Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-29

as ms asds and ASSISTANT m-fsh-s On 'hAs o0eA'
sion:
i IA. Tucker. w. j. Martin.
ASSISTANT MARsHALa.
First ward--J. N. Craig and w. H. Parker.
Second Wsrd---G. ii. Plant and Geo Harkuess
Third Ward. +. Halleck and R. +. Hunt
Fourth Ward B. Brown and James Bowen
Fifth Warl-J. A. Brown and j. @. Kilmon.
Sixth Ward, 7. Martin and Geo. Wilson
Seventh Ward-Robt T. knight and w. s.
| Wright
The above-named gentlemen are requested to
meet at Captain Carrngton's Office at s o'clock
this evening.
Pores SrosE IN COMMON CouscIL.--Board of
Common Council. March lsth, ls54.--The joint
resolution from the Board Of Aldermen authorizing
rewards 10 be offered for the detection Of certain
incendiaries, was taken up and read twice, when
Mr.. Easily moved the resolution be referred to the
| Committee on Police, with instructions TO report
general bill on the subject embraced In the resolu
ton, which motion was negatived. a. follows:
Ysas---Messrs- Douglas, Easily, Barr, Wannali,
Burns, Miller, Gaddis, Riley Humphrey, and
Nays.--Messrs. Kelly, Stewart Queen, Davis,
Pepper Clarke, Mead, Busey, Hanson, and Cal
an--l0 a5s
Mr.. Douglas moved TO amend the resolution by
striking out its last clause and inserting In lieu OF
IT, clause authorizing the Mayor TO offer the same
reward for the apprehension and conviction of any
person or persons who may hereafter delacs or
mutate any of the stones belonging 70 the Wash
ington Monument or any Of the staiuary belong
! ing to the General Government, but, before the
question was taken thereon,
Mr. Wannall moved that the resolution be laid
on the table; which motion was agreed to by the
| following vote:
Yeas--Messrs Douglass Easily, Barr, WannaH,
Davis, Cub, Miiler, Gaddis, Riley, Pw,phvey, and
Bamherger--ll.
Nays--Messrs Kelly, Stewart. Queen, Pepper,
Burns, Clarke, Mead, Busey Hanson, and Cal
lan--I0
The above resolution was introduced in the
Board Of Aldermen by Mr.. Fitzpatrick.
In the Common Council the yeas and nays ex-
hibit same facts worth notice. Mr.. WannaH, who
has lately been rewarded with 81, 400 clerkship,
was the author Of the motion to lay on the table ;
| which was carried with the assistance Of A. w.
Miller, Lemuel Gaddis, and Samuel Humphrey, all
Of whom are ultra Anti-Know-No things, and the
two latter are oface-holders; while Messrs Busey,
Kelly, and Pepper, Americans, voted against the
motion.
We publish this extract from the journal for the
information of the public.
The title of the resolution implies that it merely
related to incendaries, but the second clause OF
the resolution related directly to the Pope's stone
hence the amendment of Mr.. Douglass, and the
motion of Mr.. Easily, the one seeking prospective
action, the other 1.-THE motion of Easby) intending
to make it general in its operation. The incendi-
arism referred to was one of Mr. Corcoran's build
ings.
The OAra-BoUsD AND THE WASHINGTON MoNu-
SENr SrosE.--A very good story is circulating
round town, for which we are indebted to that
mysterious parsonage who has made it his trade,
xf Late E.l al tha< t.
But for the story II is said that the present Grand
Jury here is composed Of Anti-Americans, m ,de
So it is presumed, some how or other, 30 that, BY
hook or by crook, they might catch some of those
rascalIy Know othings Certain it is, that there
has been large muster of these scoundrels sum-
moned before this august body and, as the story
goes, the Grand Jurors have pressed them closely,
in questioning them as to their knowledge of the
rascals who destroyed the Popes offering to the
Washington National Monument, and then threw
the fragments into the Potomac.
1t is further stated that, not obtaining very sat.
isiactory information in the matter, certain Doc
tor, who worships everything American with the
same zeal and enthusiasm that the Prince of Dark
ness regards consecrated water, allowed his ner-
vous combination to seriously leopard the que-
tude Of his more placid proportions, in such wise
as to horrify the witnesses in the even tenor Of
their variations and thus precluded the posi-
bility Of establishing, with mathematical accuracy
the all-absorbing interrogatory Of "Who killed
Cock Robin p However, this learned disciple OF
Escuapius persevered with degree of ardor
worthy of better fate than that Of an ignominous
failure. Cornering witness with his usual inge-
nuity, he inquired, in slow and measured terms,
whether the Know-Nothings were not obligated
in their midnight conclaves aud close recesses by
an oath as sacred as that which he had Just taken
In the presence Of the Grand Juryf The witness,
niischievously perhaps, appeared to be suddenly
nonplussed, but just as smile of satisfaction lii
up the countenances of this discerning tribunal,
and the man of compounds was about exclsiming.
like Archimedes Of Syracuse, Eureka! eureka
the hitherto hestating deponont, with that per-
feet nonchaiance peculiar TO his nocturnal assoca-
tons, composedly said, Well, think they do
only ID Is little stronger TO support the American
Constitution, and place America In the possession
Of Americans" The recondite Jury looked bull
let's, daggers were perceptible on the Doctors
contorted brow. The game was up Il is now
confidently asserted by the knowing ones, that the
miscreants who perpetrated the vandalism in ques.
ton, are safe sojonrners In the land of Terra del
Fuego. i hr tPoPr.
/ RuMoREp APPOINTMENT learn that Robt
j. Roche is to be appointed clerk TO the Com.
missioner Of Public Buildings. He was the anti.
American candidate for the Office Of Collector, and
Wing. Mr.. Williams, who is to be removed, ID
Democrat, and supported Gen. Pierce.
| A QUrER QuEsrIos.--A member Of the Grand
Jury put the following question to witness the
other day, before said Grand Jury: How did you
vote at the late electionT
| What are we coming TO
The Hon. Mr. PHILLIPS, Of Mobile, has taken
up his residence permanently in this city, and viii
practice in the Supreme Court and Court Of Claims
/ Mr.. Phillips was one Of the ablest members Of the
last House Of Representatives, and has ranked for
many years With the most distinguished leaders
| at the bar of Mobile
1t affords us much pleasure to make this an.
nouncement, as the acquisition of new citizens Of
the talent and high character OF Mr.. Phillips may
justly be regarded as Of material advantage to the
city Of Washington.
Hon. A. G. Pennington, of New Jersey, arrived
in this city yesterday, and took lodgings at VIII
lards Hotel
WArH REruRss.--John Fleet, free negro, pro.
family; fined t6. The boisterous use OF profane
and indecent language by negroes, balfgrown