The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-16
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

We copy the following from the correspondence
OF the New York papers, written from Washington
on Wednesday.
The Senate Committee on the Post Office agreed
at their meeting this morning unanimously to re-
commend an entirely new system of postal SER
vice between the Atlantic and Pacific States. 1t
will authorize the Postmaster General to advertise
for proposals for carrying the mail twice a week
between st. Paul, Minnesota, on a line running
between the forty-sixth and fortv-eighth degrees
of north latitude, and Olympia, Washington Ter
ritory, and Fort Vancouver, Oregon, in twenty
days; also, twice a week from St. Joseph, Missouri
on line between the fortieth and forty-third de-
grees of north latitude, to San Francisco in twenty
days; also, twice week from st. Louis, by the pre-
sent overland mail route, via Fort Camanche, to
San Diego and San Francisco, in twenty DAYS; also
from New Orleans to San Antonia, Texas, and
thence to Fort Cananche, where it will connect
with the present overland route to San Francisco,
IN twenty days. This will give an overland SER
wee SIX times week between the Atlantic and Pa
clnc states through our own territory. 1t cOntem-
plates, OF course the entire abrogation of the pre
sent mail service by steamers and the Isthmus
The Senate resolution suspending the fifth section
of the Post Office Appropriation bill for letting out
the Post Office blanks to the lowest bidder, came
to the House to-day and it was referred to the
Committee on Printing. 1t was a matter of sur
prise that the Senate, after the passage of an act
destroying the immense patronage of the Post Of
flee printing, should authorize the continuance of
contract by which Mr.. Bowman, the Senate Prin-
ter, makes $4,000 per month in printing pIunder to
sustain the useless and sickly government organ
here and others elsewhere. 1t is hardly probable
that the House will in this resolution as its
committee on printing know that by putting this
work out to the lowest bidder the government will
save thirty thousand dollars per year II is a mat
ter of considerable comment that Mr. King the
Chairman of the Senate Printing Investigating
committee, and Senator Seward favored th is reso-
luton under the circumstances.
Minister McLane left this morning, charged with
the duty of protecting the interests of citizens
IN Mexico. To this end the services of the Gulf
Squadron are at his disposal. No danger is appre-
hended of collision with any of the great mari
time powers. Should any of them attempt to in
teryene in Mexican affairs against the Liberal Gov
ernment, our naval forces will sustain the authori-
ties recognized by the United States. The war
steamer Brooklyn will sail with Minister McLane
and Consul Pickett on board, for Vera Cruz, to-
morrow morning.
The Navy Department received this morning ad-
vices from Capt. Jervis, who is in command of the
Savannah, off Vera Cruz, who states that our Con
sui and the Juarez government had been notified
that the Miramon government is taking measures
to blockade Vera Cruz. This is confrmatory of
what has been heretofore stated 1t is also stated
that ships had been purchased and were leaving
Havana under the Spanish flag, but which, on
reaching the vicinity of Vera Cruz, would hoist
the MiramOn flag.
The election news received to-day from New
Hampshire, and two days since from Chicago,
eectrifes the Republicans, and is received by the
Douglas Democrats, according to the interpreta-
III,
ton to the Charleston Convention. This notice was
served to-day upon certain Southern Senators and
who profess to ignore Mr. Douglas
and the influence it bad upon them of thought
tul tendency.
Senior 0campO, the Mexican Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is daily expected in Washington. 1t is
understood that he is authorized to make any rea-
sonable modification that will the ratification
of the treaty; but 1t is impossible to make any
notifications that will overcome the constitutional
objections raised by Republican Senators that the
ratification OF treaty would be equivalent to a
declaration of war against the people of Mexico.
Senator lverson, of Georgia, has lately been
very busily on the track of some gentlemen of the
lobby who have reported his vote to have been sold
on one or more measures of the last Congress.
Mr.. Hickman is prepared to make a speech, as
soon as he can get the floor, on the aggressons of
the South against the North.
Messrs. Sedgwick and Humphrey, of New York,
and Washburn of Wisconsin, Republicans, are also
prepared to make speeches.
On the Democratic side, Messrs. Branch, Cox,
Hamilton and Holman are down for speeches at an
early day,
john DEAN, THE Ex- x-CoACHMAN.-Alluding to the
recent death of Mr.. Boxer, the wealthy wine mer-
chant, whose daughter few years since married
his coachman, John Dean, the New York corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Press says the i'm
preston seems now to prevail that, so far as her
own happiness is concerned, Miss Boxer did not,
after all, make so poor a match. Her husband,
soon after the marriage, was appointed to a clerk
ship in the custom house, which he still holds ard
the duties of which he discharges credtably to
himself and with fidelity to the Government lie
is a modest, unassumng man, has quiet but COM
Portable home in Williamsburg, is perfectly ire
proachable in his habits and associations, minds
his business, and is faithful and affectOnate
husband He avoids notoriety of every Sort and
pursues the way of an upright sterling man and
good citizen. Wherein is the famous John Dean
inferior to that of the late Mr.. Boxer?
