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Nunttaru anS Commercial Rebista.
BALTIMORE, March 27, lSI

BALTIMORE, March II, 1861.
There little business done at the Stock Board
today, but the market is still extremely dull We have
however change to note in its general condition.
for stocks generally prices pretty well maintained
City 6's for which there inquiry, rather
hrmer than on yesterday sale of $500 1890 coupons
was made at s74 and the inscribed bonds closed at 90
bid, " asked for 1866 97 bid for 1855 and 97H bid
ss asked for 1905 In Railroad shares there moth
ing DONE but Baltimore and Ohio closed yesterday
at sl4& bid SIAN asked regular way. For Railroad
bonds there was some inquiry and sales made of
$500 Baltimore and Ohio 1855 ST. which is an ad
vance, and 81 GOO Northwestern Virginia first mortgage
bonds at 90. For Northern Central 1855 52T was bid
and 81 asked but sales were made The only sale of
Mining stock to day OF 500 shares Deep River at
10 cts Gardner Hill which has for days past
tending downward offered to-day at 81 95 but the
best bid for it was sl50 per share Springfield closed
however at ST. bid 81 asked these figures being the
same that have been bid and asked for some
past.
In New York to-day stocks generally lower than
on yesterday Virginia 6s declined y; Missouri 6s &
Tennessee bonds x North Carolina bonds ST. Reading
u; Cleveland and Toledo X; Rock Island 4; Michigan
Southern Il Michigan Southern guaranteed e. and Har-
lem q; Canton improved Y; but Erie, New York Cen
trial. and Galena and Chicago all at yesterdays
figures.
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 1851.
$500 Bait. coupon 6s, 1880 B. & o. RR bds
- '90-97Al 'S5-S4
1000 n W. Va. RR. 500 shs. Deep River
lst m. bonds, go Min, Co. is
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THE NEWS.


In the Senate yesterday a communication was
received from the President declining to furnish
the Senate with the dispatches received from Ma
Jor Anderson, he deeming it inexpedient to do so
at the present time.
The Texas Legislature have passed a resolution
approving the act of the Convention deposing Gen.
Houston. Since the departure of the Federal troops
the Indians have been very troublesome on the
frontier.
Col. Lamom has arrived at Washington from
Fort Sumter. The object of his mission has not
transpired.
By the Pony Express we have San Francisco
dates to the 18th inst. The Golden Gate had ar
rived with nearly million dollars from the East.
The Senatorial contest is still undecided No news
from the Lecant. 1t is generally believed
that she has been lost with all on board.
In the Virginia Convention on Tuesday night,
Mr. Halls substitute for the majority report of the
Committee on Federal Relations, being the Consti-
tuition of the Confederate States, was rejected
Yesterday substitute for the report as offered,
making an unequivocal demand on the North, rel
atiFe to the slavery question, which was also re-
iected,
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UNITED STATES SENATE...SPECAb SESSION.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The CHAIR laid before
the Senate the following message from the Presi-
dent of the United States:
To The Senate Of the United States:
nave received copy of resolution of the Senate
passed on the 25h instant requesting me- it, in nv opin
lon be not incompatible with the public interest to
communicate to the Senate the dispatches of Major Rob
ert Anderson to the War Department. during the time he
has been in command at Fort Sumter
On an examination of the correspondence thus called
fo have with the highest respect the Senate
to the conclusion that at the moment the pub
cation OF it would be inexpedient. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WASHINGTON, March 26th, 1861
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE moved to take up the re-
solution introduced by him yesterday advising the
withdrawal of the Federal troops from the seeded
States. He said he did not intend making any re-
marks, as he had already expressed his views on
that subject; and he desired the vote on his motion
to be regarded as a test question.-Mr. FESSEN-
DEN supposed there would be no objection to that.
but he reminded the Senator that no quorum was
Present-On motion of Mr. HALE, the Senate
went into Executive Session.-After the Execu.
tive session highly interesting running debate
took place on taking up Mr.. Breckinridge's resou-
ton, but no conclusion thereon was reached, and
the Senate adjourned without a quorum till to-
morrow.
In yesterdays report, after Mr.. Douglas re-
marks, 1t should have been stated that the resolu-
ton OF Mr.. Douglas was laid on the table by yeas
%, nays H.
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Combinations of Appointments

