The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-01

with Corwin's amendment, was reconsidered ant
adopted by vote of 1873 to G5-a constitutional
majority. The following is the Joint resolution
with Mr.. Corwin's amendment.
be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resenauves OF the United States of America in Con.
gress assembled, ltwo-thirds Of both Houses con-
cuFrlng,) That the following article be proposed to
ne legislatures of the several States as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
"hen ratified by three-fourths of said Legis-
ld'ures' shall be valid to all intents and PURPOSES
as part OF said Constitution viz.
inn ~ -. 80 No amendment of this Constitution, hav-
III Vi 10 oDJect any interference within the States
%ha ~ between their citizens and those
uescoeu IN secton second of the first article of the
Constitu ion as Gall other persons, eboIi ori;not
with any State that does not recocriza tbat7 al
uon within Its own limits, or shall be valid without
the assent OF every of the States CONFUSING the
! Union. lPos'na '"'
COrwin's amendment:
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitu-
tlon which will authorize or give to Congress the
| power to abolish or interfere, within any State
with the domestic institutions thereof includinT
that OF persons held to labor or service by the laws
Of said State.
The baptism BLooD.-Rhetorical declaimers
| IN both sections of the country have chosen as
beautiful dgure Of speech, to speak frequently of
| blood as a "purifier"-blood as n sacred element
| OF ot"baptism" and consecration-bIood as a Gee
ment. &c, seeming to be fully convinced that for
the founding OF new Confederacy or the nreser-
vatlon OF the old one, it is essential, if we would
consult the happiness of the people, that an inda
Unite number of them should be shot or bavoneted
distinguished legislator said the other day, an
parenty in mitigation of the consequences of civil
war, that eve would then have the publication of
lire and bo0d-the great purifier of the ALMIGHTY
from the Cross down" But let it be remembered
the hrst blood ever spilled the ground cried for
'Vengeance! =! and the most horrible crimes which
nave desecrated the earth have been associated
with blood. Better keep tie blood of Americans
Wlere and 1icnnOca with bn Il
slons.-Neto YORK. Journal Of Commerce.
NEWS FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENr-We are per-
mltted by the recipient, citizen of ALLEGHENY to
make the following extract from a letter received
by him from relative. He is gentleman of en-
tire reliability, and entrusted, it appears with
an important service:
NeW Orleans, Feb. 20.-I wrote you short note
last night, expecting to be nv way up the river
this morning, but am disappointed The detention
Is provoking IN the extreme as | am very anxious
to reach Northern telegraph Office There is an
expedition of four or five hundred men fitting out
at atGaveston to attack the United States forts and
stations on the Rio Grande-Point Isabel, Lavacca,
&c Unless ciTcumvented soon, Fort Brown and
Rlnggold Barracks will be taken. | am requested
to telegraph on to the War Department as soon as
possible viii you be kind enough to do the same
from Plttsburg-thereby expediting the matter?-
PitsJHrg Despatch.
SOUTHERN STEAMERS AND TRADE.-rhe Southern
steamers from this port are burdened with freight
sent out with rush at this time, to evade the tariff
which will be imposed on and after the 4th of
March, oa Northern goods imported into the Coon
iederate States of America"
The ''MGnticello,' for Savannah, left port yes
terday, stuffed in every nook and with
every conceivable variety of Yankee product and
fabric. The "COlumbia - which leaves for Charles
ton on Thursday, will have her TONNAGE we'll
tested. Her dock was crowded with merchandise
yesterday; and West street, for several hundred
feet above and below, was packed with drays,
waiting their turn to dump their precious loads on
the pier. 1t seems If the advantages of Southern
trade had just begun to be Approximately Y.
Journal Of Commerce.
Four PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.-The Dovles-
town PA. Democrat says:-A house occupied by a
man, his vile and three children, which stood on
the side OF the Bevidere and Delaware Railroad,
j ust above the Point Pleasant Bridge was con-
sumed by fire on Sunday night, and the woman and
children burnt to death. The husband made his
escape by jumping out of the second-story window
The father of the family is an Irishman and a la
bOrer on the railroad. The cause of the fire is not
known, but some suppose that he set the house on
ire himself, but whether accidental or not there is
no knowledge. The fire was first discovered by the
people going home from church at the Point
The man is said to have been drunk, and some as
sert that he made threats that be would burn the
house down.
RAISING THE fremont HOUSE, CmcAGo-The Ire.
mont House, and about acre of houses thereon,
commenced rising to grade this morning. There
are five thousand screws under the house, and Il
gang of live hundred men employed, giving each
man the Supervision of ten screws The power was
applied at ten O'Clock this forenoon, and at eleven
o clock the immense weight of buildings had been
raised three inches. 1t has yet five feet nine inches
to rise, which the contractors assure US will be
completed on Saturday night next. The contract
ors inform Us that the fremont rises better and
more satisfactorily than any building they have
ever raised in Chicago. Chicago Journnl, 25M.
