The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-16
THE DAILY EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER l6. 1860

ANOTHER SPEECH FROM SENATOR DoUeLAs.-Sena.
tor Douglas was serenaded at his hotel in New Or
leans on Thursday evening" and in acknow Hedging
! the compliment, he said:
Let us bury the excitement and angry mas
sions which have manifested themselves during the
contest. Let US lay aside all partisan feeling and
act as becomes patriots and lovers of our country
lCheers. Let us unite to put down sectionaIism
and Abolitonism, and every other element of poll
teal and national discord. Let no grievances no
embttered feelings impair the force of our efforts
Let us put ourselves to work to rescue the Govern
ment of the country from the hands of those we
| think unworthy to administer it. TCheersl If
Abraham Lincoln is President, what harm can he
do? L"None." There is majority against him in
the Senate and majority in the House of Repre-
sentatves: Heis powerless for mischief-all he can
do is to fill the Offices and the majority in the Sen
ate will reject those he dominates, if they are not
! good men. Cheers He will be an object of COM
miseraton and pity rather than of fear TCheers.
Then, why should we break up the best govern
ment that the sun in its circuit around the earth
ever shone upon, merely because we have been de-
| feated in Presidential election? TCheers7 Let
US rally with renewed energy and dauntless cour.
age to the performance of our duties and rescue
the country from those hands in which it should
never have been placed
My friends, L did not come out here to make a
speech; L only made my appearance to acknow-
ledge the compliment of this enormous crowd.
| You have filled me with gratitude, and I rejoice
more at the spirit which anlmates you, believing
that it means the Constitution and the Union
| rather than a personal compliment to me-
| [Cheers.
"THE SPoILs OF OFFICE."-The New York Tribune
OF yesterday, in article on the "Black Plague of
American Politics"-office-seekn recommends
| the reduction OF salaries as means of breaking
down the "wild hunt after office" 1t says:
The simple, effective consists in the reduction
Of e!dt compensation to that Of equiralent service an
other tstds Of useful effort. This does not at all
| imply that Marshal of this District, q District
Attorney, Collector of Customs at this port
should be paid only the wages of hod-carrier but
merely that they should be paid what the abilities
and requirements demanded by their respective DO
sltions would earn in other service. A great law
yer may as fairly earn his 500 per day as payer
earns his dollar for that days work in Court i'm
plies not merely rare natural gifts but years of la
bOrl0us and costly preparation. But we do and
must insist that, while nearly every capable up
| right, intelligent mechanic would make a fair no
| lceman or inspector of customs, it is wrong
| 1T Is mischievous, while the average wages
| OF good mechanics do not exceed $40 per week to
! pay policemen SIG and inspectors of customs SCI
| and that it is such exorbitant compensation Of
placemen that poisons the whole body polite with
olhce seeking. If newly appointed policemen and
inspectors were paid but $40 each per week to be
increased after two years faithful service to So
and after each three years thereafter by 81 until it
amounted to a maximum of SIS, the public would
be better served than it is, the itch for office
would abate, and our current politics become far
more honest and unselfish. And until the reform
we urge shall be effected, it is sheer waste of
breath to inveigh against the universally of office
seeking.
Gov HoUsToN ON THE Texas TRoUBLEs-A cor
respondent of the Galveston NelUs writing from
Independence, Texas, October 2lst gives the fol-
lowing sketch of speech delivered there by Gov.
Houston:
SIN regard to the recent raid and incendiarism
in Texas, he said it had been exaggerated and mis-
represented The fact was that there had been but
one white man hung in Texas for incendiarism-
| Herndon, of Henderson-and two negroes; and
there never had been vial or bottle of poison
| found in the possession of any other negroes in
this State; thus intmating very clearly that the
others that were punished were unjustly punished
As to the houseburnings, it had been reported at
one time that there were fourteen houses burned
in the city of Austin, when in fact there was only
shanty or shed in the outskirts of the city burned and
he accounted for the burning of that BY the care
| lessness OF the Dutch who were lounging and
| smoking there at the time.
