The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-06

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too happy to avail themselves of Palmerston and
RusselPs leanings towards the Cotton COntederacy,
to make them uncomfortable, at least, in their pla-
ces II not ultimately to compel her Majesty to seek
other advisers. This expectation not an
reasonable one. Ii was predicted upon the fallacY
that the British Anti-Slavery feeling
!hing more substantial than sentiment, and that
10 m hand-to hand contest with "Government."
tne chlet cornerstone of which, acknowledged
2y MT Eice-Presdent Stephens, is negro slavery,
TThgi,sh sympathy all be on the side of the
L Ne'er was there greater delusiOn-as
eVervondy may now see
Inc EAR OF Derby, so far from espousing "the
;th w. u eeuotn, and making that cause lever
win winch to oust Palmerston and Russell from
oHlce, has taken the first opportunitv to on sion
or two in advance of them even, in favor of the
ConiederateS Witness his speech on the 18th in
favor nt treating Lrivateers, as pirates but I'VE
had almost said) gentlemen. That speech now
together with the Geld shoulder Lord Broug gham
has given them, ought to open the eyes Of the
Beechers, and Cheevers, here at home, the truth
we have ever en- trying (in vain) to impress
upon them,-that the AbOli i0nists of Exeter Hall
! have for years and years only been using them
bring about dissolution of the Unon,-and that
| all their lip sympatV for "Liberty and Humanity"
was but bubble, which would collapse,-as it has
| already collapsed the moment "sentiment" came
in contact with interest-N Y. Express.
How TO PERFECT THE BLocKADG.-Under the
above caption, the New York Times of Monday,
! Anticipating the attempt of Engsh and French
ships to "break through our lines" and thus to de-
clare "the Lacquer incomplete" proposes the fol-
! lowing remedy:
1t happens however that we are not restricted to
mode of closing the Southern ports which any foreign
government may retain the option of pronouncing lille
| gal An act declaring by name every
port between Norfolk and the Rio Grande no Iongrr por
of entry and annerRg the entire Southern Confsder1cy
10 the Jurisdiction of ts Neo York Custom HoSs ould
render quite mmateraI whether cruisers were nu
mericay strong enough exclude European ships and
wond relieve us from tn necessity of demonstrating the
hi ckade to have effective existence Such lsgisEltDu
should be among the earliest acts Of Congress.
There is one little impediment to such legisa-
ti"n, contained in a direct prohibition in the
Constitution of the United States, but this is pro-
badly considered by the Times as matter of small
moment. Article H. sec. g. clause 5th, reads =
mo preference shall be given by any regulation of
commerce or revenue, to the ports of State
! over those of another; shall vessels bound to-
or from, one State be obliged to enter, clear, or
! pay duties in another" This restriction however,
| Is IN the same section which limits the suspension
of the writ of hdJeas corpus, and that has been
openly violated, perhaps the Times may be in favor
OF abrogatIhg the section altOgether.-N. Y. Jour
nal Of Commerce.
| PRrvATEERTNG on THE PAcGF1C.-A rumor pre-
walls at Aspinwall that Mr.. Vanderbilt intends dis
continuing his steamers running between that port
! and New York, in consequence Of the irsur
! "hcHs refusing to insure against risks of capture
| by Southern privateers.
Rumocs of similar character reach US frome
! Panama. As to privateers in the Pacific, however,
| there is really but ltttla cause for apprehension,
| the commanding Naval officer that station hav-
ing taken proper precautibn to guard these points
on the coast the most open and liable to capture.
| Besides, the welI-knOwn speed of the C0mpanys
steamers and constant vigilance exercised by their
commanders, will be sufficient to ensure them from
all ordinary attack.-N. Y. Journal Of Commerc
A GENERAL CoNvENTroX.-The annexed petition,
SAYS the New York Journal Of Commerce, has al
ready received many thousand signatures in that
! city and vicinity:
! To the President ofthe Uniied States:
Regarding you the legal head of our govern
ment, we respectfully suggest, as the ODly Y remain
! ing honorable position ih your power by which the
! horrors OF civil be aypTtpd and IN hone
| of preserving the Union secured, that you adopt
! the policy of a General Convention, as suggested
in vour inaugural. This course would prevent
hostiIites the part of the South, and evnce that
fraternity had still place in the hearts Of the Anne
rican people.
BAYoNErIxG IN WAsulXGroS.-Nonday night
little difficulty occu red at the light infantry
mory between a sergeant and guard, growing out
of trile which might have been easily understood
but for the momentary excitement. 1t resulted in
the guard ing the sergeant with his bayonet
on the head, int1ictng slight wound, though not
sufficient to uutiJ him for service.
young man named Shackelford got into diff
Guilty on Tenth street with German soldier, and
was bayoneted by the soIder-the bayonet enter
ing the teshy part of the thigh, nficting slight
but painful wound.
