Daily American organ., 1856-08-20
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

OUR rikEAEN.-Whyls Is IL tnat so large ana use
fIll body OF men as compose the fire department
of Washington cannot dwell together in unity ~
We believe, and always have believed, that the
cause OF nearly all the disturbances that have arisen
between the different companies OF w ashington, as
well as elsewhere, may be traced TO outside intu-
ences. There are, in every community, individuals
whose sole object in life is the qualification of their
own selfish and evil passions, at the expense Of
others, and who make it the business OF their lives
to incte others to do for them that which they are
incompetent unwilling, or too indoent to do for
themselves They are professional schemers they
live by scheming. Too lazy to work for their daily
bread, they lay in wait to deprive others of their
hard-earned gains, and reyel in the enjoyment of
means which the toll and sweat of honest labor has
accumulated. Having no visible means of support
they attach themselves to every good and useful
society into which they can obtain admittance, and
manage 70 live off the contributions of its members
to the general fund. They are millstones around
the neck of every beneficial institution, aid, like
vampires, suck the lifeblood and fatten upon the
means which should nourish and support the body,
but which are withdrawn to minister TO their de-
praved and vicious appettes, to the injury If not
the total destruction of society.
Not only is this true of their subsistence, but it
is true in all the other relations OF life Wherever
they go they produce discomfort They are the
harbingers of strfe-the forerunners of Discord,
whose ministers they are, to prompt to thoughts
of revenge and deeds of blood. Into whatever So
ciety they are unwarily received, they sap the
foundations of confidence, and snap asunder the
bonds Of friendship. They array friend against
friend-brother against brother. Co-workers in
the same good cause are aroused to jealousy
" trifes light as air. are magnihed into mountainous
and premeditated insults, until those who should,
and would, but for their hellish agency, go hand
in hand, aiding and supporting and encouraging
each other in every good word and work. are
m hate - iniu and nda aach 9th
and the usefulness of all is frustrated.
These creatures are never found among the
active and enterprsing-they are never found
among the orignators of good-they are never
found in the front ranks in times of difficulty and
danger-they are never seen mounting the ladder
amid fame and smoke and falling timbers and
crumbling walls, to rescue the unfortunate from
fiery death-they are not the men, who, at the
imminent risk OF health, and limb and life, have
rushed into the very jaws of death and restored to
the arms Of distracted mother her infant child
No. The men who have thus acted, and who will
continue, thus to act, are influenced by motives
teo high and noble for them 10 appreciate. They
are nerved to action by desire to do good-they
are brave and generous, whether they be found in
the ranks of fremen-or in whatever positions
they may be placed.
fsuch men, noble, disnterested, and brave to a
fault, believe the fire companies of Washington
and other cities of the Union mainly composed
There is danger in the calling, and danger has
charms for them. There is hope of doing good
of saving life and property, at the risk of fe, and
this hope has charms for them. Unsuspicious
unsefsh, and altogether disinterested in their ef
forts, they too easily influenced by those who
are not of them, or if they are, unworthiy so.
little reflection will convince them that these
thingsaIe so that they are not unfrequently made
the tools of designing men, and that when, through
the dirty agency OF such miserable wheps, they
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are in reality fighting for thosG who too cow
ardly to fight for themselves, and too cunning to
be detected. Why should you, fremen of WASH
ington, do the dirty work of such cattle? You
have noble calling to fulfill and you can best ac-
complish your work of kindness and labor of love,
by purging yourselves of the drones and incubuses
which disgrace and dishonor you, and, as brethren
devoted to one cause, dwell together in unity
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF M
PRovEMENTs, &C., IN THE DIsTRIcr.-For the pay
ment of laborers for shoveling snow from the walks
around the public buildings, $500.
For purchase of books for library at Presidents
House, $3.50.
For repairs of Navy Yard and bridges, 81 900.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, $4,000.
For improvement of Judiciary Square, So, 900.
Settees for Lafayette Square, $l75.
Repairs of water pipes, $500.
Public Reservation No. 2 and Lafayette Square,
$4,000.
Taking care of grounds south of Presidents
House, continuing improvements, and care of the
same, $l5, 900.
Rebuilding Franklin Enginc-house and purchase
of suitable lot, 81, 900.
Erection of north front of Patent Office 5000 900.
To complete bridge across Potomac at Little
Falls, So, 900.
Toward completion of Insane Asylum 81 IS, ,673
For lighting Presidential Mansion, Capitol, the
grounds around them, and Pennsylvania avenue,
$4,000.
Fuel for the Presidents House, 81, ,sO0
= Ventilation of Treasury building, $4,000.
Treasury Extension, $40O, 900.
Support Of Insane of District, 800 500.
Support of transiens paupers, at lnfrmary, $S,-
900.
Erection of buildings on grounds of Insane Asy-
lum, $1,000.
Enclosing grounds do, $13,S72.
Purchase of burial lois in Congressional burying
grounds, $1,000.
Manure for public grounds, 81, 900.
Hire of carts on public grounds, 81, 900.
Purchase and repair of tools, $500.
Trees and tree boxes, &c. $4,000.
Furnishing and ornamenting Capitol, S20, 900.
Yearly repairs of Capitol walks, $S, 900.
Yearly repairs of Presidents House and grounds,
$4,000.
REV. DANIEL WALDo.-This veteran minister OF
the Gospel has reached the advanced age of nine
ty-four years He can look back upon long life
of usefulness and honor. The presence of this ven-
cradle man in the pulpit is, in itself, sermon. 1t
reminds us of the first commandment, with prom
Use, "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy
days may be long in the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee!"
On the last day of the session Of the late Con-
gress, bill having passed the House giving the
old man eloquent" pension, and making it re-