The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-13

progressing, AMI there is every reason to expect
that the Senate will be able to take possession of
their new hall at the next session. In the north
wing, on every side may be seen the marks of pro
gress, and the "busy note of preparation" gives
warning that all due diligence is being made to give
the representatives of the sovereign States "ample
room and verge enough for the discharge of their
Legislative functions, instead of the former hail. in
which they had but little room, and the sovereign
people in the galleries still less. On passing
through the corridors, and viewing the various
committee-rooms in the north wing, on the one
hand may be seen group of imported artists
adorning the walls and ceilings with groups of fig
ures, animate and inanmate duopedal, quadrupe-
da, and multipedal representing objects in heaven
and earth and some which have no existence be-
yond the fertile brain of the deneator in all the col
ors of the rainbow. andmany others which not in
the rainbow with flowers and fruit which could on
ly have grown in Utopia ornamented with scrolls,
volutes, and circumvoutes; modillions and all 9TH
er imaginable forms which can be made by the
combination of straight lines, curved lines, and
crooked lines, and covering every visible inch of
surface, with the most lavish prOfusiOn, apparently
with the idea that, nature abhors vacuum, so
does the intelligent eye abhor plain surface in the
dark, unfathOmed caves of ocean, to be hidden from
every eye, the rooms occupied, by
covering of carpet Washington Union.
The Secretary of the Interior, on an appeal in
volving the titles of Monticello, Lower Monticello
and Mortious, Minnesota, has decided that under
the law the only benefcaries of the trust are the
occupants of the towns.
No other prOprietors are recognized nor can the
Department protect the claims interest of non
resident shareholders or lot owners. The quantity
of land for town purposes cannot exceed 800 acres
under the law regulating that subject.
Samuel Hippel has been appointed Postmaster of
Leavenworth, vice Clarkson, resigned.
At Milwaukee, Judge McArthur-on the ground
that the Supreme Court ofWisconsin had declared
the fugitive Slave-aw unconstitutional, a penalty
for damages under that law is not collectable-bas
released the press and other property of S. NJ
Booth, editor of the Free Democrat which was at
tached to satisfy the judgment of the United States
Court against him for assisting the slaves of Mr.
Garland to their freedom.
A correspondent of the Erening Post writes that
Rev. Dr. Walker has sent in his resignation as Pres
ident of Harvard College, to take effect at the close
of the present term. He will preside for the last
time on Commencement Day, July D. Among the
names mentioned as his successors those of Prof
FELTON,, now in Europe; Hon. r. C. Winthrop, the
Rev. DR.. Putnam, of Roxbury, and DR.. Bellows, of
New York. The choice, probably, lies between the
two former. Mr.. Winthrop has nothing else to
attend to-, while Prof. Felton's place in the Greek
department could hardly be filled.
A young man named Arthur A. Parlin, disap-
peared the 18th ult. from his fathers residence
at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, and was found
on Saturday, the 26th, in Munson pond. He had
committed suicide by tying stone of sixteen
skitf into the deepest part of the pond
On Sunday afternoon, Stephen Murphy of Jersey
City, n. j., took party of friends out on hand
the Erie railroad, for short excursion. In
returning, when near the Hackensack river, Mr.
Murphy was caught by the crank and thrown over
the front of the car into the river, where he was
drowned.
Gov. Packer, of Pennsylvania. on Thursday is
sued the death warrants of the following persons:
John Lutz, Allegheny county, to be executed Oc-
tober lst.; William John Clark, Montour county,
to be executed September 24th; Mary Twiggs
Montour county, to be executed October 22d.
At Martinsburg, Blair county, Pa, on Saturday,
a Mr.. Samuel Lysinger member of the artillery
company of that place, had his right hand blown off
at the wrist, while charging cannon that they
were firing in honor of the day His arm was after
wards amputated near the elbow.
The present seasons hay crop promises to be
large and fine one in most parts of the country.-
In the vicinity of Boston, and in fact in all Massa-
chusetts and New England, farmers are engaged in
cutting heavy crop of grass. From other hay
producing parts of the country the accounts are ia
vorable to large crop.