The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-29
THE ACCIDENT TO THE FRIGATE NIAGAR.
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THE ACCIDENT TO THE FRIGATE NIAGARA.
On BOARD .. S. FRIGATE NIAGARA,
May Goth, 1860.
AS the public will be eager to learn why this ship
has returned to New York, so soon after Saline
from that city for Panama, there to meet the ia.
panese Embassy, and take them to their country
Will give the full particulars. We sailed from
Gravesend Bay (where we had been detained for
several GAYS on account of thick fog on the
18TH, at +. NJ, and made a most excellent RIM
across the Gulf Stream, using both steam and sail
and meeting with no accident until midnight of the
2lst, when the First Assistant Engineer reported
the breaking away of the sleeve of the propeller
shalt ms sleeve or composition covering for that
part of the shaft, which passes through the stuf:
ing box, had been put in halves, secured bv
bolts; these bolts having broken off the sleeve SEN
arated in the joints, became loose and heavy leak
was going on around it. The sleeve also worked
in board, and by its revolutions in the shaft was
cutting away the wooden safety bulk-head The
captain Immediately examined it personally and
ordered the Lleutenants and Engineers to make
careful examination also, who reported to him
with their unanimous opinion, that it would be
lmprudent to proceed on the voyage under the cir
cumstances; as it then required both the bilge
pumps OF the engines and the Worthington steam
pumps to free the ship of water, from this leak
and with every indication of its increasing. Even
If we should have been able to reach our first mort
st. Catharines, Brazil, it would have been perfect
tCllv to have continued farther and especiollv
ana after deliberate consultation of all the off
GERS, they were OF the unanimous opinion that it
would be better to return to New Y ork for REPAIRS
Wnich can only be done properly in dry dock, be-
sues making 1t more satisfactory to the Government
than by proceeding, and not arriving at Panama
perhaps several months after the time specified thai
we should have been there These are the conse-
quences of hurrying ship to sea so soon as This
one was. She should have had at least two weeks
more for having her machinery, &C. thoroughly
examined and repaired. There can be no blame
whatever attached to any of the officers on board
Tor this accident We were about seven hundred
miles out when it occurred TRAyELER
The SLAVERY QUESTION THE METHODIST Frisco
PAL CoNFERENCE-SPEEcH OF REV. ALFRED GRIF-
FITH.-During the discussion of the slavery cues
ton in the Methodist General Conference in Buff
talo on Friday last, the Rev. Alfred Griffith, of
Baltimore, the oldest member of the Conference
spoke as follows:
lie SAID that he would not discuss the question of
slavery, about which no new idea had been davaI
oped IN the last twenty wears His nos;tion -
regard TO 1t was the same as that of the Churcb
discipline lie referred to that PASSAGE Of tba
iepoao cGngtatuiatlng the church upon its success
IN emahclpatlng slaves The credit of this shonld
be given to the border ministers He feared tbiS
conflict about slavery would end in blood The
Methodist Church was first tainted with antislavprv
doctrines IN 1886, by Englishmen May God rebuke
this agitation. Cries of "Amen pr The South
OF course repealed these angry demonstrations
against her institutions All of the Southern
states, except Delaware, prohibited the manumis-
sion OF slaves. The Southern Methodist preachers
did the best they could but, because negroes were
not emancipated by thousands the Northern breth-
rem were about to exclude them from the Church
This ls orthern Justice. They tied our hands and
now treat cuprits and castpate us as severely
as masters ever tortured slaves. That is what they
call brothery kindness. Mr. Griffith here declined
the offer of DR.. Harris to speak as long as he
pleased, and concluded by asserting that from l77I
to 1892 all the Methodist ministers came from Vir
ginia, the North producing only brethren. South
ern ministers alone, in 1884 gave the church its
present type, while New Engand's were still upon
Lhere sable platform, singing "Auld Lang Syne &"
The majority seemed to think the border men so
ootuse that they could see the evil of slavery
lie looked forward to the time when the slave wonId
NC qualheu 10 ENJOY liberty. There was no pro-
cess so slow as that of emerging from barbarism
to civilization. Our fathers could not trust tho
negroes during the Revolution Was il 50 dam
ing sin to compel the slaves to serve until a IA
yOrable time should arrive to give them freedom .
Wesley knew nothing about slavery, except in its
immediate connection with the African slave-trade
and his statement that slavery was the sum of ali
villainies" referred to that If he had spoken in
regard to slavery as it existed here, how could he
have taken shareholders into his church? Was he
honest thus to bring slavery into the church?
The venerable speaker closed his remarks by saying
that never again would they see his face in the
General Conference. For fifty-four years he had
labored for the prosperity of the Church. He had
thought the union of Church and State retard-
ed Christianity more than anything else, and the
doings of this body were looked upon as having an
influence upon the political action of the country
In view OF that fact he warned them to take heed
as to their steps. If they dragged the church into
the mire of politics. they must be responsible for
the destructive issue Ifmembers could be legis-
lated out of the church, then the title of member
ship was mockery and delusion
GOING TO BE MARRIED.-A young lady of this CITY,
Tor many years an assistant teacher in one of our
grammer schools, left yesterday in company with
sister on journey of over thousand miles to |
enpag ano marry man she had never SEEN The
oF sagement was brought about by means of a piece
Oh poetry, written by her while residing ina neigb.
the place Tb and published in the local paper of
Was t seen Dy the gentleman, and so much adm;r
d dnae ne wrote to the address, and the
dence thus begun was kept up for nearly two
and has resulted as above.-Lo,ceH Mass iears
The loss of life and property in the West bv tho
recent tornado Is enormous. As far as ascarts;nad
the lives sacrificed number nearly l50 and .S
lion Of dollars, ' Ai-