The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-10

Diackourn,h. frlce, ,Slmms, Llnton-6 Adjourned.
SECOND BRANCH.-Present-DAv TAYLOR ESQ,
President, pro tenn, and all the members ex-
cept Messrs. President, Van Nostrand McComas,
and Sewail. For want off quorum the branch
adjourned. -
POLITICAL.
| PREsDENTIAL.-The contest between the friends
of Breckenridge and Guthrie at Charleston will be
extremely animated -Leading Democrats from
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. and other of
the Northwestern States, declare that Douglas is
the only Democrat who can carry that section in
November. If he is not nominated at Charleston,
they say that the whole Northwest and probably v
Missouri, will be lOst.-The opponents Of Cover
nor Seward in the Republican party insist that the
result of the elections in Connecticut and Rhode
Island may be regarded as evidence that he is not an
available andidate for President, while his friends
are equally confident that should the nomination of
: Douglas be defeated, Mr. Seward can easily be
elected.-Gen. Thomas Ford, lately cleo
ted printer of the House by the Re
pubcans, has announced himself in favor of
Douglas.--The letter of Hon. VIM. H. Dimmick
of Pennsylvania, in favor of the nomination of
Douglas, has made great impression. Mr. Dim
mick is one of the only two Lecompton re-elec-
ted from Pennsylvania, and representing, as he
does, the Tenth Legion, his declaration will have
great weight showing that, notwithstanding he
agreed with the Administration upon LecOmpton,
he feels with the masses of the people of his dis
trict-Hon. Richard Broadhead and Hon. Asa
Packer who are the delegates from Mr.. Dmmick )
district to the Charleston Convention, are both
said to be opposed to Mr.. Douglas There is rea-
son to believe that Brodhead will not long resist
the tide of public feeling among the masses of the
| Democracy.--The "Y oung America of the Re
publican party, Governor Banks, of Massachusetts,.
is rapidly looming up, and has more attached per-
sonal friends IN his own organization than any
other man, after Governor Seward and General
| CamerOn.-Phd. Press.
The PosITION OF PENNsYLvANIA.-Each of the
great political parties in Penns yvania has nomina-
ted its candidate for Governor and erected its plat
| whereby the State
ed. But the fight will not commence in earnest
until after the Charleston and Chicago Conventions
snail have nominated the opposing candidate for
the Presidency. When this is accomplished we
may expect to enter upon the most tremendous and
exciting contest ever experienced in this country
1t is admitted on all hands that Pennsylvania will
be the battle-ground. This State will decide the
next Presidency. If the election was to be held
| now, we have not doubt that the Democracy
would sweep the State. Our success can only be
endangered by the prevalence of unwise counsels
| at Charleston and of this we have little fear
| Harrisburg Patriot.
BRowNLow ExCoMMUNICATED-The southern
| standard says of Parson BrownlOw :-"Parson,
our duty is painful in your case you old hypocrite
IN religion and bankrupt in political principles
| Our duty to the Opposition compes us to say YOU
are hereby communicated from the Opposition
| party"
WhereupOn, the Parson responds :-Excommuni-
| cate usl We, who are Il member of the National
| Executive Committee-1Ce, who have fought Dem
ocracy and Abolitonism for quarter of a centu-
ry-ce who are the lion of the tribe in Tennessee
ace, who have borne the heat and burden of the day.
in the ranks ofthe Opposition to be cast out of the
| synagogue by the tool of a who is not with u.s.
not of us, and has swapped off our candidate for
Governor, from the days of Gentry and Hatton, to
those of Netherland We shall not agree to 90
| overboardr'
DOUGLAS IN GEoRGIA-Among all the Democratic
papers in Georgia, we believe there are not half a
| dozen which will support Douglas and Popular
Sovereignty, under any circumstances. There is
now only one, so far as our knowledge or present
recollection us, which has openly advocated
the Cincinnati Platform without addition or abate-
ment, and with the Douglas construction of it, and
we believe that is the only which has professed
Willingness to accept the sphinx, even with the
chance of tico constructions. No Democratic meet
ing in Georgia, that aware, has yet had
the hardihood to declare for the Cincinnati Plat
form.-AwguSta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Large ratification meetings were held by both
parties IN Philadelphia on Saturday night.
