The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-15
Arrival of Lieut. Hall and Col. IIayne from


South Carolina, arrived here this afternoon. The
precise object of their mission has not transpired,
further than ihat it has reference to understand
ing between the two parties so to avoid con-
dict. 1t is ascertsined that the Government will
not at present send reinorcements to Fort Sumter.
Washington Items.
! WAsHiNGroN, Jan. l4.-McKean's bill, intro
duced to-day in the House, proposes to repeal so
much Of The act of 1899 constitutes Georgetown,
Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina, ports OF
entry.
The President will nominate to the Senate
Mr.. Holt, for Secretary OF War His confirmation
is con sdered certain.
The Senators from Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida, having retired, Judge Greenwood of Ar
kansas, at present Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
will probably be nominated Secretary of the Iute-
rior. lie has been rendered the appointment.
Arkansas Senate Refuses to Pass the Con.
| vemtion Bill.
WAsHISdroN, Jaa. l4.-Private dispatches from
Little Rock, Arkansas, say that the Senate of that
State has rejected the House Convention Bill.
PROPOSITION FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
New 1oRK, Jan. IA special despatch received
here from Washington, says that South Carolina
has offered to evacuate all the forts and public pro-
perty, in case Major Anderson shall be ordered
back to Fort Moutrie.
SOUTH CAROLINA DECLARED GUILTY OF TREASON.
New YoRK, Jan. 4.-Judge Smallay, of the
United States Circuit Court, in his charge to the
Grand Jury to day, declared South Carolina, BY
secession ordinance and subsequent acts, guilty Of
high treason against the Federal Government.
NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
RALEIGH, Jan. 4.-The House passed a resolu-
tion to-day requesting the General Government and
State authorities of South Carolina each to leave
the forts and arsenas and let matters remain in
stdtu quo for the present. The resolution was
argued in the Senate, but not finally acted upon.
The Convention bill was argued in both Houses,
but no vote was reached. There is not much ex-
citement here.
REVOLUTIONARY MovEMENrs-MohE ALABAMA
TROOPS ORDERED PENSACOLA.
MACON, Jan. l.-Advices from A abama say that
additional troops have been ordered to Pensacola
by that State. The Auburn (Ala.) Guards left
there this morning, and a company ofZouaves
leave tonight. Other companies also going.
LETTER FROM SENATOR PEARCE, OF MARYLAND.
The fact that the Hon. James Alfred Pearce, Of
Maryland had written a letter despairing of any
congressional adjustment of the present national
troubles, and advising the calling of State Con-
venton in Maryland, has already been mentioned.
The letter of Mr.. Pearce (Which was addressed to
Bradley I. johnson, Esq, Of Frederck) is as fol-
lows
WASHINGTON, Jan. Q, 1861
Dear Sri acknowledge the receipt of your
note OF the Tth, and regret that | was not at my
| lodgings when you called. | would readily have
presented to you my views of public affairs at that
time.
There no authority for hepublic report
which you refer to, that had fully endorsed Gov.
Hicks course, inasmuch as | had not proclaimed
my opinion on the subject But | do not hesitate
to say to you, that when the demand was made
upon him for call of the Legislature, was not
satisfied OF its necessity. | preferred that time
| should be given to Congress to accomplish an ad-
justment, which hoped the patriotic. and con-
servative feeling Of the country would sanction,
and indeed require. In this hope have been dis
tod tl,orN
becomes more faint, while the progress of events
| is rapid and threatening that | now think
that the Legislature ought 10 be soon called.
| we cannot, by remaining quiet escape the
| storm which now seems likely to burst upon
us. Anxious as | am for the preservation of
the Union, the value of which to all the States has
| been immense and most precious, think that the
dangers which threaten may be best averted, if
at all, by the action of the people through their
representatives hope, therefore, that the Legis-
lature will be called together by the Governor,
whose sincerity do not in the least question. If
| Congress cannot recommend some adjustment to
the conventions of the States, shall fear the dis
ruption of the Union, unless the people of the
| States in their conventions find that remedy,
| for which Congress is at loss
! | believe that the South would accept the pro-
| positions submitted by the eloquent and eminent
Senator from Kentucky, Mr.. Crittenden,) whose
noble character is guarantee of his honest and pa
triotic purposes If the representatives here of the
non-slaveholding States will do nothing to allay
the agitation which dstracts the country, our only
hope is in the people of their States acting through
other representatives.
| shall myself sustain any plan of adj ustment
| which promises peace to the country.
