The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-18

| cutta the public report quotes Exchanges unalter-
ed, put private dispatches report decline of two
| per cent; The Bank of Bengal had reduced its
kes f% GRs G&cBRsnse BRsr gent t. The Bombay
Jung Bahador had been executed. 1t was re-
ported that the shipment of.tro ops to India and
| emma had been suspended, in anticipation of an
amlcabe arrangement Trade at Melbourne was
depressed. Money was scarce, and several serious
failures had occurred.
| The gold shipments of the month 70 Enulond
were l4S,O0O ounces. Wool was firm Trade at
Sydney was brisk. The new gold fields were vorr ~
productive. The principal Melbourne failures are
N. M. Bell, Rae, Dickson Il CO. and Hanr;ono
Brothers and Tyckle.
LATEST VIA oUEENsTowN.1
Parls, Saturday evening.-BOurse firm. Rentes
Ill 30c The export duty on oil from Naples has
been increased to two ducats per canters, almost
prohibiting it. The Patagonian missionary schoon-
er Allen Gardner, has been captured by the natives
and all hauds killed except one.
QUEENSTOWN, 6th.-The steamship Great Britain,
from Melbourne, arrived here this morning
LONDON Misunderstanding Brothers quote a decline
IN English Wheat of ls foreign dull white American
52s 56s; red sos. 52s. Flour 26s 2Ss Iron dull at
70 5s for both rails and bars pig Sugar firm at full
do had advanced Nd Tallow had declined to sos Cof
fee firm at slight advance last quotations Linseed
cakes in good demand; New York GIO los 6flO Is Cd
Boston fi0 2s Cd Fish oils quiet Linseed oil in good
demand "a at 2Ss 3d. Rice steady. Spirits Turpentine
AMERICAN SECURITIES Barring Brothers ouote
United States SIS advanced to 934694I State secur
ties scarce: Massachusetts SIS 1O2lO2% Maryland SIS
96$; Pennsylvania SIS SAN Railroad securities dull
except Eries which active; Erie shares I7Is Bell
Co. report State stocks steady, but scarce: United
states u.s. 1868, 9SId1OO; do. 5's 93H94 Alabama SIS
75d77; Kentucky 6's, 90G92; Maryland 5's 95kGg6k;
Massachusetts SIS 1OlDIO3 Ohio 6s 97Ca9s Pennsylva
mia SIS, S5dS7; do. 1877 S6S7 South Carolina 5s S6
gSS Tennessee 6's, 79aS1; Virginia 6s S40S5: Mon
Greai 6s SoaS2 Illinois Central shares, 45943 discount;
illinois Central rs, tFreelands, 9l4@92k Michigan
Central SIS, 1869, S4tGS6; do. shares, 4S6g45
TIE "lRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT" IN THE
NJ. +. CHURCH.
From, the BLgalo Courier Of Sat,ndduI
The question how the Church will rule in refer
ence to its savehOding members, is perhaps the
most absorbing one which shall come up before the
Methodist Conference now in session. A brief his
tory OF the slavery agitation in the American Meth
odst Society will conduce to a better understand
ing OF the merits of the controversy Methodism
IS now about hundred years old in this country
In the early Church some of the membership were
intensely opposed to slaveholding, and in 1884, a
stringent law passed by the clergy, reuuirin q
Methodist shareholders to emancipate or Withdraw
from the communion. This severe enactment how
ever, was tempered with proviso, which nufed
the obligation to emancipate when this was incom-
patible with the State law. The opposition to the
enforcement OF this rule, modified was such
as to necessitate suspension of legal proceedings
The arrestment of the anti-savery process was un-
derstoOd to be 'till the deliberations of a future
Conference" From 1854 till 1874 the Methodist
interest at the South continued to strengthen and
increase. At the General Conference in the latter
memorable year, it found that even one of the
bishops held slaves. The Conference demonstrated
but the Southern delegates insisted that he should
remain IN the exercise of his episcopal functions
without censure or disability. The Conference de-
oG Of ence aHd hS e3R a The grand
South body now comprising 700,0 900 members
and 800 preachers As the issue on this occasion
was not on the absolute sinfulness of slavery per se
but rather on the question of retaining slavehold
ing Bishop, the secession did not carry with il the
rha a
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky Missouri
Arkansas and the District of Columbia a territory
holding about 100 900 MethOdists still clung to their
mother-c connection. In this district are located the
"Border Conferences" which comprise over 100 900
Methodists; 600 travelling and 900 local preach
ers 1t is estimated that from five to ten thousand
| OF this membership shareholders. From 1874
to 1852, attention was not specially directed to the
existence of slavery in the border conferences Up
to 1856, however, it was warmly discussed, and in
| the Conference of that year, two plans were pro
posed for reaching the question of slavery; first
| the Insertion OF new eXtirpatory law among the
General Rules, as they called; second, the
enactment of new chapter slavery, to the same
effect, in the place of the existing chapter on that
subject. The former was called the indirect pro-
cess, because it would require the concurrence OF
threeourths OF all the members of the several An.
