The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-21
We clip the following paragraph from the

american OF Saturday.
"REpREHENsrBLE CoNDUcT.-A number of youths from
10 to 10 years have been the habit of congega
ting about the commons in front of the Waterloo Row,
out Calvert street and occasionally annoying those in the
neighborhood with their very orderly conduct but
nothing had occurred of serious nature until about dusk
on Thursday evening, when a revolver discharged,
Mr. Bensons residence, in Waterloo Row and lodged
the folding door Some of Mr.. BIS family had just left
the ROOM else from the direction the ball had taken,
might have proved a serious accident"
We need hardly say, that we entirely agree
with our respectable neighbor, in its animadver-
sons upon the ''not very orderly conduct des-
crlbed In the foregoing paragraph. To fire PTS
tol, on n summers evening" into gentlemans
parlor, is certainly ''reprehensible highly So
Had the ball from the pistol, instead of lodg-
ing in the folding-door, killed one of Mr. BEN
sons family, it undoubtedly 'might have
proved serious accident'-very 1t would have
been one of those accidents" which in the eye
OF the law are sometimes accounted murder We
are glad, therefore, that our venerable neighbor
has 'reprehended' the young scoundrels by whom
this daring outrage was committed and would be
still more pleased to learn that the police had a,,-
prehended them Perhaps however, the mild re-
proof of our contemporary, will be a-suficient to
prevent the recurrence of any such awkward FAC
cidents' in future, and to cause youths who are
in the habit of congregating about the commons
in front of Waterloo Row. TO be hereafter little
more orderly" in 'their conduct There is a
persuasive genteness in the Alaericans style of
dealing with crime and criminals, that certainly
ought to touch the heart of the most hardened
ruflian. Without meaning to nsinuate that our
venerable neighbor is an t'old woman its mode
of treatment of such subjects, hath, what the
Auto 81 A.
"much 'eornan ia it-muliebriy, as well as femme
dy." Thus, not long ago, we remember reading
in that Journal an account of ''shootino-match "
on Federal Hill, between q man named CLARKE.
and another, whose NAME we believe, was REED
The latter entered public-house, where the former
was seated behind the bar and without further
ado, blazed away at him with revolver several
OF the balls barely missing his head. The Anaeri-
can, in describing the taffair," mentioned that
REED was'a steamboat-hand-an engineer or fire.
man, we think it was-and added, that a fellow, so
utterly reckless of human life, was obviously unfit
to be employed in any such responsible capactv:-
SAFE CONCLUSION from which, we presume, few
persons We're prepared to dissent Our neighbor
Is evidently something of Euphuist In its ex-
purgated vocabulary spade has ceased to be called
spaoe' ihings are no longer known by their
rlght English names. Murder it seems would be
nothing more than SERIOUS accident, and con-
duct which plain man would find no diff
Guilty. IN denouncing as Infamous and nc de-
serving the severest punishment, becomes simply
mot very orderly or at most, Hreprehensible y
In its comments upon matters of tbis sort ,bo
american certainly has habit of ssdrawino II
rather mild almost as new milk That
much injury is done to society by this GROWING
custom of softening censure, and treating ginger
ly the greatest abuses and most glaring outrages,
cannot be Questioned Too much refinement in