The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-07
WASHINGTON NEWS.
PRESENTATION OF THE New FPFNru MrN1crV

House for the manner in which Committee was ac-
commodated unanimously adopted and the meeting
adjourned.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
PRESENTATION OF THE New FRENCH MINISTER TO THE
PRESIDENT-THE CLAIMS AGAINST PARAGUAY
OUR AFFAIRS WITH SPAIN.
The new French Minister, NJ. Mercier,
was on Wednesday presented to the Presi-
dent by acting Secretary of State, Mr.
Trescot. The Minister, in offering his credentials
took occasion to express his satisfaction in being
accredited to this government, and closed his brief
ADDRESS by announcing the sincere sympathy of his
august master, the Emperor. for the government
and people OF this country. The President in re-
ply, stated the pleasure it afforded him in receiving
the new envoy, and in the course of his remarks
made fecitOus use of the fact that the French
Minister should present his credentials on the ami
versary of American independence, which could
not fail to remind him (the President) of the deep
obligations the people of this country owed to
France in their struggle for emancipation, and
which no American could recall without the liveIi-
est sentiments of gratitude. The interview termi-
mated with mutual assurances of the most cOmpli-
mentary character, and it is said the new French
Minister has made most favorable impression
on the PRESIDENT as man of ability and
straightforward and conciliating disposition -
1De arguments IN the Paraguay case have been
submitted to the Commissioners, and a decision
may therefore be expected. The parties who are
pressing these claims anticipating a very large
award, nearly million ocdoars. Most of the ac-
counts it is said, are fictitious, and will compare
favorably, when the facts all developed, with
the Gardiner and Galphn claims. 1t is to be hoped
that the matter will be thoroughly sifted. 1t was
wisely remarked, a short time since, bv the pre-
sent head of one of the departments that man
could not turn around in foreign government
without presenting claim of hundred thousand
dollars. Accounts have recently appeared in the
newspapers representing that there exists an in
creased hostility on the part OF the Spanish gov
ernment against the United States. While our re-
lations not amicable as could be desired ow-
ing to causes well known to the public, there is
" IN he hatr
the governments to support that assertion.
The feeling now is at least friendly as it has
been at any time within the last ten vears-
Lord Lyons has returned to the city. He will leave
here in time meet the Prince of w aes on his ar
rival in Canada. The government, as yet, have
taken no steps with regard to this distinguished
| visitor. Whatever is done in the matter will be
| through Minister Daas-There has nothing vet
transpired in regard to the California mail service
| The matter is still under advisement The Post
master General seems to be averse to making any
arrangements, and thus throws the responsibility
upon Congress.-NO time has been fixed for Cen
Cass' return to Washington. He may be absent
the whole summer. The President conducts the
diplomacy.
THE HAYES ARcTC ExPEDlTIoN-THE VESSEL AND
CREw-The arrangements of the expedition are so
far completed that the vessel Spring Hill, now living
at Gray's wharf, will sail for the North on Thurs
day. The officers and crew are as follows:
Commander, DR.. Isaac |. HAYES.
Astronomer and second in command DR., AUGUST
SOnntag.
First Officer, S. G. Mccormick
Second Officer, II. W. Dodge.
Commanders Clerk, George F. Knorr.
Assistant Astronomer, Henry Radcliffe.
Carpenter, Gibson Carruthers.
Artist' Tst'"' Not yet appointed.
The steward cook and six seamen, seventeen in
all, compose the whole ships company.
The vessel is schooner of l40 tons, with fore
topsail. She is probably the strongest and safest
vessel that ever went into the Arctic She
has been strengthened like DR.. Kane's Advance,
but with heavier and larger beams. The Spring
Hills beams are twelve by twelve, while the Ad-
vances were eight by ten. She has triple sheath
ing all around of two inch oak. While the Ad-
vance's only went up to the main chains, her bows
are sheathed like Dr. Kane's vessel with l6 iron
up to the fore chains and she is much faster YES
sci than the Advance. These details seemed to be
necessary, as reports have been crcu ated dispara
ging to the character and strength of the vessel
She has two fine boats, twenty four feet long, of
the whale boat fashion, and she will carry two me-
tallic life boats, which can be the ice on
the keel, like sledges.
