The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-24

Biaden was going from the city in One-horsC
wagon on the Piney Branch road, beyond Colum
ba College, he accosted by two soldiers il
uniform, who demanded that he should take them
to their quarters on Meridian Hill opposite Colone
Stones place. Having quite a load in, consisting
corn, shlp-stuH, hay, a plow, and other articles
Mr.. Bladen refused whereupon one of the soldiers
drew pistol and threatening personal violence
sezed the horse and wagon and drove rapidly off
towards the city. They We're soon i0ined by a
'h'ru person In uniform, and few moments after
t U"e " IN, uhe party got out and went towards
Ie Ooege, the other driving out of sight into the
49, 49, > ne norSe ana wagon were next going
uo"h f"urteenth street. with but one person ac-
pi e"nlpainying them, and SON after were again Ob-
s5rHeu gong out towards the Northern Liberties
| Market, since which time Mr. BIaden has been nm
able 10 obtain any clue to their whereabnuts -
Washington Star Of Wednesday,
| EX-PRESIDENT PIERCE AGAINST CoERcrov -Tbo
following is the conclusion of Ex President Pierce's
letter to the Boston Post on the crisis: 'The very
! idea of the diSmemberment of the Union has aiwavs
been TO me one OF terrlb significance. Still if it
holds place in the inevitable march of time-if IL e
noble fabric must tOtter to its fallthere is hum
bly, hope, no inexorabe necessity that its ruins be
stained with gore If fathers were mistaken,
and time has developed in our system, or if the
madness of their sons has planted there the germ
OF 'rrepressibe conflict which forbds US longer
TO ive together in peace, then in peace and on just
terms let us separate. Fearful will be the respon-
sloltY OF thOse who would the last element of
human woe-that of arms for fratricidal slaughter
into the general chaos. The wisdom of man
fails-may God, In mercy, guide u.s.
BLOODY AFFAIR IN MIsslss .Prr--The Mobile
Mercury learns from the Mississippi volunteers of
great excitement at MoretOn, Mississppi on the
Southern road, the 18th inst 1t seems that
there resided in that vicinity family who were
regarded with suspicion being unsound upon the
southern question. party of men belonging to
military company were returning from the sta
ton, where they had been on some military party
and passed by the house. The family probably in
ferrIng that they were to be mobbed by them fired
upon them-a young woman sixteen wears old firing
the first shot with rife with fatal aim The ball
struck young man, by the name of Buckner,on the
forehead.
Shots were fred in quick succession by the father
and son, all taking effect. Buckner fell but raised
and returned the fire with a revolver making five
ettectual shots. His comrades stOrmed the house
and made prisoners of the rartv.
THE SECESSION OF Norm CARoLINA.-The re-
ported secession of North Carolina is confirmed
by the following DESPATCH published in the Rich
mond papers of Wednesday:
Raleigh, " C., Nav 2l.-The Convention re-
Gently elected By the people of this State, met in
this city Yesterday, and was duly organized. To-
day an ordinance of secession was reported, and
was agreed to i'll the Convention by unanimous
vote-thus severing the last link that bound the
Old North State to the ab0litoniz-d Yankee Gov
ernment. A salute of one hundred guns was fired
IN Raleigh to day. All the bells were rung, and a
general feeling of qualification seems to pervade
the entire community.
RUMORs ABOUT Fort PIcEENs-Havinr returned
this morning from Pensacola, where we have been
for several days, assure our readers that
the reports going to show that battle will soon
Occar at Fort Pickens, mere coniectures OF
the plans of any of those in command, nothing is
known outside Of headquarters. We conv4rsed
with several officers from the camps, and they all
assure US that nothing can be certainly known
Our own impression, formed while in Pensacola.
that a "a at
at least. that it is not now the intention OF the
Confederate authorities to attack it.-NonfqomerY
Mail, Nay Is.
LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRIsAL.-Since Con-
greSs authorized the Issuance of letters of mlrQue
and reprisa, it has been frequently stated that such
letters have been granted to hundreds Of appli-
cants, and that thousands file in the War
Department. This is error, for applications for
this branch of the public service are made to the
Collectors at the different ports. The Collectors at
Mobile, New Orleans and other Southern seaports,
have had numerous applications, but none have
been received, or could be received at the War
Department-Ao"tgomery Adrertiser Nay l6.
Dir. NoRwooD.-We understand that at a meeting
of the yestry of Christ Church, Georgetown, held
on Monday evening last, it was decided that the
refusal of Dr. Norwood to comply with the letter
of Bishop Whttingham was "A matter for that gem
teman to settle with his Bishop and his conscience
and one with which they (the vestry) had nothing
to do. Our reporter says it has been suggested by
one of the members of the congregation, some of
whom deeply sympatbize with the reverend gentle
man, that he might employ clerk to read the OBJ
noxous prayer Washington Star.