The SUsQUfHANNA AND PHILADELPHIA RAILROAD
CoMPANY.-A bill Incorporating a company with
this title is pending in the Legislature of Pennsy-
vania. 1t authorizes a railroad from the borough
of Sunbury, in Northumberland county, or from
any point between said borough of Sunbury and
the borough of WilliamspOrt, in LycOmng county,
through the borough of Seinsgrove, SNYDER coun-
ty, and the borough of Liverpool, in Perry county,
with the right to connect with the PENNSYLVANIA
Central Railroad, or with any other railroad, now
made or hereafter to be made, at Harrisburg or in
any part OF Dauphin or Perry counties, and with
right to connect with the unburv and Erie, or
any other railroad now made or hereafter to be
made In northumberland or Lycoming counties,
said road to be made through the borough of
Lewisburg, if it is commenced a or north of said
borough OF Lewsburg, in Union county.
SrATIoN-HoUsE HOSPITALITY Late last evening,
Sergeant Matthews, of the l4th precinct police.
met an aged couple and two children in Grand
street, near the Bowery. The lady informed the
Sergeant that they had Just arrived from Herki-
mer county, by the late Hudson River Railroad
train, and were looking after the residence of an
acquaintance. Her husband was blind. They had
come to the city to have his eyes operated upon in
hope his sight might be restored. Being unable to
remember the number of their friends residence.
and having but little money, they were perplexod
about lodgings, and asked to be directed to some
respectable but cheap place To the statOn,hOuse
the Sergeant took them. After refreshments. Cap
tain Williams gave up his room to the old folks,
and in the sergeants rooms comfortable lodgings
were provided for the children. This morning
good breakfast was furnished them, and their
friends found-Ne'o York Post Of "Wednesday.
ACCOMMODATIONS IN CHARLEsToN.-Th Washing
ton Star Of yesterday, in an article on the rumored
''gouging" charges of the Charleston landlords,
says: We hear that party of Washington gen
tlemen have an agent now at the North looking up
a suitable steamship to carry to Charleston those
who may design attending from here She is TO be
capable of ailording first-cass state-rOom accom-
modations for two hundred persons at least, and
the charge for the passage there and back and
board while there, will be about SIS, which is in
the neighborhood Of the cost of the railroad fare
there and back We advise all who propose at
tending from this immediate neighborhood to
await the advertisement of this vessel, making
definite arrangements for the trip.
PICcoLoMINI MARRIED AND SETrLED.-The last
news from Europe will carry thrill .of sorrow
through many a manly breast. To break the awful
intelligence as gently possible, we quote the
from a London paper:
Piccoomini is married. She sang on Saturday
eek the Crystal Palace, and then left for Dublin
where the knot was tied. The happy posseSSor of
the fascinating singing bird is an Italian Prince,
Roman by BIRTH and a relative of one of the Cardi
nails He does not, as in many instances, marry for
the round sum realized by the vocalist but is
man of some tortune-for Italy.
On the election for local officers that is to take
place to-day in Norfolk two noted politicians have
made a bet agreeing between them that the loser
shall stand, for day upon the tre-plUg in front
of the Court House and sell apples.
The Marlborough Gazette says that the fisheries
on the Patuxent have already commenced opera
tions, and are prepared for a large business
though it is not yet possible to say what success is
probably in store for them.
The City Councils of Pittsburg are about to show
the "white feather There is a proposition
before the body asking indulgence from the Su-
preme Court in the matter of the levy of the rail-
road tax.
The Post Office of Jackson township, Pa, was
broken open and robbed Wednesday night.
Some twenty letters were rifed of their contents,
and about forty dollars in money stolen from the
drawer.
The National Inteliigencer says that unprejudiced
and competent critics have pronounced the new
statue of Washington model work of art, and
one that will add much to the reputation of the
artist
On Tuesday morning the building occupied as
the office of the Pittsburg Dispatch was partially
destroyed by fire. The burning OF the ouidlng
did not interfere with the regular issue OF the
paper.
At the meeting of the Washington city Art As
sociation ON Monday evening, the death of Rufus
Davis was announced, and impressive eulogies were
delivered by several of the members.