Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-05
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

call of the Mayor - 478sgN
In the Board Of Aldsrmsn communicated IVES
received from the Mayor returning the bin impos-
Ing taxes for the year 1856, with his reasons for
Withholding his signature thersfrom-
The question being taken on the passage Of the
bill, tho objections Of the Mayor TO the contrary
Notwithstanding 1t was decided in the negative.
two-thirds not voting in favor thereof
Mr.. Riggs introduced . bill fixing the rate of
taxation at SEVENTY cents In the one hundred dol
lars, which having been referred to the Committee
on Finance, was reported by them with an amend
ment fixing the rate at sixty-fvo cents
Mr.. Busey offered q proviso to the bill. redu-
cling the salaries of all the appointed officers Of the
Corporation fifteen per cent. which was agreed to.
The question Their being had on the third read
Ing ofthe bill, 1t was lost.
The Board adjourned without coming to any con-
clusion on the subject. a 50
In the Board Of Common Council, the commu-
ncation Of the Mayor having been read, and the
Board being unable to act until action was had by
the Board Of Aldermen, ~ aEa
M Lloyd introduced bill authorizing tenn.
porsry loan for certain purposes which was passed
Some further business was transacted, and the
Board adjourned VI -
The Fourth Of July in Washington passed OF
quietly, if we except the firing Of guns great and
small, and the incessant explosion Of Gre crackers,
whose sharp reports rung upon the ear ut every
step. Pop, pop, pop, before, behind, on the right
band, and on the left, now single cracker, and
fen de joie in honor of the day. By way of va
riety dozen or more packs we're now and then
placed in an empty barrel and ignited, producing
succession of reports inimitable in their way and
vastly gratifying to the Juveniles.
At an early hour in the morning the decks and
cabins Of the steamers lying at the wharves were
crowded with excursionists ladies fair and gen.
svaA
Potomac, the Fort, the White House, Piney Point,
Blackistones Island, ETC., ETC., pleasure or in
clinati0n prompted. Among others We noticed
the Uniform Of the American Rifles, officers and
members acting escort TO the Marion Rifles
OF Baltimore also the Fillmore and Donelson
Club Of Baltimore, on their way to Mount Vernon,
to visit the tomb Of Washington. Among the
latter we saw a singuarly dressed individual, sim
gular in speech, singular in action, singular in
taste, singular in expression, altogether singular
(, entire original, whom, upon inquiry, we under
stood to be q live Know othing, one Of the prim-
tive ORDER somewhat eccentric. but perfectly
harmless, gentle as lamb, seemingly anxious to
keep everybody in good hunor with him and with
themselves. M ea a5fe4
We we're grati6ed, we confess, at this discovery,
for it had been our desire to see al live Know
Nothing" having heard them described as bloody,
vindictive and cruel in the extreme-indeed, we
had supposed that when we did see one he would
be confined by bars of iron-caged like any other
vampire, lest he should be inclined to CRAFTY his
propensity for sucking blood How this world 10
given to lying The bloody Know-Nothngs! We
were undeceived in this particular--there was no
sign Of blood about his personals dress was
striped, and upon his breast he wore cOnstclla-
ton, IN the centre of which was the American
eagle, with expanded wings, bearing aloft the fag
of our country--emblematic Of civil and religious
freedom His countenance was mild, expressive
IL. ia iko
eagle's--his noble brow, broad and expansive, be-
tokened depth, sodity, power-in short, he look
ed as though he had been made In the image Of
d-like--born to command, to govern, and
to rule and we became convinced that God, who
created him and all bis race, designed that he and
they should rule the land, which he gave into the
possession of their fathers-they, their children
and their children's children, forever.
We are convinced of another thing--that this is
progressive age, but that we have not progressed
in the right direction. We have advanced back
wards; we are tending towards anarchy; and that
another pseudo Democratic administration, like the
present, will place US in the midst Of noise and
confusion" from which none but God can deliver
US. In nothing have we advanced farther back
ward than in the art Of lying. The lie Democratic,
the lie polite the lie Jesuitc, are the most fash
ionable ea and are most prolific at the West End.
They are engendered in all the departments OF
the government, and are circulated through the
General Post Office all over the country. The
Democracy of the age is lie, or else the Democ-
racy imputed to Thomas Jefferson is a le-recon-
Gle them who can. The Democracy Of this age is
like Pharaoh's lean kline, it has swallowed and for
gotten that it ever had an existence, the Democ-
racy of former and more pamy days; and still they
are hungry, greedy, Unsuitable, ravenous. What
is it they have not swallowed in the shape of plat
forms9 What will they not swallow? There is
but one thing, after the Cincinnati platform, that
they cannot sw allow and that Is the administra-
ton Of Franklin Pierce.
Thank God that his administration Ia near its
end Thank God for the prospect which is open
ing up before us Of better things to come. Yes,
on this 4th Of July, 1856, the s0th of our inde-
dendence as a nation, we thank God that the ruth
less prosecuting, malignng, anti american admin
istration of Franklin Pierce is about to die
THE MAYOR AND Hrs Apologies. The Junior
organ of the Mayor, on Thursday last, says It is
" authorized to state that our account Of the
Mayors "progressn from the City Hall to the
Kirkwood House, on Monday night, is false.
We demand the authority" thus oficiously
and, as it were, officially" protruded upon the
notice of the public Our statement was based
upon the reports Of three gentlemen Of undoubted
veracity, aud known to be 30 in this community,
who accompanied the Mayor throughout the whole
of bis extraordinary Hegra. Will the Mayor, If
he ne the "authority alluded TO by the "faith-
less phantom" have the presumption to bring hrs
character for yeracify in collision with theirs -
We doubt il extremely. No sober man, who was
awitness Of the Mayors conduct on Monday night,
will deny the truth OF single paragraph Of our
report. tffShi
81 II that report be false, let its msstatements be
pointed out We are prepared to substantiate the
whole oft by afidavits that will not be gainsayed
even by the foreign mercenary who furnished the
false report for the InteiIigencer.
We have no desire to expose the condition of