The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-16

The WAR BEGUN!-The 'Irrepressible Conflict"
started by Mr.. Seward, and endorsed by the Re-
publican party, has at length attained to its logi-
ca, ca, Ioreseen result. That conflict, undertaken
humanity itself, and exhibits the affecting specta
Gle OF brother shedding brothers blood
refusing the ballot, before the bullet, these men.
nusneu nus WIN the power and patronage of the Fed
erai Government, have mady rushed into civil
war, which will probably drive the remaining
slave States into the arms of the Southern Confed,
eracy, and dash to pieces the last hope for re-
construction Of the Union.
To the gallant men who are so nobIy defending
the nag OF their country within the walls of Fort
Sumter, the nation owes debt of eternal prati
tude-not less than to the equally gallant and pa
triotic spirits, who, in like obedience to the da
mands of duty are perilling their lives and she'd
ding their blood in the heroic, but, as vet unsuc
cesstul endeavCr to afford them succor. Rut tn
the cold-blooded, heartless demagogues. who
started THIS civil war-themselves magnanimously
Keeping out OF the reach of bodily harm-we can
only say-you must find your account if mt at
the hands OF an indignant people; then in the tears
OF widows and orphans The people of the United
states 1t must be born in mind, petitioned begged
and lmplored these men, who are become their ac.
clIental masters, to give them an opportunity to
be heard, before this unnatural strife was pushed
to bloody extreme; but their petitions were all
spurned with contempt, and now the bullet comes
IN 10 decide the lssue!-N. Y. Enpress- Union.
FILIBusTERs IN SoNoRA:-The Arizona CORES
We are told that one hundred and fifty men have
lett the Pino Ito gold mines for fbusterinp o.
expedition into Sonora. Surely they expect rein,
lorcements, or they would not make such an at
tempt with mere handful of men. We have heard
rumors for several months that an organization
comprising over one thousand men had been formed
IN Eastern Arizona for the purpose of fibustering
In Sonora as soon as the cold weather was over
put 1t seemed so improbable that paid no atten-
tion to the story. 1t was said that the members
were sworn to secresy,i and that the organiza-
tion was branch of the Knights of the Golden
Circle in Texas. The MesilIa Times, last Novem-
Der, published paragraph headed with the letters
III. G r. L. >" which it Interpreted "Grand Gold
Prospecting Party stating that a company num-
berlng over live hundred men had been formed al
Pino Alto mines with the design of prospecting fCI
gold In the spring, and it was shreM dly surmised
at the time that gold already coined was the kipc
most likely to invite their search Whether these
suspicious were correct or not have no means O
knowing. The present movement may be entirely
Independent OF any preconcerted arrangements
put 1t seems to your correspondent most likely tina
such hllbusterng organization does in ia ct exist
and that the small force now on their march expec
sufficient aid to enable them to triumph We can
not learn who is at the head of the movement ant
it is reported they will march direct for Hermo
sillo, place of over ten thousand inhabitants
A ROYAL OMEN ON ROYAL DEATH-Notes ant
Queries has the following item under its head o
"Curious Condolences ~
On Wednesday night, or rather Thursday morn
were reused by repeated strokes of the new erea
pell at w estminster, and many supposed it was
death in the royal family. There might have beel
twenty slow strokes when it ceased. 1t proved
however, to be due to some arrangement of tn
CLOCK, Tor at and O'Clock ten or twelve stroke
were struck instead of the proper number Or
mentioning this in the morning to friend who i
oeep In London Antiquities, he observed that there
Is an opinion IN the city that anything the matte
with ot. faufs great bell is an omen of i'll To tht
royal family; and he added: 81 hope the opinion
will not extend to the Westminster hell Tbi. W. a
at IL o'clock on Friday morning. 7 see this morn
ing that it was not till A. NJ. the lamented Ouch
of Kent was considered in the least danger and
as you are aware, she expired in less than twenty
four hours, do not pause to comment on this On
rious coincidence, but to ask whether any one ca,
give me any further particulars as to this opinion
PAPER L1NEN.-The London Lace Paper Compa
ny, in the Strand, are bringing out new inver
tion, called paper cloth, for ladies' collars, cuffs
and similar articles. The Critic, in noticing il
says:-It is extremely beautiful, and SO yer
cheap (say Sd. collar) as to threaten to driv
J crochet-work entirely out of fashion," The mate
rial, If it be like some We have seen, consists of
very slight fabric of woven stuff felted, as it were
with linen or other fibrous shreds, such as paper
made OF 1t is sort of shoddy-linen in fact, if W
may so describe it, and has all the appearance
starched linen ata very little distance; looked
closely, however, no texture like that of woye
iinen appears. Mems collars are sold at Cd.
dozen by stationer in High Holborn. Each, it
saio, VIII last day or two, and be reversible
even then. The washerwomen and laundresst
may look out for squalls We should not wonde
W see Japanese paper handkerchiefs next in hant
lady accustomed to read in the British Nus
editors. ioi au'hofs an
Cxpt nen. McCulloch arrived in New Orlea,
VI tns esA snst', and was booked 1t the st. Charlie