The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-02
lR. RUSSELLS FIRST LETTER TO T
LONDON TIMES

and publishes the following extracts from the cor
respondence of the London Times For reasons
best known to ITSELF it refrans from inserting the
| whole letter.
The first letter of Mr. Russell, the correspondent
| W tle LONDON Times, has been received in this
country, and as it has been looked for with con-
ITgeTaole interest, it will be very generally read
aye little time to bestow criticism in these
fig nrfa;ng tines and no desire treat Mr. Russell
a,"'"''iy Dy Judging of his ability to comprehpnd
the grand problem of the American Rennhiic in its
reached US. anu '0'0 le''eI tnd' nas
Mr. russell processes great surprise at the oui
etude he found prevailing in Nv vi a. tne q"i-
momentous event the dissolution of 49, ui 80
was supposed to be impending. .sNew W. ;,bn "'bn
says, Seems full of divine calm and bumap nbI, -
ana again, IAN elegant refinement, which almost
assumes the airs of procuranteism, rei0ns in soni
ety." Mr.. Russell makes the extraordinary n,istak
OF attributing the state Of feeling in the commercial
metropolis of the country to a loss of faith nv tho
| people in their Government-not only in its exist
ing organism and representatives, but in the yery
| principles ON which it is based He compares the
denizens OF Fifth avenue to Nero, who fddled while
Rome was burning. He says:
They marry and are givn in marriage; they at
'enu lhelr faVorlte theatres dramatic devotion
| al as the case may be, in the very best coats or
| oonnets; they eat the largest OYSTERS drink the
! us wines, and enjoy the many goods the gods
| rProV:oe them, unmoved by the daily announce.
mment that Fort Sumter is evacuated, that the
south Is arming, and the Morrill, Tariff is runing
the trade of the country. And, as they saw IWbst
can we do?' I'VE are,' they insinuate. .noweriass
10 avert the march Of events. We think every
'body is wrong.'"
Further along, he speaks of the "calm doubtful
ness and lndolent anticipation" of New ork and
repeats his conclusion that its citizens have surren
! words are: 0
"Ihe arisocracy of New York has Welded IT,
sell unresistingy to tvrrany it hates: it cannot
''wleId at will the fierce Democracy, and it aban-
uons all Efforts to control it. forgetting the abun-
''uant proofs history pf
wealth and superior intelligence to control the
| 'proach." " "P
Having adopted the false premises in rerord -
the political infdelity OF New York above indicat
! &c, Mr.. Russell draws a very natural but very
laise conclusion. 1t is in such striking contrast
with the events that have recently occurred around
US, and with the spirit that still flames with undi-
mlnShed tervor in our midst, that we must present
! 1t. Mr.. Russell says:
= New York would rather do ANYTHING than fobt
| her delight is to eat her bread and honey and
count her dollars in peace. The vigorous deter
mined hostility of the South to her commercial
nemlnence, is met by sort of maudin sympathy
without action, or intention to act The ONLY
| matter in which the great commercial aristocra.
icy take any interest is the Morrill, Tariff, which
threatens to inilict on them the most serious
Closes and calamity"
! BALTIMORE YACHT SEIZED IN rEE DEGAwAPp-
me rlver police, under command of Lieutenant
! Edgar, captured on Sunday night Yacht thirty
iert IN length. The craft reached here two or three
| uiSs since from Baltimore, and is said To have
! brought some ten eleven persons The object of
the visit OF the latter was not known: but It was
rumored that they were Secession spies, and Lieu
! tenant Edgar started in pursuit of the boat. He
! was unable to find her until Sunday night when
! she was brought into Coates street wharf and was
! seized. The yacht was in charge of two men, who
denied all knowledge Of her the purpose for
! which she is here. The boat, it is thought has
! been concealed IN the vicinity of Brdesburg since
| her first arrival. She is painted red, white and
blue, and is now held by the river police.-Pha
Press Of Monday.
| SANTA Rosa ISLAND FoRrGrED-The Pensacola
correspondent of the Mobile AGcer,iser writing on
the 25h ut., says of the movements of the Federal
officers at Fort Pckens:
The Yankees are still busy both in and around
Fort Picklns. They have removed some of the
6arbette guns, for what purpose is all conjecture
was told this morning by an old sailor in these
matters that the Federalists have erected and
planted nine gun batteries outside Pickens. The
guns were likely taken from the feet. as was the
case at Vera Cruz. They'll be troublesome, work
/ ed by old tars.
\ New KNIGHT OF THE GARTER While the
/ Seventh regiment was in Philadelphia, fine old
| Quaker lady, observing that of the band was
| IN state OF great embarrassment for the lack Of
| a string with which to secure the mouth of his
| bag of provisions, observed quietly, "Frend |
/ would not give thee implement of war, but thee
shall have string to preserve thy food" Then
she turned partly away for an instant and stopped
! down, to tie her shoe, apparently, but when she
rose up she handed to the blushing blower of brass
neat green band, that moment before had been
DONG duty as a-a-a-well, garter.
