The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-24
WASHINGTON NEWS

| DATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT-MTsCELLANEoU
The calendar of the House was never so loada
down with public and private business and privat
bills at this stage of the session now. 1t is ais
true, perhaps, that in view of the short time tn
| House has been in working condition since tn
election of Speaker, it has reported out OF com
mittee and passed more bills than any other House
| There thirty-seven bills ana resolutions to b
| discussed in the Committee of the Whole House OF
| the State of the Union. This part of the calendar
contains the ammunition for buncombe speeches
| which will be fired off Charleston nOmi
| mates explodes The first among these is the
| annual message of the President. The most impor.
tant bills in this category are the Appropriation
| bills reported by Mr.. Sherman from the Committee
OF Ways and Means, namely, for legislative execu
tive and judicial expenses; for the naval service.
| for sundry civil expenses of the government; for
| the service of the Post Office Department for the
years 1860 and 1861 and for the consular and dipo.
matte expenses. The Homestead bill will be con.
| sdered in the Senate one week from next Thurs
day, when it is agreed both sides of the Chamber
| that vote shall be had on the subject The
! House bill, which recognizes mode of disposing
of the public lands outside of the grasp of specua
tors, ought to pass, and thereby put stop to the
| peddling out Of the public domain to every bogus
| railroad company that presents itself in the lobby
| OF Congress for aid to build a road which they
never intend to construct, but to trade off in Wall
| street. The tariff will be the first business when
| the House next goes into Committee of the Whole
on the State of the Union, unless superseded by
special order. This bill has attached to it rider
providing for the payment of outstanding Treasury
notes, and to authorize a loan of twenty-One mil
lion dollars. The Pacific Railroad BILL as reported
from the Select Committee of sixteen, was only re-
ported tor printing and referred back to the com
mittee. 1t is now in their control to be reported
for action whenever action can be obtained upon
it. Mr.. Grow, who has been absent one week has
returned, and will devote himself to the prepara.
tion of bills for the organization of the Territories
OF Dacotah, Nevada, Pixies Peak and Arizona, ac-
Gording to the instruction of the Committee on
Territories, of which he is chairman. There are
three hundred and twenty six private bills on the
calendar. About one-third have merit but stand no
ofpasng than either of the other two
thlrds-l Douglas is nominated the contest for the
wee PRESIDENTIAL nomination will be between Jas l.,
| Orr, of South Carolina, Warren WinsIow of North
! Carolina, and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. Orr
| has troops of friends, but his course as Sneaker
OF the House, Thirty-ffth Congress, in appointing
| a committee adverse 10 the Judgment of the House
in favor of investigating the Kansas frauds. will
| damage him. Winslow is thorough Administra-
! tion man, and Andrew johnson has outside claims
| of great Importance. His bold support of the
| Homestead. bill will make him hosts of friends in
the free States.-The report of the Printing In
! vestigating Committee, made to the Senate on
| Friday, Is a vOluminous document, and contains
| some curious revelations. Among other testimony
| is that of Collector Baker, of Philadelphia who
swears that the reason }. W Forney opposed the
Kansas policy was, in his opinion, because he did
not get the printing Of the Postoflice blanks.--
| The President appeared on the Avenue last eve
ning looking as hale and hearty if there were
not COvode in the land.-We hear that the
| whole control of the japanese Embassy has been
| vested in Capt. Dupont, U. s. Mt is stated
that Judge Young, formerly Commissioner of Pat
ents, has become insane.-The Hon. John F. Pot
ter has left Washington a visit to Wisconsin.
THE KANSAS CONTROVERSY-THE PRESI.
DENTS POSITION.
An article in the Constitution of Saturday, on the
Kansas controversy, concludes as follows:
h,t-, ,f,o
| of Governor Walker in the evident change which
took place in what he understood to be the policy
of the President and his CabiLet when he accepted
the office of Governor, and the policy he actually
attempted to carry out in the Territory of Kansas
while Governor of the same. All this matter was
understood and explained at the time the occur
rences took place to which we have been referring
and the President was completely and successful '
vindicated from all publicly-made charges and in
situations. The letter of the 18th of July, 1857
has been made the subject of mysterious comments
and inuendoes, and the public mind has been en-.
ghtened only by the fact that there was such a
letter. 1t is now before the country, and, so far
it involves the question OF consistency or integ-
rlty of character, there never has been the day
when there could have existed, on the part of the
President, the slightest objection to its publication.
