The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-26
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CIRCUIT CoURT FOR HARFoRD COUNTY.-Hon. John
II. Price Judge. VIM. II. Dalam, Esq. States
Attorney, prosecuting. The following business oc-
cupied the Court to-day: State US. Peter FetZner,
indicted for the wilful and malicious murder of
Geo. kOontz, by stabbing him with knife. from
the effects of which he died. II. W. p. Norris,
assistant prosecutor. II. W. Archer, and Herman
Stump, Esqs., for the defence.
The prisoner pleaded ''not guilty" and urv were
sworn to try the case. The evidence in this case
went on to show that on the 10th of Nav last the
deceased and another man went into the house of
the.prisoner, "a low drinking g-house in Havre de
Grace,) and commenced general destruction of
property, and to conclude the spree. made a des-
perate assault upon the prisoner, who, in defence
of himself stabbed them both, from the effects of
which one (KoOntz) died few davs after the oc-
currencc. After the conclusion of the evidence.
the States Attorney abandoned the prosecution,
and the jury, without leaving their box, rendered
verdict of mot guilty"
State rs. John LimrOn, indicted for rem owing
! boundary stone. Verdict, not guilty.
State as. jane, (free negress, indicted for the
larceny of 30 pounds Of bacon, and various other
articles. Otho Scott undertook to save her bacon
but failed to do it, and the jury rendered verdict
of guilty. Not sentenced.
John Gambrill, convicted of riot, was placed at
the bar to receive his sentence When asked by the
Judge If he had thing to say why sentence should
! not be passed upon him, he replied "nothing."
The Judge then after sound lecture of about a
quarter of an hour, in which he regretted the ne
cessity OF the case, but congratulated himself that
| he performing duty, sentenced him to be con
fined in the Baltimore county iaiI, for the term of
| two years-the full extremity OF the law.
| At the conclusion of the sentence, Gambril re-
| quested that he might be taken to Jail as soon as
possible. Gambrill has been married about four
months He will be taken TO the Jail by Deputy
Sheriff Holland Tomorrow Thursday morning.
| DEATH OF KIT CARsoN.-0ur advices from the
overland route announce the death of the ceebra-
ted pioneer and explorer, Christopher Carson, at
Taos, New Mexico, where he had been residing as
Indian Agent. Carson a native of Kentucky,
having been born in Madison county, at the close
of 1909. His father, shortly after that period
moved to Missouri, where Kit, when a lad of Is
was apprenticed to sadder-occupying himself
at that business two years, at the end Of which lie
joined a trapping expedition, and a trapper he re
maned until his familiarity with the great far
West rendered him invaluable as guide to ex.
plorers of the Plains For eight years he acted as
hunter at Bents Fort. When Col. Fremont en-
gagged in his expeditions Carson accompanied him
and was ever after his steadfast companion. In
lS47 he received the rank of Lieutenant in the
rife corps, United States army. His latest and
most remarkable exploit on the Plains, was enact
ed in 1853, when he conducted a drove of ,00(
sheep safely to California. ...
Loss OF THE INDIAN.-The name of this vessel ha
been famiariZed to our readers by the frequent
arrival of foreign news BY her. She was an irur
propeller of seventeen hundred and sixty-fnur tons
burthen. She rated !, was built in 1855 a
Dumbarton, Scotland, and owned by the Liverpool
and Canadian Steam Navigation Company of Liv
erpool Her value, 5000 900, is undoubtedly in
sured. This same company lost the steamer
Canadian in the year 1857, by her being driver
ashore in the Bay of Fundy, the entrance of the
river st. Lawrence. The Indian therefore is tht
second vessel they have lost. She parted amid
ships Her advices from England were four Gay
later. The passengers by this line are generally
numerous.
malignant epidemic is said to be prevailing
among the settlements on the border of Berks AM
| Scluylkill PENNSYLVANIA. .
pronounce the disease to be typhoid, and its raya
ges have been very fatal in the infected neighbor
hoods. In some towns it is reported that few fami
lies have escaped the contagion. 3