The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-18
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

Secretary, and adopted. The committee appointed
at the last meeting to draw up certain rules and
regulations for the future government of the Asso-
citation, reported through Mr.. John w. Mccoy, the
chairman. The regulations agreed upon bv the
committee were accepted, and ordered to be printed
The Treasurer then proceeded to read the follow
ing report of work done by the agents during the
month of December, 1855: Number of families
visited and relieved in the first district 2l9; num-
Der of persons in families 66G; amount expended
1890 SO. Number of families visited and relieved in
the second district 24l; number of persons in fami-
lies 907; amount expended 1892 %: Number of
families visited and relieved in the third district
229; number of persons in families 76S; amount ex-
pended 1899 81. Fourth dstrict-number of
families l59; number of persons in families sos;
amount expended 1929 Sc Making a total in the
whole four districts follows Number of fami-
lies e4S; number of persons in families 2,S49
amount expended 81 ,552 Al, Including 164 cords of
wood, and 35A tons of coal. The report was ac-
cepted.
The finance committee handed in their report
which accepted.
The following report was here read by the Treas
urer: Amounts received from each ward from Dec.
Goth, 1858, to date, follows LIST ward, Sl50.4S;
I'd ward, Sl2S.06; Sd ward, S45S7; 9th ward, $50;
9Th ward, Sl20; 9th ward, S55365; 10th ward
S267.67; llth ward, Sl,57050; 18th ward, 1921 50;
l4th ward, SG60.5s; 18th ward Sl79.36; 10th ward,
$50; 18th ward Sl33 so: 18th ward S2l2l2: 10Th
throughout the sixteen wards herein reported of
S4,75l.42. Also, the following amount from pri-
vate sources S92.5l.
John C. Bruno, ESQ.,, the President reported the
following collections from private sources: Miss
Clarissa Purnell, 500; Miss Lydia Hongsworth,
$500; John B. Morris, Esq, $50; Solomon Hilen,
Esq, $50; Edward I. Jenkins, Esq, $50; c. o..
O'Donnell, ESQ.,, $50; William Crichton, Esq,
$50; J. c. Y ates l. Co., $780, Geo. Tiffany, Esq,
500, and William H. Graham, Esq, Sl00-making
a total of $500.
There is also S3,273.9G now in the hands of the
managers of the different wards, which is not in
cluded in the report of the Treasurer.
An appropriation of 81 200 made to the
second district for the month of February, and
81, 900 each, to the first, third and fourth districts
An additional appropriation of 500 was also
made to the second district for the balance of the
month of January.
After transacting some other business of no gen
era interest the meeting was adjourned.
GRAND LODGE l. 0. o. F.-This body met last
night at seven O. clock in the Odd Fellow Hall,
Gay The first business transacted was the
examination of the credentials and the admitting
OF new members. The Chairmen of the different
standing Committees made their reports, which
were received. The Grand Master, Joshua Van
SAINT, Esq, then read his annual report After con-
graduating the Lodge on the prosperous condition
of the Order and referring to their rapid increase
throughout the State, he made reference to their
brother, the late p. e. NJ. William Bayey in the
following eloquent terms:
may select from out the body of those upon whose
thin covering scattered the evergreen our weeping
memories the sod of the valley closed upon
tai remains one for especial reference, without am
sure being charged with want of sympathy for all that
have died
The brother who filled this chair-my immediate prede.
cessor-P: G. Master William Bayley, has, since we last
assembled here the discharge official duties can
ceed the heaviest and the last debt which nature can
set up against poor humanity. A voice from the spirit
land quick the electric fash and peremptory as the
edicts of Almighty Judgment babe this brother
haste from ear and he went without farewell tone
to the fond hearts that drank of the fountain his being
He obeyed the summons without parting look upon
the most dearly loved whose happiness was in his
scaleswhose fate for good ill seemed interviewer
his existence.
Death is the penalty which Divine inicts upon
nature. The inevitable hour comes TO. all That measure
of time not to beloved brother when disease had
wrecked his physical manhood weakened the energies
Of his elastic mind, and which combined might have
made death welcome visitor but it broke upon him in
the vigor of his strength when all his fond ambtionsa
his noble and impulses active hope
seemed tob decking scenes for his enjoyment or weav-
ing gaands of beauty for the domestic hearth where sat
the wife and the children that of the of his
heart.
The 14h day of October 1885, shut out the busy
of this life forever and forever to the vision G. Mas
ter William Bayley, and the that set that day
never shone upon better tried and faithful
in Odd Fellowship 1t is not my purpose to rehearse the
services which distinguished in the Order our amented
brother. They are as familiar as household words to
mis- life enacted Suffice to say that he filled every
important station that his loved Washington Lodge
him. and that he occupied them all the benefit
of the Order Those services have been appreciated and
onstrations. NeD-
In all the relations of
high up the record. Who that knew him famiarly
does not recoec the smile that played upon features that
shaded by the storms clouds of PASSION
His face the dial plate of kind heart serene
temper and point thereon Of GOODNESS would
have been treachey to the beautiful machinery that put
in operation the characteristics which made him loved
and honored.
BUT the eyes that looked happiness in their looks
dispensed it, closed in their last long eclipse the
ready and the liberal hand that obeyed acquisitions of
his noble and generous nature is cold and mooness
voice that musical in its teachings of Frtndship
he spir tbnta
departed brother is with the God gave And his re
aticns and friends
'Alas for them but not for tbea
They cannot choose but weep the more;
Deep fer the dead the grief must be
" no ne er gave cause to weep before.n
Let u.s. my brethren, cherish his memory by remember
ing his widow and his orphans
me Lodge then proceeded TO the nomination of
candidates to fill the different offices for the en-
suing year, the election of which will take place
tins evening, and then adjourned to meet at ten
O'Clock this morning.
ELECTION OF OrFIcERs.-At meeting of the Di-
rectors of the Corn and Flour EXCHANGE held yes
terday, the following gentlemen were unanimously
elected as the officers of that institution for the en-
suing year. viz: President, William Crichton, ESD
Vice Presidents, Horatio l.. Whitridge, Esq, and
Col. William Chestnut; Treasurer, Samuel Duer.
Esq; Secretary, John P. Paca ESQ.,; Executive
Committee c. d. Kinks, j. B. Brinkey and J. H.
Bayfield,, Esqrs.
REPORT OF THE VISITORS OF THE JAIL.--We take
the following statistics from the Report OF the Yisi-
The receipts and expenditures for the year be-
ginning November 9th, 1857, and ending Noyem-
Der 26th, 1858, were as follows:
The entire expenses of the Jail, including
pairs for the current year, and transfer of pris-
oners to Baltimore county. .....s SIT 634 Sc
Amount I"a of fees, &c, received "a at TT the
Money received from licenses to
taiers of sprituous liquors. 1865 40
Leaving'the actual demand to be met by
moneys collected from taxes the
assessable property Of the city ..... 1000 90
--S17, 1874 Sc
During the past year there have been committed
to the custody of the Warden 1852 prisoners, and
the daily average in Jail each morning was l72 Ill.,
which is an increase of "a daily, and total increase
last year of ST. which is the greatest increase
that has ever taken place in any year. The in
crease of the expenses and the stoppage of some of
the sources of revenue, compel the Board to ask
larger appropriation (Sl5.0O0) from the city than