The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-29

Aug. Belmont -. $4,000 90 Co.......... 2O.575 90
| Butcher Il Bro. 5000 90 Sampson & Tap
G. Calender. $500 OO pan........... 6G33 90
W: T. Coleman & G. W. Shenks.... 6,OOO 90
| CO.. ....... 21,000 DOW. Schumacher. 1000 90
u W. Crosby. 10000 00freadwell & Co.. 10000 90
.. H. Cummings. 1000 O0L. E0nhoff & Co.. 14,590 O0
Duncan, Sherman j. B. Wer....... l.4s0 90
& Co........... 40 900 O0Wels, Fargo &
A A EraZer... 1900 90 Co............. 473,500 90
Truman Co. GS,975 90 Order. 155,S02 20
| H. E. TifTer. 5000 00l
Goldsto'n Fried s1,334, ,SO2 O3
lander & Co... 1900 90 FROM AspINwALL
Renard & Co... 1890 90 Sam'l G. Reed &
H Harris & Co.. l3,5OO 90 Co.......... 5000 90
| W. Hoge 4 Co... 10000 OOG. G. Hebson. 1910 so
Holt, Oatman Go. $50 O0J. F. Jay....... 1900 OO
Rowland Aspin- j. Avezzana..... 400 90
| wall .......... .121 Cos 07C. L. Dimon..... COO 90
Jas Hunter Il Co. 1865 90 ,Ino. J. Dade.... $50 90
Eugene Kelly &Co 10000 O0A. d. For,l. .. 2G2 a.
| Reuben Meader... 1000 90 Everett * Brown 22l 50
| r. Meader Ad- ID. Hoadley..... 500 90
ams............. 5000 OOS. Lamburgh &
Morgan, Stone & Bro............ 333 20
Co............. 527O 81 Trever & Colgate. sos OO
P. Naylor....... 5000 00J. Krause. ...,.... $50 90
JB. Newton & Co 137lS 80 Order. 1000 Go
James Patrick. 10000 90 s1,4o3,ol9 20
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
! The Legislature is busily in session at Sacra-
mento, but with the splendid exception of taking
| the State Prison from the corrupt management
of the lessee, James NJ. Est have yet done nothing
| important. An effort is being made by its mem
bers to force the California Democracy to take
| sides on the Kansas question; a large majority
of the people, and most of the newspapers, how
ever, endorse Mr.. Douglass views. A great
deal of rain has fallen, and the streams in various
| parts OF the State are much swollen.
On the 18th of February, negro named Aaron
Bracey, living at Auburn, Placer Countrywide,
about year ago, killed Chinaman-struck an
Irishman, named Edward Murphy, the head
with pick, which penetrated the skull, and per
mitted Murphy's brain to escape. Bracey mmed
atey proceeded to the Sheriff's office, in Auburn,
informed that officer what he had done, and gave
himself up. Murphy found insensble, as the
negro had described, and was carried home. Bra
cey was locked up in Jail. During the night, some
| tvVnn htin1 min nl- Of nv
being very much incensed, assembled, and at day
light, surrounded the Jail, took the negro by force
from the hands of the officers, and hung him up to
a tree. Murphy did not die for two days after.
This application of ynch-law excited the ire of Gov
ernor Weller, who wrote letter to the Legisa
ture, severely censuring the people, and calling for
the enactment of severer statutes for the suppress
sion of mObs.
A correspondence has also taken place between
Gov. Weller and the authorities of Monterey
ty, where the man, Jose Anastasia, under sentence
of death, was hung by the under sheriff, though a
respite for thirty days had been received for 'Anas
tasia Jesus" The Governor abuses the Sheriff
roundy for not obeying the respite; to which the
latter says, although as private individual he
| felt the Governor intended to respite Jose
Anastasia, as public officer he was compelled to
construe the respite strictly and could not presume
| his Excellency meant one man when he named
another. As there was no time to rectify the error
in the names, he preceded to hang the culprit at
! the time named in the sentence. Jose confessed to
! two murders on the gallows The Governor laid
this correspondence before the Legislature, and
among the letters is one signed by numerous citizens
OF Monterey, praying for a pardon of Jose, as he
was the only fiddler in the town, and they coudnot
carry on their fandangos without him.
On Sunday, 2lst February a terrible tragedy was
enacted at Grass Valley, Nevada county. Michael
Brenan, an educated and intelligent Irishman, who
has been acting the President of the Mount Hope
Mining Company, on that day poisoned his wife and
three children, with prussic acid and then commit
| ted suicide by the same agency. Mr.. Brenan had
been unfortunate in his mining enterprise. and had
involved himself in debt to the amount of one hun
dred thousand dollars. Breeding over his pccuni-
ary misforunes, he became, it is thought, partially
insane, and deliberately planned and carried into
effect the destruction of his family and himself
Mrs. Brennan was lady of highly cultivated mind
and amiable disposition, and had cndcared herself
during her residence in California, to many
friends.
