The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-26
ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT


All the interest of to-day's proceedings conferred
in the Senate, though the House did a faithful days
work in passing large number of local bills. Mr..
Dennisons (of Baltimore county, bill to repeal
the sections of the Code in reference to hucksters
in the city of Baltimore, published days ago
in The Exchange, passed the house. Mr.. McAlster
fired off another reform pop-gun, aimed at the
criers of your courts. do not speak thus to dis
courage Mr. McA., but if he is really in earnest,
why have his enquiries referred to the Standing |
Committees where they will never more be heard |
of? He could tale untold which would astonish |
the sea-serpent himself. Why not make a clean |
breast of it, and let out the immense multitude of
cats which he is supposed to have in his bag. Mr.
Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sent in
reply to the resolution of inquiry respecting dis
elimination on his road against Baltimore, which |
ordered on the journal.
The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Penipo-
Tertiary of the minority of the Senate to the Su-
perior Council of the clubs, which is now meeting
daily in your City Hall to pass ordinances for their
own benefit and that of their friends, returned this
morning in high glee, bearing he announced
from his place in the Senate "despatches' to the
resident Minister near this government-Mr. Vel
lott The Farmer ofLnganores" dispatches were
the stunning preamble and resolutions adopted by
the Council aforesaid of which he "was proud
to be the bearer" These were formally presented
with becoming gravity by the Senator from Balti |
more and their reading called for, which duty the
Clerk performed without moving any of the mus
Giles usually called into play by the sense of the
ridiculous The Senator from Frederick hearkened |
with rapt attention, and it was quite study to
observe the working of his countenance, his ges-
lures and his pantomme. Gabriel Ravel might
have taken hint or two from his performances
AS soon as Mr.. Brewer had waded through, the
gentleman from Lnganore and proposed, as
he wanted light and as the Senate wanted light,
that one thousand extra copies of the luminous
and brilliant document which he had been the hon
ored instrument of bearing from Baltimore to An
napolis, be printed for the use of the Senate. !
am glad to say that the Senate did not accede to
his request, and the protest will have to submit to
the obscurity of being spread on the journal of the
Senate and published in all the papers of the city
of Baltimore, which its authors, it seems, provided
for. Then the Senator from Baltimore and
presented memorial signed by Mr. Amos, and some
three hundred others, protesting against the pas
sage of the measure commonly called the Munich
pal Police Bill. Mr.. YelIott did these gentlemen
the honor to say that many of them were personal
acquaintance of his and had residences, which
were in some instances set opposite their names.
Then Mr.. Yelott presented another petition or re-
monstrance in the same words from other three
hundred equally respectable citizens, and then
another of smaller numbers, and had them refer
red. When these matters had been disposed of,
General McKaig rose and asked leave to bring in a
bill to repeal the hundred and sixth section
of the fourth article of the code of public local
laws, &c. This is the section giving the Mayor
and some of the Judges of Baltimore city power to
caliout the military in certain casesyour old city
guard law in fact. The history of this unexpected
move DOUBTS having arisen as 10 the flSnC
| of the Senate to act on House bills, SUCH before
| they had passed the House, it deemed proper
ec mGjori cautela to ask leave to introduce all the
| Baltimore measures de moro in the Senate, which
must be done on leave regularly obtained. SO OF
| course all the action taken bv the Senate yester
day on the Baltimore Bills, sent up by the House,
went for nothing. Mr.. Yelott was wide awake,
| and, when the leave was asked, demanded to know
| what was its purpOrt, and what was the nature OF
| the section proposed to be repealed Mr.. McKaig
| declined to make any explanation, when Mr.. y.
took up the code and, on turning it over, found, as
he thought, that the 4th article referred to Calvert
county, and had only about two hundred sections
| in all. So he was still more puzzled, and again
! called for an explanation MIR. McKaig said the
! leave was all right, and then Mr. 1ellott discov-
cred that the code had two 4th articles and that he
was standing right in front of one of the Baltimore
measures, in and possibly unexpected form.
| The Senator from Baltimore opposed the grant
| ing of the leave in long speech, in which he
went over the history of the mobs which have from
time to time taken place in Baltimore showing
| how important it was that the military should be
at hand to suppress such outbreaks, quite ignoring
the fact, which could hardly have escaped him,
| that the object of the measure which he was OPP
posing with all his might, was to take the control
of the military out of the corrupt or inefficient
hands where it now rests, for the very purpose of
using it to put down riots, especially such as the
| last five years have exhibited in the Monumental
! city.