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Senate to-day con.
hrmed very many nominations of all kinds, incud
ing Lucius c. Chittenden, Register of the Treasu-
ry. Also the officers for the new Territories
Charles Lee Armour, Associate Justice for Colo.
rad4; Hiram Baine, Collector Customs New York:
a. Judson Crane, Attorney for the Southern Dis
trlct OF Virginia; Alexander Mcdonald Post-mas
ter at Lyme hburg, Virginia; George Sandoe Post
master at Abingdon; d. p. Holloway, Commission.
er of Patents, and Silas II. Hodges, George II.
Harding, Thomas c. Theaker, of Ohio, Examiners.
in-Chief
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TIE EXPRESS EUGENE is said to be in a state of
perpetual terror about the condition of her SOUL
Her mind is tottering. At one moment she is for
setting out on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. at
another she absorbed in all the mseries of spirit
rapping; then the Emperor finds her in a state of
nervous affection, if life were an absolute burden
to her. The priests have told her that Providence
has assigned to her grand role. 1t was for this
that she was rescued in that terrible hour of agony
when it became question whether the Casarian
operation must not be performed, and it is for this
she lives at the present hour But the poor soul is
fairly bewidered with all that is told her; and while
she loves the Emperor and her little child with her
whole strength, she is in doubt whether she ought
not to desert both-throne and all-for tAe sake of
the sacred Vicar of Christ.
raving lunatc in an asylum in California was
restored to reason by seeing her father from whom
she had long been separatad
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CHARLESTON, March 26.-The schooner ohm For
syth, from New York, arrived at this port this
morning. Her captain reports that on the night
of the 22d inst, when Frying Pan shoals, he
passed within sight of a schooner which was then
burnt almost to the waters edge He hailed the
burning vessel but receiving no answer, proceeded
on his course.
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From the ". o. Crescent, March %.
LATER FROM PENSACOLA.
Extract from a. Prirata I.nttnr


Yesterday Col. Forney was placed in
full command of all the forces at this place-Col-
onel Chase having resigned-and he has commenced
his operations with energy. sand battery is a
cellar aug IN the sand three feet deep and eigh-
teen by twenty-four wide. The sand which comes
out of this place is piled up so as to make sort of
wedge-shaped defence eighteen feet long and four
feet high at the edge of the pit, which, being itself
three feet deep, makes the whole, from the bottom
OF the pit to the top of the parapet, seven feet
high enough to protect mans head. Col. For
ney is constructing three of these sand batteries
distant, the extreme from the other about a
mle ana three,quarters: The right extreme one is
to have four S-inch coumbiads; two of these are
already mounted and ready for action. The left
extreme one four 8-inch columbiads; and the GEN.
tral one three lO-inch coIumbiads. Although this
Is Sunday, there have been 800 men engaged all
day in building these batteries. With good luck,
think that in few days we can have all the guns
mounted. The lO-inch guns are in Fort McRea,
which is, by the way we have to go, nearly four
miles distant. These l0-ineh guns weigh each l5-
600 pounds and it is vast labor to get them here
through this sand,
You see the gun is much bigger at the butt than
the ,muzzle, and, therefore, will not roll forward
but Forney has had an arrangement made to 20
round the muzzle, so as to equalize the diameters
and then taking about 80 men, to each gun they
VIII be rolled along skids, and in time will reach
their destination. One hundred and twenty pounds
ter down any brick work, don't care how thick,
which is only one and quarter miles distant: and
if the enemy will stand still, and let pound away
upon them, we will inevitably knock down Fort
Pickens. Its walls are not of granite, as we have
heard, but of brick, just like all the other forts
here, and they have only two ten-inch guns while
we have three. Then every brick we knock ont of
them is brick gone, but they may fling 900 ten
inch balls into our sand and it will do no harm and
hurt nobody, and make not an inch of progress,
unless they hit our gun itself, very unlikely pos
sibility. They may fire a week and do little mis-
chief. 1 cannot understand why the services of
,nto 4 Al.
had 5000 men properly armed we could reduce
Pickens and take it, l think, without the ruinous
sacrihce OF life we have heard so much apprehend-
ed. have no idea that the men-of-war can come
into the bay. They have to pass within 600 yards
OF Fort McRea, where, thanks to Forney's energy,
we have twenty 32's and 42's mounted and shotted.
Six hundred yards is just near as is wanted. We
can sink them from McRea "to dead mortal GER
taInty." Then, if they should get by McRea they
have to face our three tremendous sand batteries
besides the guns of Fort Barrancas. Fort McRea
Is pretty strong place, about much so in nv
opinion, as Fort Pickens; but Fort Barrancas is
much weaker, and is not, think, tenabie
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Arrival of the Pony Express-The Missing

