The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-10

iney were bro ught on shore in the steamer 5
"a, n'eEehs, ana conveyed to the harDor polio
"noe, "here their names, ages and nativity wer
enrolled. They were then roned and conveyed I
the United States Marshal's office to b. examine
before United STATES Commissioner The foIIow
ing Is list OF the prisoners:
NG'te. age. Nntirify
Tt "I H IS''''''.'''. 26........, United States
Jphn Hanson. 20 ..,.... Tinted Stato
nTeoiEe iaar r..,.,... %.....,.. United State
| DAVID Ariel. T-,';tes
| John Enright. ..........., a.. -,
wiz United State.
lanes Cain '-''' ''''' 10 o'''''....... ireland
| Frederick Osborne, ,....... 22........, IroIanJ
John Ross ............... n - -
1 nian -Heh ..''''.''... H........ United States
FRANCIS Morau........ United State:
On their way up to the Marshai's office the
| were followed by 2 thro4g OF persons and man
| thought them more Confederate prisoners from tn
"secesh" country. Under the peculiar circum
stances OF the case they will probably be punished
very severely.
| From the We,y York IeraI9
arrival Of the Crew Cf the Middleton.
- The United States blockading steamer Quake,
City arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard day befor,
! yesterday from Fortress Monroe
| The Quaker City brought with her the crew q
| the Confederate schooner Henry Middleton which
| was captured by the Yandalia on the Dist of An
| gust, oil Cha rlestOn, while she attempting t.
run the blockade twill be recollected that wher
| she lound she was being pursued, and that escapt
| was impossible, the captain commenced THROWING
overpoaFd all bis papers and deck load but enougl
was found to condemn her. and she was according gly
made prize OF and sent North. The steam fripatt
Roanoke transferred the prisoners taken to tbs
quaker City, and she, in turn, upon her arriva
here, placed them in Fort LAFAYETTE for safe keen
ing. When first the Middleton raised The
English cDlOTs, but the did not answer and
she was obliged to surrender to superior force
Legal measures have been taken by the United
States District Attorney for the Condemnation o
the vessel and cargo. The following are the name.
OF the crew brought off by the Quaker City:
CharIes BarkIe, Benjamin Cargen, Samuel Ben
nett, Robert Roul William Sims, j. Clifton, A.
Strow.
From the Nc,g York Tribune
NEWARK, Sept. Edward p. Wilder, engineer
o. this CITY, aged As, arrested to-day, and sent
TO Fort Lafayette. Intercepted letters exposed
him. He was making rifle battery to send South.
and expressed willingness to fight the horde of
Northern AbOlitionists.
New York Lawyer Sent TO Fort LAFAYETTE
A despatch was received by the New York police
authorities on Saturday last from the Secretary
ct State to arrest and hand over to Colonel Martir
Burke, commanding at Fort Lafayette, A ernon s.
Sullivan, lawyer, whose Office il at 50 Liberty
street lie was arrested at his residence, on Sat.
urday evening by Sergeant Leferts and detective
Bennett, and taken 10 Fort La'ayette Yesterday
morning Mr.. Sullivan is one of the counsel enga-
ged in the defence the captain and some others of
the crew OF the privateer Savannah.
Prisoners from Maryland
The steamer Reliance, Lieutenant Myratt of the
Potomac hotilla, has arrived at Washington from
below, having on board, as prisoners, Joseph and
lhomas Maddo% and Mr.. Wilson, three prominent
citizens OF Southern Maryland, who are suspected
OF aiding the Confederates, by furnishing the means
OF transport across the river to Virginia They
were arrested by Lieutenant Mygatt, at their resi-
dences, near the mouth OF Herring Greek. They
deny the allegations against them, and strongly
assert their loyalty.
Another Female Prisoner
lhe wife OF MAJOR Tochman GOT the Confederate
armg) was arrested on Sunday. making the four
tecnth lady now imprisoned in WASHINGTON
'smily of four persons, consisting of father
mother and their two ughters were arrested da =
bsfsss ges.srde a in fa III" aTlikFts Of @AhR on
hitherto occupied Il high position. They were sent
back to their house and guard placed over them
From ltdShirgiom Correspondence Of the ". 7. Herald
The Horse Power of the Navy Department.
A report has been very current here that imme-
dIately after Congress ordered twenty new gun
boats, of five hundred horse power each Secretary
Welles wrote to his brother-in-law, Mr.. George D.
Morgan, of New York, that ten thousand more
horses would now be wanted for these additional
gunboats, and he did not where in the world
they were to be got. At first u great many be-
lieved this story to be truc, but it is now pretty
generally discreditcd; STILL it is so important, at
tine when the enemy's forces are so near US, tC
| preserve the reputation of every member of the
Cabinet from ridicule, that think it might be pru
! dent in the absence of Mr.. Welles, for Aetna
Secretary Fox and Mr.. Morgan to come out ant
| S'"N'''" ~ oNSi 'htll ONu slRudluiGS.
