The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-06
CITY NTELLIGENCE.

CITY INTELLIGENCE.
DELEGATES TO THE Cry CONVENTIONS eet
tion for delegates to the City Convention, in con
| pliance with the recommendation of the Mass Nee
ing held at the Hall of the MARYLAND Institute O
Friday night last, took place last evening. Goo
! order prevailed in all the wards. The attendanc
at each OF the polls respectable, and in SOM
cases quite large. The following are the names
! the delegates chosen:
First Ward-JOhn Wagner, Horatio Day, Chas
| Pate, T. j. Rush, George Gatee.
| Second Ward-Hugh A. Cooper, Uriah Muir ste
phen Wellslager, John Essender, ir., w. B. McCle
land.
Third Ward-Capt. J. j. Meltesen, R. A. Meal
lister, Capt. F. W. Wilson, john I. Brown, DR.
John F. Menmonier.
Fourth Ward-A. C. Trippe, Henry NJ Morft
Richard H. Smith, W. r. jackson, L. Passano.
Fifth Ward-J. J. Turner, W. H. Spiman, G
". Mowbray, W. II. Cowan, W. P. Lightner
Sixth Ward-John Il. Blake, William Cotton
Thomas Morse, William H. johnson, Joseph II
Seventh Ward-Col. s. S. Mills, George Perry
Joseph Dorsey, W. H. Quincy, w. j. OBrian.
Eighth Ward-P. NJ. Hobrook, John Stavlor
William S. Gross, NJ. j. Grady, John. JAS Har
ker.
Ninth Wards. Teackle Wallis, Hon. J. c. LIE
Grand, I. Parkin Scott, A. Ritchie, d. NJ Thomas
Tenth Ward-Dr. A. c. Robinson, Henry Mccoy
James II. Barney, Augustus Albert, George W
King, Jr
Eleventh Ward-Wm. 7. Walters, Samuel W
Smith, Robert Hough, George S. Brown, Hugh
w. Sisson.
Twelfth Ward Charles II. Myers, BENJAMIN C
Freshman, Henry C. Dallam, James S. Forbes
Robert L. Baldwin.
Thirteenth Ward-John c. Smith, Samuel E
Smith, Thomas Lester, William Ii. Duaney, Vim
Harrison.
Fourteenth Ward-J. G. Nicodemus. F. A. Hack
Thomas Wnans, William F. Hopkins and George
U. Porter.
Fifteenth Ward-A H. Jenkins, DR.. D. J.
Clark.
Sixteenth Ward-Edvin Mitchell, W. T. Brown
g. r. Gathers, 7. J. Douglas, R. Miller.
Seventeenth Ward-John A. J. Dixon, Johr
Oreu.
Eighteenth Ward-John Conway, John Milroy,
Jacob Fry, Z. Mills, Felix McCurley.
Nineteenth Ward-L. p. Bayne. VIM. H. RYAN.
j. D. Hamilton, A. Campbell, j. G. Morgan.
Twentieth Ward-Wiiam j. Kirk, VIM. Bosley,
Jesse L. Magruder, George II. Williams, Thomas
Hubbard.
At most of the wards resolutions were passed
censuring Gov. Hicks for his course, and strongly
urging action on the part of the people,
DRUID HILL PARK.-Some weeks since Mr.
Meyers, OF the third ward, introduced into the
First Branch. of the City Council a resolu-
ton directing the Committee ON City Property to
inquire into The .expediency of imposing tax on
all horses and vehicles entering Druid Hill Park
Last evening Mr.. Blanchard, chairman of that com.
mlttee, presented report with a resolution ad-
verse to the resolution. The report states that in
the opinion OF the committee the Parks of the city
should be perfectly free to the Of all citizens
aHd considers that it would be dangerous prece-
dent to discriminate in regard to classes in the use
of the Park. 1t was read and laid on the table,
AN IMPRovEMENT.-Yesterday afternoon, in the
First Branch of the City Council report was pre-
sented from the Joint Standing Committee on the
HarbOr, with a resolution providing for the c-ea
tion OF a receiver for the sediment which accumu-
lates in the harbor. The proposition is to erect a
pen by piling and bracing the bank running from
Herring bar to McCubbins bar, distance Of 3, 200
feet. The cost per foot for pling and bracing will
be Sl5 1t is only proposed present, to erect so
much as will cost $4,000. The City Comptroller
is authorized to advertise for proposals for the
work. The resolution was laid on the table.
Anhrsr OF Roberts ORs 5Sse O'clock
iesylnsS Sir ward of p. II. & j. n. Muller,
Philpot street, having in their possession guam
tity OF lead pipe. He pursued and caught one of
them, who gave the name of John Hopkins, and
took him to the Eastern district police station.
Justice Griffin committed him to Jail for court.
The thieves had cut the pipe from the machinery
of the vessels lying at the yard undergoing repairs.
ADDITIONAL COMPENsATIoN.-Somed days since,
Judge Bond passed an order, directing George Il.
Dutton, Esq, Sheriff of Baltimore city, to pay to
the order Of Hon. Henry MAY the sum of $500,
cut of the fines adjudged by the Criminal Court,
accrung to the city, as an additional compensation
Attorney, in arraigning and prosecuting the in
dictments against Milton Whitney, late State s
Attorney for the city of Baltimore.
BUTCHERS ASSOCIATION ELEcTloN.-The follow
ing gentlemen have been elected officers of the
Butchers Hide and Tallow Association No. 2 for
the ensuing year :-President, Thomas J. Rusk;
Vice President, George Shaner: Treasurer Peter
Wilcox; Directors-Thomas II. Mules, J. Henry
Knel, Jr., John c. Knoblock, F. Wannerwitch,
William II. Collins E. Collins Z. Mex Pentz,
George Shaner and Augustus Gardner.
DEATH FROM Observation-Disclosures ester
day morning about II o'clock, policeman De Goey
found negress named Catharine Scott, lying dead
in room of house No. LOT Fayette street, near
Aisquith. The body was taken to the Central po-
lice station, where Coroner Hall held an inquest
over the body, and verdict was rendered OF
"death from intemperance." bottle of whiskey
was found in the pocket of the deceased.
VESSEL MIssTNG.-We learn from the books OF
the Merchants Exchange Reading Rooms, that the
schooner Isabel MdbOarne, from the Spanish Main
for Baltimore, was spoken December lst by the
schooner KinqfSher, and nothing has been heard
of her since, it is supposed that she is lost. She
was vessel of So tons, and was owned by Messrs.
Friend, Ricketts, & Co.
BURNING CAsE.-A young girl, domestic in the
family of Mrs. E. G. Williams, No. SO George street,
was badly burned between and o'clock on Mon
day night, by the explosion of an ETHEREAL oil lamp,
which she lighting, while the top was not Sc
curely fastened. DR.. Walter called to attend
her. and is of opinion that she cannot survive her
injuries.
INQUEsT.-Doctor Greentree, coroner was called
on yesterday to hold inquest over the body of a
negro child, about seven years oil d. named Rachael
A. Smith, who was found dead in bed lying beside
its mother DR.. Brewer was called before the
jury, who after his testimony rendered a verdict OF
death from natural causes.
BURGLARY IN THE CoUNrY.-Y esterday morning
the premises of Mr.. John P. Comegys, about hall
a mile west Of Fairview Inn on the Frederick road
was entered by thieves, who carried away sundry
articles from the larder, number OF chickens and
a horse blanket from the carriage house.