Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-20
CITY INTELLIGENCE.



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BRAyADo Us. TRUTH--Mr. w. y. Bayly has pub
hshed card intended a reply toan article which
appeared in the local column of this paper on We'd
nesday evening, under the caption of Our City
Government" Mr.. Bayiy's position as a member
of the Board of Alderman, was the occasion OF the
remarks in that article Of which he complains, and
Ii certainly the only excuse we can offer TO our
selves the public for noticing his answer to 1t.
The style OF Mr.. Bayly's composition is Of that
character which never deserves respect, and will
seldom repay attention, except when il becomes
like the growing Of cur, or the stencil of car
cas-, too offensive to be disregarded. We will,
however, for once, give the Alderman and his pub
LEGATION a notice they do not deserve.
He mentions three statements in the article on
our city government, and applies to them and their
author " that expressive monosyllabe which gen.
tlemen do not like to hear or to utter" The
first 10 that he received terrible castgation at
the hands of the great annhilator DIR. Busey."
This he pronounces falsehood. We would sug-
gest to him that though it is undoubtedly matter
of fact, yet whether it is truth or not, may be
matter of opinion. There are some persons so
happily constituted as TO be nsensble to bodily
wounds which fill others with horror, and some
whose intellectual and moral sensibtes are of the
same nature. We remember small boy who, af-
ter having received severe drubbing, declared
that If his antagonist had not been taken off he
would have pummelled him to death and we have
seen bullitin, in which the Napoleon of Mexico
declared that at the battle of Buena Vista he had
"met the enemy, and left them terrified )" but we
do not remember that the little boy was the less
bruised and bloody for his Boosting that Santa
Anna realized any great advantage from his victory.
We are willing to leave the decision of the ques-
ton to those who heard the debate or who will
read the speech of DR.. Busey, published in yester
days Organ"
The second charge, which he denies in his pecu-
liarly nervous and digniied language, is that the
votes Of foreigners, for tie erpenses Of cltose nat
lralization he admitted he had become responsible
TO the clerk Of the court, were cast for him at the
late election. We will first give the Alderman
the benefit Of his correction, and admit that they
were not given for himself but only for his coll
league, DR.. Miller, and for the candidates gem
orally Of the foreign party. Mr.. Bayly, as he
states, was not candidate at the election of last
month, and 1t is evident that the writer of the art
Gle in the Organ, must, through mere forgetful
ness of the time at which the term of Mr.. b. ex-
pires, have COMPOUNDED him with his colleague.
To suppose that any sensible person would, even
If inclined to mendacity, venture upon an assertion
which every one would know to be untrue, is sim
ply absurd; and the statement, therefore, being
an oversight, could not have been malicious.
The next and last charge made by the writer of
our city government on the authority of Dr. Blu
sey, "that Dr. Miller has occupied his seat in the
Board for many years contrary to law" and which
the Alderman calls attention to as specimen of
the false statements Of the Know-Nothings, was
corrected in the Organ of yesterday, and before
1t possible for Mr.. Bayly's publication to have
suggested IL. The only error was slip of the pen
in writing the name of Dr. Miller for that Of Dr.
Magruder, and must have been known to be SO by
Mr.. B. when he paraded it as an intentional un-
truth. He had heard the speech of DR.. Busey,
upon which the statement was founded, and knew
that he had made the charge against the Alder
man for the First and not the Second Ward.
Whether an unintentional misstatement, cor
rected at the earliest opportunity, and bearing
upon its face the evidence of its erroneousness or
an attempt to represent such an oversight as
wilfal falsehood, best deserves the application Of
the " nonosylia6ie" which Is such favorite with
the genticnanly Alderman, but which we will not
soil our pen by adopting VIC leave il to the public
TO judge. Ii is only necessary to add that the
article alluded TO was not written by the local
editor Of this paper, but was furnished as a COM
municaton.
Is TUE ScHooLsAsTER ABRoAD.--0n yesterday
morning, lad Of twelve years of age, was sum.
Inoned before the Criminal Court as witness
when on examination il was discovered that he had
no idea Of the obligation Of an oath, and indeed
seemed perfectly destitute of any knowledge Of
future state of reward and punishment. Ills ap-
pearance was not that Of an idiot and his depora-
Die ignorance appeared not the want Of capacity
bet OF proper instruction. Though he could talk
on other subjects, when questioned as to his be-
lefin the existence of God, he appeared not to
understand the meaning Of the word. That there
should be such case Of mental darkness in this
community is truly shocking. While conversng
ON the subject with highly respectable gentleman
of the city, he remarked that the children Of the
oonafy OF Washington, are shamefully neglected
IL appears that the large number of children
whose parents reside outside the city, but within
the limits Of the county, are not entitled 10 the
privileges Of our Public Schools and there being
no power In anybody, except Congress, to levy a
tax for the support of schools in the county, they
are LETT TO the uncertain opportunities which the
means and inclination Of their parents may pro.
vide Many Of them, We are assured, by those
who bad given the subject their attention. are left
20 grow up in the grossest ignorance, and this
within sight Of the Capitol At the last session Of
Congress, several gentlemen took the matter in
hand, and pettioned Congress to grant some re-
lief, either by levying taxes for the support of
schools, or otherwise, but their efforts were attend
cd with no success. IL Is fervently to be hoped
that for the credit Of the District and indeed for
the whole country, that something will DO done
when Congress again meets to dispell this intel.
lectual and moral darkness.
Mr.. Richard Isaacs, a very respectable agrcul-
turalist Of Prince Georges county, Maryland, was
yesterday morning conveyed from Centre Market,
where he had attended with his produce, to the
InfrnIary for medical treatment. He had been
suffering for some time with large boil on the
leg, which Il seems had eaten away part Of the
tegument OF large vein. The blood flowed so
profusely az to gil bis shoes. Proper applications
soon stopped the blood, and We learn be is doing
well.
CRIMINAL CoURr-Jndge Crawford presiding.-
Henrietta shedrick. petty larceny. Guilty, and
sentenced to nine months in the county jail
John Brown, grand larceny. Guilty-one year
In the pententisry.
Mary Heissler, keeping bawdy house. Not guilty.
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