The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-22
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

| SwISDLER.-We Yesterday heard of a swindle
| which was perpetrated upon Messrs. W. II. Brown
Il Co., engaged in the wholesale drug business in
this city, of which the particulars, well
could ascertain SIS follows On Thursday
morning, about O'Clock, the winder entered the
establishment above referred to, and stated that he
| had been sent bv his employers (naming retail
firm who dealt with the house) for three pounds of
opium. The clerk Immediately lied the order, and
upon presenting it to his customer. asked for the
| pass book of his employer. The swindler replied
1nss sne uay, lie would u lug
! it next time. He picked up the opium, valued at
81 per pound, and left the store, the clerk ap-
peared to be satisfied with his representation. In
a short time, however, clerk from a neighbOring
drug establishment entered, and began to relate
attempt that had been made on the day before to
swindle his employers out of three pounds of opium,
but which proved unsuccessful Itwas at once sug
| gested that the young man who had Just left the
store swindler, and upon inquiry being
made, it was ascertained to be fact. A search
was at once instituted by the proper authorities
| with view of ascertaining his whereabouts, but
up to late hour last nig ght he had not been found.
| More TRooPs For WAsHINGToN.-Quite large
crowd, composed in a great measure of small boys
and free negroes, last evening assembled in the vi
cinty of Bolton depot and along the route from
that point to Camden station, for the purpose of
seeing the Second Rhode Island regiment, Col
SlOcum, which was route for Washington ''to de-
fend the Capital" Between seven and eight o'clock
| the regiment, numbering about 0l0 men, arrived
| over the Northern Central Railway, and were
ceived BY the boys with cheers for "Jef. Davis"
| "Marshal Kane" and ;the waving OF secession
flag" The hootiDg and cheering were quite vocif.
erous, and it was very loudly asserted upon all
| hands that "Judge Bond said they had right to
speak as they pleased" and, a natural conse-
| auence it was no easy matter to suppress this de-
monstration. Taken altogether, thissrecepton was
fair sample of any heretofore given to the various
| bodies of Northern troops who have lately passed
through this city for Washington. Attached to
the regiment is a battery of six six-pounders.-
Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, accompanies the
regiment.
DEATH OF SoLD1ERs.-Chares Bons, French
man, belonging to Company X, Col. Lewis Penn
sylvania regiment, died at the Lombard Street In
frmary on Wednesday last of typhoid pneumonia.
His remains were inferred at Baltimore Cemetery,
on Thursday afternoon, with military honors, by
the company of which he a member.
Chas. Horn, member of Company c, same regi-
ment, died on Thursday, of Inflammation of the
membrane of the stomach. His parents have ar
| rived and taken charge of his body.
There now fifteen soldiers in the Infrmary;
five of them are from Fort McHenry, four of whom
are privates and one lieutenant; one is from the
Maryland regiment, and the remainder belong to
the Pennsylvania regiment, now encamped about
| this city.
| THROWN FROM A BUGGY.-Y esterday morning a
| gentleman named Louis Arrun, who resides
Federal Hill, quite seriously in jured by being
thrown from his buggy. He had been driving on
the Belair road, and when he reached point near
| Baltimore county, he took the passenger railway
| track but had proceeded but short distance when
be compelled to drive off the track TO allow a
| car to pass. In doing so the tire of the wheel
clung to the hapge on the rail, and he thrown
violently to the ground his head striking stone, in
fictng severe wound. He was picked up in
| inseDsble condition and removed TO the house of
Mr.. John Fritz, where the wound was dressed.
On returning to concousness he was sent to his
home.
| CARELEssNEss OR MALICIoUsNEss.-Ye esterday sf-
| ternoon gun was fred from the window of the
| United States Recruiting Rendezvous, ON Bond
| street, near Thames street. The slugs, of which
| there were were four or five lodged in the frame
| of door sixty yards distant from the recruiting
office. Mrs. John F. Lutz standing on the
! pavement few feet from the door where the load
took effect. A policeman entered the rendezvous
to inquire the of the firing, but found per-
son there except a boy about fifteen years of age,
who informed him that the gun had been dscharg-
ed accidentally, but could not explain the manner
| of the accident.
ACCIDENTALLY SHoT.-Last night about halfpast
nine o'clock woman named Mary Yerkle was
cidentay shot at the of Caroline and
Cough streets. A dog was running along the
street, supposed to be mad when a man named
| George Galley drew pistol and fired at the dog.
| fhe ball missed the mark, struck the pavement,
glanced and lodged in the thigh of Mrs. Yerkle,
who was sitting on the porch of her dwelling. The
| wound is not considered dangerous. Galley was
arrested and held for an examination.
BROKE HIS ARM.-A sailor named George Martin,
who was engaged on board the schooner Halifax
| lying at Corners wharf, met with an accident on
| thursday afternoon last. he was lOaulnP tne YES
sci with -four, when a barrel fell against him,
knocking him down the hatchway, and breaking
| his right arm below the elbow. He was taken to
the Lombard Street Infrmary where he is properly
| cared for.
| ACCEPTED--Rev. DR.. Bullock, of Danvie, Ky,
| who sometime since received call from the
gregatien of Franklin Street Presbyterian Church,
in this city, has accepted, and will enter upon the
discharge OF his duties as pastor OF that congrega-
ton on the first Sunday of July. DR.. Bullock has
| some reputation a pulpit orator, and has been
connected with the Theological Seminary at DAN
willie.
| RoBBERY.-Adam Yost was yesterday arrested
| by officer Fitzgerald upon the charge of stealing
from Mrs. Elizabeth Brauer eleven pairs of stock
lngs, three pairs of gloves lot of thread, sewing
SIN, shlrt buttons and other articles of similar
chhracter. He was arraigned before Justice Reid,
Grand Jury.
SERESADE.mOn Thursday night the band at
tacneu 10 wi. Morehead's Pennsylvania regiment
ded the families of several of the residents Tbav
were invited into the house of Mr. Josanh Robin.
son, Pratt street, near Chapple, where thev we're
regaed. Hon. c. L.. l.. Leary was also v;siiad
DRUID HILL PARK.-By reference to the odvort;,
ing columns, it will be seen that the Park Commits
sioners announce the completion of the main a,a
nue. around Druid Hill Park, and propose that the
public shall commemorate the opening bv grand
procession at o'clock Monday evening.
| HOLIDAY ST. TnEATRE.-The chaste performan-
ces OF the Hooey and Campbell Minstrels have
| dered them deservedly popular with our citizens.
1t must not be forgotten that this afternoon they
give matinee for the benefit of ladies and children.
The opportunity should not ba neglected.