The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-19
THE REFORM MOVEMENT


The following note from VIM. II. Norris ESQ
yesterday. The information which it communicates
comes appropriately and with authority from that
gentleman, as the efficient Chairman of the Com.
mttee under whose direction the reform measures
Of last winter were matured, and we transfer the
note with pleasure to our columns not only as an
act of justice, but appropriate tribute to the
arduous and disinterested labors, for which the
community has so signaly rendered its acknoyl-
Judgements:
BALTIMORE, Oct. II, 1860
Editors Of the baltimore San: | see by your pa
per of yesterday that you have done me the honor
to refer to my and services in connection with
our municipal regeneration. | owe it to gentlemen
who shared at my invitation in the arduous labors
of preparing the laws which have operated as the
republican machinery by which intestine usurpa-
ton has been expelled, not to permit myself nearly
alone, to have appropriated to me a common honor
especially very generally they were men who
after battle do not desire the parade of entering
the gates of the city as victors, nor to rummage
for spoils the pockets of the slain.
The City Reform Convention appointed the fol.
lowing committee to draft the necessary legal
measures: VIM. Henry Norris, chairman; P. Fran
els Thomas, |. hewitt Steele S. Teackle Wallis
Nelson Poe.
sociates in task the following gentlemen
who were not members of that convention, and
who by day and night for a period of SIX weeks
gave their time, talents and patriotism to their du
ties: Hon. j. V. l.. Mcmahon, Hon. John Mel
son, George NJ. Gill, j. Mason Campbell, Geo. VIM.
Brown, G. Jervis Spencer, c.. J. NJ. Gwinn.
In one of cur early consultations, the Hon. Rev
erdy johnson participated, and would have con-
tinued to do so if he had been in the city, Indeed
almost the entire Bar would have desired to have
shared in labors but there had to be selections
in order that the committee should not be too large
for practical purposes. l know it will give you
pleasure to add these names to the historical tablet
which is to give few days remembrance to services
which terminated that anarchy which drove a
Governor from the city, (for practically his author
lty over this portion of the State was nullified
and erected for the period of several years this mu
riclpality into an organized mob, with all the an
paratus of mayor, city council, courts grand iurv
sheriff, and police by day and night to carry out its
behests. Very respectfully,
WEI HENRY NORRIS.
A PosroFFIcE ORGAN.-Mr. j. Holbrook, the
well-known agent of the Postoflice Department,
has issued the first number of his new paper, The
United States Mail and Posto6ce assistant. 1t is
handsome, readable sheet, commenced under the
auspices of the Postoffice Department A decided
and complimentary letter from Postmaster General
Holt appears in It's prospectus. The MaH is de-
signed for the use of all classes of merchants, as
well as for Postofce employees, and the columns of
the specimen number embrace large mass ofprac-
teal items and general information on postal SUBJ
jects affecting commercial and social interests.
The ANGLo-FRENoH WAR IN CHINA.-The Depart
ment of State received advices on Wednesday
morning from Mr.. Ward, our Minister in China
He had left Shanghai, in company with the Rus
sian Ambassador, and would proceed at once to the
feiho, for the purpose of looking after the inter-
es's OF their respective governments, and also to