The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-05
WASuINCroN NrMS

w ASlllNGION NEWS.
A Democratic caucus of the Senate have agreed
to adhere to the appropriation bills and nothing
else of any Importance, until they disposed Of
The tendency of this action is to shelve the Tariff
BILL which creates good deal of i'll feeling. The
probability is that if the Tariff bill is not reached
the twenty-one million loan provided by it will be
asked for in separate bill, but will probably re-
ceive the united opposition of the friends of the
tariif.-lt is understood from private letters re-
ceived by late foreign mails that the Turkish gov
ernment, so far from having abandoned the project
OF increasing its navy, has determined to make
contracts with American shipbuilders for the early
construction of at least two first-class vessels of
war. This will incite fresh and laudable rivalry
among our enterprisng naval architects.
cording to information at the Navy Department.
the Niagara will be ready for sea about the LIST of
July, when the Japanese will embark. The breaks
In her machinery are attributed entirely to the
carelessness of the engineers.-Although motion
was entered to reconsider the vote respecting the
Mexican treaty, it is nevertheless understood that
the subject will not be brought up again this
slOn.-lt is now believed that the adjournment
of Congress will not take place before the first of
July. 1t seems utterly impossible for the really
necessary legislation to be accomplished before that
time-John Covode, chairman of the famous, or
infamous, Investigating Committee, has written
letter to his constituents emphaticaly DECLINING a
denomination to Congress.
RAREY IN ARABIA.-Rarey, the horse tanner has
been spending some time among the Arabs and
their horses.
tves" in subdung the ferocity of the Pacha's stud
and by exhibition of his power over the horse
creation before the resident Consuls. His pursuit
after the Bedouin camps, however, unsuccess-
full. three days ride in the desert convinced
him that they beyond his reach; and when
Informed that they were more than twenty DAYS
journey beyond the Jordan, he abandoned the
search, contenting himself with seeing all the
horses In JeI usaten, Damascus and Beirut. One
incident connected with his visit Syria is of pc
cuar interest. Mr.. Johnson the U. s. Consul
introduced him to the somewhat famous Ayoub
Bey, who presented Hon. VIM. H. Seward of New
York, while visiting Syria, last summer, with
three fine Arabian horses, which are to be for
warded to the United States by the first opportu-
nifty. lnasmuch as Ayoub Bey claimed for these
horses the best blood in SYRIA our Consul was anx-
ious to obtain Mr.. Rareys opinion upon these spe-
cimen horses, which to be shipped to Au-
burn, New York. The Bey ordered out the Sew
ard horses, or two of them rather, for one was
absent IN the mountains, and they were trotted M
ana down the paved courtyard, to the great delight
OF those who were gathered to witness some grand
exhibition. There was exhibition, but Mr. Ra-
rey, after examining them, declared himself better
pleased with them than any others he had seen in
SYRIA. One is colt of 2 years and the other a
large bay of years. Mr.. Rarey says the Arabian
horse is smaller and less snowy than the American
horse, but more intelligent and doce.
THE BrRTH-PLACE OF WAsHINGToN.-Some wears
since Lewis WASH ngton, descendant of the Gene
raj, presented to the State of Virginia the lot OF
land In w eStmOreianQ county, on winch stOOQ the
house in which the father of his country first saw
the light of day. This done with view of
having the spot marked by some suitable monu-
ment by the State. We learn that it is the inten-
tion of the Governor and Secretary of the Common
wealth to proceed to Westmoreland county during
the present week, to examine into the present con-
dition of the birthplace of Washington" ceded
to the State by his descendant. They propose hav-
ing the ground Zone or more acres) enclosed and a
roadway made to it. 1t lies on the Potomac river.
A monument will be put up to designate the spot.
A piece of the hearth-stone of the ancient edifce
(perhaps the only remaining relic) is now in the
State Capitol in Richmond. MANY years since a
marble slab denoted the place of Washingtons first
home, but the mutations of time and chance it is
believed, have caused it to disappear.-Richmond
Wing. at8a-
Two DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES SUCCESSFULLY
charleston Mercury argues in favor of running two
Democratic candidates-one to secure the heaviest
vote possible in the North and Northwest and an
other to accomplish the same end in the South. In
this manner the largest number of votes will be
taken from the Republicans in the Northern States
and the election will be inevitably thrown into the
House of Representatives, where South Carolina
will be equal to New York, Alabama to Pennsylya
mia, and Mississippi to Ohio, as each State will
there cast single vote, This, the Mercury claims.
would break up all combinations, which cluster
around individual candidates for the Presidency,
and ultimately secure the election of candidate