The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-24


partles OF this Republic, ought in anv case to be
referred to any foreign arbitrament least of all to
thG aroltrament OF an European monarchy
! nave the honor to be, with distinguished con-
9tuet "'loh, your EXcellency's most obedient SER
'"n'' WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
From the Detroit Free Press. Aprn III
LET US HAVE MOVEMENTS FOR PEACE
II the telegraphic intelligence represents the
popular sentiment, the war spirit is rampant amonr
all classes and conditions. The people of the two
sections, individually and collectively, apparently
stand ready and anxiously waiting for the sig-
nal to rush at each others throats and tear each
other into pieces. 1t might be supposed bv a
stranger from some other sphere if such stranger
snould drop down upon us, that the people of the
North and South were hereditary enemies whose
long-pent hatred had broken out into FURY and
that war ot determination of one people or the
other bad fairly opened, and his impressions would
De confirmed when he should turn to the Govern
ments at Washington and Montgomery, whose pre-
paratlons for war are of magnitude hitherto un-
known on this continent
This popular war spirit, if it really exists, will
not long remain at Its present height. 1t is i'm
possible that 1T should. We do not believe it pre-
walls to the extent represented. But if it does thus
prevail, the reaction is all the more certain What
have the people of the two sections to fight about?
why should they cut each others throats? WHY
sh0ud they rusi to arms, lay waste each Others
helds, burn each others cities and towns and leave
each others bones to bleach on desoIated nIains9
When and how have the people of the South in
jured those of the North, or those of the North
those OF the South? Never, in any manner 1t is
the pottttc'on" VINO have done whatever wrongs
one or the other section has suffered, and it is they
who have brought the two sections into hostile ar
ray, and are to-day stimulating the spirit of carnage
by every possible appliance
We have said that we do not believe the war spir-
1T prevails to the extent represented We know II
does not in this city. We know that in this citv
there IS mighty undercurrent for peace and what
IS true here is true everywhere, certainly in the
North, and no doubt in the South. This spirit of
peace will grow in strength from day to day: and
VIII II not, pretty soon, assert its power? Will it
not rise up superior in majesty and authority to the
spirit of war? Will it not make itself heard and
felt at Washington and Montgomery?
ms Is the only hope for the country. There is
no nope tor the country in war. War is dissolution
lrrevocabe and is the utter prostration of both
sections. Its woes are numberless. The woes OF
any war are numberless but this is q eipI ,ynr
whose woes are woes intensified.
The ArocALYruc Walls OpENED.-If one will
pause and take view of the world at th
moment he will see what was never more per
fectiy seen upon the face of the earth The
world is c0nvulsed, as it probably never has beer
slnce the Creation, with wars and rumors of vars
by famine and desolatiOn. History does not pre-.
sent such general tumult of nations as we now
see. Ii would seem that the vials of the ReveIa
tions we're opened and that discord and blocd were
ralned down upon our generation. What the issue
Will be OF all the dreadful entanglements which now
SH'i' VII IiS llUne only Will show. Certain
~ no one can divine it. Within few wears WE
nave behed the most magnifcently dreadful war,
OF whlch history has any record Nations have
peen conquered and subjugated to the caprices OF
AMBITIOUS and tyrannical sovereigns. Indian re-
volts, Syrian massacres, and murderous sieges
have sapped the life-blosd of millions Europe is
Just now convulsed from centre to circumference
| Poland and Hungary are ripe for revolt Russia
| mas emancpated her serts, and annexed large
| tract OF country lately derived from China wbost
coasts are still infested and guarded bv English an(
| French fleets. Sardinia stands demanding Veniti;
| and Rome, and Austria and Germany Proper re
sist her France holds Syria for the Sultan of tha
wretched country, but is ready to appropriate il n
| herself whenever Emperor Napoleon thinks it mol
| icy to do so. England and France are fitting ou
naval fleets for the coast of the United States AM
the United States themselves are disrupted threat
| ening civil war at anv moment. Spain has seized
San Domingo and threatens Hayti and Mexico
while Mexico on her part threatens to conuue
Texas. Several of the South American Republic
are quarrelling. Buenos Ayres and Paraguay ar,
at SWORDS points. In India famine is following
! dreadful massacre and revolt, and this famin
reaches into Persia and China. In Holland the in
undation of the country, caused by the breakinl
away of the dikes, has destroyed its thousands
and lett houseless and starving thousands upol
thousands more. The temporal power of the Pop
topples. The whole world seems on the eve of
Leral war, and is only waiting for some one t
strike the first bow.-Attens (O.l Messenger.
