The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-11
WASuINcTnN NEWS

WASHINGTON NEWS
The Pubic PRNTING-BUTTERFIELD's LINE OF
STEAMERs--THE SENATE PRINTING INVESTIGATION
The PASSENGER RAILWAY GEORGE LAW IN WASH
lNGToN.
| The question of the public printing comes up in
the House on Thursday by special assignment. The
unpOpularity of the present system OF conducting
the work, and the great stampede that has been
made against it by both parties, more for political
bunkum than for any substantial reason, all tend
to favor the proposition reported by Mr.. Gurley,
from the Committee on Printing, favorins gov
eminent establishment. The profits of the printing
this Congress falls to the Senate printer, under
the present law, owing to the long contest elect
| a Speaker in the House. While the House was
beating the bush, the Senate caught the bird. All
the executive work, which is generally divided be-
tween the printers of the two branches was voted
in the Senate before the House was organized A
government establishment will be under the direct
control OF superintendent and assistants who will
De SUBJECT 10 removal at any time when it is mani
lest tnat the business is not properly conducted
| Mr.. Corwin is to make an argument before the
Post-Oiiice Committee of the House in favor
! OF Mr. Butterfed's project to establish a
line OF steamers with Mexico on the basis of
mail subsidy from Government-The Sen
ate Printing Investigating Committee closed up
the evidence to-day, and as as the testimony
lsprinted, which will be in two three days. the
reports VII be drawn up, one by Mr.. King and the
other by MIR. Shde which, together with evidence,
will be submitted to the Senate 1t will pre-
sent most singular and interesting chapter in
the history. Of the printing and binding of
congress and the Government in all its Vari-
Gus ramlflcatlons, and will clearly show that
the only way to avoid the abuses of the present
system is by the establishment of what the Herad
has always contended for aprnting bureau
Among the enormous jobs before Congress, which
seem to disgust the members of the Senate, the
House and the lobby, is the proposed PENNSYLVANIA
avenue horse-railroad scheme. An attempt is
making to-day to get the job for George Law.
The metropolitan company have faced out, and
| X lnOmnI or Lost Va,
prospect is that Congress will not authorize the
construction of any road, unless the parties who
propose to build it show less desire to speculate
and real intention to build the road than now
appears. They ought not to receive the authority
which they ask from Congress. Responsible par
ties have been here who build the road but
they have left in disgust.-Col. J. &. Clay
of Kentucky, the personal and political friend
of Vice-President Breckenridge, is here--
Daniel b. Rhodes, of Ohio relative of Judge
Douglas, and delegate to Charleston is here stop
ping with the distinguished Illinois candidate.
The TRAGEDY IN SoUrH READING, MAss-The
Boston journal of Saturday gives the following
account of the tragedy in South Reading, Mass
announced in our telegram column yesterday
"a melancholy tragedy occurred last night in
South Reading the particulars of which fol-
lows: A Mr.. Thompson, n Woodworking English
man, who lets the upper part OF his house to an
Irish family, was so much disturbed by jollifca-
ton overhead, that he went up stairs and asked the
persons engaged in the tamult to discontinue their
disordcrly proceeding. They, however, kept on,
when he told them that unless they were more
quiet, he would call Mr.. Skinner the town officer
Finding his remOnstrance of no avail, Mr.. Thomp
son started to summon the officer. When the
party ascertaned that he had gone, number of the
men, furious with liquor, followed him, and as he
reports, surrounded and attacked him, when, tr
save his life, he stabbed three of them. One wa.
stabbed in the neck, the knife running downwards
lie died in few minutes after. Anotherwa stab
hnh in thn0 bI hat
He cannot recover, and insensible at last ac
counts. A third was stabbed above the groin and i
dangerously wounded. Mr.. Thompson immediate
y gave himself up to the officers, and accompanied
t them to the Jail at East Cambridge, where he i
now confined He will be examined on THURSDAY
, before the Trial Justice for South Reading"
SILK GOODS ADMITTED INTO ENGLAND DUrY-FnEE.-
The following note, says the New York Journal o
Commerce, was received yesterday BY one of ou
leading mercantile houses from the Mancheste
Chamber of Commerce, in answer to inquiries:
MORLEY STREET, March 10, 1860
, French silk goods admitted free of al
duty into this country, and we believe the Chancel
or of the Exchequer distinctly stated that although
the commercial treaty did not actually sipuate if
still we should not exact from other countries an
duties that we do not exact from France. w
should think, certainly, that silk goods NAV nov
be brought into this country from any part of tn
world.
