The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-05


their peculiar uniform, remarkable part of which
is the little blue cap, with saucy turn-up front
which gives them a singularly wide awake air, al
together in keeping with their reputation.
One, who spoke French excellently, enthu-
siastic in pointing out the valleys along which he
had marched but few months ago, and, altogeth-
er, he displayed a knowledge OF the unsurpassed
landscape, which had no dependence on his sense
of the picturesque. These men on their way
from their homes, where they had been enjoying a
temporary furlough, + join, in Romagna, their
General, of whom they spoke in the most glowing
terms of admiration.
FERNANDO PO.
This is beautiful island, and one which may, at
no distant date, become an important entrepot for
the African trade, as it is only twenty miles from
the Western coast of that hot continent, and the
head of the Gulf of Guinea. The Spanish Govern
ment recently sent expedition to examine the
island, and found that it had bold shores, a good
harbor, and other advantages. 1t is thirty miles
in length by twenty in BREADTH and is evidently
garded by Spain a valuable possession. Lieut..
Navarro commanded the expedition, and he states
that the harbOr in the bay of Santa Isabel offers
sight of the most Impressive description to the WIS.,
itor. Verdant hills, soping to the water, are over
looked BY the mountain of that name, ten thousand
feet high. Right and left from the harbor the
shores extend, covered with a coat of exuberant
vegetation; northeast the lofty heights of the
Camarones, whose SUBMITS are clad in perpetual
SHOWS, while eastward are seen the COrdilera of
Rumby, and the low lands at the mouth of the Riv
er Bimbia.
The panorama formed by these is described as
sublime-of course including the scenery of por-
ton of the western coast of Africa. There two
other bays, that of San Carlos, on the northwest,
much larger and better sheltered and that of Con-
cepton on the east, which affords no protection to
ships in the tornado months that is, in April, May
October and November, although there the first
Spanish settlements were formed. The soil is of
the richest kind an the pasturage abundant, as
MIGHT no pypactpd c climate with fire.
quent and copiOus rains. The most common trees
are the cedar, ebony, mahogany and palm These
are found in all parts; and the buildings are all
constructed of native timber. One writer assures
that cotton, indigo and sugar cane might be
cultivated with success. Oranges and lemons are
abundant. The palm however, is the treasure of
the negro. From that tree he.iirst extracts crude
oil, which, when purified, is useful for many pur-
poses In the state in which it is sold in the town.
in caabashes it is used by the people both for food
and for lights Then they obtain wine from the
same tree by drawing off the juice from its fruit
which is subjected to fermentation. 1t has the ap-
pearance of milk, and sharp, acrid taste, not
agreeable to strangers. In few days it acquires
considerable strength. The leaves of the palm fur
nish thatch for all the houses, being laid to
exclude the heaviest rains.
On some parts of the coast, palm-eayes are made
into hats, umbrellas, &C., and the more delicate
parts of the plant are converted into kind of food
resembling caulihowers. Strange as it may seem,
the interior of the island is almost unknown, the
inhabitants seldom visiting it, owing to the rough
of the surface and the great height and alb
ruptness of the mountains and then poisonous
snakes are common, but domestic animals are yet
few. The few rich merchants, propretors on the
island, content themselves with raising yams
enough to feed their negroes, who make for them
the palm OIL which is now the great staple of trade,
while they pay exorbtant prices for various arti-
cles, which would sOoa he raised in superabundance
if the needed colOniss were once settled there
With respect to health, while very contradictory
opinions have been expressed by different writers.
Navarro declares that the island is salubriOus and
nearly free from the worst diseases of the neghbor-
ing coasts, except fevers, which prevalent.
Now these, we think, with all Difference to Senior
Navarro, must be fatal to majority of visiting or
settling strangers.
In history, the Island of Pc was discovered in
l741, bv Portuguese of that name, who at first
called it llha Formosa, or Beautiful Island. DR..
Henema on account of its great beauty, called it
the Madeira of the Gulf of Guinea 1t was ceded
to Spain, according to Mariana, in ITS. But, in
consequence of a rebellion which occurred the fol-
lowing year, among the troops sent to occnpy it,
and the failure of two three expeditions sent
there, which suffered severely from the climate, the
island remained unoccupied until 1927, when the
English established there the colony of Clarence,
and transferred to it, from Sierra Leone, the tribu-
nal for the suppression Of the slave trade. But in
1888 the British Government acknowledged the
claims of Spain, and resigned the island to her.
The present object of Spain is to cooniZe the island
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more regular government.-Penn. Inquirer.
