The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-12
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


persons who are obliged to employ Irish servants
IN their houses TO keep correct inventory OF
their goods and chattels, and, as far as practical
BILE, to keep under lock and key every article not
too cumbersome to be conveniently carried away !;
for there Is no question that large majority Of
that class Of servants are eagued together to STEAL
aud carry TO some common receptacle, everything
Of value which they can lay hands on, observing,
of course, the usual preeaution necessary 20 pre-
vent detection.
For some years have suspected and believed,
whenever 1t has been my misfortune to employ
one of them in my house, that the wages paid
was a very small part of the compensation they
received; but within day or two past my atten-,
ton was called to the contents of large trunk
taken by officers from an Irish dwelling in this
city, and represented to belong to one of the gang
alluded to, which satisfied me that my most
extrayagant conjectures respecting their dshon-
esty did not even approach the amount of flching
practised continually and necessarily las oppor-
tunity offers by the hordes of dishonest and we'll
trained creatures who swarm among us to rob us
OF our substance
In the trunk alluded to were found upwards of
two hundred bundles, large and small, containing
such articles as ladies' fine worked collars washed
and unwashed; fine linen cambria handkerchiefs
cbildren's dresses of all kinds and descriptions
shoes and CATERS, new and old; jewelry; all kinds
OF perfumeries and soaps; pins, needles, and
buttons; silver thimbles, marked and unmarked
IL set of false teeth (never used); a great
variety Of aces and silk Hbands; quite number
OF dress patterns, silk, worsted and cotton silver
spoons large and small, all marked; several pairs
of scissors; and an endless variety of articles
which cannot enumerate seeming to have been
collected from at least fifteen or twenty families,
and of course the work of as many thieves. was
informed by the officers, before left, that they
had another trunk, unopened, taken from a party
OF similar character in another part of the city. AZ
forbear further comment. Every family who
may read this notice, and is obliged to employ
the class of domestics indicated, will see the i'm
portance Of exercising a strict surveillance over
their property, unless they have more of this
worlds goods than they need, in which event the
system of abstraction may prove to them con-
venient way Of disposing of the surplus, and may
save Others not so highly favored
ONE Who HAS SUFFERED,
And who has read the article on this subject in
the States of the 10th instant.
We find the following in the "Star" of Thurs
day:
The TYLER AND ScorT DIFrIcULTY.--Mr. Walter
Lenox has issued the following card in relation to
an affair which has occasioned some talk: s ts
Having heard sundry versions of personal
difficulty between Major Henry B. Tyler, Of Wash
ington city, and Mr.. Robert E. Scott, of Eau
quier county, Virginia, in which am named as
the agent and responsible friend Of one Of the
parties, think proper to state that on the 18th
OF August last, at the request of Major Tyler,
waited on R. E. Scott, Esq, and informed him
that Major Tyler had placed in my hands a note
to be delivered to him, and that it was induced
by the course which Mr.. Scott had pursued
towards Major Tyler in his speech before the
Criminal Court of the District Of Columbia in de-
fence of the rioters at the municipal election,
held on the first Monday of June past. Without
presenting or announcing the specific character of
the note which was authorized to deliver, but
in the exercise of that just discretion claimed
by myself as due to all parties concerned,
deemed it proper first to express to Mr.. S. re-
greet that any hostility should exist between
gentlemen of their high standing and friendly
relations, and that it was my earnest wish to pre-
vent any serious issue between them. then in
formed him that Major Tyler felt deeply aggrieved
at the course pursued by Mr. s. on that occasion.
Mr.. S. expressed his surprise and regret that such
was the case, and that he was not conscious of
having transcribed the privileges Of counsel; that
if Major Tyler would point out any offensive re-
marks he would cheerfully withdraw them. re-
marked it was the general tenor and manner of his
address Of which Major Tyler complained, as inu
rious to his personal and professional character.
Mr.. S. then said that he disclaimed all purpose of
intending to reflect pjuriously or unkindly upon
the character of Major Tyler as a gentleman or his
conduct as an officer and that in his speech he
had aimed to exonerate the officers of the Marine
Corps from censure, as they acted under the Or
ders of their superiors 1t Is proper to state that
Mr.. S. distinctly stated that in making these ex-
plantations of his purposes and feelings, he by no
means intended to abandon or abate his rights or
avoid his duties as counsel in this particular case
#.E. WALTER LENox.
DISTURBANCES AT THE NAVY YARD-0n Mon
day evening about halfpast seven o'clock, two
marines, Rooney and Stewart, were attacked with
sticks and stones by aparty OF young men collected
at corner on Garrison street, and considerably
bruised and beaten. About an hour afterwards, as
Sergeant Mcoonough, stationed within the navy
yard gate, was returning from looking up some Of
his men, he also was assaied, and, as he states,
stoned and shot at as he bled much from the face.
Investigations ought to be Immediately instituted
into thaaa unattera and tho law In taka ito