The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-18
SATURDAY, MAY Is, 1861.


Our advices from the South indicate that the Ad-
ministratiou is enforcing the blockade along the
coast.
The Charleston journals announce the arrival of
that port of the United States steam-frgate Niaga-
;! ra, to blockade the harbor. She first seen by
| one of the pilots early Saturday morning, and
! was supposed to have ordered off merchant ship
| inward bound. On Sunday she boarded the bark
Hilja, from Liverpool, and warned her captain that
the whole Southern coast was under blockade; and
on the same day she warned off the ship Monmoath
! and the ship General Parkhill, both from Liver
| pool, and two or three other vessels two of which
the Niagara accompanied well off shore; and while
she was absent the British ship A. & A., Captain
! Hutchinson, from Belfast, stood in from the east
! ward the Niagara making after her; but the ship
! having much the start, was run into shoal water
where the frigate could not we'll approach her.
| The Courier of Tuesday says:
The British ship 4. & A., from Belfast which was
reported in our last issue having anchored near
! the outer buoy of the North Channel after HAVING
| heen chased BY the Niagara. escaped being boarded
! by the man-ot-war on Sunday night, and was sue
! cesstullY towed into port by the steamer Gordon
! Yesterday morning. The officers of the Niagara
| supposed the 4. K A. to have been ashore when
anchored, she was close in, but in this supposi-
ton they mistaken, and the ship has got into
aport where she will make a most superior freight
say about I'D. for Upland @l14d. for Sea Island
! cotton.
The Niagara was about ten miles southeast from
| snip bar yesterday, and was there visited during
the afternoon by Robt Bunch, ESQ, her Britannia
MaJesty,s Consul at this port, who left the city
about =. NJ, in the steamer Charleston ard nro-
| ceeded on board the Niagara, where he was re-
ceived with the usual salute and had every cour-
tesv extended to him, and matter in relation
| to the blockade satisfactorily explained. All neu-
| trai vessels now in this port would be allowed
| reasonable time to depart but nothing further
| would be allowed to come in.
All open letters for masters of foreign vessels ex-
pected here will be received board the Niagara,
| and given to the parties when they come off the
bar; but no sealed commune tiOns will be received.
| fleet OF eight or ten ssil with Commodore
Stringhan, is expected off here in few DAYS, when
the blockade will be rigidy enforced all along the
! coast They expressed a willingness to have sup
! piled the Hiija with water, but her captain sailed
| of in such haste that it could not be done. The
! commander of the Niagara panied at
the position he bad to occupy in reference to the
seeded States, but he intended to carry out his
! orders.
| Mr.. Bunch says that the Niagara is formidable
| looking ship, has noble crew of about six hun
dred men, is loaded down with prov visions and war
material, decks piled up with shot and guns of the
most formidable size. The only Charleston ships
ordered off have been those reported say the Mon
mouth. Gen. Parkh and Hja, all from Liverpool.
The Eliza Bonsa Sir Allen McNab, &c, have not
yet been seen.
From the Norfolk Herald. of Wednesday, we
learn that the British bark Voant, Capt Tor
ney, regular trading packet between Belfast and
Norfolk, and the Swedish brig Tyrus, Capt Hall
green, also from the North of Ireland came into
Hampton Roads on Tuesday. The Herald says:
Upon nearing Fort Monroe they were brought TO
in the usual way, and required to come to anchor
under the guns of the hlnckadng squadron. After
an interview with the officer in command, the mas
ters of these vessels permitted to despatch
m
dore Stingh, ,m. of the Minnesota, to report to
their consignee, Richard Dickson, Esq, the fact of
their arrival and detention.
1t was reported in this city yesterday, that the
captain of the British vessel, after notifying the
officer in command of the bockading squadron, of
his intention to do so, sailed into the harbor, un-
molested. He claimed that according to the usage
OF nations, notice had not been served, and conse-
quently he would not regard the blockade