The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-22
CONGRESSIONAL NnnrNATION

EASTON, Pa, Sept. 20.-AIeAonder C. Berthand
of Warren county, has been nominated for Con.
gress by the Republicans of the Third District Of
New Jersey.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SrocKBRTDGE, Mass, September 2O.-Iion. Henry
H. Dawes was to-day re-nOminated by the Republi-
cans OF the Eleventh District, for reelection ia
Congress.
NEW YORK.
ROME, n. Y, September 2O.-DeWitt C. Grove
has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Twentieth District.
MISSOURI BREcKINRIDGE CONVENTION.
ST. LOUIS, September 20.-A special despatch to
the Republican says the Breckenridge State Con-
vention met at Jefferson City to day. Fifty. eight
counties were represented Col. John w. Han
cock, of Green county, presided.
Nothing of importance done to-day. The
Convention adjourned till o'clock this evening.
TAMMANY HALL METHOD OF HOLDING PRIMARY ELEC-
TIONs.
We learn that at the Tammany Hall primary cleo
ton in one of the uptown wards last night the in
spectors all packed by a candidate for Con-
gressional honors. The friends of this candidate
polled about seventy votes, while his opponents
polled near fifteen hundred. The sympathetic in
spectors, however, fully equal to the OCCASION
and by no means abandoned the cause of their
friend On the contrary, they threw out the votes
opposed to him and had them burned, (the doors
being locked and subsequently declared the ticket
which received seventy votes to be elected.-N y
Post, Sept 20.
A LETTER FROM AMOS KENDALL.
Amos Kendall has written a long letter to James
i. Orr, who had expressed regret that the former
dissented from the latter's recommendation of Sc.
cession. Mr.. Kendall distinctly declares that any
attempt to secede in a Republican President
should be elected would be futile, and that the
President must put down all such attempts by force.
He calls attention to the fact that the cry of dis
union comes not from the States which suffer most
severely from the loss of slaves but from those in
which the slaves most easily kept in bondage;
and the reason which he points out as accounting
for this is, that the former States have geograph
ical position which enables them to see more dis
tlnctly than the others the consequences of such
step as secession. If Republican President is
elected, in the opinion of Mr. Kendall, there is but
one course for those opposed to him to ADOPT 1t is
to unite to prevent his reelection the election Of
any other man of the same party
NEW YORK PoLIrICS-THE FUSION MOVEMENT.
The new fusion committee appointed by the
chairman of the great Union meeting met on
Wednesday, and organized by the election of Joshua
}. Henry, Chairman. Every member of the com
mttee was present but Charles 0'Conor letter
was, however, received from him giving his hearty
approval of the movement, and hoping that they
would be able to bring about union in reality as
we'll as in name.
The present attitude OF the parties was discussed
and finally committee appointed to confer with
the two party organizations and see what they
wanted to unite upon one ticket State and national
after which they adjourned to meet at the call O
the Chairman. The meeting was harmonious, anc
there seemed to be determination amongst all the
members to form a ticket that will command the
votes and approval of all those opposed to the cleo
tion of Lincoln, and that will insure his defeat
in the State.
The only point settled, we believe, as to the
terms which fusion shall be recommended, is
that member of the Committee of Fifteen is to
be on the electoral ticket The negotiations will
probably open to-day.
MOVEMENTS OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.
BUFFLTO- Thursday. Sent -.Iudra nnuula
left the Falls at IL o'clock. The cars were hand
someIy decorated with banners. At Buffalo the
great depot was filled with people, and many thou
sands assembled outside. The Committee Of Recep
ton who accompanied Mr.. Douglas from the Falls
delivered him over to the Committee of Local
Arrangements, who conducted him to carriage
when vast procession of Little Giants in uniform
with number of carriages and many hundred cit
zens on foot, proceeded on short parade through
some principal streets of the city.
At half-past two the meeting convened at the
Courthouse in the large open space on the ter
race. Long before this hour many thousands had
assembled, and when Mr.. Douglas reached the
stand the whole space was densely packed, their
number being estimated at IL, 600 to 20 000 Judge
Douglas made compact and able argument touch
ing upon the troubles of $780, which were set at
rest by the Compromise measures of 1850, c0mpl-
menting Clay, Webster, Fillmore, and the Union
Wings and Democrats who took part in accom-
plishng those measures, and showing that Wigs
and Democrats in 1852, and Americans IN 1886, had
cOncurred In maintaining the pTlnclple oil non-ln-
tervention by Congress with slavery, which had
formed the basis of the Compromise of 1850.
Mr.. Douglas goes to Ohio, but will be received
at Dunkrk and other stations on the road by the
citizens.
TuE TRANSFER OF CAPT. MEIGs-The following
is the order of the Secretary of War, removing
Capt. Meigs from the water works and sending him
to the Tortugas
WAR DEPARTMENT, Sept Is, lS6O
Captain NJ. c. Meigs, corps of engineers, is re-
lieved from all the duties assigned to him in Spe-
eial Orders No. 149, War Department, July II,
1850, and will Immediately turn over to Capt. H.
w. Benham, corps of engineers. Chief Engineer of
the Washin gton Aqueduct, all the books, papers,
moneys, plans, estimates and accounts pertaining
to the same that may be in his possession or under
his control.
Captain Meigs is also relieved from the char
of the construction of Fort Madison and is assigned
to the charge of the construction of Fort Jefferson
Garden Key, Florida, and will enter upon that duty
as practicable.
The disbursements on account of the Washin gton
Aqueduct and the Potomac Water-works will here
after be made by Captain Benham.
JOHN B. FLOYD, Secretary of War.
By order of the Secretary of War:
w. A. NICHOLS, Asst Adjt Gen'l.
Mr.. Shaw, the inventor of percussion caps died at
Bordentown, N. j., last week, having attained the
age OF eighty-six years. He was born in England.
de has achieved considerable emnence as an art
lst, A few years ago our government granted him
quite sum for his invention for loading guns,