PosrHUMoUs BENEvoLENCE.-The New Orleans
Picayune of the 9th inst, in article treating the
manner in which the cities of Baltimore and New
| Orleans contemplate using the beduest of John
| McDonough, says: The result is healthfu lesson
to the living. 1t has proved that no real benevo-
lence exists in that cold, selfish charity which
grasps with untinching temerity every dollar be-
| slowed by bOuntifu providence: that looks with
out emotion upon the present wants of honest pow
| erty while calculations made for the relief on
| ly of generations yet unborn, and that couples
these distant benefactors with hOnorS to the name
| and gratitude to the memory of their author. The
history of this singular bequest WILL it is hoped
teach rich men to be the almoners of their own
charity-to open their hearts and hands to the
needy living and suffering around them-to found
| asylums and schools as to witness their opera
| tlOn and receive the incense of gratitude from
warm hearts, instead of leaving others to make
| their wealth a mausoeum to their memories
There is nothing genuine in posthumous benevo-
lence. 1t is the giving of gifts no longer valuable
| to the donor 1t is the beggarly charity of the
miser-cold in its manifestation as was the heart
of the testator while it yet impeled the sluggish
| blood currents.
GREAT FIRE IN JAPAN.-A correspondent of the
| Boston irdreter, writing from Nagasak, Japan,
January e., 1860, says: On the morning of the 26th
OF December, the foreigners of Nagasaki awoke to
lind the places of two of our most prominent mer-
chants burned to the ground-one being the premi-
ses of the American Consul at this port comprising
his Offices godowns and storehouses; the other the
property of Messrs. David Sassoon, Son Co. "a
| prominent Parsee house,) comprising their store
houses godowns, and the private residence of their
partner here, Mr.. Ezekiel. The American Consul
late happily escaped, being in another part of the
town. The fire commenced near the premises of
Messrs. Sassoon, and soon extended to their place
the buildings being all of wood, and as combustble
as possible. Their place being situated next to Mr.
| +. u. Walsh's, (the American Consult soon en-
closed his in flames. The fire broke out about two
o'clock A. NJ. on the Goth instant in an unoccupied
| Japanese house, and was, without doubt the work
OI an lncenulaTy tune punishment Tor which, this
country, is to be burned alive.) The property lost
is estimated to be about $780, 900 by F. G. Walsh
and S25O,000 by Messrs. Sassoon & Co.
BoNNER's TEAM.-The Spirit of The Times is en-
| thusiastic over the famous horses of Mr.. Robert
Bonner "He has steeds," says The Spirit, (Which
Ph@ton might have envied, viz: Lantern, Lady
| Woodruff, and the Flatbush mare. Lantern and
the Fatbush mare, taken all in all-speed beauty,
docility in harness, and exact resemblance-are
justly esteemed the finest team in the world. Both
have long tails, both have white faces, and so
marked that, to the common observer, they look,
when harnessed together, exactly alike. These
twins trOt together without a break with the
precision OF beautiful machinery, and have accom-
plshed unparalleled speed, attached to a common
road wagon, which, we are informed, is used by
Mr.. Bonner in his everyday driving. Hiram
Woodruff, VIM. Wheelan, Hougland, and others of
the best authorities, assert that the Bonner team
can beat any other horses that can be brought
tOgether-TacOny, Flora Temple, and kindred
stars of the first magnitude, included in the cate
CORY.
DETERMINED TO BE A Manifestation, who
was recently arrested in Concord, Mass, by order
of the U. S. Senate, and rescued by mob, seems
determined to be martyr. He carries the ''man-
acles," or handculfs which the Marshal was
obliged to put upon him, about at public places to
exhibit at meetings. He declares his intention to
resist the Senate to the last, and his fanatical
friends in Concord are disposed to back him in that
determination. At public meeting it was
God" This resolution to resist by force, did not
prevent them getting the law on their side For
they have got up fictitious charge against San
born and made him give bail to answer it, which
will hold him in Massachusetts till after the U. S.
Senate adjourns.
THE ORION SLAVE CAsE.-The Captain and
mates Of the SLAYER Orion, brought up for
examination ON Friday in Boston. This Orion. il
} will be remembered, was captured on the Coast o
Africa by the British steamer Plutus, with 500
/ norA thn 81, IL.
| United States Squadron and transmitted to Boston
by the sloop-of-war Vncennes. Only one witnes:
was examined before the hearing adjourned to
Monday; this was the masters mate of the U. S
Steamer Mystic, which fell in with the Orion before
her capture, and also afterwards; the witness tes
fed to the appearance of the vessel on both occa
sions, and to the condition of the negroes board
! when taken
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