The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-18
POLITICAL

1t was announced in our issue of yesterday that
tue efforts Tor the fusion of the Democracy in New
orK were failure. The breckenridge State Com
mlttee have published an address, giving state
ment OF the recent negotiations with the Douglas
Committees. The address saws:
Inc douglas organization, in rejecting the only
means by which this State could be prevented from
nucing loE hlncoln, have reduced the practical
/ question between Democrats of New York in the
coming election to one of future organization univ
In determining upon which of the two Democratic
candidates they will support, it is necessary for
/ prepared to abide by hereafter. Will national De-
mOcrats follow MIR. Douglas, separate themselves
politically from the Democratic party of the
South, and join with the Know Nothings in both
sections OF the country? or will they rather con-
tinue to march under the time hon0red National
Democratic banner, which has never been lowered
before any foe, and which is the same North and
south! II you have not made up your minds to
desert the National Democratic party, be careful
now you increase the vote of Douglas By voting
lot breckenridge and Lane National Democrats
wlli not only sustain the principles of their PARTY
and preserve nucleus about which, in the futnre,,
VIII be formed great National party in this
state, but they will encourage their friends all
over the Union, and be received and honored in the
next National Convention of Democrats instead of
peing rejected and despised-as they most surely
VIII De-lt they present themselves upon the plat
i9rm oil Squatter Sovereignty in company with
their new allies.
"We charge the Douglas manauers in this State
with having purposely produced the present diff
culties in the party and with persistenty refusing to
allow these difficulties to be adjusted All Ma
tonal Democrats should withdraw from the rule of
the Albany Regency, and support the principles
ana candidates of their party. sThere can he
! no evasive middle ground Squatter Sovereignty
/ Is but another form of Free-Soil RepubIicanisr
and necessarily continues the excitement strife and
! hloodshed caused by fanatic Emigrant Aid Socie.
ties, with their contributions of Sharps rifles if it
does not result in the final breaking up of this CON
tederacy OF sovereign States. 1t is only another
form OF the conflict forced upon by the doctrines
| OF Seward and Lincoln. Men must take ground
either for or against the protection of life and pro-
/ perty in the common Territories by the general
Government of the country. States are SOVEREIGN
and regulate their affairs in their own way subject
only to the Constitution of the United States Ter
ritories are not sovereign but belong in common to
all the sovereign States"
Inc document concludes by recommending the
formation OF clubs, and the of active efforts to
bring the whole vote to the polls in November.
| A VACANCY IN THE NEW YORK FUSION ELECTORAL
TICKET.
Mr. ottenderier, editor of the German Douglas
democratic organ OF this city, the Staats Zeit6nq
/ has Withdrawn as one of the electors of the Doug
! las and Bell coalition ticket. The reason anneaTs
| to be the refusal of the Dean Richmond Committee
! to explain whether the ten Bell electors ON said
ticket can be depended on to vote for Mr.. Douglas
/ under certain circumstances.
THE MAINE ELECTION
! The Bangor Wig has returns from 335 towns
I which are reported as fol0ws:-Washburn 62533:
/ Smart, 45,l5S; Barnes, 1,4lS. Washburne's vote
over Smart II ,395 and over all 1877. Republican
| gain over last year 4,2G2. The remaining towns
gave over l,l0O Republican majority last year
! Of Representatives elected % Republican and 10
Democrats are reported.
MR.. DOUGLAS AT CLIFTON SPRINGS
CLIFTON SPRINGS, n. y, Sept. l1.-Mr. Douglas
and his wife visited his mother on Saturday, at
this place, remaining until the hour fixed for the
public meeting, which was very large including
delegations from all the surrounding towns mum.
berng from fifteen to twenty thousand PERSONS
Mr Douglas commenced his speech by expressing
his pleasure that he called to relieve the anxl-
| ETY. of the Republicans by informing them that he
had found his mother, who, God bless her. was in
! line health, and in no way annoyed by the COM
ments of the partisan press.
/ MIR, Douglas spoke nearly two hours and was
1 well received.
SPEAKER PENNINGTON CANDIDATE FOR RE ELECTION
TO CONGRESS.
NEWARK, y. J., Sept. 15.-IIon VIM. Pennington
Speaker of the House of Representatives, will be a
| candidate for re election to Congress, having re-
considered his letter declining the nomination, at
the earnest solicitation Of his friends.
VIRGINIA DOUGLAS ELECrOR DECLINES.
/ The following letter is published in the Peters,
| burg Bulletin of yesterday.
