The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-18
TIE PEACE CONGRESS PROPOSITIONS.

LIE fEACE CONGRESS PROPOSITIONS.
The following is the propositions submitted to
the Peace Congress, on Saturday by the commit
Tee. It VIII be seen, upon comparison, that the
proposition, as adopted by the committee, is vastly
different from the one originally submitted by Mr..
Guthrie. The committee stood u to o. Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Vermont. Copnec.
ticut and New York, and Virginia, represented by
Mr.. Seddon, voting against the proposition Rhode
Island voted for the proposition:
Art. l. In all the territory of the United States
not embraced within the limits of the Cherokee
treaty grant, north OF line from east to west on
the parallel of thirty-siX degrees thirty minutes
north latitude, involuntary servitude, except in
punishment OF crime, is prohibited whilst it shall
be under Territorial government and in all the
territory south of said line the status of Lersous
owing service or labor it exists shall not be
changed by law while such territory shall be up-
der Territorial government aud neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial government shall have
power to hinder or prevent the taking to said ter
rItoTy OF persons held to labor or involuntary SER
vice within the United States, according to the
laws or usages of any State from which such per-
sons may be taken, to impair the rights arising
out OF said relations which shall be subject to in
dlClal cognizance in the Federal courts according
to the common law; and when any Territory north
or south of said line, within such boundary as Cor
gress may prescribe, shall contain population re.
quired for member of Congress according to the
then Federal ratio of representation, it SHALL if its
INTO the Union on an equal footing with the origi-
nal States, with or without involuntary service or
labor, as the constitution Of such new State NAV
provide.
Art. 2. Territory shall not be ACQUIRED bv the
United States unless by treaty. nor except for ma
val and commercial stations and depots unless
such treaty shall be ratified by iour-fths Of all the
members of the Senate.
Art. 3. Neither the constitution nor anv amend
ment thereof shall be construed to give Congress-
power to abolish or control within any State or Ter
ritory the relation established recognized by the
laws thereof touching persons bound to labor or in
voluntary service therein, or to interfere with or
abolish involuntary service in the District of CO.
lumbia without the consent of Maryland, and with
out the consent Of the owners, or making the own
ers who do not consent Just compensation: nor the
power to interfere with or prohibit representatives
and others from bringing with them to the city of
J w ashington, retaining and taking away, persons
so bound to labor; nor the power to interfere with
or abolish Invo unary service in places under the
exclusive jurisdiction of the United States within
those States and Territories where the same is es-
tabllshed recognized; the power to prohibit
! the removal or transportation, by land, sea, or
river, otpersons held to labor involuntary SER
vice in any State Territory of the United States
to any other State Territory thereof where it is
established or recognized by law usage, and the
right during transportation of touching at shores
ports and landings, and of landing in case of dis
tress, shall exist nor shall Congress have power to
authorize any higher rate of taxes persons bound
! to labor than on land.
second
tion of the fourth article of the Constitution shall
not be construed to prevent any Of the States nv
appropriate legislation, and through the action of
their Judicial and ministerial officers, from enorc-
ing the delivery of fugtives from labor to the per-
son to whom such service or labor is due.
Art. 5. The foreign slave trade, and the importa-
tion of slaves into the United States and their Ter
ritOries, from places beyond the present limits
| thereof, are forever prohibited.
Art. o. The first, second, third and fifth articles
together with this article Of these amendments and
the third paragraph Of the second section of the
first article thereof, shall not be amended or aboI
ished without the consent of all the States.
Art. Z. Congress shall provide by law that the
United States shall pay to the owner the full value
OF his fugitive from labor in all cases where the
marshal or other officer, whose duty il was ia ar
rest such fugitive, was prevented from so doing bv
violence or intimidation, when, after arrest such
fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner there
by prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his
remedy for the recovery Of such fugitive.
TIE 'IsDEPENDEXr'' A Day GooDs SPECULATION.
The liabilities Of Messrs. Bowen, Holmes & CO.
the great dry goods merchants in New York, are
stated to be million and half of dollars. They
propose to pay 20 per cent. in cash. as their obli
cations mature, and the remaining 80 per cent, in
stock of the Independent, their creditors advancing
the latter amount in cash and taking the shares
The Journal Of Commerce states that the assets of
the firm show a large surplus. They include
S3OO,0O0 In the paper. 1t is said to have 65 900
subscribers.
BRILLIANT FGNANCtERGxG.-Passing Pacific Rail-
road bills, to cost one hundred and twenty millions
OF dollars and progressing to build seven steam
Sloops-oiwar, to cost twelve hundred thousand dol
lars, at time when the Secretary of the Treasury
says there is not money enough in the Federal Ex
chequer to pay off current liabilities even. To saw
nothing of the Revolution, which is rendinr the
Union asunder.
The Southern journals urge the planters to at
tend more to corn than cotton culture as the de-
mand for the latter will be abridged bv a hesta
rnop p,fa
North and elsewhere. Prices, it is contended. will
be depressed, so tar as cotton is concerned for a
variety of reasons.
A resolution has been introduced into the Massa-
Ghuetts Legislature, declaring the opinion that the
Federal Government ought to buv all the slaves
within our national borders, and thus put an end
to trouble. 1t was referred to the Committee ON
Federal Relations.
From observations made by the Coast Survey, it
has been determined that the tidal wave in Boston
miles per hour. The wave travels the entire dis
tance from Boston lower light to the Charlestown
dry dock in twelyes minutes.
An English paper says, that in punching the
eyehoes of needles by hand, children, who are the
operators, acquire such dexterity as to be able to
puch human hair and thread it with another for
the amusement of visitors.
Mr.. Arthur Knleck is transating from the TtaI.
ian "Napoleon Bonaparte the First" from the pen
of his brother, Louis Napoleon, ex-King of Hol.
land.
The bill appropriating 600 for the relief of
the sufferers in Kansas, passed the New York Sem
ate on Friday, as it came from the Assembly. 1t
now goes to the Governor
Extensive preparations are going on in all the
Northern States to celebrate the 22d of February
with unusual honor, and with little regard to
cost.
There is rumor of new ladies' magazine to be
started by leading firm of publishers. The name
of Mrs S. C. Hall is spoken of as the editress of
the new publication.
The Able Migne announces the termination of
his Library of the Fathers" The work consists
of 326 quarto volumes, in double columns, and IL
volumes of indices are in the press.
"Little Dorrit," by Mr. Charles Dickens, has
just been translated into French by Mons. P. Lo-
rain.
Radishes, dandelions and fresh 8had have made