The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-14

bill to construct telegraph line to Utah, and sub
mtted amendments modifying the bill so as to make
it more acceptable.
Messrs. Wilson, Broderick, Doolittle Douglas
and Cameron, spoke in favor of the BILL and Messrs.
Iverson, Hunter, Johnson of Arkansas, Fessenden,
and Hale opposed 1t.
Mr. Pugh made severe comparisons with the At
lantic telegraph, calling the Atlantic scheme of
plumber.
Mr. Wilson wished to refer the bill back to the
committee for further amendment, estimates, &c.
Mr.. Iverson, however, moved that the bill be
postponed till December next, which was carried
yeas 49, nays H.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr. Caruthers, who has been sick, appeared in his
seat to-day for the first time this session.
The House went into Committee on the Senate
bill to establish guard for the protection of life
and property in Washington.
Mr.. Goode, in offering a substitute, said it was
the the Senate bill, with the exception of
increasing the pay of the officers, and providing
that the Captain and Lieutenants shall be appoint
ed by the Secretary of the Interior. Also, that
there shall be Police Court the Chief to be invest
ed with the power of justice of the peace, for the
trial ofmsdemeanors, but no to infc punish
ment exceeding $50, or imprisonment in the Jail or
work-house for longer term than 20 DAYS.
Remarks made by Messrs. Goode, Clemens
and Others in favor of the bill, and by Messrs.
Bliss, Seward and other gentlemen against it.
The committee, without coming to a conclusion
on the subject, rose and the House adjourned.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
New ORLEANS April 13-The steamer Empire
| City, from Havana, with dates to the Sth has ar
| rived. She reports that the steamer Star of the
| West, from Aspinwall, had touched there with
three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in
| treasure for New York.
The treaty between the United States and New
Grenada has been ratified.
The advices from California are unlmportant.
| From Oregon there is news that Lieut.. Allen
who reported to have persisted in the snow, had
arrived at Portland, having been abandoned by al
his party except one.
| Advices from Tampico state that Is Mexican re
actionists have been captured by Gen. Cara on
| board the British mail steamer.
| Cara had fired on an American vessel, and en-
| deavOred to eXtort double duties
| The Daniel Webster reports that $50 more Coolies
| had arrived at Havana.
! Fetes had been celebrated all the week in honor
of Prince Asturias and there had been nothing done
| in the markets.
! The United States steamer Fulton was in port.
SECOND DIsPATCH7
New YORK, April 13.-The steamer Star of thu
West brings the California mails of March 22d, anc
She left Aspinwall on the evening of April
! the 4th.
The United States sloop-of-war jamestown lief
the same port the day previous for San Juan.
The Star of the Vest connected with the Sonora
which brought down to Panama nearly S1,70O,0O'
| in specie.
The California Senate has passed the resolutions
previously adopted by the Assembly in favor of thu
Lecompton Constitution. The Senate refused t.
provide for a Constitutional Convention. The As
semby has passed bill to provide for funding thu
floating debt of San Francisco
large number of cattle have been drowned OF
| the upper Sacramento, by the high water succeed
ing the heavy rains.
Mr.. Sterall the claimant of the slave Archy, ha
been arrested on the charge of kidnapping.
movement is on foot to settle the Gadsden pur
| chase