The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-05
The following remarks, from the Journal of Com
lnerce n annlicahln Nom No.l-

Inc following remarks, from the journal of Com
nerce, are not applicable to New York only:
OBsTUcrIoNs.-The Mayor has very properly We
toed resolution of the Common Council granting
permission to business firm to keep one or two
wagons constantly standing in front of their store
The ordinance forbidding Instructions BELONGS to
class OF local laws which seem to have been made
expressly to be broken nobody ever heard of anv
attempt to enforce them. There is not large bust
street in the city where dozens of wagons carts
and drays may not be standing opposite the pre-
misses OF their owners, waiting to be used and offer
ing serious impeachment to travel. There they
stand for the greater part of the day; and the pu
sance would be little less if the occupant erected
shantee over the spot But the sidewalk ordinances
are still less respected. Many merchants especially
grocers, claim the use of the sidewalk in front If
their stores, on the principal of "rparian owner
| ship'-and compacently arrange their wares on
the inner edge of the walk, where thew NAV he
seen OF all men las no one well avoid seeing
what he runs lnto and their bulky boxes and bales
on the outer edge, to save store room and also to
give the world at large impressive idea of their
enormous business transactions. If these obstruc-
| tions were only temporary, pending the delivery
| and removal of goods, no reasonable person would
| complain, but they are permanent AT the foot of
! some streets, opposite the water, enterprising
! squatter sovereigns have set up oyster and fish
| stands, reiectories and other good sized sheds,
which they hold at pleasure, and sell out or lease
! like any other houses and lots. The ordinances
| forbidding all these intrusions upon the public
| highway, are perfectly constitutional" (no small
consideration nowadays and could be easily en-
forced if the police would take the trouble to do it.
A MODERATED PUBLIC SENr1MExr.-Iti is graft
Tying fact indicative of the subsistence of violent
sectional feeling, and which augurs we'll for the fu
ture peace of the country, that at the recent
"Commencements' Of the principal literary insti-
tutions at the North scarcely allusion has been
made to the thread-bare topic of slavery. Adolf
ton orators have either retired from the scenes or
| have expended their eloquence on more profitable
subjects. At Yale College, the change is particu-
| 1arly marked. Two years ago, at the annual meet
ing OF the alumni, conservative men were shocked
by the denunciatory and exceedingly discourteous
language employed; and one or two doctors of d-
yinity gained much celebrity on account of their
furious invectives This year there was scarcely a
lisp from antislavery spokesmen-the occasion pass
ing off peacefully and fraternally. One or two al
usons to the subject of federal relations were such
as to receive entire appreciation. In these facts
we find evidence that the rejecting men of the
North have arrived at their 'second sober
thought. The TRADES against Southern men and
Southern Institutions and the conversion of pulpits
into Kansas batteries, have at length created dis
gust. The shriekers for freedom are hoarse, sick
and discounted, and their ammunition is gone 1t
will probably be Icing before the disgracefu scenes
enacted few years ago in church at New Ha-
ven, including the rifle subscription, will be re-
peated.
We may expect, with a continuance of better
feeling, that the young men of the South will once
resort in their former numbers to our seats of
learning. The pecuniary effects of the withdrawal
OF this class of men are insignificant in comparison
with those of social and political nature-the en-
mites and alienation engendered in the educated
mind of the cOuntrV.-,JournUIof H