The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-04

From the Paris Correspondence Of Courier des Etats
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PARIS, Jan. l8.-The commissioners from South
Carolina have been here several days. They
cordially received By the Minister Of Foreign AT
fairs, who, however, entered into NO arrangement
with them.
. Report says that snain had signfed her inten
and not to recognize the blockade. Russia has
also formally made the declaration. 1t re-
mains to be if they will stand by their asser
tijns, or if they will endeav0r to hinder the action
of the Sandman feet against Gaeta, by effective
measures.
Letters from Gaeta state that considerable dam
age has already been done to the town by the fire
of the Pedmontese. They report the garrison as
of $4,000 men, and the town victualled for six
months On the other hand General Caldini de-
clares he could make breach in seven or eight
days and enter the last refuge of Francis |. One
thing is certain, the King of Naples will mold out
to the last.
The Notifications and armament at Malta and
Corfu are being increased. The garrisons have
been doubled their pay increased and vessels of
war were expected to reinforce the British squad
ron. These are supposed to be measures of pre-
caution taken in case the threatened dissolution OF
the Empires of Austria and Turkey should be real
ized-and are not an index of rupture between
England and France
The Woateur this morning publishes the mpe
rial decree convoking the Senate and legislative
corps for the 4th of February. The chamber will
be dissolved after the passage of few important
bills and the budget for 1862. The elections,
the preparations tor which have commenced will
then be gone into. N. Persigny recommends more
than ever the most perfect freedom of the ballot
box.
Some foreign officers desiring access to Vim
cennes and the arsenals, notified that the
cessary permission would not be accorded as for
merly.
There was some talk of II sloops the number of
which to be increased 10 200.
Verdi's new opera OF the Ballo in Maschera was
presented yesterday for the first time. Though
containing some choice mOrceauX, it does not
pass either TroyatOre or Rigoletto.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.-The health of Florence
Nightingale does not improve. The London Ne,vs
of January II, says :-"We regret to learn from
undoubted authority, that the report recently cir
cuated in several journals, of the gradual improve
ment in Miss Nightngales health, is entirely with
cut foundation. Her malady, far from being ale
viated Increases upon her. ard her state which
confines her entirely to her apartment, is one of
great exhaustion and severe suffering"
Communicative young ladies of Portsmouth
appeared on the streets on Wednesday attired in
Virginia homespun dresses, and attracted more at
tention than any two of the fair sex, trimmed off
in merinoes and silk imported from lankeedom
The inaugural of wearing homemade dresses is
highly commendabe, as it shows determination
to be Independent OF the North, our enemies aSd
aggressors Nav the spirit become Infectious
Norfolk Day Book.
Who ARE TIE LETTER WRlTERs.-The French
Post-ofce returns for 1850 have been made up, and
habiant of France writes eight letters per annum.
In England the average is twenty four, just three
times the NUMBER it is less in Scotland still less in
Ireland, where the Post-otice does not pay its own
expenses.
The late Miss Mary p Townsend, of Boston, left
by will $50 ,O00 "the income of which is to be ap-
piled to the support of those females who, in legal
phraseology, are called 'spinsters' single wo-
men," The money is to endow a "Spinster's
Home
Joel f. Matthews, of Dallas county, Ala, has
offered the services of 200 negroes to the Governor
of Alabama. In addition to this, the same gentle
deposited in the Bank of Mobile on the 23d of
January, Sl5,000 to the credit of Alabama for
State defence.
The Ohio State journal (Repubncau) speakin @
of Wendell Phillips late demonstration in Boston,
says: "We fear that before society be peace
fully reconstructed, and the Union made to take
the medicine that is honestly meant for its good,
such people as Phillips must be suppressed" !"
The fact of the seizure of arms destined for the
South was announced in the Georgia Convention
on Wednesday. One of the members, on the au.
thority of the Adutant- General, stated that the
arms referred to were not the property of Georgia
The InteHigencer of Saturday says: The ''scene'
which a Washington dispatch says occurred be-
tween the President and General Scott, au-
thorzed to say,s wholly untrue, from beginning to
end
Mr.. j. S. Rarey has received challenge from
Mr.. It. II. Caldwell, of Davisberry, Michigan, to a
trial of skill in subduing horse fesh Mr.. Caldwell
offers to wager from 500 to 81 600 that he can
surpass the renowned hipodamas in his own sphere.
The New York tribune of Yesterday saws: We
have positive information from Springfield by
which we feel ourselves authorized to contradict
the rumor that Mr.. Cameron has been or is to be
re-invited to seat in Mr.. Lincoln's cabinet.
The message Of the mayor of Philadelphia show:
that the funded debt of the city is S20,9 40s
During the past year 1864 600 has been added tc
this debt The deficit in the finances of the city at
the present time is 100000.
Governor Pettus, of Mississippi, announces to
the Legislature that Jefferson Davis and ex-Secre-
tary Thompson have guaranteed the payment in
May or June, of twenty-four thousand dollars for
purchase of arms for the State.
1t is understood says the Montgomery Mail. that
the Convention decided on Monday that the Ala
bama troops in Pensacola harbor should not be
withdrawn.
Victor Hugo has completed his new novel, "Les
is $50, 900. He has already been offered $780, ,O0(
francs, about one-half.
Tickets for the Inauguration Ball will be for salt
in. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cineinn att
Richmond, Memphis, st. Louis, Chicago, and Other
large cities. So says the States
Some fifty of the negroes that went from New
Orleans to Hayti, have returned dissatisfied will
their emigration experiment.
1t is rumored that Col. Colt is about to 60 South
and unite with Hon. NJ. A. Cooper, Of Etowah, Ga.
In establishing an Arms Factory,