Baltimore, March 14.--Cleared, schr. J. H. Travers, Richmond.
New York, March 13.--Cleared, schr. Norfolk, Norfolk; E. A. Norfolk Hart.
Norfolk. 14th, arrived, schr. Treasure, Rappahannock.
Genoa, Feb. 19.--Arrived, ship Loyal, Scranton, Richmond.
English policy, which had proved victorious in Italy.
One member warned the Government against the suicidal policy, and predicted internal danger ahead.
All was quiet at Warsaw.
Russian troops continued to arrive.
The Conference on the Syrian question was being held.
It was expected an agreement would soon be decided upon.
Dispatches were received announcing that the Mussulman of Syria were assuming a threatening attitude towards the Christians.
Turkish Government drafts on Mires, for 400,000 piastres, were duly paid on the 20th.
Differences had occurred between Sir Ed. Bulwer and the American Minister.
Sir E. B. declined to attend the reception of the latter on Washington's birth-day.
Commercial. Liverpool, March 13.
-- Cotton --Sales for four days of 33,000 bales, including 10,500 for speculation and export.
The market closed firm, with an upward tendency.
Breadstuffs firm and steady.
Provisions quiet.
Console 91 ¾@91 ⅞, for money.
equal admission of slave labor and free labor into any Territory excites unfriendly conflict between the systems, a fair partition of the Territories ought to be made between them, and each system ought to be protected within the limits assigned to it, by the laws necessary for its proper development.
Mr. Wise again moved that the Committee rise; but the Chair ruled the motion out of order, from which Mr. Wise took an appeal.
The Chairman then read the resolution adopted on the 13th of March for the government of the Committee of the Whole; and stated the question--"Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House?"
Mr. Wise explained the motive which actuated him in making the appeal.
Mr. Carlile rose to a question of order.--He desired to know if there was no limit to the discussion of an appeal.
The Chairman said there was no limit that he was aware of. It was a privileged question, and he overruled the point of order.
Mr. Speed hoped
Judge Clopton's Library.
--The library of the late Judge John B. Clopton, of Virginia is to be sold at auction in New York on the 13th of May.
To show its extent, we may mention that the catalogue fills 160 pages.
It is matter of re that this valuable collection of books could not have been retained in the State whose judiciary the late owner so eminently graced.
he Boston Traveller writes, under date of the 11th inst., as follows:
Whether it be the 1st of April which casts its ludicrous shadow upon us, or that we feel the quivering which forerun the earthquake, certain it is the political atmosphere was never more agitated than it is now by all manner of alarming rumors; some long faces vow Russia and France entered into a secret treaty for the partition of Turkey — a poor country, which is certainly in a most deplorable condition — on the 13th of March last; other faces, no ways shorter, whisper mysteriously of negotiations between Russia, Austria, Italy and France for the dismemberment of Turkey, for the extension of French territory to the Rhine, for the destruction of Belgium, for the obliteration of all the minor powers of Germany under Prussia, to whom Austria would concede its German provinces, and surrender its Italian provinces to Italy, receiving in exchange the Roumain and Slave Provinces on the Lower Danube, which consolidat
Howitzers spiked. Fort Kearney, May 13.
--Capt. Tyler, of the Second Dragoons, commanding at this post, fearing that a rich might take and turn against the garrison the ten twelve-pounder howitzers in his possession, spiked them on the evening of the 10th.
He had received orders to remove the pieces to Fort Leavenworth, out thought it unsafe to do so in the distracted state of the country.
Threats had been made to take them from him.
Important from the sea coast. Augusta, March 13.
--The Savannah News, of this morning, mentions two or three skirmishes with the enemy below Savannah.
No loss was sustained on our side.
Passengers from Florida report that Capt. Clarke's company, on St. Mary's river, fired upon a Federal gunboat, killing twenty-five or thirty of the enemy.
At the last accounts a battle was being fought on the main land near Fernandina.
The Federals were three thousand strong, and the Confederates two thousand.
It is thought we would capture the whole Federal force.
The Southern Editorial Convention. Atlanta, March 13.
--The Convention of the daily press of the Confederate States met in this city yesterday.
The following daily newspapers were represented: Savannah Republican, J. R. Sneed; Atlanta Confederacy, J. H. Smith; Atlanta Intelligeneer, A. A. Gaulding; Augusta Constitutionalist, J. C. Howard, by proxy.
The following weeklies were also represented; Macon Messenger, Jacksonville (Ala.) Republic, and the Calhoun (Ga.) Flag.
On motion, S. Rose, Esq., of the Macon Messenger, was called to the chair, and J. Henly Smith, of the Atlanta Confederacy, appointed Secretary.
Motions were made to appoint committees on telegraphic news, mails, printing, office labor, and printing paper, but owing to the slim attendance of delegates only a committee of four, on telegraphic dispatches, was appointed.
The meeting then adjourned over to Thursday, the 18th inst., at which time the Convention reassembled.
The representatives of the Mac
Arrival of Mr. Yancey. Mobile, March 13.
--A special dispatch to the Mobile Evening News says that Hon. Wm. L. Yancey has safely landed in this country at Berwick's Bay.
He was expected to arrive at New Orleans by a special train this evening.
Notes of the War.
the battle in Arkansas--Mr. Yancey's speech in New Orleans — cotton planting, &c., &c.
The Little Rock Trust Democrat of March 13, has a letter from Fort Smith, which pays the following tribute to our brave commanders who recently fell in the bloody battle in Arkansas:
The noble and brave McCulloch has fallen.
No nobler blood will flow, no better man will yield up his life for the liberty of the South.
But this is not all; the gallant McIntosh also has yielded up his life for the cause he was espoused to. Young and brave, and as daring as he was brave, his, like his brave companions', name was a terror to our enemies.
But they only live now in deeds of noble daring and devotion to the cause of the South, His devoted wife has the heart fell sympathies of many friends in the west.
The South should adopt her and her children, and may God be a protector to the widow and orphans, Col. McRae is also reported among the slain, killed whilst galla
