The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-23

money. He was committed to Jail for further
hearing by Justice Glover.
Some eighteen or twenty members of the Gov
ernors Guard left here this afternoon for your
city, in order to attend the Grey's ball.
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[Correspondsnce Of the London Morning GAronicIs.I
THE COMMANDMENT OF GAETA.
MoLA DI GAETA, Jan. 2G.-Instead of Gaeta fall
ing at once, as some of my brother correspondents
used to declare, if only the French would allow an
attack from the sea, it appears that the besiegng
fleet can do little but keep up the blockade; for the
present the plan of operations is as foilows:-For
week or ten days time the Sandman batteries, on
the bill side facing the fortress, will open heavy
and continued fire. The hope is that this fire may
Brighten the garrison into captivating. If not, it
is trusted that it will suffice to silence the Neapo-
tan batteries An assault will then be made across
the low strip of land that connects the fortress with
the main land; and the Bersaglieri will attempt to
force their way to the hill-top-an attempt which,
if the enemy resist, will be attended with great
loss of life. If, however, as is probable, either the
batteries of the Neapoltans cannot be siIenced,
the assault is a failure, then the siege will settle in
to simple blockade. 1t is impossible now (bar-
ring foreign interventiOn) for the besieged to es-
cape either by land or sea- and therefore the sur
render of the garrison is a mere question of time
The belief is that they are provsioned for three or
four months to come, and if Gaeta is not taken
within a fortnight the siege will probably be a
matter of months. This il, am informed, the
plan decided on at this moment, though of course
it may be modified by an passing event.
Meanwhile, the Sardinians not anxious to
commence firing, and orders have been issued to
the batteries not to fire unless fired at Every hour
so the Neapolitan batteries on the hill side fire
oil shell at the Sandman works. The puff of
smoke has hardly risen from the lannon's mouth
before the Sandman batteries on the shore reply.
And so some half dozen shots are fired off till there
Is pause; and then an hour afterwards another
shot is fired and so throughout the day. Of course
it is impossible to tell what amount of damage we
may do to the besieged. To-day shot fell close
to the tower of the royal palace, and another into
battery on the hill side.
The real even. of the day has been the expert
ments made by the CavaIli guns. Two of these
cannon have been placed in the garden of the hotel
of Cicero's Villa, o7erhanging the sea- They were
first placed mile nearer the fortress along the
coast; but the distance was found to be too short
At present they at least three miles distant
from the fortress and this distance they carry with
ease. One shot saw to DAY passed right over the
hill of Gaeta, and probably dropped into the sea
beyond The two shots before mentioned which
struck the palace tower and the hill battery. were
both fredfrom the Cavall guns. One fact is clearly
ascertained, that the Neapoitans have artillery
which can at all compete with these guns in range.
Our powder vessel is placed at about the same dis
lance from the fortress the Cavalli battery but
no shot the besieged has aimed at it has ever come
within a mile. The Sandman officers are immense
ly proud of these cannon, and believe they are
quite unexampled in the history of artillery but
should doubt, from what see, there being any es-
sential difference between them and orr Armstrong
guns. The shot is very like seltzer-water stone
bottle, except that the bottom is much wider than
the top. The ridges on the side of the SHE'LL which
tit into the grooves of the lannon's bore, not
parallel to the axis of the bottle, but inclined to it
al an angle of thirty degrees. As far as | could
judge, the length of the cannon is about fourteen
feet.
A DoCroR CAMPING Our IN A Snow SroRM.-Dr.
Harold Ii. Pope on his way to see patient in
Verona, early on Thursday evening, and was over
taken by the storm in all its fury. Owing to the
drifted roads at some points, the path had been
moved to the adjoining fields. All traces of the
track were, however, soon oblierated, and nothing
could be seen, at times not the horses head.
The Doctor could not find his way out of these
fields, and his horse finally became so completely
confused that he refused to bulge inch in any
direction. Here was dilemma, but DR.. Pope was
equal to the emergency. Instead of wasting his
vital energies in useless attempts to extricate him
self, he prepared to camp on the stop for the night
in the following manner. He disengaged his horse
from the cutter, and took off his harness; he then
took of the two buffalo robes he had with him,
and put it on his horse, and then replaced the har
ness, buckled it on and made it all safe. He then
tied the horse fast to a tree. The doctor then
turned his cutter up sideway, so as to make bar
icade against the storm, and wrapping himself up
in the remaining robe, lay down under the protec-
ton of his cutter, and spent the night We
learn that the Doctor suffered some damage in his
feet from the frost, but when the morning dis
PEELED the storm, and he discovered his bearings,
he hitched his faithful steed once more to the cut
ter and made the visit to his patient if nothing
had happened. Presence of mind and great power
of endurance, saved our medical friend from great
| suffering and perhaps from death.-Rone NJ T.
