The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-16

veo IN new L ork harbor from England. 1t was"
thus that practice constantly exploded mere theo-
rles. Adam Smith had demonstrated that protec.
ton was wrong, yet the richest nations now on the
globe were those who had pursued the protective
policy England owes her present greatness to her
rigid adherence for two centuries to the policy of
protection. The history of the world showed that
purely agricultural people had always been poor,
and that communities had become rich, populous
and powerful by diversifying labor.
The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropri-
alton bill then discussed up to the hour of adj
ournment without action.
- FROM HAVANA
= The United States mail steamer PHILADELPHIA G.
Harrison, Esq, commander, arrived at New York
on Monday morning from New Orleans and Havana.
Lett the former port on the 5th inst and Havana
on the evening of the 8th.
The Philadelphia landed $50 passengers at Hava-
New York
ma for Aspinwall on the 8th inst.
cargo of 1886 Coolies had arrived at Havana
per French steamship Francois lst IS days from
Macao via Cape Good Hope.
A grand parade and review of the troops took
place ON the 5th, before the Captain General of
Cuba and many thousands of SPECTATORS, MANY
hundreds OF whom were Americans.
Stock of sugars on hand Ga, 900 boxes
The report of the Committee on foreign rela-
tons in the United States Senate, in favorp
the purchase Of Cuba, created a great excitement.
cargo of Africans had been landed to the
westward of Havana The Government officials
succeeded in capturing some of them, as also the
crew of the vessel, which was made up OF Spaniard,
Portuguese, and Irish.
Private advices to the Sth inst, are as follows:
The political news principally concern the great
question of the day, the purchase of the island the
discussion OF which was vigorously renewed the
Both ult. The occasion was the recent of the
debate in the Spanish Chambers, on the 4th inst
and the recent report of the Committee of Foreign
Relations in the Senate. The first is published in
full, the latter only in brief analysis and accom-
panied with ridicule of its positions and argument
The old charges of lawlessness and territorial rama
city are also again renewed with considerable
bitterness against and the assurance reiterated
that the island can never be alienated from the
Spanish dOminionS, moreover, that any further
procedure in the matter of its proposed purchase
can only be considered as a national insult
lhere mas been general cessation of the rains in
the principal sugar district of the island and plan-
terS had again entered upon the work of grinding
with vlgor. The new crop had also begun to come
IN, both at Havana and Matanzas, in greater abun-
dance, giving that advantage to buyers who were
not slow to act upon it. The planters on the other
hand, stood firm, and between the two nothing was
doing either in town country. We notice only
one contract OF Importance made during the week
that of the plantations "Serafins" and "Luisa :"
muscovado sugars, at reals the arrobas on
which also considerable advances were made but
what amount is not stated. The crop of the first
mentioned estate is to be delivered in Havana that
OF the other in MatanZas.
The Prensa also mentions rumor that the crop
OF the''Pastora' estate had been engaged at 81
reals, for the same quality of MuscOTado sugar, to
be delivered in Havana. 1t likewise SAYS that offers
as high as S26.50 the box of sixteen arrobas for
purged sugars has been made (when it does not
sap and refused. The same paper adds that
''beyond doubt, the present crop will be much
smaller than that of last year, and consequently
it is hoped that prices will advance instead of re-
cede.''
Among the passengers of the steamship Cahawba
for New \ ork was Sr. ID. Jose Vinalet, Captain
OF the Royal Navy and of the port of Matanzas" ;"
on mission in the name of the Supreme Govern
ment for the purchase of steamers for what service
is not mentioned.
From Ell Didrio de la Marina of H1rana of Feb 81
Her Majesty, the Queen, has deigned to grant the
Cross of Knight Commander of the Royal Ameri-
can Order Of Isabel, the Catholic to Mr.. Morse,
the inventor OF the electric telegraph which bears
his name. The government of her Majesty wishing
to render the grace more complete has ordered the
insignia to be transmitted to the grantee.
Mr.. Morse is associated with the project of
transatlantic telegraphc line which to start from
CadiZ for our island.
We are assured that in the early part OF the pre-
sent month all our ships of war now at anchor in
our port are to put to sea for the purpose of
cutting drill manouvres. under the command of his
EXcellency the Commander-in-C Chief of the station
1t is added that his Excellency will 90 on board the
screw-steamer Berenguea.
