The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-19
Lieutenant General SCOTS respects to the Secretary of
4 llC SNN
October Goth, 1860.
From the New York Express, Jan IL
MR.. KERRIGAN TO APPEAR BEFORE THE u
s, GRAND JURY FOR TREASON

NH. hEhhlGAN ~ APPEAR BEtORE The u.
s. GRAND JURY FOR TREASON.
OTHER PARTIES SAID TO Re IMPLICATED.
The fact that Mr.. James E. Kerrigan NJ. c. elect
from the Fourth District, in this city, had recently
been the author of movement to organize mill
tary body of 20 900 men, for the mutual protection
of the city of New York, and such Southern States
as mi ght need assistance, has led to his being the
subject OF continual espionage by the Reporters of
this city. The different restaurants where it was
his wont to call, daily visited and his absence
from them at any time noted. Not having
been recognized in any other of those places dur
ing the past fortnight, much suspicion was enter
tanned that he had gone South to observe if not to
aid, the secession movement. On Tuesday last,
Mr. kerrlgan returned to this city, and having en-
tered saloon the haunt of every species of poli-
clans in Park Row, spoke, it is said, favOrably of
the independence movement of the people of South
Carolina, and their power to resist all efforts to
subdue them by the Federal Government.
Mr. kerrigan, it is alleged, alluded to the firing
on the Star of the West, and some scenes which
occurred in Charleston on that occasion, and the
circumstance led to suspicion that he was present
at the time. There were present a Republican
Judge, and reporter from of the morning
papers, who overheard the conversation, and the
latter gentleman off speedily with the pre-
cious item, which appeared the next morning in
the shape of a paragraph, which stated that Mr..
Kerrigan had been in Charleston for the purpose
OF aiding the secessionists, and recommending his
arrest for treason.
On Wednesday, the U. S. Grand Jury, acting on
the recommendation Of Judge Smalley in his re-
cent charge treason, sent for the u S. District
Attorney, and requested him to subpoena Mr.. Ker
rigan, to answer the charges which had appeared
against him in the journal aforesaid. Judge Roo
sevelt accordingly ordered the Clerk of the U. S.
Court to make out subpoena for Mr.. Kerrigan,
and having handed it to Marshal Rynders, that
gentleman gave it to Deputy Marshal DeAngelis for
service. The subpoena was served and Mr.. Kerri-
gan and others examined, but nothing is known
of their testimony.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
1t is now becoming evident to naval people that
whatever course political events may take, the
Home Squadron will be called on for an efficient
coast guard. The arrival at Vera Cruz of the
Cumberland, announced on Tuesday, was the signal
for the return of the steam frigate Powhatan and
the frigate Sabine There is also to believe
that the sloop st. Louis will come home. The
Mohawk, Crusader, Wyandotte, Pocahontas and
Water Witch, are likely to be detailed as tenders
for the Brooklyn Sabine and ST. Louis, if the feet
should be called into requisition en- station.
The newly commissioned corvettes Macedonian and
Cumberland, would be sufficient to protect the
national interests in the Gulf for while. Thus,
the slips available for home duty would carry an
aggregate of AGO men and 100 guns.
Annexed is list of our men-otwar now at the
Gosport Navy-yard: Liner Pennsylvania rated
10 guns, but carrying only few, not worth any
thing outside of her present BERTH liner Columbus
lying and useless for present duty; liner Della.
ware, do. do; liner New York, not half built:
frigate Columbia, needing repairs, in ordinary;
frigate Raritan, do. do; corvette Germantown,
undergoing repairs IN QOckj steam 1rlgate Merrl-
mack, in ordinary. Except in regular naval hands
all these ships would be worthless for any service
Recruiting for the army is stopped. No appli-
cants except those whose honorable discharge en-
Tile them to admission, are accepted,-NeU York
World.
-, STATISTICS TAT OF SLAVE owNERs;-There were in
the United States, in the year 1850, 347 525 per-
sons owning slaves. or this number two only
owned GOO each both resided in South Carolina
Nine only owned between 500 and 1000, of whom
resided in Georgia, in Lou isiana, in Mississip-
pi. Fitty-six owned from 300 to $780, of whom l re-
sided in Maryland, in Virginia, 3 in North Caro-
lima, In Tennessee, l in Florida, in Georgia |
in Louisiana, in Mississippi, 20 in South Carolina
One hundred and e1ghty-seven owned from 200 to |
300, of whom South Carolina had 60, Louisiana SO,
Georgia %, Mississippi Is, Alabama l6 North Car.
DINA IL, five other States Ia, ana four States none
Fourteen hundred and seventy-nine owned from
100 to 200 All the slaveholding States, except
Florida and Missouri, represented in this class
South Carolina having one-fourth of the whole
These five classes own l. 1913 slaves; 6,l96 persons
owned so slaves each, 90 1888 from 20 to so slaves
EACH and SO 595 persons owned from 10 to 20 slaves
each. South Carolina, from this statement, owns
more slaves in proportion to her population than
any other State in the South, and has a proper
tionately greater interest in secession than anv
other.
The WEAIHER.-Merriam, the Usage of Brooklyn
Heights" publishes the following in the New York
journals Of yesterday:
The temperature here at Z A. NJ. on Sunday, the
18th, was at seven (7) degrees below zero, the
lowest during the term. At P. NJ. of Monday,
l4th, rain fell freely while the temperature of the
air was at twenty four GA degrees above zero,
eight (s) degrees below the ice making lne-the
wind was Eastery. In winter Easterly winds I'M
ettle the freezing point and rain sometimes falls
Turing Easwardly winds in winter, while the tenn
'erature OF the air is as low as eighteen (1S) de-
yrees, or twelve (l2) degrees below the freezing
inc on the scale of Fahrenheit
The atmospheric wave that produced such
rantic state in the human mind in Syria has passed
lowy westward in the path of the sun, and its
Influences are seen in the same parallels ON this
Continent Syria is between 80 and $40 North
altitude.
Shocks of earthquake have been felt in Georgia
md South Carolina on the Sd, and in Pennsylvania
n the 9Th of this month. 3. N.
Brooklyn Heights, Jan. Is, 1851,