Description OF A ROMAN FARM-The PhiladeI
phia Press gives the subjoined account of Roma
farm, which, in many respects will be of interes
to our readers:
The farm of Campo Mario, near the Campapna
consists OF seventeen thousand acres, one thousau
OF which is arabic land, eleven hundred permanen
pasture or meadows, and TWENTY-FIVE hundred for
est The arabic land is divided into four lots whic
are SUBJECT each to a rotation of crops and fallow
| according to the nature of the soil. One whea
crop is succeeded by two three years falIows O
the wheat crop is succeeded by oats and beans OF
lastly after the oat harvest in the second wear tn
| ground is sown with Indian corn or beans afte
| which it is left fallow for one year and then SOW
with wheat again. The wheat crop, in general, rt
| turns about nine for one, the other, grains an
BEANS about fifteen.
| The cultivation of the farm reouires sixtv-6r
| plows and two hundred and twenty oxen. Tw
hundred and fifty bullocks are kept fatteninp fc
the market, besides about eight hundred cows an
| calves, and about one hundred bufaloes Or
| hundred horses are required for the cattle driver
| and servants OF the farm. who are always mounted
| as well for the carts, &c, and two hundred an
| fifty mares and colts to keep up that number Tw
thousand sheep Craze on the farm. The agents an
| servants, permanently employed, amount to tw
| hundred. About four hundred abOrers are er
! gagged from October to June, and about eight hur
| dred in harvest time The former are paid fro1
one penny -and-a-half to two pence per day-fror
thirty to forty cents. The latter, in general abou
two francs, or forty cents. They come chiefly frol
the mountains of Abruzzi and Sabine.
The rent paid the Chapter of st. Peters who az
the proprietors, is 100000 francs, or about Sc O0
| The whole product Of the farm is valued at, or
| little over, SIT 600 But the expenses attendin
this great establishment, swallow up SO much
this sum, that the real profits of the farmer cons
in his commercial and banking speculations, whic
he carries on BY means of the farm produce
TENDER OF THE SERVICES OF A COMPANY OF N
| GRoEs.-We are informed that MIR. G. c. Hale
| Autauga county, yesterday rendered TO Governc
nF
assist in driving back the horde Of abolition syc
plants who are talking so hippantly of r.
duclng to conquered province the Confedera
| States OF the South. He agrees to command thel
himself, and guarantees that they will do effectiv
| service. What will our Black Republican enemlt
think of such movement as this? We have FRI
quently heard the slaves who accompanied thei
masters to the ''scene of action, assert that whe
fighting to be done they wanted to shoulde
theil muskes and do their share of it, and we hay
not shadow of doubt but what they would be foun
perfectly reliable. An idea seems to have prevaile
at the North that in the event of a war betwee
the two sections, the slaves would become rebe
liOus. Let them no longer lay this fattering un
tiOn to their souls. 1t will avail them nothing
Montgomery AdcertiSer.
ARRIVAL OF THE QUAKER CITY-The U. s. ma
steamship Quaker City, William D. Cooper, ESQ
commanding left Havana on the 18th instant. az
arrived at New York on Friday afternoon.
The excitement in regard to the annexation OF
Domingo was still kept up by the constant depa
ture of war steamers and transports, with troop
field artillery and military stores and munitions
that island. The large screw steam lrigate Princes
de Asturlas sailed from Havana FOR that destiu
tion on the evening of the 18th, having on board
crack Spanish regiment" 1t was rumored
havana, that owing to the death of his gran
f mother, the Prince Alfred would not visit Havan
put return to England.
Freights were declining, in consequence of t
arrival OF large number of vessels in ballast.
Stock of sugars at Havana and Matanzas 323,
4 boxes. Money still scarce. Exchange on Lo
don, 81 to 81 per cent. premium. New York al
Boston, ~ to l per cent discount.
The Quaker City experienced very heavy weath
g during the 10th and 18th inst. Among the passe
!. gers is Major C. j. Helm, the late distinguished
, S. consul general to Cuba.
: The British screw steamer karnak left Hava
: same time as Quaker City, for New York
Nassau.
6 General Pillow and his Tennessee regim,
8 have been accepted by President Davis, and will
~ Immediately into service.