The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-23

Ia the multitude of exciting matters which have
occupied the public mind, for some time past, in
Baltimore, attention has necessarily been some
what withdrawn from the ordinary topics and IA
miliar individuals usually prominent in our COM
munity. Our indelatigable STATES ATTORNEY
appears TO have grown tired Of the comparative
oblivion into which subjects of more engrossing
interest have thus thrown him, and yesterday
took occasion 10 recall himself to the customary
appreciation of his fellow-ctizens in a very char
acteristc way. Our readers will find in the
proper column the statement of his proceedings
which is given by our reporter. We write with
the report before us, which was published in Tile
Sun extra of yesterday morning.
Reading from letter in the New York Herald
statement that Mr.. WHITLEY of Delaware, had
been discharged, through focal influence - from
arrest for his participation in personal encoun
ter with Mr.. TowNsEND-the STATES ATTORNEY
''wished TO enquire from his Honor" Judge
BOND, if he knew upon what authority so heinous
charge could have teen made ''Unless con-
'tradicted, - said the sensitive official, at might
''implicae this tribunal The 'tribunal' at
once responded that it knew nothing about
the matter--but the subject being one of
great moment, Judge BOND Immediately or
dered Justice SHowACRE 10 be summoned at
once before him. The CLERK volunteered
the information that the Justice had already been
summoned bat the subpoena had never been re
turned; whercupon Mr.. WHITNEY, with great
vigor, ordered return to lie made forthwith. Del
aware thus disposed of, our cp&,os ngorum took
charge of Pennsylvania, pending Justice SHowA-
pric 1 "a Ill
fight between Mossrs. RANDALL and MONTGOMERY,
gave vent to the following Incompatible express
sion of virtuous Indignation doffical sensibility
Those papers abroad he said, chad been nervously
excited about the rowdyism Of Baltimore. that it was
hardly fair that strangers should outrages
and have it charged to city We have
MI W enough to do to preserve order among
own citizens.
Those of us, who, from long experience, are
acquainted with the meritorious services of Mr..
WHITNEY, and appreciate the excellences which
adorn his personal and official career and charac-
ter, will require no explanation or comment upon
this striking display of them all But lest some
OF the many strangers among us may know
nothing of orr affairs except from chose papers
abroad we take occasion to add few words
In order to prevent any erroneous impressions. If
any one of our visers has ever become Enormously
excited from reading of a distinguished iuris
whose opinions on the legality and propriety of
'cowhiding,' promulgated from the bench
have given renown TO his brief judicial
history-let them not he led for a moment
into the great error of supposing that it is
he who is now the ornament of the TRIBUNAL
in question, and sought to be Implicated by the
correspondent of the Herald. Ifthey have heard,
tbrpn Ito OH
States Attorney here-linked through long wears
of official misconduct, with the worst rufans of a
rufiianly Notwithstanding to them all the
aid and comfort which straw bail delays and
distractions of justice could furnsli-regarded by
his fellow-cizens in general as the chief obstacle
to the fair administration of the criminal law en-
trusted to his official prosccuton-they must not
he so uni st as to believe that the Mr. WHITNEY of
yesterday line sentiments, is the same deplorably
famous individual. Let them not imagine that he
who has now ''enough to do 10 preserve order
among orr own citizens" can be by posi-
bility the same, who has heretofore had al
most everything "to do with preventing
I" order from being preserved, either among
our own citizens" or the strangers unfor-
nately, in those days, within gates. Let no
even the voice of ignorance calumny suggest
that the gentleman now so much shocked at the
imputation of "loca influences" was ever
open TO influences of any sort, or that
one who bushes TO hear of two fst-fghts be-
tween Democratic Conventon-men, was ever a
candidate before a Convention, which ballotted at
the mouth of the revolver-was surrounded by the
whole police force of the city, striving in vain to
keep the peace in it-he himself being most con-
spicuously sustained in Convention and primary
meetings, by the very worst of the outlaws over
whose heads harmless indictments had for months
been hanging never to descend until too late TO
harm. We trust that no one will be guilty of the
injustice of confounding two people, so different in
all respects as the Mr.. WHITNEY of such memories
and the gentleman who bears that name to-day
Even upon the authority of the New York Herald
it would be "hardly fair. So far as we are
concerned, these observations will make it appa-
rent that we will never participate, even by ST.
lence, in such an COURAGE"