The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-01
WASHINGTON NEWS

The TERRIroRIEs-TnE JAPANEsE-THE NAVY YARD
REPoRT-THE GUANo TRADE
The Territorial question is gradually assuming
new and grander proportions. The House Com
mittee on Territories have had before them the
matter of creating new territory, manufactured
out OF slices OF the northern section of Nebraska
and Dacotah 1t is proposed to christen the new
Territory Chippewa. Strong efforts will be made
to compel the passage of a bill establishing and or
ganizing Dacotah, to be created from portion of
Nebraska, and the extreme southern part of the
original territory of Dacotah. strong argument
In favor OF the immediate contraction by Congress
of the northern overland wagon route, urged by
the friends of that measure, is the fact that the
line, surveyed, runs almost exactly through the
middle of the intended territory of Chippewa.
This is part Of the great scheme, and it is
sidered by the Committee, of dispensing with the
cumbersome and expensive military posts on the
frontier by establishing territorial governments,
and investing them with sufficient power to pro-
tec their citizens and the immense number of trav-
oilers who must use that rOute.--As the time
draws near for the arrival of the japanese Embas-
sy, the desire increases on the part of the govern
ment to make their reception one OF the most
splendid and imposing ceremonies of modern
times. The Committee on Foreign AFFAIRS of the
House OF Representatives will probably report in
favor OF granting large sum besides the 900
already appropriated for the purpose of meeting
the expenses of the distinguished foreigners while
in the United States. During their stay in this
country, they will be the guests of the nation; and
the government will have them under its charge
and direction. Should New York or Philadelphia
conclude to offer them the civic Inequalities Gus
tomary on such occasions, the President will not
object. He has intimated to Captain Dupont that
he desires him to assume the charge of them, and
that gentleman is closet occupied in preparing the
details of their suitable reception.--Great ex-
element prevails in the Navy Department and all
ofits ramifcatons, in regard to the report of the
Board ofNayal Officers, who were appointed by
Secretary Toucey, year ago, to examine into the
alleged abuses of the several navy-yards. Instruc-
tions were given to this Board to proceed to the
investigation of affairs in the six leading navy
yards OF the country, in the month of April of last
| year. There is considerable mystery in regard to
| this report. Although it presented to the Sc
| cretary of the Navy about year ago, it slumber
ed in the pigeon-holes Of that department; until
! short time SINCE the House, by resolution, in
structed the Secretary to rescue it from its dusty
retreat. considerable number of copies were
! ordered by the House, but, strange to say, they
| have nearly all miraculously vanished that
now one cannot be got for love or money; when
the fact was circulated that the report contained
| suggestion urging the entire system as have
above stated, it created an immense sensation
| amongst the regiments of employees and profes
| sional hangers-on who have controlled the Navy
Yards for the last half century.--The CONNER
cial and agricultural interests will be agitated to
| learn that an important bill will shortly be intro
duced in the House, efecting the rights of claim
ants to the discovery of guano islands There is a
bill already before the House intended to regulate
| the trade in guano. Arguments will be made in
favor of restricting the trade from the islands dis
covered by American citizens to this country alone.
WErHERED's SUpERHEArED STEAM APPARATUs.-A
recent number of the London Times, in describing
the improvements ordered by the Board of Admi-
rally to be made on her Majesty's steam storeshp
Rhadamanthus, gives the following account of this
highly useful Baltimore invention, which is now
being adopted in the British service:
''The order further adds that the Rhadamanthus
Immediately after her trial will be fitted at the
| cost of Government, with the patent improved ap.
paratus of the Hon. John Wethered, a member OF
| the United States Congress, for the supply of
combined or ordinary and superheated steam
mixed, and which, it is stated, cannot fail, as
proved by previous experiments, to increase the
power of the engines, and also economic the con
sumption of fuel from 80 to so per cent. The mode
adopted IN carrying out the system is to attach
another steam pipe to the boiler for conveying
steam to be superheated to pipes, other contr
yances placed in any convenient form the
hire, or in the uptake or chimney of the boiler, oil
in separate furnace; the superheated steam being
added to the OF nary steam at or before its en-
trance into the cylinder. In its passage through
the superheating apparatus, that portion of the
steam is raised by the waste heat to temperature
of 500 deg. or 600 deg. Fahrenheit The heat thus
arrested is conveyed to and utilized in the cyn-
der by its action on the other portion of steam
from the boiler, which is more or less saturated
according to circumstances. The combined steam
is used in the cylinder at from 500 deg. to $50 deg
Fahrenheit, instead of at the low temperature a
which steam is generally employed. The effect o
using the two kinds of steam has already proved
the fact that the superheated steam yields por
ton of its excess of temperature to the ordinary
steam converting the vascular water, which it al
ways contains, into steam, and expanding it seve
raj hundred-tod; while, at the time, the or
binary steam Yields a portion of its excess o
moisture, converting the steam gas into a highly
rarified elastic vapor-in other words, into pure
steam at high temperature. Repeated endeavor
have been made to employ steam simply dried o.
superheated, all of which have been PARTIAL,
abandoned, as, owing to the high degree of TEN
perature necessary, the lubricating materials hav
dried up, and the packing and rubbing parts of TIL
machinery have been destroyed and the tempera
ture of the steam in the cylinder has been found t.
be beyond the control of the engineer. 1t is
ed that Mr.. Wethereds improv ement, a5ou
to be adopted by the Admiralty, from tn
abOye-named difficulty"