, LITEEARY.-One Of the most important book
which have appeared in Germany, is the ''Corres
pondence of Alexander Won Humboldt and hi
friend Varnhagen Won Ense." The letters, fror
the freedom with which they sketch court life, hav
n created a panic among the nobility. The polio
have seized the impression and the editress, Mis-
Ossing, niece of Won Ense, is threatened with IL
a gal proceedings.
v Pierre NJ. Irving, the literary executor of Wasl
il ington Irving, has in preparation his "life an
o Letters" 1t will be issued by George p. Putnam
o who has also in press new edition of ''Salmagur
+ d." edited by T.. A. Duyckinck a complete editio
It of lrving's works, to be got up very elegantly
"a History of Commerce and Navigation" b
George Coggeshall.
s LARGE ARRIVAL OF U. s. ARMS FOR ALABAMA
= The Mobile advertiser of the 9Th inst. says: "
" learn that IA 900 stand of arms have lust been II
d ceived in this city from the uorth, for the arsen
n at Mount Vernon. They consigned to 4. |
a Officer, of this city, and were forwarded by hi
! yesterday morning to their destination. Real
" the government seems to be looking south lit
il about these days. Fourteen thousand muskets al
II to be made at once, What's the wind this IL
: result Of the little gunpowder party held the oth
i. day at Vera Cruz?
ID INSPECTING MILK.-The Legislature of New Yor
have under consideration bill to punish fraud
Il" the adulteration and sale of milk, and it should
le come law. 1t provides for the appointment of
IN Inspector, who shall examine and analyze sampl
~ of milk, and arrest parties offending. Milk fro
lie licensed to be subject to the penalties imposediC
a those who aduterate milk, which is fine of 81
as Milk must be sold by wine measure, and the ca
and measures must be stamped Persons offeriI
milk from distillery-ted cows shall be fined $50.
We DIFFICULTY BETWEEN UNITED STATES SAILORS A,
1t SPANISH PoLICE.-A fight took place at Cienfuegc
he Cuba, on the 18th ult., between some sailors fro
b the United States sloop of-war Wyandotte and
- party of Spanish sailors, during which the poll
We of the town charged bayonets on the American
he who were getting the best of the fight, and woun
he ed eight OF them one of whom, engineer on Il
a, Wyandotte, has since died.
he NAvAL.-A Naval General Court-Martial W
convene at the Gosport Navy Yard to-day, for t
. purpose of trying William Mcguire, a quarter GU
"' ner in the U. S. Navy, for disobedence of order
We insolence, and striking Lieut.. George Brown, h
Us superior and commanding officer, whilst in t
I'd performance of his duty in bringing to this port
= prize brig "Virgnian."
he CooLIE "HELP." "A correspondent of the Phil
q delphia Press, in view of the scarcity of good
: nestle servants suggests the introduction of fema
I'll Coolies. He states that, within his own knowleda
40 the Chinese are easily trained into habits of ST
ia vice. and soon become real ''helpS" in househol
>, The idea is original, but the drawback would
- the difficulty of teaching these people to spe
Id English. b.
Governor Allston of South Carolina, has civ
" an order to Michael Phelan, of New York, for Il
. manufacture of splendid billiard-ta table, which
INTENDS TO present To the State Lunatlc Asylum
n Columbia.
- Outside of Philadelphia, the largest Medic
' College in this country is at Nashville, Tennessee
IN The class, at the recent Ninth Annual Commend
e, ment, numbered 456 . ...
p " The friends of the late Louis c. Linn, of Phil
OF dephia, held meeting in that city on last nigh
IN for the purpose of devsing means of erecting
a suitable monument to his memory.
2 The municipal election in Hartford, Conn,
Monday, resulted in the election of the Democrat
candidate for Mayor The Democrats also elect
n their ticket in Portsmouth, Va. on Saturday.
: We understand that Mrs. Burton, the first wi
l. of the late w. L. Burton and her son, are expec
h ed to arrive in the steamship Niagara, now due
ID Halifax Weekly Programme. .
of The evidence in the case of Young Brownie,
ne who killed his collegemate, shows that there W
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