The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-26
From the Euening Post of Wednesday
THE WAR EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK

| military movement Is watched by enthusiastic
crowds, and the recruiting stations are all thronged
| with men eager to enlist.
| ACTION OF THE SUPERVISORS.
at meeting of the Board OF Supervisors yes
| terday afternoon, resolution unanimously
adopted, granting iurlough to al; persons receiy-
ing salaries out of the county treasury who enlist
for the war, and directing the Comptroller to pay
their salaries to their families up to January, 1862
II their services required up to that time.
committee was also appointed to inquire into
the legality of issuing revenue bonds to the amount
OF $3.50 900, for the benefit of the families of vol
| unteers.
| THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
We are assured that the New York Life Insu-
rance Company will not be behind kindred iustitu-
tlons in afording protection to those patriotic men
insured with them, who may enlist in the service
OF the United States during the present emergency.
They will issue policies upon thelves of all those
engaged, and extend permits to those now insured
! upon such terms as they may consider adequate to
| carry out the design entrusted to their care. In
| order to render the burden light as possible
they have concluded to receive the extra premium
in quarterly payments, pedging themselves at as
early day possible to place their assured upon
| an equality with home risks.
FARINA FOR THE sIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT.
Messrs. Hecker Brothers yesterday presented a
large quantity of tarina and steam apparatus for
cooking it to the Goth Regiment, previous to its
departure. They also sent men to cook and distri-
butte it among the troops.
GERMAN VOLUNTEERS.
General Sige, formerly commander of the revo-
luti0nary army of Baden in lS4S, has been invited
to come from st. Louis to take the command of the
German volunteers of this city. His countrymen
are sanguine that, with him as their commander,
they will be able to raise troops to any extert
quired for the present war. A brother of General
Sigel is artist in this city, and gives us this ip-
| formation. Another brother is colonel of regi-
| ment in Newark, New Jersey.
YORK LADIES' UNION.
The New York Ladies' Relief Union have issued
the following card:
''The New York Ladies' Relief Union meets ev-
cry afternoon, from two to six o'clock, in the Lee
ture Room of the Church of the Puritaus, on Union
Square, for the purpose of preparing garments, lin
en- and bandages, and other necessares for camp and
hospital use, among the sick and wounded who have
gone to the scene of conflict.
"All ladies, irrespective of creed or party, are
invited to Join in the work.
Contributions of money, muslin, flannel, old
linen, preserved and dried fruits, wine, brandy,
farina, arrow-root, tapioca &C., are earnestly So
llcted from city and country.
s'The sexton of the church will be in constant
attendance to receive packages.
Money sent by mail or otherwise may be sent
to Mrs. j. A. Hasted, No. 2l7 West Eighteenth
street; or to Mrs. Julia Reed Davis the treasurer,
No. Is East Twenty-eight street.
'EAll packages should be marked New York
Ladies' Relief Union, care of William Irving, sex
ton of Church of Puritans, Union Square, New
York."
FORTS MONROE AND McHENRY.
We find the following letter in the New York
Erening Post of Wednesday:
BosToN, April 24.-The steamer S. r. Spauldinp
arrived this morning.
Captain Howes reports that he arrived at For
tress Monroe at eleven O'Clock Saturday forenoon
There were 800 regulars in the fort. The estate
of Maine" with the 4th regiment, arrived soon
after. The troops We're transferred to the United
States soop-of-war Pawnee, and despatched to
Norfolk, to aid in the demolition of the navy yard.
Washington, and expressed himself to Captain
Howes in determined manner relative to obeying
his instructions. The Pawnee left Fortress Mon
roe Saturday night. The troops were in good
spirits, all well, and eager to be at their post of
duty
1t was reported that about five thousand troops
were in and about Norfolk, and more were arriv-
ing. Captain Howes reports that the Virginians
talk of storming Fortress Monroe, as that is the
only possible way of taking it. That, however,
will be no easy matter, the fort, though large,
is surrounded by canal thirty-sx feet wide, with
eight feet of water at low tide. The land ap-
proach is a narrow neck about one hundred feet
wide. The government had given notification to
the residents in the vicinity, of impending dangers,
and they were fastening away. The Virginians
think the fort can be taken, but calculate on a
great losssof life.
TheS R. Spauldiug after leaving her troops,
proceeded to Baltimore to take return cargo, but
did not come to her wharf The captain was in
formed that two hundred men had been under arms
all night to seize the steamer. There had been no
reinforcement of Fort McHeury up TO the time of
his leaving on Sunday. There were about one
hundred regulars in Fort McHenry.
On his return the frigate Constitution was being
towed into the stream by tug.
Below Annapolis met the steamer Boston with
large body of troops on board, bound up the bay.
The Virginians were erseting batteries at Stow
ell's Point, opposite Fort Monroe and overlooking
Hampton Roads.
