The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-11
WAR ITEMS,


lug pa d-tculars 0. the gun-Dnat expedition iron
Cairo which attempted to dslodge the Confeder
ates from Hickman:
On Thursday morning the gun-boats Tylor anc
Lexington leiC Cairo on scouting tour At clever
O'Clock they came in sight of the gunboat Yankee
belonging to the Southern Confederacy. Ap
preaching within the necessary range, our boats
opened fire upon her, which was returned by heI
with will The shots Of all the steamers failed tr
90 any damage. The Yankee pointed down stream
ana made for Hickman, pursued by our boats
Above Hickman fire opened our boats from
masked battery Of four riled guns. The fire was
returned from the boats, and shell and hot shot
were thrown into the enemy's camp, setting fire to
their tents and baggage wagons, and scattering
the troops IN various directions. The engagement
lasted about an hour, but no damage was done to
our boats or their crews. Our boats returned to
Cairo, but succeeded in capturing eight prisoners
and seizIng forty head of mules and cattle. The
iankee followed the Tylor and Lexing ton a short
distance, and then anchored in the river opposite
the battery. One Of the prisoners captured above
tne camp, and who was scout, states the number
OF General Pillows force to be 500, and that 200
were encamDed near Columbus. Ky., at the Chalk
| Banks. The gun-boats fired into by infau-
try at both points, but their balls did no other
damage than to enter the bulkheads OF our steamers
or riddle the awning on their decks.
1t is believed that Pillows forces are being re-
| lntorced. The gunboats Tylor, Lexington and
| Conestoga were to leave again Yesterday with a
full supply OF stores, ammunition, &C., for another
engagement at these same points, their instructions
being to make the attack and capture them if Dos
sible. The &. w. Graham, with two regiments of
infantry, vii! accompany the expedition. Another
warm engagement In that vicinity may be imme-
diately looked for, unless Pillow should deem it
| prudent to retreat to the Tennessee line
| LOUISVILLE, Sept. 9.-Richmond and New Or
leans dates of the 7th inst. contain nothing of i'm
! portance
| The irritation between the Unionists and the
secession element in this city is hourly increasing
| The best informed politicians hold that the crisis
has been reached, and that the neutrality phantom
n q f4pyh dave IN ho,ti
! and Kentucky will share the fate of Missouri. The
! Union men of this city demand prompt and ener
getic action on the part of the Legislature for sup
| pressing Confederate movements in the State and
are very restive under the diatory policy thus far
| pursued.
A delegation of Tennessee secessiopists, assisted
! by Senators Breckenridge and Powell, ex- Gov.
Morehead, and others, exerting their utmost to
| prevent the legislative endorsement of the forma.
! tion OF military camps in the State.
| call for additional volunteers is urged by more
| decided Unionists.
The Confederate Examining officer at the State
line has stated To travellers the Louisiana and
Nashville Railroad, that he took $50 900 dollars in
| gold from passengers coming North within ten
| days.
| From the N + Ereninq Post
The Privatccr sumter.
gentleman who arrived from st. Thomas W.
| l., this morning informs that while he was at
that port he noticed three schooners-the Balti-
more, II. Rayncs ard George Wsshingto
at anchor and flying the secession flag. These yes
ses arrived from Beaufort, y. c., under the
American flag, and with United States clearance
papers.
The custom-house officials at Beaufort have an
abundance OF old United States blanks and furnish
vessels with register, crew list, &c, in the usual
Orm AS soon as the vessels referred to had enter
ed they down the American flag and put up the
Confederate. Vessels entered in the saae way
at Nassau, \. p, and no doubt at other West
Indian ports.
Our informant says that the captain of the prva,
eer Sumter left challenge at st. Thomas for any
United States vessel, TO name the time and place
'fOr meeting in the West Indian waters. The
United States gunboat Keystone State has been
notified. She is not, however, of sufficient capaci
ty to compete with the Sumter.
The day before our informant left st. Thomas,
heavy firing heard in the vicinity of the island,
aud it was supposed that the Sumter was engaged
in an attempt to capture prize, or possibly with
an United States vessel.
The attention of the Hatteras feet will no doubt
be directed to the harbor Of Beaufort.
Further from the Sumter.
From a letter dated Trinidad, Port Spain,
August 9TH, the New ork Erprcss obtains some
further particulars concerning the doings of the
privateer Sumter
"The Sumter has been week in our port and it
is reported that she will remain here till after the
arrival OF the packet, which is hourly expected.
The British steam so0p oEwar Cadmus arrived
last night from Granada, and the officers of the
two ships appear to be on very amicable terms,
The officers of the Sumter daily parading the
streets Of Port Spain, and, with the consent oil our
colonial authorities, they have been supplied with
coal, spars, water, &c. | am not certain that she
! has taken IN any gunpoWdcr, but have been credi
bly, iatormed that her officers have made inquiries
| fer hat article.
| rival OF the Sumter, bat the Union Jack dis
| played on the Government flagstaff, measure only
| taken to honor distinguished visitors.