! How its publication affects those who have at
| tempted to inure the President by insnuations
| and conjecture involves difficulty for which we
| not responsible, and from the extrication OF
! which it is none OF our duty to aid those who will
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| President and the Administration to have the
entire constitution submitted to the vote of the
bona de residents of the Territory for ratification
| This fact was announced both before and after the
action of the Lecompton Convention. We extract
! from the Presidents message published in our ar
ticle of the Goth: at is true that as an individual
! had expressed an opinion, both before and during
the session of the Convention, in favor of submit
ting the remaining clauses of the Constitution, as
well as that concerning slavery, to the people. -
here he m FIR Or
question; but, at the same time, it is equally clear
and beyond dispute that there was but one dis
| tracted question involved in the issue, and that
| was the question of slavery. As we have shown
! from Governor Walkers letter of acceptance, be
! so understood it. The extract from the address o.
his chosen friend and associate, Acting Governor
! Stanton, shows that he understood it. In point
! of tact it understood, not only by Governor
| Walker and Mr.. Stanton, but by every body. II
in view OF this fact that the country regarded
the action of the Lecompton Convention, in sub
mltting the question of slavery to vote of the
people, as virtual and practical co rpliance with
the policy which had been advocated with so much
earnestness by the friends of peace and harmony
! in Kansas. As there but one question of di-
vision and trouble, and that was in conformity
to the suggestion first made By Nr. Stanton, Cor
Walkers chosen friend and confidential associ
ate, submitted alone to the decision of the people
it thought by all reasonable men that Cover
nor Walker and Mr.. Stanton at least should have
been satisfied with the result. Whatever other:
!
of the action of the Convention.
An INCIDENT OF THE REvoLUrIoN-A TEA PARTY
IN New JERsEY.-A correspondent of the National
hteiiigcncer gives the following account of the de
structon of cargo of tea in the year IVA, by the
inhabitants of the county of Cumberland in the
then colony of New Jersey:
The Cohansey creek is a navigabe stream of
some size, running through the county Of Cumber-
! land, and emptying into Delaware Bay. In the
autumn of IVA, the quiet inhabitants along the
banks of the creek startled by the appearance
! of a British brig, called the Greyhound, which
sailing about four miles up the stream stopped at
! the village Of Greenwich, being the first landing
| from its mouth. She was laden with a cargo O
tea sent out bv the East India Tea Company, under
the impression doubtless that the conservative feel
| ings and principles of the people of New Jersey
and withal their characteristic and deferential re-
! gard for the wishes and tastes of their mothers
wives and daughters, would induce them to submit
quietly to a small tax that the ladies might regalC
upon their favorite beverage. The result showed
that the temper of people little under
stood then by the East India Tea Company as it Is
row by the politicians. The cargo was deposited
| in a stOre-house near the landing, which building
is still standing, and then belonging to John Shep
pard, highly respectable member of the Society
Of Friends, and whose ineal descendants still own
| the property. On the evening of Thursday, No
vember %, IVA. company of about forty young
| Wings, disguised as Indians, entered the store
| house, took possession OF the whole cargo, con-
veyed the chests from the cellar into an adjoining
| field, and, piling them together, burnt them to
ashes in one general conHagraton. Thus much
| for the act. The names Of the most prominent
| actors have been preserved and as the late Col.
| Robert johnson, in his small compilation of the
| History of Salem county, justly observes ct hey
deserve to be handed down to the latest posterity
| They were DR.. EbeneZer Elmer, father of the Hon
Lucus Q. C. Elmer, of Bridgeton; Richard Howell
afterwards a Major in the Revolutionary army, anC
| Governor of New Jersey David and Stepher
! Pearson, Silas Whitecar, Timothy Elmer, Rev.
| Andrew Hunter, Rev. Philip Fithian, Alexander
| Moore, jr., Clarence Parvin, John and Jas. Hunt
| Lewis Howell Henry Stacks, James Ewing, father
of the late Chief Justice of New Jersey, DR.. Thos
Ewing, father of DR.. VIM. b. Ewing, of Green
wich, Josiah Seeley, and Joel Fithian, Esqrs. The
descendants of most of these young patriots still
reside in the county of Cumberland.
Certain facts embOldened the owners of the tea
to institute suits at law to recover damages for the
loss of their property, and during the vacation
preceding the April term of the Supreme Court il
1875, Capt. Allen, John Dulield, Stacy Hepburn
and Others issued writs against several of the
Wings but either for the lack of resident friends
dence of public sentiment against them, or from
the subsequent overthrow of the Colonial Govern
ment, no further steps taken, and the
civil suits died for want of prosecution.
MARRYING on A WAGER.-The Detroit Tybun
says: 1t is certainly great mistake to suppos,
that the workmen employed in making the St
! Mary's canal repairs, are SIOtC. From the lates
news received, there is not only every indication
| that the canal will be opened at early date, bu
hot tha IEba at