The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-06

in Schiller's much admired play, The Robbers. Not
withstanding the pressure of the times, Holiday
Street is rightly crowded by our theatre-going
citizens.
The three following the resolutions which
were adopted by the Virginia Convention, in Com
mittee of the Whole, on Thursday:
l. The choice OF functionaries of a common Govern.
ment, established for the good for the reason
that they entertain opinions and purposes hostile
to the institutions OF of the States necessarily
cudes the people of one section from participation in the
administration of the Government subjects the weaker
to the domination of the stronger section leads to abuse
and is incompatible with the safety of those whose
esS are mpered the formation therefore of geogaph
lca or sectional parties in respect Federal politics
contrary to the principles which system rests and
tends to its overthrow
2. The Territories of the United States constitute a
trust to be administered by the General for
the common benefit of the people the several States
and any policy respect to such Territories calculated o
confer greater benefits on the people of of
the United States than the people Others contra
ry to equality and preudical to the rights some for
whose equal benefit the trust created If the equal
admission Of slave labor and free labor any Territory
excites unfrendy conflict between the systems fair
partition of the Territories ought be made between
them and each system ought to be protected within the
limits assigned to it, by the laws necessary its proper
development
g. The sites of the Federal forts arsenals &c within
the limits of the States of this Union acquired by
the Federal Government, and jurisdiction over them
by the States as trusts for the purposes
OF the Unlon during its continuance upon seara
ton of the States such jurisdiction revers of right to the
States respectively by which the jurisdiction was ceded
Whilst State remains in the Union, the legitimate use
such forts &c is to protect the country against foreign
force To use or prepare them be used intmidate
state or consrain its free action is perverson of the
purposes Tor which they obtained they were not
intended to be used against the States in whose limits
they are found in the event of civil In time of
profound peace with foreign nations such now exists
and when no symptoms of domestic nsurrection
out whilst Irritating questions of the deepest
pending the States-to accumu ate within the limits
n
of troops and munitions of war not required for any
legitimate purpose is unwse, impolitic and offensive
and ought not to be tolerated by free people,
The following resolution was under consideration
yesterday. The amendments proposed or accepted,
will be found in our Richmond despatch:
Deeply deplorng the present distracted condition Of
the country, and lamenting the wrongs that have i'm
PEELED some of the States obedience to the Fede
put sensible of the blessings of Union,
with its importance to the peace prosperity
ana progress of the people, indulge the hope that an
adjustment may be reached by which the Union may be
preserved in its integrity and peace prosperity and fra
Iernal feelings be restored throughout the land.
JosHUA r. GIDDINGs, THE New Consul GENERAL
IN CANADA.-Among the radical abolitionists who
have received their reward at the hands of Mr.
Lincoln, our readers have doubtless recognized the
name OF Joshua Il. Giddings. AS some NAV have
orgotten this mans antecedents, we re-publish a
portion OF his letter to the Oberlin rioters The
after had been convicted of mobbing the officers of
,he United States and of rescuing fugitive from
their custody. MR. Giddings, who wrote this let
Ter in 1859, has now been appointed Consul Gen
eral for the British North American Provinces
The following extract will suffice:
. IN diSregarding the laC the prisoner did rigbt -
] Sage i E asp1ed G h ays Gry
TO the cotored men, and consigned to the doom of pirates
You that this is the doctrine which proclaim
ed in Congress- adhere to it, Had the prisoners Exc
CUTED the StaUs cdtcherS PROMPTLY it would have taught
the lesson not 10 be forgotten We
should have been no more troubled with that class mis-
creants They would have learned better than to show
among intelligent people who know their
rights, and dare maintain them"
From SYRIA.-More Murders-One Hundred and
Toeaty t,eo Druses Killed.-We make the following
extract from the last letter of our Syrian CORES
pondent, dated Beirut, March l, 1861:
81 am glad to be able to give good account of
the result OF the exertions of Mr.. Page, American
Consul at Jerusalem, to recover the money stolen
from DR.. Layburn and his companions, all Amer
leans. The sum stolen was $50, all of which has
been recovered. The following account of the
robbery was given me: The party were quietly
drinking their coffee on the banks of the Jordsn
alter having bathed in the sacred stream, when the
tramp OF horses was heard, and on looking over
the bleak white hills, seven BedOuins were seen
approaching, brandishing their long spears over
their horses heads. With one loud shrek of fear
~
and Mr. Lowe to the mercy of the wild and ferocious
sons of the desert. Both the Americans were strip
ped and robbed but not satisfied with this the un-
merciful Bedouins stabbed Mr.. Lowe in the mouth
and beat him the head
"Witn sorrow of heart I'm compelled to rive Won
bad account of the state of the country More
tales of bl0odshed told, and the people fear
that after the departure of the French state of
things will ensue more terrible than that which
brought them here. However unwelcome these
dark forebodings we cannot but entertain them,
inasmuch as the speedy departure OF the French is
now a.gOod deal talked off. Five Christians have
lately been killed by the Druses, at Hasbeiya and
two others beaten to death by the Turkish soldiers
at Damascus. On the other hand, the Christians
have not been slow to avenge their wrongs since
the arrival of the French troops-the number of
Qruses lately assassinated by the Christians being
estimated at one hundred and twenty-five of those
unreSisting wretches who had little while ago
played such havoc among those who are now deter
mined to show them they can return the compli-
ment."-Boston Traveller.
