The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-24
LATEST NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
From California.
ARRIVAL OF TEHUANTEPEC STEAMER
AT NEW ORLEANS. .H" ~
TIRE SURE COMING.

| New ORLEANS, June 23-The steamer W. H.
Webb has arrived from Minatitlan, with dates from
San Francisco to the lst instant, via Tehuantepec
| The steamer Golden Age with 1000 passengers
and s., $4,000 in treasure had sailed for Panama.
Mexico was quiet according to the advices by this
| arrival. There rumors however, that the
Church party had taken Axaco.
Charles Muzzy, artist and correspondent of Har-
Pers HeeGy, was drowned at Hualanteo.
| SECOND DESPATCH.
a NEW ORLEANS June 23.-The advice per steamer
| Webb represent the health of the Isthmus to be
good the rivers full and the transit excellent.
!he ruins OF an ancient city had been discovered.
! 1t Is stated, near HuatulecO, which covers four
miles, with stone Notifications, the last extending
to the sea. Curious and rich antiquities have been
| found, vases of silver, etc.
United States Minister Mclean was sick at Vera
| Cruz.
General Cabas with 10, 900 men was about to
| invade Tehauntepec by the mountain road leading
| to the city of II Tehauntepec
| The advices from California mention a sudden ad-
vance in prices generally. Business was more ac-
tive. The accounts from the mines were hatteIing
| The advices from Fraser River were gloomy
The first message of Gov. Whitaker, of Oregon
has been received. The affairs of the State we're
generally prosperous.
Accounts from Honolulu say the tariff has been
increased by advancing duties from to 10 per cent
at the expiration of a years notice.
Judge Douglas Defining his Position
WASHINGTON, June 23.-The friends of Judge
Douglas here are in possession of the following let
ter explaining his position the subject of the
Presidency, and of which they have permitted
copy to be taken for publication
WASHINGTON, June %, 1859.
My Dear Sir Il have received your. letter. in
quring whether my friends at liberty to present
my name to the Charleston Convention for the
Presidential nomination. Before this question can
be finally determined, it will be necessary to under
stand distinctly upon what issues the canvas is to be
conducted. IT, as | have full faith they will the
Democratic rarty shall determine in the Presiden-
tial election of 1850 to adhere to the principles
embodied in the compromise measures of 1850,
and ratified by the people in the Presiden-
tia election of 1852 and reallirmed in the Kansas
and Nebraska act of 1854, and incorporated into the
Cincinnati platform in 1856, expounded by Mr..
Buchanan in his letter accepting the nomination,
and approved by the people in his election-in that
event my friends will be at liberty to present my
name to the Convention if they proper to do so.
H. on the contrary it shall become the policy of the
Democratic party, which | cannot anticipate to re-
pudiate these their time honored principles, on
which we have accepted many patriotic triumphs,
and in view of them, the Convention shall nterpOate
into the creed of the party such issues the
revival OF the African slave trade, a Congress
iona slave trade for the Territories; the doctrine
that the Constitution of the United States either
establishes or prohibits slavery in the Territories
beyond the power of the people legally to control
it, as other property, it is due to candor to say,
that, in such event, l could not accept the nom
lnation if rendered to me-
Trusting that this answer will be deemed sufici-
emily explicit, am, very respectfully,
Your friend,
[Sign d. S. A. DOUGLAS.
}. b. DOrr, Esq, Dubuque Iowa.
From Washington
WASHINGTON, June 23.-The opinion among gen
tlemen connected with the diplomatic corps is that
although the governments of Europe not engaged
in the present hostilites desirous of and hope
for peace, the complications grtRt that there
is almost an impossibility of preventing general
war. In such an event, there is doubt that Rus
sia viii array herself with France.
s. Calwell is the lowest bidder for supplying the
Philadelphia Navy Yard with COAL under the ad-
vertsement of the Bureau of Navy Yards and
Docks Walden Porter of Boston, will supply the
Gosport and Brooklyn Navy Yards and the Naval
Asylum Of Philadelphia; and Philander Aimes will
supply the Boston Navy Yard All the bids for
supplying coal unusually low, within 81 per
ton; and some as low S3.l4. These are the first
lettings under the recent law requiring coal for
val purposes, to be procured by contract, it having
previously been purchased by coal agents.
The bids for some of the other stores advertised
for by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, exhibit the
fact of artful calculations with view of securing
the awards. As one instance, writing paper offer
ed at several mills only ream the proposer being
aware that.there is comparatively but little of it
used while high prices charged other articles
the design being to secure lower aggregate bid
than other competitors who are not so well ac-
quainted with this particular ''trck of trade but
which is not uncommon in offering for Government
contracts.
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