The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-25
i METHODIST PREACHER ON THE CIR.
CUlT-TEN DAYS SIGHTS IN THE SOUTH
ERN CONFEDERACY.

Under the head of"Ten Days in Foreign Parts"
the editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate
gives a very graphic readable and instructive
sketch of his late Circuit ride through the South.
From it we extract the following:
We have spent ten days within the Southern
Confederacy. Our readers might Ike 10 Ano"
something of what we saw and hearu IN ioreisu
parts. >,
The month of March has been unusually cold in
Alabama and Georgia. Yet blowing and planting
are going on. The farmers are well up to their
work The main field force have not been with
dawn from their work, notwithstanding the mus
terincs and meetings. All things 60 on with
them as before. They look contented and we'll
cared for. The polished plowshare makes its fur
row as of old in mellow earth. The trees bud
ding Corn is coming up. Cotton seed going in
Wheat and rye are beautiful. The flowers bloom.
The singing of birds has come, and the voice of
the turtle is heard in the land.
About twenty per cent. more than common of
corn and smaller grain is being sown this wear
within the limits of the Southern Confederacy.-
This agrees with our observation and the most re-
Ii able representations made to us. Those people
to be Independent. few months will show |
that they can raise bread as we'll as cotton The |
cotton crop is found out to be about million |
OF bales short of the previous year. This fact has
raised prices to higher figure than has been reach
ed for many years. few are holding back for |
higher prices still. But all this does not divert
from the bread producing purpose.
Some things impressed us, along our zigzag way
ana curing our snort stay In foreign parts OF
course the area of observation was not extensive.
The reader will know how to make allowances for
that. To our own, we added the observations of
every judicous friend and traveller We ''met up
with" and with whom we could snatch a ten-min-
utes' talk, or take hours setto. These impress.
sions we give facts maybe news without com
ments. Wherever the editor is he bears the Ad-
rocote in mind, and CLEANS for it, columns
The quietness of men and things surprises ONE
From the seriousness and vastness of the revolution
that mas taken place there within the last three
months, and from the accounts Of MODS, lynch law,
reign of terror &c, one can hardly help LOOKING
out for evidences of disturbance in the public mind
and c0mmoton in affairs. We never saw people
camer. In town, village, country and crossroads,
they sober in conversation aud quiet in demea-
nor. Evidently it is not the camnrss of suppress
sion, but of conviction and determination Less
bluster and big talk than sees and hears at
country election. No whistng to keep the cour-
age up No nursing of wrath to keep it warm
They are in uncommon bland humor. Even the
phi lippics taunts and insulting paragraphs of the
abolition press do not rutfle their tempers they
used to do. They regard them as outside things,
pretty much We in the United States regard the
pratlngs OF Exeter Hall and the swell sentences OF
the Spanish COrtes about our affairs and insttu-
tOns. The EXTREMIST appointments of Mr.. Lincoln
are cooly commented on-"No concern of ours"
They are not only quiet, but determined. Those
people are gone, and gone for good. The child is
not born that will see them return. We do not
believe man in a thousand entertains the idea
of reconstruction. If ever reconstruction takes
never will come back on any terms Any one who
talks with shareholders, large planters and sma
planters, merchants and mechanics, will be obliged
TO yield the cherished idea of reconstruction
Their State Governments never were in better ac-
tion, and never before did the people so highly
prize them With their Federal Government they
pleased; its officers, Congress and Con-
stitution. Whatever may be said in Wall street of
their want OF resources for sustaining a govern
ment, they feel no uneasness on that score. The
difference between their commercial system and
that of the Northern States under the present and
future possible tariffs opens to their view as all
in their favor. With trifing State debts and am
pie resources, they feel safe the financial cues.
ton. We actually heard such an expression as
thls-smle at it as you may-"The fact is, those
poor fellows at the North, don't see how they are
get along: Southern custom lost; the difference
between the tariffs turning everything to our
ports; we making our own bread; their East and
West arrayed against each other in debt, and no
prospect of paying it; their credit ten per cent
under par; ours above par, for our fifteen million
loan will be taken at one hundred and four cents on
the dollar-what will they dor" Put that speech
in your pipe and smoke it. We heard it, and that
too, from a sensible citizen.
