The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-13


the Southern States, where he intends to apply
himself solely to the practice of his profession, As
he was a Colonel in the Mexican war, and has seen
some service, he will be quite acquisition to the
Southern Confederation. He is said to be wealthy,
and has always stood up manfuy for the South
and her institutions.
The Secretary of the Treasury of the Confeder-
ate States has designated the city of Atlanta port
of entry and delivery, embracing the territory
circumscribed By line extending from West Point,
in Troup county, to Barnesville, Upson county,
thence to Greensboro, Greene county, and from
the latter point, in direct northern line, to the
borders of South Carolina-the State lines of the
Carolinas, Tennessee and Alabama completing the
district.
HARD ON Mr.. LlNCo1N.-The Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript Ia Republican
paper) describes the scene in the Senate on In
augurati0n day, and says sptefuy tn at ''the out
going President was undeniaby the more present
able man of the two; his tall, large figure and
white head looked well beside MIR. Lincoln's lank an
gular fern and hirsute face; and the dress of the
President elect did not indicate that knowledge of
the proprieties of his place which was Desirable"
A GREAT INyENrIoN.-The Lynchburg Virginia.,
says: Capt NJ. S. kable and Mr.. Hartman of Lex
ington, have sent to the Governor of Virginia to
| be examined by him and the military officers of the
State at Richmond, a model of cannon, invented
by themselves, which they say can be fired whole
day without stopping, at the rate of about thirty
shots per minute. The officers of the Virginia
favorable to it.
Spelling matches are all the rage in Winsted
Conn. They had one in Camp Hail. Monday night
and collected $40 in ten cent admissions Nine
schools of the town sent five picked spoilers First
prize, Webster's unabridged pictorial dictionary.
They used up the spelling book, two or three
Biographies, and had to bring out the classics be-
fore some of the sharpest spoilers would succumo'
| The Pensacola Gazette of the 28th ult. states
that the reported duel between Mr.. Hart edlt0r OF
| the Tallahassee (Forida) Sentinel, and Mr.; Cole
man, in which both were said to nave Deen iied,
proves to be nO-such thing NO "udlr ot tue
| kind took place.
Pins TX. has inst received, present, splendid
diamond necklace, the properly Vi a rrenGn laay,
| lately deceased, and quantity of what London
hIgivar used to call "artcles of bigotry and vir-
| the also present from lady of OsmO.
| The Empress of Austria will remain in Madeira
till Nav when she will again avail herself for her
return voyage, of the Queen of Englands yacht.
| She will dsembark at Trieste, where she will be
received by the Emperor and the Imperial Prince.
The Bellows Falls Argus SAYS that T. NJ. Brown,
late Postmaster of W oodstock, is detaulter for
S767, and his bondsmen have been called on by the
Department to ''pay up for him.
Judge, Harris, the successor of Mr.. Seward IN
| the United States Senate, is pronounced oy WASH
| ington correspondents the finest looking MEMBER
| of that body.
| widow named Lecuriot recently died IN Paris,
the age of ninety in the very dnrn b
| was born, and which she haa occupleo uurlng the
| whole course of her long me.
We learn from the Savannah Republican that the
construction of line of telegraph between that
oity and Cockspur Island Fort Pulaski) has been
commenced.
DR.. tanner has been appointed Physician Extra
ordinary to Queen Victoria, in room OF the late pr
Baly.