The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-26

1t was the intention of the volunteers to have left
| on Sunday night, but that was impossible.
Col. Greggs Regiment, rather that portion
which volunteered for service in Virginia amount
ed to between five and six hundred brave and etfi-
cient men. We found them in the best of spirits
Not one of them but was ready to leave home and
friends for the 'Ftented field" They arrived from
| Morris Island at late hour on Sunday night, and
expected momentarily to hear the whistle for their
departure. Each volunteer had made up his mind
to perform his whole duty faithfully. They are
lighting in just cause, and must succeed.
| kIcHLAND VOLUNTEER RIFLE COMPANY.
The Richland Volunteer Rife Company, one of
the hrst from distance to respond to the call for
help from Charleston, and one of the best spec-
mems OF the volunteer service of South Carolina,
has also been the first to answer to the call from
Virginia: This noble corps has been for months
engaged in the most rksome and obscure duties of
fully discharged
| In Colonel Gregg's regiment of enlisted volun-
| teers the Richland Volunteer Rifle Corps are de-
slgnated as Company A, and as such proceed to the
| relief of our friends in Virginia and Maryland, or
| as far North as they may be ordered.
| From the Mercury.l
MILITARY MOVEMENTS
The floating battery yesterday taken from
| its position, at Sulliyans Island, and placed in
situation where, in future, it can do effective exc
! cuton. number of mortars, shells, &C., have
been sent from here in the last few days for Pensa
| cola.
DlAB0LICAL SUGGESTION.
In order that our readers may fully appreciate
the attractive character of the relations which the
maintenance of the Union with sour Northern
brethren" is desired to perpetuate, we copy the
following from the Courier and Enquirer of Tues
| day. 1t will be remembered that the editor was
| Mr.. Lincoln's Minister elect to Constantinope.-
| Surely the blackest of the Eunuchs who ever
drowned woman at night in the Bosphorus
would be disgraced by applying the bowstring to
| such rufian
The game is now fairly opened; and it must be
| played out with bold and untlinchng hand. And
| instead of seventy-fve thousand volunteers the
government must call forth at least t,oo hundred
| thousand. With these, occupy such places as are
| deemed important; and then establish Gordon of
posts from Washington to the Mississippi, compos-
| ed of from five to thirty thousand men EACH with
| power to concentrate large and overwhelming
force at any point where circumstances NAV render
it necessary. Let this Gordon of posts be along
the borders of the secession States; and let man
pass North or South except with military pass
The coast is already blockaded; and that blockade
to be respected by European Powers, and efficient
for the purpose of conquest must be strictly en-.
forced.
Not vessel must pass in out of the ports of
the rebel States, and no supplies of any kind, be
permitted to reach them by water. In like man
ner, not barrel of flour, pound of beef, or a
bushel OF grain, or stores, provisions, cloth
ing, or munitions of war of any kind or descrip-
tion must be permitted to reach the rebels from
tue NoTtn Dy lanQ or water. They must be shut
up, penned in, and starved into submission to the
Government. And to accomplish this, will not
take sixty days. In every slave State, with the
possible exception of South Carolina, the Union
men are IN a majority, but oppressed and trodden
under foot by the rebels. Do this and in less than
SIX weeks the Union men everywhere will be IN
possession of the Government of the slave States:
and then they will beg to be taken back into the
Union.
In the meantime, let the leuees on the Mississinni
be at prostrated IN hundred places ,ohile the
acoter high, and let the Traitors and Rebels Hpinq
on the lo'0er Mississippi be drovned out just soe
tooutd dro,on out ras-snfesting the hull of a ship
Nor as this all Let the negroes in the Border States
understand that all moral obligation on the mart
Of the North TO sustain the peculiar institu-
on has ceased and let the Traitors thus be taught
at once the price of Rebellion and its legitimate
fruits.
What we desire to see at once is a call for an ad-
ditional one hundred and fifty thousand polunteers
from the free States, and the establishment of
land blockade of the strctest kind extending from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi by
the flooding of the country bordering on the lower
Mississippi. Do this, and the inevitable conse-
quences of such state of afairs-the extinction of
Slavery in the Border States-wll soon bring the
Rebels to their senses.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON AND BALTI-
MORE.