TRADE IN THE CoxrgDERACY. are gratilied to
learn that our merchants receiving large
supplies of coffee, and other merchandise from New
Orleans via Memphis Also, that several shipments
OF rice have been made bv railroad to Richmond,
Memphis, Mobile, and other points in the Confed-
crate States. We hear that upwards of 2 900 bales
of cotton have been sent over the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad to fill up vessels loading
at Savannah for iverpool.-ChariestOn Wercwy
May 90
The WAsHINGroy AQUEDU r-As the sudden
cessation of any extensive work is generally at
tended with considerable loss active exertions are
now being made by direction of Col. Meigs along
the line OF the Washington Aqueduct, to place the
unfinished portions of the woIk in as secure and
protected a state as possible This is in view of
the suspension ordered by the Secretary of War,
so that the government may sustain little loss
by waste of material aud damage to workmanship
as possible.
The New COMET IN ENGLAND.-The comet of 1861,
which was first noticed at Mr. Rutherf0rd's Obser-
vatory in New York by Mr.. $. A. Thatcher on
the night of April 4th, and subsequently, noted
at the Washington Observatory on the night of
April 10TH was not seen from any observatory in
England till the 28th of April. night or two af-
ter it was plainly visible to the naked eye in Lon
don in the direction of the constellation of the
Great Bear; right ascension l62; its declfnation
$500.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.-A sad tragedy was enacted
at the encampment of the lst Tennessee regi nent,
near this city, on Sunday morning. 1t appears
that two soldiers dsputing about some arti-
cles of clothing, when Lieutenant Davidson inter-
posed. Various statements have been made to us
about what passed, but suffice it to say that the
Lieutenant shot through the heart, and instant
ly killed by of the soldiers. -LyachJurJ Vir-
glnin.
ANDREW JACKSON DoXELsoY.-The Vcksburg
Wing, of the 18th, SAYS:
We are delighted that this gallant old patriot,
after clinging to the Union until further devotion
would compromise Southern honor and imperil his
native State, has announced his determination of
going into active service and drawing the sword
given him by General Jackson, iu defence of the
South.
In the discussion OF the Rev. Wesley Smith before
the National troops at Wheeling on Sunday last,
the preacher said that st Gods mercy,
nothing but Gods mercy that JEFF. Davis, WISE
and the rest of the secession leaders, had not been
turned into rattlesnakes and sent hissnE through
the c0tton-felds and cane-brakes, until scme negro
knocked the poisonous wretches in the head with
his hoe"
The act of the Southern Congress regulating the
telegraph, enacts that during the the Pres-
dent is authorized to take control of the telegraph
lines to enable him to supervise communications,
so that none be conveyed of military operations,
President is authorized to appoint agents to super
wise.
A Virginia lady whose husband was in the camp
at Richmond, sent the following message to him
by comrade:
"Tell nv dear husband to fight bravely; to de-
fend his country; that love his honor more than
my lie to let every thought of home, of me, and OF
his children, nerve his arm to Tight Tor liberty
We learn that Major General WOOL who, under
orders from the War Department, was directed to
proceed to Fort Monroe to conduct operations
there arrived at Old Point on Friday, and assum-
ed the command under a salute from the Fort
N0rfob Herald.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that on Monday and
Thursday fourteen lots of goods for the seeded
States, amounting in value to several thousand dol
lars have been seized by the United States Mar
shal, and oelS for their contscatiOn have been in
sttuted in the District Court.
Private Hunt of the Mebile Rifles the unfortu-
nate sentry who shot Lieutenant Storrs in the
camp of the Alabama regiment at Norfolk, a few
nights ago, was brought up before the examining
court on Saturday, and after a careful ihvestiga'
ton of the affair, was remanded Tor trlal before
the Circuit Superior Conrt
A negro man went into the military post at An
napolis on Saturday last, and represented himself
As a runaway, and on being questioned said he was
the property of H. S. MITCHELL of Prince Georges
county. The Colonel Commanding (Smith) had
him placed in Jail to await the order OF his owner.
The police, on Wednesday, seized and detained
four boxes directed to Baltimore" as contTaband
of war. They were shipped by the New Haven
Arms Company, and contain forty cases revolver
cartridges and one thousand nine hundred aud
twenty-three yards bleached muslin.
The convicts in the Virginia peniteptiarv are
now employed in making gun-carriages, wagons,
axes, picks, flannel shirts, cloth for uniforms army
shoes, tents, wheebarrOwS, and litters for the
wounded.
The Martiusburg Republican, comment ting on the
"Union meeting" lately held in Berkeley county,
Va. saws that not one man in hundred OF the