The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-08
LOSSES on THE MAROYJTES

cooperation OF the Turks.
By the side of bloody and abominable crimes
against persons, thers arise before US, demanding
punishment from Heaven, ruins OF every kind,
scattered over the once fertile soil of the Maronites
territory.
Here is list of these disasters
|. Schools destroyed, TWEEN weight.
2. Scholars in these schools, eighteen hundred
and thirty.
3. Churches torn down, five hundred and sixty.
4. Converts burned, forty. two.
B. Villages destroyed, with the loss OF animals,
three hundred and sixty.
6. Religious establishments belonging to Euro
peans. nine.
7. Harvests lost: all the cereals, silk, mulberry
trees, &C., which Mount Lebanon produces, from
the district of Maten to the plains of Nazareth; an
extent of country 40 Kilometres in length, and
about so in breadth.
All the harvest of the gardens of the plain o.
Coeo Syria that is to say extent OF country l00
kilometres by 16
Also all the products of anti Lebanon, from the
town of Hannah to Hauran, which embraces 220
kilometres in length, by more than eighty in
breadth.
All the harvest of Hauran, the richest part of all
Syria, l20 kilometres by so, which makes total of
1890 square Kilometres where all kinds Of pro-
duce and buildings have been utterly destroyed
Our department finds itself face to face with all
these misfortunes. We putting forth great
efforts to act III concert with The go'ei utaent in
the generous exertions which it is making to ex-
tend assistance to our unfortunate brethren in
Syria.
Besides the amounts already sent we dispatch to-
dav 40, 900 francs, divided as follows:
For the Christians of Damascus, 1000 francs
For the refugees in kesrouan, 5000.
For those in Alexandria, 1000.
For those at Saidn, 1000
For those at Saint Jean dare, 1000.
For the Maronite priests, 600.
These amounts, which have been raised in the
diocese of Paris, sent in the name of the Cardi-
nal Archbishop by the surest means of conveyance.
They will be very soon at their destination.
God grant that these gifts, made to our unhappy
co-religionists by the charity of France, may come
in time to save them from despair.
Yours, &C., CH. LAvIGERID,
Professor at Sorbonne.
FIcrIrIoUs FIRMS. The Attorney General of the
United States has given the following opinion as
to the rights of postmasers to deliver letters ad-
dressed to fictitious persons or firms. 1t is Known
that there are large numbers of these concerns in
all principal cities, and that the postolice is
made the instrument of concealing frauds by them
amounting to millions of dollars annually.
ATTORNEY Generals OFFICE
July "a, 1860. !
SIR: Certain letters addressed to F. & Co.,
Baltimore, taken by regular course of mail to
that city, but sent BY the postmaster there to
the Dead Letter Office. They were claimed by Mr..
E. N. c., who asserted that he had a right to
receive them, inasmuch as he was doing business
under that name and style. But the postmaster re-
garded E d Co. as fictitious firm and acted
under section so of the Regulations which de-
clares that ':letters and packages addressed to c
tious persons or firms, or to no particular person
or firm, not being deliverable according to the Reg
ulatons, are to be returned at the end of each
month to the Dead Letter Office
The right of the Post-oice Department to make
regulation which will prevent the service from
being prostituted to purposes of fraud, has, be-
lieve, never been denied.
With that end in view, you certainly have power
10 nrHa thn In1,, lnttn -nI
any person under a name which you know to have
been assumed as part of system intended to cheat
and defraud the public. But the fraudulent intent
ought to be very clear; for you are not invested
with any authority to carry extended in
quiry into the private affairs of persons who receive
letters by mail, nor have you the means of ascer
tanning with correctness what they are. 1t should
also be rememt cred that the mere msnOmer of
man is not sufficient grounds for saying that the
name is fictitious neither is a firm an imaginary
one because the style of it has no reference to the
name of its members. Nor can you stop letter
on the sole ground that it is addressed to person
whose employment is immoral; it being the duty
OF the State Government and not the Post Office
Department to punish such offences But in the case
under consideration, it there be no legitimate bust
ness of any kind carried on by c., under the
name of E Il Co., if he has caused letters to be
addressed to Baltimore IN name which is merely
imaginary, if his correspondents do not know whom
they writing to, and if, in addition to this, you
find the fact to be that c. is using this fiction
for dishonest purposes, then the measure taken by
the Postmaster at Baltimore ought to be sustained
Yours, &c. j. S. BLACK
Hon. Joseph Holt, Postmaster-Goaes al.
THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION - Colored Woman
.Shot.-The parade of the American Protestant As
ISOLATION, yesterday, passed OFT without any serious
difficulty, though a lamentable accident, which
may result fatally, occurred. Several fights took
place on the picnic grounds, and there con-
siderable intoxicaton. William Cougar was ar
rested by officers Harry and Colt for threatening
the life of a policeman, and conducting himself in
an otherwise dSOrderly manner. During the alter
noon banner presented to No Surrender
Lodge, on behalf of the Grand Lodge of the United
States, by G.. b. Cottan, 2. W. &. N. of the Grand
Lodge. Mr. c.. made an appropriate address
Speeches were also made by Nathan Nesbit. p. R.
w. e. NJ, and Mr.. Cragan, of Lodge No. 10, of
New York. The New York Lodges were then
formed in line and proceeded to the Market street
depot, where they took she five O'Clock P. NJ. train
for New York, the German Lodge No Surrender
remaining on the ground for further enjoyment.
The members of the Order were generally armed,
III anticipation of soue attack on them. There
however, none, and the services of the military
who were out to prevent any dsturb ance, were not
required. There were, however, various demons
trations of hostility made, though no overt act took
place. Chief Thatcher arrested a man in Broad
street, at II A. NJ, with loaded gun, which he
was hourishing. The Chief ordered the gun to be
taken away from him, when he became highly ex-
cited and admitted that he had loaded the gun for
the purpose of defending himself from the Protest
ants. 1t is probable that, had occasion been of
tered on either side, there would have been serious
riot.
The members of the Association from New York,
on taking the cars separated from their Newark
friends with cheers. Some of them took occasion
to fire off their pistols the train was passing
Commerce street One of the party the cars
very careiessly fired his pistol toward a group of
colored persons who were gathered on the side
walk. The ball from the pistol struck a colored
woman named Ellen Baird, wife of George Baird,
in the neck, intictng wound of the most danger
Gus character.
She was on her way home and stood on the cor
ner of an alley way and Market street, looking at
the train, when shot. The ball passed in her wind
pipe and dropped down. 1t could not be found,
but is supposed to have lodged n her lungs. She
was very comfortable this morning, but her re-
covery, although possible, is not very probable
Newcastle (Det) Adcertiser, Sept G.
THE New DIRK JAPANESE BILs.-Some of the
items of the enormous swindle of the japanese re-
ception in New York have at last come to light
The chiefit of the Leands bill are as follows
THE TRIP TO SOUTH AMBoY.
Furnishing collation. on the steamboat Aida,
including 800 bottles of wine at $3.50 per
bottle, and 2,l00 cigars, S2,4O0
BOARD AT THE METROPOLITAN HOTEL.
For the japanese Is 900
For the Joint Reception Committee, being in ''''
elusive OF everything they had at the Ho-
THE GREAT BALL
IWelVe thousand suppers at % each (prlce
agreed upon betorehand), $4,000
Seven thousand five hundred bottles of wine
at $3.50 each, 1880
There are, of course good many items of
thousand dollars or SO. Nixon Co.'s bill for the
theatre is 81 OO0 the bill for the Aida, $500; then
he bill for the liquors at the ball includes good
ppPly of brandy; Dodworth's Band, l25 men, at
he ball, played for 81 and So for tho
leaders; Gen. Sanford's bill for music for the lst
Division was $1,000, but it is reduced to $4,000.
The bunting used for decoration at the ball was
procured of Stewart, of the Marble Palace. 1t
cost ST 300. The Auditing Committee tried to
save something on this bill by having the material
taken back at fair reduction, but Mr.. Stewart
would not take it back at all. Then the man who
put in the extra gas pipes and fixtures for the ball
would not take back any of the material nor make
a reduction; a reduction was made from his bill
however, of one-third and the fixtures sent back to
him. The carriage bill is S7,5O0.-N. Y. Tribune.
During the three months ending September LIST,
there were in New Orleans thirteen cases of homi-
ride nd n cd suioida