The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-15

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| ary Il. Juarez had large majority over Lerdo,
late his Minister of Finance. Both were candidates
OF the Liberal party. The election was held in all
the States the same day, but no further returns
are received.
| CONVENTION TO FORM STATE CONSTITUTION FOR NEW
| MEXICo.
Mr.. 0tero, delegate from the Territory of New
! Mexico, has information that the New Mexico Leg
| lSlature has adopted a resolution calling Terri
| torlal Convention, to frame a State Constitution
| The election for delegates to the Convention will
take place in May, and the Convention meets in
June next. The Constitution is to be submitted to
the people for ratification or rejection in Septem-
Der, at the regular election.
--MH@1=@m.s@-
MANLY REPLY TO AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.-Gov
Andrew, of Massachusetts,, has been unusually pa
triotic, on paper, since his accession to Office and
| has made show of issuing military orders to the
"citizen soldiers of his State, and of rendering
their services to the President to enforce the laws,
| DC. Capt Manning of the Salem Artillery, taking
this display of military prowess at its true value
has written letter to his Excellency, stating his
understanding of the duties of the military of Mas
sachusetts. We cannot copy this letter at LENGTH
but make the following extracts:
SIR: | return herewith the roll of the Salem
Light Artillery, in accordance with order No. 4,
of the Commander in-chef of the Militia of Massa-
chusetts; and instructed to say that when the
questions under the order were put, a portion of
the company sig nifed their compliance; the re-
mainder resolved to waive all advantage which
the question might imp ly, and to hold themselves
IN readiness to obey all militia laws under which
they were enrolled, aud yield prompt obedience to
all orders of their supero officers, without regard
to Cuisines relation family duties or inclination.
Allow me to add, that the Salem Artillery have
been ready, at all times, to discharge their duty to
their country and their State part of the citi-
zen sOdiery of free Republic. In looking back
over their history, they find with pride and salts
faction that of oil thnca
rolled in this Commonwealth, offered its services
In the cause of free suffrage, when the people of
neighboring State rose to assert their rights and
their supremacy.
To them belongs the peculiar honor of having
rendered their services to the Federal Government
in the war with Mexico, while all the social and
civil power OF Massachusetts was arrayed against
that conflict, which ended by adding new laurels
to our arms, by enriching our country, sustaining
our honor, establishing prowess, and extending
our free institutions to the Pacific.
They have ever been ready to uphold the Consti-
tuition and the Laws; and have endeavored to con-
tiEue the Union in peace and prosperity by oppos-
ing every measure calculated to destroy that mutu
al confidence and to break that faith without which
| the Confederation cannot endure. They have wit
messed, with sorrow and alarm, the repeated viola
tions of all obligations, and the exasperating tone
which have too often marked the course of fMassa-
chusetts in her political dealings with her sister
States. They remember with shame, her repeated
partisan opposition TO the federal government in
times of war-her refusal to furnish her quota of
trOops-her denial of supplies to those of her sons
who, looking beyond her borders into the
broad expanse of free republic, ready to give
voluntary aid to their advancing nation.
They are now filled with astonishment at the alac.
rity with which Massachusetts, offers her services
in the work of war against her brethren. That
she who, swept on by political rancor, proposed to
SHUT up her arsenas and her store houses and bury
every military ensign in the dusty seclusion of de-
serted armories, while foreign foe was sweeping
our seas, destroying, our towns, and devastating
our fieds-shat she should now rush to arms against
those Of her fellow citizens who ask for a position
equal with her own under the Confederation, is as
strange and unnatural that national madness
which vents itself in the horrors of civil strife
That she who denounced and defed the Union while
1t was in the hands of her political opponents should
now be eager to fight for its preservation, is
| somewhat significant.
THE MILITARY DIFFICULTY IN WAsurNGroY-
The trouble mentioned in our paper few days
since, growing out of the refusal to commission
Captain Shaeffer because he said that he would not
take up arms against the State of Maryland in case
she seeded from the Union, has called out a
lengthy correspondence between the Captain and
General Weightman. On the 7th of Feb.
ruary Capt. Shaetfer writes to Gen. Weightman,
requesting to be furnished in writing with the in
terrogatories propounded to him at their inter-
| view.
On the same day Gen. Weightman replies:
"At tie interview alluded to, you were informed,
verbally, that certain reports had reached these
headquarters concerning declarations made by you.
