The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-05

meeting of the ''Rough Skim Club, to take into
consideration the propriety Of removing officer
WILLIAM HOWARD from the Police. We have since
learned, and it gives us pleasure to state, that the
matter has been happily and honoraby adjusted
between the two branches of the "Cty Govern
ment'-the MAYOR and the Chubby a compro-
mise which is equally creditable to both, and in
nowise derogatory to the dignity of either. The
following advertisement which appears in The
baltimore Clipper of yesterday, may, therefore,
be accepted by our readers and the public general
y as a satisfactory guaranty that the friendly
relations which have hitherto existed between
Mayor SWAMI and his faithful Commons, of the
Tough Skin Association" will undergo no in
terruption, but continue heretofore, TO the in
finite honor and credit of our city, and the mani
fest advantage of its inhabitants:
fpHALL OF THE ROUGH SKIN AS
w ISOLATION, Saturday Evening October ID ISIS
AT a meeting of the Rough Skin Association, held on
the above named evening the Secretary was instructed to
nave inserted in the Baltimore Clipper, following
the pursued by every member of this Asso
citation in Election to be held Oct 18TH 1858: That as
Native born citizens and members ofthe American party
Tor which we are proud to be publicly acknowledged we
pledge our undivided support the Candidates of the
American party in the coming Election. And that the
notice of the LIST instant requesting meeting of the
members OF this Association opposed Mr. Howard being
retained as police officer without our knowledge
consent, believing that the Chief Magisrata of o1r
city the Honorable Thomas Swami is fully canabIe Of
discharging every duty devolving upon him a Mavor
oeng dictated TO by any parties wishing
sumo t poslton which, in our opinion is calculated
throw discord and dsunion the ranks of our well or
ganized party.
1t VIM. CALDER, sec'y.
AS the matter has attracted considerable atten-
ton, and has given rise during the past few days,
to various rumors touching the possibility of
rupture between friends bound together by so
many and such powerful ties of common interest,
as the MAYOR and the Club, we have taken pains
to inform ourselves of the nature both of the
original difficulty and of the final adjustment
Officer HOWARD, it appears, has, at different
times, given great and just umbrage to the
"Rough Skins, " by attempting to restrict their
privileges within the old-fashioned, and now OBJ
solete limits prescribed by the laws of the State,
and the ordinances of the City. This he has
DONE either in sinful ignorance or as it would
seem, in apparent contempt of the general dispen-
sation from all legal and other restraints granted
by the 'authorites - in favor of such associations
as the CROUCH Skins" and the unlimited in
diligence given TO these useful allies of the sGctv
government''-to do as they please. These acts
of petty interference the part of officer HOWARD
at all times sufficiently dsagreeabe, have latterlv
tits said, become positively intolerable. On re-
cent occasion, it is asserted he even ventured so
far as to touch with sacregious hand the sacred
person of a Trough Skin," and attempt to arrest
him for some alleged offence-nay more, when re-
sisted in the discharge of his duty, had the pre-
sumption to use force for the purpose of compelling
obedience. For these and other the like enorm-
ties his dismissal from the police, has been natur
ally demanded by the Club. Their very reasona-
BILE request, however, partly upon the pretence
as we understand that ''EowARD was faithful
land efficient officer" but, chiefly, for reasons
which are too obvious to mention, but with which
the publicity given to the affair by the notice in
Saturdays EXCHANGE may possibly have had some
thing to do, the constituted authorities have de-
cllned to grant-at least, for the present; but in
order, as it is said, ITO keep things quiet" and
appease the wounded sensibilities of the Cough
Skins" officer HOWARD has been assigned a
beat in another portion of the district where it
will be out of his power to interfere hereafter
with the innocent diversions of that most re-
spectacle association Such, in brief are the facts
of the case as they have been represented to us
and as we believe them to be. 1t will be
readily seen, therefore, that the generous conf
dence reposed by the ''Rough Skins in s'the
'Chief Magistrate of our city, the Honorable THoM-
GAS SWAMI" and in his ability to discharge "every
''duty devolving upon him as MAYOR" including
that of healing dissensons Gin the ranks of our
"well-organized party" has not been undeserved
or misplaced That gentleman has shown himself
emnently worthy of the undivided support so
enthusiastically and gratefully "pedged to him
by the Club. Whether he is entitled to that of the
more respectable portion of the community is
another and totally different question. After the
publication of the advertisement which appeared
in The Clipper of Friday, and was copied by us
on Saturday it certainly can not be possible that
the MAYOR of the city was ignorant of the move
ment which was on foot for the purpose of ousting
his officer or that the MARSHAL would have as
sumed the responsibility of making even partial
to the demands of the Club, without
the sanction and concurrence of his official chief.
therefore, the finger of the MAYOR NAV
be nowhere directly visible in the transaction his
completely in it can hardly be questioned. The
actual transfer of officer HOWARD from one beat to
another, in Difference to the wishes of a gang of
1esperadoes to whom he had rendered himself OBJ
noxlous, may have been easily accomplished
through the instrumentality of the MARSHAL or of
simple Captain of Police. The responsibility of
he act-at least, until proof be shown to the con-
rary, must rest, where the ''Rough Skins them
elves have placed it. in the resolutions we have
luoted-upon the "Chief Magistrate of our city,
the Honorable THOMAS SWAMI" As such, we SUBJ
nit it to the candid consideration of every citizen in
his communty-not trusting ourselves to speak
VI it as it justly deserves, for fear of forgetting
like that Prospect, which our courty contempo-
AIRY OF The american tells u.s. that we owe to ''the
powers that be-" and that which we owe to our
elves