The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-10
IMPORTANT FROM VENEZUELA.

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Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Jornall
| CARACAS, December Is, 1858.
majority of the members of the convention
| having reported a resolution granting a general
amnesty to all political offenders up to the 29th
ult, it was unanimously adopted, and will 90 into
effect on New Years Day, when the new consttu-
tlon Is to be published. Though nothing has been
said in regard to General Monagas, it is probable
that he VIII not be allowed to return once to the
country Monagas and his family at Port au
Spain, Trinidad, and not in Paris, as reported in
the Spanish papers published in that CITY,
! The convention have authorized the executive
power to amend the tariff on the following
basis, viz:
1st. The articles specified in the tariff of 1856.
paying the same duty per tariff of 1S4l, are to
| remain subject to the same duty.
"a The articles paying higher duty per tariff of
1885, as compared with tariff of 1S41 to be reduced
twenty-five per cent.
| 3D. The articles admitted free per tariff of 1S4l
and not per tariff of 1856, to be admitted free
4th Iron, copper, agricultural implements ma
chneries for mills iron tubes for water and gas
ice, and all sorts of materials for the construction
| OF railroads and telegraphs, to be admitted free.
The new tariff thus amended is to go into effect on
the first proximo.
The new law offers rsmany advantages to the United
States, as most of the articles admitted free are
shlPped from their ports. The tariff allows a
reduction on all kinds of provisions and some few
are made free.
reading, and will be ready for publication in about
a fortnight The provinces have the full control
and management of their municipal laws and cleo
tlons, with an attorney appointed by the general
government. The passport system has been entire
~ abolished, and all persons allowed to enter or
leave the republic freely unless the courts at the
request OF creditor, should exact previously the
settlement of debts contracted in the country bv
parties on the eve of departing.
GEN. ARCHIBALD HENDERsoN-The Washinuon
Star, IN noticing the death of Gen. Henderson saws:
The deceased had been walking about apparenfly
In his usual health during the morning Returned
from long walk about O'Clock, p. NJ. his usuaI
dinner hour and feeling somewhat fatigued, he
liseil on sofa In reclining posture, with
MS head resting on an arm of the sofa. The SER
want, ON ringing the dinner bell observed that he
dId not appear to notice it, and went to rouse him
II he was discovered to be dead Not feature of his
face was changed, and from the natural disposition
OF the limbs, it apparent that death came with
out struggle, and the good man and brave soldier
had passed to his final rest without suffering in any
respect the bitterness of death.
The deceased was born in the year l7S3 in the
town OF Dumfres, Virginia, and entered the SER
wee OF this country in 1906, being then twenty
tnree years OF age He was on board the Constitu-
tlon ana commandant of the marine corps in the
celebrated battle between that ship and the Guer-
rlere, during the last war with Great Britain
, lie TOOK an active part in the Greek campaign, in
the years 1867, having volunteered to that SER
vice, an example which was followed by every
! member of his staff.
In the register at the Adjutants Office, Marine
| Barracks, we find the following entry: "Archi-
PAID Henderson, commanding Brigadier General
py DreVet, 4th OF March, lS43, to take rank from
January 9th, 1887, for gallant and meritorious SER
wees wees while m in command of the marines in Ala
bama, Florida, and Tennessee, during the cam
palgns against the hostile Indians"
The Philadelphia EUening Journal saws: In pri-
vate llfe no less than in his public relations and
intercourse, General Henderson was high toned
ana polished gentleman, and true-hearted, brave
and honorable man. In his death the corps of
which he was the chief officer will lose most ac-
compished, faithful, and distinguished member,
/ q M man hnnn
circle in which he shed the pure moral light and
genial benignity of his character and life. He will
be succeeded in command by Lieut.. Col. John
Harris, now in charge of the Marine Barracks,
New York.
