The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-07
SENATOR DOUGLAS.

The. National hltellgencer publishes the following
official order:
Information having been received of the decease
OF the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Senator in the
Congress of the United States, and that his funeral
obseques will take place at Chicago and not at this
capital, supposed, the President directs that
the public offices be closed the day of that cere-
mOny, in honor OF the memory of the deceased.
The Executive Mansion and other public build
ings will be draped in mourning for the period Of
thirty days.
Department Of State Washington, June 5, 1861
We take the following account of his last illness
from the Chicago Times of Tuesday:
Judge Douglas returned home quite unwelI and
called his medical attendant on Thursday, MAY .
His primary attack acute rheumatism, which
rapidly assumed typhoid character, and contin
ued from the hrst very unyielding. After
tea twelve days. his attack was complicated bv
an liberated sore throat, which soon Welded. Tor
por of the liver and constipation of the bowels en-
sued, soon followed by jaundiced condition, ac
companed bY poisoning of the blood, which pros
trated his nervous system still more. Constant
wandering ard delirium accompanied his attack
from its inception till he died. He was more con-
tnually rational from to this morning, and con
vprsed with his family, and gradually sank from
that time until O'Clock, when he expired gently
and quietly. His attack throughout not atten-
ded with much pain, except the anguish Of the
rheumatic attack in the early part OF his sickness
Drs. McVickar, Boone aud Hahn, of this city ,
were in constant attendance upon him. from the in
ceptlon of the attack until the 25th of Nav, when
they were joined by DR.. Thomas Miller, of Wash
ington, to whose skill and attention his friends
and attending physicians bear cheeru ul and willing
tribute.
On Sunday at II p. NJ, slight change for the
manifest, and then hope left all be arts
his physicians, it was now apparent, could
do no more. His respiration became on
pressed, aud continued to fail almost i'm
percepHbly till A. NJ. on Monday when his de-
cline beame more rapid. His utterances, though
broken, gave evidence that he conscious OF
his approaching dissolution At $3.50 immediate
termination seemed imminent but he continued to
respire, feebly and more feebly until Oil, when
he drew his last breath without sigh or "A strug-
gle, calmly and peacefully infant. He WAS
DEAD!!
1t seems that it was the great desire of the citi-
zens Of CHICAGO that the remains of Judge Dou-
gas should be buried near that CITY, ,as committee
appointed to wait upon Mrs. Douglas and ell
deavor to change her original purpose of having
the body repose at Washington. The Times Of
Wednesday SAYS:
Col. Richardson and Father Fitzgibbon had an
affecting interview with Mrs. Douglas upon the
subject, in which the whole matter was presented
to her The result of that interview was, that duly
approaching the spontaneous expression of the
whole people that the remains of her honored hus-
band should be inferred in Illinois, she had ac-
quesced-consented, if with pain, not with reluct-
auce. She had accompanied this change of pur-
pose with the request that he should be inferred on
the lake shore, at Cottage Grove. This was her
desire, and no one, much as. he might wish to have
the Judge buried at the State Capitol, could but
like Welding to her request. 1t was her desire and
intention in he was buried there to reside in
small cottage near his tomb, to watch over and be
near all that left of him she dearly loved
No more appropriate place could be selected.
monument was already there, erected by himself in
his lIberaty: that monument the University
which faced the spot chose by Mrs. Douglas for his
place of burial.
Hon. w. A. Richardson announced that Mrs
ng,,f had .ba da-ir that NJ n,r
glas sd never intmated to her anv preference for
any particular faith, that he should be buried with
the vice OF her own church; and that she fur
ther wished the funeral ceremonies to be delayed
until the arrival of her two sons from Washington
A GENERAL BANKRUPr LAW PRoPoseD.-A pc
ttion is in circulation in Philadep phia for sigma
lures, asking Congress to pass, at the special
sion which it is about to hold next month, a gene
raj act of bankruptcy, similar to that which was
passed in the financial troubles following the panic
of 1884, and which wiped out of existence about two
hundred millions of dollars of debt.
ACT PROVIDE AN UNIFORM SYSTEM OF BANK
KUPrCY.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States o America,
in Congress assembed-That every person who has
heretofore obtained, or may at any time alter the
passage of this Act obtain, discharge under the
present or any future insolvent laws of any one of
the United States, shall be entitled to file his petit
tion in anv District CGurt of the United States in
and for the District where such person shall reside
setting FORTH under oath or affirmation the fact of
his discharge as Aforesaid, and PRAYING to BE- de-
creed bankrupt under this Act. And thereupOn,
it shall be the duty of the said Court to inquire in
to the truth OF the fact so ayerred in such petition
of which the petitioners insolvent discharge,
duly certified. uoder the State law as aforesaid
shall be conclusive evidence And if it shall ap-
pear to said {, urt, that the said petitioner has
been so discharged under a State ins9lvent law As
aforesaid, the said District Court of the United
States shall, thereupon, enter a Decree declaring
the petitioner bankrupt under this Act and the
clerk of said Court shall, when thereto requested
grant certificate of such decree
Section 2. Every petitioner receiving certificate
under this Act SHALL in addition to the priv
ileges conferred by any insolvent discharge under
any State law as aforesaid, he forever exempted
and discharged from all debts contracted prior TO
said insOlvent discharge
Section g. The clerks granting certificates under
this Act, shall be entitled to receive hve collars
for each of said certificates
The following is the latest estimate OF the num-
bers of tie various religious sects exls,lng AT
present in the world: Christians, ooo,oo",uVuj WV
Jews 4 600 OOO of various Asatc creeuS, oOo,euo,-
OOo. N,bsmmodsns. 100, 100000; Poly theists,
y00 mn OOO. of these l70,0OO.OoO are Catholics,
eo 000 o00 protestants, and 6OOOO0O of the Greek
Church.
A corrasnondent of the New York Post saws that
news has been received at Washing ton that large
number of Austrian vessels have been taken into
New Orleans, as prizes by the Confederate pri-
vateers. But one war steamer bockades the mouth
of the Mississippi river, that two or three chan
nels are left entirely open.