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

FROM FORTRESS MoNRoE.-The screw steamer A.
II. Bowman, Capt A. NJ. Clark arrived at New
ork on Thursday morning from Fortress Monroe,
from which point she sailed at noon on Tuesday
She brings one hundred and eleven passengers
mostly women and children, who were in the gar
rs0n. The officers wives and families have all
been sent away. Only six seven women remain
ed at the time the vessel sailed and they were to
have gone by way of Washington.
On Monday force Of Virginia troops drove the
guard back from the bridge between Old Point and
Hampton, but retreated upon the appearance OF
two companies of the Massachusetts regiment. who
were with piece OF artillery to dislOdge them
picket Guard of two companies, with a field
piece, was then established to render the position
more secure.
An attack is anticipated at almost any moment,
and the barbette guns on the landward side of the
fortress are consequently manned and ready for ac-
tion all light. There are flying reports of large
bodies of troops in the vicinity, but il is not posi-
lively kn wn that there more than five or six
hundred The brig CTotOD, which is now due, will
bring six seamen who were sick in the Norfolk hos
pltal, and who were sent on board in boat, with a
flag Of truce.
WAR VESSELS OFF AQUA CREEK.-We learn from
the fredericksburg Recorder that Tuesday
morning about eight o'clock, the steamer Mount
Vernon, mounting eight guns, came up Aqua
creek, within three hundred yards of the wharf
and anchored. Her PORTFOLIOS were opened and
the guns run out, but just then a tree conceaing
heavy columbiad WAS telled to the ground, and
displayed the monster in all its beauty. At the
sight ofthis the steamer rounded to and went up
the stream. While this was going two war
steamers were anchored in the river, just opposite
the wharf all of which left together. Each vessel
was we'll filed with armed men. The of this
affair occasiOned great excitement in Fredericks-
burg, and armed men hurried towards the creek
frCm all directions, ready for fight if any hostile
demons tration was made by the steamers.
ARREST OF CoMMoDoRE PEyDEReRAsr's STEWARD.
The Norfolk Day Book If Tuesday says:
Some of our citizens this morniDg arrested ne
gro fellow, who has family in Portsmounth and
who had been making marketing here for Comm0-
dore Pendergrast, of the Cumberland. They
thought they had caught prize, and took him be-
fore the authorities; where, upon an examination,
it found he had authority for doing what he had
done from General Gwynn, Mayor Lamb and 9TH
ers and n pass to 90 to the Cumberland. This ap-
pears to be an arrangement OF which our citizens
were not apprised, and some of them fexpress con-
siderable surprise at it. The negro had supply Of
the deIicacies of the market, with which he took
his leave for the Cumberland.
This negro has a family here, and we learn has
been an object of suspicion ever since the Cumber-
land left the yard. On his departure this morning
w learn that he warned by citizens, that
if caugh up here again he would be hung, regard
less of all military civil authority. He is quite
an intelligent negro and it is thought could be
quite serviceable to the enemy in giving him all
the information he desires about our operations &c
We have not learned whether this arrangement of
supplying the Cumberland with marketing is to be
permanent thing or not but even so far as il has
gone it appears to meet with disapprobatiop partc
uIarly in view of the conduct OF Pendergrast, who
has acted more the part of private than the COM
mander of feet of naval vessels