Captain Howes reports the lighthouse at Cape
f{ar- ry.e.E-l int furA ynf
10 81
LAMARTINE ON THE PSALMS OF DAyp.-The last
psalm ends with a chorus to the praise of God in
which the poet calls on all people, all instruments
OF sacred music, all the elements and all the stars to
join. Sublime finale Of that opera of sixty years
sung by the shepherd the hero, the king and the
old man! In this closing psalm we see the almost
inarticulate enthusiasm of the lyric poet so rapidly
do the words press to his lips, floating upwards
towards God, their source, like the smoke of a
great fre of the SOUL waited by the tempest! Here
we see David, rather the human heart ITSELF
with all its Godgiven notes of grief, jov, tears and
adoration-poetry sanctiied to its highest express
sion; vase of perfume broken the step of the
temple and shedding forth its odors from the heart
of David to the heart of humanity Hebrew,
Christian, even MohOmedau-every religion,
every complaint, every prayer has taken from this
vase, shed on the heights of Jerusalem, wherevith
to give forth their accents. The little shepherd
has become the master of the sacred choir of the
universe. There is not a worship, on earth which
prays not with his words or sings not with his
voice. chord of his harp is to be found in all
choirs' resounding every where and forever in
unison with the echoes OF Horeb and EDged David
is the psalmist of eternity; and what destiny
what power hath poetry when inspired by God !
As for myself, when'my spirit is excited, or devo-
tiona or sad, and seeks for echo to its enthu-
siasm, Its devotion, or its melancholy, do not
open Pindar, or Horace, or Haiz, those purely
academic poets; neither do find within myself
murmurings t" express my emotion. | open the
Book of Psalms and there find words which seem
to issue from the soul of the ages and which pene
trate even to the heart of all generations. Happy
the bard who has thus become the eternal hvmn,
the personifed prayer and complaint of all human
ity If we look back TO that remote age when such
songs resOunded over the world; if we consider
that, while the lyric poetry of all the cultiva
ted nations only sang of wine love, blood and the
victories of coursers at the games of Elidus,
seized with profound astOnishment at the mystic
accents of the shep herd-prophet, who speaks to
God the Creator one friend to another, who un-
derstands and praises bis works, admires his JUS
tice, implores his mercy, and becomes, it were,
an antcipative echo of the evangeic poetry speak
ing the soft words of Christ before his coming
Prophet or not, as he may be considered by Chris
tian or skeptic, none deny in the poet-king an
Inspiration granted to no other man. Read Greek
or Latin poetry after psalm, and see how pale it
looks!-Lamdrtine's CoUre dc LiHerrdture.
An ANNIvERsAEY.-Yesterd the 10th day of
April, 1861, the first invading force which there
ton in Maryland at the hands of citizens springing
spontaneously and Indignantly to arms
On the 18th day of April, l775, the people sprang
to arms IN defence of their liberties, against foe
making its first armed endeavor to "coerce" them
to submission to distasteful government and made
the name OF Lexington memorable BY their victory
over the oppressor.
The first blood of the first revelation was shed
on the 18th day of April, and the first blood of the
second revolution shed the 10Th day of April
The coincidence of dates is auspicous of the end,
to our just cause, to similar in its anmating re-
spects to that of the revolutionists of '75-MobIe
Advertiser, April 20.
BALTTMoREANs IN MEMPHIS TENNEssEE-The fol-
lowing notice is published in the Memphis (Tenn. J
Argus of Saturday last
Bdttimoreans and Warylanders, ASsemble-The
glorious intelligence assuring us that old Bati-
more true to patriotism, true steel to the South,
has met the hirelings of the Abolition dynasty and
taught the first lesson to the Black Republicans
that Southern soil cannot be polluted by the tread
of Northern vandals. Let us rally, therefore. and
congratulate each other that Maryland has pro-
claimed to the world that her soil, consecrated to
freedom and equality by the best blood of her Car
rols, Stewards and others, cannot be desecrated
by the presence OF an armed foe. Let every Ma
rylander, and especially every Baltimorean assem-
Bile at Odd Fellows hall tonight, at o'clock, and
SEND thousand thanks to our kindred aud friends
at home for their gallant and patriotic efforts in
| the protection of the South. OLD BALuMoREAN.
| IMPORTANT FROM CAIRO, ILLTNors.-This point is
said to have been selected by the Federal officers as
| the key of their operations the Mississippi
The Memphis Bulletin of the goth inst. foreshadows
| some resstance:
| We conversed Yesterday with a gentleman who
| passed Cairo on Thursday, and he assures US thai
| the people OF that city very decidedly agains
| Lincoln's policy. They were about raising a Sc
cesson nag there, and the prospect is that they viii
side with the South in this fatricida strife Ont
citizen, in speaking of the renort that Lincoln in