The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-01

found by their neighbors mangled with an axe
Two persons have been arrested charged with
the commission of the crime
A MIR. Lewis, gardener in the vicinity Of
New York, while riding down Broadway on
Sunday, jumped from the carriage to stop the
horse, which had run away, and fell upon the
pavement. He was so much injured that it was
necessary Immediately to amputate one of his
legs.
We have received the first number of Harrison
English and German paper, published at New Orleans
under the title of The German American" This pa
per has been heretofore published in German alone as
"Der Deihsche .4nerkaner, but HOSTS the flag Of
Harrison & Tyler, and speaks to the German and the
American in the vernacuar language ofeac, calling up
on them to support the of Reform and the Const
tuition
Boot RGce-Mr. Stevens new yacht, the Stag, accept
ed the challenge of the Captain of the Savannah clipper
built brig Exit, and beat her miles eleven, from
the Battery the Nanows and back. pilot boat went
into the race and was also distanced by the Stag There
wager, but many bets between the friends of the
partes.-N. Y. Star
E,listng Soldiers for the U. S-A United States SOL
dier, named John McDermott, who had been enlisted
last May at New York, discharged on Saturday by
the Court, the fact being shown that he had been
listed while in a state of intoxication.
The accident at PortIand.-Tl.re were two persons
only, drowned Portland, by the accident Mondays:
Mr.. Isanc P. Nichols, of Portland. Mr.. Dunning OF
Troy, who was reported to be of the sufferers ar
rived at the fremont alive and WELL
Neio Orleans Cotton Market-Sales since Monday last
have been 1000 bales. From Monday until Thursday
inclusive the market was angud but yesterday sales
effected to the of e 1000 bales at
full prices The purchases were made by two houses
in that city, agencies oil large Cotton Importing houses
in Liverpool.
Eiiled.-A man by the name of Philip Coyle was kill
| led at the junction of the Hudson and Mowhak Rail
road, on Wednesday last. 1t is supposed he fell or lay
down upon the rails while in of ntoxcation, and
went TO sleep.
| The Bank of America, New York. has declared a di
vidend of per for the last MONTHS payable
| the LIST of July.
James McGoin has been sentenced to the Penitentia-
ry in New York, for nine months, for an assault and
! battery on his wife.
Two hundred and fifty dollars reward is offered in
New York for the recovery of child named Tho
Fenwick
Two men were crushed few days at quarry
al Patterson, N. by rock weighing tons, which
eli upon them from height of twenty feet One Of
them is dead, and the other not expected to live.
Manuel Valdez and Manuel Navarro, two Spaniads,
hove been found guilty in New Orleans ofpassing
resfeit money.
altered Notes.-The New York Star says, there are
five dollar bills the Chemical Bank of that city at
tered from They require close examination to
detect the cheat.
Flour-Twelve millions of barrels of flour are anna
ally consumed In the United States, which, five dol
lars per BARREL would amount to sixty millions of dci-
Ears
Wreck on Lake Erier-The schooner Commercial, of
Connecticut $50 barrels salt board was run in
to and sunk by the Great Western last week. and time
ouly afforded to take off the before she went down.
Damdges.-A of GRIM was tried recent y at
New Orleans, in which the damages were laid at $lO,-
OOO The jury gave a verdict for g. cents.
Il Leap.-A Tpperary paper states that on a secent
feet, with run of rising ground it, for bet of 20
verGsns.
Reiedsed-rhe British steamer Argyle, at Rev Or
leans, which recently seizcd has since been reeas
ed, and was to run Immediately TO Vera Cruz
Ptoughing the Deep.-Dr Putnam, of New Orleans,
has invented machine with which he hopes remove
the bars that obstruc the mouth of the river, by
mir daa
water steamboat is required drive the apparatus.
Fire in PattsbTg.-The house occupied by Cen. Pre-
vost his head quarters during the sege of Plattsbug
in 1914, was destroyed by fire on the 10Th inst.
Nafehez is going up again. They are building rapidly
and several houses the last accounts open and
doing buness The streets nearly cleared, and inn
provements are TO be seen in every direction.
Jeremiah Proser and j. w. Harrison. lad of IA years
age have been convicted of robbing the mall before
the U. 8. Circuit Court at Springfield, Illinois.
Eleven thousand and thrty-three more emigrants
from Europe have arrived at Quebec this year than
last
At the last accounts the Ohio rising, and the MIS-
sissppi falling There ground for apprehend
ing any further rise of the Mississippi.
Conaereiters appear to be very plenty in the West
Two arrested al New Paris, Preble county, Ohio,
last week, with thousand dollars of counterfeit
notes in their possession.
Thomas A. Derter has been officially recognized
Consul of Texas for the port of Boston.
The farmers in the lower counties Of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland hpve generally commenced harvest
ing.
The New York Star states that three thousand emf
nr.nt, .xvyad sh,s frotn Geruan. .....:-