The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-23
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per OF the RepuDllcan party. lie VIII testify TO a
correspondence between John Brown and Senator |
Wilson's but he asserts that Mr.. Wilson denounced
the proposition of Browns to run slaves out OF
slave States act of madness. This will proba-
bly, induce the committee to call Wilson as wit
ness.
Joshua r. Giddngs and John Brown, Jr., of Ohio,
and Amos A. Lawrence and Mr.. Sanborn, of Mass,
will be subpenaed witnesses. Realf is looked
upon most important witness, as he has indi-
Gated that he will make clean breast OF the affair,
and it is understood he will implcate prominent
persons in New York and New England.
Most of the mail contractors did not obtain GER
tifcates from the Department for the quarter end,
ing the Both September, expecting Congress would
have legisated Immediately. They are now lssu-
ing in large quantities, and probably will be thrown
| Immediately on the market. Scrip for the quarter
ending 31st Derember will be issued after the list OF
next month.
The contractors for materials on public works are
very FESTIVE under the delay in organizing the
House, and point to the piles of granite and other
materials which strew the ground o2 all available
space adjoining the Treasury and other buildings,
proof of fulfment of their part of contract with
government, for which they are clamOrous for pay.
The same state fittings exists both at Charleston
and New Orleans.
The Navy Department has received advices from
Captain lnman, commander of the African squad
ron. The vessels that station, seven in number,
are busily engaged in the prosecution OF their
work. There have been no recent captures. The
usual good health prevailed among both officers
and crew.
The Post Office Department have been notified
by MIR. Morgan, contractor for carrying the mails
between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, that he has
Withdrawn the steamer Tennessee, and cannot
carry the mails any longer for the hostages. The
service will, therefore, have to be performed by
sailing vessels
Mr. Douglas will speak to-day upon his resOlu-
ton in favor of the protection Of States and Terri
tories from invasion. He will embrace such cases
as the invasion of Kansas BY Missourians and the
invasion of Virginia by Old Brown.
Mr.. Cochrane's pair expires to-day. 1t was
reported on Saturday that Mr.. Stalworth would
be here in a few days, but subsequent re
port tonight is that he has had a relapse
The Sergeant Arms has disbursed to members
over one hundred thousand dollars, and stopped.
MEXICAN AFFAms.-We CLEAN the following Mex
| lean news from the New Orleans papers:
On the 9th inst. Sr. Melchor 0campo, Minister of
Relations gave an entertainment at the Hill OF San
Juan, near Vera Cruz. The occasion was one OF
much interest, as it parook, on account of the po-
sitiOns of the guests, very much of political char
acter. Among those present President Jua-
| rez and his family, Ministers Ruiz Lallave and En-
! paran, Mr.. McLane, Commander Farragut, of the
Brooklyn; General Degollado, Gomez Farias, Gen.
| Ampudia, Garcia Torres. &c. Among the toasts
one in honor of the United States, to which Mr.
McLane responded protesting his attachment to
the Constitutional cause. Commander Farragut
! replied very handsomely to a toast given by NJ
! Iglesias in honor of the American Navy.
! The blockade of Mazatan, by the English ship
| Amethyst, was raised the 10th of November, on
the re payment by Placdo Vega, Governor of Siua-
/
| by Coronado from Mr.. Allsopp, English Consul at
! Tepec, a payment for certain export duties
which the British merchants and war ships had
| refused and evaded.
The AMETHYST on leaving Mazatlan, proceeded
to San Bias to receive the famous Guadalaara Con
Quota, which arrived there and was received on the
Amethyst on the 10th ultimo Mazatan is defend
ed by garrison Of 1000 men, abundantly provided
! with artillery and munitions of war.
Mramon, during his late campaign against Coli
ma, tried to keep up his mimicry of Louis Napo-
leon. The French Emperor addressed his Italian
bulletins to the Empress Eugene. Mramon ad
dresses his bulletins to the Presid entess Concep-
| ciOn
The capture of Colima, which seems to be an i'm
| portant strategic point, gave much encouragement
to the Conservatives for time, but their ardor was
| dampened by a subsequent report OF its recapture
! by the Liberals.
The D,ario Official SAYS that the Mclane treaty
| contains secret clause binding the United States
to support the Constitutional Government for the
| term of ten years.
General Pueblita was assassinated at Zamora by
his second n Spaniard, named Canedo
| General Woll has been appointed commander of
Guadalajara, by the Miramon Government.
The South CAROLINA COMMISSION TO VIRGINIA.
| AS had been previously announced, the Hon. c. G
Memminger, Commi ssiorer from South Carolina to
the Virginia Legislature, was formally introduced
to that body Thursday last. He escorted
from his hotel to the capitol by the citizen SOL
diery.