Gov MAGoFFIN, OF KENTUCKY, in a letter ad-
dressed to the editors of the Louisville Journal
in retutation Of certain charges which they had
| made against him. declares emphatically that all
| his efforts have been directed to two objects,
namely "Arming Kentucky 8 that she 'n,oy main
tam any position she may finally assume and cmItj-
eating Jre"diy relations ,rth the Border Free States
and maintaining the peace Jet,eeen them and our
sctrcs, in the hope that by the favor OF God we
may yet save the country from utter, irretrievable
and hopeless ruin"
A SHIP LOAD OF DIPLoMATS.-The Fulton which
sailed from New York on Saturday tor Snutbamn-
ton and Havre, took 2S3 passengers, and $4,000
! IN specie. Among the passengers are the Hon.
/ Mm Il. Dayton, Minister to France, and family;
mr.. remington, Secretary Of Legation, and Mr.
VIM. Il. Dayton, assistant secretary; Hon. Mr.
burHngame Minister to Austria; Hon. Geo. p
Marsh, Minister to Turin; Capt. John Britton Com
sui at Southampton; Mr. Wilson, Secretary of Le-
cation, London; Mr.. VIM. S. Campbell, Consul at
Rotterdam; Hon. James s. Pike, Minister at the
Hague; Mr. VeSey, Consul at Alx-la. Chapelle; Mr..
James D. Putnam, Consul at Havre.
A Santiago correspondent of the New Orleans
Picayune, writing under date of the 10Th, saws
rumor from authentic source has reached
here that the Mexicans are getting up another
guerilla warfare against citizens on the river
above Brownsville. The town of Roma has been
4 families
murdered. Brownsville has also been threatened
II, OF course, assumes the guse of another raid
but it is my firm conviction that the Mexican au-
thoritieS are at the foot of it.
} Lincoln must be amused at the dispatches sent
him from the South, if they are all like this one
from New Orleans:
New ORLEANS. April 90.
To abraham, Lincoln President of the LRsted States:
SIR:-Ihe time granted by you for the mob to
disperse down South is entirely too short. 1t is
n vn vat a
Gould you not extend the time?
(Signed) WILLIS HoLMEs
INDIANS on THE RIO GRANDE.-The Texas .Senti-
mel, of the 20th ut, says that .'the citizens and
State troops in different portions of frontier
have pu' SUED the Indians, and in everv instance
where they have been overtaken, they have been
defeated and compelled to make their escape leav-
ing behind the horses mares ard mules which they
had stolen; but nevertheless, they have murdered
a large number Of our trontiersmeu."
PITTsBURG Troops ORDERED BAcK-The Pitts
; burg Post Of Tuesday says:-A despatch was re-
ceved by Mr. Carnegie, the Superintendent of the
Western Division OF the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
last evening, about six o'clock, ordering the City
Guards, who left here at four O'clock, back. Col.
' Campbell and Major Hays with the Guards.
The papers say that a lady entered wigmaker's
: establishment on Broadway, ,Nev York and direct
ed the hairdresser to cat her hair off short, and
part it at the side. She said that her husband had
4 enlisted, and that she determined to follow
him.
The Boston Courier says that there is positive
information from Paris that C. j. Faulkner the
Z. 5. Minister there, presented to NJ. Thcuvenel
the commissioners of the Southern Republic sent
there to negotiate with the French government for
its recognition.
The Richmond Dispatch says that there are
$4,000 volunteers enrolled in the State of Vir-
ginia, and that there is three times that number
subject to military duty.
The steam-tug ''Young America" seized in
Hampton Roads last week by Commodore Pender-
grast, Of the U. :. sloop-of-war Cumberland" is
: being used as a guard boat.
At the London Exhibition Of the Society of Arts
is cylinder printing machine, Of the size of
pocket book, capable of printing ten thousand i'm
pressions per hour.
The houses of Bishop Polk, of Louisiana and
Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, at University Place in
the former State set fire and burnt to the
ground on the night of the llth ult.
On Friday last there were in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina, three steamships seven
ships, four barks, six brgs, and fourteen schoon-
ers.
Lieut.. Gusts Lee, lately stationed at Fort Wash
ington, on the Potomac OF Gen. Robert E.
, Lee, has resigned his COMMISSION in the T. s. A.
The House of Representatives of PENNSYLVANIA
has refused to permit the banks of that State TO
ssue bills of less denomination than S.
We learn from the Herald that the first issue of
small notes by the city of Norfolk, Zone and two
dollar biIls,) was made Friday.
: The bronze figure of W ashirgton for the
fully at Mnnich