The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-22
From the Boston Journal. I9M.1
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From the Boston Journal I9M1
FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN ROXBURY-FOUR
PERSONS BURNT TO DEATH.
The recent tenement house tragedy, in New
1 rK, has found parallel in vicinity.
About O'Clock, this morning, fire was discovered
IN shed connected in the rear with the tenement
house on Eusts street, next to the Engine House
accompany No. G, and known as the "Canal Block"
The severe storm which was raging at the time in
some degree impeded the efforts of the firemen,
who were quickly on the spot-and in very short
time the fire was communicated to the house. in
which were fifteen families, all unconscious of their
danger. The snow which had been falling for
some hours had melted upon the building, and the
smoke was so dense as to almost sufocate the fire.
men who attempted to enter the building.
In one of the rooms on the second story front
ing on Eustis street, was the family of John Smith,
consisting of himself wife, daughter and several
sons: The father, aroused from his sleep to find
the flames raging all around him, leaped from the
window, but not until he had been severely burn
ed In endeavoring to rescue some of the members
OF his family. The distance to the ground was
ABOUT 10 or ~ feet and he was so much injured by
the fire and the fall that Dr. Streeter, who called
alter the man had been removed to the Almshouse
gives his opinion that he cannot live through the
night.
| After the fury of the flames had been somewhat
aoated by the persevering labors of the firemen,
some OF the police entered the house through the
almost binding smoke, and in the room occupied
by the Smith family, found the wife and daughter
OF sixteen years, dead upon the floor, and their
bodies badly burned.
In one of the rear rooms occupied by John Kel
ley and wife, each about eighty-ve years old, the
| couple were found on the floor, burned to crisp
| Mr. Kelley had been sick for some time and il is
supposed that the wife had attempted to aid her
more feeble husband in making his escape, but that
Doln were sullocated by the smoke, and died by
| that means rather than by the flames
The stairways leading to the rooms were not de-
! stroyed, but the large number of persons in the
house-proba6ly more than fifty at the time of the
oisasterIrendered it nearly impossible for all to
escape the fearful doom which awaited those less
fortunate ones whom age or disease had crippled
Scene IN AN ENGLISH Town CoUNcIL.-There
is oellghtiul description in an English paper of
scene that recently occurred in the Town Council
Chamoer OF Hull, from which we learn how close
Is the relationship between the two great branches
| OF the AngloSaxon family. A squabble origina-
ted and eliminated there that might almost have
transpred in the halls Of legislature in our own
happy land. Captain Walton and Lieut.. Samuel
son got into very excited state; talked about
wringlng each others noses, called each other Jew
looking rascals, and as We may say on this side of
the water. "the scene which followed battles de-
| scrlptlon Before either party, or the specta-
tors lett the room, one of them sent the other a
challenge, written in such horrid English as shock
ed &c. the recipient who forthwith procured the pub
| lie reading of it, Kisses greeted the document
| from the floor of the Chamber and from the gale
ries; after which of the beligerents rose and
said the expression be had used was in the heat of
debate and he begged to apologize. His op-
Y,
agreeable little episode had been the result of dem
ocratic institutions, that is, if it had happened on
the American side of the Atlantic, we should new
er hear the last of from our British brethren
AS 1t is, we are amazed that in country so bless
| ed as to have mOnarchical form of Government
a land where the refining influences of a landed
aristocracy are felt, such specimen of barbaric
manners could have been displayed One might
! almost as well live in the United States If snch
vuigarity is visible in Council Chamber of a town
| like Hull. But one touch Of nature makes all
mankind kin. Blood will tell; and the English
| are our cousins.
STORM, WIND AND Cold For several DAYS past
| there has been constant storm of wind blowing
from the North, and this has caused the water in
the river to be very low, much SO that in MANY
places the bed of the river at the side is more ex-
| posed than for some years past. On Monday morn
ing the Vanderbilt lay high and dry upon the bar
some time, and others also reported to have
run aground, though with less detention. The
extreme cold, snow storms and north winds, have
hed the river with ice, causing also serious deten
ton to the boats. The river in MANY nlaces bp
tween Albany and Hudson, on Tuesday morning.
was frozen over tight before the New World emf
ner way through; and at Albany and above, the
Ice was one sheet from shore to shore, when the
Terry boats crossing at the different points set the
mass In motion, floating down with the tide
Floating ice extends between Rim check and Alba
ny, about gu miles, From Newburgh to New York
there is none worth mentioning. All the streams,
creeks and standing water are, however frozen
| over, many two and three inches thick. The bay
at hudson Is frozen over, and at Lyingston's
creek, between Ilvoli and Barrytown, two fisher
men were crossing foot as the express train
passed that point at half past ten o'clock yesterday
morning.
The New World, due 10 Albany at o'clock YES
terday morning did not arrive in that citv until
1890 A. NJ, having met with ice in such large
quantities between Tivoli and Albany that consid-
erapie time was lost in forcing her way through it,
-1o"r"oS Of Commerce, March 20.
The .LINEAL DESCENDANT OF GEORGE CALVERT,
LORD BALTIMORE, IN A DEBTORS PRISoN.-Anpus
W. Mcdonald, Esq, has made report of the re-
suits OF his mission to England on behalf of the
State of Virginia, to procure evidence in relation
to the boundaries between that State and the States
OF North Carolina, Tennessee and MARYLAND. The
report is able and interesting, proving that Mr..
Mcdonald performed his mission with much zeal,
hdelity and success. Speaking of the grant of
Maryland to Lord Baltimore, he says:
81 made every effort to find the original grant
itself. sought out the representative of the Bal
| tlmore Family, and finally discovered him pris-
oner for debt in the "Queens bench" prison. to
whlch, some twelve years since, he had been trans
ierred from the "Fleet" prison, after having been
| there confined for more than eight wears. | OBJ
tanned an interview with this gentleman; informed
him OF the object of my visit-which he appeared
entirely willing to promote-and learned from him,
alter most minute inquiry, that the original char
| ter had never come into his hands with the other
family papers ohich had that he had never seen it.
never heard of it being in the hands of any other
person and that he verify believed said original
charter to be utterly lost or destroyed. l institu-
ted other inquiries concerning it, which proved en-
| tirely fruitless."
WEIGHTY DECIsoN.-The Supreme Court of
| California Judges Field, Cope and Baldwin, has
affirmed the Judgment of the Court below whereby
1t was established that the owner of land in Cali
| tornla under patent from the United States owns
| all that grows upon is buried within that land
owns from the center of gravity to the top of the
| highest tree-the same as in our older States. In
| 1858, that same Court decided that the minerals
| Embedded in such lands belonged to the State, by
virtue of Spanish Mexican law and the principle of
Eminent Domain. That decision is nov completely
| reversed, by unanimous decision rendered on the
10th ult and the right of the owner of the soil to
| the minerals contained therein is declared absolute
The parties litigant were Moore against Shaw and
| Fremont against Flower, and the point NAV now
be considered settled.
| SOUTH CARoLlNIAEs RETURNING.-The United
| States steam sloop Powhatan arrived at New York
| ON W ednesday evening from Vera Cruz, via Ha-
| vana. Among her officers were Lieutenants John
| Rutedge and Philip Porcher. These gentlemen
ooth members OF families which are among the old
est and most respected in our State, were at Vera
| Cruz the time the South Carolina Convention
adopted the ordinance of secession. Upon hearing
| the fact they Immediately rendered their resipua,
tons, and now that their vessel has returned thew
come to share the fortunes of their native State
Both gentlemen, we believe, expected to arrive
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His friends and those o. the family are invited to attend
his funeral from the residence father No iS4 North