After he was introduced to the Assembly, h epro-
ceeded to address them at length on the objects of
his mission. The Dispatch of Friday, thus alludes
to it:
The speech of this distinguished Commissioner
from the State of South Carolina to Virginia, ad-
dressed to both Houses of the General Assembly,
Yesterday, was an effort of marked ability and
craftsmanship. He was listened to with marked in
terest. The Hall of the House Of Delegates was
crowded, as were both the galleries, which were
appropriated to the ladies. He traced with great
clearness the steady inroads from the North upon
the rights of the South, and the rise and progress
of abolition fanaticism. His picture of the present
attitude of our relations with the North was gloomy
enough but not at all overdrawn. He proved very
conclusvely that the guarantees OF the Consttu-
ton have been utterly unavailing to protect the
South. He argued that if the Union must be con-
tinued the South must demand other and more eff
cient guarantees, make concession after conces-
sion until she has lost all influence, all consideration
and all right in the Confederacy. He urged with
great force the propriety of Convention of the
Southern States to consider the questions growing
out of our relations to the Northern States. We
have presented in paper this morning, else
where, as comprehensive synopsis of Mr.. Mem
minger's speech our space will admit. He 0ccu-
pied near four hours in delivering it, but the atten-
ton of his hearers did not flag. Among them were
a number of prominent gentlemen of the Bench and
the Bar, and public Councils
METROPOLITAN POLICE FOR PHILADELPHIA
bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvani Legis-
| lature to change the entire ponce system OF the
city of Philadelphia. The provisions of the bill
appoint certain persons Commissioners of Police,
on and after the first June, 1860. 1t is made the
duty of the said Police Board, through the police,
to preserve the peace protect the rights of citizens
arrest offenders &C., and to adopt such regulations
as may be necessary for the proper government and
discipline of the police force This police force shall
consist of Chief of Police; a Superintendent OF
Detectives; two Sergeants of Police;a Fire Marshal
o four High Constables; twelve Detectives, and SO
many Captains of Police, not less than sixteen; SO
many Sergeants, not less than thrty-two; and SO
many Policemen, not less than $50, may be de-
termined upon by the Select and Common Councils
= These officers to be appointed by the Police
Board, to hold office during good behavior until
: removed by the Board.
S THE LATE LORD MACAU1AY.-Lord Macaulay was
{ to have been buried in Westminster Abbey. The
sexton of the Dean and Chapter busy on the
Sd instant, opening grave for the great historian
not with kings and knights of the garter, not
with Stephenson Talfurd but in Poet -corner OF
the south transept of the Abbey. He will lie at the
. foot of Addsons statue, and close to the grave OF
r Isaac Barrow, one of the great Trinity of Cam
y bridge men, Macaulays own college. The historian
will not lie far off Camden-almost the father Of
: English historv-not far from what remains Of
e May, the historian of the Long Parliament, and
near to the remains of johnson, Garrck, Sheridan
and Clifford, the Tory editor of the Quarterly Re
uie0. He will lie facing the statue of the poet Of
n "The Pleasures ofHope," at whose funeral the no
BILE historian helped tie bear the pail. The 9th in.
slant was the day fixed for the funeral.
CANAL BETWEEN THE CASPIAN AND BLACK Seas
e There seems to be hope that Peter the Greats
! cherished idea of uniting the Caspian and Black
. Seas NAV be at length carried into effect During
the last few years several partial surveys have been
S made at various times, but during the last two,
e these carried on upon large scale, and with
more satisfactory results. The route adopted is
through the yalies of the Kuma and Mauitch. The
former stream rises.n the mountains of the Caucasus
and empties into the Aral, hundred miles South OF
Astrachan. The latter is a long, broad, and slug
gish stream, rising at no great distance from the
4 Kuma, and debouching into the Don, not far from
, the sea of Azov Competent engineers have de-
cded that canal, uniting the two by this
route, can be constructed at comparatively small
cost.
AMBERGRIs.-The recent finding of large guam
tity of ambergris in the body of a dead whale dis
: covered floating the ocean, has attracted con-
siderable attention to the nature and peculiarities
of the article. 1t is a solid, opaque, fatty sub
stance, found the coast, sometimes float
ing on the sea, chiefly in the tropical regions. 1t
is of various coors, but chiefly of deep ash col
ored yellow. 1t is most frequently found in small
: fragments, and usually in the intestines of the
spermacet whale, and is supposed to be the cause
or the result of disease in that amin al After a
short exposure to the air and washing, its odor is