The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-02

Of all the nonsense current, we think the most
ridiculous is the attempt to make sensation capital
out of the discovery of 'deposts of arms at the
office of the Marshal of Police. The honesty and
sense of such clap-trap are just about the meas
ure of the Americans capabilities, and We Accord
ing find it twangng the string daily. According
to its representations of yesterday, our citizens
have had terrible time of it, with magazines OF
arms powder and ball hidden away beneath their
very feet' Coal-holes of "the most sinister as
pect' have "ihreatened' their peace. 'lmple-
ments' ofslaughter terrible to think of, have been
conspring against their lives 'under false loors -
and ''away under rafters.' "Surely," says our
neighbor, "men who are acting entirely above
board do not conceal their implements under
panks The conclusion is Observation-Disclosures
Marshal KANE was wisely sent to Fort McIIenry,
and ''the attempt on all sides to act the part Of
injured innocence is quite futile!''
Was there ever such unmanly trash thrown out
to stimulate a popular excitement and cover up IL
fragrant governmental usurpation? Does the
american not know, rs matter OF indisputabl
fact, that with trfng exception or two Of in
dividual arms left for safe-keeping every article
"discovered was the property of the city corpo-
Internationally bought and paid for, with its
money-lawfuily in the possession of its officers
lawfully at the Marshal's Office, and lawfully con-
cealed to prevent unlawful spoliation? If the
editors of the American expected a regiment of
General BANKS men, at their Office, to seize their
invaluable fre-proof safe, tonight, would they
hold it a crime to hide the same in their cellar?
Nay, supposing their invaluable persons to be the
object of the remorseess Search is therea coalhole
about their premises of so sinister an ''aspect,"
that they would not creep into it? Would
they be too much ''above board' to
put their goods and chattels 'under rafters "
We should not wonder, even now, if some of
the very implements which our neighbors in
tended 10 march out with, when they published
their editorial of April 10th, were still lying
somewhere dangerously in wait, by the side Of
those with which Governor Hicks intended to
''ki LINCoLN's men," Out upon their msera-
BILE humbug and hypocrisy Shame upon so
cowardy trick TO injure honorable men, at
whom they think that it is profitable, and feel
that it is safe to strike Let any military man,
or any man who has military idea, look at the
inventory of the 'muntions of war;" the finding
of which they set up justification for over
throwing the laws of the State, and suspend
ing its constituted authorities among US. If
he shoot one-teuth of the ammunition
which is mentioned in it, out of anything found
to shoot it from; if he can make anything out Of
the whole concern, except the heterogeneous
sweepings Of very old and promiscuous armory;
he can do more than any military man of our
acquaintance who has applied his ingenuity to the
subject. If Fort McHenry is TO be taken with
such magazines" or the State of Maryland
blown out of the Union thereby, we insist upon
giving our neighbors of the american the oppor
tunity of displaying their patriotism, by telling
us how. GREELEY is educating General SCoTT.
Shall not his friends and follow ers, here, do as
good turn for General BANKS?