However much he might regret the election of
Lincoln, still, if Consttutionay elected, he ought
to and should be inagurated. yes, they would
have to walk over his dead body if he was not'''
RUMoRs.-lt is currently repor ted, and very gen.
orally believed here, that all the efforts of the
more moderate and timid of his followers to induce
Mr.. Lincoln to issue conservative" manifesto,
and avow publicly the comparatively moderate
policy which some have imputed to him-have
proved vain. 1t has been urged that were he to
make any such publication before the electors have
cast their votes, it is not improbable that when the
votes are counted it might be found that some of
| those which are now reckoned as certain for him
would appear to have been given for VIM. Ii. Sew.
ard, and the election, after ali, be thus thrown in
to the House. Until the ballots have been sealed
and sent on here it is considered that it would be
unwise in Mr.. Lincoln to break faith with the abo-
lltonIsts. There are some Of the few so called
conservative" black republicans who are said to
hint in conversation with confidential friends that
pf Nav- Nopk
Mr. Seward, it might be the best and most effectua
settlement of the present difficulty
We give the rumor heard it, but cannot
believe that the latter portion it, at least is true
- Wash. Constitution.
Our AFFAIRS WITH Misunderstanding to the
Washington correspondent of the New York Times
the action of the British Government in withdraw
ing her Minister from Mexico and suspendng di-
plomatlc relations with that country, is exciting
considerable specuatiOns in official circles So far
as is yet ascertained, special cause for this
movement has been assigned. Meantime the
American Minister, Mr.. McLane, has been instruct
ed to cooperate with the Spanish and French Min
listers IN attempting to secure suspension of hos
thtles, and the establishment of Provisional
Government until the people of Mexico can decide
by ballot which faction they will be content to re-
ceive as the dominant party. This policy is now
regarded by the administration as the onlv one
through which the present unhappy condition of
affairs can be terminated.
THE PRINCE's BALL IN New \ oRK.-Tbe last chan
ter OF the Princes Ball was closed on Wednesday,
The account stands follows: Expenditures, S2S,-
I46; receipts, Sal 006 balance in hands of reasur-
er when the play done, 2,260. There were
Tour hundred members of the committee, each of
whom was assessed, first $40, and afterwards $50
IN addition, making total of 500 per head. Then
several tickets sold at SIS each and the decor
ations of the ballroom were sold, making the ag-
gregate receipts Sal ,006. The treasurer Mr. ROYAL
Phelps, re-inclosed to each committee man a check
Tor S3O.65, making total reimbursement of Sl2,-
26O. The expenditure was So 900 less than was an
uclpated. The result is very agreeable contrast
to that Japanese swndle which, by the way, is not
yet paid upland perhaps it won't'be.
RESULTS BEGINNING TO APPEAR.-A gentleman
from Natick, Mass, the home of Senator Wilson,
to-day informed us that the antslavery crusade
upon the South has operated to depress business of
all KINDS in that vicinity, and that the effect of late
occurrences has been to bring the shoe business
the great staple of productive industry in Eastern
Massachusetts, and which depends on the South for
amarket-almost to dead stand = Hartford Times
The Frederick Citizen of Wednesday SAYS: A
rumor is in circulation in this city as we are going
to press, that man had been strung up to a tree
with rope by excited crowd of individuals at
the Point of Rocks in this county, for the utter
ance of antislavery incendiary language.
MARRIED.
On the 18th instant, at Grace Church, by the Rev DR.
GeXe, GEO NJ W ll!lAMS, of Culpeper county, Va and
GERTRuDES s. LONG, OF this city.
MAGNESS and Miss MARY E. PRICE, of Hartford Co.
On the 18th instant by Rev Mr. Myers, OF St Vncents
CC1hnIrGhs THEODQRE E. CLIFTON and REBECCA J.
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