Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-17
EVENING STAR.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

!" dCh-hOuSe report. The editorial
Squire seems determined to provoke us
into collision with him. 1t was our in
tentiOn to have treated him as others do,
and let his venom 90 unnoticed, but as
this is the only paper in which the po-
lice reports are published, we feel called
upon to make few remarks upon his IN
siauGtiOns in last Sa turday's PAPER. He
says that ''while we have no disposition
to call IN question the rieht, we feel our
selves justified in Directing to the practice
adopted by some Of our cotemporaries, of
publishing the names of those persons
who are brought to the watch houses in
this city, or fined by the police magis
trates for small offences which are of
every day occurrence and which, it seems
to US, are beneath the character and
standing of local reporter to notice. "
No one will pretend to doubt the Squire s
honesty in this. He has had cool reason
to object to both watch and work house
reports.
Again, he says, ''what orr practice was
journal to which we have referred, is still
the practice of the Ma ional In 'elligencer
and Republic, the only two large daily
newspapers who employ writer's of res
portability and intelligence as reporters OF
city intelligence and local matters" II
it were worth while to refer to file OF
the Intelligencer during the first year OF
the existence of the Auxiliary Guard, we
could show how far the returns would
carry him out. With reference to the
last clause above quoted, we admit that
the lntelligencer has for few years past
employed a respectable and intelligent
reporter: but responsibility, and inteNi-
gence especially, were in demand previous
to that time.
Should we be called upon by any re
spectacle writer or journalist, to vindicate
or justify our course in this respect, We
hold ouselves ready to prove that, where
the opposite practice has been adopted
it has never been fairly carried out, OF
when adopted for a season, it has beer
suddenly dropped when the editor or re.
porter has deemed it imprudent and unsnft
to publish the names Of certain moral de.
Il qt~nts of nigh sfanding, who have beer
lodged in the watchhouse for offences
committed under the influence of wine OF
strong liquor"
Whatever may have been the course O
the writer of the above in relation to these
reports it is certainly not applicable tt
this paper, for the published returns vii
show that there has been no parfialiti
shown to any not even the Police Magis
trate of the Fifth District, who was pub
lished for neglect of duty some time since
We are not called upon to defend Mer
cury of the Baltimore Sun, for the course
he thought proper to adopt, as he is fully
competent to take care of himself from
the riadictire insinuatiOns Of the editor
As regards ourselves, though we have beer
pointed out several times by the squire
we shall continue to publish whatever We
think proper, holding ourselves alone re
spOnsible to the public for an approval o
our course.
Commissioners of EIeciiops.-The two
Boards of the City Councils, at a join
meeting on Monday evening, elected the
following gentlemen as Commissioners O
Elections for the election which takes
place on the first Monday i'll June:
FIRST Ward-M1essrs. Samuel Drury
James w. Sheahan, and Charles A. Da.
Wis.
Second Uard.- Messrs. NJ. P. Callan
j. d. James, and A. Tate.
Third Ward-NIeSsrs. Randolph Coyle
George II. Jones, and S. Macpherson.