The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-18


had long infested the Chinese Archipelago, in which
they succeeded in capturing twenty-six junks and
burning six.
SHIP NEws.-HonOlutu July 19.-Arrved, June 90,
bark Gecian 134 days from England June g. steamer
Klona from New London, designed to navigate between
the different Islands of the Hawaain Kingdom and the
ship Moonlight from Hong Hong.
TIE NEGRO DISTURBANCE AT SoMBRERo ISLAND
The Boston Trareler, of the 18th instant, has the
following:
published a few days since an account of
disturbance among the negro guano diggers of the
Sombrero Island, situated near Anguilla in the
West Indies. That account stated that Mr.. Snow,
an overseer, fatally injured, and that the
groes had obtained possession of the island.
By the arrival at this port of the brig VIM. Ma
son, Captain Gardner, from st. Martins ria Som
brero Island, July &C. where he touched to land the
superintendent of the guano work, Mr.. Howard
we have statement of the speedy quelling of the
disturbance, which resulted in nothing very ser
Gus.
1t appears that the guano deposits of the island
are worked by an American company, who have in
their employ some two hundred free negroes from
the neighbOring English settlements. native OF
Maine, named Snow, formerly mate of the ship
Eastern State, had accepted position temporarily
as Overseer. This Snow had occasion to reprove
negro who was Sinking, and the result was an as
sault by the latter upon the former with a large
piece of guano, injurng his head badly and break
ing out several OF his teeth.
The negro soon after secured and placed in
confinement; but the other negroes hearing of it
stopped work in body, assumed rather threaten
ing attitude and refused to 90 to work again unless
the prisoner was released There were three Amer
lean vessels at the island, and the commanders of
these were appealed to by the overseers to aid in
restoring order. The captains returned for answer
that if their lives were in danger they would land
and protect them, but they advised the Withholding
of food from the negroes until they submitted.
This done, and the next day work was re-
sumed usual, though about fifty of the workmen
after left the island. Mr.. Snow was able to
write to his friends by the VIM. Mason, and was in
no danger from his wounds. This island has
large supply of guano, but at present the amount
dug out is less than seventy-ive tons per day.
The following is an extract from a letter written
by gentleman in Constantinople to friend in
Philadelphia;
CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 1.-THE civil in
Syria has been very terrible. Nearly all the Marc
mite territory has been desolated with fire and
sword. Our last accounts inform that the Mos
lens of Damascus have risen against the Chris
tians, and that five hundred of the latter have been
killed and wounded. There is strong outside
pressure which is fastening the conflict between the
followers of Mohamet and of Christ. But, believe
me, when | tell you that Mahometansm is mercy
itself, compared to the Christianity of the East
Our minister here, Mr.. Williams, has just been
called upon to endeavor toprocure Christian burial
for American Protestant, which has been resist
ed for five days by an immense mob of Arlnenians,
headed by their priests. For five days the dis
graceful spectacle had confined: the dead body re-
naming during the whole time exposed upon the
ground, and the mob of Armenians, which last eve
ming numbered four thousand, refusing to allow of
the interment. These the Christians, over
whose cruel wrongs the Christian world is called to
weep, and to curse the tyranny of their Moslem
oppressors. Turkish troops in large numbers,
have been sent to the scene of disturbance but as
yet nothing has been accomplished, and the corpse
remains unburied.
EXECUTION OF CHRISTIAN IN BEYRoUr-The fol-
lowing extract is taken from letter, dated Bey-
rout, July 5:
| informed you in my last how the Mahometans
here and the agitation of the town; after that
the pretended murderer of the Mosem was brought
In the same day, as was promised and was executed
at two O'Clock the following morning, but the most
credited opinion is that he was not the murderer,
but the real murderer is a Mosem himself who got
into quarrel with the murdered man and stabbed
him with knife, which caused his death. Suspi-
cion, of course, was cast upon Christian, who was
seized in the afternoon and laid in prison, and
fenced to death the evidence of a boy only eight
years old. He, before his execution, called for a
priest, and having made his confession, declared
that he never killed the man, but he said that 81
am quite willing to offer yse sacrifice for the
tranquility of Others" Asking God to receive
his soul and pardon his prosecutors, he was led to
the place called Bourge el-Kashef and beheaded
there; crowds of the Mahometan mob gathering to-
gether held his head by the hair, and beating it
againstthe ground, cursed his religion, his nation,
and the Cross-all this, and the Christians keep
ing silence; besides that Moslems had wounded and
'l-treated many OF the Christians before, causiD
many to fly to the vessels at sea, and many of
whom passed several nights board. About
500 natives and fugitive Christians departed to
Alexandria, SYRIA, Malta, and other places, among
whom are all the members of our family except
myself who remained here to see after our affairs;
but was obliged t. abandon house to the SER
wants.
The heirs of DR.. BurdeIl (of Cunningham memo.
ry) are at law among themselves at New York
OF course the money of the murdered dentist is the
cause of the difficulty.
Seven of gang of juvenile burglars were arrest
ed in New York on Wednesday. They ranged in
age from 10 to Is wears.