The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-02

The JEWS AND THE CAUSE.-THE Jewish Messenger
of December 18th, makes strong editorial appeal
to the lsraete in the United States to observe the
4th proximO day of prayer for the preservation
of the Union. We regret that space forbids us
to give the article referred to in full but the follow
lowing paragraph will afford the reader good idea
of the whole =
Gas Israetes, we have still weightier induce
ments to join with our fellOw-citzens in observing
this day Of pray err The Union, for whose prosper
ty we ask Divine aid, has been the source Of happ-
ness for our ancestors and ourselves. Under the
protection of the freedom guaranteed us by the
stitution, we have lived in the en- ioyment of full
and perfect equality with fellow citizens, we
are enabled to worship the Supreme according to
the dictates of conscience, we can maintain the po-
sition to which our abilities entitle US, without
religious opinions being an impeachment to advance
ment.
"This Republic the first to recognize our
claims to absolute equality with men of whatever
religious denomination. Here we can sit each un-
der his vine and fig tree, with none to make him
afraid. The perpetuity of the national existence
OF this Republic being imperled let u.s. then right
heartily join with fellow citizens in observing
Friday next as day of prayer and humiliation
Let US assemble in our respective svnagOgues and
pour forth in unison heartfelt applications
that the Almighty may restore harmony and good
will among all the people of this land and so gov
ern the inteects of those in authority that they
may be inspired with wisdom to secure a pacific
settlement of whatever difficulties may exist in any
| section of the country.
PROFITs OF STocK OwNERs.-A New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press writes as fol-
| lows:
Aside from the festivities of Christmas and New
Y ear, to which rich and poor, high and low, all
| alike look forward with more less pleasure, the
present week brings higher and more substantial
satisfaction to that large class in the community
who are so fortunate as to be owners of dividend
paying stocks For this is-divdend week, when
interest is paid on State, city and county bonds,
and on bank, insurance, and all sorts of stocks.
The Insurance Companies of New York, over a
hundred in number, with a capital of nineteen mil
lions, will divide among their stockholders about
800 000 and over tfty-four banks, representing
a capital of about seventy millions will distribute
as much more. The Banks and Insurance Compa-
MES of Brooklyn and Jersey city, and Companies
of other Sorts having their headquarters here will
swell the grand aggregate OF cash to be dividended
to nearly, if not quite, ten millions of dollars.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SECEssIoNIsr AND A
Co-OPERATIoNIsT-The New Orleans Picayune, in
defining the difference between Secessionst and a
Co-Operationst, says: The fact is, immediate
State Secessionists desire nothing but secess-
ion. They reject propositions of State co-opera
ton, because, there is hope, their fear is that
own terms for a reconstruction of the government
may be accepted by the Norrh. Here is the crown
ing distinction between the oOperationist and the
immediate Secessionist.