The national Republican., 1861-04-08
NEWS ITEMS.

On Friday afternoon, meeting of the work
ingmen of Baltimore was held, to take under
consideration the present state Of financial af
fairs, and to arrange some plan by which the
men now suffering from want Of employment
may be relieved. Speeches were made, and
committee appointed to prepare an address to
the city councils. praying that work might be
given them on the public grounds. Everything
was quiet and orderly, and it is hoped some
plan may be devised for their relief.
Commissioner Newhall, at Cincinnati, on
Wednesday, remanded George Lee, q fugitive
slave from Virginia. George was the property
of David Morrison, q resident of the Old Do
minion, who, two years since, hired him to his
son, who lives in St. Louis. After q while,
George escaped to Cincinnati, and has been
employed as waiter.
. STATISTICS OF THE SYRIAN MAssAcRE.-Au.
thentic statements show that there has been no
exaggeration in the account heretofore pub.
lished respecting the massacres committed by
the Druses in Syria. According to document
prepared by the central committee of assist
ance in London, from information supplied by
the Turks themselves, the number of Christians
who lost their lives is 10000, including women
and children. The number of women and
young girls carried of, and sold to the Turks,
is 5000. The number of Christians of ali
sects reduced to ruin by these events, is 10 900.
One hundred and fifty towns and villages, with
the churches, monasteries, and schools, attach.
ed to them, were pilaged, burnt, or DESTROYED.
The houses Of the Christians DESTROYED at 'Da.
mascus are not included in this return.
Pickpockets made large haul at Troy on
Good Friday and Easter Sunday, by visiting
the churches. One lady was robbed while en-.
gagged in prayer, on her knees.
negro thief was discovered in the act of
stealing hogs, at ST. Martin, La, BY Henry
Preble, who shot him through the head, on his
attempting to escape.
Three rascals entered house at Philadel.
phia, on Tuesday morning, for plunder. Mrs.
Quinn met them as she was on the cellar stairs;
one fellow knocked her down stairs, but she
recovered in time to raise an alarm, and the
thieves were all arrested.
Owen Mahoney was found dead in a wood,
at Franklin, Me-, last week. In his pockets
were a bottle of liquor and bank book show.
ing credit of $500.
A thoughtess husband threw burning fluid
into stove, while his wife was blowing up a
fire, at Athol Depot, Mass, on Friday. The
poor woman was dreadfully burned about the
face and neck.
The bill before the Legislature to incorpo.
rate the Metropolitan Cab Association is op.
posed with great energy by the city railroad
monoposts and all others interested in our
present miserable system of public conveyan.
ces.-N Y. San.
Two professional pickpockets were arrested
on Tuesday, at Philadelphia, for picking la.
dy's pocket in church.
Last week, the arguments were made in the
famous suit of Vermont and Canada against
the Vermont Central railroad for back rents,
involving about 100000. This case has been
on the tapis for six years. A decision will
probably be given in about fortnight.
Mr.. Joseph Barbiere, whom many of our cit.
izens may remember as dancer upon the
stage with Madame Hutin, has, we are sorry to
say, sunk from his high position into that Of a
secession candidate for the mayoralty of Mem.
phis.-LouisriHe Journal
Tom Taylors latest comedy is entitled "The
Duke in Difficulties" and has been successfully
brought out at the Haymarket Theatre.
The Americas mails bring the important
news of the resignation of Count Cavour and
the other members Of the Sandman Cabinet,
with view to its reconstruction on an enlarged
basis, that will embrace all the conciliatory
Italian States.
SUIT AGAINST OUR AMERICAN CousIN.-In
the Supreme Court, New York, on Friday, in a
suit brought by r.. W. Williams, costumer,
against Edward A. Sothern, a wellknown actor,
for conversion of personal property, the de.
fendant denied that the value of the property
was as great as alleged by the plaintiff. De.
iendant now applied to compel the plaintiff to
file security for costs, inasmuch as he (plaintif)
was insolyenL and had been discharged as an