The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-06
BALTIMORE.
THURSDAY, JANUARY G, 1859.

THURSDAY, JANUARY G, 1859.
To His Honor Mayor SWAMI belongs the glory
of bapino first discovered and published to the
mould tho true value of ''crminal statistics" |
W. all remember that memorable Speech at the
Temperance Temple, in which he accepted the
nomination which resulted in his reelection to
the MAYoRALTY, by such fattering majority and
under such agreeable auspices and with what de-
Iightful and irresistible logic he then demonsra-
ted-bv the aid of such statistics carefully col
'1ated by frend''-the gratifying fact that there
was less crime in Baltimore than in any of the
larger cities of the UNIoN-simply by showing that
there were fewer arrests herein proportion to
populaton-than elsewhere. OF course-with
such a police ours-f there had been more
crime, there would have been more arrests; ergo
the paucity of arrests implied the infrequency of
crime, and total absence of arrests would have
proved an entire cessation of crime Never was
there clearer seqaitm! If house is never
swept, we are to presume that it is clean house
not that it is occupied by dirty people! Crimes
not mentioned in the MARsHAL's Report, are, of
course, no crimes, Or at least, have never been
committed
Viewed in the light of this valuable
revelation of Mr.. SwANN-how cheering and con-
soatory must have seemed the Calendar of arrests
which we published in our paper of Saturday
What a triumphant refutation IL contained of the
caumnies which have been so literally heaped
upon city by the BIPARTISAN press" both here
and elsewhere Running our eye hastily over the
table in question, we find the result of our ex-
animation, that during the entire year 1858, there
was but one 'minor guilty of the offence of E'run-
ming with the fire apparatus" and but solitary
case of ''burglary' OF the kindred offence of
s'house-breakng," there was one case in January,
and not another until December-when there were
ten Until the month of October the vice of in
toxication appears to have been wholly unknown
among us. In that month, sixty persons were
arrested for drunkenness, and since then the vice.
we regret to say, appears to have been spreading
with fearful rapidity; there having been not less
than 223 arrests for this offence in November and
45S in misunderstanding, probably, to the occur
renee in those months of the two religious fest-
walls of Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are
glad to that the patriotic of the Fourth of
July was attended by such disgracefnl conse
DEMONSTRATING passed of, as the record shows,
without leading to the smallest particle of excess,
the part of single individual. Another crafty
ing fact to be gathered from these Statistics is that
during the entire year there but three cases re-
ported of 'desecraton of the Sabbath all of
which took place in the month of December. We
doubt whether any other city in Europe or America
can show fair a record in this respect The
month of October, as might naturally be expected
has fewer delinquencies to report than almost any
other month in the year. We all know
what quiet times we had in October-quite thirty
one days of Millennium, in fact There were fewer
arrests-only 81 in all-than in any previous
months except February and September-for the
crime of "abusing" shows how wondrous
polite and civil all became about election times
During the entire month, there was not single
case of ''rioting''-or of ''inciting to riot -
though, in the preceding month of September we
are sorry to say, there were four instances in which
the former offence was committed, and five cases of
the latter There fewer assaults by fourteen,
than in the month of September, and although
candor compels us to admit that there were more
''breaches of ordinances in October than in any
other month, we are gratifed TO state that COM
paratively few "breaches of the peace were COM
mitted-not nearly so many as there were in the
month of May. There was one instance it is true,
in which an assault was ''threatened"-
bly, on Eection-Day-but in April, we must re-
member, there were not less than six cases of the
same offence. The great and browning fact how
ever, which is established by the Reports that
there was not-in the whole year 1864 single
case of 'illegal voting" -whatever ISLANDERS TO the
contrary may have been hitherto circulated by the
Bipartisan press" The crime is not even mention
ed in the Report and of course-therefore- had
no existence in Baltimore On these two points
then-the comparative infrequency of "Sabbath
breaking and the entire absence of illegal voting
Mayor SWAMI may safely back his Government
against the world. Well may the Magistrate, I'M
der whose faithful and efficient Administration
these suspicious results have been attained, be
styled "a model MAYOR ~
Hitherto, we have proceeded wholly upon the
MAYORS theory, and assumed that in all cases. the
number of arrests that are made is sure criterion
of the number of crimes that are committed This
estimate, however, as everybody knows, is very
unfair. By such vigilant police as ours, many
innocent people are doubtless arrested upon mere
suspicion, which subsequently turns out to be un-
founded. The proportion of such groundless ac-
cusations, we should imagine to be- at the
least, 33 l-3 per cent. Of the whole number which
would give us, therefore, only two Sabbath
breakers instead of one-and similarly reduce the
number of other offences-alleged TO have been
committed How consoling these facts must be-
and how well calculated to dispel the apprehen-
sions, now so prevalent, respecting the fate of
institutons-we need scarcely say. Neither are
we under the necessity of commenting upon the
triumphant vindicaton, which they afford, of the
character of our city, and of the Administration
of our present MAYOR. We only regret that our
neighbor, The american, did not think pro-
per to include them among the other
valuable Statistics which it so greatly |
taxed the industry of Postmaster NOR
RIs and his "extra-help''-to send off in time for
the steamer to Europe. How they would have ut
terly COMPOUNDED Lord CARLIsLE-slenced The
Times and furnished Mr.. BRIGHT with an I'M
answerable argument in favor of Universal Suf-
frage!