The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-02
INTERESTING FROM PENSACOLA

Our Alabama and Georgia exchanges report i'm
portant military movements in the concentra ton
of Confederate State troops at Pensacola. The
Pensacola Observer has a letter dated Warrington
Navy Yard, March 81, from which we quote as
follows
Lieutenant Gilman arrived yesterday in sur
veying schooner with dispatches for the ships and
Lieutenant Commanding Slemmer, of Fort Pickens.
lie also brought money to pay the men at the fort
and to settle the beef and bread bills of the con-
tractors
Captain Farrand leaves to-day for New Orleans,
and Commandant lngraham is expected this morn
ing to take charge of this naval station. His son is
q lieutenant on board the United States soop- Of
war St. Louis, lying off the harbor at present.
Lieutenant Ingraham sent his resignation to w ash
ington some time ago, bat he has not received any
official notice as yet of its acceptance
Captain Oladowsky, of the ordnance department,
arrived here yesterday and reported himself for
duty to Commanding General Bragg. Captain
Boggs also arrived here yesterday and entered
upon his duties at once. He has the reputation of
being skiful and energetic officer.
n enthusiastic spirit pervades all with whom |
have spoken. The speck of war seems to give no
uneasiness so far; they are all anxious for brush, ,
and think that it may as we'll comenow as at some
future time.
The Cushman conveyed dispatches from the
commanding officer here to Captain Adams, out
side, yesterday afternoon. They recommended
mounting guns on Fort PickenS yesterday. 1t ap-
pears, after all the boastng, he has not more than
one-third of the guns mounted. Lieutenant Slem-
mer needs no eulogist.
The Wyandotte is lying this morning at Fort
Pickens. She entered during the night, as she
was anchored outside late last evening. Some
members of the Wilcox Blues were arrested yes
terday on the island of Santa Rosa gathering
shells. They were treated cOurteously, and sent
over to the Navy Yard by Lieutenant a. j. Stem
mer.
A SENSATION "CANARD"-PRINcE NAPOLEON AS
A BANK RoBBER.-The New York Leader, after
narrating the attempt of burglars to rob the New
Y ork Exchange Bank, by excavating a subterranean
passage, gives the following luminous statement,
the object of which is to prove that Prince Napoleon
was the instigator:-Captain George DiIks, on ex-
amining carefully the cellar and the long tunneIed
excavation, became satisfied that the job had not
been executed by English burglars. 1t was too
neatly and scientifically done in the first place; and
in the second, there were many indications of
French occupancy still remaining in tie cellar In
cupboard were found nearly two dozen empty
bottles of Burgundy and other French vntages
whereas English burglars invariably drink gin or
strong ale. Many copies of recent French papers
were also scattered about the floor and piled away
in the dust-bin. There was q prevailing air Of
neatness about the place, moreover, not in accord
ance with the police captains experience of the
mode OF life pursued by London cracksmen; and
when, in addition to these facts, we add that the
various tools found on the premises, with the ex.
ceptlon OF the jack, which of Connecticut
dered at that Captain Dilks should have promptly
decided on changing his line of investigation and
ordering his detectives to make inquiries on new
trail.
Last Thursday morning, food of new light was
thrown on the affair by information furnished to
Generals Superintendent Kennedy by Mr.. ID. B.
Halstead, cashier of the bank, to the effect that
amongst the valuable papers slowed away in the
principal safe, were several bundles belonging to
Madame Patterson Bonaparte, which she had been
afraid to carry with her to France lest they should
be DESTROYED by the agents of Prince Napoleon. 1t
will be fresh in the public mind that it was partly
for the want of these papers that Madame Bona
parte failed in the recent trial, and that she had
her American counsel, Hon. Reverdy johnson, in
time for the trial in the Imperial Court of Appeals
which is to take place next June.
Coupling these facts and the immense interest,
involved in the possession of the papers in question
1T now suspected that the recent invasion of the
direct nstigation of the Prince Napoleon; and tha
the parties engaged in the enterprise have not beer
Ordinary burglars by any means, but eight or tel
experienced French engineers acting under thu
command OF an officer who is known to be in this
city.
We regret to spoil good story, but a regard for
truth compels US to say that the safe of the New
| York Exchange Bank did not at the time or previ
ously contain the Bonaparte-P Patterson papers.
| CHAIN MAKING MACHINERY.-Machinery for th'
| manufacture of chains of every description ma
been brought to great degree OF perIectoI ln lni
country; the smallest chains as well as tue largest
| are constructed with surprising rapl9ity ana e&
actness; those for trimming jewelry, little large
than an ordinary pin, to the largest snip cables
Machines made in the United states tor the manu-
| facture of watch and other small chains are nov
used at Birmingham England, and are each capa
feety than it is possible to accomplish it by manu-
! al labor.