The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-12


OF the vote for President the following, being part
of the twelfth article of the amendments to the
Constitution, prescribing the mode, will be inter-
esting:
The electors shall meet in their respective
States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice
PRESIDENT, one of whom, at least, shall not be
lnhaolant of the same State with themselves; they
shall name in their ballots the person voted for as
resident, and in distinct ballots the preson voted
LOT as Ice President; and they shall make distinct
sts OF all persons voted for President and of all
persons voted for Vice President, and of the
number of votes for each which list they sha sign
and certify and transmit sealed to the seat of GOV
erLment of the United States directed to the Pres
ident of the Senate; the President of the Senate
SHALL in the presence of the Senate and House of
Representatives, open all the certificates and the
votes shall then be counted the person having the
greatest number votes for President shall be the
President.
BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS IN New MExICo.-Ne,g
Merlco, Jan. 13.-I respectfully offer to you for
publication an account of one of the most daring
and successful Indian affairs which has recently
occurred
Colonel Crittenden is son of Senator Crittenden.
and commands the regiment of mounted rifles at
present This operation of his is regarded as one
of the most remarkable in Indian warfare, on ac-
count OF the complete and successful surprise which
he effected:
Ne,0 Nerico Jan. 8.-Col Crittenden, in COM
mand of eighty eight men and officers of the Mount
ed Rifles, marched from Fort Union on the 9th
ultimo, in pursuit of a large war party of Canaan
ches and kiowas, who were reported to be depre-
dating on the Cimmeroncita. After following their
trail rapidly, sometimes by night, he found and
surprised them on the morning of the I'd instant, in
camp near Cold Spring, and, after severe fight,
completely routed them destroying their camp and
property, and capturing great many horses.
There We're one hundred and seventy five lodges
in the camp Zone of them containing exclusively
ammuntion,) all of which were DESTROYED. Ten
warriors were left deaG number of wounded un-
known. Corporal Bourke of the Rifles, and three
privates were wounded, none mortallY.-Cor st.
Louis Repu6.
BUILDING IN NORTHERN CIrIEs-In Boston the
buildings put up during the year 1860 was 984, and
their cost S5,978 ,l6l. This was less by four mil
lions of dollars than the year previous, but the
large expenditure of that year was owing to seye-
raj blocks of buildings of great magnitude and
cost The number and cost of the buildings last
year will show, however, a very handsome addi-
tion to the city of Boston OF these buildings, the
Journal says, the appearance of an enlarged libe-
raj and cultivated taste in the style of modern
structures Is strikingly apparent. In New York
city the great depression in rents, owing TO the
sagnation in business, is putting a check to build
ing operations, and the Tribune saws there will
probably be a less number of buildings this wear
than fourteen or fifteen years ago. Notwithstand
ing this, the additions during the last year have
been large, and the buildings of costly character
adding greatly to the establishment OF the city.
REsIGNArIoNs OF ARMY AND Navy OFFGcERs.-
Since the secession movement commenced resgna.
tions in the army and navy have been PLENTIFUL
In the army two lieutenant coonels, two majors,
eIght captains, ten lieuten ants and four cadets
have resigned. In the navy three captains, three
commanders, three pursers, two surgeons and two
sixteen lieutenants three masters four
mldshlpmen and twenty acting midshipmen,
have retired from the service, believing that their
first allegiance is due to the soil upon which they
were born, and that they cannot under any crcum-
stances draw the sword against the South. The
resignation of these gentlemen, many of whom are
dependent upon their pay for support, is another
proof, it any more were needed, that the South is
willing to give up everything for the sake of the
principle at stake in this conflict.
Several Scotch mountain sheep have recently
been introduced into Morris county, N. j., on the
farm of ). +. Headley, Esq. Their wool is de-
Scrloed as being OF better quality than any other
long wooled breed-long, wavy and soft, with no
harsh or wiry feeling like most of the mountain
bFeeds-pecuarly adapted to worsted stuifs, and
the carcass is said to give the very best and high
est Favored mutton. They live and thrive on their
native mountains on very coarse vegetation, and
are kept in very large hocks Of 900 to Is 900 of.
ten. Those in this country appear docie and
quiet have black or spotted faces with a symmet-
rlcal form of head, neck and body, unsurpassed by
any animal of the woOllY kind. Lambs four months
old weigh eighty pounds each.