The following letter written in New York
and published in the Post of WednAOdey e-e,ipe,.-
1t was made up by a correspondent recently To-
Gated at w ashington, but who, getting frightened
at the terrible "secessionists" and ''rebes'' of
Maryland has returned to his own city:
A farmer residing few miles out of Alexandria,
came into Washington on Sunday morning and
stated that about two thousand Virginia troops
were encamped two or three miles back of Alexan.
dria, in piece of woods. Troops were concentra-
ting at this point rapidly, but the want of arms
and ammunition is a serious embarrassment to Vir-
gnia. Munitions of war, it reported, were
pushing forward from Charleston to Richmond
Martial law had not been declared on Monday
afternoon in Washington, but the belief was gen
eral that it would be declared Friday morning.
1t is impossible to describe the excitement at Balti-
more, and indeed throughout MARYLAND. Fifty
thousand men are armed with guns, axes, pixies
and paving stones in the city OF Baltimore and
the women in many of the principal streets are at
all times prepared to pour down scalding water
upon such troops shall attempt to pass through
the city. The mob have Baltimore and MARYLAND
at its eet, and such is the mad excitement that all
prudential considerations cast to the winds If
troops are to be marched through Baltimore at all,
at least twenty thousand men should be employed
for the undertaking. strong Union man from
Baltimore told me, on Monday afternoon, that be
was convinced that at least six or eight batteries
should accompany the troops through, and that an
immense force should be used to overawe the mob
and the entire military force of the city. The CITY
troops all sympathize with the mob, and crowds of
country people are entering into the town to con-
| test the passage of federal troops The Northern
men in Fairfax county flying into Washington
to save themselves from the mob, giving up their
houses and cultivated farms to the scoundrels who,
for but the fact that they love the Union
| thus drive them forth from Virginia.
delegation from Baltimore waited on the
| President Monday forenoon and entreated him to
| save the city. The Presidents reply decided
off the troops are. allowed to pass by some other
| route across Maryland, Baltimore viii! not be
harmed. But it force is used to prevent their tran
sit across the State, cW lay Baltimore in as1es'
gentleman, who was one of the delegation, gave
| m inf m lion nd acto. l.
bad then just returned from an interview with the
| President.
| came from Washington by crossing the noun.
| talns OF Western Maryland. Hard driving all
Monday night brought to the Pennsylvania
| line Tuesday morning.
The rowing bands of rebels gave us some trouble
| but the presence of women and children saved us
| from harm.
The New York Eceniny Post thus mildly calls
| upon "men high in office" "Governor Curtin" of
Philadelphia, and General Wool" to deliberately
| ignore the existence of the administration at
Washington, and the fact that General Scott is in
command of the army, and to march against this
city on their own responsibility:
| Is there no man high in office and invested with
| large military powers, who will take the RESPONSE
| bihty OF breaking through this hostile circle: no
man who will lead on the thousands and the hun
dreds of thousands if need be- who are burning with
zeal to punish this insolence and wipe out this dis
| grave! lue OOVeTn0rS OF eacn state are he Com
mandersinChief of its forces, and xe have here in
| this city the gallant and experienced General who
| holds the second command in our regular armv
| Will not Governor Curtin, who has been called
upon by the President for troops to defend the
capital, and who they say, is every inch hero,
lead ON twenty thousand men to break through
the armed rabble that beset the most direct and
| convenient passage to Washington? Will not
| Gen. Wool, suiting his measure to the emergency
and taking it for granted that the obstruction of ali
communication with the Lieutenant. General leaves
him at liberty to act at his discretion hasten
| to the deiyerance of the beeaguered government
open all the roads through Maryland and restore
the telegraphic communications There need be
no scruple of legality of military subordinaon.
| Twenty millions of men will stand by him, whe-
ther as an officer of hi igh rank volunteer, who
directs so glorious departure from the formalites
which are very proper on ordinary occasions but
are repealed by great public necessity.
But the troops sent out on this errand must go
IN such bodies as shall overawe the rebels: not in
single regiments, but in an army at a time, whose
% uIeau snai shake the earth, and the very atmos-
Rhere OF which shall inspire terror and quiet
t OF the population of Maryland at this
time are loyal, and would require to see force on
their borders so formidable that the armed mob