The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-21
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From the Ne10 York Herald of ueSterday.l

POLITICAL.
From the Ne1o York Herald Of yesterdayl
MAYOR wooD AND THE BALTIMORE NOMINATION..
To the Editor Of the Herald:
New YORK; June 10, 1S60.-There is no founda-
ton for the statements in the daily press of to-day
that have written a letter favoring the nOmina-
ton OF Mr.. Douglas for the Presidency, or that |
have condemned the secession of the Southern
states from the Charleston Convention. | have
written no such letter, and expressed no opinion
cOntradicting my weknown position on these sub
Jects- My position has not in the least altered from
what it when | attended the Charleston Con-
vention. | am in favor of the restoration of peace
to our troubled cOunsels of a clear and uneuuivo-
cal declaration of the rights of the South to take
its property into the Territories and to be protected
there in those rights and of the nomination of a
candidate who will command the support of the
national Democracy in every State. If, however,
the Convention now in session at Baltimore shall
agree upon platform and candidate not alto
gether in keeping with my views, | shall
nevertheless, deem it the duty of every lover of his
country to rally to the support of its proceedings
The danger of Republican success, growing out of
our divisions, is too imminent for any Democrat to
allow his individual preferences to interfere with
the success of the Democratic party at this critical
juncture in the affairs of the country. Very re-
specttully, yours, FERNANDO WooD.
BELL AND EVERETT.
The Washington correspondent of the Phadel-
pha Press, says that the friends of Bell and Ever
EFT have plucked up new courage at the prospect
OF bitter dissensiOns among the Democracy at Bal
tlmOre. They allege that thousands of Democrats
who did not desire to become Republicans will vote
for their conservative candidates, North and South
The Southern Americans will go back home in
high spirits, and will make an organized and Sc
we're struggle for ascendency the basis of the
exposures of the corruptions of the Administrations
ATTEMPTED DIAMOND SwIYDLE The New York
Tribune says, that on Friday last Messrs. Tiffany
Co., the well known jewellers in New York re-
ceived polite note signed G. De Latour, asking
them to call on the writer at the New York Hotel,
on business. Mr.. Tiffany read the note and for
some unexplained reason suspected that all was not
right in fact, that all wrong. He therefore
gave the note more attention than an honest mis-
sive might have received. He went to see Mr.. De
Latour, found man of gentemany and rather
distingue appearance, elegantly dressed, graceful
with dark hair and eyes and quite pale, living in
good sty lie at the hctel, who received him with
great politeness. Mr.. De Latour announced him
self as member of "damond house in Paris
having branches in Calcutta and London. He had
been in New York five days, and had taken heavy
orders for diamonds, but very awkwardly he found
that his assOrtment-here pointing to a box which
lay on the centre tabe-was not supplied with
certain sizes sufficiently to enable him to fill all
his orders. He was therefore under the neces-
sity of buying. His brother would soon be in the
country, and would replensh the stock of Tiffany
Co., if he could now effect arrangement with
them. Mr.. Tiffany very sorry but did not want
to trade.
The interview closed here, leaving Mr. Tiffany
we'll satisfied that the pretended De Latour knew
Tiffany went to a diamond broker and told him of
his suspicious. The broker and a wholesale dealer
in diamonds then called upon De Latour, saving
that they had been sent by Mr.. Tiffany, and
with many polite expressions from the intended puP-
chaser proceed to business. De Latour selected
diamonds to the amount of nearly So, 600 not being
particular as to prices, and, they Observed hav-
ing diamond scales, but taking the Jewels at the
weight given on the papers enclosing them
Coming to the settlement, De Latour placed the
package of diamonds in his box, before observed by
Mr.. Tiffany, saying that they could take it to Dun
can, Sherman Il Co., receive payment for the check
which he gave them, and return the diamonds by
his man, who would accompany them. Saying this
he moved the box across the table and began to do
it up in a piece of brown paper. The diamond
broker, however, did not like the appearance of
this, and walking to the other side of the table, saw
hatboX standing under the edge of the table,
and in it the package of diamonds. "Your's was a
very good game, sir, but it is played OUT, he ex-
claimed De Latour surprised and offended.
