The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-05
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lMfoflANT ARMY AND NAVY INTELLI.
GENCE.
| III Is Impossible to conceive, without witnessing
| H. the extraorulnary change which twelve hours
can make IN the aspect of military and naval affairs
| at the New York Station. On Monday Iast erarv
thing was dull and uninterestug on Govcrror,s
| Island Fort Hamilton, Bedloe's Island and at The
| Brooklyn Navy Yard; yesterday there was intense
| excitement apparent in all these places. On Mon
day orders were received from Washington to fit
out the United States brig of-war Perry for sea- at
! once. The authorities Immediately had her hauled
| alongside the wharf, but operations had hardly
| commenced when the orders were cOuntermanded.
| The Powhatan then to be put out OF commits
sion Immediately, and her crew temporarily trans
! ferred to the receiving ship North Carolina. This
was no done than they were ordered to n or
folk for the steam frigate Merrmack, it is presum
| ed. And on Tuesday, to the astOnishment of every
| one, the Powhatan, notwithstanding the unfavora-
bic report of her engines was ordered to be equip
| ped for a commission with all the expedition
! at the command of Commodore Breese. On Gov
ernOr's Island, 100, indications apparent that
! troops are about to leave, but there is such
| thing as obtaining particulars. The regular ave-
| nues through which the army and navy movements
are received, are impeded by authority, and moth
ing can be known until orders begin to be openly
| executed.
| The work on the different vessels at BROOKLYN
| has been rendered more active, and the splendid
steam frigate Minnesota, which returned rotten
! from China last year, and was subsequently put in
state of readiness, is to be got in condition to re-
ceive her crew without delay. The Minnesota is
one of the splendid steam frigates of 40 guns rate
| that were constructed some years ago. They are
| the Niagara, Wabash, Roanoke, Colorado, and
Minnesota. The Niagara is homeward bound from
Japan, the Merrimack preparing slowly for sea at
! Norfolk, the Wabash and Roanoke at Brooklyn,
both slowly approaching completion, and the Min
nesOta at Boston. The latter is 200 tons burden,
and was built at w Washington in 1858, and has only
made the one cruise alluded to- She will require
nearly 500 men, who will be concentrated in few
days from the different receiving ships. The Mis-
| slSsppl steamer, also at Boston, is approaching
readiness for commission, and will probably be or
dered to sea in short time.
Below the surface of the rumOrs that attribute
these warlike preparations to the progress of do
mestic events is a somewhat well-Ounded rumor
that they haye reference to the interference of
Spain in Central America, and that formidable
military aud naval force will be again dispatched
there. The Commander-in-Ch Chief of the Home feet,
Commodore Prendergast, who ia at Norfolk,
in the leaky corvette Cumberland, received impor-
tant dispatches from Washington on Monday, the
puTport OF which has not transpired. Several of
the leading officers of the Army and Navy now in
Washington have been taken in temporarily to
their respective departments to facilitate the pro
per administration of affairs
1t is said tlat orders were received Yesterday at
the headquarters OF the army in this city, direct
ing the Immediate filling up Of the short compa-
MES that arrived here from Texas in the Daniel
w ebster, to their full fighting strength.
The United States storeship Release hauled out
from the wharf at the Nayy-yard yesterday, and
went down the bay She may go to sea to-day
Her officers are Lieutenant Commanding James
fraieY, Lieutenant James NJ. Bradford, Master
Byron Wilson, Captains Clerk William B. Bla-
goore
We are requested to contradict again the report
published in morning journal yesterday, to the
effect that the Wabash is dered for sea- and that
the crew of the Powhatan had returned to their
ship. These stories annoy the authorities.
From the Washington Cor N York Post-RepubLicaB
AMERICAN DIPL0MATISTS IN EUROPE.
The conflict of the diplomatic agents in Europe
will soon commence, as the Commissioners of the
Montgomery government will reach London and
Paris at about the time that Mr. Sanford, the
Minister to Belgium, arrives in England. His
first mission is to the English and French govern
ments, asking for suspension of Judgment till the
new Ambassadors to those courts arrive, and also
to give preliminary hint Of what is coming. The
solid work of diplomacy is left to Messrs. Adams
and Day ton, but Sanford is kind of forerunner in
the case. The argument which will be urged upon
the English and French governments, as learn
from a gentleman who received information ct the
State Department, is nearly as follows: Those
governments will be reminded that ours is pOpu-
lar government, and entirely unlike those of Eu-
rope 1t is not military despotism, nor is it a
strong gorernment, as that phrase is understood in
Europe. Under it the sword is net and never has
been, half so powerful an instrument of government
the pen. Moral means better suit the enemies
of our institutions than military coercion.
