The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-19
CITY XNTELLIGENCE.

RESPITE AND WARRANT FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE
CONDEMNED-SheriffC Creamer on Thursday evening
received from the Governor the respite and war
rant for the execution of the condemned men, Gam
brill, Crop, Corrie, and Stephens, (negro,D of
which the following is a copy:
The State Of Maryland
To the Sheriff of baltimore City, Greeting:
Whereas, by warrant under the Great Seal of
Maryland heretofore on the eighth, NINTH and
nineteenth days of February, 1859 respectively to
you directed you authorized and commanded
in pursuance of the judgment and sentence render
ed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore and the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County in the cases of
Henry Gambrill, John Stephens, (otherwise called
Cyphus,) negro Marion Crop and Peter Corrie tcI
execute the said Judgment and sentence to death
upon the said Henry Gambr;ll, Marion Crop Peter
Corrie and John Stephens on the eighteenth day
of March eighteen hundred and ffty-nine:
And whereas, since the issuing of said several
warrants, satisfactory and sufficient reasons have
been shown and still exist, for postponement of
the execution of the said Judgment, to a day later
than that therein named:
Now, THEREFORE, these are to ,oW anil require, as
also to charge and command you, that at or before
the hor Of ttceire O'clock noon, on Fridny the
eighth day Of april eighteen hundred and filty-nine
lin the place of and instead of the eighteenth day
of March, as heretofore commanded) You take the
said Henry Gambrill, Marion Crop, Peter Corrie,
and John Stephens, otherwise called Cvphus,)
negro, from your Prison and them safely convey to
the gallows in the city of Baltimore. at the place
of the execution of Maleactors. and then the said
henry NanDflll, ana the sad Marion Crop, the
said Peter Corrie, and the said John STEPHENS
otherwise called Cyphus, negro, hang by the neck
until they, and each of them be dead For all
which this shall be your sufficient warrant and
authority:
(-e,1 Given under my hand and the Great Seal
( SEAL Sof Maryland at the City of Annapolis. this
lo-) Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and tfty-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States the eighty
third. THos IT, hicks
By the Governor
James R. Partridge, Secretary of State.
RIOT IN BALTIMORE CoUNTY.-On Thursday some
of the laborers employed on the new water works,
engaged in fight near Shutdown, in Baltimore
county. About three o'clock in the afternoon
party known as Corkonians, who are employed on
one of the upper sections came to Sabtown and be-
ing drunk, commenced to insult the hands employ
ed on the section that place. and who are known
as the landowners. A fight took place between
the rival parties, in which knives and pistols were
used, but the principal weapon was the fshiUaloh"
One man is reported to have been shot, another as
having his head terribly cut and several seriously
wounded There over two hundred persons
engaged in the fight, which was kept up for an
hour. Several of the rioters were arrested by the
county officers and conveyed to prison, and yester-
day two men named John Gray and Patrick Shield,
were arrested in this city the charge of having
been engaged in the fight and confined in the Mid
die district police station.