The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-04
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| D. Gs as nation, to bless the world. The
Rev. DIR. Robert Smith, of Pequea, Pennsylvania,
! closes sermon which he preached on December
10, lI0l the day appointed by Congress as day of
general thanksgiving, with these words:
Praise him, all We faithful confederate States.
rom rom Massachusetts to Georgia; for we shall beat
| yuu' swords into plOughshares and your spears
. .hto pruning, hooks' From North to South. rom
Aman;no n;oalllc 10 the Western Ocean, let all North
AmerlGa praise the Iord for he is about 10 make
you large and glorious empire founded mon the
OASIS OF loerty and fourishinp in ali the hessnas
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Ye shall i'm
| port the merchandise of every nation, and exnort
| your produce to every market. And with your
| produce the enargng privileges of the Gospel NAV
| De transmitted to many nations that sit in dark
ness to proclaim liberty to those captives and the
opening OF the prison doors to those who have been
long bound in chains of ignorance and error"
~ VIII De seventy-nine years the second Thursday
o. o. december next since the great and good man. in
@ Ine infancy of our nation, preached that sermon
we nave lived to see every word of it fulfilled
- het US not forget the past way by which we have
Deen led. The same Hand only can lead MS safely
on If we submit to his guidance obev his com
mands walk in his statutes, and seek to do that for
which he has designed US, no weapon formed against
us can prosper.
Is 1t not proper time for US, as Christians to re-
view and consider the hand of God in our history?
In another part Of DR.. Smiths sermon he saws
" ! GU have long been addressed by the politicians
OF the day as citizens; now address you upon the
same topics Christians and professors of the rei-
gion of Jesus Christ. The cause of America is the
cause Of Christ; and as such l wish to interest you
more deeply in it, by drawing you to more full
and religious Improvement of his providences to us
as nation. In this view, repentance and gratitude
are among the chief improvements required of u.s.
who can doubt but that if do earnestly, in
falth so seek unto our God, he will blow away the
clouds which have gathered, and give us calmness
and peace, with confidence in its stability Our
fathers used constantly to pray that this land might
| be ''Immanuels land-a mountain of holiness-a
dweling-place ofrighteousness." Will we not con-
tlnue the prayer
UNSEEN LABoR.-"Caustic," the able cores.
pOndent of the London IFeebly Dispatch has the
following pithy paragraph in his letters =
The unseen labor Of London is worth hundred
told OF that which is seen. That unseen labor be-
comes visible enough in its fruits though those are
rarely traced to their origin. Mental labor feeds
London bodily. Take away the earnings by
the brain from this metropolis, and the
earners by the hand would soon see how much less
| they may md to do. Twothirds of their bread
| would be wanting to them. The brain.w work helms
nightly TO create the demand as we'll as to supply
tne means. 1t was calculated that by merely
| writing his novels, Walter Scott found EMPLOY.
! ment and pay for what would be a town of thirty
| or forty thousand inhabitants; and those directly
| benefited, the suppliers and the professional depen
| uent on the workers, were not, believe, includ-
ed take this as the most familiar instance
Dickens, no doubt, contributes as much or more to
the public prosperity. Take a newspaper like the
one whose editor am addressing; its brain work is
the lie OF hundreds of industrial families"
A WOMAN BURNED TO DgArH WnTLE AT PRAYER.
|
Catharlne Gray, a widow lady, eighty years of
age, residing in the southern part of the town. was
burned 10 death last week under circumstances of
peculiarly distressing character. On Thursday
evening she invited little boy in the neipbbor-
hood to keep her company for the night, and after
tncEng him warmly under the covers, kneeed down
at the bedside to say her prayers. While in that
position her dress took fire from the candle, and in
an instant she was enveloped in flames The fire
communicated to the curtains of the bed, and in
tent upon the preservation of the child and forget
| full of herself she thn
were burned to blister, and succeeded in dragging
| the little fellow into the middle of the room
! The atfrighted boy broke from her embrace and
ran to the nearest neghbors The alarm was
| promptly given, but before aid could be procured
the poor woman had been burned past recovery.
The New ATLANTIC TELEGRApH.-The following
interesting announcement appears in Saunders'8
Ne'os Letter, an Irish paper:
Her Majestys ship Bulldog arrived unexpectedly
! in lybegs harbor on Sunday afternoon under
| the command of Captain Sir Leopold McClintock,
having encountered very severe weather on her re-
! turn from the Arctic regions and North America
| We understand that the important work intrusted
by the government to the charge of our distingu-
ished ieliow-countryman has been carried out to
| his entire satisfaction; and may therefore hope
that when his report of the several soundings be.
! tween this country and America, via the Arctic
! coast, has been laid before Parliament, the long
| lookedior telegraph, by means of which the Old
and the New World will be united, will be a work
of mere mechanical nature. Sir Leopold McClin-
took will probably pass through Dublin on his way
| to London.