! should be wanting in frankness if did not add
that do not believe secession to be a constitution
| al measure, but revolutionary, and that should
depore the secession of MARYLAND especially at an
early day, as certain to direct upon our State the
storm of civil
Very respectfully, truly, your servant,
j. A. PEARCE
Bradley 7. johnson, Esq.
LETTER FROM HON. J. II. B. LArRoDE.
In the Philadelphia Inquirer of Yesterday is pub
lished letter from J. II. b. Latrobe, Esq. ad-
dressed to gentleman of that city, on our nation
al troubles. In the first paragraph of the epise,
Mr.. Latrobe alludes to the disappointment of the
! people in Mr.. Stewards speech, and then reviews
| the position of the Border States. He says that
shouting for the Union, and "spread eagle style
| of speech, will not save the Union, there is
required something more practical than these. OF
what is expected of Pennsylva MIA he says:
| She can do great deal, this great State of
Pennsy lvauia. Perhaps she cannot do as much as
| Mr.. Seward could have done, but she can do
| great deal, and enough too, perhaps-but it must
| be something mere than shouting for the Union.
What Pennsylvania can do is to make an at
| tempt-and she will make it with every probabii-
ity of success-to remove the causes which threat
en- the dissolution of the Union. Not only must
she repeal the personal liberty laws, and the like
unconstitutional legislation, if there is any such
on her statute book, but she must declare the
terms which she is willing that the whole
question now agitating the land shall be settled
now and forever, and she must see whether these
terms cannot be made acceptable to the Border
States, South, By consultation with them, and by
modification of what may be Objectionable She
must say to Virginia, for example, in effect Why
| cannot we come to an agreement? OF the Border
States, South, you are the greatest in extent and
| population, we occupy the same relative position
nn thn rnrth nE tha lima
Maryland and Deaware New Jersey sympathizes
with us. If we set the example of conference,
there are Kentucky and Ohio who may follow it
on the west of the mountains; Missouri is a sure
card to do what is reasonable. Tennessee will
come after, If not as soon as Kentucky. North Ca
rolina is conservative the hills and true as the
| steel within them; and there is New York, which
| is not hopeless, with her great emporium sure to
be on our side. Here, then, is a great nucleus
never mind New England for the present; leave
out the Cotton States just now-stick to the means
!arithmetcally(, the extremes will, all the
likely come to be friends, when interfere our
selves between them. But to make a beginning let
us see whether Virginia and Pennsylvania, can
not act together. Here for a commencement, are
the Crlttenden resolutions, perfected by the Bor-
der States conterences-let US see what we can
make of them-why may they not suit the object
we have in view2
This is the course we would have Pennsylvania
to pursue This is the course that would have
infinitely more effect to check the drift of the Bor-
der States, South, into a Southern Confederacy
than all the meetings, and all the resolutions, and
all the oupourngs of all the orators in the State.
| ADvlCEs FROM SPRINGFIELD.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan l2.-Jas. Appleton Jr.,
of Boston, and Edgar Cowan and j. p Sanderson,
of Pennsylvania, arrived at late hour this even
ing. The visit of the last mentioned two is in re-
ference to the Cameron imbrogio. Sanderson who
was here with Cameron ten days ago, is direct from
Washington.
Some raey developments will doubtless be made
tomorrow.
The report that Henry Winter Davis is to be
in Lincoln's Cabinet was authoritatively denied
here to-day.
1t is understood that no Southern appointments
will be determined upon until after Lincoln's ar
rival in Washington.
The conviction prevails now in Presidential cir
cles that the day Of compromise is passed. and that
nothing but force will bring the rebellious States
back into the Union.
Mr.. Lincoln was presented this forenoon with
gold headed, rosewood cane, valued at $3.50 by
Messrs. James Churchman and Samuel Gamaqe Of
San Francisco, in the name of G. W. Young. of Ne
vada City,
W. Jones, an Indiana farmer, for whom Mr. Lin
coin split rails thirty years ago, is here on visit
to his former bired hand
ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH MR.. LINCoLN-HIs OPINION
OF COMPROMISES.
A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat IRE
publican) gives the following particulars of a Wis.
it to Mr.. Lincoln
"We found Mr.. Lincoln in his parlor. surround
to be temporary visitors like ourselves. Mr. Lin
cOln met II with q frank halt how