The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-12

AMERICAN VS.. ITALIAN MARBLE FOR CAPITOL
| EXTENsIoN.-The Secretary of War received pro-
posals and awarded contracts six months since for
| the construction of about one hundred marble pill
lars for the porticos of the new wings of the Capt.
! tol. The contract made with the Maryland
! Marble Company of this city, and orders duly
issued to the experimenting engineer, Capt. Frank
! lin, to execute it, but he declines doing so, and
writes the Secretary of War requesting him to
consider his order and allow the purchase of Italian
MARBLE instead of American. 1t is said that the
action of Captain Franklin is influenced by the
course of certain members of the Senate Committee
| on Public Buildings and Grounds, of which Mr..
! Bright is chairman and Mr.. Davis is member,
both of whom used their efforts to induce the com
mittee to report bill for the purchase of Italian
marble. The quarres of the Maryland Company,
situated in Baltimore county, few miles from this
city, have already furnished immense quantities of
| this material for the instruction OF the public
buildings at Washington, which has always
been considered of superior quality and fitness for
building purposes. Patriotic motives alone, il
nothing else should consrain the government to
purchase native material in preference to foreign,
for the building of public works.
| On Friday last the following resolution was sub
mitted in the Senate by Mr. Bigler, and considered
| by unanimous consent and agreed to:
ResoiCcd, That the President of the United States
| be requested to communicate to the Senate, 1t in
! his judgment not incompatible with the public inte
rest, the letter of j. F. Connolly 20 the Secretary
| of War, dated about the 2Gth January, 1850,
in relation to his offer for marble columns for the
porticoes of the Capitol extension also all orders
or Instructions and action of the Secretary of War
and Of the superintendent of the Capitol extension;
and also any communication that may have been
made by the contractors in relation to said columns
or to the contracts or bids therefor, not already
communicated to the Senate.
Mr.. Charles BouIden, of Cecil county, was thrown
from his wagon Thursday night last and killed
An lrishman discovered the body and robbed it OF
$40 which was found on his person and which he
confessed taking. He was committed to Jail.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Confederdcy calls
upon the South to contribute to the support of the
New England shoemakers in their struggle with
their masters, and offers to subscribe S00 to begin
with.
OBJ. Mattison of Congressional corruption meme
ry, has, if we may credit the Utica papers, been
cutting up some characteristic capers in the bank
of which he president, and has been removed
from his place.
The second trial of VIM. 7. Talbert, in dicted for
the murder of John A. Gnldsborough tx Hartford
county, will be taken up the 10Th inst, by the
Howard County Court, to which the case had been
removed.
They seem to be unfortunate in their architects
at Lawrence, Mass; the dome on the Jail lately
erected has been found to have settled some three
inches, and is now considered in dangerous con
| dition.
Two girls of highly respecta lie parentage, at
| tempted to eope from Washington city on Friday
! last to New York where they stated they intended
! to 60 upon the stage.
The son of Mr.. L. Day, OF Howard county, hcct-
dentay shot himself on Saturday last, the whole
charge of the gun entering his breast and killing
him instantly.
Four boys were poisoned near Fort Wayne Ind
! on the 5th inst by eating the roots OF Wlid ParSS
nips. One of the lads died, and the others were an
made dangerously ILL.,
Six negroes, owned by Wiley S,U'tb, m tbs :? Sd inst
| field district s. o., were uro"ne" va
while fishing
A monument is about to be erected in n Philadel-
pbia to the memory of the late Rev. "eo' onan-
| dler.
from San S,y Says Pbs
| the vocalist and her HUSBAND nave sep"ra'eS' Ane
cause is jealousy.
Now Orleans papers report large number of
counterfeit 500 notes the Louisiana State
| Banks.
In Rochester, ,on Tuesday "a desperate attempt was
made to break Jail. The prisoners, Robinson and
Rice, were detected and heavily shackled,