Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-18

The course OF the minority in the Board Of Al
dermen at the last session on Monday night was
characterized by spirit Of fActiousness and ma
ignity as unusual In our councils as Il is unjustia
BILE and disreputable. If the Of the minority
were of the same stamp with many of their iguo-
rant and besoted followers the refuse OF all nations,
their conduct on the occasion referred to would
excite little surprise and no comment. But Drs.
Magruder and Miller arc gentlemen of high pro-
fessional and social standing, and endowed with
the advantages which education and association
with well-educated and weIl-bred persons are gen.
orally supposed 70 confer. Such conduct on their
part is therefore inercusable-and, for the honor
of the city, we trust it will not be repeated
Contested elections in Congress and the State
Legislatures are Of frequent occurrences. The pre-
cedents for action in such cases are numerous and
accessible. If Messrs. Busey and Emery are not
entitled to the seats they hold in the Board OF Al
dermen, 1t is a very easy matter for the minority
to prove their disqualification Why not do this,
il it be possible, in straightforward, gentlemany
manner, instead Of resortng to factous and despi-
cable maneuvres, and stale charges against the
American party in general, which have no real
bearing upon the question at issue? If legal vo-
tiers have been excluded from the polls, let the
public have their names. If any fraud has been
committed by the Commissioners, let 1t be exposed
and punished.
For several days after the election, great hub
bub was raised by the amagamationists in relation
to the Collector, Register, and Surveyor elect. At
Harmony Hall, in the columns Of the Union, the
Sentinel, the Star, and the National Era and the
Sag NIGHTS dens, in Cat alley and Hog lane 1t was
swaggeringy declared that Messrs. McCalla, Doug
las and Hunt would never be permitted to take
possession Of the offices to which they had been
elected by large majority Of the legally qualified
voters Of Washington. The orator OF Balls x
Roads, and thevrtuous friend of Forrest and cores
respondent Of 'dear Roberts, with their pot-val-
ant bottle-hoders and bottle washers every Ward
swore by st. Patrick, "donner and bitten, and
all the other gods in the Sag NIGHTS calendar,
that when the first Of July came, they would see
to it that not one of the officers named should be
allowed to enter upon the discharge Of his duties
They dashed themselves into perfect fury, and
our sober citizens not behind the scenes, began to
wonder what was TO come of all this mighty poth-
err The first Of July came, and public expecta-
ton was all tiptoe for the denouement Of the Sag
NIGHTS drama. Aud Nichts it was, sure enough
Their pickle-herring tragedy turned out farce,
and the authors and actors were hooted from the
stage with derision and contempt. Gen. McCalla,
and Mr.. Douglass, and DR.. Hunt, marched up to
the City Hall without even their dark lanterns"
andentered quietly upon possession of their Offices
and Sag-Nichtsdom skunk away to its dens with
impotent growls and discom6tetd visage.
Smarting under their failure to make even re-
spectacle stand in the CONTESTED election" for the
city offices, the administration party now seems
bent on acquiring additional disgrace by factious
interruptions of the proceedings OF the Board Of
Aldermen, and a general disturbance of the peace
Of the city. This is line of conduct in which
they are eminently fitted to shine. For they are
nothing If they are not supplementary, and a
row and shindy have from tune immemorial
an Irish funeral There was an Irish funeral
in this city on the 4t of June, and the friends Of
the deceased have kept up a ''mighty big wake"
over the remains ever since.
The chief mourners" are in the City Councils,
and there they bewail their loss with a thunder
ing hullabaloo, and howl that could be heard
from the Capitol Hill to, the Groves of Blarney.
But, all things must have an end. Even the grief
of bereaved Sag NIGHTS cannot last forever.
Time, the great consoler will heal the wounds and
dry the tears of the Fusionists and they will again
resume their customary ayocations, sadder and
wiser for their misfortune.