The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-08
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i 49, Friends to stand by the UnIou
| w NAsHI&GroN, March 7-Mr. Crittenden was Sci
! ehaded tonight bv the citizens of Washington
an Immense crowd rf people were in attendance
| VINO most enthusiastically responded to his uttel
anceS of tervent Union sentiment
, lie expressed his confidence in the intelligence ,
| tne people, who now alone settle the distrac
| ing questions. These troubles were fomented an
Kept awe by petty crossrOad politicians for selfs
| purposes Preserve the Union and the Union wi
| preserve, US. The Roman veteran was permitte
| 10 retire at the end Of thirty years, but he ha
| peen IN public service for forty years He expec
ca his friends to uphold the Constitution and tn
Union, which have conferred unbounded blessing
| upon us all.
c'Heneral Scott, Senator johnson and others, wer
afterwards serenaded and oratoricalIy responded t
! the compliment
Virginia Convention.
RICHMOND, March Tn the Convention TO-DAY
Mr.. Carlisle made speech against instructine tn
Committee on Federal Relations to report pledgin
the State to resist coercion. He upheld the righ
OF the Government to collect the revenues; said b
was agreeabIy disappointed in the tone Of Presi
dent Lincoln's inaugural. He opposed any actio,
placing the State in a hostile attitude to the Gene
raj Government, and said he believed in the powe
OF the people yet to restore harmony.
The Diplomatic Corps was presented to the Pres
ide yesterday. An address was read bv the Min
lister nom Portugal, expressing the most friendl
sentiments towards US and hopes for continuanc
OF the Union.
SOUTH CAROLINA FORBIDDEN TO ASSUME THE oFFRv
sIvE.
FROM the Charleston correspondence of the Prov
idence (Rhode Island) Evening Press, dated Marcl
lst, we take the following extracts:
Recent dispatches brought by a special messen
ger from President Davis to the Government here
cecare that the offensive must not vet be assumed
Whether the tone of the Republican President bt
paclhc or belligerent cOnciliatory or threatening
no matter, the troops of the South must wait-stiI
must cultivate the virtues of patience and self
control, which the country must acknowledge tbey
nave exhibited In remarkable degree. Since the
war OF 1917, and more recently since the Mexican
war, no one of course will deny their COURAGE q,
itnpugn their bravery, but they have generally
oegn supposed incapable of the former traits.
lHe Hoatlng battery, now nearly completed
seems to eyes unused to the stern and terrible pre-
parations of military life to be most formidable
instrument of attack, while it seems likely to prove
a sullcient protection to those engaged in it. II
Is not large-on deck only sixty feet by forty
whlle the parapet wall, composed of heavy tim
oers lined with sixteen or eighteen thickneSses nj
palmetto logs, closely fitted and firmly bolted to
gether, and covered on the outside with double
OF OF treble thickness of boiler and Swede's iron.-
lhough rather low, it looks as if it might resist
tremendous hammering of the iron hail.
The experiments of the en- gineers show that, al
the distance of four hundred yards (the intended
poSiton OF the battery), the only missiles which
Will do much damage are conical steel shot while
the iron balls either hiver to atoms or glance from
u, tne surface; on the other hand, the 42's will be
likely to make decided impression on brick and
mortar or cement. The battery is now safely
launched 1t is proposed to toy it, or rather push
IL py means OF tow-boa, to its position; that is,
II the Major will allow them. If he opens fire
upon 1t, they will reply, and the action will become
general 1t seemed dreadful, the other day, to
near the officers who were to manage this affair
1ly ohor,t h.
OF life, and calculating the probable number OF
Killed, arranging the hospital boat and the maga.
zine, &c. "s
lSpecidl Despatch to the NeaU Fork Trib,7ae1
From the Southern Republic
WAR CLOSE HAND.
MONTGOMERY, March 5.-If the positions of Mr.
LincoIn's Inaugural are sustained by the people of
the United States collision and civil war are ney-
liable This Confederacy will never pay tribute to
the United States. The only hope for peaceful
solution Is the immediate abandonment of all idea
or collecting the revenue by the United States and
the evacuation of all the Confederate forts
The only practical issue for Northern conserva.
tlVes Is to insist upon peaceable separation or to
battle energeticay again't the Northern Radicals,
carrying the Spring elections, breaking I'D the old
Union, and joining this fresh, vigorous liberal and
expansive Republic. A reconstruction of the old
hulk under Lincoln is practical absurdty
Mallory, the Secretary of the Navy, is making
preparations for war on large scale. The CITY
and the military quite gay. President Davis
mas taken splendid white house here. s.
MONTGOMERY, March 6, lS6l.-The members of
the Confederate Congress are extraordinary work.
ers. Their sessions average about ten hours daily
and very little OF the time is consumed in Bun
combe speeches.
The various Executive Departments are even
more industrious, and are working literally day
and night in their several bureaus. The machine
ry OF the new Government is being put in working
order with remarkable rapiditv
In case actual hostilities should break out, the
poHcy here will be to augment the export duties to
astandArd that will yield S50O00,OOO while the
imports will be kept at the lowest possible figure
for the purpose of destroying the revenues and
Gripping the commerce of the Northern States.
Inc possible contingency of a want of food is re-
cognned, and the preparations for complaining
are ready on the most extensive scale. s
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SOUTHERN coxaRrss
The Mobile Ala Advertiser of the 9th ultimo,
in alluding to the appointment of three Commits.
sloners by the Southern Confederacy to negotiate
with the General Government for a division of the
Union, says:
''The fact of the appointment of these Commits.
sioners settles at least one important question
that is, that hostile demonstrations will be made
by authority of this Government for some weeks
at least. People who have been counting ON a
demonstration upon Fort Sumter or Fort Pickans
on or about the fourth of March, may therefore
make up their minds to disappointment The
commissioners are expected to treat with the new
Administration under Lincoln, and the reason
able Inference is, that until he shall refuse to COM
munlcate with them, or their mission should other
wise prove barren of good results, no attack will
be made upon any fortress now held by the
United States, or no act of war be undertaken,
unless indeed, which is highly probable, the new
Administration should be insane and wicked
enough to disturb the existing status by hostile
demonstrations against US. 1t is known that Mr.
Davis has all along urged the policy of DELAY with
the hope of peaceful settlement of the difficulty:
and now that he has the power to direct in his own
hands, it snot likely that he will permit an assault
to be made at the very moment when he is send.
ing Commissioners to Washington to negotiate
concerning all questions of difference between the
Two COniederacies.'
THE FEELING II NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, March G.-The opinion of LEADING
men here is that Chase and Blair are the most OBJ
jectionable men in Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet. Great
confidence is expressed that Mr.. Seward, from his
avOwed opposition to coercion, will naugurate a
peace policy drop his rrepressible conflict prnci-
pies, and immortalize himself. Mr.. Cameron is
ridiculed as the Mrs. Partington of the War De-
partment.
In the Convention, the resolutions introduced
to-day, objecting to the tariff further than to Sc
cure revenue, as also that securing the public do
main to the State, not intended to throw obsta
cles in the way of the formation of Southern
Confederacy.