The following two of the toasts offered at
military festival at Boston on Monday:
"The herosm of the men Of Marblehead-the
first to report at headquarters and the first at Bal
| timore.'
DuHkeT mn anu IeueTal hill-Olu Ut. anu
| Ben. Butler"
THE New MEXICAN CommssroNER.-Mr. Hurta-
/ do, the Mexican special envoy and commits
! sioner tn adjust the claims of the United States
! against his Government, who has been in Washing
| ton for some days past, was on Tuesday formally
! presented TO the President by the Secretary of
| State. Gen. Leavenworth, of New York, the
new V appointed American commissioner to treat
with him, is also in that city.
PETERSBURG LADIES DnrtLING FOR FrGur-The
following is an extract from private letter re-
ceived here yesterday:
PErErsBURG, VA, Nav 25.
! met - - this morning. He informed me
he was the military instructor of 'orty ladies'
whose captain would be Josephine Swan The
women of Petersburg are resolved to fight
Mobile AdUertiser.
The Boston Daily Courier says:-This is, of all
others on the face Of the earth. strictly constitu
tona government, and if not that it is nothing
No violation of all our chartered rights is neces-
sary for the vindicatinn of public liberty or for
the enforcement of the laws. The Government can
be supported by constitutional means, and it is by
those only that we shall be able to anything
worth saving.
| 1t is stated that the Catholics have erected $50
churches in the United States the past year. capa-
bic of seating 100 O00 persons. The Methodist Epis-
c0pa Church has built 45O churches the past year.
! or at the rate of nearly nine week, making her
whole number 9,754 and which worth nearly
! S20000,000.
The bids for the purchase Of the hides, tallow,
horns and hoofs of the cattle killed by the United
States within the military district of Washington
opened Tuesday. The highest bid that
OF John Craig Co., at SlO.52 per heai. The low
est bid was Jacob Sharp at S2 The price hereto
fore paid was S5.63.
The Sligo Journal states that hundreds of Irish
families selling off their property in the United
States and returning home. The Italian govern
ment has purchased from the French government
100000 rted muskets, and 20 riled cannon, area-
dy arrived.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman learns that Lieut.
Col. George b.. CritteDde", and all the other off
Of the army from the Southern States stationed
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, had resigned. Colonel
Crittenden is son of Hon. John j. Crttenden, of
Kentucky.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was in Washington
| on Tuesday, and had interview with the Presi-
dent and Secretary of War, with view to have
the government arm the new regiment in Brook
Ign, n. Y, called the Brooklyn Phalsnx.
By the way OF Nashville we learn that Teunes-
see regiment, under command of Colonel Bates,
left Richmond the 9th of May for Manassas
Gap. They had received their muskets only two
days previous.
DEATH FROM INJURY.-Thomas A. Cooper, resi-
ding at TemplevilIe, Queen Anne's county,
thrown from his carriage returning home from
Mliugton week before last ana has since died from
the injuries received by the fail
1t is now certain that Count Teleki not as
sassinated, as had been surmsed, but committed
suicide, probably to avoid the responsibilities which
he had incurred the leader of the national
party.
One of our exchanges states that the quantity of
food daily required for of hundred
th usand men, fixed bv the rations, is 54 barrels
of four 375 barrels of pork and l25, 600 pounds Of
beef.
G. Tochmsn, OF Montgomery, Ala, Major of the
Polish army in 1881, publishes an able address to
Europeans, through the columns of the Mall, call
ing on them to rally in the cause of the South
against Northern aggression.
The Chambersburg (Pa.) Valley Spirit, of June
5th, SAYS that there concentrated at that
point thirteen regiments in addition to the caval-
ry, artillery and rangers, making total of about
ten thousand eight hundred men.
The old railroad track crossing Washington city,
and connecting the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
with the Virginia shore, is being put into good
condition, with the obvious purpose of transport
ing troops across the city.
Captain Melville, of the big john Pearce, who
was supposed to have committed suicide or to have
been lost near Sagua La Grande, has arrived home
by the way of Kew W est -PrOUidence Journal
The Commissioners of Somerset county will meet
at Princess Ann on Tuesday, the 25th of June inst
for the purpose of declaring the county levy tor the
year 1861.
White House; all that is necessary is to send a
card, and admission is obtained She receives in
the Blue Room.
Mr. Wood, of New York, is said to have been
appointed Coumissione of Public Buildings in
W ashngton, at the special request of Mrs Lin
coin.