He told them to do the package up for themselves
and go to the bankers and they would learn the
truth. They went to the bankers and did learn the
truth. De Latour was not known to Duncan
Sherman Co., nor was he at the New York Hotel
when they returned thither. his box was there,
however, with a whole in the bottom, through
which the package of diamonds on being put in had
"happy despatch" into the hat box.
SILLY GIRLS AND "PERsoNAL" ADvERTIsEMENrs.-
If we could only ascertain the adventures of young
women who insert or answer matrimonial adver
tsements in the papers, some sad histories would
be developed, and much misery would be prevented
by such exposures of the wiles of swndlers and
debauchees. Occasionally, however, do hear
of the result of folly Of this character teaching
stern lesson. The New Orleans papers of last week
recounted the history of a girl of seventeen, who
was rescued from suicide by a benevolent citizen,
who drew from her the melancholy story of her
life. She was the daughter of respectable citizen
of New York, and had published matrimonial ad-
versement, at the instgatOn of some of her school
girl friends. The first day she got two answers,
which she took to her companions, and they laughed
merrilv over them. The second day she went in
the evening to the sub post Office and found but
letter. AS she walked out of the office she was
reading it, 1t opened with a Standardization by
the writer, and closed with the words: 81 am fol-
lowing you now" As she read this line she looked
around and young man, who had been walking
close behind, stepped to her side. She then
how foolish she had been, and that the punishment
of her indiscreton lay in being much in his pow
er as to allow him to address her. As a matter of
the first deviation from the strict line of her
duty as a properly behaved young lady, led to
many other acts of indiscretion. She frequently
met him by appointment when her school out
and walked for hours IN his company. In a couple
of months this serpent, tongued villain had acquired
such influence over her that he persuaded her to
elope with him and go to Texas, where he had to
go on a business tour. He told her his family
in Cincinnati, and they would go there and be
married, and pretended he had written about her
to his mother, who approved OF the match. The
girl who had spoken to her parents of this per-
son, and placed such confidence in him as a blind
iniatuatiOn alone could create, agreed to ALL view
ing it in the light of a delightful romance, and ex-
pecting to return with her husband in a month or
two. He then took her to Cincinnati, but of course
did not present her to any of his pretended rela-
tions, but persuaded her to go to Texas. On the
way thither he abandoned her at New Orleans,
sending her fifty dollars. This is but one case out
of thousands, teaching the lesson of prudence,
and showing how easy it is for a woman to be led
astray, after she has taken the first false step.
RUMoRED DEFALcATIoN.-A rumor was current
thr ough the city, yesterday, that Edwin ROBINSON
ESQ.,, President of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad Company, had proved a de-
faulter to a large amount. In common with ms
numerous friends, we were disposed to dlscredlt
the report and assumed, at once, that 1t had
reached us in an exaggerated form. 10 remove
all doubt however, as we'll to fulfil our duty as
a medium of information to the public, we en-
deavored during this afternoon to obtain such
facts as would enable US to present an authentic
general statement of the affair; but all that we
could learn was, that Mr.. Robinson had become
involved by his enterprises at Ashland in the pros
ecution of which he had naturally supposed that
he was promoting the interests of the Railroad
Company, and had accordingly negotiated paper,
drawn in his official capacity, investing the pro-
ceeds at Ashland He redeemed or renewed these
obligations they matured, but at length found
himself unable to meet them, and then, through
his own disclosure, as we have heard, the fact
came to the knowledge of the Board of Directors,
that he had used the name of the Company to a
large amount, for the purposes mentioned. Mr.
R. has conveyed to the Company all of his real
and personal property, but whether it will cover
the amount of his issues, we are unable to say, as
we did not ascertain the estimated value of the
former or the extent of the latter and do not feel
at liberty to give the figures as reported upon the
street. MIR. Robinson has not fed from the city,
as was the report Yesterday. He has determined
to remain and await any investigation that may be
made. 1t is difficult to realize that Mr. r. has in
Cured even the suspicion of being a defaulter, as
he has heretofore borne an unblemisbed reputation,
by hope that his assets will counterbalance his
liabilities, and thus relieve him from the Stigma
which public opinion attaches to the name OIL ue-
faulter.-Richmond Wing, June 2O.