nual Conferences present and voting with two
thirds of the Genera! Conference, while the latter
was callen the direct process, because it could be
done by bare majority of any General Conference.
| The former process was adopted, and the three
| rules known as the Cincinnati, Providence and Erie
| Rules, intended to change the General Rule, were
submitted to the Conferences for their votes. The
Erie rule has obtained the highest vote of the three
but it has fallen far short of obtaining the requisite
majority, that the attempt to change the SLAYER,
rule Is admitted to be failure. The contest in th
present Conference will most likely be the enact
ment of new chapter on slavery in place of tn
one which now exists in the Discipline.
THE NEW YORK POST-OFFICE DEFALCA
|
| MR.. FOWLER NOT YET ARREsTED-HIs BoNDsMEN oFFE
| TO PAY uP-THE SUCCESSOR TO MR.. FowLER--wHA
THE NEW YORK PosT-oFFICE is WORTH, ETC
We have no more developments connected witt
the defalcation in the New York Post. Office. W
learn from the papers of that city that the friend
of Mr.. Fowler, forgetting the crime in their re
gard for the man, express their at his down
fall their joy at his escape from the clutches of th
law, and their wonder as to what he has done will
| the money.
The Times' article SAYS: United States Marsha
| Rynders continues his search for the missing de
| faulter with unabated vigilance and has sent ou
scouts in all directions, whittier the fugitive was
or was not, likely to have fed. 1t is to be hoped
that the Captains extraordinary efforts viii
be duly appreciated at Washington for here it il
not too much to say that they are the laughing
stock of the whole city. Nobody believes that h
would arrest Fowler if he could, or that he coul
if he would. The whole thing is farce, and nigh
|
Mr.. Fowler-Messrs. Law and Conover-have sig
nifed their willingness to respond Immediately t
the extent of their bond (S75, ,000) without pros
ecutiOn. As for the remainder, Uncle Sam has on
to think of Swartwou, put his hands in his pockets
and whistle. The investigation into the affairs o
the late Postmaster and the books and papers o
the Office is proceeding, under the direction ef tht
General Officers, with all possible dirpotob but i
will be several days before anything definite il
known as to the extent of the detalcation, or tn
number of parties implicated in it. The name o
Mr.. Caldwell, the First Assistant and Cashier un
der Mr.. Fowler, was mentioned in yesterday
| report as being implicated in the fraud By thi
was not meant to be understood that he was
sharer in the proceeds of the deialcation for he
able to show, and did show to the GOvernmen
Officers, previous to his resignation, vouchers 70
| all the moneys that passed through his hands-bu
only that he cognizant of the frauds of his su
perior oflcer-a knowledge that every one ac
quainted with the duties of his office knows h
must have possessed. We are enabled to stat
that the position so hastily vacated by Mr. Fowle
+ as been rendered to Hon. John A. Dix, and tha
his acceptance of the appointment was yesterda
telegraphed to Washington. Mr. Butterworth
the well-known Superintendent of the ASSAY Office
was first rendered the positen, but promptly dt
clined The truth is that that the New York Pos
Office it honestly administered, is not so lucratv
) an office as is generally supposed. Mr.. Horat
King, the Assistant Postmaster General, VIII
ought to know the facts, says that it is Legitimate
ly worth just 81 900 a year, and no more. I'm
salary, considering the responsibilities OF the pos
tiOn, and the $4,000 bonds required from I'll
e incumbent, does not render it very envlable pc
sition. 1t is rumored that there will be a gene
raj removal of the subordinates in the office, o
y the incoming of a new Postmaster, and grea
: deal of anxiety is naturally felt among the clerk
Thus the criminality of one man is likely to enta
suffering and misery upon hundreds of innocer
s persons.
f The Washington correspondent of the Tribm
=, says:
1t now positively ascertained that no part
/ Mr. Fowler's defalcatiOn occurred during Il
e Pierce Administration, and all statements to Il
!, contrary are unfounded He was appointed
s Mr. Buchanan at the close of March, 1857, b
: gave no bonds for three months afterwards. E
o accounts were adjusted to the 30th of June tn
;, year, as Postmaster under Pierce, and balance
= $1,000 was paid, which closed all his responsible
u ty to that Administration. His affairs were CO
II Quoted without serious arrangement until recent
g when balance of more than $30, 900 accumulat
: for quarters preceding and ending in Decembt
! The great bulk of the defalcation is traced to I
| very last quarter, ending March 80, in which oy
e $4,000 are proved to been abstracted. These =
!, the official figures.
On Saturday week the wife of man named NJ
hon, resident near the Marine Hospital, st. Roc
:, Quebec, went up to the garret, and on her retu
missed her footing and fell head foremost down
}, stairs. A key was in the lock of the door, a