The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-07
POLITICAL.

THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGIsLATURE.-The Philadel-
phia Inquirer chants the following Te Deum over the
adjournment of the Pennsylvania Legislature
Cloth Houses of the Legislature have adjourned,
and for that one act we tender them our hearty
thanks, for never in the history of Pennsylvania
has a session been marked by more corrupt,
wicked intriguing than the present. Every good
citizen feels the blush of honest indignation tngng
his cheeks when he thinks of their proceedings. No
measure, however beneficial, could stand the
slightest chance Of passing, unless by profuse ex
penditure OF money. Almost every man, with
some noble exceptions, had his price, and if COM
mon rumor be true, it was enormous price. If
it could not be paid in the hard cash, secure pros
pective profits were just as good.'
THE DEMOCRATIC CoNyENTIoN.-The New York
correspondent of the Charleston Mercury writes to
that journal thus:-"The chances now are that you
will have comparatively very decent represen-
tation of New Workers at the National Convention.
This for two reasons. In the first place, all the
'roughs' who can beg or borrow money have gone
to England to see the great mill and cannot get
back in time to honor your city with their pres
ence In the second place, the tone of several
articles in the Mercury. which have been extern
sively reproduced at the North, convinces our
rowdy politicians that their little eccentricities
will not be humored by your citizens and your
police and that Jail, or possibly gallows, may
offer an insuperable impeachment to their return to
the North
A CHANGE OF VIEws.-The Rochester Democrat,
a negro-worshipping, rrepressible conflict, Black
Republican paper, speaking of the operations of
the underground railroad, says:-We cannot, in
mercy to the poor blacks, feel that they are better
ing their condition by going northward Canada
is not a congenial place to them-its climate is
against them, and it does not offer a profitable
field to their industry. The young negro who
crossed over yesterday will be fortunate if able to
| earn better living than he had at Baltimore,
secure any more of the real blessings of freedom
than afforded him in servitude. As for the
poor old man, he will fare hard in Canada, and will
sigh for Louisiana home to die in before he has
spent year in Canada.
The CHARGES AGAINST THE PREsIDENT.--The
Journal of Commerce does not pretend to acquit
the President of the charges of official corruption,
on which Mr. Covode's resolutions are founded
Post.-The Journal says, in reply, if we should at
tempt to defend honest men against the charges
brought against them by inscriptions partisans
and corrupt pacehunters, probably should
lind very little time for other duties. We did not
deem such defence necessary, but on the contrary
expressed the opinion that the President might well
have treated this electioneerng dodge with silent
| contempt 1t is unworthy of a party, or of decent
| men, in or out of Congress.
| The HOMESTEAD BILL.-The Atlanta, Ca, Confede-
racy has taken to denouncing Senator Johnson for
his Homestead bill, which it regards as having a
sectional bearing, and being ''full effective
for abolitioniZng the territories the squatter
sovereignty doctrine of Stephen A. Douglas "If
this odious measure for giving land to the landess
should become law, there will be a rush of free
sellers and freelaborers to the territories, which
would completely and forever debar the STAKEHOLDER
of the South
| THE CONNECTICUT ELECTIoN.-We have before us
the returns from all the towns in Connecticut but
one, which foot up 500 majority for Mr.. Bucking-
ham, Republican. The Republicans have fifty nine
majority in the House against seventeen last year,
and seven majority in the Senate against five last
year.
MARYLAND PoLrTICs.-A call has been published
for holding an opposition District meeting in Eas-
ton on Tuesday next, the 10th inst, for the pur-
pose of selecting delegates to attend the National
| Opposition Convention which is proposed to be
held in Baltimore city on Thursday, the 10th of
| April