American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-01-24

ARREsT OF THE MURDERER. 1t appears that
the author of the foul and mysterious muider
perpetrated few days ago in Philadelphia, on
the person of Andrew Treager, has been arrest
cd. His name is Charles Bobcnberger, who ar
rived about five weeks since from Bremen, and
who, being turner by trade, occupied shop
contiguous to the house OF the murdered man.
The Chronicle of yesterday contains the fol-
lowing particu ars:
Bobenberger was examined before the Coro
ncr's inquest, and stated that he knew Ireager,
from being in his room once or twice with 9TH
er persons. He said that Treager came into his
shop about O'Clock on Friday morning, while
he was at work, and borrowed lamp from
mn, ana that they subsequently, went 10 Trea-
gers room, and sat there until near o'clock,
when he returned to his shop, and resumed mis-
work. On being asked when he last saw Trca-
ger he SAID he had not seen him since Friday
afternoon. This was all he knew in relation
to the deceased. When questioned about his
own movements at the time it is supposed that
the murder was perpetrated, he said he left his
boarding house on Friday night, and went with
friend to the Golden Lamb, in North Second
street, that he stopped there all night, and went
to work at O'Clock next morning. Facts have
since come to light which show that Bobenber-
ger was at the Golden Lamb between and 10
O'Clock on Friday night, but that he left imme-
datcly afterwards, and that he was not at his
boarding house all Hight. He was seen at an
early hour on Saturday morning, at Il tavern
at the corner of Fourth and Coates sts The
female who was at the bar, observing that he
appeared cold and somewhat excited, asked him
what was the matter-he replied that he had
been out all night. The police of the North
ern Liberties searched the house where he
boarded, and discovered shirt and other arti-
cles of wearing apparel, which were clotted
with blood, and which appeared as if they had
been recently washed. They also found at the
shop where he worked Ratchet, upon which
gouts Of blood were distinctly visible. There
are various other circumstances connected with
Bobcnberger's conduct and movements between
Friday night and Monday morning which tend
to mplicatc him III this foul affair. He under
went an examination before Mayor Belstering,
yesterday afternoon, when the whole of the
facts detailed above were fully proved by com
Petcnt witnesses. The Mayor thinking the tes-
timony clear and conclusive against the prso-
ner, committed HIM to the county prison, to
take his trial at the next Court of Oyer and
Terminer, for the wiltul murder of Andrew
Treager.
BY the way, the Philadelphia Times, which
contains column Of matter under its editorial
head, dcnouncng as demagogues all who OPP
pose the present system Of emigration to this
country, in another column says:
Bobcnberger arrived here in the barque Phi
ladelphia, from Bremen, on her last voyage,
IN company with female, whs lives with Mir.
EckstCin, in North Second street, and whom
he visited on Friday evening. lie is native
of Brunswick, in the Kingdom OF Hanover,
was apprentced to three several masters in his
country, and as he states, has been working for
year and half on his own account. He is
believed to have been an inmate Of some house
of correction i'll Germany, and to have been
sent to America by the authorities there.
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FouR HUNDRED MlLEs OF GRAssuorPERs.
The Journal of Commerce says that Capt. lIa-
ger, Of the barque arcella, has brought homo
a preserved grasshoppor, of the size of a mans
thumb, as sample of an immense field through
which he sailed for five days. He fell in with
tho field off the Western Islands, and the pre-
sumption was, that they were blown off from
Africa. The water was heavily crustcd with
them, the gasshoppers filling the surface to the
depth of some inches, and extending in the
course ofthe barque for four hundred miles,
OF course the account is true; and yet a field of
grasshoppers 400 miles long and some inches
thick, is-considcrable ola field of grasshoppers
That's all.
ANOTHER DEFAICATfoN II IS reported that