The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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The City Council, apprehending that legislation
in the slave States against free negroes would have
the effect ofincreasng the numbers of that class in
Washington, took initiatory measures to prevent
such immigration; but a recent authoritative expo
stion of the city charter shows that it gives no
power of prohibition, and that legislation
that bject must be confined to prescribing in
advance such reasonable terms and conditions
of residence may tend to repel the idle and dis
orderly.
The report that the mail contractors had secured
extension of their paper for sixty days turns out
to be a mistake. At meeting of the contractors,
held on Monday evening, at which nearly all the
heaviest interests were represented, none appeared
to have a knowledge of any such extensions
Every day brings intelligence of the failure of
contractors all over the country, and those pre-
sent in this city in despair lest the fate
overtake them before an organization will be eff
fected.
Dispatches were received this morning at the
Department of State from Minister in New
Grenada. The pending questions between the two
governments are approximating to a speedy and
satisfactory adjustment. The present government
will use its best endeavors to urge upon the atten-
tion of Congress, which is shortly to assemble at
Bogota, an early ratification of the Cass-Herran
treaty, and the opinion is that it will be speedily
ratified.
1t is said that Mr.. Bowmans name will be
withdrawn Senate printer, and John c. Rives
substituted in his place. Some of the Senators
protest against this. Mr.. Rives has large print
ing establishment, and can proceed at once with
the work
The President has sent to the Senate the name
of Charles j. Faulkner Minister to France
1t referred 20 the proper committee, and
will probably be reported back and confirmed to-
day.
THE LONDON TINES on THE DEATH OF JOHN Brow
The following extract is the conclusion ofa leader
in the ''Thunderer," of December 10, the sub
iect of the execution Of John Brown:
Bells were tolled probably in every town in Mas
sachusetts, and many throughout the entire North.
Yet we will venture to say that in few DAYS
everything was quiet again, and John Brown, for
whom parallels were sought in history, sacred and
profane, was judged in his true light, cour-
ageous old man, maddened by the partisan warfare
Of the West and whom it would have been as well
for the State of Virginia to pardon, if possible
The truth is, that these meetings and demonstra-
tOns express only an impulse and not a conviction,
of the Northern people. There is not Ameri-
can in thousand who wond act on the principles
which were applauded in ''Tremont Palace" and in
numbers of other places after Browns execution
Happily for the peace of society and the security
of the republic, there is a strong conservative feel
ing throughout the Union; and Mr.. Garrison's
scheme for secession of the Northern States will
find favor only with a narrow clique even in his
own CITY. The central States of the Union, such
as New York and Pennsylvania, will never permit
the fanatics of either North or South to imperil
the fabric of American nationality. But their in
reference will never be required, for in Mas
are allowed expression only because they felt
to be practically harmless. These noisy and use
less demonstrations of so enlightened a community
as that of New England are, however, not without
their evil effect. They embitter the Shareholders
against the North, while they give them the con-
viction that the North fears to oppose them. The
Virginian authorities might have spared Brown,
had it not been openly boased in the frontier Free
States that he should be rescued on the very drop
by an army of aboitionsts Governor Wise was
told that he dared not hang Brown; that 1000 free
soilers could march from one end of Virginia to
the other; that the negroes would be made to rise
in earnest this time, and In short, section
of fanatics, in the name of the North, threw out
challenge to the entire South, and by so doing
/ sealed Browns fate. The Virgnians hanged the
poor old man, and the rescuers did not move, but
when the tragedy was complete began to indulge
in the useless defamation we have recorded. The
result will be to strengthen the South by the adhe
sion of that floating of opinion which in every
country lies between the two extremes. Whatever
may be the future of the negro race, no one in
his senses can believe that its regeneration can be
effected by melting it to mnrder planters and raw
ish their women, and, if any chooses to head an
outbreak OF this kind, he must expect to meet
fate which right-thinking men will not gorify with
the crown o. martyrdOm.