The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-11
THE CRISIS

ioHoWlng suggestion a conspicuous nlaea in its odi
torial columns-'to attest" say the editors or
that journal, "our sense of its high and instant
Importance" The writer says:
Let the members of Congress from the slave
noialhG states meet Immediately and appoint com
| mlttee OF their own body, composed of the abest
"hu s0uhuest men, to proceed to South Carolina
ana ask 10 be heard by the Convention to assemble
C.:; e =: vi; ana let them urge her to pause until
GonVenton % OF the whole body of the States can be
| hed TO take the grievances of the Soutb into con
| slderatlon. If that body can agree unon No oodo
| OF satisfying the just demands of our Southern
brethren, 1t will be then time enough for such
2.aIe as desires to do so to take the course she
thlhhs pest lor her interest. If we are to believe
the current intelligence of the time South Caro-
una VIII withdraw from the Union by the 20th; if
she goes other States will probably follow. Let
~: EeI, Jhen' De appealed to by committee of her
friends to wait until all efforts at settlement ,y-
m me CRton are exhausted She cannot in Justice
to the small States of Delaware and MARYLAND who
rendered such important services to her in the Rev
olutlonary war; refuse to listen to their appeaI and
that of their friends
=, letter, attributed to ga Southern member of
the tn! present Cabinet" has been published in the
Plttsburg Chronicle, in which the writer TINS exe
presses his own position and views:
81 am still for the Union, because have vat
Ialnt hesltatIng hope that the North will do ius-
tce to the South and save the RepubIic bAfora its
wreck is complete. But action, to he avaiiohIa
must be prompt. If the Free States will sween The
liberty bills from their codes propose Conven
ti9n OF the States, and offer guarantees which will
afford the same repose and safety to Soutberu
homes and property enioyed by those of The North
the impending tragedy may vet be averted but
not otherwise. feel positive personal humiia
u"n' as member of the human family, in the
events now preparing. If the RepubIic is To ba
offered as sacrifice on the altar of African sarvi
tuue, then the question of mans capacity for self
government Is forever settled. The derision of the
"3rIu VIII hencetorth jnsty treat the pretenton as
laTce, and the blessed hope which for five thou
sahu years our race, amid storms and battles has
p"eh hugging to its bosom, will be demonstrated o
be phantom and dream "
hr Inc Louisville Courier, of Friday last, seeing no
hope OF any good result to be derived from sending
commissioners to confer with South Carolina, con-
sders 1t to be the duty of the Governor to
Immediately the Kentucky Legislature.
General Snyder, of Missouri in a letter addrass-
ed to the St Louis Republican, asserts that the re-
ported "invason" of Missouri is the "merest niece
9 9l Nluhcnausensm without any foundation oftruth'
Inc three hundred" armed outlaws dwindIe
down to "sixteen yarabond Abolitionists who lurk
ed about Fort Scott for few days before the Court
was to hare been held"
A correspondent of the National LaieRiqeacer
graVely suggests to the Unionloring men of the
country that they vsibly manifest their patriotic
sentiments by adopting their costume during the
present prevalence of the spirit of disunion the
mode OF dressing in vogue with the "men of '76'
r Inc 1tmes and Enqmirer Of Cincinnati, warmly
iaVor the call for Union meeting in that city, to
be composed of men of all parties, who shall meet
together, says the Enquirer fto counsel one with
another, and put forth unmistakable expressions of
devotion to the u UniOn-such as we know to be the
sentiment of the great body of our citi-
Zens."
ARRIVAL OF THE SLAVE BARK CoRA-The slave
bark Cora, an account of whose capture by the
nlted States trigate Constellation, on the coast of
Africa IN September last, with cargo of 700 Afri-
cans was given IN our last issue, arrived at this
port late on Saturday evening. She comes in charge
OF sailing master I. II. Eastman who assisted in
her capture and who has on board as prisoners
the first, second and third mates of the Cora named
frederick, Wilson and Chase. The captain of the
Saver, who gave his name LOrettO Riutz (sup-
posed to be Latham, J together with the crew were
lelt IN charge of the Constellation. The Cora on
ler arrival at this port, proceeded Immediately to
-hc brooklyn Navy ard, where she now lies. The
prisoners will be delivered to the United States
Marshal to-day.-N. Times, Dec. 10.
TROUBLE ALnEADY.-The arstocratic and demo-
cratic elements in the Charleston Is. C.) Legisla-
ture have had another of variance in the pro-
ect put forward by the Charleston clique to raise
The salary OF the Governor to So 900 per annum in
view Of the probability of his being something
more than Governor (king?) in the event of seces-
i"h. One OF the ad vocates of the measure used
.,If two aarS hae the Governor be merely the Cover
nor heretofore the thing be reduced but at pre-
sent with the contingency before u.s. 1t seems to ne mat
er Of simnl" nruden"e -
THE moral THE BURCu DIVORCE CAsE.-The
Springfield Republican, in closing a review of the
Burch divorce trial. says: The case is a very, verv
rests, there
is certainly one lesson that every vrtuOus and
woman should learn from this domestic tradgedy,
which Is, that the door of every house should be
shut closely against known libertines. In the mid
die ranks OF American society this is now the case
pretty generally, but, unless we are not much mis-
taken, larger license prevails in most fashion
aoie society, and man of wealth, education
'tyle to command access to such society, is not
Guided by the most notorious ibertinsm.'