! 1t the Sumter had not been allowed to take in
Goals and rett, she would have been efectuaIy pre-
vented from continuing her cruise and the British
! Government should be made responsible for any
| depreciation she may commit after this.
,n:, Erom The cho.l,1,on "a. .,, Bsrenyy 4og9!?la
The Dixie weighed anchor N Charleston harbor
on the 10Th of July. On the following day, aided
by stiff breeze, she succeeded in getting out safe
| ly to by what channel her exit was accom-
plished we leave to the contemplation OF the
| cute blockaders, who permitted the saucy little
craft to slip through their fingers. The privateer
| pursued SoutbeasterIy course without any incl
dent of special moment until Tuesday, the esd
| AT early hour on that day Capt. Moore made
a sail the lee-quarer, and tacking the ship soon
| overhauied her. gun fired across the bow Of the
stranger speedily brought her to. The captain was
| ordered to come on board the Dixie and bis papers
showed his vessel to be the bark Glenn of Portland
| Maine, bound to Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, with q
cargo of coal. Without further ceremony the Yam
kee skipper informed of the business of his cap
tors, and made prisoner prize crew was nut
aboard the Glenn who did not take her to Fort jeff
ersnn, and the Dixie went on her way rejoicing
On Thursday, the 25th, the schooner Mary Alice of
| New York, from the West Indies, with a cargo of
| sugar, bound for New Ork hove in sight. A mes
sage from Long Tom explained the meaning of the
stars and bars, and the Mary Alice was soon a
| prize. AS our readers know she was afterwards
recaptured by the blockaders.l On the 9th two
| sails were for n short time in signt, but heavy
squall came up, accompanied by waterspout,
| which passed close ahead of the privateer, and,
when this subsided, the vessels had disappeared -
! On Monday, the 10Th, two sails again des-
| cried, but the Dixie was unable to come up to
them. On the 30th the hermaphrodite brig Robert
| X. Kirkland OF Baltimore, loaded with salt, con-
| signed to firm in that city, was spoken: She
was, Of course, permitted to pass. The captain of
the brig, however, was induced to take on board
the cook of the Glenn, the prisoners on board the
| Dixie having become more numerous than was de-
sirabe On the evening of the 3lst no less than
nine sail were visible. About Sunduwn the Dixie
gave chase to one Of these vessels, which, from in
formation obtained from of the prisoners, was
believed to be the bark Albertna, armed with two
rifled cannon. Two Of the guns of the privateer
were loaded with grape and canister, and when the
stranger was sufficiently near, shot was fred
| across her bow, which had the desired effect of
bringing her to. She proved to be the bark RO-
wena, of Philadelphia, from Laguayra, with coffee
for Philadelphia. The ROWena, as well as her
coffee, was of course duly "bagged." Blu. mas
| much as her numbered thirteen, besides four
| passengers. Capt. Moore deemed it prudent to 90
| aboard of her himself as prize master taking with
| him several of the prisoners, and leaving on board
the Dixie crew of four men, under the command
| of Lieut.. L. ID. Bolton, with the remainder of the
| prisoners. The privateer being now in lat. 800
36' Ion. 76o 25/, and with the bark ROwena in her
| wake, Yas headed west. On the I'd of August she
made a strange steamer, but managed to elude her.
On Sunday, the 4th of August, before daylight, a
vessels light was discovered TO the eastward, but
the Dixie kept shy of her. Shortly after day break
a steamer plainly in the same direction.
For a while she gave chase to the Dixie, but Lieut..
| Benton, tiading himself off a well known and con-
venient harbor of our coast, now port OF entry,
decided to run in without delay The steamer,
finding her chase Intellectual, hauled off to the
southwark.
The subsequent adventures of the little craft are
not of nature to interest our readers. Suffice 1t
/ to saw that she did not again venture far out from
shore, but passed through the efficient blockade,
and with guns booming and coors flying, yesterday
forenoon startled from their gravity the quiet peo-
pie of this ''nest of rebellion"
From the ". r Herald Sept 1Oh.
Captain Wolch, OF the Mary Alice, captured July
25 by the privaeer Dixie has arrived in this city
from Richmond, and furnishes some very interest
ing intelligence. After his capture off Bermuda
he was conveyed to North Edisto, twentv-one miles
south Of Charleston, where he a battery OF
| four 24-pounders South Point, and formidable
masked battery at North Point. No trace of the
blockading squadron was visible. From Edisto
Captain Wech, with twenty-five other prisoners
was conveyed to Charleston, South Carolina, anc
| GoIdsbor0', North Carolina, where the people haC
Just heard of the affair at Fort Hatteras, and were
excited to such pitch that violence offered tt
the prisoners. The authorities had to hide th
> prisoners. and send them forward to Richmond a
night, with strong military guard, to proven
mob law being administered. While in Richmond
Capt. w. states they were treated in the most gen
g erous manner, allowed the freedom of the city, an
permitted to converse with the Union prisoners.
D After delaying at Bchmord for few days. Capt
Welch and his party were transferred to Norioh
and set at liberty.