The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-08


named McHugh was hanged a few day ago, in Gin
cinnati, for the murder of his wife, and the day be-
fore his execution he told Mr.. Shockley, an officer
OF the prison, that he had had a presentiment of
the murder and his own death on the gallows for
thirty years. His remarkable hallucination is re-
lated as follows:
One day he was ascending dark stairway to his
room. He was sober and in good health. Sud-
denly, it seemed to him as if his right arm had
been infused with Samsonian strength. Just then
he reached the door, and he tempted to test
the newly possessed strength upon it. He gave the
door what he supposed was a slight rap, for he
scarcely felt the blow upon his knuckles. The
door, however, quivered under its force, and part
of the plastering on the wall fell down He looked
to his arm to see if it had been increased in size
just then his head became transfixed and he could
move it neither one way nor the other
While he was in that position strange voice
| spoke terrible words to him. When the voice died
| away his head became movable He looked up and
around, but no one was near him. Again he
glanced at his arm, again his head became trans
fixed, and again were the terrible words spoken.
As soon as he regained power TO move, he fed to
his room, and tried in vain to forget what had
passed, but the voice continued to ring in his ears
| oiten in after years, he heard it.
| IN not tell you what the words WERE" said he
to Mr.. Shockley, ''for they are to 60 with me to
my grave. \ GU know what have done, and what
is nv fate. Put the two together and YOU can CON
lecture the nature of the words"
Such was the vision that haunted this unfortu-
nate man through his whole manhood. Impressed
with the idea that fate had decreed that he must
kill his wife and die for the crime, he pei petrated
the atrocious deed and willingly surrendered him
| self to the gallows.
HINT WELL WoRru CopYING-A luxury for
| the working classes in Engand-cbedp excursions
| is thus spoken of in London journal GA mong
all the new aids to popular education which have
come into general use during the present century
by far the most potent in its results has been the
railway. Much as the penny postage and penny
journalism may have done to awaken and eulighten
the intellect of the millions, they will never COM
pare with railway travelling, an educational
| agency, in its tendency to stimulate the dormant
! Imagination into activity. Compare the working
and women in the rural districts of Lancashire
and \ orkshire thirty or forty years ago with the
same class at the present day, and you see at once
what difference there is in the intelligent express
sion of countenance, no less than in that general
| improvement in manners which is gradually bring
ing the lower stratum of society much nearer, in
outward demeanor, at least, to the Immediately
above 1t, than one would have deemed possible half
century ago. In promoting these objects the
| cheap excursion system, though much abused in
some quarters, by careless or avaricious directors
| has been OF great service. BY taking advantage
of the associative principle, the jewellers in the re-
motest hooks and corners of the manufacturing
districts enabled, at a very trihing cost, to
visit Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool; or, what
| will be still greater luxury to MANY of them to
feast their maginations with view of the German
Ocean the Irish Sea, according as their habitat
happens to be on the east the west side of the
island 1t is impossible to oyer-estimate the hu
manizing influences which excursions of this kind
are calculated to produce, if accompanied by wise
teaching That, however, although it NAV seem
separate question, is inject which well deserves
the attention of all who seek to improve the condi-
ton of the working casseS.''
The EXCITEMENT OF A DREAM.-We have heard
very curious and remarkable circumstance, which
happened the other evening, and which shows the
effect OF nervous excitement upon the human sys.
tem One of our citizens who has been in the bab
1t of sleeping with revolver under his pillow for
some time-especialy since the late excitement in
regard to the prevalence OF crime-had been deep.
ly absorbed in business during the day, and when
he retired at night he was completely worn ont nv
fatigue and harassng thoughts He placed his
revolver under his pillow as usual and soon fell
asleep. Some time during the night he wandered
Oft into the regions of dream-land, ar somehow
became impressed with the consciousness that
| robber was in the house. He seized his pistol and
prepared to defend himself. His wife about this
time had risen to attend to the wants OF child, and
although her husband fast asleep, he very Gu
rously directed his revolver at her and fired. The
ball did not, fortunately, take effect upon her per
son, but lodged in the wall OF their sleeping apart
ment. Her screams, together with the report of
the pistol, awoke the husband who was horror
stricken to find how narrow he had escaped kill
ing his wife, Since then, or safety, the wife takes
charge of the pistol herself, the husband is un-
usually subject to dreams and Nightmares. We
advise him give business the go-by for season,
and recruit mis- physical energies.-1roy Times.
THE MoULTRIE CLAMs.-The Charleston Courier,
in notice ofthe claims before Congress for certain
losses sustained by some of the officers and men at
the evacuation of Fort Moultrie, says
We take pleasure and pride in believing that Maj.
Robert Anderson, the gallant and honorable COM
mander, although consenting to, and ordering the
removal, under false information, is not accessory
to this very small game of reclamation. No South
ern officer could or would present such small bill