The children were exceedingly interesting, and
both Brennan and his wife are represented as having
been devotedly attached to them. 1t is supposed
| that Mrs. Brennan had no knowledge of the inten-
tOn of her husband or participation in his guilt
| She, from appearances was poisoned first, and the
| children, one after another, in succession. Each
was found dead with pillow pressed over its face
in different parts of the house. Brenan was grad
uate of Trinity College, Dublin. He had been in
this State about year, and has been connected with
the New York press. He left several letters, dis
posing of his effects, and announcing fully his inten
ton, and the reasons influencing him.
VIM. Reynolds, driver of the Marysville stage,
was shot dead at San Juan North, Nevada county,
on the goth of February, by E. NOrthrup. 1t ap-
pears that the latter suspected REYNOLDS of intimacy
with his wife; and on the night of the Goth, whilst
he was standing in the passage of the Union Hotel,
Reynolds was suddenly fired upon from the bar-room;
| before he could move the lights in the bar-room
were put out, so that he could not see his enemy,
while he stood in full vew because of light from the
open door of the dinng-room. While thus Reyn-
| Olds received two or three more balls from the bar
| room, and then he He pursued through
the dining room into the kitchen, where he fell upon
his face, in the agones of death. One or two more
shots were fired into his body it lay. Northrup
made his escape. The people generally sympathizc
with him, on account of the supposed domestic in
jury suffered from Reynolds though the assassination
is admitted to have been cowardly and cruel.
David Butler was hung at Nevada on Friday, 2Gth
| February, for the murder of Mr. Molfatt. Butler
stated his true name to be Mason C. Bolin. There
were about three thousand persons present at the
execution.
The National Theatre property at Sacramento,
which cost S4S, ,000 was sold on the 22d February,
at sheriff's sale, for 900.
The Legislature passed a bill providing for the
immediate taking possession by the State of the
State Prison, and the ousting of James NJ. Estill-
| to the State Prison on the lst of March and took
possession.
destructive avalanche occurred in Pumas
county, on the morning of the 18th February,
| by which two persons were killed. company
| prospecting on a steep ravine situated between
Poor Mans Creek and Hopkins Creek having
| run tunnel part way into the mountain, which
was nlgn ana pfeclpitOuS. Mf. GentrY, one OF tne
company, with his family, consisting of a wife and
two children lived in cabin side of the ravine,
while man named Wilson, also one OF the company,
and some seven eight of the other men belonging
to it, lived in another cabin on the other. At the
time of the catastrophe there were only three or
four men, including Wilson, in his cabin, while the
whole Gentry family were at home. In the pro
found slumbers of the night, there came roar of
thousand thunders, and the dread avalanche de
scended. Both cabins swept down into ruins
and covered with a solid mass of snow and ice,
while the main body of the 'sde'' rolled fear
fully forward; tearing up everything that OPP
child, were uninjured. The older boy, four
years of age, was crushed to death. Mr.. VIII
son and his three four companions, in the
other cabin, were severely injured. Mr.. Wilson
crawled out of the ruins, though badly hurt, and
started to go to Hopkins Greek, mile distant, for
assistance. On the way, he fell down exhausted
and soon died of cold and his injuries. Gentry, ai-
ter digging out his wife and infant child hurried
off for assistance, which, arriving at the of
the disaster, dug out the dead boy and the surv
vors in Wilson's cabin the latter almost dead wi tn
cold and the pressure to which they had been sub
jected.
The actress, Mile. Celeste, took an overdose Of
morphine at Sacramento, on 9th February, and
narrowly escaped with her life. Antidotes were ad
minstered and the patient is recovering.
The Legislature has passed an act to confirm the
Van Ness ordinance, which provides that all the
title of the city of San Francisco to lands within
her borders shall be given % TO % the parties in posses
provide for compulsory observance of SUNDAY.
4 Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly
rendered long report, praying for an abrogation
of the present contract for the conveyance of the
mails between San Francisco and New York
and the formation of new contracts with two other
companies
f. A. Rowe released, on the 23d ult, from
the Prison Brig at Sacramento where he had been
confined for more than year for contempt of court
in refusing to tell what had been done with SI24.
900, taken from the State Treasury by DR.. Bates
Archy, the slave, is confined in the Stockton iaiI
by order of Stova who is his master and owner.
under the decision of the Supreme Court of the
State.
The Indians on the Sebastian Reservation in Los
Angeles county, revolted on the l4th ut, and re-
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