The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-01

The conspiracy to assassinate Mr.. LINCOLN is
still the theme of discussion in the newspapers,
from one end of the country to the other. The
story grows blacker and blacker from day to day.
AS it passes from mouth to mouth, each narrator
adds some new and indisputable fact to the hid
eous tale, and circumstantial details of the plot
multiply beneath the ready pens of the writers
who are so anxious to furnish accurate accounts of
the affair to the press. That statements as absurd
as those which have been going the rounds for a
week past should be credited for little while by
the newspapers and people of remote country
towns is not surprising. But it is most extraor-
binary circumstance that the journals of all the
large cities should continue to repeat and with
continual improvements, story which is wholly
unsupported by anything in the nature of proof
and which Is absurd upon the face of it. So it is
however, that notwithstanding the denials which
have been authoritatively given to these reports,
and notwithstanding the absence of all evidence
to bring home to any one human being the slight
est knowledge of the contemplated murder, the
existence of the alleged conspiracy is stoutly main
tanned. The New York Times does not doubt
that ''the project of assassinating Mr.. LINCOLN
had been seriously canvassed," and that
the 'plans had been laid for its accomplish
"ment." The Courier is equally satisfied that
General SCoTT and Mr.. SEWARD had "suffi-
''cient evidence in their possession to justify
the belief that if the President elect had passed
through Baltimore can attempt would have been
made upon his lfe." One paper tells lis readers
about the arrangement which had been made to
shoot Mr. LINCOLN with an air-gun-another says
that the work was to be done with revolver, and
that steamer was lying in the harbor ready to
take the assassns to Mobile as soon as the deed
was perpetrated-another informs the public that
ia club of fifteen persons were sworn to accom-
"plish his assassination" and that one of the ff-
teen twas secret agent of the Government who
"divulged the plans of the junta as rapidly as
'they were matured' and another is confident
that a bowie-knife was the instrument by which
the death of Mr.. LINCOLN was to be compkssed.
But all these journals while differing in opinion
as to the mode in which the plot was to be carried
out, not only believe in the existence of the con-
spiracy, but unite in declaring that Mr.. LINcoLNs
!rie"os nave the names Of the parties engaged in
II. The s'hankers, merchants brokers and STATES
men who suggested OR ub.,ted the fendisb pro-
ject are, we are told, all known. hit strange
10 say, not solitary one Of them has been
arrested or even exposed Nor is il, probable
tnat me puohc Will ever be suffered to know more
than it now does about this extraordinary scheme
In fact the Courier has already notified the COW,
try that it is idle to inquire into the matter an
further. Speaking of the information which
Gen. SCoTr and Mr.. SEWARD are supposed to be
possessed of, it says, 1--WE greatly doubt whether
"they will ever apprise the anxious public of the
''precise nature of the testimony on which they
acted. Very probably they are not at liberty so
TO DO. The revelations made to them were
doubtless, based upon implicit confidence in their
honor; and in all human probability, the condi-
"tion upon which the conspiracy was revealed,