The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-31

THE CHANGES OF TWENTY YEARS
In noticing that gentleman named IIutchins had
been nominated in Ohio to succeed Joshua II. Gid
dings in the U. S. House of Representatives, where
he has occupied seat for the last twenty years. the
Albany Journal thus moralises:
Every chair in the old Hall of Representatives
must be traught with memories of the past to the
"Senior Member" He has seen generations of
short-lived politicians rise, fall and become forgot
ten. He has seen faithful public servants removed
to other trusts, and many to another world. Round
the entire circle of the Hall his eye fails find
single me nber who sat there when he entered it,
and who has sat there with him since. Adams has
gone to his reward Ogden, Hoffman. Chas. G. Ath-
erton, Leverett Satonstal, Edward Curtis, Barnwell
Rhett, Dixon II. Lewis, and many others are also
gone the way of all the earth. Hunter and Bell
are transferred to the Senate. Wise to the Guber
material chair. Brown is dispensing the patronage
of the Post Office Department Clifford wears the
silken judicial robe of the Supreme Court. Stanly
has gone to that terra incogmita. California Tru-
man Smith, Cooper, Weller and Williams, after
exchanging Representative for Senatorial honors,
are departed from the Capitol Corwin, after
brilliant career as Governor, Senator and Sccreta
ry, is proposing to return again to the field of his
early distinction. Pickens and Hopkins are trying
the pleasures of foreign Courts Briggs and Linco In
are eX-Governors. Granger and Cave johnson,
are eX-Postmasters General Strong and Marvin are
on the New York Bench.
Like changes have altered the aspect of the SEN
ate Chamber. Clay, Webster, Benton, aud Cal
houn, then in the zenith of fame, live only in
history. Buchanan occupies the White House.
Pierce has lately left it. Wm X. King became Vice
President, and died abroad. The grave has closed
over Silas Wright and ''lIonest john Davis
Walker has had his ups and downs with every turn
of the w heel of Fortune, and is now Ex-Governor
of place that he then had never heard Of The
only Chair that retains its old occupant is that filled
by John j. Crittenden. the veteran of the Senate,
Giddings is of the House.
Empires have risen and fallen; Kingdoms turned
into Republics and Republics into Kingdoms; six
new States have entered the Union, and three new
Territories have been brought under our flag;
Presidents have gone up like rockets, and come
down like sticks; compromises have been made and
broken; war has followed peace, and peace again
succeeded war; trade has expanded and collapsed;
parties have risen hourished and decayed platforms
have been built and torn down again-since he took
seat in the Hall of Representatives, but during all
these changes Joshua r. Cuttings has proved alike
faithful to friend and fearless to foe. His successor
can have no higher ambition than to leave as un-
blemished a record.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal continues to be
ploughed by scores of busy keels which are weekly
bringing great quantities of coal to market For
last week the report is the arrival of one hundred
and twenty-nine boats, of which seventeen were
various cargoes of country produce and the remain
ing one hundred and twelve freghted with
coal from Cumberland. The total of coal for the
week exceeded 900 tons, with money receipt
at the Collectors Office of S5,2S4 distributed
as follows: Ascending trade, 1897: descending,
S4,S97. The coal account alone foots up s., ,335.
These results are far beyond past experience, and
must be exceedingly gratifying to all interested in
the canal. 1t is also gratifying to find that the
Sunday law works so well; indeed, without it, so
heavy trade as that doing at present would re-
qure an addition to the force of locktenders &C.,
whose powers are even taxed to their utmost
ability to bear. Every weeks experience proves
some new fact in favor of the firm maintenance of
this regulation, and it is to be hoped that short
| sighted weakness will be permitted to interpose
itself until the Sunday law has had the full and fair
trial OF whole season: if that scope be given it.,