From the Nem York Herald, Sent. sh
Eremont's Proclamation in the Cabinet
Gen. FremOnt's proclamation, declaring tht
slaves OF rebels to be free men was made solely OF
MS own responsibility, without any previous advc,
from the authorities here or consultation with then
on the subject 1t struck the entire Cabinet and th
| PRESIDENT with utter amaZement, t, and for the hrs
twenty-'"ur hours they remained in quandar,
! thinking what to do. Whether it was right o
| wrong, prudent or imprudent what would be il
effect, especially in the neutral States and parts
States whether to sanction it or coun n.ermand il
All these questions freely and fully canvassed
| when 1t was finally unanimously determined tha
the proclamation was just the right thing, made a
| precisely the right time in exactly the righ
| manner, and by the right man.
| From the " =. Trib,,n.
COurt-HartiaI Sentences
The General urt-Martia for some days in ses
sion at Alexandria, adjourned on Saturday.
sentenced about thirty volunteer soldiers to b
shot for strictly military offences, such sleeping
on their posts, deserving their posts, permittiu,
| persons to pass without the cOuntersiRn, and TO
endeavoring to strike officers. A number of other
have been convicted Of minor offences, and sen
fenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiarv, or t
| working with ball and chain in quarters. William
| Scott, of Company H., Sd Vermont, having bee
convicted OF going to sleep on his post a secout
time, is sentenced to be shot Monday morning
| Cashiered
The Washington Star says: Lieutenant Colone
| Francis B. O'keefe, of the 18th regiment of Ney
martial, to be cashiered. for drunkenness disorder
conduct &C., General Mcclellan has approved q
the said sentence, and formally declared him n
longer an officer in the military service of the Uni
| ted States.
From Special Despatch 10 ". r Tribune, Sept s.
The COntTaband Trade.
The cont aband trade across the Potomac i
| broken up. Vessels of Confederates are now rarel
caught crossing. Four leading Maryanders were
however, brought up by the Reliance tonight
Since the Potomac has been bl0ckaded a ney
| route has been established across the Chess peak
! Bay. 1t is protected in Accomac and NOrthamp
ton cnuAties, which constitute the Virginia PENN
sula, by considerable force of infantry, cavalr
and artillery.
Sickness in Camp.
The inevitable exposure OF the Federal troOp
during the recent rains, without tents in the press
ing labors of entrenchng, has sent large addition
| to the hospitals. Sixty from one Indiana regimen
came in on Saturday.
German Soldiers
There are supposed to be more than 80 coo Ger
man soldiersin the Federal army; ! 2 O0O have bee
mustered in New York
| Gen. Scott's staff.
Colonel Van Rensselaer, and Lieutenant Colonel
| George w. Cullum Schuyler Hamilton and Edyd
II. Wright, Gen. Scot:'s Aids, were on Saturda
commissioned as Coonels, with pay and allowance
| of coonels of cavalry.
From the " 7. Tribune
Ordinance
Cannon were made in this country of the beS
STEEL such is used for cutlery, so early as 1913
1t is claimed for MIR. Krupp, OF England, that h
ia the inventor of steel cannon, but that honor be
longs to Mr. Francis Saltus, who has been knight
ed by the King of Sweden for the invention. TIT
difficulties in the way OF making cannon of pur
steel great, and such as to raise them TO
higher price than that of brass guns Cast stet
only be melted in black-lead pots, and the pot
cannot be made to contain more than forty or fit
pounds each. All the metal required for gu
must be cooked at the same time, for il one part
of higher or lower temper than the other, it wi
spoil the casting. Then the thirty or forty pots
molten steel must all be poured so as to keep up
unbroken stream from the beginning of the castip
to the end. This in the terrific heat of the mete
metal is very difficult. The wOrkmen have to
covered with woollen and have water PLAYED upc
them. After casting comes the forging which r
duces the weight of the metal very greatly: it
then bored and finished like other guns. The fir
steel gun made by Krupp for the English Cover
! ment was II pounder, and weighed tour tons;
burst on its first trial. OF two made for the tTen(
| Government, one burst on the first trial, and tt
other withstood 1000 shots. vi the steel gu
" which Mr.. Saltus has made, samples have gone
J | France, Sweden and Spain, and gun which
Q have seen is intended for the Emperor of Russia
+ One of these steel guns is now in the Musee d Art
q erie at Paris. 1t weighs 3O3 pounds, carries
6,pound ball, is 81 inch bore, and the barrel is
- inches long. The advantages which MIR. Salt
claims for his steel guns are, that they weigh Il
= than bronze gun of equal strength, and that Il
II lightness makes them very greatly superior to a
other gun, since they can be carried to plaC
where other guns of equal cabre cannot be carrie
10 and may be brought off the field when all t
horses are shot. He claims, also, that they res
the fire of the enemy better than anv other gu
e. Louis Napoleon, in experimenting with steel gu
ia fired upon one with "a 4-pounder. The first 81
struck it in the muZzle, and portion of the
s. was knocked of, but this did not inure the bore
Al. I-l..A 1. IL