The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-30
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As the Seward letter, declining Gov. Hicks pro-
position to ask the British Minister at Washington
to act as arbitrator between North and South must
be fresh in public rememhrance-the point of the
following will be understood. 1t is an extract from
an address delivered by Dr. Guthrie, at meeting
recently held in Edinburg, for the purpose of hear
ing Rev. DR.. Cheever speak on the American cri-
sis:
81 heard Yesterday a circumstance that illus
trates the state of matters in America. There is
an Episcopal clergyman in New York, of
the largest towns in America, who has four sons.
Two of them in the South, in the ranks of the
S0uthcrners. His other two Sons-his Joseph and
Ben amin-armed to the teeth, are off to fight the
Southern ers; and perchance these brothers may
meet foot to foot and sword to sword in that ock
ing battle. Think of the state of that father
Whom is he to pray for? For which side is he to
ask the victory? bullet from brothers rifle
strikes brothers heart. Which side may
gain, that father loses. A civil war is of all ca
lamties that can betal a country the most dread
full; and what aggravates the state of matters in
America is this-the wretched cause of this war
and the terrible spirit of vengeance which men are
carrying into it. How does the naughty pride of
both parties flare out, glare out in the answer Civ
en- by President Linculn's Secretary to letter sent
| by the sGnvernor of Maryland, who, deprecatng
this dreadful bloodshed, and anxious for peaceful
settlement, proposes to the President of the United
| States that the matter should be referred to
Ambassador Lord Lyons, and that he should be ask
| ed to arbitTate between the Contending partes-a
most Christian-like proposal. How is it received?
| Resented, and resented with fling at monarchy,
! fors0oth! The Presidents Secretary writes back
and asks how any man could propose that the mat
ter should be referred to the arbtrament of for
! egn country, and especially the arbitrament of a
| European Monarchy? Monarchy? What is the
Monarchy to which this government proposes to
refer? Unquestionabg it is not the Monarchy of
Russia, not the Monarchy of X ing Bomba, or King
Bomba's son, Uaughter;) it is the Monarchy of her
own mother, and surely it is a mothers part to
step in between her sons, when, knife in hand, they
about to plunge them into each others breasts.
| 4 European Monarchy, fOrsGoth ! very much
mistaken if many in the United States at this
ment would not be thankful TOR the motherly patro
mage of our good Queen"
THE POSTAL SERVICE IN THE Seeding STATES
| 1t is not probable that any serious stoppage
of the mails at the South will occur than has taken
place already, as the Postma ster-G enersl of the
Confederate States will continue the offices and SER
vice. All postmas.ers, route agents and contract
ors are to be retained under the new order of
things, and are to make returns to the Department
at w ashington up to and including the 31st inst.
| after which Ia y are to make returns to Postmas-
| ter-General Reagan, of the Confederate States-
The rates of postage are as follows:
Give cents per letter weighing not more than
half an ounce, for any distance not exceeding five
hue red miles; and five cents additional for every
| hun
dred miles, double these rates. Advertised letters
will be charged two cents in addition to the regu-
lar postage. All drop letters, and letters placed in
the office for delivery only, will be charged two
cents; newspapers, circulars, and other printed
transient matter placed in the office for delivery
only, will be charged one cent. The postage on
weekly newspapers with the Confederate States
Will be ten cents per quarter; for paper published
SIX times per week, six times that amount, and for
| other publications in proportion. Monthly maya =.
zines weighing not more than one and half
| ounce will be charged two and one half cents per
| quarter, and periodicals published quarterly or
n'-monthiy VIII be charged two cents per ounce.
transient newspapers pamphlets, periodicals, en-
cravings, ETC., not exceeding three ounces in
weight, and published within the Confederate
States two cents. For all matter coming from be-
yond the CONFEDERATE States, double postage will
be charged Publishers of newspapers are entitled
to send and receive from their respective offices of
publication one copy Of each publication free of
postage"
| THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN SoUrH ANERIcA-
Each additional arrival from South America
| sWeiis the dreadful account of the numbers de-
stroyed oy the recent earthquake in the Argen-
| tine republic. At first were told seven or eight
! thousand, then not less than eleven, and now BIZ
| an arrival at Boston from M0ntevideo, with dates
to the II ult, we learn that the number DESTROYED
| at Mendoza, and several small towns in the neigh
borho0d of that city, cannot be less than 90 900
| The CentiHeia PUHtdRo of March 80 says:-"The
reason is obscured, the soul saddened to hear
| titsS plb dSts MenubLd Is to-day z mountain
of ruins, under which remain sennIchred 2O.On0
of he, Inhabitants. Human intelligence can
not describe the sad picture that Mendoza
| and her adjacent villages present. Senior Don
b. Orellano, the last who has arrived from
t here, and who merits confidence, says that Men
doza, compromising the capital, San Jose, San
Vicente, Infernilo Panquiqua, Plumerilla and all
the other interior districts, is to-day mountain of
rubbish and corpses-of the latter not less than
$4,000 to 0,09O." In the space which was destroy
ed there could not have been less than 30, 900 of
both sexes Calculating that in four leagues of the
area there have persisted four to each square, gives
20736 persisted. Of many families of twenty and
thirty not single member has been saved. The
details of the numerous letters from the unhappy
persons who escaped are terrible; their suferings
for the first days cruel the narrative of so
much suffering rends the heart. According to all
the letters have seen it is believed that three
quarters of the whole population have persisted,