DISAPPOINTED LovE-Probable Murder of q Yo,u1
Girl and Attempted Suicide.-An affair occurred al
Boston on Wednesday afternoon, which came neal
terminating fatally to two persons, of whom is
yet In danger. 1t appears that Albert Dttmer,
young man about twenty years of age, was some
months since paying attentions to Margaret Pedre
tne-ooking girl, not quite sixteen wears old
whose mother is dead, and who has been officiating
as housekeeper for her father. For some reason
endeavoring in vain to obtain a renewal of tht
friendly relations between them. He went to tb,
house and saw her in the presence of her father
AT the close of the interview he said he had some
thing he wished to give her, and which he wanted
to deliver with no one else present. He then wen
into an adjoining room, and with some reuctanc
she followed him. As soon as she entered the room
and closed the door, he drew double-barrelIe
pistol, and placing it against her neck discharges
| one Of the barrels. The father of the girl wa
close by the door, and he rushed into the room an
| wrenched the pistol from Dittmer, who was appar
emily about to discharge the contents of the othe
barrel into his own person. Dittmer then rushe
| out OF the house, and running across the stree
| jumped into the water, then about five feet and
| half deep. with the intention of drowning himsel
| Several persons saw him, one of whom jumped j
and held his head above the water till he could b
| got out. He after delivered into the Gu
tody of policeman Finson. The girl is not expec
| ed to recover.
IMPORTANT TO MARINERs.-The following impo
tant announcement to mariners is published in I'll
| Charleston papers:
an Act to Prouide for the Payment of Light-Mo
l. an the Confederate States.
| The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ca do enact, that duty of five cents per ton, to
denominated "Light-Money," shall be levied ar
collected on all ships vessels which, after Il
| first day of May next, may enter the seaports
| the Confederate States from any seaport to be CO
lected in the manner heretofore provided by law
to tonnage duties: Provided, however, That on q
vessels trading regularly between ports of the Co
federate States, the said duties shall not be levi,
and collected oftener than once in every thr
! months. HOWELL COBB,
President of the Congress-
Approved March Is, 1861.
Jefferson Davis, President
ABE LINCoLN's ALABAMA JUDGE. Such conse
vative papers the Philadelphia Bulletin and ii
Baltimore american who seize upon and magni
every little circumstance, in their efforts to d
ceve their readers into the idea that there is di
affection towards the Confederate Government
some sections of the South, make the most of Il
acceptance from Lincoln of the appointment
District Judge by Mr. Lane, of Alabama. T.
: Montgomery correspondent of the Charleston Co
rier shows Mr.. Lincoln's appointee to be mise
, able third rate lawyer, without character, taler
or influence, who is not countenanced by the pc
pie of North Alabama, and who, The is base enou
I 10 accept an appointment, will never be permit
TO discharge the functions of his Office. The W
ter says his judgeship "has been already inform
that at the first exhibition of authority on his ps
I ne VIII be sent down lane which hath no turn.
Sauannnh Ne,cs
EXTRAORDINARY DETENTION OF A TRAIN.-T
'. Portland train, over the Eastern Railroad. whi
: was due here ON Tuesday evening at o'cln
reached this city only IL O'Clock Yesterday fo
"a noon. Late on Tuesday evening it was heard
e by telegraph as having left Portsmouth, N.
, | one hour and forty minutes behind time, and no
| ing more was known of its fortunes until a /
: hour on Wednesday morning, when the news
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