The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-27

THE CASE OF JACKALow.-The case of Jackalow,
the Chinaman, charged with the murder of the
captain of the oyster-sloop about two months ago,
in New York Bay, will be tried by the United
States District Court, now in session at Trenton
n. j. The judge in giving his charge to the Grand
Jury, laid down some principles of law respecting
the corpus delicta The doctrine of Lord ansfeld
that conviction should never follow where the
body was not produced, could not be held appica-
BILE as an universal rule. Many notorious murderers
would escape under rigid enforcement of such
rule Of law. Bodies might be entirely consumed
or decOmposed by chemicals, sunk into the depths
OF the sea, when the production of the corpus dIctr
would be impossible, and yet the circumstance
might very clearly point to murder and to the
offenders. Particularly might this be the case on
the high seas, where whole ships crew might be
murdered and their bodies thrown into the sea-
The true rule was to be governed by such an array
OF circumstances as point to one focus, furnishing
clear evidence of a strong conviction in the mind
that crime had been committed. The Grand jury
are to investigate the probable grounds of the
charge against a defendant, and not to decide
questions Of law, but leave that for the traverse
under the direction of the Court.
THE BODY OF CAPT. LEFT FOUND.
The Jamaica Democrat of the 25th SAYS: An in
quest was held last Tuesday by DR.. Wood coroner
OF Queens County. upon the body of man (since
supposed to be Capt. Leet, who was murdered by
Jackaow, the Chinaman.) He had been in the
water some time, and from the evidence before the
coroner, the jury gave their verdict that de-
unknown. sister of Capt. Leet, on seeing the
account in the papers, came here yesterday, and
upon dsintering the body, says she is quite of
his identity, and is going to Trenton, n. J to-day,
to give these facts in evidence.
ANOTHER MURDER IN New YoRK.-ln New York
on Tuesday morning about six o'clock Daniel
O'Rourke and John McKeogh, both Irish laborers,
living at No. 3l9 Water street, got into an aerca-
tion, the result of difficulty which had long
existed between them, when McKeogh drew large
knife and stabbed his antagonist in the neck, sever
ing the jugular vein and causing the almost instant
death OF O'Rourke. The alarm given, when
officers COnklin and Coakey of the Fourth ward
ran to the house and arrested the muir derer as he
was making his escape down flight of stairs The
prisoner was taken to the station house and com
mitted to await the action of the coroner, who was
notified to hold inquest. The deceased, as also
the accused 1t IS said, addicted to habits of in
temperance, and were very quarrelsome persons.
O'ROurke was about 50 wears of age. He has left
wife and three children. McKeogh is also a mar
red man.
BARON RENFREw AND THE ENGLISH RESIDENTS OF
New YoRK.-Baron Renfrew has refused the invi-
tation proposed to be given in his honor by the
that he had already accepted one from the Ameri-
cans of New York, to be present at the grand
American ball to be given in his honor. In view
OF this refusal, the committee begged the assent of
the Prince to an address which they proposed to
offer him, but this also refused for the reason
that it might look invidious, and that the British
residents in other cities would want to pursue the
same course.
PLUERo-PNEUMoNIA IN GREAT BRITAIN.-Mr. A.
Barbarie, who was sent to England from New Bruins
wick to purchase and transmit stock to that Pro-
vince, has returned without bringing any neat
stock. He found that the pluero-pneumonia was
SO prevalent throughout England, Scotland and
Ireland, that it dangerous to attempt to trans
port cattle to the port of embarkation The exist.
ence of the disease is kept secret far possible
by the farmers, but Mr.. Barbarie was furnished
with ample certificates to the prevalence of the dis
ease by large breeders and gentlemen, as well as by
veterinary surgeons.-Boston Journal, Sept. "a.
The FOWLER DEFALoATIoN.-Th Tribune, of yes
terday, says: Messrs. Law and Conover sureties to
the detaulting postmaster, Isaac V. Fowler, to the
amount of $4,000, yesterday succeeded in getting
commission from the United States Court to 60 to
Cuba, and take the deposition of Mr.. Fowler as to
the state of his accounts with the Department at
Washington at the time their bonds were given for
him. There is but little doubt that Fowler will
make such developments as will absolve his bonds
men from all liabilities on his account
The Navy Department have appointed A. W.
Smith Professor of Mathematics at Annapolis, in
place Of VIM. Chauvenet, resigned,