The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-18
From the Mor,pnM Gnzette l


The DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTs.-lt is
astonishing to observe with what pertinacity peo-
pie cling to the idea that their Representatives at
Washington can send them any thing they please
free of cost. During our visit here at the Federal
capital we have learned curious facts relating
to this subject. A New York member has letter
from of his constituents asking him to forward
all the Patent Office Reports since 1887; another
had arequest for full set of the Japan Expedi-
ton; one wants Herndon's Brazil Report; anOth-
desires some good daily newspaper from Wash
ington; another wishes a complete set of Wilkes
Exploring Expedition; one actually desires the
member from his district to forward hive of
bees, which the applicant understood was among
the articles distributed from the Patent Office.
Now, the following matters ought to be under
stood by thepeopIe
/. Every speech that member of Congress
sends to his constituents he has to paw for at
prices varying from five to ten dollars per thous
and; and where a constituency of many thousand
electors expects to receive a distribution of
speeches all around several times during the SEES
sion, the expense becomes quite a serious matter.
If persons write to their Representatives to dis
tribute speeches and political tracts, they ought
to send the money to pay for them.
z. All documents, reports. &c, ordered to be
printed by any Congress distributed to the
members of that Congress, and succeeding members
only obtain them by buying them Members
are daily receiving letters asking for the Patent
Office Report printed by order of the last Congress.
Those who were members OF that body may have
some Of those Reports left over; but the new men,
bers have none, and the new Reports will not be
printed till next summer.
3. Such costly works as the Pacific Railroad Re
port, the Japan Expedition, the Wilkes Exploring
Expedition, the Brazil Expedition, &C., only
be obtained by the present members by purchasing
them at the bookstores, and member has any
greater facility for obtaining them than any pri-
vate citizens.
4. 1t is understood that no seeds, &C., will be
distributed from the Patent Office this year.
John II. Boyle of Upper Marlborough, Nd, was
stabbed on Saturday night last, by free negro
named Charles Simms. Boyle is doing we'll and
the negro is in Jail.
convention of the editors of ofPennsylvania is now
in session in Harrisburg. Morton McMichael, ESQ.,,
of the Philadelphia North American, is the Pre-
sident.
blacksmith named Evas, dug well himself in
the Pennsylvania mineral oil region, and struck
rich vein for which he has been offered $4,000 and
refused it.
A meeting of the citizens of Frederick county,
favorable to the extension of the Western Mary
land Railroad, was held at Double Pipe Creek, on
last Saturday.
Mr.. J. E. Chase, agent of the Penn berton Mill,
publishes statement in the Boston papers, show
ing that only S5602 Of the amount due to the
former operatives in that establishment, remains
unpaid.
Horace Greeley predicts the nomination of Sena-
lOr DOuPlas-Ine pfedlctlon Delng the 1fult oil
tour in the Northwest.
Mrs. Ellen Waldron has obtained a verdict in
Chautauque county against the Buffalo and State
Line Railroad Company, of $4,000, for the killing
of her husband some two years since.
A project is on foot for building in Paris twelve
large palaces, for the twelve Marshals of France,
on the Avenue de Segur, near the lnvaides
Rev. George Chandler, an eminent Presbyterian
minister OF Philadelphia died in that city on We'd
nesday morning.
A man named Joseph E. Simpson, was drowned
in the tank of the Philadelphia gas works on
Thursday morning.
Thirty ship-carpenters and about the same num-
ber of aborers were discharge from the Navy
Yard at Portsmouth, Va, on Saturday last.
The Black Republicans in the New York Legis-
lature have revived the proposition to establish
free negro suffrage in that State.
cotton factory, capable of running twenty-five
hundred spindes has just been put in operation at
Jefferson City, Louisiana.