The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-21
POLITICAL.
THE NEW YORK FUSION.

ork papers of yesterday:
SYRACUSE, Sept. 49, 186O-The Chairman of th,
National Democratic State Committee, Mr.. Johr
A. Green, jr., has received kilograms and letters
from majority of the Committee today authoriz
ing him in view of the refusal of the Douglas
managers to combine on an Electoral ticket to re
pudate and denounce any cooperation with the
Pturtbus Unum meeting in New York, as a move
ment conceived by Douglas men and the Albany
Regency, and fostered in part by them, in connec.
ton with pretended or deluded friends. Every
Breckenridge press in the rural districts will de-
hounce 1t, although they would have indorsed any
real or elective union, such as was proposed by
Ine state Committee and was rejected by the
hlchmona-Cagger Committee; yet they will not
lhdorse any movement like the one initiated at the
meeting on Monday night, believing it can only
result in decreasing the Breckenridge and adding
10 the douglas vote, and yet not redeem the State
from Lincoln. The Courier of this morning calls
on the Breckinridge forces of the State to fall into
hne ana hght the battle without reference to any,
IMPORTANT SPEECH OF SENATOR SEWARD.
ST. PAUL, Sept. Ex-senator Seward made to-
day the great speech of the campaign 1t was full
er and more elaborate than his Detroit speech
lie looked to the acquisition of British America,
Russian America, and Spanish America and de.
clared that the man was born who would live to see
the American people coming to the harmonious
understanding that this is a land of freedom and
ireemeH, and that it is the land of the white man.
ana al. that whatever elements there to disturb
lls present peace will before long pass away with
out endangerlng this great Union.
ne lelt that here we were not only before the
shrine of freedom, but in the living universe of the
GODDESS OF Freedom. The vital principle of the
government was the equality of every member of it.
IL Is the recognition of this principle which had
made the capital of Minnesota equal in nine wears
TO the capital OF any slave State two hundred years
old. Liberty, after all, was but the simple ma
tional practice of exact Justice to all me1i. Slavery
Is to-day said he, not only powerless but without
influence in the American republic Talking of
the threats of the South to dissolve the Union, he
asked, W no is afraid? A vOice-"No one') No
body is afraid; nobody can be bought
lie prophesied that the time would come when
New I ork would cease to be the Empire State, and
pennsylvania cease to be the keystone State
as virginia had already ceased to be the Old Do
minlon. The New Dominion, the Empire State and
the Keystone State would be hereafter in the Mis-
sissippi valley.
GOV. II. V. JOHNSON AT wILLIAMspoRr
WILLIAMSBURG, Sept. l9.-Governor Herschel v
Johnson arrived here this afternoon, and was well
coined by large concourse of citizens accompa.
MED by fine brass band Mr.. johnson spoke to
an immense audience this evening in Doebler's
large hall He was frequently applauded. Hon.
Richard Vaux also addressed the meeting.
BELL AND DOUGLAS UNION IN TEXAS
New ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-The Bell and Douglas
parties Of Texas have agreed to nominate Joint
Electoral ticket.
FUSION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Philadelphia Press, of Yesterday; says:-
been made by number of the influential friends
of Bell and Everett, and of Douglas and johnson,
in this State, to Hon. VIM. II. Welsh, chairman of
the Welsh committee, for a new fusion electoral
ticket, on the following basis, viz: twelve of the
electors chosen at Reading who are now on both
the straight Douglas and Cresson "compromise"
ticket, ten men to be selected by the Bell and Ever
EFT committee, and five additional names to be
chosen from the original Reading ticket, with
the consent Of two of the three organizations re-
ferred to. This proposition after being duly con-
sldered by the leading friends of Breckenridge in
this city was positively declined not on the ground
OF hostility to fusion with the friends of Bell and
Everett but for other reasons We understand
that meeting of the Douglas and the Bell State
committees will be held at Harrisburg on the 9th
inst.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
James ii. Lynch, for the Fifth, and Paul B..
Bradley, for the Sixth, of New York, were nOmina-
ted by the Breckenridge Democracy in New York
city, on Wednesday evening.
MOVEMENTS OF MIR. DOUGLAS.
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. l9.-IIon. Stephen A..
Douglas passed here on the $50 train this morning
large concourse of people assembled at the depot
to meet him.
The train saluted by the firing of cannon,
and upon MIR. Douglass appearance he was greeted
with enthusiastic cheers. He was introduced to
the people by Hon. Sanford Z. Church and spoke
for about ten minutes.
NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. l9-Mr. Douglas left
Rochester at ~ o'clock this morning. Grand de-
monstratlons were made on the line OF the road at
Albion, Medina, and LOckport; so many having
gathered that Senator Spinola. Mr.. Schnable, and
the Hon. E. c. Marshall, of Kentucky, remained
behind at these places to address the meetings. At
the Falls, Mr.. Douglas was received by large
delegation. The hotel was crowded with visitors
all the morning.
Mr.. Joshua J. Henry, who was entrusted with
the duty by the Union meeting in New York on
Monday evening, has appointed fifteen gentlemen
VINO are to select an electoral ticket in accordance
with the resolutions then adopted.
PRoPosrn RE-oRGANIzATIoN OF THE JAMES RIVER
AND hANAwHA CANAr. CoMPANY-Gov LETCHER's s
LErTER-iIs VIEWS ON "DIsCRIMINATION."-
The following is the letter of Governor Letcher
to the President of the James River and Kama
wha Canal Company, announcing his purpose to
call an extra session of the Legislature to consider
the proposed transfer of that work to a French
company. In it, it will be perceived, he expresses
views that may be read with interest in this To-
cality
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. II, 1850
Dear Sir have read, and carefully considered,
the contract and accompanying papers, relating
to the James River and Kanawha Canal Company,
which were submitted to mo, by you, on Friday
evening last
The only provision in the contract to which
object, is contained in the eight section, which au-
thorzes the tos on way trade to be increased one
through trade. This is a discrimination against our
citizens, in favor of citizens of other States
that is, in my judgment, unjust. | can rea-
son for the imposition of heavier tolls upon way
trade, than are levied upon through trade.
The subject is, in the highest degree important
to the people Of Virginia, and deserves the serious
consideration of the Legislature. | have deter
mined, therefore, to comply with the request con-
tanned in the second resolution adopted at the late
meeting of the stockholders, and will ''cOnvene the
General Assembly in extra session. for the purpose
of considering the agreement which has been ap-
proved" by them.
The fourteenth day of January next will be the
day on which the General Assembly will convene.
L am, truly, your obedent servant,
JOHN LETCHER.
Thomas H. Ellis, ESQ.,, President of the James
River and Kanawha Company.
THE PHILADELPHIA Book TRADE SALE-An Incl
dent.-An interesting incident transpired at this
sale yesterday afternoon. The morning was occu-
pied in running off the list of Derby & jackson,
New York. one of the heaviest publishers in the
country. AT the close of this portion of the sale
the works of w ashing ton Irving were next in or.
der For many years Mr.. George P. Putnam was
Mr.. lrvlng's publisher. But Mr. Putnam was un-
fortunate. he published elaborate illustrated
work descriptive of the Crystal Palace exhibition
in New York, and at an expense that swamped
him-the book remaining unsold upon his shelves.
In introducing the sale Mr. Putnam made little
speech, that visby affected all the company pre-
sent. lie informed the assembled booksellers that
he now appeared before them only the agent
for the owners of the copyrights which had passed
from his hands. For this reason he was unable to
extend to the trade the terms under which the
works were formerly sold. In his day he had paid
over to Mr.. Irving, as copyright upon his works,
more than hundred thousand dollars but had not
been able to realize any competency for himself. II
he should ever again become free to carry out his
own wishes, they would have them upon their own
terms.
Mr.. Putnam's remarks carried great weight
with them, and the speaker was applauded. The
sale ofthe Sunnyside edition, twenty-five splendid
volumes in the set, of which the trade price is SOS
brought Sl.S7 per volume philadelphia American
Sept. 20.
AGRICULTURAL SPECULATIoN.-A singular failure
of the land, as means of producing wealth rapid
ly to the cutlvatOr, is given in Sir John Sinclair
correspondence 1t is of who after he had in.
vented many ingenious patents but without great
profit (and also given up his profession of writ.
ing-master) bought eight Scotch acres of land
near Ednburg, from which he intended to get a
profit of 81 600 year. His idea was to set out
5000 gooseberry bushes on acre, making in all
10000, and between the bushes to raise cabbage
and other vegetables, expecting no profit till the
fifth year. His friends told him he could not get
the crop to market in time which he found the
case; the berries rotted and but a small part were
sold, the crop being large and fine. He therefore
abandoned gooseberries and went to carrots
but when he got his crop to market they were
found to be disased in great part Nothing daunt
ed and having heard that carrots were good to fat
ten poultry, he bought great lot and invented ma
chimes for cutting and smashing the roots into
shape, which he fattened his fowI,--the result
was their flesh was the exact color of carrots after
it cooked, and appeared to be quite raw. No
body would buy them. SO much for experimen-
tai agriculture.
SHOCKING CALAMlrY-Bwning Of Tico Children.
"A shocking calamity occurred on Friday after
poon last on the farm of John Dralle, in the town