The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-31


proportions perfectly symmetrical, her features
pleasing, but very petit; in motion she is graceful
and agile as a fawn. She is very confidng, will
come into your arms, as she did in ours, and allow
you to carry her, did. She dances, sings,
and recites her little poems, with artless grace
She is well named the Little Fairy resembling,
as she does, more than anything you conceive
of the little people whom the poets and story teers
inform us cut up such pranks by moonlight. No one
should miss seeing her.
FURTHER FROM EUROPE,
BY THE ARABIA.
In terestinS Details of Affairs in ItaIy--Gari-
baldi's Proclamation to the Neapolitans.
BoSToN, May 29.-The royal mail steamship
Arabia arrived at o'clock this evening. Her
news is mainly covered by the despatch from Hall
fax, but the details in regard to Italian affairs are
interesting. The following among Garibaldi's
proclamatons to the Neapolitan army:
"Foreign insoence reigns over Italian ground,
in consequence of Italian discord. But on the day
that the of Samuttes and Marley unite with
their brethren of Sicily, and you shall join the
Italians of the North. on that day our nation, of
which you are the finest part, shall resume its
place, as in former times, among the first nations
of Europe. | am an Italian soldier, and only as
spre to you drawn up side by side with these
soldiers of Wares and San MARITIME, in order jointly
to fight the enemies of Italy. G. GARIBALDI."
Another proclamation, addressed to the nhabi-
tans of Naples, says:
at is time for you to initiate the magnanimous
example of Sicily against the most impious of
tyrannes. To the periured, bloodthisty, race that
has so long tortured and trampled upon YOU, let
the free Government succeed which eleven millions
of Italians now enjoy; and for the foul Bourb0nic
flag substitute the glorious tri-color-happy SYM
boil of national independence and unity, without
which true and durable libertys impossible. Your
brethren of the North desire nothing more than to
see you join the Italian family"
[Signedl G. GARIBALDI,
G. RECCEARTH,
BARON SToCCo
Another proclamation to the Sicilians is as fol-
lows:
"S1cILIANs! | have brought YOU body of brave
men, who have FASTENED to respond to the heroic
cry of Sicily. We, the remains of the battles of
Lomhardy, are with you. All ask is the free
dom of our land. United, the work is easy. To
arms, thenl lie who does not snatch up the weapon
is a coward or traitor to his countrv Want of
is excuse. We shall get musIlets but for
the present any weapons will do in the hands of
brave men. The municipalities shall provide for
the children, women and old men deprived of their
support. To arms, all of you! Sicily shall once
more teach the world how country can be freed
from its oppressors by the powerful will of united
people. G. GARIBALDI.
Sr. PETERSBURG May 1S.-The announcement
that England would probably not offer opposition
to an inquiry by Russia into the situation of the
yin ist'as III IutheS, has gwen great Satisfaction
here.
CHINA.
Hong Kong dates of March 10Th state that Sir
Hope Grant had arrived.
Active preparations were being made for war.
The expedition for the North leaves early in April.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
THE CAPTURED AFRIcANs-REcUsANT WITNESSES
THE PREsDENT-THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS-
MISCELLANEOUS.