Citizen.
A SOUTHERN VIEW OF THE CorTRN SUPPLY
The Savannah Republican says there is no cause
for British apprehension regarding the falling Of
in the cotton crop of the South:
AS regards the apprehended falling off in the
production of the staple at the South, come what
may, peace or war, will never be sufficient tC
affect materially the trade and commerce of the
world. The whole calculation of a deficit is based
on erroneous data. They forget the peculiar cha
racter of our institutions the permaneHcy of our
industrial system, the fact that the labor of the
South is not, as elsewhere, the fighting element Of
the State. When wars occur in Europe or at the
North, you take the laboring man from the plough
the workshop and the factory to fight them. Pro.
ductiop, to the extent of the force required, must
accordingly cease. In the Southern, and especi-
ally the cottongrowing States the is entire y
different. A wholly different system of labor pre-
walls. Our cotton-feds are titled by slaves, and
Georgia alone might send twenty thousand troop:
to the field, without diminishing her production oil
the staple to the amount of hundred bales. Well
make the cotton, and enough of it, and England
may RELY on this assurance. The great question
will be: How is she to get it? This she must settle
for herself, though we will do our part to the best
of our ability. We are not a seafaring people
and have for the present no ships of war to look
after our interests in commerce. If she will send
her merchantmen to take our cotton, and her wal
marine to protect them the seas she need feel ne
| uneasiness on the question of a cotton supply.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE DURING THE ROYAL PRocEs
sIoN.-As her Majesty was yesterday proceeding tc
open Parliament, and just the Royal cortegt
reached Derby street, small street leading from
| Parliament street into Cannon row, a person in
| Asatc costume seen to break through the
| crowd and attempt TO thrust paper into the car
| in yyh IN HnrM cd
! however, Immediately prevented. Indeed, the
| Prince Consort himself, apprehensive Of some man
lac violence pushed back the hand of the intruder
The man, bafied in his effort to force himself upor
Royalty, Immediately pulled out claspknife ant
drew it three times his throat. Arrested by
| the police, he was at once conveyed to the King
street police station, where he promptly received
the necessary surgical attention. The mans name
is Mahomet Ali Khan. He is about 40 wears of az e.
and is native of Calcutta He is under the i'm
preston that he has suffered some wrongs from the
hands of Government, and states that it was his in
tention to place petition in reference to his
before the Queen. He is evidently lunatic.-Lon
don Times, Feb. 6.
ENGLAND AND THE SoUTH.-We are enabled to in
form our readers that letter from member Of
the British Government to an American citizen,
long resident in Europe, has been recently re-
ceived here, which gives more authoritative de.
claration of British policy in regard to secession
than anything which has been made public.
This letter, as we are informed by one who has
read it, states that the whole matter of secession
has been brought by Lord John Russell before the
Ministry, as also the subordinate questions of de-
fectve cearances, &c..-and the declaration is
made, that not only will there be no recognition by
Great Britain of the Southern Confederacy, but
that everything will be done on her part, to dis
countenance dsunion.
1t is utterly impossible, the letter states, for
Great Britain to be good terms with seeding
slave traders. Not even the needless and untmely
enactment of the new Tariff bill can accomplish
such result.-N Y. Times, Feb. %.
THE Seeding CHURcH.-We have previously an
nounced the secession of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, of Louisiana. A pastoral letter from
Bishop Polk, of that diocese, contains this pas
sage:
Our separation from our brethren of "The Pro-
testant Episcopal Church in the United States" has
been effected, because we must follow our nation
atty. Not because there has been any difference
OF opinion as 10 the Chrstisn doctrine or Catholic
usage Upon these points we are still one. With
us it is separate n, not division certainly not
alienation. And there is no reason why, if we
should find the union of diocese under our ma
ional church impracticable, we should cease to
feel for each other the respect and regard with
which purity of manners, high principle and a
manly devotion to truth never fail to inspire gen.
erai minds. Our relation to each other hereafter
VIII De the relations we both now hold to the men
OIL our mother Church of England.
The Libe,ator, the W orcester Spy, the New Bed
| ford Standard, the Salem Gazette. the Fall River
NeOs and the Boston Traveller. are the only news
papers In n Massachusetts which onnose comnromise
| measures. So sava tho Roefn,,