The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-05
Correspondence Of he Daily Erckaage. !
FIR EDERICK LETTER.

The House busted itself to day over several un-
Important measures, one of which-a bill to pay
Captain Gabriel Becklie and the United Guard, of
Frederick, the of $3.50 for guarding at differ
ent Intervals the bridge at Monocacy Junction
received some interest from rather spicy discus
sion which ensued upon its merits between Mr. Nc
lntire, OF Cecil, upon the opposition side of the
question, and Mr aliis in its favor.
The facts of the case, as stated in the memorial
of Captain Beckie, make it appear that of several
other military companies of this city, which we're
at different times detailed for guard duty at the
bridge, the "Unted Guard" is the only one vet
unpaid for the service so rendered; and Governor
Hicks, while concedrng through General Shriver
the justice of the claim, nevertheless refuses to Ii
qudate it, unless Captain B. will first deliver up to
him 25 Of a number of Minnie guns furnished hi,
company by the State, and for the safe-keeping of
which he has regularly bonded.
To this demand Capt. Beckie has refused to
comply, upon the chiet ground that it was unau-
thOrized by law, and despairing of receiving the
PUrgent, or its equivalent in the form OF ceTtii-
cate from the proper State authorities, applied to
the Assembly for relief.
The spice Of the incidental discussion upon the
bill was contributed by Mr.. Wallis, who fully i'm
proved the opportunity thus afforded for the dis
play of his powers of irony, and Of sarcasm. The
act passed the lower chamber by party vote, and
Immediately sent to the Senate, where like
success awaits it tomorrow.
The bill Incorporating the Baltimore, Catonsville
and EIiicotts Mills Passenger Railway Company
was passed TO-DAY with certain Senate amendments,
not materially affecting it's character as originally
proposed. 1t will probably be acted upon bv the
latter chamber tomorrow and become law.
Whether or not so desirable a public convenience
will in the present unsettled condition of affairs,
be pressed forward to completion, rests entirely
with the capitalists of those three places most
nearly concerned in its success.
The Special Committee, consisting of Messrs.
Harrison and Scott of Baltimore, Goldsborough of
Caroline, and Chaplain, to whom was referred Sen
nj to hat he
metropolitan Railroad Company" submitted d
through their chairman, Mr.. Harrison, a report in
which, after recitog that the road in question was
incorporated 10 1858 with capital OF 81 000 000 to
run from Georgetown, ID. G., to HsgerstOwD, Md.
and that the road has scarcely been began ard but
a small por on of its capital stock paid 10, proceeds
to the following statement of facts:
The Baltimore and Ohio road, after an outlay oil
nearly S26 600 600, under provision of its charter
that railroads leading out of Maryland should not
have right OF counexon without its sanction, is
now attacked with a demand for a cOnuexion which
will draw from it a large portion of the trade upon
about sixty mills of its main stem. well as upon
its Washington Branch The State Of Maryland
beyond interest of Une-thTd in the stock of the
w asbipgton Branch, receives One-fth Of the gross
receipts OF the travel on that road, and holds an in
terest in the dividends and profits of the main stem
upon an investment of nesry 81 600. The sup
plement under review would enable parties un-
known to the State, and far more than probable
non-restdents, by comparatively trih,ng exnendi
ture to take all the travel of the North and North
west to the city of Washing ton, which the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad has by vast expen6itu o
time and capital hitherto received and the benefits
of which have been distributed to the States trea
surY and her people. TO whom it almost exclusively
belongs.
Under these circumstances, the committee hnlc
that the advantages applied for under the act will
if granted, be positive injustice to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and an injury to the revenue o
the State, and so reported adversely.
MIR. Pitts introduced, and bad passed to-day, two
bills of much local importance, one repeating sec
ton $50 of art of the Code of Public Local Laws
and substituting therefor section which revive'
the Act of lS46 in relation to landlords and tenants
holding over; and the other extending, by the re
peal of sections $50 and SSl of the Code of Public
! Local Laws, the limitation of time for the coec
tion of taxes in the city of Baltimore from three
to four years. Both these bills were Immediately
| sent to the Senate for its concurrence.
| Mr. Pitts also obtained leave to introduce bill
to amend the law in relation to pleadings and prac
,ice so as to authorize the removal of equity
| from the Superior Court of Baltimore city to th
Equity Court Of the same CITY, and cice versa.
Mr. Sangston obtained leave TO introduce bill
! looking to the consummation of registry law as
| preventive to frauds in elections.
The Senate a scene this forenoon, of q really
erich" retort by Col. Teogle Townsend of Wor
! cester county, upon the popular farmer of Linga
more, (Kimme,) who, on the day previous, baC
| taxed the former, in pointed terms, with many po
| litcal Inconsistencies, and good-naturedlv iuti
mated that the Senator from Worcester had evincet
| in his political career a marked and overruling
partality for the stronger side.
The Senator from Worcester contended with
power of sarcasm, and quaintness of humor whcl
several times "brought down" the Senate, that ia
from having deserted any of the several parties t.
which, at different periods of his career, he haC
been attached, it had been his sad lot one by on
to see the political organizations to which be sue
cessfully pledged his devotion crushed beneath tn
Juggernaut car of popular fckleness, had to tn
last act OF the sacrifice preserved invioate the con
stancy of his plighted faith. "Among the faithles
faithful only he"--
Nor number example, with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mnu'
| Though single"
| Tbus To the fortunes of the "Jeffersonia Democ
racy'' be had yielded up the eernest devotion 0
| his first political love until it the Jefersonia
| Democracy) was "played OUT under the unrelent
| inp hostility of Andrew Jackson From Democ
racy of the Jefferson school to Whiggery of To
| Old Line fidelity and frmneSs, the transition wa
so easy to be scarcely perceptible, and so tn
| Jeffersonian chrysalis burst into the bloom an
| poetry Of a Wing butterfly, and followed the lea
of Harry Clay until that gallant champion sanI
| before the irresistible power OF death.
Thus left, for the second time, political orphan
he entered the then thriving family OF SAM" tn
Know Nothing, where be continued, laboring zes
| lousy meantime, until the ignominious demise
that dissipated character in 80, when-the issue
Southern Rights Us, Black Republican Radicalisu
being then upon the country-be allied himse
with the Democratic party as the cold Guard"
Constitutional principles, and only regretted th,
the failure of the people of his district to send BIZ
to Congress instead of Judge Stewart lost that pur
Democrat, and perfect gentleman, William Aike1
of South Carolina, another vote.
But, he said, the Senator from Frederick shou
inconsistency. The memorable case of the p
which called the kettle black. was he thought