The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-29


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During the past six months great deal has
been said and written about the wonderful i'm
provement that has taken place within that pc
Rod, in the condition of the city, and, more
pecially, in its police. We have almost been led
to believe from some of the representations that
have been made to US, that the spirit of law
lessness and rufliansm has quite died out in our
midst, and that either awed by the determined
attitude of the MAYOR and other public authori
ties or convinced, through the efforts of pious
men and women, of the wickedness of their
lives, and the necessity of repentance, the most
noted amongst the rowdies and bullies who for
merly spread terror through the community, had
become-if not among the most useful at least,
among the most harmless members of society.
Iii true that during all this time otfenses against
property have increasedand multiplied in precisely
the same ratio that crimes against the person have
diminished; that burglaries have been of nightly
occurrence that highway robberies have been of
frequent commission; and that the most shameless
corruption and favoritism have pervaded every
branch of the City Government. All this, how
ever, we are ready to admit is nothing compared
with the atrocities that few months since made men
almost trembe for their lives. The parties in power
may rob us of our rights and our spoons--so long
as they spare our bones, we will confess that we
are not without cause for gratitude. The City
Council may sell the beds of the streets to whom
they please and for what they please, provided the
rowdes who rule us will only give us leave to walk
in safety the sidewalks. From the occurrences of
the past few days. however, it would seem that
even this consolation is about TO be denied u.s.
Judging from the bloody and disgraceful record
which those days present, we should say that the
spirit of rowdyism is not only not dead in this
community-it cannot even be pretended that it
sleepeth. Outrages have been committed, the per-
petration of which in any civilized community
ought to inspire universal horror and indignation.
That they have produced no such effect among us
is solely attributable TO the fact that we have been
altogether too much accustomed to such things, to
pay them much heed. One fact there is, however
connected with these recent occurrences, which
ought to attract attention even here-and that is
the perfect identity in point of spirit and purpose
between the outrages in question and those COM
mitted twelve months ago, by the very individuals
who are now engaged in their repetition. In this
single fact, we are furnished both with complete
demonstration of Mr.. SWAMI utter and disgrace
full failure TO provide elfectually for the preservation
OF the peace of the city, and with satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of the that have led to that failure
Just one year ago, the Bellevue Gardens, a
suburban place of resort, West Baltimore street
not far from the city limits, kept by a German
named PULLMAN, were visited on several occasions
by gang of rowdies, who fired pistols into crowds
of terrified women and children-beat and stabbed
inoffensive men whom they found quietly enjoying
themselves under the trees and in the arbors-and
who, by finally driving everybody away from the
place, succeeded in efectuay breakingu up for time
the business of theproprietor Ofthese lawess pro-
ceedings, and this outrageous interference with the
business of citizen, and the pleasure of thou
sands of Others, notice was taken by the autbori-
tiles Beyond few indignant comments in one or
two OF the newspapers, the matter attracted little
or no attention, and Mr. PULLMAN was left to console
himself for his losses and his vsiters for their
bruises as they best could. Now-after the expi-
ration of twelve months-we find the same place
made the scene of precisely similar outrages by the
same identical crew of ruffians, and apparently
without exciting any serious animadversion on
the part Of the authorities GREGORY BARRETT
the notorious President of the Rip-Rap Club and
Deputy Warden in the Maryland State Peniten-
tiary, commits murderous assault upon a witness
for the State in the of his friend MARION CROP
who was hung for the murder of officer RIGpoN, a
witness for the State in the case of their mutual
friend GAMBRILL-draws a deadly weapon upon
the officers who attempt to interfere for the protec-
ton Of the party asSailed-and is the next day ar
rested upon complaint of the individual assaulted,
and turned loose by one Justice LOGAN, upon two
hundred dollars bail-THoMAs H. GARDNER. the
Clerk of the Criminal Court, becoming his surety
Again: just one year ago, the negro caulkers.
who, until that time, had almost exclusive posses
sion of the business of shp-caukng in this port,
were, day after day, and without a finger being
lifted for their protection by Mr. SWAMI, subjected
to series of brutal and cowardly assaults, which
eventually resulted in the final expulsion of that
class OF laborers from the ship-yards on Federal
HILL and in the serious injury of that branch of
business in Baltimore. In all those disturbances
JOE EDWARDS, President of the notorious Tiger
Club, was the acknowledged leader; yet, so far
from being punished for the offence any more than
for his previous crimes EDWARDS has ever since
been quite pet with the municipal authorities, as
well as decided lion in the religious world His
anI odoJ
been heralded everywhere as signal triumph of
The Gospel, and his prayers and preaching have
been found equally acceptable by the mixed audi
ences that assembled to hear him at the Richmond
Market and by the more select congregations that
attend the Union Prayer Meetings in the basement
of the Charles Street Methodist Church. On Mon
day, the negro caulkers were again assailed and
driven fran their work, by band of rufians led
by this same EDWARDS, and under circumstances
strongly analogous to those commented on by us
one year ago-the only difference being that Fells'
Point, instead of Federal Hill, was the scene of
this last outrage, and that two of our most re-
spectacle citizens, one of them Grand Juror
were included with the defenseless negroes among
the victims -''"
Again: among the names that have been most
connected with deeds of bloodshed and
violence in this city those of the two brothers
CoULsoN-WHLIAM and GEORGE. AT one time,
one or the other of these men was almost con-
stantly in the hands of the police-sometmes ar
resea-as was the case with GEORGE CoULsoN, on
the occasion of the attack upon our Office last Au-
gust-while in the actual commission of deeds of
violence. Neither of the two has ever been made
70 suffer the penalty of his crimes and therefore,
we are not surprised to find BOTH uniting on Sum
4"s "'s., IN the commission of what the circum-
ss.noes ,eaye us no room to doubt, was delibe-
fa'e anu preneditated murder $50"
Gases like the foregoing, it seams - - =
ymre no comment of ours to po;nt tha;r -,
HAD either the MAYOR OF the Sr,Tr., "a moral
aone what 1t was obviously their a,,,, oAN ~.
IN tne premises, none of the perne,r..aN ~ 'o,
the crimes above chronicled, would eva. 80 81
had the opportunity to engage in their e., nave
sion That CHRoNlsrER now sleeps il h,nna'-
winding-sheet and that this community hos 80.
disgraced by the recurrence of scenes like tboso
enacted at the Bellevue Gardens on Sunday and
at the screw-dock on Monday, is therefore, entire
~ and exclusively the fault of those f,tbIas,