RAILWAY AMONG THE V1NEYARDs.-The Paris
correspondent of the National htelIigencer SAYS:
Impulse to enterprise of ''pith and moment seems
to spread itself about the Old World The Rhine.
for instance, has become the theatre of events in
singular contrast to legend and travellers lore
The last sections of the railway its left bank,
from Cologne to Coblentz were inaugurated few
days ago in presence of Teutonic knights princes,
and digntaries of Aulic mark. The whole route
is now open for traffic. bridge over the Mosee
between Rolandseck and Cobentz, has excited the
admiration of engineers. 1t is 030 Prussian feet
long, and fifty above water mark. In less than
year the entire rail from Mavence to Cologne will
be In service. The expense of some of these Euro
pean works is often incredible. Eighteen months
ago your correspondent, passing from Mannheim to
Heidelberg, found himself in conversation with one
vi great laHu pFOprletOrS OF the country, who
pointed out interesting spots we flew over the
most favored crenie-detd-creme plantations and many
miles OF the route, my companion informed me, had
cost the company as much as a ducat vine. A
ducat IS equivalent to about S240; and the width
of the road is not less than twenty feet through this
precious district You may, therefore, understand
ing that on square yard of land grown at least
three vines, form idea of cost of mere right of
way. The property, think, is a private estate of
the Duke of Nassau. As he is the only sovereign
who continues to levy tolls upon what a national
German German song has long insisted upon calling the
| "beloved free Rhine" it may be supposed he re-
celved the best current prices for his land.
THE AMERICAN TRACT SocrErY.-For two wears
past the New York Independent has been 'warring
| against" the American Tract Society. All the
friends OF that print, and all other persons who
loved virtue and hated oppression, were exhorted
to withhold all further contributions from the So
ciety, until it should come to its senses and duly
appreciate the efficacy of the Underground Rail
road, as means of grace. The effect of these ex-
hortations is shown by the following extract from
! the New York Observer:
The receipts of this Society for the month of
December S93,12l s5. In nine months ending
December 81, they have been, for publications sold
Sl64, ,l27 81 and in donations and egacies $40 899
54, making total of S235 O2s IS, being ST. 3l7 40,
more than in the corresponding months of last
year.
In the path of duty there is safety, strength,
prosperity, and victory. Timid friends may falter
Secret foes may become open enemies. But God is
always with the right. Let the Church hear and
know that the receipts of the American Tract So
ciety were greater by thousand dollars in
1908 than IN the corresponding months of 1857!
| EXECUTIVE ADJOURNMENT OF THE ARKANSAS LEG
| IsLATURE.-Governor Conway, of Arkansas, has
mad to resort to the unusual exercise of the an
| thorty vested in him by the Constitution of that
State, to adjourn the Legislature bv Executive
proclamation, under the following circumstances:
| Previously to the 23d utimo, disagreement had
occurred in the two Houses in regard to the time
adjournment, and n nt
pearing in either branch, constitutional power
existed other than to adjourn from day to day and
send for absent members, which proceeding would
have been Intellectual in procuring the immediate
| attendance of the absentees The Governor,
therefore, adjourned the two Houses on the 23d
ultimo, to the 18th of the present month, by pro-
clamation transmitted to each member.
The sickness of some members and sickness in the
families of others are given the reasons for the
| large number of absentees.
| TheNew York Tribune learns from what IT regards
as good authority, that the late Court of Inquiry
called at West Point to investigate certain charges
brought against Prof. Mahan by First Lieutenant
Norton has made a report to the Secretary of War
exonoratng the Professor from every single charge
produced against him, while at the same time ex-
pressing an opinion that in one of his private letters
he perhaps unduly censured Lieut.. Norton To the
| many officers, who, during the last twenty-five or
thirty years, have received their education at that
Point, the decision will give unqualified pleasure.
The Cape Town (Cape of Good Hope) Monitor of
Nov. 10 says:
"Letters have just been received in Cape Town
from DR.. Livingstone. He has arrived in safety as
far up the Zambezi as Tette and Ae and his whole
party were in perfect health and high spirits. OF
his Makoloos, whom he had left there two years
before, (about $50 in number) thirty had died of
smallpox, and six more had been killed during his
absence. The remainder were still at Tette, and
would proceed up the country with him.
The Cincinnati Gazette, January 7, notices an ac-
cdent on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, caused
by decayed tie at curve few miles below the
city. Two passenger off the track and fell
over an embankment about ten feet high. In the
descent they turned partly over, throwing the pas
sengers against the seats and sides with consdera-
bic force; Nearly every person in the was
more or less bruised, but no one was seriously hurt
The confusion that followed the upsetting of the
cars was greatly increased by the wood work taking
fre from the stove, nearly suffocating the passen-
gers Some of the gentlemen who retain ed their
presence of mind, promptly extinguished the fire
by water conveyed from the canal in hats.
The YATES AND THACKERAY SoUABBLE.-It is
whispered that the unhappy squabbe which has
agitated the Garrick Club, to whether or not
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