The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-18
POLITICAL ROW AT LOUISVILLE.


POLITICAL AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE March 16.-A large Southern Rights
meeting was held at the Court House last nigh
and was attended with considerable confusion. /
finally broke up in row.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
WEST CHESTER March 15.-H0n. Henry S. Evans
| the conservative Republican candidate, nominated
at town meeting on Thursday evening for Chief
Burgess, was to-day elected by over 200 maj jority
over Addison May, the ultra Republican candi
date.
Republican Judges were chosen by the usual ma.
jorities.
ELECTION AT HARRISBURG-A DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH
HARRISBURG, March l5.-The municipal election
held here to-day resulted in the triumph of the
Democrats, who carried all of the five Councilmen,
hVe OF the six Assessors, and majority of the elec-
tion officers in every ward but the fifth.
BOSTON POLITICS.
Boston, March 14.-The report that Hon. VIM.
Appleton contemplates resigning his seat in the
next Congress is contradicted.
There is no truth in the rumor that the Con-
gressiOnal delegation of this State have the par
ceiling out of the Federal patronage in Massachu.
sets.
Important from montgomery
Correspondence NelU York Herald
THE MILITARY MOVEMENTS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDE-
RATION OCCUPYING THE FORTS, &C &C.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 10.-This new
government is working wonderfully. The Cabinet
OF PRESIDENT Davis is very able one; there is no
common man in it. Energy, ability and work
characterize it. The business department is, of
course, that of War. The Secretary, Hon. l., p.
walker, although new in this sphere of life, works
con dmore and thus far has proven the Presidents
foresight in selecting him. He is never seen out of
the department and rarely there. | have been here
week and have not Yet laid my eyes on him.
But have learned some of his movements. He
has very quietly, and, he n o doubt thought, Sc
cretly too, reinforced Fort Morgan with thousand
men, Fort Pulaski with THOUSAND men, Forts
Jackson and st. Philip with thousand, and has
five thousand additional troops stationed at Pensa-
cola, under the command Of ga little more grape,
captain Bragg" This Captain Bragg is now
brlgader general, and a splendid artillerist. He
has also superseded the South Carolina authorities
ana transferred the command of Charleston har Dor
10 MAJOR Beauregard, of the engineer service, now
orgadler general, and the best officer in the
army. This you will say is pretty good work for
one week, done, too, by man who yet has no
organized department. Let Lincoln look out. Some
nhe morning he will wake up from a comfortable
snooze. made safe by the presence of Gen. Scott's
body guard, and find Forts Sumter and Pickens in
the hands of the rebels
The truth is, Greeley & Co. can never be made
10 understand these Southern people. They are
called idle, and so they are when they have moth
Ing to do. But give them object, and the devil
himself is not more Industrious. They are a unit,
too-there is no division amonst them. Recon-
sTuctlon is thrown overheard, and with such man
as jeff Davis at the head of the new confederacy-
clear-sighted, calm, resolute and firm-in twelve
months it will be firmly established as one of the
Powers of the earth.
THE PERPLExITIEs OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
"Independent," the correspondent of the Phila-
deIphia North American, writes as follows to that
journal:
WASHINGTON, March l5.-Powerful efforts are
making IN certain quarters here to exasperate the
public feeling of the North against Major Anderson,
on the ground that while he has been pretending to
serve his government faithfully, he has really been
playing into the hands of the seceders. The most
urgent charges against him are, that he allowed
the Tort to become purpOsely reduced both as re-
CARDS men and provisions, knowing full well that
the result would be his withdrawal and the surren-
der OF the fort to the South.
The Administration is sorely perplexed about the
whole matter, and the Cabinet was again in session
for several hours to-day, discussing the question as
to what should be done. Gen. Scott was partci-
pant in their deliberations and if his advice is heed
ed, an order for the evacuation of the fort will be
speedily issued.
AT the same time the ultras are besieging the
Administration in the most earnest and threatening
manner; their argument is that nothing can be
gained by undue haste, as the party has every thing
at stake In the surrender. TO abandon the
strong language OF the inaugural so soon after its
delivery, they contend, would weaken the Govern.
ment beyond all hope of repair. 1t is useless to
deny that these arguments bear forcibly upon the
President and portion of his Cabinet, and it is
therefore with the most extreme reluctance that
they can be ioduced to yield to the ''military ne
cessty" argument of Gen. Scott; day or two,
however, must determine the question, as each hour
adds to the stratened condition of Major Anderson
and his men.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
BosToN, Friday, March 15.-Returns from 1872
towns ia New Hampshire, foot up for Berry 2,346;
Stark rs, 289. The majority for Berry thus far is
about 900.
FORT WASHITA AND FORT ARBUCKLE TAKEN.
TIE Galveston Ne,os of the 5th instant, saws -
Fro an arrival to-day, we learn that Fort Washita
.lteN~9. AT50UAe, S4st be yGnd our Northern
frontier, have been taken possession of by 200
Texans, assisted by friendly Indians.
SOUTHERN COMMISSIONERS
The versions given from here of communications
alleged to have passed between Messrs FORSYTH
and Crawford and the State Department, with
responses from the latter, to the purposes of the
Administration, are all imaginary. The letter of
these Commissioners will be answered by Mr.
Seward without unnecessary delay, and in a man
ner that will relieve all msapprehension of his
policy Wash. Corr. ". Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON PITMOpS