These reports you requested to be furnished
you in writing, and you were promised that they
| should be communicated. Positive information
has been received at these headquarters that you
have, at various times, declared that in certain
contingencies you would not serve the United
States Government for the protection of its proper
ty in this city, against the forces ola State but
would resign and join the forces of that State
| The Government of the United States desires no
unwilling service, and | do not deem it consistent
| with my duty to hand a commission to any officer
who makes his fidelity and obedience to orders in
| manner conditional"
Capt. Shaeffer replies on the 9th of February,
| characterizing the letter of Gen. W. as 'disn-
| genuous," and adds: "Had YOU intended to do me
the least Justice, you would have stated what you
knew to be the fact-that the proposition distinctly
| made to was, would /, in the event of the State
of Maryland or the State of Virginia seeding from
! tho Union, take up arms against said States, or
! either of them? Such was the test of Loyalty ap-
piled to me, and which |, on the instant, reiected
such is the condition upon which, in my humble
| opinion, every honorable man, native and citizen
| of Maryland, should accept a commission for ser.
| vice in this District"
SPECIE. The supply of coin and bullion to the
| American market has probably never been so large
! as it has been recently. The heavy exports of
| breadstuffs make one of the causes of this; but
more potent is the demand for SPECIE created
| by the commercial disturbances arising out of our
| political troubles The combined causes have led
| to abundance of coin which has not been known
in this country before. The statistics of the port
| of New York, where most of this expectation and
importation of specie takes place, furnish us with
| facts on the subject.
The imports of specie at New York from foreign
ports from July lst, 1861 to Feb. 1st 1861, were
S15,427,722. The exports of specie during the same
period were 2O,67O,313 net exports S5,242, ,59I.
The receipts of California gold for the same time
amounted to S2l, ,l00,l98 The country, therefore,
contained on the lst ofFebruary, 1861, Sl5S5 607
more specie that it did on the 1st of July, 1860
| The result can be better shown as follows:
Specie received from California;. .s2llOO,l9S
- Europe, &c..... 15,427.722
Total receipts. $36, ,527 ,920
Specie exported d........,.,......... 2O,676,3l3
Net gain in seven months. ........ .sl5,s ,s57 ,6o7
The gain in specie was all made in the months of
| December and January, but the tables consult
do not give the separate months. 1t is safe to say
that there are fully twenty-five millions more spe-
Gle now in the country than there were in Novem-
Der last. Prior to December lst the shipments to
Europe had exceeded the receipts from California;
| but in December and January the receipts from
Europe were about fifteen millions, and those from
| California seven millions, while the shipments
to foreign ports were little or nothing.
At the present time we are importing m0der-
| atey of foreign goods and articles of luxury that
Europe will for some time be obliged to pay us in
coin for the large supplies of breadstufs and pro-
visions, to say nothing of cotton, that she is
PEELED to take from us. So that there will proba-
political affairs occurs in France, continuation of
the flow of gold and silver to this country though
in more moderate degree Philadelphia Bulletin.
| SUIT FOR Recovery OF Two SERMoNs.-In Perry,
| Wyoming county, N. Y, a minister, Rev. J. Il.
Page, sued clerical brother of another denemina-
| ton, the Rev. j. B. Wentworth, for the recovery
! of two sermons, which he (Page), the plaintiff,
lost about two years ago, and which came into the
! possession of the defendant, who would not surren-
der them on demand. Both cergymen reside in
! Perry, and their quarrel, which has been waged
with great bitterness, apparently has stirred up
much feeling between their respective partisans.
| Last summer the case was put in the hands of
| referee, and after long hearing of arguments,
and the expenditure of enough legal research and
effort upon it to determine international ques-
tion, has just been decided in an elaborate report
| of the referee. The plaintiff obtains Judgment for
the restoration of the sermons, which was what he
sought by the suit, and the sermons are Judged to
have pecuniary value of at least $50-a sum sufi-
cent to impose the entire costs upon the defendant
The costs of the suit are said to amount to about
| 5000.
ANOTHER ROYAL VIsIT.-lt is confidently asserted
| that the visit with which the Empress Eugenie
honored England in 1860, will be repeated in 1861.
| In anticipation of this fecitous event, the linen
drapers of England are organizing subscription
with view to the presentation of testimonial to
her Imperial Majesty, together with an appropriate
address, setting forth the gratitude entertained by
| the trade towards the Empress of the French and
| the Fashions, for having ordained the wearing of
| dresses which require, to make them, three times
as many yards as could possibly be allowed by any
| regard to comfort, economy and elegance. united