The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-18
| Correspondence Of the Charleston hfercury.
THE CNNEEDERATE SrATES

MONTGOMERY, March 1.-THE crowd chickens
every nook and corner of the city affording bed
room space is literally iammed and daily Access
sions are made to the throng. The late clerks and
other Washington employees pouring in by
every eastern train. Notwithstanding ali this,
Montgomery is dull-dull to the citizens, dull to
the traders, dull to the strangers and dull every
else but the hotel keepers and the heads of the
various departments.
The bill reported by the Hon Mr. CLAYTON of
Mississippi, from the Judiciary Committee abolish
ing the ability of certain foreign plaintiffs to sus
tam actions in the courts of the Confederate States
In the event of failure the part of the United
States Government to recognize the Independence
OF our government or to officially receive her duly
accredited ambassadors now in Washington is IA
Vorably received in outside circles. 1t is simple
application of the law of nations Our peopIe are
eminently debtpaying in all their varied charac-
terlstlcs, but the folly of furnishing our enemies
with the means of our subjugaton is at once an
preciated. The moral effect will be considerable
upon the money-oving Yankee nation, whose most
sensitive nerves have ever been found concentrated
in the hard dollar.
A general impression prevails that Congress will
take recess in few days, in order to enable the
States severaly to act on the new Constitution
winch Is confidently expected to day.
learn from good authority that the bonds of the
Confederate States will be promptly taken, per-
maps at par, certainly at very small discount and
that the Treasury Department has reliable guaran
tees to this effect. Some applications are under
STOOD TO nave been pressed on the Department be-
fore the bonds could be engraved Ifwar, as most
persons mere now concede must come twill find
us prepared.
Several members of Congress from Mississippi
and Georgia have returned home-the latter to
attend their State Convention. 1t is said that the
State Convention of Mississippi will be called to
gether two weeks from to day; that of Georgia and
Alabama being now in session.
The opinion prevails here to the effect that an
Official hearing will be peremptoriv denied our
commissioners now in Washing ton, and that this
Will at once put the ball in motion.
Inc despatch and energy shown by Congress in
the transaction OF public business, cannot fail to
secure to that body entire confidence on the
part OF the people of the Confederate States as to
Its industry, earnestness and integrity
Congress has passed the Tariff bill, to 90 into
effect after the LIST of May next On the articles in
schedule "A, an ad valoren duty is placed oftwentv
hve per centum; schedule B, twenty per centum;
schedule c, fifteen per centum; schedule d, ten
per centum; schedule E, five per centum. spe-
chic duty has been laid on tea of four cents ner
pound; ice, two dollars per ton; salt, three cents
per bushel.
The following articles are exempt from duty:
DOCKS, maps, charts, mathematical, nautical and
phliosophlcal instruments, religious publications
laintings, drawings, bullion coins, coffee, seeds
models of inventions, bacon, pork, ham, lard. beef.
wheat, Hour, bran, corn, barley, rice, oats, living
animals, meal, gunpowder, lead. rags, arms of
every description, cotton, ships, steamers, and
dredging machinery.
Congress will take recess on Saturday