The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-18
PROCEEDINGS OF TIE CITY coUNcy.


TUESDAY, July II.
FIRST BRANcH.-Present, SAMUEL G. SpIcER,
ESQ, President, and all the members, except Mr.
Baughn n.-Mr EVANS presented petition from
shed in the rear of his premises Castle alley; re-
terred. "A communication was received from the
Commissioners of the Jail, inviting the Council to
visit that Institution on Wednes law to view GER
tain contemplated improvements; accepted
Mr.. CHAPMAN offered preamble and resolution
directing the counseors of the CITY to dispose of
the injunction now pending against the city, in re-
aton to the payment of the thirty per cent. extra
DIVIDEND, as they may deem proper; adopted
Mr.. Balm presented a supplementary ordinance i'm
posing penalty on the owners of vehicles for OBJ
structing the cars of the City Passenger Railway
Inc ordinance also imposes fine the Railway
ASSOCIATION OF SIS per day when it fails to pay the
one-hith park fund.-Tne order of the day being
the ordinance authorizing and directing the CITY
Register to issue stock to pay for the purchase of
land for public park or parks, was taken up and
read, and amended and passed.-Mr. EVANS call
ed up the resolution adopting the plan of William.
L. Marshal for the new City Hall.-Mr. Pol
LOCK moved to recommit the matter to the
COMMITTEE on City Property, with instructions
10 report on Tuesday; lost by vote of yeas to
II nays.-Mr. BLACKBURN moved to strike out
VIM. T. Marshal and insert Messrs Murdock &
hichards; lost by a vote of yeas to IA Nays
Mr. CALLS moved to strike out VIM. T. Marshal
and insert Thomas e. James NJ. Dixon; lost by a
vote of yeas to Is nays.-Mr TAYLOR moved
to strike out VIM. It. Marshal and insert j J. Hus
band; lost by vote of yea to IS nays. The
resolution was then passed.-The resolution di-
Murdoch Richards and Thomas & James M.
Dixon S3OO each, was called up by Mr.. EvANs-
Mr.. Balm moved to strike out $780, lost-Mr.
Balm moved to strike out $500 and insert 5000; lost
MI: ROBERTS moved to strike out $500 and in
sert Sl0O lost. The resolution was passed. MR.
BLACKBURN called up the ordinance regulating the
Keeping of and conveying of gunpowder through
the city; passed d-Mr. LINTON called up the reso-
luton directing the Mayor to examine into the
ordinance authorizing an Association to Law CITY
Passenger Railway through the streets of the city,
and II the provisions of the same are not being
carried out to enforce strict compliance with the
ordinance; adopted.-Adjourned
SECOND BRANCH.-Present, WILLIAM MoPHAL,
Esq, President, and all the members except Messrs
AN Nostrand, Sewall Taylor and Cathcart-
or want OF quorum the Branch adourned-
[ Mr.. Taylor, the member from the 18th and 18th
Wards, Is confined to his house by sickness.
THE LATE JERSEY CRY MYsrERY-A letter from
Rev. A. Tilden, of Woodruff, Steuben county,
gives the following information respecting Mr.. W.
L. Bum, of Rathboneville, said to have been
drugged and robbed of 81, 600 and carried off to
Florida:
81 have been acquainted with Mr.. Bum for
nearly three years. when he to reside in this
county. He has maintained a social standing
among our best citizens. Two years ago baptized
him and his wife, and last spring he was elected
Sabbath School Superintendent at Rathbonevie.
We that are best acquainted with him can see no
reason for discrediting his statements If he had
been disposed to be dishonest, he might have gone
away with ten thousand dollars as easily as with
sixteen hundred. His business has been quite ex-
tenslve, and his transactions have been conducted
on the strictest principles of honor and integrity
he Is emphatically man that does as he agrees
He has few debts in this section, and when he left
home he had deposited money to be paid for butter
which he had been purchasing.
cat the time of his mysterious disappearance it
was generally supposed that he had been murdered
But the reason was explained by the receipt of a
letter written by him from Florida, and his subse
quent return after absence of about three weeks
/ called to see him day two afterward, and
found him looking emaciated and worn down suf-
tering from the effects of the supposed drugging.
l proposed such questions to him as thought would
and candor.
He thinks that he has been marked, and that he
has been followed by one more members of a gang
OF robbers supposed to be operating along the line
OF the New ork and Erie Railroad. At Oswego
ne TOOK dinner In an eating saloon at the depot
Soon after he began to feel disagreeable He
stopped at several points on the route to transact
business, and at Port Jervis remained till the next
Gay ana TOOK the express train. At Turner's he
took supper with the other passengers, and thinks
that some drug must have been put stealthily into
his food or drink at that place, but what it could
have been neither he nor his physician are able to
tell.
"He took his seat again in the car, when he be-
gan to experience disagreeable sensation and be-
came drowsy. well-dressed man came and sat
down by him, and they conversed for some time,
when he became unconscious. He has an indistinct
recollection of men trying to get him to go into a
small boat and of making effort to get away from
them, when he was struck in the head
"When he again came to consciousness he was out
at sea on board of what seemed TO be coasting
schooner; his money and baggage gone. The cap
tain was harsh and austere, and he could obtain no
answer to inquiries nor learn the name
OF the captain of the vessel There was no other
passengers on board, and there did not seem to be
any cargo. lie was not permitted to hold any COM
munlcaton with the crew, under threats of DEATH
Finally the captain induced by his entreaties
to set him ashore on the coast of Florida
ellis story is generally credited by those who
know him and with whom he has had dealings
He is now suffering in health from the treatment
which he has endured
A SAD AND AFFECTING INcIDENr-On Saturday
afternoon as Mr.. William Stevens was cunning on
the meadows in the vicinity of the Kossuth woods
his dog strayed out into marshy spot to the right
OF Oliver street. and when in about the middle of
the quagmire stopped and commenced an excessive
barking over some object, thus causing Mr. Ste
vens to follow him and discover the dead body of
the poor little boy, William Henry Findlay, who
has been lost from his parents since the 5th instant
The little fellow had no doubt followed the band