The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-22

| FROM tfe ittctHlohd EGdhetheF, sf'T1I 20
THE FATE OF NEW YORK CITY.
New York city is no more. A gilded corpse lies
on the shores of Manhattan. She, has sung her
own "Fuit IUiam!' Foreign trade hereafter. will
come directly to the Southern ports of America,
and pass from those ports to the West and North
west. The Welland Ship Canal the st. Lawrence,
and railroads to Portland, will cut OF her North
ern trade and the Baltimore and Ohio Road. the
| (ovngton Road, and the James River and Ohio
Canal, when finished, will cut off her Southern and
Southwestern trade. She is too far East for the
trade of the Northwest, and disuninn will effactu
ally separate her from Southern and Southwestern
| trade. But her greatest loss will be the trade of
| the West Indies, of Africa, South America and
ASA The seaboard cities of the South are nearer
to those countries than she, and have to pass over
less stormy seas and to encounter less incement
weather. The difference of few hundred or even
a thousand miles Is a matter of little consequence
IN the cost or time of a long ocean voyage, when
sails are used the propelling power but make all
the difference in the world when steam is empIovnd
for that purpose. Steamships consume, daly four
or five hundred dollars worth of COAL and the coal
occupies large space, and leaves little room on
long voyages for freight A steamer from Charles
| ton will make two trips TO the West Indies whilst
a steamer from New York makes one CARRYING in
proportion to tonnage much more freight and con-
suIne only half the quantity of coal. Steam pavi
cation Is rapidly superseding all other navigation
and with steam navigation New York lies wholly
out of the course of trade.
The natural course of a word-encirclinp trade.
| with the motive power of steam, is from the
| Mediterranean to the Chesapeake (which les on
poste to IT'D and from the Mediterranean eventual
! ly by canal across the Isthmus of Suez and bv
railroads from the Surat to India and China: and
! weStwardiy, from the Chesapeake through the
James river and its Canal to the Ohio and thence
up the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. With
| the immense capital of New York her great com
| mercial marine, and her skill and experience in
trade, 1t would have taken hundred wears of hard
| Sim rlf,,rr a., ,a.t.
her of her monopoly and diverted trade to its pa-
tura course, above described: but that ruin
which others could not have brought on her in less
than century, she has inflicted on herself in A
single hour. When, the other day, she for the first
time rallied to the standard of Black Repubcapsm
she gave to herself the ''coup de grace" and died
perpetrating act of vile treachery and base in
gratitude; thus throwing away, at once, both life
and reputation. Greece in vain besieged Troy for
ten years. and Troy .,like New York effected in
one daV that ruin for herself which all Greece had
in vain tried to bring on her. To-day Troy was
joyous as wedding party-she did an act of foiiv
and the next day
Illium, ct omnis hume fumat Neptunia Troiao
New York is suicde-"but it is an il! wind
that blows nobody good,' as the man said who
picked up, on the Pont Ncnf the hat of another
suicide. What has ruined New York will be the
making of Virginia Now that she has resumed
in fact, though not in form, her original indepen-
dent sovereignty, and stands up one of the ma
f.
tered and her energies uncramped-a glorious fu- |
ture OF wealth, of power and of prosperity awaits
her, II she continue but true to herself.
Correspondence Of the Daily Erclanqe.1
Court--J're Baltimore Cases Further Posi-
poneSi--Tho City Guarded by the Military,
tsc., dc.
ANNAPOLIS, April 90. 1861 |
The electment case OF Darnall Us. Brook before |
reported, was given to the jury this evening. who
were out celebrating on their verdict.
The trials of the Baltimore criminal cases were
further postponed from Monday until Wednesday
next, and we officially requested to state that
neither counsel nor witnesses are required attend
before that time
In consequence of the Mayorreceiving despatch
from Baltimore, the two companies of the Govern.
ors Guard Captains Tuck and Gassaway, were
ordered out last night and patroled the CITY until
daylight this morning. Quite an excitement pre-
walls. f'0
Governor Hicks returned to-day.
KENTUCKY ACTUALLY ISvADED-WAR AT oUn
Doors Sooner than we expected, sooner than was
feared by the most timid, than was hoped BY
the rashest and most ultra has the war against the
South been brought to our very doors
The dispatches this morning inform US that a
steamer was boarded at Cincinnati yesterday and
robbed of large amount of private property, des-
tined for the South, and belonging to citizens of
and Arkansas.
The boundary line of Kentucky is ow-water
mark on the north side of the Ohio river.
Consequently this seizure was made by the aboli-
ionists within the limits of the State.
And not content with this violation of our SOW
,reignty, the city authorities of Cincinnati have
chartered ano armed two steamers to stop and
earch all passing steamers on this great national
highway, which runs through our State from the
Big Sandy to the Tennessee line on the Mississippi.
What do the people of Kentucky say to this?-
Viii they submit? Will anybody be found among
Is recreant as to apologize for this outrage and
ross indignty?
And what shall we do? What shall the people of
louisville do? Stand still? Wait? Be qaiet and
until our warehouses are emptied, our
owder magazines seized upon, and all other pri- =
ate property of citizens that may be used BY ..
be Northern army taken?
we repeat advice which must be regarded, unless
re are ready for other indignities, and prepar-
d to submit to other outrages-we must act!
feopie OF Louisville! men of Kentucky! we appeal
you to meet this fearful crisis as becomes your
n .S1e renownNto meet fairly promptly, fear