The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-27

d
State Treasurer, Librarian, &C. For the first office
only Messrs. HARDWOOD and o. cal are much spoken
OF. Mr. HARDWOOD is supposed to stand the best
chance.
The Committee of Elections to-day had some of
the Baltimore witnesses before them. Messrs
Wallis and Schley We're heard on the case of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court. The Joint Committee
on Judge Stump also had meeting.
BALTIMORE Us. New ORLEANs.-The New Orleans
Crescent, mentioning the late decision of the Court
in the matter between this city and New Orleans,
thus pleasantly shows the position of the parties as
seen from their point of view:
The issue between the two cities above named,
in reference to the McDonogh estate is coming
down to plain and practical issue.
The difference is this Old McDonorh having
bequeathed the bulk of his great estate to the two
cities, they became joint partners in it. The will
OF the old man being contested by parties not spe-
cialy remembered in the will, law proceedings and
lawyers became necessary. New Orleans, being
IN, upon, and generally around and in the centre of
the great property left, at met the outside as
saants in legal BATTLE and came off conoueror As
Baltimore had an equal interest in the spos New
Orleans, after winning the victory and her self paw
ing the whole expense of it, sent polite note to
Baltimore informing her of the triumph and leav-
ing it to her of justice and her generosity to
come up and take an equal part in settling the ex-
pcnse of the victory.
Baltimore failed to respond to the polite invita-
ton; probably thinking that, as none of the con-
tested property was within her own boundary. and
that as New Orleans was the big bird whose wide
spreading wings overshadowed not only the earthly
remains of the late lamented McDouogh, but his
very considerable earthly possessions, she left it to
the generosity of the great and magnanimous me-
tropois of the Southwest to settle up the picavune
expenses OF the little business. and to make
her an entirely complimentary offering of full
half of the earthly remains of said lamented Nc
Donogh.
1t so happening that New Orleans and Baltimore.
lyant oh ot1o ,,,olIl
ing naturally huge esteem for each other, from
the visits and comminging of their talented and
handsome children; still never had the pleasure of
personal introduction, any other opportunity
OF hugging and drinking together; or dispensing
with picayune formaities, it stood this way: A
dying man asked the two, who bad never seen each
other, to drink to his health after his DEATH They
drank, though invisible to each other the scr cen
OF distance being between them. New Orleans
being nearest to the grave of the generous defnct
settled the bill at the bar; and fearful of offending
her Maryland partner, whom she had never seem
proposed on this account to make Cincinnati treat
OIL tctnat eacn, In other and palmer terms, should
pay for her own drink.
Here arose the difficulty. Baltimore, probably
thinking this too picavunish a proposal to come
from New Orleans, stood on her dignity and failed
to respond to a second polite intmation shat she
hadn't paid her picayune at the bar New Orleans
having settled at the bar for BOTH felt herself shah
billy treated, and went to law about the picayune
she had paid at the said bar in good feeling for her
distant and unseen sister, Baltimore. The latter
proved how much or how little she cared for ex-
pense, by employing New Orleans LAWYER to de-
lend her from the picayune charge brought against
her.
In plain language, Christian Roselius, for Balti-
more, and Mr.. Livingston, for New Orleans have
lately brought the matter to law before Judge Eg-
gleston, in the Fifth District Court The matter
being duly tried and argued, the Judge yesterday
decided that Baltimore owed New Orleans $50, 600,
one-half of the expense of 500, 900, incurred by
New Orleans, in settling at the bar for the Nc
Donogh treat.
Mr.. Roselus, in courtesy to his client will donbt-
less invoke the final judgment of the Supreme
Court. But We'll bet that Baltimore will in the
end have to pay for her drink to the health of him
who, dying, remembered her so handsomely.
THE REMOVAL OF CoUNr WALEwsKI.-The London
Times speaks of the removal of the Count Walewski
from the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs as an
enigma His career from 1881 to the present day,
1t says, is riddle, hardly more readable as con-
slstent whole than the policy of his master Louis
Napoleon. For years his name seemed to ally him
indissolubly with the championship of oppressed
natonalitles. Austria and Russia had trodden out
his country-Poland, and he became fierce repub-
| lican. Time wore on, and the enthusiasm for a
hopeless cause wore out, and Walewski, who held
the memory of the first Napoleon in affecionate re-
| spect, attached himself after many other adven-
lures, to the fortunes of the nephew and he walked
with him in the strange path which led Lauis Napo-
leon to the pinnacle he now occupies. Walewsk
as ambassador at the British court was cause of
congratulation. 1t was assumed that he knew the
English well, but the English did not know him
The Polish enthusiast had found country, and had
forgotten all his wrongs Oppressed natiopalities
had his mind passed from the category ofmartyrs
to that OF rebels Austria and Russia were no longer
ROBBERS and tyrant powers He had grown not only to
detest all insurgent nationalites but to visit with
his severe Encouragement all constitutional gov
| ernments 1t was he who insisted upon regulating
Belgium. II was he who opposed the war in behalf
of Italy. 1t he who interpreted the treaty OF
hllatranca hp of oil 70 AuS-
tra and her satraps. 1t was Walewski the respon-
| sible minister, who, in regard to the late anonv-
| nous pamphlet, undertook to re-assure the Pope,
and place official France by the side of the old tory
powers The object of the closing part of the artf
| Gle is to show that even the removal of Walewski
| VIII not win England over to alliance with
France against all the rest of Europe. England ia
yors the restoration of nationality to italy, but will
not initiate France in going to war for an idea.
LETTER FROM CoMMoDoRE SroCKroY-The Phila.
| delphia Inquirer of yesterday publishes a letter
( from the Hon. r. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, on
the present aspect of the affairs of the country
lie speaks OF the prevallng excitement, the aggres
sions that have led to it, the existing alienation oil
| feeling, and the means to restore harmony. We
| copy the subjoined concluding paragraph. He
| says:
| | am for peace-I am for the Union-and there
| fore am for concession if concession will ensure
peace. The North is Infatuated with a passionate
| almost irreligious, fanaticism-the South, mad
| dened by the certainty of the horrible result:
which tnat ianaticsm threatens Is assuming an at
titude of serious, stern resistance. To avert the
inevitable progress of the conflict would have the
| North concede at once, and promptly and cordially
agree, first to recognize final and conclusive the
decisions of the Supreme Court. End, Comply
faithfully with the acquisitions of the Fugitive Slave
Law. 3rd, To recognize the right of our Southern
fellowcitZens to take their slave property into thu
Territories, and to its protection there under THE
Constitution Of the United States; while the South
in return should concede "specifc duties" or {
more satisfactory "tarif'' than that of which the
| North at present so generally complains.
These concessions, if in truth they can be Sc
termed. just and patriotic and are, in my judg
ment, indispensable to preserve the Union. They
must be made, or civil war will be the inevitable
| result.
DIvoRcEs IN ENGLAND.-So great is the pressure
to obtain divorces in England that before long ad