Therefore these governments will be informed
that the aim of the United States government is to
reduce rebellion by moral means, for the sole pur
pose of avcrting the calamity of a civil war. All
that it asks of Europe is time If Europe seriously
demands forcible blockade of the Southern ports,
or recognition Of the slave republic, then the
United States will choose its course. But VW
France ard England drive US into war with por-
tion of our own country? 1t is believed that the
leading governments of Europe will not hesitate
moment to make their answer to these representa-
tions They will accord to the United States gov
ernment the time it asks to treat the revolution at
ter its method, and will encourage peaceful
solution of the difficult question rather than
like one. The Southern Commissioners, after wait
ing for months in the English and French capitals
will come home with good-szed feas in their ears.
ARRIVAL or THE MISSISSIPPI TRoorS IN MEMPHIS.
Yesterday was a gala day for Memphis. The
hearts of our citizens were made glad in the OPP
portunity offered them to give some external evi-
dence of their sympathy for the great movement
looking to the independence of the South. The
Mississippi troops whose arrival in city by the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad was anticipated.
were received with degree of enthusiasm which
could not fail to beoken that the hearts of our peo
pie are with the South, to bid her gallant sons
God speed. We do not refer to the mere courtesy
which extended there in the parade of our
military companies, but to the vast and multtudi-
nous outpOuring of the people at the depot, upon
the sidewalks, the balconies, in the streets and
in every avenue of the city. The vociferous cheers
that continually greeted the "seven starred fag,"
from fair women and brave men, along its line of
march, but told too we'll that the best wishes of
1enncSSee'S chivary would follow it in its danger
career upon the yet untried fields of Florida
The circums tances of the occasion, the inspiring
strains of martial music, the gsten of bayonets,
and the tramp of disciplined soldiery, seemed to
cOnure in the minds Of all fuller apprec citation of
the dangers that environ them, and Of the acuali-
ty Of the crisis affecting the country. Deeper feel
ing. or more manifest sympathy never exhi-
bted in similar demonstration. Memphis has re-
sponded uobiy to the draft upon her hospitality,
and we feel confident that, should the services of her
citizens be needed upon the field of battle, in main
tenance of Southern principles or Southern honor
that response will be made still more decided fear
less and mPhatic.-Meniphts appeal, March Is.
Tile RUSSIAN TELEGRAPH FROM CHINA TO EUROPE
The proposed line OF telegraph between China
and Russian Europe according to late adyices, is
making rapid progress, and is already complete
over some 600 miles to the eastward of Moscow
viz, to Perm, on the borders of Siberia, say to
long. 50 deg. Il. ard lat 5S deg. n. From Perm
the line will cross the Uralian mountains to lex
aternberg, and thence to Toumain, on the left
bank of the Irtysch From Touman the line is to
run to 0msk, fortified town, the Importance of
which may be judged by the circumstance of its
having garrison 900 men. From Omsk the
line will proceed to and through Tomsk and on to
Krasnoyarsk. This place is only 500 miles north
west of kiakhta, to reach which, however, the
wire will pass through lrkutsk, the capital of
Eastern Siberia. From Kiakhta (Ma-Matsin, 10
Chna) it is proposed to carry the line over the
Yabanovoi Mountains to Cheta, to which place
steamers already run from Nicaouski, on the
AmOor. The line will not follow the line of the
| AmOor river, however, but cross to Nestchmisk,
and then down the Shilka river to Ourstreka. a
point just 5000 miles from Moscow. How long it
will take to construct the whole line we are not in
position say-two or three years, perhaps Once
constructed, however, the terminus on this side
will become place of note, and prove leading
instrument in the steady march of civilization in
the EaSt.-Friend Of China.
SINGULAR AND HORRIBLE OCcURRENcE-A Woman
Killed by Dog.-On Thursday morning of last
week, an old woman named Betsy Davis, who re-
sided with her two brothers, Robert and Timothy,
in Ross township near Perrysyille, was found lying
on the floor by the side of her bed, in dying con-
dition. The brothers sent in for the neighbors,
who, upon examination, discovered that her right
leg, from the knee to the ankle, was one continu-
ous wound as though it had been gnawed by an
animal, while her abdomen and thighs were scratch
| ed. There was good deal Of blood on the floor,
and more had evidently been Tapped up by two
dogs in the room, one of them pet of the woman.
1t was apparent that the wounds had been inflicted
by the dog. The woman placed in bed and
died in about two hours. Next day she was buried
and the brothers had the dog killed.
The affair created, as usual in similar cases, a
good deal of gossip, many considering the story
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