The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-07

From an Occasional Correspondent
AFFAIRS MOBILE.
MOBILE, Nov. 30.-The State of Alabama has
never known period of pecuniary embarrassment
equal to the present. and there is no hope of early
relic. The Banks cannot suspend specie payments
without orleting their charter, under the existing
laws, and special enactment of the Legislature to
meet this emergency they do not expect to obtain.
Light drafts on the North are not purchased at
any price.
The planters have stopped sending in their cot
ton, and shipments have ceased, except when small
quantities are required to ill up vessels which have
been loading for some time past.
The many mechanics and laborers who are
thrown out Of employment, are to be seen collect.
ed in groups ia all public places engaged in ear
nest and excited conversation upon the troubled
state Of the times.
The secession movement is gaining strength eve
ry day. All of the old political party lines have
been obliterated, and the necessity Of immediate
withdrawal from the Union of all OF the cotton
states, Is universally admitted. W. l..
[Spee'"I Despatch to the Daily Ercbonge.l
THE COMMITTEE OF THRrY-THREE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9Th.
The only members of the House of Representa-
tives who have peremptoriIy declined to serve on
the Boteer Committee of thirty three ar. Envce ot
South Carolina, and Hawkins, of Florida. Davis.
of Mississippi, Lowe, of Georgia, and Hamilton. ol
Texas, are wavering about accepting position in
the committee. If only two refuse, it will give the
Republicans the control of the committee. and de
feat the objects for which it was raised Very great
distrust prevails here tonight.
NJ. Crawford, Of Georgia, declares that his State
will certainly secede. Alexander II. Stephens writes
to his friends in this city to the same effect The
Postmaster General has received an order from the
Postmaster at Charleston, calling for sufficient
number of blanks to last until next July. They were
promptly forwarded. The House Committee of
Ways and Means have held several sessions and are
pushing business rapidly. The committee will re.
port on Monday the Treasury Note Bill for ten mil
lions, to relieve the immediate embarrassments Of
the Treasury. In the Senate, Mr.. MorrilPs Tariff
Bill will be brought forward on Monday, and will
probably pass, in consequence of the absence of
Southern Senators.
Mr.. Bonham, of South Carolina intends to re.
sign his position the Military Committee Mr.
Stanton, the Chairman, asked him to attend \
meeting of that Committee, to take into considera
tiOn the defences of Fort Moultrie, when Bonham
replied that he intended to withdraw Mr.. Wade,
of Ohio, will make a speech next week in the Sen
ate, to demonstrate the impossibility of peaceful
secession. The Southern Senators hold a caucus
on Saturday night, to consider the course to be
pursued with respect to secession. Mr. Crittenden
Will attend the caucus and make strong effort to
avert the imminent danger of disunion Mr.. Sew
ard on Saturday will make speech before the Su-
preme Court on the Bridge cases. Strong efforts
are making to induce all the Southern members
who have been appointed on the Pacification Com
mttee of Thirtythree to serve, if only to express
their views, with out voting.
UNION MEETING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH, Dec. 4.-The Union men are waking
up here. There was a great demonstration at the
Commons Hall last night The hall was crowded
and the galleries filled with the fair SEX Mr.. Hol-
den, from the committee to draft resolutions, pre-
sented a series breathing devotion to the Union
so long as the Government was constitutionallv
administered, and recommending the thorough
organization Of the militia, the arming and equip
ment OF volunteer companies, and asserting the du-
ty of the State to demand her rights in the Union
Mr.. Holden declared his fixed purpose to stand bv
the Union until the Constitution should be viola
and that in that event the South should stand a.
a unit in defence of her constitutional rights.
Mr.. Henry w. Miller followed in speech OF two
hours, which for beauty and style, sound arou-
ment, and eloquence of delivery, cannot be exceed
Mr.. Vance entertained the audience for an bour
and he received beautiful bouquet from the la
dies in the galleries testimonial for his gallant
defence of the Constitution and the Union
We had few disunionists among us before these
meetings, and am sure that | can safely say that
we have very few. These meetings are called
-hollr Of
whole family, exiIed from South Carolina,
passed through here yesterday morning in charge of
the Express Company. Their offence was the same
as that of the others that have been shipped
UNION MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. G.-The City Council TODAY
adopted resolutions requesting the Mayor to call
public meeting Of our citizens, irrespective of par
ty, to express their adhesion to the Union and ap-
pointed a committee of six for each branch to carry
out the resolution.
EFFORTS At CANCELLATION.
Washington correspondents say that Governor
Letcher, OF Virginia, is arranging a commission IN
proceed at once to South Carolina, urpipo her IN
delay her contemplated secession. Ex President
Tyler, Senator Hunter and Hon. w. G. Rives will
probably be the names indicated Similar stens
have been taken by the Governor of Kentuckv =
Vice President Breckinridge, Hon. James Guthrie
and Senator Crittenden are spoken Of This action
Is to be followed by all the Executives of the bor
der States. W W.
Among the propositions privately discussed. is
one looking to the appointment of a delegation by
conservative members of Congress from the slave
holding States to proceed to the South Carolina
convention with view to a conference and an ap-
peal to that State to pause in her present move
ment.
WHAT JUDGE MCLEAN SAYS.
Judge Mclean, of the Supreme Court of th
United States, and a prominent member of the Re-
publican party, in giving his opinion in a fugitive
slave case which came before him in 1853 made the
following statement:
''Wthout provision the subject, no Consti-
tuition could have been adopted. / speak from in
formation received from the late Chief Justice
Marshall, who was one Of the c..irf actors in that
day, than whom NJ man then living was of higher
authority"
NO CONCESSIONS
The Albany Erening journal, the leading Re-
publican paper in New York, in view of
the political troubles which have followed Lin
COINS election, proposed, recently, that the Repub
ican party ought to make certain concessions to al
lay the excitement. among others the RESIGNATION