The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-27

Crime in Baltimore has no locality. 1t abounds
everywhere 1t fourishes with equal facility in
the crowded thoroughfares and in the unfrequented
byways of the city-beneath the shadow of the
CITY Hall, and in the remote suburb of Federal
Hill Only a day or two ago, morning con-
temporary whom we cannot accuse of any dispose
ton to unduly "magnify' or ''exaggerate" our
''social disorders filled the half of one of its
ample columns with the details of various "Out-
rageous Proceedings which, during the preceding
forty-eight hours of Saturday and Sunday had
taken place in different portions of the city, At
Federal HILL canal-boat was boarded by party
of outlaws, who, with pistols in hand, compelled
the captain to employ them to unload the boat,
asked an exorbtant price for their unsolicited SER
vices, and finally beat the captain for refusing
compliance, and were only deferred from further
violence by the removal of the boat to Fenby S
wharf, and the interposition of the police. In
French street, near Exeter, two young men return
ing home were attacked and fired at by two
rowdies In Hartford avenue, between Hoffman
and John streets, house was mobbed at six
o'clock in the morning. At the corner of Presi-
dent street and Eastern avenue, at broad noon. a
young man was attacked by party of ''Peelers -
was knocked down, and severely cut about the
head and face with a kniie-wa ''stamped on -
and had "Several of his teeth knocked out " and is
reported, at last accounts to be in "a critical con-
dition" In Frederick street, lager beer saloon
was visited, lin the course Of their TOUR by three
men who ''acted in disgraceful manner" who,
latter leaving, went along Fayette street and
Eat McClellan's alley met another party of
young men whom they attacked" who next
proceeded to Hanover street where they
attacked several persons" and were then
finally arrested and taken to the Station
House, after an unsuccessful attempt at rescue, on
the part of their friends on Baltimore street near
South. On Canton avenue, the lager beer saloons
'among others, y those of Messrs. GREKE and Ross
MARKE, were visited at o'clock in the afternoon
by party of six men, who, 'after drinking as
much as they thought proper tossed the chairs and
tables about, and knocked several persons down"
AT the Eastern City Spring "a disturbance oc-
CURED and a man was ''knocked down" and on
Baltimore street, near Gay, man going home in
state of helpless intoxication was 'knocked down
and kicked by a couple of rowdics. These facts
which we borrow from the local column of the
american OF Monday, are sufficient in themselves
to show the universal prevalence and ubiqutv OF
crime III our city. They may, it is true, need TO
be 'dlnned In the ears of an 'apathetic people,"
but they certainly do not require to be 'magniGed,
or exaggerated, and if they have been in any
degree ''misreprcsented the fault at all events is
not ours. The latest, and most daring outrage
however, which we have TO record is one which
occurred on Wednesday evening at the corner of
Light and OStend streets Federal Hill. 4 vouno
man was set upon and beaten by Il party of row.
dies calling themselves ''IIunters" and the police
who went 10 his assistance were fred upon. and
TWO OF their number wounded. Our readers. per-
haps, will recollcct, that not two weeks AGO. we
published an account of an attack made by this
same gang of outlaws upon picnic party, spend
ing the day near Long Bridge, in which a young
girl was wounded. The present is only another
illustration Of that absence of all per-
sonal security and contempt of all legal
authority which exists equally on Federal Hill. and
IN the vicinity of the City Hall. 1t was from the
brick yards on Federal Hill that the negroes were
driven last spring by the hand of violence and not
a finger was lifted for their protection. 1t was
IN the shp-yards of the same locality, that armed
Agraranism presumed, this present summer, to die
tate TO Capital whom it should employ and what
wages it should give, and when its demands were
refused found sympathy and encouragement from
the highest authority in the city We are not sur
prsed, therefore, that rufiansm so petted and in
duIged, should have grown bold enough to offer
battle to the police but we are constrained to ask
whether the frequent recurrence of such crimes in
our city is not an indication that the bonds of
Society are fast loosenng around us, and the very
foundations OF Social Order crumtling under our