The great danger to vessels of ordinary con-
stTuction is in being crushed in the ice fields The
form of the Spring Hill is such that when caught
between the ice (or the nips, in the Arctic voya-
gers terminology) she will rSe sometimes entirely
out of the water, the crew in the meantime snoring
her up.
| The vessel will be fully provisioned for three
years, onehalf of which will be fresh, protec-
tion against scurvy, including two thousand pounds
Of desiccated beef, and one thousand cans of pre-
served meats She carries fifty tons of coal, that
| being an ample supply for three years. The rate
| OF consumption is one ton month in the summer,
! and one ton and half in the winter. The crew
| will provide themselves with fur clothing at
Greenland, and there take on board twenty dogs
| and two Esquimaux. The language of these sngu-
| lar people is understood by DR.. HAYES and Doctor
| Sonntag.
The expedition is provided with a complete set of
| magnetical instruments, and pendulum for deter
mining the form Of the earth. This instrument
has been constructed with the most consummate
SKILL by the Messrs. Bond, of Congress street. and
is the first of the kind made in this country.
The pendulum is so delicately suspended that it
swings five hours by being once set in motion. A
series of experiments are being made with this in
strument at the Observatory at Cambridge. a
complete set of astronomical meteorological and
surveying instruments will be taken, all of which
will be used under the direction OF DR.. Sonntag,
who was the astronomer OF DR.. kane's last eXpedl-
tiOn.
| Doctor Hayes is most fortunate in securing the
services of his late skfu and intrepid comrade.-
Doctor Sonntag leaves his position in the Dudley
Observatory on furlough of two years and a
half, (for the government would not accept his re-
sgnation,) and will resume bis place if he lives to
return.
We are sorry to hear that the expedition is en-
barrassed by the non-payment of some OF the sub
scriptons to the fund, several etropolitan gentle
men having backed down, because the expedition
did not sail from their port
DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES FOR AsrA.-Occasions
of deep interest transpired this forenoon on board
| the barks Smyrnote, Captain Weston, aud Henry
Hill, Captain POllass, lying at Central and Rowe's
| wharves, and bound for Smyrna incident upon the
departure of two bands of Missionaries, under the
auspices of the American Board of Commissioners
| for Foreign Missions Those who go out in the
Smyrniote are Rev. 5. A. Rhea and wife, of Ten
nessee; Rev. Henry Cobb and wife, of New York;
| who destined for the mission among the Noun
| tain HISTORIANS; Rev. Benjamin Larabee, Jr of
Middlebury, VT, and wife, late of Enfield, Mass
who go to the Armenian Mission in Persia; Dr.
Franklin N. H. Young, destined to the same place;
Rev. Henry N. Cole and wife, and Rev. l.. F. Bur
| bank, of New Hampshire, and wife, of New York
| City, for Betis, Turkey. The deck and cabin of
the Smyrniote were filled with large company of
| the relatives and friends of the missionaries to
whom the parting seemed more painful than to the
wanderers themselves. Religious services were ini-
tiated by Rev. DR.. Anderson, who introduced Rev.
DR.. McEwing, of Enfield, pastor of one of the mis-
sions, who announced the 453d hymn, commenc-
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds,
| Is like to that above"
The hymn was sung by the company, after
which affecting PRAYER was otlerred by the ot
ciating clergyman. The doXology was then sung
and the services closed with the benediction The
| company fingered long to pronounce the farewell
, word, and many a lip quivered and eye glistened
with emotion as, one by one, the friends OF the mus
sionares left the vessel The services on board the
bark Henry Hill took place at 10 O'Clock, Rev; Dr.
Perkins, formerly of the HISTORIAN Mission, oieia
ting The exercises, which similar to o.bn sRGTe
board the Smyrniote, took place IN m ene
: in the presence of large assembly. he @ nls Rav
,es who embarked in the sniSPsS H5pg F for
nople, where they will take their wife. who is a
NJ yns:tSSn, Tf %[ssr can'5f a 9aS apa Ms:
gsughter Vi n,t.o;t ~. fhe first two ana she lsst
wa sqSpns ssSPd hsss
labor where tney ~ syai to oday-Boston Journal Jys
are exPee'eu 1TE--The Tribune of yesterday
was Ra1gsnt SSfd has 'sssas ssa fSS by
United U1fas Commissioner Newton for the arrest
The Kate saver charge qEs law eS4ss
| SERVING 80 U to he made on board The vessel
United States 5OI
tiS tSo tug took Garcia, her intended Captain, to
erade ue the provision above referred to- An exam-
nation will be held to-day.
u The receipts for water rents in Philadelphia, for
the last six months, were $462, ,220'1S.