The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-15
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ia, 1852
The PRESIDENT having notified the Senate that he
had approved and signed the bill for the admission
Of Oregon into the UNION, the two Senators from
the new State this morning presented themselves
and were sworn into office. According to the usual
custom they drew lots to decide to which of the
three Senatorial classes they should be assigned
the class whose term expires the 4th March
next, that whose term continues until two wears
after that date, or the third whose term ends in
four years from the beginning of the new Congress-
Gen. Jos. LANE, drew the middle class, andso holds
his seat little over two years, and DELAzoN SMITH
some time known as "Del usion,") drew the short
term-thus laying down his new fedged honors in
q little over two weeks.
Mr.. HUNTERS speech to-day, upon the tariff ques-
ton, was beyond doubt the ablest vet delivered
upon that subject. Certainly, he presented the
strongest possible argument that is to be made
against increase of the tariff maintaining that
If Congress will authorize temporary relief to get
over the immediate effects of the late revusiOn
within few months the revenue under the tariff
OF 1857, is certain to be found equal to all the ne
cessties of the public SERVICE and the rapid extnc-
ton OF the public debt. His remarks were listened
to with profound attention, and were we'll calcula
ted to make decided impression upon his col
leagues.
The policy of the HUNTER men in Congress is to
pass the bill for the reissue of Treasury notes for
lars. The probability is that they have sufficient
strength to carry that measure; and that when the
relet 1t will afford has been thus secured the forces
OF those who now insist upon Tariff revision will be
materially reduced There is good deal of strength
In this argument; and the fear of an extra session
as the consequence of failure to revise the Tariff
has decidedly diminished The Committee on WAYS
and Means, this morning, failed to con-
sderaton of the subject of Tariff revision thus in
dicaing their opinion of the hopeessness of further
present effort to come to an agreement.
The several Congressional Committees of Investi-
CATION are rapidly closing up their business and
preparing their reports Certainly it is high time
they were laid before Congress- if action upon them
isexpected during the brief remainder of the pre-
sent session. Some of the developments to be made
will startle the country not little The Report of
the Printing investigation it is said, will make an
| expose OF the public printing system, such as must
satisfy Congress of the necessity for instant and
radical reform. The constantly repeated statement
testify before this Committee is not truerras am
informed by himself. -. tsi.1s
A letter has been filed in the State Department,
from highly respectable American merchant at
Vera Cruz, making explicit and dsgraceful charges
against the UNITED STATES Consul at that port The
letter states that the Consul is well known to every
person in Vera Cruz an habtual drunkard,
scarcely a day passing without his being ntoxica-
ted, and frequently much as to be utterly un-
able to transact the ordinary business of his Office
The writer. refers to every American at Vera Cruz
in support of his statement and to at least one verv
respectable gentlemen now residing in Washington,
who fully corroborates his declarations The de-
lnquency of the Consul is the more serious because
Vera Cruz at the present is the seat of the Const
tutlonal Government, and, in the absence of any
american Minister the Consul is necessarily called
upon at times to fulfil diplomatic functions How
ever endurable it may be to witness incompetent or
unfit men in federal Office within the UNITED STATES,
this sending men to represent us abroad who brin
Their country and countrymen into reproach, is a
little too bad Is it impossible to find men to fill
these foreign positions with gentlemen and men
who are competent to serve with credit to them
selues and their Government?
The lecture on Europe and the War Prospects of
1852 delivered here on Saturday evening by Mad
anne MARIO was attended by most intelligent au-
dience, who were delighted with the ladys graphic
description of political events in Europe and espe-
licans of the old world to the public questions
likely soon to convuse large portion of Eurepe.