The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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dant, and the accounts of the state of business in
all parts Of the country confirm the favorable views
lately expressed.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
SPECIMENS OF CoTToN AND RICE.-The United
States Patent Office has received, through Hon.
W. II. McGrath, consul to Brazil, specimens of
different varieties of cotton cultivated in the pro-
vince of Maranham.
They have also from Hon. J. p. Brown, acting
consul general at Constantinope, specimens Of
Persian rice, from the province of Mezanderan on
the southern coast of the Caspian sea, called the
Gambler co.,, or Amber-8cented rice. The grains are
small and clear, and the flavor is very agreeable,
but the quantity received being very small it will
not be generally distributed
PosT OFFICE SCRIP.-There has been over four
million dollars worth of scrip issued by the
Post Office Department, in about three thous-
and pieces. The amount due to mail contract
ors on the LIST of January, 1860, was nine and
half million dollars, being nearly the whole amount
due for the postal service for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1859. The hostages of the first six
months absorbed in paying the deficiencies to
December 81, 1859. Since June 30, 1859, the Post
master General has been unable to use even the
earnings of his Department to meet its liabilities
and the difficulty will continue until Congress
ganzes and obviates it. 1t is asserted that
has taken Post Office scrip to the amount of two
millions, at eighty per cent.
MISCELLANEOUS State Department are en-
gagged preparing instructions for Mr.. Faulkner
Minister to France. They will be completed by
Saturday, when he will proceed to his residence in
Virginia, from thence to New York, and will take
his departure on the following Saturday. There
will at present be no change in Secretary of Lega-
ton.
The Navy Department received advices this
morning from Capt. Inman, commander of the AT.
rican squadron The vessels on that station, seven
in number, are busy engaged in the prosecution
of their work. There have been no recent cap
lures. The usual good health prevailed among both
officers and crew.
Jo
Thomas of this State, the United States Trea-
suryship. He has written letter to the President
declining the appointment.
On Wednesday, the foremen and others employed
under the late superintendent of Captain Meigs
the Capitol and Post Office extensions presented
him with a handsome service of plate.
Mr. Clemson, of Prince Georges county, Mary
land, has accepted the office of Chief of the Agri-
cultural division of the Patent Office, and will soon
assume its duties
Senator Polk, of Missouri, is still detained at
home by the dangerous illness of his son.
Raelf, old Browns Secretary of State, was ex-
pected to arrive yesterday.
EULoGY ON LORD MACAULAY BY EDWARD EVERETT.
The Hon. Edward Everett delivered his Grafton
on Franklin before the Printers Union of Boston,
on Tuesday, the occasion of the celebration of the
birthday OF the great American philosopher and
introduced the following eloquent tribute to the
late Lord Macaulay
"Nor will you blame me if allude to the melan-
choly tdings which have just reached us from abroad
of the death of the most brilliant writer of our own
or OF any age; whose works for thirty years have
been the wonder and the delight OF all who read
the English language, beneath the circuit of the
sun; author who as it seems to me, more than
any other, ancient modern, was clothed with
the magic power of recreatng the dead past, and
giving to the men and things of other times the
form and color of an actual reviving presence; a
writer eminent, not among ordinary associates,
but unsurpassed, if not unequaed, in company
OF hlstorlans-several OF them our honored coun-
trymen-two of them with himself mournfuliy
SIGNALLING the year that has lust closed;
any one of whom would have conferred
sufficient honor on the age in which he lived.
That in the intensity with which he threw him
self into the scenes described by him. and took part,
so to say, in the great contentious of the times he
never fell into an error Of judgment, made a
false estimate of character need not be maintained
one such has been keenly felt in this country. An
honest and fearless thinker and writer he could
not avoid collision of opinion and feeling with those
who differed from him. But his errors were spots
on the noontide sun. Better than this, in Lord
Macaulay (truly nobleman by heavens patent
the writer less admirable than the man; the
splendor of his page eXcelled, if possible, by
his personal intercourse. All the world admired
his gorgeous imagination, the magniicence of his
diction, his miraculous range of memory, which
grasped the literature of every language and every
age and held all its stores of illustration prompt at
command but those who knew him loved him, for
the unaffected meekness with which he bore his
trancendent honors, the sunny cheerfulness of his
disposition, the generous warmth of his heart"
The NEGRO HoLrDAYs.-The Mississippi negroes
had good time Christmas. The Natchez Courier,
of the 27th in noticing the Christmas festivities in
that city, says yesterday was almost saturna-
liza for the colored folks. The streets were lined
with plantation-wagons and every description of
farmhouse vehicle, each one having brought to
town load of happy and contented negroes, to
spend a Christmas Day and Christmas money
When their purchases and their sightseeing were
through, team after team left again, crowded as
they came, the occupants boisterous with Joy. 1t
does seem as if the sight of yesterday would have
cured the most skeptcal Northerner of his aboli-
tOnism. Certainly, as happy a throng of content
ed negroes YVES never in the streets of North
ern CITY,"
VIRGINIA HoMEspUN.-The Richmond Wing of
Monday says We are frequently applied to for in
| formation as to the best place for obtaining Vr-
ginia cloth, for wearing apparel. Several of our
dealers have disposed of "remnants,' and are SEEM
ingly, unable to repenish Stocks so general is the
demand in the counties in and near which the wool
len factories situated. If any of the dry goods
or clothing firms in this city, or elsewhere, who
advertise in the lFhig supply those in want of
| Virginia cloth, and will let US know the colors,
manufacturers names, etc., we will give them the
benefit of a notice in this column. 1t might be well
| to state the prices of the goods.
THE ARMY.-Major f. D. Keys, of the First Ar
tery, has been appointed Secretary to the Gen
eral-in-C Chief. Lieut.. Henry B. Kelly is assigned to
duty at the Benicia barracks, in California As
sistant-Surgeon Hollenbush is ordered to Fort
Yuma to relieve Acknowledgment Herndon, who
proceeds to Fort Mohave to relieve Assistant-Sur-
geon Mi.ham, who in turn is to relieve Assistant
| Surgeon Ten Brock at Fort TETON Assistant.
| Surgeon Ten Brock is ordered to report at
Washington to the Surgeon-Gen Captain
Buford is ordered to proceed to Puget Sound with
recruits for the Fourth and Ninth Infantry
THE CoNsEQUENCEs.-Speaking of disunion, the
Richmond Dispatch says: cit is impossible to ex-
aggerate the horrors and suferings which for years
would follow a dissolution of this Union. For our
selves, we have no idea of such thing as peace
be from the start, to the knife, and knife
the north and the south would be line of fire and
| river would be entered, and ever and anon, large
masses of men hurled upon the capitals and impor-
tant points of Southern States"
VIRGINIA RA1RoADs.-The Presidents of the va
rious Virginia railroad companies have issued a
call inviting all of the Southern railroad companies
to meet them in consultation at Richmond, on the
2Sth of February, to consider the means by which
they can best secure, either by direct importation
or Southern manufacture, the equipments and sup
plies for the use of Southern railroads.
ACCIDENTALLY CHoKED TO DEATH.-On the 18th
ult., Mr.. Rye Coulter, who resides in Botetourt
county, Va, was accidentally choked to death. 1t
appears that he went out to get stick of wood,
after procuring which he started to return with it
upon his shoulders, when, as he was ascending a
hill, he stumbled land the wood becoming entangled
in his cravat, choked him to death.