The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-28

JAPANESE EMBAssY.-We learn from Washing
ton that the Japanese ambassadors are now occu-
pied principally by the business of ascertaining
upon what terms the monies of Japan and the
United States should be exchanged The relative
value of gold, silver and copper is very different in
each country. Moreover, to fix precisely the value
of tAeir metal as compared with ours, a number of
their coins are to be assayed in the Philadelphia
Mint. The ambassadors have no power in this
matter, but have been instructed to carry home
full information, in order that the subject may be
Immediately acted upon. Nothing definite is yet
known as to the precise day that the
Embassy will visit this city. Mayor Swami ex-
pected to have received the information from Cap
tain Dupont yesterday, but did not. We learned
from Washington yesterday that the late accident
to the steamer Niagara will materially alter the
plans of our expected guests, as it may be month
before the steamer will be again ready for sea- and
consequently the Embassy will be detained so much
longer, unless the government provides another
vessel for their conveyance. On Friday evening,
the eight principal members of the Japanese En-
bassy dined with the President in company with
the naval commission, the members of the Cabinet
and their wives, and other invited guests, to the
number of about thirty-eight.
THE New POSTAL REGULATIoN.-The New York
papers say that the regulation of the Post
office does not work so smoothly as might be wish
| ed The merchants who have large foreign cor
respondence are generally the COMPLIMENTS as the
stamps now used are not adapted for the change in
the rule that has hitherto existed. At present we
have only one, three, five, ten and twelve cent
stamps, while the prepayment on foreign matter
varies in rates. Foreign circulars, for instance
Al.
French rates are fifteen and twenty-one cents sim
gle; the Belgian twenty-seven the English twenty
four while others run up as high as forty five and
sixty cents In the latter the letter would be
almost covered with stamps, five of the highest de-
| nomination being required to make up the amount.
| The postage on packages sent abroad frequently
amounts to several dollars, and here the inconveni-
ence becomes particularly apparent. 1t would
seem necessary if the present regulation is to be
carried out that stamps of adequate value
should be Immediately issued for sale to those who
require them While the responsibilities in the
POst-o1ice narrowed and almost confined to the
stamp department, due consideration should be
! uiven tha dot ton of thnsa havino n
! large business to transact through the mails II
| recent occurrences have made new regulations ne
cessary, an equal advance must be made to facili.
| tate outside transactions.
In the Senate on Saturday communication was
received from the PostmasterG General IN regard to
the late defalcation in New York, stating that the
facts were made known to the Department for the
first time the 10th of May, and he has no reason
to suppose that any prior knowledge existed in the
| Department. After some unimportant business the
Senate took up the Indian Appropriation bill anG
passed it,rst rejecting the pending amendment, Civ
ing $4,000 to the State of California for the support
of the Indians within her limits. The Post Office
Appropriation bill was called up. and the PROPOSE
| ton to advertise the mail route between Charles
ton and Key West instead of restoring the Isobe
to servicewa discussed. The House was occupied
throughout the day with private bills