The House Judiciary Committee have authorized
AR mold do tn H.. Al
Senate bill providing for the captured Africans,
with an amendment changing the amount per head
for keeping them from one hundred to one hundred
and fifty dollars, and increasing the appropriation
from two hundred thousand to two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Mr.. Reynolds accompanies
the bill by report explanatory of its provisions
and the constructions which have been put by gov
eminent on the act of 1919. Mr.. Miles Taylor has
prepared an amendment to this bill, which he will
offer, to the effect that contract which may be
entered into by the President, under the authority
of this act, shall be renewed by him until CON
tract shall be entered into between the United
States and Great Britain making Joint provision for
the return of all Africans captured on the coast of
Africa on the same terms and conditons-The
Judiciary Committee of the Senate have agreed
upon a bill to compel the attendance of witnesses
who may be summoned by the Committee of either
House, and provide ministerial means for carrying
it into effect. Until a process of the Senate was
recently resisted, the existing legal authority
always regarded as sufficient, and had never be-
fore been seriously disputed. No will hard
ly question the policy or prOpriety of such an
enactment.-The President has at last decided
that he will not spend any time during
the coming summer at his favorite resort
he shall remain at the Soldiers Home or ac-
cept the invitation of Governor Letcher, of
Virginia, to enjoy few weeks relaxation at the
White Sulphur Springs, in that State.-The
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday,
unan mously agreed to report the Senate bill ap-
proprating ten thousand dollars to Townsend
Harris, for negotiating the treaty with Siam,
whichls intended as an acknowledgment of his
valuable services to the commerce in the East
The case of Mr.. Rynders, United States Marshal
has been considered by the President and Cabinet
and is not deemed one which would demand his re-
moval; The conduct of Miller, the deputy, admits
of no defence, but nothing has been shown to ind-
cate any completely of Rynders in the matter
lhose who We're most sanguine for adjourning on
the 18th of June, are satisfied that it can not
be done earlier than the LIST middle of july,
which will be earlier by three weeks than the
| Ihrty-tourth Congress ad ourned, when an equal
| ly prolonged contest was had for Speaker-
| Commissioner Hatch's report the Canadian re-
clprocity treaty is not only strongly opposed to
the main articles of agreement in that instrument,
put the administration also reported against
1t, and the treaty will be opposed upon the floor
OF the House.-Judge Douglas is recovering his
health, and will soon resume his seat in the Sem
ate.-Mr Seward is here, and will remain until
the end of the session.
PROPOSED TAX ON KNowLEDGE.-The Tariff bill
which has passed the House of Representatives I'M
poses most enormous tax on books. The present
duty English books is eight per cent ad ualorem
The duty under the proposed tariffs fifteen cents
pound weight To the uninitiated in book
craft the difference may not be apparent, but,
we viii show by the following extract from a
communication to the Providence Journal, that ON
most books the increase of duty will be more than
one hundred per cent:
''The duty ON a common-sized octave volume
weighing two pounds which costs one dollar and
half at eight per cent. would be twelve cents. Now,
the same volume by the tariff of fifteen cents
the pound weight would pay duty of thirty
cents, or more than double the present duty; or
take the Encyclopaedia Britdnnica-I suppose this
now costs $3.50 a volume in London and conse-
quently pays duty of twenty eight cents sup
posing the volumes to weigh nine pounds the duty
as as proposed VIII De Sl.55 volume, S2S.35 for
the twenty-one volumes. And it will be noticed
that this is work greatly neededed by orr schol
ars and libraries, and which no American nublishar
would think of reprinting. Take again the popular
series of the London books, known as Bohn's Stan.
dard Library, of which thousands are annually i'm
ported indeed We may add that more comics of
these books imported than any Others They
average about one pound weight each, and cost in
the very large quantities in which they are pro-
duced, about sixty-two and half cents volume
and pay duty of six and quarter cents. By the
new tariff the duty is fifteen cents, about one
hundred and fifty per cent. increase on the present
DUTY These instances present a fair average of
modern London books imported into the United
States and which will be affected by the tariff
On high priced books there is little difference be-
tween the two tariffs. For instance, London book
weighing three pounds, and costing So, now pays
fifty cents duty. BY the new tariff this would pay
forty-fve cents. The new tariff also proposes to
admit free of duty all books printed more than
thirty years prior to the date of their Importation
This is very WE'LL although it would be better to
make it ten years. But to double the present duty
on books merely to protect two three large pub
fishing houses is an outrage to literary men that
should not pass unnoticed.
The strikers organization in Lynn have voted to
devote the remaining funds in the treasury to the
defence of the parties indicted for rotous distur-
Dances in that city the occasion of the recent
strike.