The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-09

MAYOR WOODS SECEssIoN.-Mayor Woods re-
| concentrations in favor of the secession of New
| York city from New York State are priucipallv
founded upon the injustice the State has done the
CITY, After referring to the sectional troubles
Mayor Wood says:
1t is, however, folly to disguise the fact that.
Judging from the past New York may have more
cause OF apprehension from the aggressive legisla
tIon of our own State than from external dangers
W have already largely suffered from this cause.
For the past five years our interests and corporate
rights nave been repeatedly trampled upon. Being
an integral portion of the State it has been as
sumed and, in effect, tactly admitted on our part bv
non-resstance, that all political and governmental
power over us is vested in the State Legislature
Even the common right of taxing ourselves for
our own government has been YIELDED and we are
now not permitted to do so without this authority
When disunon has become fixed and certain
Iact, why may not New York disrupt the bands
which bind her to a venal and corrupt master-to a
peop.e ard party that have plundered her reyen.
ues, attempted to ruin her commerce, taken away
the power OF seltgovernment, and DESTROYED the
contederacy of which she was the proud Empire
City? Amid the gloom which the present and
prospective condition of things must cast over the
country, New York, as a Free City NAV shed the
only light and hope for future rl-construction of
our once blessed confederacy.
ct am not prepared to recommend the violence
implied in these views In stating this arpument
in favor of freedom, "peaceaby if we can, forcibv
II we must, let me not be misunderstood The
redress can be found only in appeals to the mag
nanimlty OF the people of the whole State The
events OF the past two months have no doubt eff
tected change in the popular sentiment of the
State on national politics. This change NAV bring
US the desired relief and we may be able to OBJ
tain repeal of the laws to which have referred
ana consequent restoration of our corporate
rights.
AS to how it was received, the World of yester-
day says:
His honor, the Mayor, furnished a lively topic
for conversation yesterday he has done at times
before. His message to the common council
nr0ached the preposterous idea, long limited at
and laughed at, of secession of this thriving me-
tropohs from the State, in the event of an omen
rupture between the North and South The news
OF this cool proposition was received variousy in
various quarters; some regarding it as forshadow-
ing real llty, and others, the majority we NAV
say, viewing it in the light of a political shuttle
or, as it was expressed, ga solemn se.' 1t was
discuss at length in hotels, restaurants cars
stages ierry-ooas, theatres and private dwellings,
The knowing ones favored the supposition that the
whole thing was done for effect, with the hope of
creating belief throughout the South that a New
York secession is actually entertained here among
leading men, Any grammar school boy knows
better, however.
HARPER's FERRY.-A detachment of sixty-eight
dlsmounted dragons passed through Baltimore
yesterday afternoon, from Carlisle (Pa,) barracks
to Harper's Ferry, where they are to act as a
guard for the Governments Armory and other
property there. They were ordered thitber on
the requlsltIon OF Superintendent Barbour. Mr..
Boteler the Representative of the district in Con-
gress, is understood to have strongly urged upon
the War Department that it would not be polite
to send them there at this time; but the demand
of the Superin tendent was clearly one that could
not under existing circumstances, be rejected by
the Department, without subecting it to inyidious
criticism, and the risk of encountering serious
blame In time to come Washington Star, Jan. 8.
MORE LARonERs FROM CHARLEsroN.-Th steamer
Nashville, from Charleston, which arrived at New
York on Saturday, brought sixty of the laborers
discharged from the forts by Major Anderson. The
Herald says that the men appeared to have been
provided for in such a manner as they should not
find themselves destitute on landing in New York
In ADDITION to steerage passage, they had suffi-
cient funds to enable them to reach their several
homes in the North, whence they had previously
gone to Charleston in search of work. The only
reason assigned for their discharge was suspenson
OF the works progressing in Charleston harbor.
DUFF GREEN AND Mr.. LINcoLN-A WASHINGTON
correspondent says: Duff Green ha Just returned
from visit to the President elect at Springfield.
He comes back greatly encouraged. He had free,
frank and satisfactory talk with Mr.. Lincoln upon
the great questions at present dstractng the coup
try. He communicated to the President elect the
exact condition of affairs, as he understood them
He informed Mr.. Lincoln that unless some mode of
adjustment was made all would be lost. Whether
he will be able to accomplish anything remains to
be seen.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF New ORLEANS
The National Guard Battalion fired thirty-three
guns this morning, in honor of the day. This Bat
TALON paraded to-day. making superb appear
ance. This evening Company givea grand ball
at the Assembly Rooms. Atl2 NJ. the artillery
attached to the Arsenal were drawn up in front Of
the Columbia Armory with four 12-pound guns,
with which they fired salute of one hundred guns
IN honor of the victory at New Orleans Wash
tngton Star, Jan. s.
some of the United States Marshals and their
assistants, becoming alarmed at the state of the
treasury and the condition of the country, have
sold their drafts to brokers, at great sacrifices.
superintendent Kennedy has addressed circular
their pay, and advising them not to sell their