FRENCH VIEW OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
Two years have barely elapsed since Mr.. Bu-
chanan entered the White House. and he is already
publishing Message more taken up with arrange
ments for his own reelection than with schemes for
managing his brief power wisely and well. At the
same time Mr.. Douglas, leading competitor for
the votes of 1860, has been traversing the South
where he too has talked Cuban annexation illimit-
able extension, and manifest destiny. The two
statesmen emulate each other in drawing I'D seduc-
tive promises and skillu batteries for the popular
lust of power as they do in launching the Republic
into new and perilous paths. This is the way to the
Capital A pious journal of New York gives itself
up to simple and touching lamentations over the
waste of so much yigor by Mr.. Douglas on a cam
paign of worldly ambition. "Ahp' cried the
evangelical journalist, chad Mr. Douglas wrought
all this work for the salvation of souls he would be
a prodigy of sanctity to be venerated in all the
centuries to come" And then he painted the
Jealous preacher traversng ffty-seven counties in
afew weeks, passing over nearly eighteen hundred
leagues, speaking to more than hundred and
twenty audiences in the open air, always in the
rain, and occupying near an hour and half in
each discourse. And all this to win "corruptibe
crown"
These curious statistics of Mr.. Douglas celebra-
ted tour give one idea of his activity and vigOr
-ofthe strength of his constitution as well as of
the ardor of his ambition. He is called the "Litte
Giant of the West. If all future American Presi-
dental candidates are to pay as high personal
price as this, the victory WILL doubtless, belong to
the strongest lungs and the most herculean should
ers. Perhaps the increasing exigences of American
Democracy will drive all but acrobats out of politi
cal life Seriously, the business of craftsmanship
In America is gradually falling into the hands of
the least elevated classes. The American papers
have recently given as highly charged picture of
the actual Congress, with the insults which the
members handy to and fro; with pugilistc encount-
ers in the Halls and passages; with fights the
public streets; with nocturnal occupations which
we do not care to describe. 1t must be said, how
ever, that the blame of all these indecencies should
not rest with Congress itself One of the peculiar
tiles OF the American people is strange love of
noise, OF excitement, OF uproar. Impatient, ener
getic, disorderly sometimes brutal it applauds the
men in whom it finds its own faults and its own
merits. Hot-heads, daring imaginations, violent
orators, noisy politicians, filibustering statesmen
are its special darlings. IT, for example, it hears
Mr.. Douglas exclaim, as in his last New York
speech, that europe is too far off to have anything
to say about Cuba, Mexico,or Central America" it
will utter a formidable "hurrahv' and give the
'Little Giant ovation.
1t gives pleasure to repeat that it is not the
intelligent and healthy part of the American popu
lation which prepares these triumphs and chooses
its representatives such grounds. But it i 5 the
majority, after all, which does so, and with the
majority is lodged political power. The crowd
reigns, and with the crowd the courters of the
crowd 1t is the crowd which, every four years,
elects the successor of Washington. Perhaps the
Conservative Washington would not be its idol to-
day.
SUFFERING IN MICHIGAN MIR. Jacob Ferris, a
member of the Michigan House of Representatives
representing the district composed of the counties
of Montcalm, Isabella, Mecosta, Osceola and Clare
writes to DR.. Bellows, of New York, asking assis-
tance for the people of those counties. Mr. Ferris
saws:
Before | left home, the Supervisors of eight
towns made known to me the startling fact that
there not provisions in their respective towns
sufficient to supply the Inhabitants for thirty days.
nor any means to procure them this is in addition
to the distress in Isabella county.
In the region referred to- the settlers are scatter
ed over wide extent of country, from TWENTY-FIVE
to hfty miles from stores, places where any sup
plies can be had. These unfortunate men have
been in the woods just long enough to have expen-
ded the means brought in with them; the entire
failure of the crops leaves them without food, and
the more fortunate without the means to pay for
work. This great calamity has come upon us just
at a time when unable to do more than bare
ly to sustain ourselves without contributing to the
relief of the sufferers around Yet all are try
ing to do something. The Spring rains drowned
out the crops, and the myriads of squirrels left
scarcely an ear of corn or head of wheat.
These suffering people industrious, frugal,
temperate, and-sadly unfortunate. Unless our
humane friends at the East will help us in this fear
fnl crisis, the suffering must be great if famine
does not ensue.
Arrangements have been made for me to act as
agent for these sufferers in making their wants
known. We have men and teams in readiness to
bring in corn and other supplies from Southern
Michigan and from Indiana as often as means can
be procured for that purpose. Money here is near
ly as scarce grain.
Our estimates are that between fifteen hundred
and two thousand families are on the verge of alb
solute want; some suffering dreadfully now; some
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