The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-24
VERBAL REPORTS AND CORREsPON-
DEACE OF THE EXCHANGE FROM VA
RIOUS QUARTERS.

A.
RIoUS QUARTERS.
PHILADELPHIA, April 22.-The excitement here
mas become intense. Large numbers of volunteer:
are focking into the CITY from the counties. all de-
clare that the Federal Capital must be held at any
cost. The whole city has become military en-
campment. Thirty-fve or forty women are busily
engageu ae the Continental Hotel in making shirts
ana clothing for the militia the doors of the rooms
IL III WHICH 'ney are sewing being thrown wide open
i"o Ut 'hree hundred women are in waiting al
the uuara House, opposite the Continental, anx
lously desiring similar employment. Fanaticism i,
rampant.
Cecil and Hartford passengers from PHILADELPHIA
report that along the route of the railroad in Cecil
county there We're several United States flags lv.
ing ana that there was still strong Union feeno
there.
III hariord county, on the contrary, every anti
southern sentiment appeared to have been rooted
OUT, and every man turned secessionist
Inc passengers state that the feeling in PhiIadel-
phla and at the North is now so infamed that the
government can hardly keep the troops back even
Ii 1t should desire to do &C. and that it is scarcelv
possible now to avoid civil war.
NEW YORK.
Inc excitement in New York is if ANYTHING
H'Shee ludu IN IDllaQeiDnla. Men Of
weatn oeciare that they will spend their last dol
lar 10 defend the Capital and show the South the
spirit that animates them.
At the Stock Board any member who endeavor,
ln any way TO deprecate United States stock is
missed down. They say that if jeff Davis cantures
Tue oapltal they will retake it if thev have to
MIA and MARYLAND
Governor Hicks is denounced by many as trail
tor. lhey declare that his professed devotion IN
tDe Union was mere preteuce-that it was intend
eo 10 iuii the North into feeling of security and
tnat ms purpose from the beginning has been de-
celtlul In the extreme
Inc threats which are uttered against Baltimore
are OF the most violent character. and the feenos
o tne entire North, so far heard from, most vim
ulc'iVe. Ihey swear that if resistance is made to
tne passage OF the troops to Washington they will
sack and burn the town.
The Union meeting on Saturday was most i'm.
mense. Nothiug like it was ever witnessed in New
i ! ork. lhe viruence of the feeling against the
ooG'n is almost incomprehensibe.
OHIO.
similar state OF feeling prevails throughout
from. eN ~"' i'eS
What is Doing at Norfolk
"1SIuNAIIoN OF NAVAL 0FFIcERS-BLowING UP OF
THE MERRlMACK AND BURNING OF THE RARRACKs-
PECrED. La
lE1hacts from private letter to lady in this citv7
NORFOLK, April 81, 1861.
We have been in the greatest confusion for the
last three or four days, but are more quiet since
the navy yard has been taken.
The hospital and Fort Norfolk are getting ready
for battle
- RESIGNATION OF SOUTHERN OFFICERS.
Inc southern men in the navy yard have all re-
slgned-leaving Commodore McCauley and Cap
tam Livingstone, who have just been ordered
here.
BURNING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AND MERR1MAcK. &C.
Ihey last night commenced but did not finish
tnelr dlaooiical work. They set fire to the NAVY
arc, burned up the Pennsylvania and Merrimack,
and liked powder in all directions so as to blow us
up II they could. The barracks were burned down
and some other houses, but they did not succeed as
they wished in blowing up the yard The powder
became wet, and by the interposition of Providence
tnelr intentions were not carried out The guns
OF the Pennsylvania and Merrimack went Off in
succession through the night, as the fire touched
tne powder with which they were charged. Hap
PLY no one was hurt.
THE coMMoDoREs STICK FAST ON A sAND-BANK
Commodores Pendergast and McCauley embarked
on board the Cumberland, with such officers as
they could muster, and went off in her; but about
TWO and half miles from here they found a sand
bank, upon which they are now reclining hear
nut do not know how true it is, that they are send
ing of guns and other things to Fort Monroe
WHAT LADY DAREs SAY.
dare say they will get enough of it before Jeff
Davis and such like come down. We expect Gen.
Beauregard tonight, and troops The town is
alive with military, but we can accommodate all.
Our officers are all at the yard, uuspikng the
guns and trying to undo what the Yankees have
done.
Correspondence from StauntOn, Virginia,
STAUNToN, April 81, 1861.
Virginia is in a perfect blaze. Yesterday at
Harper's Ferry found two thousand troops from
one OF the adjoining counties alone. There mus
now be fifty thousand troops under arms in THU
State. Virginia stands unit. In this regio1
there Is certainly no division of sentiment. can
not express to you in words the unanimity anC
high-toned determination of the whole State Ii
ten days | am satisfied one hundred thousand mel
can f.e raised and ready to march to any'point w
fear that before Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
hoeeSv 80" s7t 10 aid, baltimore will hav,
been destroyed; but hope tnat you and your Stat,
can keep the Northern hel-hounds at bay until W,
can come to your aid. | suppose that since thu
murder of your citizens by the mercenary Yankee
hlreliugs, you all stand one man. This coun
W was one OF the Union strong holds of the State
but there is but one voice here now, and that i
SOUTH. w