Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-30
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Cousr SsoRLroRK.-"They are here" added
the Count, tapping his forehead significantly;
Large book at home-full ofnotes. music, pictures
science, poetry, politics, all things"
"rhe word politics, sir" said Mr.. Pickwick,
comprises, in ITSELF study of no inconsiderable
magnitude"
"Ah I" said the Count drawing out his tablets
"ver good fine words to begin chapter--poltics
The word politics surprises by himself" And down
went Mr. Pickwicks remark in Count Smorltorks
tablets, with such variations and additions as the
Counts exuberant fancy suggested
Versatility OF talent is a rare gift and vouchsafed
to very few. Genius has never been more correct
ly defined than power of concentrating the mind
on any one subject. 1t Is only occasionally that
proficiency is attained In more than one art,
science, or department Of literature; but then,
success is never brilliant when the powers of
mind are confined to single object. IL is matter
of universal note that the linguist and mathemati
clan are seldom united in the same person. The
mathematician with poet never. Poetd aaascitar,
non ftn So with oratory--for all the cultivation
and practice of Cicero, upon the sea-shore, could
not in thousand years strike the spark of elo-
quence from bag Of mush.
But there may be such thing as a genius with
out its ever "getting around" much. "Full
many flower is born to blush unseen" And then
the "getting around is sometimes all that is
ever known OF the genius IL frequently hap
pens that in Washington, Tan exception to most
rules,) great geniuses have existed, and il has
not been known for years, until accident, or i'm
patience of renown has brought the thing to
light. To be successful and acceptable con-
tributor TO the public press, establishes genius
particularly if it be for twelve or thirteen dali
lies Of different politics. Yet that thing has been
done. 'Tis true the malicious will quote the an
cient epigram, but that does not set us back much
Friend in your (articles) Pm grieved
So very much is said,
Onehalf will never be believed,
The other never read"
But we have prophets, too, in Washington-sev.
eral who know who is elected after the election
rivals of her who always knew that cat would eat
the grubbing.hoe They predict an hundred
things, Of which ninety-nine fail. There the genius
comes into play, for they cackle as much over that
one as If all held good and do persuade themselves
into crediting the whole.
The most wonderful case of all though, and that
must be confessed not of domestic origin, is that
of him who sits in one place. !. e., he is paid for
sitting in one place, and must be presumed to
be there, and writes from three cities" at once
IT'S true, that after reading him for many years.
nobody has ever learned anything from him but
just think of it-three whole cities with sundry
appendant villages, on Sunday. Remarkable! An
establishment of the profession
and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew
PECULIAR INsTITUTr sDED!-A white man
recently convicted of clothing in Parkers.
burg, Virginia was Or says the SUM by the
county court to receive twenty lashes on his back
well laid on" which sentence was executed with
good hickory switch. We were aware that such
law existed in South Carolina, and that it worked
most benefcially, but supposed that the new
stitution," the for every ILL had abolished the
~ ~, TAI,
said that white man survives the pillory and the
penitentiary better than the cow-hide.
Now, il this be so with white men, how must it
be with the horde of worthless negroes that infest
this District, who are known to commit unlawful
acts towards the coming of winter in order to get
into comfortable quarters How much better to
'tuck" such characters up as often as they Offend
or found to be idle without good cause, than to fill
our jail and work-house, and burden criminal
court to such an extent
The evils from this source, as much as anything
else, must soon separate our people from the gene
raj government Were they now taxed to support
this court and Jail, they would not only "groan,"
"groan," la Wise, but would soon remedy the
evils.
Why should we not have delegate in Congress,
and laws to meet our necessitiess Some persons
here may perhaps remember the "Snow" riots
oh, all We forget that the subject of riot gives
character to it, not the extent. The next one
may be of hail"
The CAMPBELLsl-Last night was "Peeler"
In more senses than one The house filed
long before the hour of performance. There are
not wanting those who affect to think contemptu.
ousy of this class Of entertainment and who are
"demnibly bored" and yet they are always on
hand, particularly when the /" Campbells are
around" Now the fact is, that il the char
acter" they discourse about is a low one the same
cannot be said Of the music--the finest gems Of
opera being rendered in the finest STYLE
The Campbells not behind others in good
works. Tonight they give concert for the ben
eft of Portsmouth and Norfolk, when, we doubt
not their efforts and the fruits of the same, will
be worthy of themselves and the public. OF
course, on such an, occasion, they will "shut
down" on the "dead-head" system, so happily hit
off last night. Now Ginger, don't say we throw
ed sparrow grass" on your character.
CIRcus.-"J Joe Pentland's" cavalcade exhibited
itself this morning to admiring thousands. As 1t
passed up the Avenue it struck us that the stud
was remarkably fine, but of that and the other at
fractions, which doubt great, the public
will inevitably judge soon. We would rs soon
think of keeping duck out OF water as the peo-
pie from the circus. From all we have heard, ex-
pectations will not be disappointed.
FIRST WARD MPRoyENESTs-The many new,
beautiful, costly, and substantial improvements
going on in this part of the city indicate that it
will soon reasser its former position Of being the
Court End" il, indeed, it has ever lost It. To-
wards the region Of the Observatory, now highly
improved and in itself object Of attraction,
walk win repay any one interested in the city's
welfare. The names Of the parties able to build
these hard times are not known to us but If they
we're, We rather imagine they would prefer the
quiet contemplation Of the fruits of their industry
than lionising in the local columns of newspaper
1t was recently stated by the Star that Rev. Mr..
Donelan, Of the Catholic Church of st. Matthews,
in this city, had been to Norfolk, to minister to the
distressed inhabitants Of that city. If this was
true IL Is strange that mention is made of il by
the Norfolk papers. Besides, we are informed by
gentleman of this city, that Mr.. Donelan has not
been to Norfolk during the prevalence Of the yell
low fever. II we are misnformed, we shall be
happy to make the correction, on receiving the