The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-09
SPEECH OF HON A. II STEPHENS,

SPEECH OF HON. A. Fl. STEPHENS.
i"e ilon' "A. ii. Stephens addressed a large
crowd In Atalanta on Tuesday. 3Oth uIt., at mid
nlgn', from the platform on the cars. After
speaking of his mission to Virginia, he added
From Missouri the news is most cheering. and
Arkansas will soon be with But the best Of all
| is, that Maryand-gallant little MaryIand-ri,bt
under the guns of Lincoln, and the threats of Rai
| to make it free State, if the blood of the last
! white man had to be shed in accomplishing it-hes
resolved to a man to sand by the South! She will
| be arrayed against AbOhtiondom, and cling to the
| South; and if she has not delegates with US now
she is in open defiance Of Lincoln and his govern
ment, and will soon be with US, even bv revolution.
The cause of Baltimore is the cause of us all, from
| the Atlantic to the Rio Grande. Her hands must
| be held up, and triumph must be assured to her.
| Our enemies say that they only want to protect
| the public property; and vet have it from
questioned authority that they have mined all the
| public buildings in Washing gton-the Capitol and
all the other Experimentation the purpose of de-
stroying them. They have called out rs 900 men,
they say to protect the public property now in
their possession, and to retake and protect that
which they have been forced to give up; vet wher-
ever they now, they have prepared to destroy
the property, and have destroyed or attempted to
destroy, all that we have compelled them to relin-
qush because OF their intentions to it for the
| purpose OF subJugating US. Sumter was mined to
be blown up on leaving it. Much of the property
was burned up at Harper's Ferry in hastily vacat-
| ing that piace; and an attempt made to burn
| port Navy Yard, but the whole city of Norfolk
This is of the most remarkable instances on re-
| cord where Providence was on our side Plans were
! laid to burn up the Navy yard and the whole city
The ncendiary fires were lighted and ftheir inten
tiOns had succeeded, such cOnilagratiOn has never
| been witnessed on this continent and would have
been second only to the burning of Moscow: but,
just at this critical moment before the ravages bad
| extended, the wind turned! The winds of Heaven
turned and stayed the spread of the devouring ele-
nent. The same wind that kind Heaven sent to
keep off the fleet at Charleston till Sumter was re-
Guced, came to the relief of Norfolk at the critical
! moment They attempted to blow up the deck,
the most expensive on the continent, but there
was break in the train they had laid, and it failed
They attempted to burn down the old Pennsylva-
mia, Germantown, and the Merrimac. They set
the match while they endeavored to get out of the
way OF their intended destruction; but the vessels
sunk before the fuse caught-anOther remarkable
instance OF the interpOsition of Providence our
behalf and the strongest evidences of our rectitude
we were right at hrst-are right now, and shal !
keep ourselves right to the end.
From the NeD York Post Of Tuesday ersningl
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN
UNION.
The twelfth anniversary of the American and
Foreign Christian Union was held this morning at
Irving Hall. There was large attendance.
Rev Dr. Wiiletts offered series of resolutions,
which were adopted, sympathizing with the recent
struggles OF ltaian patriotism and recognizing in
them the means of removing the formidable obsta-
cleS presented by prieStcraft and despotsm to the
spread of the Gospel in the Italian peninsula.
Addresses delivered bv Rev DR.. Bacon
Kew. Mr.. Bourne and Rev. Mr.. Fisk
The annual report states that the receipts of the
society have been SG0,569, and the expenditures
500, OS2 During the last year, the society sus-
tanned missionaries in ten Of the large cities and
many smaller places in twelve of the States, and
also aided the missions in Italy, France, Belgium
Sweden, Turkey and South America.
The report further says:
" Last winter the society, in connection with the
a Sp9mep'S Eri th, p,r
Mr. Gilbert to labor missionary at Caao in
Peru Mr.. Gilbert has arrived at Calao, and COM
menced with good prospects his work at that place.
among the English, Americans, Spaniards Ger
mans and Italians
'"Last March the Board sent the Rev. Ramon
Monsalvatge to Panama, to make known the Cos
pei among the Spanish and French speaking popu-
lation. He has arrived at his post and commenced
his labOrs.