The army-they are mastering strong down there
and no mistake. Besides the regiments which each
State has, the Federal Government is enlistng SOL
diers for year, and also for three years. if not
sooner discharged. The amount of frst-rate arms
of ordnance and ammunition they have on hand is
astonishing, for short notice. 1t is said the Fede-
raj Government has nearly twenty thousand SOL
dropping down to Pensacola and Savannah They
did not make much fuss-only music enough to
form by-not stealthy, but rather silent in their
movements. There is an empty car behind: the
conductor keeps it locked. By-and-bv the reason
appears. \ GU reach station, and seventy or
eighty uniformed men get on board; and such sol.
diers we never saw-sober sentinels-younp men
and middle aged-the flower of the land. Friends
and women see them of, with waving handker-
chiefs not wet with tears. No Hessian bands and
drunken rowdies. We saw but one drunken man
in the Southern Confederacy, and he was not too
drunk to get from the hotel at Opelika to the cars.
Depend on it, if those soldiers have to fight thev
will give good account of themselves in the day
of battle. And if Mr.. Lincoln heads the force
that is to meet them, he bad better do as he did on
his way to Observation-Disclosures himself; steal
march, and start the night before.
DEATH BY SWALLOWING ARTIFICIAL TEErH.-On
Thursday, the 9th inst, Peter Brennan residing
in Albany, while skylarkng with friend re-
ceiyed sudden blow which caused him to faint
On recovering he discovered that he had swallow
ed his false teeth. There were four teeth three at
one end, and one Mt the other end: the plate bav-
ing OF course, hooks, whereby to fasten to the ad
jacent natural teeth. The entire length of the
plate full two inches. He applied to phrsi-
clans for relief, but relief could be given him.
and he returned home. His respiration. meantime
had been uninterrupted, but his stomach had be-
come soirrtaed as to make it impossible to intro
duce anything, even S0itest sponge, into it, every
touch producing violent and bloody vomiting The
next morning it was found that emphysema of the
head and neck had supervened. Tbisi caused by air.
which had escaped from the trachia or bronchial
into the cellular tissues the body, under the skin
Initiating the parts enormous extent. The uD-
fortunate man then suffering from imperfect
respiration, and was unable to take anything b. ut
fluids. Brennan fingered on in this terrible con6i-
tlon, unable to eat, and respiration growing more
and more impeded, until, after living thus six DAYS.
he died on Monday afternoon, well of starvation
as OF suiiocation, at o'clock. A post norton ex-
animation was held, and the plate was found in
iata al haIo ND |,
the top of the breast bone living transversey across
and its broken and sharp hook points having cut
on the right side, cash an inch and a half long,
and pierced the upper lobe of the right lung pro-
ducing an intense Inflammation of the parts and
allowing what food he had taken to pass into the
pleural cavity instead OF into the stomach On the
lett side the pipe was perforated, and the plate
nrmy Embedded into the substance of the throat.
Extensive alterations of the lungs and neighboring
parts had supervened
PROBABLE FATE OF THE CINCINNATI RECRUITS.-It
is reported that Governor Dennison has determiu-
ed to forward the troops recruiting in this city to
Washington by way of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. This be has done in spite of some ur-
gent remonstrances. The troops leave Columbus
this morning, and as there is at least an even
chance that by the time they arrive at Central
Virginia, the road will be taken possession of by
Virginia forces, we may well make up our minds
to learn that our fellow-citizens who left us with
high hopes of winning honor and glory in the tent.
ed field, have been laid up in ordinary in some ru-
raj district of the Old Dominion, there to await,
with such patience they can muster, the final
settlement OF the pending controversy Cincinnati
Press, 18th.
The TERRoRs OF BALTMoRE.-We take the fol-
lowing from the New York Herald of Tuesday:
Ill accounts from Baltimore represent the condi-
ton OF affairs in that city as most fearful IRE
sponslble mobs, calling themselves Vigilance Com
mittees, exercise a severe espionage over persons
entering or leaving the city, and those who incur
their suspicion or displeasure are treated in the
most harsh and summary manner. Travellers COM
city, and the slightest pretexts are detained and
subjected to hardships and indignities.
Instead of abatng, every hour within the last
twenty-iour has added to the excitement il the
city--we might say rather to the earnestness and
the deep determination to throw everything into |
the great cause OF crushing out rebellion and sus
timing the Government. This feeling prevail all |
crces.-Ne,o York Tribune, Apra %.
meeting f the lawyers of New York city was |
held on Monday and some S25, 900 subscribed to-
wards the equipment and relief of the volunteers
for the South.
Mayor Wood in communication to the Common |
Council, recommends the appropriation of one mil |
lion OF dollars for the equipment of the New York
city volunteers and for the support of their families
The Memphis Banks have appropriated fifty |
thousand dollars to place the city footing,
and also intmated purpose to double the sum if |
it become necessary.
Major Anderson had a public reception at the
Governors Room at the City Hall, New York, on |
Tuesday.
Certain citizens of Coving ton and Newport (Ken.
lucky }, and of Cincinnati, are organizing a Home
Guard for mutual protection and defence.
New York claims In hava sanf 900 WAN