The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-27
WAR ITEMS.
Special Despatch 10 the L9uisriHs Co,,r;s,.
kENTUCkY INVADED!

SpsCl1t DeSp1tch 10 the louisville r0,trjer
KENTUCKY INVADED!
J Gross Outrage.
IADLcAH, August 22.-The gunboat Conestoga
lame eame mere this morning with two hundred and
NY men, captured the steamer w. B. Terry, and
! TOOK her to Cairo. Yesterday one thousand Lin
| coin troops came to Blandve, Kentucky, captured
TWO citlzens OF that place, and took them to Cairo
| as prisoners
! From the Paris Corresponaeucs orns :, y r.t,,r
The Blockade Bother.
am AFRAID our paper blockade of the Southern
ports is not retarding Louis Napoeon's diplomatic
n'Veme ent toward Richmond There tbreatens to
oe mischlet coming out of that blockade as the
priVateer came out from it. Bunt.spoken English
Admiral Milne and plain speaking John Buli are
lAe 10 receive our first anathemas for denying its
Pracucal existence. When their first violence is
over, guess we shall find tha they might as well
nate t oeen addressed to France, who acts and will
ooU oo.n Ia concert with England in the matter OF
course no serious difficulty come of it if we do
speedily convert idle merchantmen into on
1ctlVe military marine for block aiding purnnses
n sucH case IL is conceivable that France and Enc
,auu Will In the interest of their own commerce
m"Ve strict construction of the loose law of natonS
II resident Lincoln choose to establish q Aootin,
@ @Nust'mI House here and there before a Sonthar55
puIt. W 1T not, then not most decidedly, resnect
luly guess. ieePe''
Captain ia Contemnt
oh saturday, in the Phjladelphia 0uartar Sos
SloIs' captain in Colonel Chantrv's regimen Iyoy
taue 70 understand that writ of habeas corn,,o
asto 10 MN meant something more than mere
~xyoI
on tne officer to produce in Court the body of ona
VI MS men, who was represented to be under aga
anu with having enlisted without the consent ~
; m% P"rS,tS; me captain promised to obey the
VIII on Saturday neither the boy nor the can
'a'n were present. An attachment was immodi
aIeiV issued by Judge Ludlow and in q short tinoa
the oihcer was Forthcoming. lie stated that bi
company was now in Washington and he could ,at
pT"tuce the boy, and be excused himsaIf b, sa,i
th -' although he had promised to produce Tho hos
a., 80 VIII the ,ulpany was ordered away, he was
Seut & IN command having been detailed for special
duty. Judge Ludlow told him that it was his dutr
10 see that his subOrdinates obeyed the writ onS S
the case stood be would hold him to hail Tor CO..
tempt OF Court, and until Friday was given m
produce the lad in question. s''eH ~
For the Blockade
ne Government has purchased the barks wr
We Anderson and Ethan Allen for blockading mr.
poses, at a cost of S55 600
, HOW THE SUMTER MAY BE CAUGHr-If the an
@ .noIl',es at ashlngton are really anxious to cap-
ture Tue troublesome and audacous privstaar
numter, they can do so by immediat, ,Iv sandinr
strong armed steamer to Truxillo Wehavp trnst
worthy information that vessel with a cargo of
Goal was dispatched from this port last ueek f,r
IruxIllo, to meet the privateer at certain tin,n
ana return in ballast. Our information comes ~
urect as 10 leave no question whatever of it's cor
for ne vessel OF course, was not cleared
~; !9t LtuX'io, but Tor nejg gh0oring port. We in.
Vite the special attention Of our naval authorities
10 this matter.-N. Y Tribune, Aug 25.
From the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Inc U. ,. sloop-of-war Tuscarora was launched
at the Philadelphia Navy ard on Saturday after
noon, IN the presence of some five hundred persons.
She Is said to be one of the seven new sloops pro-
vided for By act of Congress
handsome new propeller, which was purchased
LOT the Gnvernment at Wilmington last week is
now at the Navy Yard, undergoing the necessary
alterations Tor the service in which she is to be en-
gagged. she is small, and OF light draft
The U. >. steam frigate Susquehanna. ccmman-
Ger Chauncey, left the Navy Yard on Saturday
afternoon, and steamed to Fort Miflin, to take in
poWuer. AS soon as that is done, she will proceed
to the Gulf The Susquehanna carries fifteen
S inch guns
The steamer Flag, Commander Sartori. is to be
taken from the Dry Dock and hurried Snntb nr;tb
despatch The gunboat Albatross. which brongbt
on the prlyateers found the Enchantress is also
days. o III " le"
The building of the two sloops Of war - .ho
Navy Yard, and the three gunboats by ship-buiId.
eTs IN different parts of the city, has given rm
pIGoyment TO large number of men. The number
oI workmen has been increas ed in Kensington, in
consequence of an order TOR the building of a nm
Der OF surf and whale boats
- Recruiting in New York.
hecruitlng Tor the Army here is still eyceadinpIv
uuli. mere were about eighteen men enlisted for
all the old regular regiments last week at the Offices
In this neghbOrhoOd, and two or three detacbments
arrived from Buffalo and Rochester The new I9tb
regiment has from $50 to IT'S soldiers all told ar
40 "'''"'l"a' 'e' IN Fort Hamilton. The difficulty
OF augmenting their number was found to be 50
reat, that an additional Office bad to be opgned
Tor recruiting IN this city on Thursday last In
deed, it is said that the Broadway esfabIisbmant
did not get four men during the past six davs-
~. 7. Times.
National Detective Police.
Government is considering the proprietv of or-
ganzlng a National Detective Police force Neur
ork, st. Louis, Chicago, and other cities were
represented in the conference. The plan is to have
agents distributed through the country forming a
network of surveillance, through whose pnsbeg
secret traitors will iiud it hard to escape. The de-
tecve force in Washington is largely increased bv
recruits from New York and PHILADELPHIA The re-
suits are CaiIy becOmi ng apparent.-Cor Ne,r YORK.
Tribune.
Cost of transporting Troops.
lhe cost OF transporting a regiment with all its
appurtenanccs horses, wagons and baggage from
Boston to Washington, is about SlO,OOC-certaiply
not an extravagant price.
The Bible Not Contraband
IL affords us pleasure to say that the notice in a
recent ndmber from exchange paper impIvin0
that Bibles cannot be sent to the secedng States s
a mistake. The Bible is not contraband The
managers OF the American Bible Society ar tbei-
last meeting, made an appropriation of Testaments
ior soldiers in the Confederate army.-Ch ristiqn
Observer
The Chevy Estnta.
Judge Ludlow, of Philadelphia, on Saturday
made an order, IN accordance with the PRAYER of
Mrs. Chew, In regard to the transfer of the funds
OF the estate to James NJ. Mason, in Virginia. to
be used in the interest of the Confederates The
order, in effect, ties up the estate until the next
Orphans Court day, in September, when an an
swer can be presented by Mr.. Mason and the case
argued. ~