SIVOI1-UT- EItVnhf.
FoRT KEARNEY, March 27.-The California Popy
Express, with advices to the 18th, has arrived
The steamer Golden Gate had left San Francisco
with nearly one million in treasure, en- route for
New York.
No progress had been made in baloting for
United States Senator None of the candidates
had received half of the requisite votes.
The sloop-of-war Wyoming arrived from Homo
lulu, February 10th, having been in search of the
missing U. 5. sloop of-war Levant. The Honolulu
Adrertiser believed, from Capt. Hunts intention.
and the severe gales of the Sd, 18th and 2Oth in
which several whaling vessels suffered severely,
that the Levant had met with serious dsas-
ter, which had proved fatal to the ship and all on
beard.
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e New York Tribune, of this morning, saws.


The market seems to be relapsng into duness again
SO ar as the movements in shares indicate the tide of
business and 1t quite evident that the spasm
speculative activity has not extended beyond the street
Ihe movements in railway bonds are undoubtedly sup
ported by very good and increasing investment de-
mand and large have been absorbed in the Federal
loans but there disposition yet part of the
public to take an active interest in speculation
The Foreign Exchange market is steady at 10Y AIOs
for sterling without activity. Commercial signatures
522x. @ ~
The money market continues to show an excessive
supply and rates of interest have downward tendency
as IL becomes more difficult to employ capital. The
banks take the great bulk of their offerings but still have
Deen Obliged to reduce their loans and negotiations in
the open market have greatly diminished There is
better currency for second class names
passing readily at IL per cent which few days since
were not done under 5 Paper of very best grade
quoted as low as 5 per cent? but the bulk Of the trans
actions are at On call the supply is ample at per
cent.
We annex comparative statement of the exports
Exclusive of pecie from New York to foreign pors for
the week ending March IS, 1861:
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GOODS ENTERED DUTY FREE ST. LoUIs-The
following paragraph is from the st. Louis Repu5ii-
of the 23d instant:
Every day our importers of foreign merchandise
are receiving, by way of New Orleans, very con-
siderable quantities of goods, duty Free The goods
are landed at the port of New Orleans-no Custom
House notice is taken of them-no bonds are exc
cuted for the payment of duties on their arrival
there; and many articles the saving of one-ha
the duty, only, would afford a handsome profit If
this thing Is to become permanent, there will be an
entire revolution in the course of trade, and New
York will suffer terribly. Our merchants have
capital enough to justify them in making their
purchases in Europe, and shipping to New Orleans;
and in that city, because of the difference in the
tariff, goods can be bought cheaper than in New
York. With these advantages, we shall be able to
sell cheaper than any other city in the Valley of
the Mississippi.
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GFrom the New York Herald.l

HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-Mr. Eddy appears
as Jack Cade this evening. A favorte farce con-
cludes the entertainment
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New ORLEANS, March y The Texas Legislature
has passed resolution approving the Convention S
act in deposing Gov. Houston. bill has also been
passed to raise a regiment of mounted rifemen, to
the number of 900 men, for frontier duty. Since
the departure Of the federal troops the Indians in
large numbers have been devastating the frontiers,
killing and driving back the settlers.
The steamers Gen. Rusk and Daniel Webster,
sailed from the Brazos on the Goth with the federal
troops on board. There are now no U. S. troops
On the Rio Grande, and the Indians continue their
depredatons in the upper border.
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BURLINGTON, N. j., March 26.-Our citizens, last
evening, serenaded Mrs. Slemmer, the heroine of
Fort Pickens, who is now on a visit to her friends
in this the place of her former residence
beck's Band, OF Philadelphia dscoursed exquisite
music and was warmly applauded.
New York LegisIature-Amendne to the
Constitution.
ALBANY, March 26--The House of Assembly to-
day passed to third reading bill to provide for
the submission to the people the question of calling
Convention to amend the Constitution.
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The wife and two chiIdreno of Gen. Miramon, ex-
President of Mexico, came passengers from Vera
Cruz to Havana, in the Spanish war-steamer Isabel
la Catoca, accompanied by number os other po-
litical exies. The Gaceta learns that after brief
sojourn in Havana, the whole family will proceed
direct to the Peninsula.
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The Oxford (Miss.) Intelligencer protests against
Tennessee entering the Southern Confsderacy, un-
less she will produce the scalps of Senator johnson
her sincerity,
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Sir William Benicke, of Threepwood Hal, North
cumberland county, Great Britain, whose eGceh i "a,
tricties some time since led to his being struck oil
the list of Justices of the Peace for that county,
was, on the I'd inst, sentenced at the Newcastie
Assizes to four years penal serviude Tor attempt
ing to shoot copule of baiilfs VINO nau oeen sent
to his place to execute writ
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LATEST NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
Washington Items

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Private accounts from
New Mexico represent that the Texas special Com
missioner has met with little if any success in his
secession efforts in that Territory, and the prospect
is not encouraging.
The Lighthouse Board has almost entirely sus-
pended its operations, owing to the unavaiability
of funds.
COL Lamon has returned from his official errand
to Fort Sumter
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How TO BREAK UP THE SOUTHERN CoNFEDERAcY
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
submits plan by which the Southern Confederaey
can be broken up. The following is the plan
The Government of the United States has only,
in recognizing the Southern Confederacy, to ex-
pressly state, that the seeded States exerted
right to retire and to dvest themselves of liability
for our national debt, so also government will
recognize the right of any seeded State to return
to the United States, leaving the new Confederacy
discharged from any responsibility for the debt of
the new Confederation; and that, should any at
tempt be made by the new Confederation to retain
such dissatisfied State by coercion such State will
be supported by the whole military power of the
United States.
IHE LATE SNow-SroRM IN NEW ENGLAND.-The
late snow-storm was the severest experienced in
New England for many years. Snowdrifts of 10 to
20 ieet were very common, particularly along the
sea-coast, where the storm was more severe than
inland. The Old Colony, South Shore, New Bed
ford and Taunton, Feirhaven, Eastern, (from Sa-
lem to Newburyport) and Milton Branch Railroads
were blocked up all day Friday, and some of them
did not get into good running order on Satur-
day. At Ipswich there was drift 200 rods in
length, and 20 feet deep, on which over 100 men
worked "a hours without cutting through. Sever
al engines on various roads were thrown from the
track by the snow becoming pressed down as firm
ly as ice.
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Some writer has suggested that the new South
ern Contederacy be called 'The Pamela Republic"
Pamela is the Indian name for Cotton, and would
be the most appropriate title by which the young
Republic could be designated. 1t would touch
alike the feelings and the pride of the people who
live ia the Cotton States.
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CRlcKET:-Th Sporting Life gives the following
as the spring appointments to the Cricket profess
sorships at the colleges and schools in England
Catyn, to Winchester; Hayward and Diver, to
Rugby; Grundy, to Cheltenham, and Lilywhite
to Harrow. These players were all in this country
last year, and took part in the international
matches
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An Irshman from Newburyport has recently
been taken to an asylum, having become insane in
consequence of undue rel igious excitement This,
says the Newburyport Herald, is the first case of
the kind in the Catholic Church ever known here
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SEE FOURTH PAGE,

