The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-12
CITY ITELLTENCE.

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Standing Committee on Police and Jail, of the CITY
Council, paid their annual visit to that Institution
for the purpose of inspecting the building and cx-
amining the books and vouchers of the Warden
The committee were received by the Board of Nisi
tors and Mr.. James, the Warden, and conducted
through the different departments of the prison
which they found in a condition rejecting great
credit upon the officers in charge. Everything was
in the best order the cells clean and as well ven
tated as possible; and the condition of the prison
ers of whom there are great number, as comfort
able as the contracted space in the rooms would
permit. After examining the cells and rooms, the
committee proceeded TO the office of the ia and
went into examination of the accounts and
vouchers of the Warden. The books and vouchers
having been carefully examined, the committee ex-
pressed themselves much gratitied with the man
ner in which the accounts had been kept and COM
plimented Captain James and his clerk, Mr. Patter-
son, upon the business-like condition of the same
The committee, at three o'clock, having finished
their work, were invited into the Warden's house,
when they sat down to sumptuous dinner
prepared by Mr.. James. There were a mum
number of the members of the Council present
as invited guests and some reporters for the papers,
The dinner was presided over by Col. William
Chestnut, President Of the Board of Visitors and Jas
Wood, Esq, of the First Branch, and Thomas
James, Esq, Warden. The tables were most
6ounltully supplied, and the company. after en-
Joyng the good things thereon, and drinking COM
pllmentary toasts to the Board of Visitors and
Capt. James, at O'Clock, arose and returned to
the Council Chamber well pleased with ther visit
to the Jail.
Lest any of our readers should be unduly prepos-
sessed by the above attering picture of Life at the
Jail, in favor of the charms of a protracted resi-
dence within the walls of that useful institution,
we will state that the 'tem," which we publish
just as received it, was not prepared by our re-
porter until after ''the sumptuous dinner" of which
he speaks The "spread'-he confdentiay as
sures uswas ''frst-rate,' particularly the straw
hnrri and anl T,ol,. IL
Warden and Visitors were of a consequently and
proportionably amiabe and grateful complexion
Whether the report of the ''Committee on Police
and Jail, )" was also prepared subsequently to the
dinner we do not know-but shall be better able to
tell after its publication.
The PRICE OF TAM Whether the prospect of
war in Europe has advanced the price of this use
full article in common with that of other American
products is not known, but such thing must
have occurred, of the longest squares in
Baltimore street would never be allowed to be roped
up for some three weeks for want of few loads of
tan. 1t Is certainly very kind in whole cOmmu-
nifty to consent to be put out of its way for few
days in consideration of the of some sick per-
son, but really there should be reason in the mat
ter and where the illness of any one living on a
business th0roughare is protracted, it is certainly
the duty of somebody to provide another remedy
against noise than the entire blockadng of the
street Should the embargo between Poppeton
and Fremont streets last much longer there will
probably be decline in the value of property on
that part of Baltimore street.
For AFRICA.-The Mary Caroline Stevens the
Liberia packet, sails this morning with $50 emf
grants to MOnrovia. number of them are from
Mississippi and Kentucky. There are also three
ministers on board, missionaries of the Presbyterian
Church, who go out to found a new mission. The
services on the ship will commence at 10 o'clock
after which the steam-tug viii convey them out of
the harbOr.
RoBBERY.-About two o'clock Yesterday morn
ing the boot and shoe store of George Bayer No.
G2 Richmond street between Howard and Park
streets, was broken into and robbed of a quantity
OF boots and shoes and upper leather, valued at
about 500. The burglars effected an entrance into
the premises through the front door by means of
false keys.
Death OF AN OLD CTIzEN.-Captain Lemue G.
Taylor, long known in Baltimore and tbrougbout
the State as the popular commander of the Mary
land one of the oldest steamboats, on the Chesa-
peake, died at his residence at Greenburv's Point
near Annapolis, on Tuesday.
AcCIDENr.-A man named Greenberrv Grimes en-
ployed by Mr.. Crowley at the new Water Works
whilst driving wagon near the corner of Chase
ana Cathedral streets, accident ally fell to the
ground, the wheel passing over his left leg causing
bad fracture. He was carried to the office of Dir.
set.
NARROW EscApE.-Y esterday afternoon a little
boy, aged about II years, son of John Fungcn re-
siding in Brannans court. Hughes street, was play
ing in a small boat, at Light street wharf and
fell overheard He would certainly have been
drowned, but for the timely assistance of one of the
laborers employed on the wharf.
ADMITTED PRACTICE.-C. W. Tayleure ESQ,
was admitted to practice in the Superior Court of
this city, by Judge Lee, Tuesday last. Mr.. r.
had studied law some years ago in the office OF
Hugh >. Legare, of Charleston S. C..
APPEoPRIATIoNsBY BY THE CITY CoUNCIL.-The appro-
priations made by the City Council up to the ilth
instant, amount to the of S27 ,433. 3S.