The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-27

more interests inserted in the Monthly
Murder, rape and robbery stand foremost on the
black catalogue of crimes. Within the past week
we have been called upon to record the commission
of each and all of them by the rufians of this city
They were not perpetrated by the lurking thieves,
or silulking assassins, who plan and wait
for the hour and opportunity to crafty, without
danger of detection their desire for plumber
or revenge. They were done openly de-
family and wantonly, as though guilt had
ceased to be shameful thing, and punish
ment was obsolete and aforementioned among
men. We have abstained from comment
on these last villainies, because we have been
called on SO frequently to denounce the
atrocities which have disgraced our city, that
we return with repugnance to the loathsome
task. We have heard that the sickening de-
tails of the transactions we have alluded to-
caused the blood to course the quicker in men S
veins, and hot words of honest reprobation to
tremble upon their lips, and we preferred to hold
our peace, and let those who had spoken less give
utterance to the feelings of our people. We have
waited in vain; for, except in few vague and
stereotyped phrases of disapprobaton, the most
influential portion of our press has treated these
occurrences as undeserving of special notice. 1t
is even worse than this. The Patriot now as
ever, prompt to gloze over all offences, has
read homily on the death of SULLIVAN, that, of
ITSELF is illustration of the morbid condition of
the moral atmosphere around US. It consciously
reprobates the 'late hours kept by the murdered
man, and virtuonsly reminds his assassin that had
he sought the circle of depravity which he called
his home while it was yet early evening, he would
have been spared his present trouble 1t mildly
proposes to induce young men to go home soon at
night in, the chest governed city" in the world.
and hopes that Sunday Schools and future legsla-
ton may one day bring about the desired reforma-
ton. Not one word does it find TO say about the
daily violations of existing laws, nor the neglect of
duty through which the outlaw has been left at
liberty to add new crimes 10 his account. And
this is all the less that the blood shed for the
fifteenth time within twelve month, has to teach
us. This is the only warning learned beside the
fifth grave that has opened for the murdered
within eight weeks. We might have persevered
In our silence if the deeds done in our midst had
been equally unnoticed elsewhere But the pte-
Gus cry of the wretched beings who were stabbed
and outraged, though it died away unan-
swered here, has re-echoed far beyond our own Dor
ders, and the press of the country is loud in it;
sympathy for them and its dennnciation upon us
1t has not been necessary for them to quote thu
paragraphs of the 'slanderers'' of onr city in or
der to awaken against it the Indignation of homes
men. They have read the story and needed M
monitor to point its moral. They have drawn
their differences from the local columns of our con
temporaries for a year past, and not from our edi
torlal comments, as has been charged by those wht
credit US with worldwide circulation. 1t is tim,
for those who think the trade of Baltimor,
has been injured to set themselves to work ani
ind out truly how, and through whom tn,
damage has been done, instead of hugging tc
themselves the cheap consolation that it il
the work OF single paper. 1t is time to realize
the fact that the eyes of the world are on us, de
spite our petty efforts at concealment, and that i
draws conclusions for itself, and is not content
unquestioning, to accept of ours-that know
ledge, however slight, of the violence which ha
trampled down the elective franchise, and per
petuated itself by an unparalleled series of murder
and bloody ARRAYS, is alone sufficient to lead GU
neighbors 10 disparage us-that the admission tina
all these wrongs have been wrought by the sam
gangs OF outlaws whose names the very children
repeat and shudder over, is enough to cover wit
contempt our administration of iustce-that +
have half of the frauds and insults we have born
telegraphed abroad, as they have been, is all tina
is wanted to render our asseverations of the purit
md pfao nf
to stand by now and see all the banded criminal
of the town rule and elect those of their fe
lows, who have already been nominated, to office
of trust is to concede our disgrace and almos
to deserve it. If the trade of Baltimor
Is suffering, it is no fault of ours Blu
better that its business should contract in its chan
nels, or even dry up like summer stream, tina,
that the honor, and virtue and manliness of on
town should be sacrificed to sustain it. If w
speak earnestly, it is because we remember accu
rately the facts we have for so many months re
ported in strict accordance with the truth and ",
feel that we do not overate their effect or tendency
Where else on the Continent either in or out of pro
portion to the population, do so many indicted ant
unlndicted rufians club together, and control cleo
tons and resist policemen, and find federation from
one officer of the court and bail from sundry others
Where else is so much black-mail levied upon quie
people! Where else are witnesses so intimidated
or would BENTON have been killed through fear O
the testimony he might give, and RIGDoN, in re-
venge for that he had already given? We sorrow
for ourselves, but rejoice for the good name of the
country at large when state our belief that the
hellish scenes which occurred on the steamer En-
press could have taken place on no other spot than
where they did. Disguise it as we may, there is
STAIN OF blood upon us, deeper than that which
tlecked the murderer's hand, and vet could
''the muttudinous seas incarnadine
Unless some remedy shall be found for the evils
that surround us, we believe we can only escane
on payment of fearful penalty in the future We
ask but a candid consideration of the facts which
we have so often, heretofore, dwelt upon. We re-
peat, that with the interests of Baltimore our owr
are indissolubly and forever blended Her peac,
and prosperity is our first and nearest wish. ani
for these alone do expose ourselves to the abus,
and sneers which we know await US. We do moi
) venture now to suggest the remedy to be pursued
We only ask our readers to investigate the truth
our averments, and remind them that men of ole
denied the wickedness of Sodom, and derided al
warnings in Gomorrah. boss
The following, from The Gazette, of Madrid,
under date of July 3lst has reference to the pro-
ject of a submarine cable between Cadiz and the
Spanish Antilles alluded 70 IN our editorial q,