M0HAMMEDANIsM TO BE INAUGURArED IN PARrs.-
travelled Turk, Hadji Abd-e-Hamid by name,
has become sufficiently cosmopolitan in his tastes to
be willing to take up his permanent abode among
dogs oil lntdels." lie has established himself,
with his family, in Paris, and, being still good
he proposes to erect there a mosque,
and, IN connection with it, an Eastern inn or cara
vanserai, baths la Turk and school for instruc-
ton in the Koran. As his countrymen will thus be
enabled to eat, lodge, bathe and pray in the man
ner most agreeable to the prophet, be expects to
attract crowds of them to the French capital. The
Parsians are OF course, delighted at the prospect
OF seeing minarets outside an engraving, and of
hearing the muezzin call the faithful to prayer.
THE SECESSION QUEsTIoN.-Hon. Francis W
Plckens, the present Governor OF South Carolina,
mas suit against the North Atlantic Steamship
Company, now pending in New York citv on the
trial term calendar of the Marine Court for to-day
for loss of baggage and musical instruments when
he was on his recent return from Russia where he
had been American Ambassador up to a recent
date. The question will here arise, as to whether
the plaintiff Gov. Pickens) can maintain an ac-
tlon IN that State, he being, he claims citizen
OF an Independent sovereignty, which is at war
with the United States.
FoRT GlBsoN.-The following has been handed US
for publications:
paragraph is going the rounds Of the papers
that the Cherokee Indians have taken possession of
Fort Gibson. This is a very good Joke, but is do
ing mischief among certain parties and NAV oper-
ate to the injury of the Cherokees. Fort Gibson
was abandoned 6y the United States some three
years ago, and turned over to the Cherokee peo.
pie. They have ever since been in possession, and
have disposed of it, by lots, to individuals. No
troops have been quartered there for four years.
Nat. Intel, Feb. IL.
PHILADELPHIA ABoLITIoNIsrs DDDLED BY
NEGRo.-The Gazette of Monday SAYS An impos-
tor named Charles Williams has been playing Je-
remy Didler upon the charitable. By representing
that he had number of fugitive slaves concealed
at his residence, at Chads Ford he collected in the
aggregate a handsome of money. He called
upon just one person too many-upon gentleman
denying the genuineness of that philanthropy
which leads the slave to abandon his owner. BY
this gentleman his arrest was caused and his impO-
sition discovered
SUICIDE OF AN OLD SOLDIER.-At Raymond, Miss,
A. r.. Beale, an elderly man, blew his brains out
with shotgun. He died almost instantly, leav-
ing no writing or clue to his reason for termina-
ting his existence, other than expressions made a
day or two before his death to an acquaintance.
Having been volunteer in his native State MARY
land) in the War of 1872, he frequently gave ut
terance to his strong attachment for his country,
and for the Union OF the States, and declared that
he could not live to see sundared nion and a civil
war;
MODEL SLAvER.-The SLAYER ManueIita alias
Sunny South, of Boston, was at the Island Of Cey-
lon, December 3, prize to Her Maesty's steamer
Her model is beautiful, and her great speed at
tracted Admiral heppels notice. He purchased
her for government purposes. On dit that after
using the Sunny South a cruiser, the Admiral in
intends to send her to England so that the naval
architects may have superior model to copy from.
The Manuelita had seven hundred negroes
when captured. She showed Mexican colors.
Mr.. BUCHANAN's AUrHoRsuIp-The Historical
Magazine says: "Since it is announced that Mr.
Buchanan will favor the public, after his retire
nent from Office, with series of sketches of men
eminent in political life, of whom there has here
tofore been no fitting memorial, it may not be
violation OF any confidence to say that it is beev-
ed he will undertake more formal work with re-
gard to President Polk
In New Orleans last week newspaper reporter,
lailing from the land of Erin, rushed hastily to
take out his naturalization papers as a citizen of
he United States. just as he had signed his name
md pocked his papers making him citizen of the
United States, the booming cannon and the ring
ng fbeIls announced to the people that Louisia-
IA was out of the United States.
An English paper says that the bodies Of Captain
Staples and wife formerly Miss Stow, of Boston,)
Of the American ship Golden STAR recently wrecked
on the coast of Ireland, had been recovered; that
they were locked in each others arms, aud the Cap
ain held in his hand rope, which he had tried to
use for their safety.
Major John p. Heiss formerly of Tennessee, has
returned to Nicaragua to settle there permanent
y. so satisfied is he with the cotton.raising ex
0erlments made upon the high and healthy interior
ands OF that region, that it his purpose imIne-
lately to put q hundred acres under cultivation
or that staple.
The ice in the Central Park was on Saturday
Visited by ninety-fve thousand persons the lar
rest number at one time this season. Nearly four
thousand vehicles were on the drive, and the great
,st excitement prevailed. The weather. being mild
Ind cheerful, drew out large number of ladies.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company has lust
lad the most extraordinary months business since
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