The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-04

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coast with four hundred slaves on board, and had
| lost about forty. They are all quite young, many
| OF them children; about fifty are females. They
| were suffering much from scurvy and hunger the
captain and mate are not yet found; they say the
| former cut his throat the first day out, and the
| mate shortly after drowned That, however,
| remains to be proved. They had been out thirty
| six days"
New view OF THE SYRIA MAssACREs.-The cor'
respondent Of the London Herald says:-As regards
the massacres doubt the details received very
| painful; but great deal of sentimental twaddle
finds its way into print about our "Chrstian breth-
rem" 1t is absurd to consider the mongre Greeks,
! Jews, Maronitcs. and soidant Catholics, as l., any
degree superior to the Druses and Mussemans. n
the present instance, it is by proved that
the latter were the aggressors. On the contrary,
| the evidence is the other way For the last 30
| years and more, the Lebanon has been periodically
the of such outbreaks the present. In 1880
| Beirut was plundercd by the Greeks; Dayr el ka-
| mar was six years later plundered by the DruseS;
in lS4O, the Maronites, whom Sir G. Napier took it
into his head to parOnse, made various successful
iorays on the Druse villages after the affair Ko-
| raichOvan. The Turkish Government, however,
contrived to keep them pretty quiet after the de-
feat of lbrahim Pacha but in 1916 England foolish
| ly allowed the Sutan's authority, the only one
which these mountain tribes respected to be
duced to zero. A couple of pachas have been kept
up for the sake of show, but without being allowed
sufficient force to make the authority of the Porte
respected Since then the influence of England has
declined, and that of France and Russia increased
| W Z now see Jne results. but make the Sultan
responsible for these disturbances after we have
deprived him Of the means of repressing them, by
making the tribes independent of his rule is the
height OF injustice as well as absurdity.
MoRE DIRECr TRADE.-'The Charleston Courier
calls the attention of the citizens and merchants,
and the Chamber of Commerce of Charleston, to
efforts now in progress for opening direct steam
communication from southern ports with Europe.
! A proposition, looking to the cooperation of
| Charleston in this movement has been communi-
Gated to the City Council, by gentleman repre-
| senting the enterprise. The proposition is for
alienation OF service with Charleston and Balti-
more and the European ports selected and the
| Courier is assured that for guaranty of $50 600
annually for ten years, a steamship will be guaran-
tied for semi monthly trips from Charleston. There
are other propositions, among which it is proposed
| to have one trial trip from Charleston, for which
| an indemnity fund not to exceed $1,000 is asked,
to be paid il the freight does not paw for this first
trip 1t is characteristic of all the propositions
| for Southern direct trade which so far have been
| public, that nobody is willing to undertake the
business without some responsible party to guar.
| antee him against loss. a guaranty subscription,
or mail subsidy, something of the sort, is al
| most invariably the basis. Our Southern friends
| will have to learn the lessons which our own mer-
chants have learned, that it is not safe to rely upon
| such outside help as this. The foreign steamship
business of this country is an example of the
quence of such reliance, and the coastwise steam
ship trade of this port is an example of the re
suits of relying upon independent enterprise
Boston Advertiser, A~g.2.
the intelligent industrious and energetic free col
ored population have turned their attention toward
| Liberia, inviting home. Their civil disabii-
| ties here, and the comfort and progress of their
| brethren there, have done much to produce this
result. Some one hundred Of this portion of the
residents of PENNSYLVANIA are seriously considering
| removal to Africa the coming fall, and rs many
more in New y ork and other Northern States are
| similarly disposed. The Liberians, too, are pre-
| pairing for this desirable class Of people, by crea-
| ting suitable society for them. Two Of her sons
have just graduated from prominent institutions OF
| learning in this country, viz: William Henry Eal-
| back, from the 'medical department. of Bowdoin
| College, Me-; and WILDER Fisk Burns, with the de-
| gree of ''bachelor of arts" from Wesleyan Uni
versity, Conn. The latter is of Bishop Burns,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Liberia. He
| will doubtless occupy prominent position at the
| bar of this expanding African State. These young
men are natives of Liberia, and expect to return
! by the packet, Mary Caroline Stevens, November
lst, next, from Baltimore. - Colonization journal.
John C. HEENAN AT A WArERING-PLAcE-The
| Newport correspondent of the Springfield Repabit-
can, under the date of July 80, says: "The latest
sensation here is the presence of the Benleia Boy
The oungers the piazza Of the Ocean House, after
| breakfast on Sunday morning, startled from
their drowsy meditations by the arrival of stall
| wart man, accompanied by luggage bearing the
| founding initials, j. G. Fl. Great the rush and
| scurry for moment. Gentlemen sitting, as it is
the pride of cOuntrymen to sit with their feet
high their heads, bitterly thinking of the day
before them, and endeavorng to beguile its tedious
hours with cigar, looked alive for and tum-
| bled out Of their arm-chars to get peep at the
! champion of the world. His sudden apparition
| among them, unheralded and unexpected (he ar
| rived in the night boat from New York J, caused
some doubts that he was the veritable Chicken
| but a second look banshed all such incredulity."
| ANOTHER SIMEON IN THE SoUTH.-The Victoria
(Texas) Advertiser, of the 2lst has the following
| On Saturday, the lith, perfect simeon swept
| over Victoria. The dust and sand swept by in
clouds that darkened the whole atmosphere, until
| houses could not be seen across the street. The
| storm blew from little west OF south, and blew
| with more than the violence of northcr for three
| quarters of an hour. No place was free from the
| driving dust-it visited every hole and corner of
the houses, drifted in like snow through the roofs
came in at the cracks of the windows, besprnkled
the beds and furniture, driftcd the faces Of many
of our citizens, and even fell in quantities on the
editors MSS, until he could hardly write.
The grain statistics of Chicago, Just made up-
show that the receipts of flour and grain since Jan
uary l, compared with the receipts during the same
period of last year. 1859, show increase of l3 600
barrels -four $4,000 bushels wheat 7,55O,OOO
bushels corn. Increase in shipments, the same
time, G3, 900 barrels flour, 100000 bushels wheat.
6,sOO,OO bushels corn In store there are at the
present time 2,700 barrels -four, 5 400 bushels
wheat, 500, 900 bushels corn.
The Philadelphians who went down to Cape May
to see the Great Eastern board the steamer John
A. Warner, consider that they were swindled, and
called an indignation meeting Thursday night,
at which it was resolved to bring suit against the
captain OF the boat for damage 1t Is saia tnat the
conditions of the advertisement announcing the ex-
cursion were not fulfilled towards the passengers
The philadeiphia Ledger condemn. the practice in
that city ,b1e mhn hs dsa bepu and 1n tSe
yh,tters ~ from the top to the bottom of the
bonse The Ledger says that it gives to stranger
the idea that the city is gieG by an epidemic and
| 4, Douglas meeting was held in Richmond, Va,
| an Thursday evening. Resolutions ratifying the
domination of Douglas and Johnson, and providing
for the appointment of delegates to convention at
stanton, we're adopted. Addresses were made by
several prominent politicians.
Mrs. Ann Fleet who died at her residence, in
Congress street, Boston, Saturday last, at the
advanced age of eighty-eight years, was never alb
sent from home (she being native of Boston) du-
ring her life, for longer period than twenty-four
hours.
A telegraph cable of five thousand feet in length
was laid across the Delaware at Philadelphia, on
Wednesday last. This makes the fifth now lying