The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-17
Union Meeting at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l6-An immense gathering
took place here tonight at the National Hall, In
obedience to invitation to of all parties in
opposition to the Republicans. Resolutions favor
ing concatOn instead of the coercion of the South,
and peaceful separation if it must be- rather than
civil war.
The meeting also adopted resolutions, appealing
to the South not to turn away in anger from their
friends, leaving them to a despotism of sectional
party and declaring the Democrats are the true
friends OF the Union. Recommending immedi
ate repeal of all legislation unfriendly to the South
and that it is the duty of the State by Legislative
enactments to secure to citizens of the South; ;every
protection topersons and property while soiourners
approving OF OftheCrittenden compromise resolutions,
and all efforts fail, that State Convention be cal
led to determine with whom the lot of Pennsylvania
shall be cast-whether with the North and East,
whose fanaticsm has precipitated this misery upon
US, with brethren of the South, whose
wrongs we feel own; whether Pennsylva-
MIA will stand by herself as a distinct community,
ready, when occasion offers, to bind together the
broken Union, and resume her place of loyalty and
devotion.
Several attempts at creating disturbance oc-
Cured during the meeting. Cheers given for
Gen. Scott, for the Union and for Major Anderson.
Groans proposed for South Carolina and the
Palmetto flag. The difficulty finally settled by
the police. Speeches made by Messrs. V. s.
Bradford, Josiah Randall, VIM. b. Reid, U. S.
District Attorney Wharton, Benz. Brewster and
others.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
RICHMOND, Jan. 16.-The House Committee
Federal Relations reported Mr.. Smiths resolutions,
that it is inexpedient in the Federal Government
under existing circumstances to make any 'add-
tiOnal display of military force in Virginia, mas
much as it is liable to misconstruction and tending
to create uneasiness in the public mind, and
questiDg the Governor to obtain immediate infor
nation of the purpose of the General Government
with respect to the stren9 thening of the military
force in the Arsenals, ETC., iu Virginia. No action
was taken, but the Committee were granted leave
to sit during the sessions OF the Legislature to
slider important information recently received. 1t
is understood to be the basis of an adjustment ap
proved by leading men of both parties at Wash
ington.,
U. 8 WAR VESSELS TO BE CONCENTRATED AT TIE
MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND AT PENSACOLA.
|" New ORLEANS, Jan. l6-Consul Pickens went to
Vera Cruz this morning, bearing important Wash.
ington dispatches to the American Commander of
the Gulf Squadron. 1t is rumored that the de-
sign is to concentrate fleets at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi river and at the harbor of Pensacola.
CHARLESTON AFFAIRS.
We take the following. paragraphs from the
Charleston papers of Monday:
| The negotiations and correspondence between
| Fort Sumter and the Executive Headquarters,
| which began Friday, as we have reported, were
continued or renewed on Saturday, and many ru-
mors were afoat concerning the objects and results.
1t is use ess to mention such rumors, the truth
will be known as soon as compatible with the pub
! lie service and sound policy.
| Col. Isaac W. Hayne, under special commission
from the Governor, and Lieut.. Hall, with despatch
| es from the commander of Fort Sumter, left on
| Saturday afternoon for Washington. Robert n.
Gourdin, Esq, followed in the night train of Satur-
| day, on the Northeastern Railroad with a COM
| mission from Gov. Pickens.
SUB ROSA.
All day Saturday and yesterday people were
| kept upon the qua Uiue. The quiet arrival and de-
| parture of the Brooklyn war steamer abun-
dainty discussed on Saturday morning, and the fact
| that the secret negotiations known to be pending
| between Fort Sumter and the State had resulted
in the sudden departure of Attorney General Hayne
| and Lieutenant Hall for Washington, Saturday
evening, furnished the wonder mongers additional
| food for speculation. Nothing definite, however,
! has been made public yet, concerning these ne
! gotiatiOns, although have to think that
before the middle of the present week, enough will
have transpired in relation to them crafty the
| general curiosity of our citizens.-Mercwy.
THE SHIP EMILY
| From our telegraphic dispatches, published this
morning think is evident that the captain OF this
vessel has completely "sod" the valiant crew of the
Star OF the West The officers of the latter vessel
probably pretty well frightened at the prompt wei
come given them by the Cadets at Morris Island,
yielded ready credence to the facetous yarn ofhe
crew of the St Pierre, to the effect that she had not
been permitted to enter Charleston harbor because
To our Southern friends we need hardly say that
the whole story was Jest; that the St. Pierre had
gone Charleston by the direction of her consigu
ees and that the guns of our batteries had no more
to do with her change of destination than the guns
of Gibratar.-lercury.
