The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-02
DOM E STIC
from the National Intelligencer.


THE CANAL.-The Directors of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company met yesterday morning in
full board, pursuant to adjournment-L.J Brengle,
Esq, President. In the temporary absence of Mr..
Walter s. Cox, counsel of the Board the opinion of
John Marbury, Esq, of Georgetown, on the ques-
ton raised the day before by Mr.. Maulsby, Presi-
dent of the late Board was solicited and rendered
by Mr.. Marbury in written form. This opinion is
favorable to the Legitimacy of the Board elect
ed on the 10th ultimo under bylaw of the stock
holders representing stock to the amount of $780,
600 to call general meeting; and that it is ALWAYS
competent for general meeting of the Stockholders
to change the directory. The Board determined to
act accordig to Mr.. Marbury's opinion, and pro
ceeded to the election of subordinate officers as fol
lows:
John G. Stone, of Clearspring district. Genera
superintendent and Engineer of the Canal; Horace
benton, Superintendent Georgetown division: Sila
browning, Superintendent Monocacy division; Lev
IN Benton, Superintendent Antietam division: A. K
Stake, Superintendent Williamsport division: Levi
e. Stanhope, Superintendent Hancock division
Lloyd Lowe, Superintendent Cumberland division
l. McHenry Hollingsworth, Collector at Georgetown
Clement A. Peck ASSISTANT John A. Rickard. Col
lector at Williamsport; Henry Wells, Collector a
hancock; John H. Shaw, Collector at Cumberland
The Board appropriated sum of money sutficien
to carry the two new stone dams to COMPLETION a
rapidly as possible and adjourned to meet again OF
the 10Th inst.
MAN WITH EIGnT WIvEs-The case of tn,
man VINO has been going about seeking whom HI
might marry, and marrying every woman who
might accept his hand, has caused some excitement
at fhlladelphla. crowd of curious people fiockeC
to see him during the preliminary examination int
the charges against him. On the first day (25tI
instant two of his victims appeared and gave ties
timony against him. One of them, Anna Thomp
son, married him as William II. Boyington a
Trenton, IN. J.,) October 5, 1853 The second
Prudence Arlsbton, married him as James R. Will
lams, at Philadelphia August 10, 1857 These wo
men produced their marriage certificates, and full,
thoir ,n;nf b,,eh
tanned $500 of thu. first named woman and then de
serted her; he got S261 of the other woman ant
ran away from her.
There are said to be six other women, making
eight In all, who have been married to this man
and received the same treatment as did Anna an,
Prudence. The accused has as many names as b.
has wives. The last alias he sported was yer,
convenient one, Smith. He is described as being
man OF full two hundred and fifty pounds weight
portly, but well made. He did not seem at al
embarrassed by the gaze of the hundreds of peopl
VINO were present as spectators but he was observed
10 olanch little when procession of females
almost as long as that of ''the ghosts of Banouo'
line" passed through the office before the hearine
commenced, and took shelter in the private room
assigned to female witnesses.
The CONFESSION OF THE WIFE-MURpERER.-Tbe
~ Louis Republican contains the full confession O
George I'll. Lamb, who killed his wife BY drowning
ner In lne MISSISSIPPI river 1t appears he prev
ousiy made an attempt to poison her by giving her
strychnine, while at hotel in st. Louis. He gave
her two doses, but she threw it up, after much su
ferlng. He then, after her recovery took her in a
sEn out to the middle of the river, the pretence
OF going to town on the opposite side, and DELHI
eratey selzng her by the neck held her head under
water until she was dead, when he sunk the BODY.
he gives the names of two men who agreed to assist
IN the murder, and says he was induced to commit
the deed in order to marry another female, which
he did in few days after.
GOLD DISCOVERED IN IowA.-A great deal of ex-
wi are in thar boil e
consequence othe recent discovery of gold in Clarke
county. 1t was first discovered about eight mile,
northeast of Osceola, the county seat some eioht
weeks ago, and has since been found in three other
places Men are making from three to five dollar.
per day digging 1t has been fully tested and prove,
to be real stuff, and is found in quartz rock and
hne black sand, similar to that in California MANY
are now out prospecting through that county; with
seems very favorable.
HEAVY GALES ON THE GULF.-The New Orleans
True Delta learns from its Mexican exchanges thai
on the last passage of the Royal mail steam packet
Solent from Havana to Vera Cruz, that vessel suf
tered severe tempest in the Gulf Six men were
washed overheard during the gale, but owing t.
the during OF some of the officers and crew three O.
lne unfortunates were saved, but the other three
were lost ~
The Mexican schooner Eduardo, from San ,Juar
Bautlsta de Tabasco for New Orleans, has gone or
the Alacranes The vessel is total loss but the
passengers and crew were saved
80 EXCITING ScENE.-The women of Fredericksburg
Ohio, who had been indicted for riot by the Grand
Jury for abating the doggeries in that village came
INTO court on Saturday last and entered into bonds
with surety, in 500 each for their appearance at
the next term of court. So large an array of GRIN
oline created quite an excitement among the habit
ues OF the old court house, so that it was immedi-
ately hlled to sutfocation. At the next term of
court they will have their places for trial at the bar
as crlminals.-W Wooster Republican,