The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-22
See Fourth Page.
OR SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
WASHINGTON NEWS

ADVICE TO THE PREsIDENT-THE SOUTHERN MEMBERS
OF CoNGREss-THE CABINET-THE DEPARTMENT RE-
PoRTs-MlsCELLANEOUs.
The President is daily in receipt Of MANY letters
proposing terms which he ought to adopt for the
secessionists. To-day one was addressed to him by
a prominent politician, recommending that the
right oil secession and the settlement of present diff
terences be arbitrated by the Supreme Court, al
lowing South Carolina to secede and resist the Fed
eral law, when the would arise in all its bear
iDgs; both parties to abide by the decision and to
agree to final settlement as to the result.
Mr.. Wigfal, of Texas, states that be has informa-
tion to the effect that all the Southern Senators,
except those from South Carolina, will be in their
seats at the approaching session. Mr.. Toombs has
neither resigned conditonally nor prospectively,
and could not be persuaded to do So notwithstand
ing all his Mexican pronunciamentos. He was
quite as fierce in 1851, after abandoning General
Taylor's administration, but subsidized yery conye-
niently.
The Cabinet had protracted session on Tuesday
and 1t is understood that the President, having COM
pleted his message, it read at length to his Cab
met 1t is very lengthy. lie discusses elaborately
the questions at issue between the North and the
South, especially secession. What position he as
sumes IN regard to this matter | am not at present
at liberty to disclose.
All the reports of the department are concluded
and some are in the hands of the printer The
commissioner OF the land office concluded his to
from that department.
Col Powell, of Alabama, is still here negotiating
with parties for firearms for that State. He meets
with much success, as Northern manufacturers ex
pect to reap rich harvest out of the excitement
In Virginia the law limits the price to be paid fol
each arm
Business is unusually stagnant here, and gen
eral monetary stringency is felt seriously by the
community. The banks refuse to discount, and arr
sailing close to the wind. Of the S3,000,O00 re
Gently subscribed by Messrs. Riggs & Co. for tn,
government loan, 81, 100000 were taken for thu
account OF other parties, and half of the REMAINING
one, held by themselves, was promptly sold. 81
they are out of the woods. The department anti
cpates no repudiation of the bids as has been init
mated in some quarters. Most of the bids were dis
| posed of before the fall of three per centum.
A gentleman who arrived here to-day from Kan
sas reports the most deplorable condition of affair
in that territory. He says it is estimated tha
thirty thousand people will leave there befor,
winter sets in, in order to avoid starvation.
The old Senate Chamber has been altered an
| reftted for the use of the Supreme Court, and wi
| be ready for its reception at the opening of th
| term on the Sd of December. This transfer fror
the basement of the Capitol was long needed
=, The desks have been replaced in the House {
Representatives according to the order of las
session. but with doubtful advantage to the progres
OF public business. In other respects the hall hs
not been materially changed
| Ihe secession panic has caused a diminutiop
the number OF applications for patents and m
number issued weekly is decreasing.
The Georges Creek Coal and Iron Companv bav
so far repaired the damages done to their ra;lroa
by the late heavy freshet as to commence carryin
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