The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-05
q. NJ. Dali
To Hon. j. S. Black, Secretary of State.


THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE SOUTHERN
REPUBLIC Washington, March 2, l66l.-Intelli-
gence received to-day from the new government at
Montgomery, shows thatit is procee ling with great
vigor. By the 4th of March it is believed the en-
tire fifteen million loan will have been taken
Thirty thousand volunteers drilled and
under canvass, awaiting orders. Large army pro-
vision supplies of all sorts have been purchased
Gently in Chicago, ST. Louis and Cincinnati, and
sent to Mobile and New Orleans for distribution.
On the 4th of March the new postal arrangements
go into effect. The die for the new stamps has
been made, and the old contractors continued in the
service of the Confederate States
By Monday next, says leading citizen of Mont
gomery, the new government will be Independent
in all the practical details of administration, and
prepared to make good their separate nationality
against all corners.
The present tariff is designed to be merely provi-
sional and temporary. So soon as practicable
system will be adopted.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Secretary of War
received last evening another despatch from Major
Anderson, dated Feb. %.
He contradicts the statement that President
Davis had been to Charleston. He says that the
report that he had been sick is without particle
of foundation. He is in good health as is also his
little band of soldiers.
Affairs in Charleston harbor are arriving at a
point when further delay on their part will be i'm
possible. Their extensive works of defence and
attack nearly if not quite completed.
The feeling between the authorities and himself
continues to be friendly and he is allowed all the
facilities that he could expect. Fresh provisions
and marketing supplied in abundance. He ex-
periences difficulty in sending or receiving his
mail matter.-H eralGs.Cor.
FRANCIS H., the deposed King of Naples, is said
to have been continually haunted by the photo
graphic picture of an Italian soldier, who had at
tempted-his life, and had been cruelty tortured and
executed by his orders. Mysteriously enough, and
in defiance of all precautions it is said to have met
his eyes at all hours and in all places, until there
seemed something supernatural and omnous in its
ever-recurring presence. When he knet before
the Virgins shrine, in his morning prisons, there,
about the neck of the image, hung this photo rapb
When he attended mass and opened his missal,
there the soldiers portrait At dinner, when
he unfolded his napkin, out fell this identical pho
tograph, and when at night he retired crest,
within the well guarded sanctuary of his slumbers,
there, laid boldly upon the very pillow of his
couch, be found this picture, this strange produc
ton of an art which he had banished from his
crime and terror-haunted domnions. Be this true
not, certain it is that in consequence of the in
terest thus attached to the photograph in question
it is rapidly selling all over Italy.
THE NEGRO PATR1oT.-Senator Wilson, in a re-
cent Speech said that the first martyr of the Rev.
olution was negro named Crispus Attucks. The
Boston Courier thus disposes of hat,caim to that
honorable mention in history:
History and tradition both are sadly at fault, if
Crispus was patriot, or the son of patriot. Ac-
cording the most reliable Information from these
sources, he neither more nor less than turbu-
| lent, rowdy black man, temporarily in Boston at
the time, being sailor cook attached to coast
ing vessel then in the harbor, and bound for North
Carolina He went into State street, not dreaming
of being patriot, entertaining the remotest idea
| of becoming hero; but because there was a row,
and for the fun of the thing He possessed the
moral qualities Off patriot in the ratio of his physi-
cal capacities a mobocrat and bully. Fortunate
| ly for his memory, he was killed. 1.-The had sur
| yived that rencontre, he would have lived only to
| fight another day, and to die perhaps in a less
| glorious manner. As it happened, accident made
| him hero, but politics can never make him
patriot.
| An EDITORIAL FAMILY.-Mr. Willis writes to the
| Home Journal:
| "My father, whom / had the happiness of seeing
in Boston, with health and faculties uuimpaired
at the age of eighty.two,) showed me set of pro-
fessional triplets in family records, the mention
| of which will not be unnterestisg to you His
| father, Nathaniel Willis, the publisher and
editor of three papers in his life time-he hide
Depdsnt Chronicle published in Boston. the Potomac
| Guardian, published in Martinsburg, Virginia,
| and the Scioto Gazette published in Ohio. He
himself, (Nathaniel Willis, my father,) started the
three papers so well known-the Eastern Argus,
published in Portland, the Boston Recorder and
foams Companion, both published in Boston. The
tnree with which my own name has been connected
wii nave already occurred to you-the Mirror,
Tue Oorsdr and the Home journal. If name
| Goes not amount to Delphic Oracle, the profess
slonal tripod, Tor each of us has at least the re-
| quisite number of legs!"
I The Londen Sporting Life saws that Tom Savers
will leave England on the 10th day of April next,
| for the United States,