The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-15

Charleston, S. c. 1t was the intention of the ship
pers to have them reshipped at Savannah, but
whether by railroad steamboat does not appear.
The freight was lying on the pier when the police
seized it, and was promptly carted off to the arsenal
in the Seventh avenue.
TRADE WITH JAPAN.-The ship Phantom, Captain
| Sargent, which arrived at New York last week
| from Shanghae, brought one of the most valuable
cargoes ever imported into this country from Chi
ma, its value reaching between eight and nine hun
dred thousand dollars consisting of teas cassa
| and raw silk. Of the latter there were $50 bales
| and of these 144 contained the Japanese raw silk
| brought from Japan to China for shipment to New
| York. As each bale of the Japanese silk is worth
| about $500, and as this is but the commencement
OF the shipments, some idea may be formed of the
trade likely to growup between the two countries,
indirect at present, but which will doubtless soon
| be direct.
RESIGNATION OF SOUTHERN CLERKS IN THE In
TERROR DEPARTMENT.. w. Mosely and Col. s.
Percy Ellis, of Louisiana; A. B. Jordan, of Vir-
gnia, and j. B. Ezell and - Yates, of South Caro-
| lima, clerks in the Census Bureau; and w. J.
Showers, J. A. Barksdale, j. w. Pullian, Ii. c.
Worthington and II. A. Kincannon, of Mississippi;
| H. Allen and L. NJ. Harold of Georgia clerks in
the General Land Office, have, in conseu uence of
| the action of their respective States rendered
! their designations, and in most cases departed for
their homes. Others from the South, have an
nounced their intention to resign during the latter
| part OF this, or the first of next week. Washing
| ton Star.
to the New Orleans Delta gives the following item
of the expense to be incurred in the siege of Sum-
| ter:
"Every gun fred from Fort Sumter costs, on an
| average, thirteen dollars. Every gun fired by the
State will be an average expenditure of nine dol
lars prominent officer of Fort Moultrie informs
Inc that, by close calculation it has been ascer-
tanned that when its batteries open, the cost per
diem to the State, at that fort alone will exceed
$4,000. Pretty heavy, that. But this is the sur
est way Of mastering the fort, and we had better
spend money than lives in its acquisition
Mr.. YANCEY ON THE SLAVE TRADE.-In the Ala
bama State Convention the Goth ult., Hon. w.
L. Yancey made speech on the Slave-trade ques-
ton, which is characterized one cf the ablest
efforts of his life. He now, however, yielding to
the necessities of the moment, concurs in the i'm
policy of restoring that trade at present, and de-
cared it to be ''unwise and inexpedient to reopen
it. In his remarks Mr.. ancey said he ''addressed
his fellowcltzen for the last time certainly for
many years to come, and that he retired to private
life with the intention never again to leave it." His
| motives for doing so were not stated.
The CHINESE OPPOSED TO IMPRovEMENr.-During
| the destruction of Yeun ming Yeuu, the soldiers
came upon two presents that had been sent to the
Emperor of China by Lord Mccartney from George
lila state coach and two twelve pound howtzers
| complete in every way, and in very good cond-
| tOn and repair; they have never made any
| deavor to improve their field artillery car
riages. Shot and shell were even piled close to
the guns in the coach house in which they were
! found.
AMERICAN SKATERS IN PARIs.-A Paris letter des-
crbing the gatherings the elite of Paris the ice
| says:-By far the best skaters are the Americans
Mrs. Ronalds or Reynolds of Boston, carries off the
palm among the ladies. Many and nigh flown are
| the complimentary remarks made about her by the
male portion of the Court, as she glides by grace
| fully, her animated and beautiful face flushed with
the agreeable exercise. Among the gentlemen,
Mr.. Cammack, young Philadelphian, is the cham =
pion.
REMARK OF THE BRIrlsH PREMIER.-Lord Pamers-
ton, in a recent speech, said: 'If any man, twen-
ty years ago, had told me that you would have
English and French troops in Pekin, he would have
been laughed at as a visionary. That, however,
has been accomplished, and trust that the accom-
pishment OF that event will lead to the establish
ment of those permanent relations of peace and
commerce with China, which will be equally ad-
| vantageous to Europe and to the remorter part of
| Asia"
ExPEDIrToN-The Galveston Ne,os says: The
great "Butfao hunt" expedition was to start from
| Lost Valley on the 18th. Col. John Il. Baylor is
in command, and he will, we trust, be able to give
a good account of the maurading redskins, and
| what has become of them. We have great hopes
of this expedition, notwithstanding the commander
has much to contend with in the neXperience of his
troops, as well as in the scarcity of grass, and the
want of arms in the expedition. He will make the
expedition tell however, our word for it,
PENSACOLA. January l6 and II, and after the
State forces had reached Pensacola, Lieut.. Slem-
|
900 pounds of powder in store there. He also
lied over to Fort Pickens all the she'll and shot
which he could remove. The ardor of the State
troops had been greatly dampened by the discove-
ry that the one hundred and ten men in the fort
were numerous enough to manage the guns, and
that the howizers on the angle could be fired at the
rate of ten shots per minute.
