The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-14
I WAsHINGroN cORREsPoNDENCE.l

lWASh1N GTON COhHESfONDER CE.
DULL TINES IN THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF BANK
ING TO ISSUE PRocLAMATIoN-MR. LINCOLN TO
KEEP CLIENT TILL AFTER THE FOURTH OF "AnoH-
FORT MoULTRIE GARRIsoNED. &r-, So.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th, 1860.
Washington looks like Goldsmith's Deserted Viii
lage. The streets empty, and the grass would
grow in the streets if the soil would per-
nit. The people, at least those you meet,
look detected though they had parted
with their last copper, and knew not where
the next was to come from. The hotels are
in transition state, wall being covered
with paper in process of being pasted on, and
the other with the dingy relics of last winters
smoke and dust. About the spacious and dusty
halls, in the seats covered with dirty cloth, are to
be seen few struggling relics of last winters lob
by, who, failing to get their bills through, have
starved and dwindled during the summer into seedy
| and dilapidated specimens of humanity The shop
| keepers stand at their doors in a brown study
cursing the unkind fates and allowing their bills to
| lie over on the pretext of hard times and imminent
revolution. They anxiously inquire the last news
from the South, with half smothered curse
against South Carolina The banks have shut
down for a month back and stagnation rules the
hour.
Bad as this picture is, it is hardly exaggerated.
city is more dependant for its prosperity the
permanence of our existing institutions than Wash
| ington, and the general uncertainty and distrust
are therefore keenly ielt here than any where
else.
l think, however, the good time coming is not
lar OH. Among rejecting men the impression pre-
walls that the furry at the South is nearly over,
and that after the first paroxysm, the sober second
thought will restore the patient to health
No less a man than Mr.. Riggs, the banker, is
quite satisfied that in 30 days matters will come all
right, aud that the dissolution of the Union will be
postponed till future day. He viii! prove the hon
esty of his opinion by promptly paying up his pro-
portion of the late government loan.
Much that is sent from here to the New
York Herald, and other sensation papers of
the North, is manufactured out Of the whole
cloth. Although the President has had fire.
qaent consultations with his Cabinet with regard
to his forth coming message, he has never entertain
ed the idea of issuing any special proclamation rel
alive to the existing state of affairs. In his
sage he will of refer to the troubles of the
country and will give sound and conservative ad
vice to those who have become unduly excited and
to those who have unnecessarily created the stir.
1t Is also absolutely certain that Mr.. Lincoln, un
less other circumstances should arise will put forth
no declaration of principles, until, as President
the United States IL becomes proper for him to do
A few days ago. the New York EUenimg Pos
found great fault with the President and Secretary
of War, for leaving Fort Moultrie, which com
mands the harbor of Charleston, ungarriSoned
The Post was in error in its statement. Three com
panies of United States troops for time past
have occupied that post, and they deemed am
ply sufficient to guard it against any surprise.
troops has been medtated, but the precaution ha:
nevertheless been taken.
, Very large bets were pending here on the result
IN Virginia, and for some days tho State has beer
evening by eFS I
: Gon ne3iority. The Bell men have been rary NV
iucKy betters, losinr iargel, ON Baltino~' ~
} Maryland and Viz 4sInla.
But few members of Congress have yet arrived
, Among those who have been here for some time, i
Mr.. Wigfa, the Senator from Texas, whose impul
sive temperament has led him to take very ultr
position. He is in favor of resistance to the ex
tremity against Lincoln, and be very freely ant
boldly expresses his views. 1t is not howeve
generally believed that his State will sustain hin
in the course he has marked out.
The garrisOning of Fort Moultrie referred t
above was quietly executed some time ago, ant
| may or may not have been done with reference t
the events which have since occurred. No appre
henson is felt here that Virginia North Carolin
4 will follow the lead of the Palmetto State unles
coercive measures should be attempted against tn
latter. In that case, results could not be predicted
but it is beyond question that such action woui
precipitate us into fatal civil war. Nothing q
t, the sort, however, is threatened.
AS the designations of Southern Senators onl
date from the 4th of March next, and do not tax
!. effect Immediately, it is hoped that events wi
v meantime occur which will induce them to reca
their action 1t will be we'll to receive all the -four
+ ishng Washington dispatches, published in tn
J.. New y ork papers, with many grains of allowance
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IMPORTANT LAND SUIT IN MICHIGAN.-The Detro
Free Press states that important suit involvin
the title to large amount of property, is to com
. before the United States District Court in Detroit
at the next term. The case arises from one of tn
old French grants, upon which Congress has mad
: an appropriation, and includes the cesson of bt
: tween fifty and a hundred thousand acres of Ian
+ lying on the Michigan side of Saul ST. Marie,
, tract which contains the Saul Canal, the village
= St. Marie, the Saul Railroad, and numerous in
!, provements in the way of farming, building, &C.
The tract extends sixteen miles the Saul rive
n | and the same distance westward.
\ The grant made during the reign of Lou
u XIV. when the country was in the possession
: the French, in favor of the Chevalier de Reopen
It tgny. The descendants of this nobleman hav
. laid claim to the property, and, after long cor
= tnued efforts, have succeeded in inducing Congress
- to recognize their right by special act, whic
/ authorizes the appointment of commission to al
q bitrate on the value of the entire tract, incudin
= improvements; the aggregate value decreed b
:, these commissioners to be awarded to the grantee
~ in government lands elsewhere located. The vau
e Of the tract is something fabulous, as the publ
It works and private improvements have enhanced
o. immensely. 1t is the design of government to il
= terfere with of the rights of citizens resdin
- or owning property in the district, but to quietl
y assess the present value and remunerate the graz
= tees by the appropriation of unencumbered land
n This arrangement was effected by compromise.
The case is to be brought before the United State
! Court for a confirmation of the title deeds, an
e other necessary legal formula. The grantee, MOI
sieur Favangey, French gentleman, resident
8 Guadalupe, West Indies, is at present in the cit
. experimenting the CASE Senator Benjamin,
Louisiana, is his counsel, and win arrive from Ne
Orleans during the present month to take charge
the suit.
r The Grand Jury of Campbell county, Va, hav
n found true bill against Geo. w. Hardwicke, ed
tor of the Lynchburg Republican, for shooting an
killing Joseph Button, of tho FirSiniaa, at Lynct
u burg, last June.
!, The value of the hop crop of the United State
Il this year, is estimated at 81 ,000-nearly all
!, 0tsego, Oneida and Madison counties, N. Y.
, MARRIED.
l. On the 1lth Infant, by Rev Father OReil'y JAMES
>, ENSOR to ESTHER J. CO. both OF this city =
- On the Sth instant, by Rev. j. D. Benedict DAVT
Is BRUCE to ELLEN L. V. FRASIER. =
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l. On the 18th instant WILLIAM MOORE, in the 45th yc
d CT ms age a native of Dublin, Ireland.
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> !. agents for Colts Patent Fire Arms
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