REPORTED PARDON OF JUDGE VoNDERsM1ru.-The
Lancaster pa Ecpress, Of the 9th inst, says:-
ga report was extensively circulated throughout
the city to-day that Judge F0ndersmith had been
pardoned by the President We went to some
trouble to ascertain the facts, and enabled to
say that there is no truth in the report. 1t rose
from the fact that great eyertions are being made
by the friends of the unfortunate man to have this
object consummated, and strong hopes express
ed that, through the urgent appeals forwarded
Washington, the Judge will be liberated before the
close of this week"
Gov. Pickcns, Of South Carolina has appointed
the following officers under the bill providing for
the raising of volunteers:
General NJ. l.. Bonham, Of Edgefeld, Major
General.
P. H. Nelson, of Sumter, Brigadier General.
Major I. G. Rhett, late of the United States
Army, now on the Western frontier, Brigader-
General
Samuel McGowan, of Abbeyille, Brigadier Gen.
eral.
A. C. Darlington, of Newberry, Brigadier-Gen.
IMPORTANCE OF Coon QUALITY IN IRoN-A writer
in the London Quarterly Revie0, on the iron trade
STATES, lndL Iue HeCeSSity OF employing good iron
for rails is now so generally acknowledged that in
order to insure superior quality, of the great
est railway companies in England have established
works to manufacture their own iron; and another
company, not less important are just about to fol-
low their example. The writer also thinks that
the loss of so many iron ships is to be attributed
to the bad quality of metal used in their construc
ton.
By decision of the Paris Court of Cessation
jewellers and all manufacturers of fancy articles
are fully informed that it is unlawful in France, in
virtue of Napoleonic decree, in 1852, against fac
tious or reasonable embems, banners, &C., to in
troduce the eu de Iys any jewel, bracelet, cab
met work, tapestry, or upholstery, and according
y the tribunal at Riom, which, the 2Sth No.
vember last year, gave more lenent interpreta-
ton to the law, was wrong, and is rebuked
All idea of reconstruction" is steadily resisted
md denied by the leading politicians in the sece-
ling States, and they affirm that in at least four
i've of these States, nothing could induce return
% the Union-no compromises, no concessions no
adjustment. This (says the Alexandria Gazette) is
iisunonism, per se but it is not the doctrine ola
large majority OF the secessionsts in Virginia
and North Carolina.
Messrs. Evans Cogswell announce that, by
permission of the State Convention they will
shortly issue fac Silie copies of the ordinance of
including the autographs attached there
10. We rejoice that this ''sccoll of parchment is
to be reproduced. In years to come, il will be
reverenced as fondy the old Declaration of In
SPSHuShNC' C''''' tC''"'' -'AS' y
South Carolina appears to be recruiting largely
rom those States west of her which have not yet
abandoned the Union. a few days ago noticed
he departure from Tennessee of considerable
number of recruits for the army of the Palmetto
State, and the Augusta (Georgia) papers of Sun
lay announce the arrival there of thirteen more
rom the West.
Since the Prince of Wales had day or two's
III ooting in Illinois, we have not heard of his par
5cipation in field sports until on the occasion of
run with the Cambridgeshire fox hounds at the
md of last year. The Prince rode well up and
took his fences in good style. The run severe,
and two of the horses out were killed by the pace
and over-exertion.
The steamer Charleston, at Charleston on Mon
day, from Georgetown, s. c., reports that the
officers of one of the batteries near the entrance OF
that port, saw, on Saturday and Sunday last, some
distance off shore, what appeared to be steamship
of.war She fired several guns, which were dis
tinctly heard.
The National IateNigencer says: 1t is said that
the Administration is satisfied, from official chan
nes of information, that none of the foreign gov
ernments sympathize with the secession movements
in the South, but, the contrary express the ut
most Solicitude for the preservation oil tue ehtte
Union.
First Lieutenant Jacob Read, of the United
States Marine CORPS now stationed at the Brook
Ivn Marine Barracks, resigned his commission on
the 26th inst. and accepted captains commission
in the Georgian army. Lieutenant Read was born
in Georgia, and received his appointment from
that State, which dates March 3, lS47.
The U. S. corvette Germantown was taken from
the dry dock at the Gosport Navy Y ard YESTERDAY,
and WILL if rumor is true, be Immediately htted lcT
sea. The brig Dolphin still lies in her 1ormtr pos
tion, with pennant fving, indicating that she IS
in ommission.-Nortolb Day Boo6 fe0' 80
%. - ufactuTlng establish