The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-06

TEST QUEsTIoN FOR PRESIDENT LINC0LN.-Our
recent advices from Montgomery contain the intel
ligence that Hon. A. B. Roman, of louisiana Hon.
Martin j. Crawford, of Georgia, and Hon. John
Forsyth, of Alabama, have been appointed by the
Southern Congress Commissioners to proceed to
Washington and settle, if possible the difficulties
which exist between the two Governments in rela-
tion to the distribution of public property.
This is grand opportunity for a display of that
much-vaunted Jacksonian grit which, by Republi-
can organs, the country has been led to expect
from the new administration. The principle has
been broadly laid down by the Republican party
and its representative head that the South, being
In state or revolution, is necessarily in state of
rebellion. This being the case, these three commits
sloners, first, must have the courage to go to Wash
lngton and run the risk Of the reception which may
there await them. If not, they are unworthy OF
the people and interests they represent. Second,
If President Lincoln carries out his policy and has
pluck in proportion to his inches, he must have
every one of these gentlemen arrested on the spot
for treason, indicted, tried and hung on Capitol
Hill. Let him fail to do this and he stultiies him
self and his party. They will be in w ashnatOn in
a few days. Watch and pray IN. Y. Herald.
SOUTHERN PosrAGEs.-The editorial correspon-
dence of the Mobile Register from Montgomery
says:
''The abolishing of the franking privilege (under
the new postal act) will give general satisfaction
Members OF Congress will not, as under the old gov
ernment, lavish such enormous sums in public print
ing when they are compelled to pay two cents an
ounce on the DOCKS they send their constituents,
and ditto for their speeches, which, likewise, they
will be more chary. The frank is properly restrict
ed to ofhcal business, and is no longer personal
privilege OF those who exercise it on such business
The doubling of newspaper postage l do not think
necessary, nor that on printed matter generally
though should hail with unqualified satisfaction
discriminating postage against Northern papers
and periodicals. l would charge them five cents
apiece, and twenty-five cents for Illustrated Ones or
better still, subject them all to letter postage
That ridiculous failure, the registration of letters,
is good riddance, and no one will regret it under
the new postal system"
SHOES FOR THE SoUrH.-rhe Boston Shoe and
Leather Reporter says that 'In consequence OF the
law enacted by the Southern Confederacy ior the
collection of duties upon al goods imported from
foreign countries, which, being interpreted, means
the Northern States, the Southern shoe buyers
have heen very anxious that all orders previously
given by them should be filled on or before the 18th
Instant and the goods shipped, possible In some
instances the buyers have been anxious that they
have directed, iftheir orders could not be filled in
season, that the bills thereof should be made out
and forwarded instead. The tariff on shoes, we
believe, under their laws, is about twentyfou per
cent, and, of course, the saving in the aggregate
will be very large"