Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-21
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

Qua SrsrNKsrs-The following cut, from an
exchange, which we Inadvertently omitted to credit,
expresses our sentiments and position so happily
that We cannot forbear adopting them, with the
single exception, that prefer the Micawber any
day in I'll, week 10 the Benedick- The state OF
the weather, too, win help to apologize for the
small expenditure OF brains, when coupled with
the fact, that we are not usually OF those
-"who beggarly doth chaw
The fruits of other mems wits"
The Local Editorials many Of our readers
entertain very singular and sometimes absurd ideas
relative to the character and duties of this i'm
portant journal SCRIBE we think il duty we owe
10 ourselves to state what we are not, and what
we possibly may be.
We have never sought 10 be living encyelope-
dia, walking dictionary, or mephistophelian ubi-
tious literary -ready-reckoner, possessed Of Argus
eyes, and omnipresent ears. We are not acquaint-
ed with everybody, their business and doings nor
do we particularly know, or wish TO know, all the
little domestic other affairs between nah and
wife, parent and child, beaux and bellies, lawyer
and client, secretary and society, &c.
Our writings under the broad rule of principles
are never intended as expressions Of limited per-
sonalses. We speak fearlessy and truly on gen.
eral facts of interest and intend private fts for
such public fact. We are the public's expositor
and protector TO degree that we invariably sus-
tain. We are not of the Amindab Sleek, Chad
band order Of admontors; nor do we rebuke ills
of society in otto of cologne odorifer-
GUS sentimental nothingisms. We are mana
young man tbs true-yet a very uncommon young
man-and II we were husband, and had wife,
and she had two small responsibilities in Mcawber-
like domesticty and affinity, drawing tactical nour-
ishment from natures fount-we mean to assert
that our duties TO poor human nature would be no
more devoted and constant than they are now,
when in single bliss we roam gathering honey all
of the human family.
We are induced to make this address to some OF
our readers, that they may know " our platform"
and that we may no longer be bored by broadsides
OF tattle that augnr no good. Yesterday friend
called on us, stating that some unprincipled per-
sons had marked certain racy little local items that
generally fill oar column, and sent them to gen.
tleman in this city, intimating such were personal
hits, &c. We cannot too severely condemn this
conduct, as it indicates poor and paltry spirit,
and is misunderstanding doubt as to the
sender, and making much unnecessary discord
We have to say, once for all, that we do not
make our column a means of defending our ogn
likes or dslikes, or of offending those of others.
We alone, individually take but the same means
that are open to all, to redress and adhesive
meet the man, fear none, and we, on the principle
Of naught extenuate nor aught set down in malice,
"Speak of we find him."
THE MAYoR.-We made brief allusion few
days ago to the conduct of the Mayor on the night
Of the Buchanan ratification meeting. We are
now informed that the friends of the boy who was
arrested by the Mayor on that night and incar-
cerated IN cell, intend to bring suit against the
Mayor for assault and battery and false imprison-
ment.
The circumstances Of this case of kidnapping,
for it was nothing else were these. The boy was
making Fillmore speech, on the steps of the Uni
tartan church, several hundred yards from the
Buchanan meeting. The Mayor arrested the boy
himself, and took him to the watchhouse, tearing
the boys shirt off in the effort.
The boys friends sent for Justice to hear the
case--but the Mayor refused to allow the case to
be heard, and ordered the boy to be placed in
cell. There he remained until two o'clock in the
morning when the Mayor released him.
These are the facts of the case, as related to us
by an eyewitness, and it is not strange that they
should have caused great excitement among our
citizens. Ii seems to US that the Mayor resorts to
very small measures to show his hostility to has old
friend Fillmore. But renegades have In all ages
been distinguished for their malignty
WooLLY HoRsE.--Jt is insisted by some that
the buck was no buck, but the veritable "woolly
horse" which Col Fremont caught in the Rocky
Mountains. Not bad idea, since it represents
the state of parties exactly. The Democracy must
have adopted the "woolly horse" principles of the
Fremont party or they never could have obtained
the support of Benton and Van Buren,.
AcoEPTED-We hear that the Pres dents Mount
ed Guard have accepted the invitation of the Nor
folk Contnentals, to visit them on Monday next
They will doubtless have good time, which viii
be materially heightened should they in going or
returning embrace the opportunity to view the
classic scenes of James river whose banks still az
ford the most favorable specimens of old Virginia
wealth and hospitality
The COUNTY JAIL-On Thulsday the Grand
Jury paid veit to the county jail, and as we un-
derstand, found matters in such general good order
as to induce an expression of their APPRECIATION
With respect TO the particular case of the escape
OF the four prisoners on Sunday evening" they in
tend to institute searching investigation, after
which may be expected SOME report from them on
that suhject.--Intel
SoRRowFUL CATAsTRoPHE-About o'clock last
evening a fatal accident occurred at the corner of
and Fifth streets, whereby worthy man. Daniel
Smallwood, was nstantaneously killed, and Charles
Medford severely injured. The two, both carpen-
ters, were engaged, with several other persons, in
pulling down the building known as the "Wesley
Chapel, preparatory to the erection of a new and
larger church edifce in its place. They had got
80 far in the process of demolition az that nothing
remained of the second story of the Chapel but
portions of the north or front wall These they
were pulling down by sections, first undermining
each section on the inside by the removal of lower
rows OF bricks and then pulling them over to the
outside by means of rope. Two or three times
the rope around the fatal section broke and again
smallwood, whose activity and energy in the work
were noticeable, got up to asten it. Just as he
was doing so, standing on the inside, the whole
section fell on him, striking him to the earth and
80 thoroughly keeping him there that it took more
than quarter of an hour to discover the place of
his person.