the position.
The extensive order which Mr.. Brady, of New
York, received from the Prince of Wales and the
members of his suite, previous to their departure,
has lust been completed and sent off to England 1t
consists of full length and bust photographs of va
r;o,s s;1as from that the immortal down IN tho