WooDLAwN, Prince William CO., Va
September 18th, 1850
/ GENTLEMEN DO me the favor to state in your
paper that respectfully decline the position of as.
sistant eiector assigned me by the Stqunton Con
vention. was 4 political friend of Mr. Douglas
until hls recent speech in Norfolk removed the
"scales from my eyes," and beheld him, who
considered the friend Of the South, re-acting the
part of Van Burcn in lSiS, assisting the Wbirs and
/ Know Nuthngs to defeat the Democrats in Vir
glnia, holding that the South may rigbtfully be
! excluded from the public lands, and that she shall
| be compelled by force to submit; and denouncino
/ Southern men whose only crime is their zeal in
behalt oil Southern rights and honor Such senti-
mentS merit the severest rebuke from every being
thn Dftl
LYrrtEToS TYLER.
uuHERAL CUSHING ON THE CANVAS.
Hon. Caleb Gushing spoke at a Breckinridge and
Lane ratihcatlon meeting in Boston, on Wednesday
: evening lie did not see how either Mr.. Douglas
or Mr.. Bell could hope to obtain a single electoral
vote in any Of the Northern States, except by the
aid of the supporters of Mr.. BreckiEridge As re-
/ CARDS Mr.. Douglas, he could not have received a
single Northern electoral vote, had he received the
united vote of his party. Mr. Cushing believed that
/ the South would yet cast unanimous vote for MIR.
BrecklnrIdge. lie alone exhibits any chances or
possibilities of success against Mr.. Lincoln. The
/ speaker venturned the following prediction:-"Thc
Republican party has been conceived, born and nur-
tured into strength in ORDER if possible to force or
seduce the Federal Government into aboIitionsm
/ or else the Republican party is Il mOnstrOus and
ridiculous abortion, gigantic falsehood, swindlc
and fraud. And reassert confidently, if Mr.. Lin
coin is elected the Republicans will have to burst
up at once or to attack the domestic rights of the
States"
/ From NE Correspondent Of he ". l. Worldl
a MOHAMMEDAN VIEW OF THE DAMASCUS
MASSACRE
BEIRUT. Aug. III send YOU herewith copv of
the translation Of letter written by Turkish civil
| officer in Damascus to a Mahommedan in Beirut
giving some account of the recent massacre of the
Christians. The chief value of the letter. and that
which has made it an object of interest to the for
eign consus here, is the fact that the author is a
! MOhammedan, writing of what transpired under
his own eyes. through the agency Of his own core
ligionsts. Many of the facts have already stated
in bu+ IF ho
ing kept q most important testimony to the Grim
ina neglect of the Turkish authorities to prevent
those horrible scenes Of cruelty and carnage. The
following is the letter, translated rerJatm from
| the original:
''May the. most merciful God take vengeance
= The sole which stirred up the
! people Of Damascus, and Of the villages, to bring
about the insurrectOn described below is this that
| before the breaking out of this wicHedness, by
| twenty days, some of the worthless fellows and
baser people had been appointed, by the order of
government and the decision of the chief council of
Damascus, to be police captains, officers and
guards. And thereupOn these persons being also
! themselves the chiefs of the seditOu, collected n
number OF the lowest and basest fellows, and COM
| menced supplying them with arms. And as these
| were appointed to guard the Christian quarter this
circumstance melted the thoughts of all Damascenes
to preparation for this work tthe outbreak;
whereas, otherwise no one would have thought OF
| the occurrence of such Il sad this. On
Monday, the 9th of July, at about O'Clock p. NJ,
of the mOslem boys made crosses in every part
of the city, and began to cause the passersby to
tread upon them, and otherwise to insult the Chris
tians; and the making of these crosses and these
insults, were not Of such a nature as would natu-
rally occur to these children, but they must have
been instructed by some Of the leaders of the
sedtion After half an hour, the report of the
affair of the crosses and Of the audacity
manifested in insulting and humiliating the
Christians, had, by some means or other,
reached the government and Immediately the chief
of the police, with of his men, went forth and
seized a part of the boys and other persons, and
sent them to the government, by whom they were
put in chains, and sent forth to the market to sweep
the streets; and they actually began sweeping-
Then there gathered around them the mosems ot
the neighborhoOd, who rescued the boys from the
police, broke off the chains from their feet and cast
them away. And as soon as the boys were set free,
all the shops of the whole market were closed with
in the space of five or ten minutes, and in quar-
ter of an hour tD0 were fired" As the
only cannon in Damascus belong to the govern
ment, this circumstance proves, beyond doubt, the
cOnnivance of government officials in the outbreak.
Con "From that time the firing of guns COM
menced. The traitor Selim Agha, of the Medan,
an officer (bouik pasha) of the irregular troops,
took with him immense number of the worst
people of the Medan, armed, and led them at once
to the Christian quarter, and as be entered
that quarter Immediately fell upon the houses of
such Christians as he previously had his eye upon,
and breaking open the doors he and his companions
| set about plundering burning and killing. And,
inasmuch as the wretch alluded to had under his
| command large number of armed villains, no one
/ able to get the start of them in carving off
the most choice and valuable of the punder'
| Then follows an account of the massacre in about