BOARD OF TRADE.
Comsmutee Of Arbitration for month of March
- W. H. d. C. WRIGHT,
J. A. SHRIVER, HIGH SISSON
EDW,D G. MCDOWELL, JNO. WALKER
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EATING BOILED OYSTERS BY THE PECK.-The edi-
tor of the Cleveland Herald writes to his paper
from Washington, as follows:
"Did you ever eat a boiled oyster? We have
discovered new institution in Washington
friend asked US to follow whittier he should Lead
Entering low, shed-ike building, pervaded by
hsh-iike smell, and penetrating the inner recesses,
where twenty men opening oy sters, passing
along into an apartment where two boilers or caui-
arons were set in furnaces, our friend ordered
some boiled oysters. Chow many?" was the
query, and ga peck" was the ,eply. We stared,
out stood oy in mute astonishment-a peck of oys-
ters, ana only TWO small men as feedersl The peck
of oysters were shoyeled into a basket. placed
under force pump, and thoroughly washed; then
the basket and oysters went into the cauldron of
boiling water and remained five minutes. plates
meanwhile were heated, and the peck of oysters
deposited on the bench; butter placed in the hot
plates, with salt and pepper, aad the opening com
menced. This was an easy task, as each shell had
opened. The oysters were deposited in the plates
faster than we could eat them, but we halted not
until the peck of shells were scraped into the
trough. The bill was twenty five cents. A boiled
oyster is very much like broiled one in delicacy
of flavor"
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The New PLANEr.-The asteriod discovered at
Naples by Gasparis February 10th, is the eighth
first seen by him, and the sixty-third now known
to exist between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
Its briancy is equal to that of star of the tenth
magnitude. Its position Feb. 10th, l3h. S6m.,
NJ. Il. G., was llh. lin. AIS. of R. A, and north
Dec deg. 10 min. Its motion in Declination is
very small and Its X. A. apparently diminishes
about Al sec. daily
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resolution has been adopted by both Houses of
the Ohio Legislature, requesting Congress to call
National Convention. This makes the third State
that has declared in favor of this plan of govern
ment policy. 1t will, doubtless, meet with favor
throughout the NorShern, Middle and Border
States
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1t is a fact which should be known, that no
State tax is to be levied in Illinois for the next two
years.
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A correspondent of the Observer gives fearful
account of the extent to which profanity is carried
in Germany. Everybody swears, men, women and
children, and not even are ministers exempt from
the national sin. The oaths used are not at all
tritllng. but are of the most nrnfane kind.
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"PEAcE OR WAR."-The National Intelligencer, in
reply to correspondent, says
we may say to our correspondent, in all frank
ness and sincerity, that we are not apprsed of any
ueslgns OF the part of the federal government
against the peace OF the seeded States The ru-
mors to that effect derive all their currency from
the sensation press in the interests of secession and
are obviously meant to ''fre the Southern heart -
and Keep alive the sentiment of political hate So
lar from meditatiDg the "military subiugationu Of
tne south, the administration, al we learn is stu
uiousiy desirous to avoid the yery appearance of
practisng anything like a constraint on public
OPINION and, as evidence of this disposition. we nm
derstand tnat the troops about to leave Texas in
stead oil being distributed at points in VIRGINIA and
North Carolina, where it might have been other
wise most convenient to station them have alJ haar
ordered further North; where their nrasenoa oor
irritate excited sensibilites and give r;se 70
panic fears. ~ A'
GOVERNOR HoUsToN A WEALrHY Goyrevop W.
were both pleased and surprised the other dav. To
hear that the Governor was so rich in a pecuniarv
point of view. We learn that his propertv ;s
worth not less than $150,000. He has rendered an
assessment to the assessor and collector of Travis
county for this year, of property to the amount of
$S4 900 and upwards. Whatever may be our po-
litical differences with his Excellency, we desire
him no harm, and feel glad at his prosperity
1eras paper.
A gentleman in Bridgeton, Me-, has a hound
wnien mas caught twenty-seven red foxes and two
Dlaok ones this winter. The skins OF the latter the
owner values At hfty dollars. t