THE PREVAILING SKATING COSTUME FOR New YORK
LADIEs.-The latest style of dress worn by New
York lady skaters is described as the Polish cos
| W fin fri haso
and hats, and tight fitting ancle boots, trimmed
also with fur. Others have semi-Zouave costume,
with short skirt of bright red, and pantaets OF
| the same ruddy hue, fastened tightly around the
and neatly fitting skating boots. These are cOnsid
cred picturesque and comfortable.
SrRAPPING UP THE HEAD FOR SNoozE.-The latest
| invention is sleeping car cap. 1t consists of
small velvet cloth skull cap, ornamented accord
ing to the taste of the wearer, with couple of
long straps attached to each side of the cap. When
the traveller becomes wearied or sleepy, he or she
puts on the cap and attaches the straps, by means
of brass hooks to the back of the seat next forward
Of the traveller, and then leans back composedly,
the head supported by the cap and braces, and
sleeps as comfortably as if reposing in bed.
At the close of the old year, and the beginning of
the new, the inhabitants of Siena, in Central Italy,
were startled by the fall of rain on three several
occasions, of deep red color. The phenomena are
more remarkable from the fact that at each occur
renee they were limited to certain district, out
side of which the rain of the usual colorless
| hue.
EFFECTS OF THE CRIsIs.-Friday and Saturday
| last were two of the most caamitous davs ever
known in the commercial history of New York
1t is said that not less than ninety firms forced
to succumb to the pressure, and among them many
heretofore deemed opulent-such houses Free
/ land, Squires & Co., which has been in existence
for quarter of century.
The Herald says the New York Commissioners
of Emigration have considerable difficulty in send
ing emgrants to South Carolina and Georgia, even
when they have wealthy relatives in those States
owing to the disturbed political condition of the
country. The railroad and steamboat lines refuse
to take emgrants to Southern cities, lest they
might be obliged to bring them back again.
OYSTER WAR.-The steamer Pioneer lett here
yesterday morning with the 'Dorchester Guards"
on board in search of trespassing oyster boats in
the mouth of the Little ChOptank. The boat re-
turned in the evening, having failed to any
vessel violating the oyster law of our State Cam
bridge Herald, Feb. II.
new religious corporation has been established
in Algeria, under the name of ''The Ploughiug
Fathers" These monks have imposed on them
selves the task of poughing successfully and gra-
tuitously all the uncutivated portions of the soil of
that colony, which they will then make over to the
| State, for the use of emigrants.
The Pasha of Egypt is establishing a magnificent
palace, built of French cast iron, for museum for
|
in Egypt, in the execution of which twenty five
thousand men employed, under the direc-
tion Of Mariette, the French archaologist.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:-We have infor-
nation that at early day it is expected that the
State Convention will be summoned together again
with view to the action Cf the Montgomery Con-
vention or Congress, and without any reference to
Fort Sumter.
The three Oregon Presidential electors could not
consent to appoint messenger to bring their vote
to Washington, as the mileage lover Sl5, ,000) was
too nice plum to give away, SO they all three
came on.
As proof of the intense severity of the winter
in England, fine jack snipe lately few into
warehouse in the heart of Manchester, utterly ex-
hausted.
At Knoxville, Frederick county, Nd, on the Attn
inst, man named Coins killed another named
Pool by striking him with a stone on the head,
which crushed in the skull
On Thursday night last large unfinished brick
house, near Frederick city, was blown down. 1t
was the property OF Mr.. Cooper Cline, whose loss
is very heavy.
More than half the convicts in the Massachusetts
State prison are under twenty-slx years old. The
youngest prisoner is fifteen, and the Oldest seventy
years old.
In the San Francisco papers we notice the death,
| on the 18th of January, of Mr.. Chas. Jefferson
George a native of Four Corners, Baltimore
| county, Maryland.
They have bill before the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature providing for Metropolitan police force
for Boston city.