THE New York UNION MEETING AND THE NEW
ENGLAND SoCTETY.-Messrs. Henry Grinnel, VIM
II. Appleton, Samuel j. NJ. Barlow, Jas. Brooks
and E. Il. Morgan, members of the Committee Of
Arrangements for the New York Union Meeting,
and members of the New England Society, together
with number of other well known gentlemen,
members of that Society, have issued the following
card:
Tho nborna 10 Oftan rnado oroinst Nau Enulor Il
men, that they particularly are responsible for the
disunon and disorder which unhappilv exist in the
country upou the subject of slavery; and the re-
marks of the Rev. DR.. Bellows, at the late New
England dinner in New York, would imply that to
be the case, as he is reported to have said:
believe, sir, in the Union Meetings but not in
such Union Meetings as we have had here \
| rejoice that no New England man lifted his
voice in that assemblage so as to be distinctly
heard, and that the sentiments of that assemblage
were not the sentiments of New England, were not
the sentiments of New York, were not the SEN
timents of the North 1t was tremendous hypo
crisy and gross outrage on the confdng masses of
our Southern brethren, to palm off such counter
feits of Northern sentiment upon them as genu-
inc feeling of Northern men.
We, the undersigned, as members of the New
England Society in this city, deeply regretting that
such statements and sentiments should have been
uttered upon such an OCCASION take this method to
declare that such not the sentiments of ourselves
or OF the New England men class in New Y 1ork.
In fact more than one-thrd of the Committee OF
Arrangements for the Union Meeting were New
England men, and more than one-third are men,
bers of said Society.
At the Union Meeting a New England man and
member of said Society was the reporter of the
resolutions, and at least two New England men
Gifted their voices in that assemblage so as to be
distinctly heard" in unqualified denunciation of
any dsunion sentiments. The call for that meeting
was signed and its purposes approved by thousands
of New England men.
We emphatically deny and repel, as neither
Christian nor true, the broad charge of hypocrisy
and of palming off counterfeit sentiments
The New York Express remarks upon this card
The above publication is deemed necessary
by the use which is made in certain Republican and
other journals of the Rev. Mr.. Bellows address be-
fore the New England Society. An address so un
called-for and insulting in the place where it was
spoken-a social celebration of the landing of the
Pilgrims by the Sons of New Englard-should, il
persistenty made at least bear the impress of truth
Weregret to have occasion to say and to show that
the extrect published above gives evidence either Of
great ignorance or greatrecklesSness. Thousands o
New England men in New York signed the call fol
TIE Union meeting, and thousands of them approve
of the Sentiments of the assemblage" at the Acad
envy of Music. If Mr.. Bellows had known more
of his New England cOuntrymen, more of New
York, and more of the country at large, he
would never have been guilty of the injustice and
mpertinence of pronouncing an honest voice, rails
ed in this city for the Union, the Constitution the
Laws and the Rights of the States, either as "hy-
pocritical" or FEcounterteit.'' Men who pass the
best of their lives in their closets, know but little
of the men or movements of the outof-door world.
But Mr Bellows belongs to a class of clergymen
who are just as ready to jump at political result
as to a theological conclusion. While statesmen,
like Webster and CLAY, would pause to take breath
and think awhile, such men speak ec-cothedra OF
Government of parties, of political principles, and
of public men.
Iapd we hnu little more fair DlaV those
who do not receive their political education from
the pulpit Or, if we may not claim fair play from
one whose professed mission is to minister in holy
things we at least desire that a truth of history
shall not be pronounced ga tremendous hypocrisy
and counterfeit" We desire also, to remind Mr..
Bellows that there was one of his cloth, but very
far from his mode of thinking-Rev. DR.. Bethuue
who touched the heart of the thousands who
heard him at the academy of Music, when he said:
have no office now, because belong to King.
| am monarchist; am a subject of the Lord Jesus
Christ But must say that there is no more dan
cerous man than he who uses the sacred Office OF
the ministry to mislead men, and carry them away
into anarchy and sedtiOn. | am content with hold
ing no other position than a minister or Christ, to
help men to Heaven when they die, and to keep
them in peace when alive. But there is one thing
| never omit, and that is to vote; and when pre-
pare my ballot prepare it with as much care as il
my ticket to elect-and If | retain my reason
which God grant! | will never vote for any man
Wing, American, Democrat or Republican-even Il
be were my own brother-if he had lain with me il
my mothers womb, like Esau with Jacob-if
could trace the slightest stain of disunon in hi;
sentiments.
AARON BURR AND w. H. SEwARD.-The Rich
mond Dispatch SAYS: VIM. II. Seward, U. s
Senator from New York, who was informed by
Col. Forbes of the plot of John Brown to excite
servile insurrection in the South; who not only
endorsed, but wrote with his own hand recomen
daton of that Infamous Heper hook, which preach.