"In the course Of few weeks the Board hope to
be able to send missionary to Brazil, and another
in the autumn. They greatly desire to meet the
demands made on them for missionaries for other
countries in South America, as well as in Mexico
and Central America.
$50 numerous and so important are the doors
which are now opening in the great Papal nations
for the diffusion of the Gospel, the Board believe
that the society ought to expend at least fifty thou
sand dollars next year in the foreign field"
WILL THE South BE STARVED OUT?-The New Or
leans Bulletin, referring to the prevalent idea in
the North, that the South may be starved out
SAYS:
Our small planters in many localities raise most
Of their meat and breadstuffs now, and our large
ones can easily initiate their example, and do the
same. We can produce everything that the North
can, and many things that the North cannot pro-
duce, in the way oil provisions. Our negroes are
very fond of rice, and rice is almost pure nutrition
Nothing contains so great per cent. of pure nu-
triment. Rice we grow exclusively, and can sup
ply every plantation with enough of it. We have
provisions enough hand now to last for several
months, and our harvesting will commence within
one month, and harvest will then succeed harvest
until fall. We may have a succession Of food pro-
ducing harvests from June till December. The
Texas wheat crop will begin TO be gathered in the
early part OF June. That crop, from present az
pearances, will he the largest and best that Texas
ever yielded A greater breadth of ground has
been sown, and the crop now presents a splendid
appearance. The wheat crop OF Texas will be sue
ceeded by that of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee,
Virginia and other Southern States. Corn will
also begin to ripen In June, and an immense guam
tty has been planted. Where the cotton stand is
poor, the planters pillow up the ground and plant
corn. This has been done to extent, and we
presume it will be to a still greater, il it should be
deemed necessary. Its wise measure. Immense
quantities of sweet potatoes, cOwpeas and other
valuable products will be grown; and planters,
By taking pains, can raise their own pork. Hogs
thrive well upon cotton seed, and the pork is equal
to most park, superior.
DETERMINED TO EsCAPE.-A more determined and
successfully carried out plan to escape from the
tyranny Of the North is hard to find than that of
Capt. 0. +. Rue, of the schooner J. NJ. TAYLOR,
and Capt. Sallyer, of the schooner Francis Burnett
These vessels were laid up in New York harbor,
and the captains being Southern men (from North
Caroina) were anxious to get home to their tami-
lies. Accordingly on Sunday night the captain of
the Taylor embaI ked in yawl boat with three of
his crew, and taking board Captain SallVer, pro-
ceeded down to Staten Island, where they were
taken in tow by schooner and carried to Cape
May. Thence they crossed to Cape Henlopen and
hauled their boat seven miles to the next inland
water, proceeded south as far that would carry
them, and then disembarked and ragged the yawl
five miles further, until they reached the water be-
tween the mainland and the islands which skirt the
coast Of Maryland and the Eastern shore of Vir-
ginia. Down this they made their way to Chincn-
league inlet, whence they emerged into the Allan
tic and finally landed in Lynhaven, where their
boat was carried three miles farther and launched
into the Eastern branch of the Elizabeth River.
They arrived here Friday evening, having suf-
ered occasionally for want of provisions and water
Captain Rue says that the excitement in New
York is calming down, and the enlistments were
confined to those who had nothing else before them
but starvation. He saw company of men without
coats or shoes who to be sent South but the
men were more anxious to go where they could get
something to eat than to fght.-NorfoM Herald.
Ndy7.
WHAT AN HUMBLE PHILANTHRoP IsT DID IN Eng
LANDING find the following inter estiug story in
English paper:
"On Saturday the body of wel-known and
useful philantbropist, always designated "TOmmy"
Brown, was inferred in St Georges Church.
Mossev. The body preceded by the members
of the Shepherds Flock Lodge Of the Loyal Order
of Ancient Shepherds, of which the deceased a
member, and was followed by large procession,