The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-11

The contrast between the perturbed state of Eu-
rope at the present time and the peaceful condi-
ton of affairs in our own Republics happily
exempt from those dangers of hostile invasion and
foreign conquest which threaten the nations of the
Old Worlds forcibly brought to mind by the
following paragraph, which appeared in The local
column of yesterdays american:
SELLING HoRsEs.-Per resolution passed by the
City Councils the authorities ordered to sell the hor
purchased for the Captains of Police and used part
by them for the last nine months 1t is quite that
these animals although somewhat expensive have been
past city been divided four districts none of
which have been daily patrolled by the Captains
Police BY virtue of the regulations creating the offices
of euenants and Sergeants of Police they required
to patrol those districts and report the Captains hence
it will be that the horses have been of any
considerable service.
From this statement of our contemporary, it
would appear that at the very moment when the
Governments of Europe are augmenting their
armies, and making every preparation for pro-
tracted and bloody war, the getty Government
deems it both safe and expedent to dispense en-
tirely with important arm of our municipal
defence-the mounted police. The MAYORS cav
airy is to be dismounted, and the horses sold
The fact is gratifying indication of the probable
ty of the present peaceful relations between our
selves and ''the rest of mankind continuing to
exist without interruption, and of the infexibe
determination of the CITY Government to pre-
serve its neutrality in the approaching conflict in
Europe. 1t is also an evidence of the sensible inn
provement which has taken place, within "the past
''nne months" in our domestic affairs, and of the
entire cessation of those municipal disorders, for
tl,a Of v,Ji tba sba1 md
Deputy Marshal of Police, were first mounted on
horseback. We have not forgotten the circum-
stances under which the noble quadrupeds, of
whose services our neighbor speaks so slight
ingly in the paragraph we have quoted, first came
into the possession of the city. They were pur-
chased in accordance with the recon-
mendation of His Honor the MAYoR-con-
tanned in an official proclamation issued from
the "Police Office, Baltimore ''-on the
18th of October, ls58-just five days after
the municipal election. In that proclamation
the MAYOR 'placed himself at the head of the po-
'lice," and as part of that Thorough reorgani-
''zation Of the service" which he promised should
take place, directed that in future the officers we
have mentioned should be mounted, and that they
should 'move constantly through their respective
cheats, noting all cases of delinquency the part
'of subordinate officers, and receiving any COM
'plaints which citizens may have to make" But
this, SAYS The AMERICAN has never been done.
''For several years past the city has been divided
'nto four districts, none of which have ever been
daily patroed by the captains of police" That,
however, is no fault Of the horSes-however much
it may be that of the MAYOR in failing 10 enforce the
requirements of his own proclamation. The hor-
ses, we believe are very good horses, and have
never refused to do duty, when called upon. SEX
| ''pensve animals '-"The American'' admits them
to have been. Why, then, should they be sold, and
apparently disgraced, for what is no fault of theirs
and why should our neighbor, with characteristic
disngenuousnesS, attempt to convey the impression
to the public that the brutes have been ignomin-
iously dismissed the service for neglect of duty
of which they are clearly innocent-chargng them
in so many words with having been 'of little SER
'vice to the DEPARTMENT. If the facts really be,
as they are stated by The American we think, that
they constitute much better grounds for dismissing
the officers who have failed to make use of the
horses for the purposes for which they were pur-
chased and in accordance with the instructions of
which have never had an opportunity of attesting
their zeal and fidelity in the city'S service. Be-
sides, it is not strictly true that ''they have
'never been Of any considerable service One
certainly, our Reporter tells us figured conspic-
uousy and useiully, along with other distinguished
public servants, both State and Municipal in the flu
neral procession which had in honor of the exc
cuted murderer GAMBRILL-and with the approach
of warm weather, and the well known fondness of
the police for pc-ncs and excursions to the country
they might have been found exceedingly useful
in conveying members of the force to various places
of rural and suburban resort One omission there
is in contemporary information the subject
AT the same time, and in the same proclamation,
in which the MAYOR directed the Marshals and Cap
tains to be mounted on horses-he announced his
intention of providing himself with 'rattlen Is
the ''ratte' also TO be sold Weare not aware that
it has been of ;any considerable service to the
"Department''-or TO the community We do not
remember to have heard of its having been
sprung. 1t is probably therefore, quite as good as
new, and-unless His Honor wishes to retain it
among the souvenirs of his official life-might with
equal propriety, and for similar reasons, be ex
posed for sale, with the horses What says The
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