"a NEw WAY TO PAY OLD DsBrs"-The Natchez
| (MIss.l Free TFader proposes as remedy for the
tunes, that every citizen owing money to Northern
people shall pay the same to the State Treasurer
| the State to issue her bond for the Indebtedness
! payable when hostilites are over. Whereupon the
Courier remarks:-"The idea of more Mississippi
bonds is rather peculiar. She issued two sets and
| repudiated them both; she was sued in her own
courts upon them, after she had invited suit, and
afrrfh har ar,A, ,I,a -
dated payment OF the Judgments; and to crown the
whole, we understand, after she employed counsel
to defend these suits, she repudiated their counsel
| IeeS-was sued upon that clam-iudoments oh
| tained-and those judgments remain unpaid to this
! hour"
| DEAD LETTER INCIDENT.-The utility and accu
| facy OF the dead letter office was last week TINS
strikingIy illustrated: Assistant Postmaster Eve
RAJ Hevel ly OF the finance division, addressed let.
ter to Auditor Tate, of the Treasury, stating that
| dead letter Ii, No. Bk. ;, written by Mrs. Adaline
| Hobbs, addressed to DR.. Joshua T. Hobbs, New
ork city, which appears by the record to contain
TWO ten dollar bank bills, was sent on the 2Sth No.
vember ISIS, for delivery the writer on the 9Th
February, 1929; the postmaster of New York not
! beng able to find the writer, returned the letter
| with its contents, to the dead letter office After
lapse of thirtyo years, the letter is now claim
! ed by the person addresed-J. 4. Hobbs. Mount
| Vernon, Ohio, and a draft for the money is accor-
dingiy RENTED on the very day ofthe application
PEoPosEO REDUCTION IN THE WAGES OF OPERA
|
! proposing reduction of the wages of operatives
OF from ten to twenty per cent as was done in 1857
and considerable feeling has been created in conse,
quence. Should the proposition be carried out it
is thought that general strike would be the re-
suit At present prices, weavers of checks, ging-
hams, &c, cannot make more than S5 a week. and
many OF them do not earn so much as that Child
ren, employed as bobbin wnders do not it is said
| earn more than from 81 so to S3 A month A re-
ducton OF twenty or Of even ten per cent to such
| would be severely felt.-Phja. LETTER.
The "NArGoNAL INrELMGENcER"-In contradict
ing the report that the National hteligeacer was
for sale, the editor says:
The National HteHigencer will never pass from
the control of its present proprietors into any other
hands while life and health last-unless, indeed,
sharing in the common ruin in which nnhappily po-
lical events now threaten to involve all the inte-
rests OF this great country, the htelIigencer shall
sink with the rest and its property pass through
| the hands OF the SheriffS officers. That day, we
! trust, is far distant.
HEAVY FALL OF Rock AT NIAGARA FALLs-The
| following IS sent us by Mr. S. Davis, of Table
Rock Hotel, Niagara Falls: "On Saturday, the
! oath ultimo at halt. past one O'Clock there was
tremendous fall of rock a little south of the old
staircase, completely filling up the pathway leading
| to the new staircase But a few minute before
the fall, party was being conducted from the
musuem to the sheet of water. Had it happened at
the time they were passing, all must have got
| crushed to pieces. suppose some thousands of
tons fell Toronto Leader.
DISASTER AND Loss OF LIFE.-On Saturday night,
| of Barnegat, In the snow storm, the schooner
| Shark Captain Patterson, from Galveston to New
York, came into collision wife the schooner Ship
Carpenters, Captain Fountain, loaded with coal,
| from Delaware to Providence, which went down
| Immediately. By the humane and active exertions
of Captain Patterson, Captain Fountain, his crew
| and his wife were rescued and conveyed to New
York city; but, unfortunately his child, two years
old, was lost.
Last Saturday pay day at the New York
| Custom House, but by mistake the drafts for the
monthly salaries, instead of coming to that CITY
went to Charleston, S. c., and those intended for
the latter place went on to New York. This how
ever, not discovered until within half an hour
Of noon. of course the mistake will be rectfed at
once.
The State Treasurer of Missouri announces that
he will be prepared to pay the interest on all the
| Missouri State bonds falling due on the first of
January next. This the class of securities about
which there is so much soliciude Just now in con-
nection with the banks of Illinois
The kokomo Cndiana) Tribune states that a
quarrel occurred on the 2lst ult at Fairfield, be-
| tween p. 2. Davis and his son, j. w. 2. Davis
which resulted in the death of the former The
| young man was arrested and taken before squire
who held him to bail in the sum of $3.50!
daughter Of General Moreau, so well known
under Napoleon ], and Baron of the Empire. died
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