Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-02
CITY INTELLIGENCE.


TEE ExEurE on MONDAY NIeHr. We reft.ipsd
yesterday from any report Of the Extraordinary
scenes Of Monday night lin which the Mayor Of
the city enacted 20 conspicuous part.) solely out
of regard 10 the Office with which he has been I'M
fortunately invested. We had hoped, moreover,
that his organs would have been equally discreet.
But In this hope we were disappointed. The IN
teihgencsr, the Union, and the Star, all contain
reports Of the affair SO grossly and systematically
false, that we are compelled, much against our in
elination, to make full statement Of the whole
matter.
The hatslliqeneers report is evidently Official
and that win furnish the basis of our comments
The IrteiHgencsr says; "We learn that about
eleven o'clock information was brought TO the
Mayor, who was on duty at the City Hall that inn
proper proceedings were going on in tile portico
of the east wing Of that edi6ce. Having directed
his steps thither, he found number of boys drink
ing whiskey from bottles, which he took from them
and commenced 70 scatter and destroy"
If the Mayor was on duty at the City Hall, why
did he not dispense the American meeting? All
public meetings in front of the City Hall con-
trary to law.
The statement that boys were drinking Whiskey
In the eastern portico is untrue. The boys at that
point were drinking ,satsr from bottles, which they
filed at the nearest pump, and which some Of them
pretended was Shisksy. They made no disturb
y,
few feet of the eastern portico. Indeed the whole
meeting, until the commencement of the disturb
ance BY the Mayor himself was remarkable for its
order and so6riety E
The Mayor himself, as we are informed by citi-
Gems of the highest responsibility, commenced the
disturbance, by calling out In loud voice, after
his suppression of the "whiskey instruction
that certain remarks Of one Of the speakers were
false, and that the speaker alluded to sought to
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very naturally excited the indignation of those who
heard them, and created quite commotion In the
vicinity. The Mayor was surrounded by crowd of
persons, and appeared from the stand to be in
danger of assault. Joseph II. Bradley, ESQ, the
president of the meeting, Immediately went down
into the street and requested the Mayor to with
draw from the crowd, and enter his house, which
s.immediately opposite to the City Hall. But the
Mayor made no reply, and the confusion increas-
ing, Mr.. Bradley left the Mayor and returned to
the stand.
At this time the Mayor was taken in charge by
two gentlemen, one on each side, for the purpose
Of saving him from the annoyance of the boys and
young men who were following him. They went
down the street far as the house of DR.. Stetti-
MUS, where they halted aud the Mayor, at the in
stigation of one of his party arrested person who
was charged with the henous crime Of hurraing
for Sam. This man was soon rescued, and Capt.
Birch late chief of the auxiliary guard came up to
the Mayor and urged him to withdraw into one of
the neighboring houses. But the Mayor could not
be persuaded 80 to do, and pursued zig-zag
course across the street in the direction of Mr..
Hellen's
From this point, the Mayor, accompanied by
Captain Birch, ex-oficers Allen and Hutton, and
Messrs. Fenwick and Burrows the gentleman above
referred to his right and left supporters proceed
ed to Sixth street. down Sixth street to Pennsylvania
avenue, up Pennsylvania avenue to the market
house. While on Sixth street a stone was thrown,
which grazed Captain Birchs head, and struck
policeman named Hough, who soon recovered
from the blow and scampered off like quarter
horse
On their arrival at the market, Captain Birch
urged the Mayor to enter the staton-house, assur-
ing him that be and Messrs. Allen and Hutton
would keep the crowd back. But the Mayor dog
gedly refused to do so. Capt. Birch and Messrs.
Allen and Hutton then left him in the care of
Messrs. Fenwick and Burrows. But anxious to
protect the Mayor to the best of his ability Capt
Birch soon returned to his side, and proceeded
with him and his faithful escort up the Avenue on
the north side, to the Kirkwood House, where at
last the Mayor found refuge, and whence he pro-
ceeded from the side door, to his residence in the
First Ward.
This is a plain statement of the main incidents
in the affair detailed to us by eye-witnesses of
the utmost responsibility. 1t will be seen by the
ally from the report in that paper
It is very remarkable that, 30 far as we are in
formed, not single member of the new police
took any part in protecting the Mayorl Where
were they? How is their unaccoantable absence
to be explained? Can the organs Of the Mayor
inform us? When the Mayor reached the Kirk
wood House, one of the police, by the name Of
Burkhart, did miraculously appear upon the stage
but from what quarter of the heavens he dropped
is still mystery. With this exception, the Mayor
was left wholly unprotected by his own police.
The Intelligencer's assertion that the new police
were disabled by slung shot, has no foundation in
fact. They were too careful of their carcasses to
expose them to any such peril as a sung shot
We have in our possession several communica-
tons on the subject of this affair, which we may
publish tomorrow. They more than confirm our
own report.
We have no wish to excuse the persons who
were engaged in this affair as participants in the
emeaae. Ii was no excuse for them il the Mayor
was enacting part more ludicrous than that of
Don Quixote when he attacked the sc;ne skins or
the wind-mills They should have respected his
Office, even If he had ceased to do so himself, and
should never, for one moment, have forgotten that
they were citizens of sefgoverned community.
In conclusion, we will remark that the American
party, having been falsely charged with nstigating
this rot, demand legal investigation Of the whole
affair, from Its commencement to Its close They
ask that strict justice should be done TO all con-
cerned.
On Monday morning last the body Of small
coored boy, about thirteen years Of age was found
in cistern attached to the boarding house Of Sally
Smith, colored, on Pennsylvania avenue, between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. The child had
been missing for more than week, and previously
had been EMPLOYED as n waiter In the boarding