Whenever, in the course of the running fight
| which ensued Mr. Yellott sat down Mr.. Kimmel
| rose up; Wnen MI. ell0tt spoke, MI hlmInel yes
ticulaed; and when Mr.. Yellott held his peace, Mr..
Kimme, so to speak, let his off. When Mr.. ell
| lott referred to General Smith, in connection with
| the Bank of Maryland riots, Mr. Kmmel pointed
! with his thumb over his shoulder at some dim
ghost of figure in Mr.. s. 0wings Hoffman's
| picture in the corner over the Committee Room
| door, which Mr.. kimmel had reason to believe, on
| good authority, intended for Gen. Smith, and
| Mr.. Iellott recognized the happy character of the
| gesture. When the ladies appeared Mr.. kimmel re-
| doubled his eloquence and absurdity, and brought
| down the house and the Presidents gave repeat
| eddy. 1t appeared however, taking the vote on
| the leave, that some misapprehension prevailed,
i for it was defeated by tie-Mr. Heckart, OF &C.
| ell, Democrat, voting in the negative, with the
| Americans. Mr.. McKag then asked leave to in
troduce the Police Bill, which was granted without
| opposition, but when he asked to introduce the
third bill of the SERIES (there being five in all Mr..
! Yeott manifested the same sort of opposition by
which he had succeeded in defeating the first leave.
Upon this Mr.. Goldsborough of Talbot, moved call
of the Senate, and when the absent members
| brought in, the third leave granted by vote
of II to9-a strict party divison-one OF the Amer
| lean Senators being absent. 1t is supposed that
reconsideration of the vote, rejecting the first leave,
will be had before the Senate adjourns, and that all
the Baltimore bills win be reported tomorrow, at
the farthest when they will be pressed through as
soon as may be.
THE BALTIMORE ELgcrroN RIoTs.-Under the fore
going caption the LOUSY lille Courier of Mon
| day says:
We publish this morning further accounts Of the
outrages in Baltimore upon the elective franchise.
| This excerpt confirms previous accounts that the
system of intimidation by personal violence has
become thoroughly organized in the Monumental
City, ana that the excuses of Baltimore elections
not to be treated sporadic of pO
pular ebuition. The Jacobin Clubs of France
| were not more thoroughly drilled in the art and
| mystery of harmonizing public opinion than are
| the so-called "Americans, of Baltimore. Several
| DAYS before the late election these indefatgable
men were in the field. They secured the city, as
eagerly bent upon finding Foreigners any
! Dublin FISHERMAN upon dredging for ''natives"
lrshmen, Germans, all who fell in their way were
carried off to subterranean cells, locked up, COM
PEELED from time to time to drink great quantities
| of whiskey-reduced, in short to state of com
plete submission. When the dav of election came,
these captives were paraded openly in the Streets
! in custody of guard, marched from poll to poll,
forced to vote five six times over, and finally re-
leased when the great issue had been decided, and
the "unbOught voice of freemen" had selected the
officers by whom the laws of an American commu-
nifty to be administered, and its rights de-
Tended. All this took place in wealthy city, in
open day, under the eyes Of organized city gov
eminent, and in defiance of every functionarv
| known to the law.
FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE.-The
late "shake" seems to have extended all over South
Carolina and Georgia correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, writing from Williamsburg dis
trict, says:
MR. EDITOR. ABOUT seven o CLOCK tDlS evening, a
strong shock of earthquake, or something very
like it, was felt at this locality. 1t was preceded
by rumbling noise resembling that produced by a
wagon passing over a bridge. The object of this
brief note is to elicit information through the press
whether the shock felt other localities in the
State, and at about what hour. A. W. d.
The Barnwell Sentinel says
On Thursday evening last, about seven O'Clock,
we experienced the shock of an earthquake. 1t was
accompanied by low, rumbling noise, like distant
thunder, and lasted for several seconds
The Winnsboro' Register says:
Many of our citizens testify to our town having
been visited Thursday evening about seven O'Clock,
with the shock of an earthquake; it very SEN
sibly felt in many places.
THE GETTYSBURG RAILRoAD.-We have received
the annual report of the Gettysburg Railroad Com
pany, which shows that the net earnings of the
road for the last year, and the first of the road
operation, to be Sl9,503.24. The expenses for
operating the road is shown to be 50 499l7 or not
quite half of the net earnings.
The report shows the whole cost of the road to be
S274 4S0.G4 and funded debt Of $50, 600, on which
the company pays per cent. per annum, and a
floating debt of S94,550, to pay which, without
resortng to the income of the road, the Company
has of the Mortgage Bonds SLY 900, and Stock I'M
paid SlS,152.36, and notes arising from sale of
Bonds 50, l67.
The report also states that an effort has been