The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-11
From the Crockett (TeraSJ Argus, dug. 29.l
VIGILANCE COMMInTEES In TEXAS

From the Crockett (Terasl argus, Aug. 29.l
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES IN TEXAS.
All over the State have these committees been
organized. Every precinct in this county, we be-
lieve, has one, and they are composed of most
respectable and influential citizens. In the Augusta
and Randolph neighborhoods several vagrant indi-
viduas have been arrested and dealt with as the
committees thought proper. A most rigid police,
in the present state of uncertainty and alarm, is
positively necessary, and strangers to our people
are bound to be subject to disagreeabe annoy
ances, and it were well for such, without they can
show the right sort of marks and brands, to make
their pleasant faces just as scarce as they possibly
can. The exigencies of the times such as will
not admit of our being guided by the rules of po-
likeness laid down by 'my lord" Chesterfed nor
indeed, we sorry to say, will they admit us to
stray far from the letter of the law laid down by
Judge Lynch in his celebrated code.
This is lamentable state of affairs, and only the
most thrilling things could force to adopt these
stern measures of protection. 1t is not negroes
that we fear. In most instances where negroes
were implicated-and such cases have been few and
far between-they had been melted to entertain
rebellious notions by base and cowardly men who
had bIindly enlisted themselves in the abolition
cause. The negroes in this section, with a few ex-
ceptions, and these exceptions to be found
among the most worthless class, whilst they seem
to comprehend the true condition of things, are
true to their masters. They do not fail to cOmpre-
hend that these excitements only tend to abridge
their privileges, and hence nothing would give
them more qualification than to swing all suspicious
characters to the first convenient limb. There is
much more of truth than poetry in this, and we
would advise all those who have particular bust
ness here to make the most of it.
SHOCKING MURDER IN PHILADELPHIA Between
four and five o'clock Saturday afternoon
shocking murder took place in the First Ward,
Philadelphia The victim was David Hemphil an
employee in the Gas Works at Point Breeze. 1t
seems that Hemphl duty all Fri
day night, attending the valve of the
pipe used for supplying. gas to Professor
loves big balloon. After the collapse on Satur
day afternoon, he got little worse for liquor, and
in that condition went to his home in Ward street,
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, and Carpen.
ter and Washington streets. The wife of Hemphill
is much addicted to intemperance, and she was
quite drunk when the husband went home. The
latter and his wife became involved in a quarrel,
and James Phillips brother-in-law, also
poyed in the Gas Works, and who had accom-
panied Hemphll home, took the part of the wife.
Phillips and Hemphill got into fight, and Phil
lips, who was the oldest man, was getting the
worst of it, when he sent boy, of Hemp
hills, for his son Walter, young man. Walter
(better known as "Waddy,") came, and the trio
had an angry quarrel on the stairs which ended
in Hemphill being dragged down and stabbed
through the heart by of the Phipses. The
deceased, who was about As years of age, left six
children, several of whom were present. The en-
tire suggestive of miserable poverty, the
result of intemperance. The wife of the deceased
when the coroner arrived, was drunk in bed with
her two children.
THE SPRINGFIELD Horse Snow was attended on
Thursday by some Is, 900 people. In the trial of
saddle horses there three lady riders, all of
whom rode extremely well. For splendid bays,
ages Z, 8, 8 and 10 years, driven tandem, trained
to go, stop and turn short trot with the aoord,
and without lines, save for the wheel horse, was
most satisfactory display. Fifty-fve family horses
were entered, more than 40 (which took the
track, and gave evidence that, for family horses
some of them belonged to pretty fast families,
making their mile in 2.40. Patchen, fve-year
old dark sorrel was walked around the ground,
and pronounced to be the finest looking horse in
the collection. In a trial of thirteen walking
horses the first came round the half mile track in
81 minutes, but the walking sort of rack
lng. fair walker made it in six minutes The
crackers" walked in l0A minutes the mile, but the
fairest, honest walk on the second tlal in ~
minutes Thirty pairs of matched horses dashed
round the track, and afforded pretty sight.
race came off between two matched pairs, Ethan
Allen, brown colts, owned by Washburne, in Wor
cester, and a pair of bays from Lockport, n. Y,
the brown beating in 2.23. Mr.. E. Hubbard's
horse, of Montpelier, VT, Black Hawk and Nor
gan, black gelding, was sold to agent of the
Emperor Napoleon for B1 200. DR.. Mckay, of
Readsburg, Wis, sold his matched horses to W.
Corcoran, the Washington banker, for s., 400.
The Boston Trapeller says that the crop of apples
in the New England States this seaon will be lar
ger and of better quality than for ten or twelve
years past, provided the trees not shaken heavi
ly by September gales. At the present time, in
the Boston market, apples bring 81 and ~ 90 per
barrel.