COURTS.
The civil business of all the South Carolina courts
has been postponed by action of the Legislature.
The Augusta ga. Sentinel publishes the follow
ing extract from a letter received from prominent
and well,informed gentleman in Charleston, under
| datgQf the lth inst
s'We have no fear of a bombardment. Fort
Sumter Cannot reach the city with shot or SHE'LL
| There have been several voGeas sunk on the bar,
and no large vessel of get III waters.-
| They may land troops. If they do can take
care of them. That's just what we want, to get
| them on shore.
''No panic here; one leaving the city, or any
| thing of the kind.
| 'There is no need of drafting, and will be none;
more volunteers offering than we know what
to do with. One of the Edgefeld companies would
have been refused if we had known it before they
left Six ready in Abbevle, and only one taken.
Edgefed has more than furnished her quota
EXTRACTS FROM LETTER OF a CORRESPONDENT IN
CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, January II, 1861.
UesSrS. Editors OF ali the Southern States
through which have passed, Georgia seemed to
be under the greatest excitement, and will, no
doubt, follow in the wake Of secession. On the
10th | left Macon under perfect furore Of Joy
from despatch then just come to hand, stating
that the Star of the West had been sunk by the
forces on Morris Island with two hundred and fifty
Wide Awakes on board, and it was truly melanchol-
ly to see how they gloated the idea of two
hundred and fifty Of their fellow countrymen being
drowned like rats in trap, and sent to their long
home By fratrcidal hands. But, alas such is true
picture of the state of feeling in this country
brought on by years ofsander from Northern Abo-
itionists through their villainoas press, till it has
! reached an uDbearable point, and this people have
settled down to determined fixed purpose to Sc
parate from the Yankee Union, even at the sacri-
fee of ''life fortune and the pursuit ohappiness;"
all is abandoned to the one idea OF getting rid OF
| their connection with people who have tra-
| duced and villifed them
Lam glad to find the people here are doing JUS
tice to the motives of Major Anderson, between
| whom and the Governor several white flags have
| lately passed. 1t is understood to be in regard to
the determination of the citizens to have posses
sion of his fort, and it has resulted in another joint
commission being sent to Washington, 6y which it
is hoped they will accomplish 1t quietly and with
out bloodshed; which is devoutly to be hoped for,
earthly good can come of a cosion the
| South cannot be made to succumb, and if they
could, it would not pay. No one in rambling
through this city would suppose they were
thinking of war, much less actually engaged
| in it. King street is crowded with ladies, shop
ping. and the market house we'll supplied with eat
aDle5 lying sIOTleS vi COT-
| respondents in Northern papers about famine here
There is nothing like it, assure you. The city has
the venerable look of an old English town, except
the Battery, which is newly built up with hand
some dwellings, and is really very beautiful, though
| Just now disfgured by row of heavy cannon
pointing their threatening mouths at Fort Sumter,
| looming up on the Bay, with the Star Spangled
| Banner still floating glOrOusly over ber devoted
| little band while around it, on Forts johnson,
Moultre and Castle Pinckney, is seen the Palmetto
| Haunting in defiance its solitary star.
| | stopped day in passing through Savannah,
the city of shade trees, and public squares, filed
branch and live oaks in perpetual green; the gar
dens filled with orange trees, borne down with
tempting ripe fruit and japonicas in full bloom
They have their monuments too, and fountain
uneq qualled in beauty and taste, over one hundred
feet in diameter, and some thirty feet high, sur
mounted by a graceful female figure holding in her
hand tripod from which the jet is thrown high in
| the air. underneath is large basin surrounded by
numerous fanciful JETS and around the base rise up
four grotesque looking mermen, blowing, through
| horns in their mouths, quantities of water-the
| whole seated in the midst of natural grove of
lofty pines, which is otherwise tastefuly laid out
in walks and flower beds.
| In travelling through this Southern country, one
| is astonshed at the immense quantity of cotton
bales he sees. The cotton gins along the road are
| piled up with them, the depots stuffed, and you
| seem to be passing miles of them all the time you
are travelling in the cars, while in all the large
| towns whole of them seem spread out before
| you, and ships and steamboats, taking them in
| all the time by the thousands of bales.
To return to politics, it to me, here in the
midst of the of trouble, that such meetings
were held in Baltimore about the Union lis lost time
rbo TTpio &c Into to