THE KANSAS RAID.-The latest reports from Kan
reference tD nd int
OF Montgomery, come through the st. Louis De-
aocrdt. 1t is stated that Gen. Frost, commander
OF the Missouri expeditionary forces, had been to
Fort Scott, where he had found, not Montgomery,
but Gen. Harney, who was possessed of undoubted
knowledge that the boodthirsty marauder was in
trenched at Mound City, three hundred strong, and
determined to fight When Gen. Harney, with
Gen. Fr0st-whose co operation he is reported to
have desred-goes to Mound City, he will most
likely find that Montgomery is intrenched at Kick
apoo or Ossawatomie, five hundred strong. Some
bodies gain greater bulk by locomotion.
LounIANA SUGAR.-A compiled statement of Mr..
Il. Champomier, of the sugar crop OF Louisiana,
shows "that the total product Of that State, from
1891 to 1858 inclusive, period of twenty-five
years, was 4,0l4,709 hogsheads, valued at S24S,-
l39, 2GOj and that OF this quantity the Atlantic
ports took I,4SG,G53 hogsheads and the Western
States 2,3l4 454 hogsheads 1t should be remem-
membered that the sugar crop of Louisiana is fully
protected by duty on foreign sugars of twenty
four per cent and should she secede her great crop
WOulu DC brought INTO ulrect competition WIN LDt
sugar crop of the West India Islands, with which
she has never yet been able to compete without
such protection.
SERMON AT THE CAPToL.-The Washington State
OF Yesterday evening says:
The sermon at the Capitol yesterday by the Rev.
DIR. Thomas II. Stockton was attended by great
numbers of persons of both sexes, filling the seats
on the floor and ali the galleries. The preacher
alluded in most pathetic manner to the existing
state Of affairs in nation, and deprecated sadly
10 bptwnan he q
confederacy. So ostrong were the Union sentiments
which he expressed that several members of Con-
gress rose and left the Hall
PREVENTIVE FOR DtPrHERIA.-This alarming dis
ease, which has prevailed throughout Central Ken
lucky for the past twelve months, and has caused
considerable CONSERVATION along the line of the
Kentucky Central Railroad. has been checked
The attaches of the accommodation train, command
ed by the urbane Woodall, have discovered pre-.
ventive for it, which is to burn Cayenne pepper
upon the stove in the baggage-car, the smoke of
which is very unpleasant to those who are not
accustomed to it, but nevertheless has the desired
effect.
THE RETURN OF rue La PLArA ExPEDIr1oN.-The
bark La Plata arrived at New York Sunday
from Buenos Ayres, having board Commander
Page and the other officers andmen of the expedi-
tOn sent out to survey the La Plata and its ributa
res. The results of the survey are very important
to the mercantile community, and will open to the
enterprise OF the capitalist q vast field which has
hitherto been comparatively untrodden. They sur
veyed the prlHcipal branches OF the river to the
distance Of over 1000 miles above Buenos Ayres
Mr.. RAREY, the distinguished horse tanner, of
whose equine doings in England, France, Arabia
and Russia have read so much within three
wears past, arrived at New York by the Asia on
Friday, and took quarters at the Fifth avenue Ho-
el,where he is now stopping. A number of personal
friends called upon, him on Saturday, to cOngratu-
late him upon his success abroad, and welcome him
home. Mr. Rarey is soon to go to Ohio, where he
will visit his friends near Columbus
FORT MoULrRIE, according to writer in a South
Carolina paper, is not neglected. During the po-
htical movements the garrison at the fort have
greatly improved the exterior defences, apparently
in preparation for the day of action. The same
writer says that the public is not admitted within
the fort, and hence nothing be known about
the interior deences.
A new system of shipbuilding has lately been
introduced in England, by NJ. TOvel. The bow is
copied from the head of salmon, the stern from the
after body of a Several vessels have been
built upon this principle and they have all proved
to be fast sailers, with great stowage capacity
The keeson in these vessels is curved, not straight
as in many other ships
The Richmond Enquirer of Monday saws:
lot of beef cattle from Pulaski county, were
shipped, on Thursday last, over the Orange and
Alexandria railroad for the Baltimore market.
This is the first lot of cattle which has sought this
route to market from the Western portion OF the
State.
Mary Naylor, convicted at the October term of
thn CIircuit Court of Anne Arundel county of
nosoninG her master, Mr.. Samuel Carr, was sem
fenced by Judge Brewer, on Friday last, to be
hung; the day to be hereafter appointed by the