Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-01
L06AL-INTELLGENCE.

NoTE.-With the present number ends the
quarter which commenced in February. We
call upon our friends to come forward and
pay 90 cents in advance for the ensuing quar-
ter. We cannot afford to furnish the paper
unless paid for in advance, for experience has
taught US the unproftableness Of depending.
upon collections, as wen as the expensiveness
of paying q man for attempting to collect that
which many are inclined TO refuse, though
Bitter experience has taught us too, how
vain ID is TO depend upon the honesty of agents.,
who collect moneys due us, and instead of pay
ingit over, spend it for their own qualification
and amusement Can any one inform us what
has become Of our quondam agent in the Sixth
Ward2 sneg M, aa a rs,
The MAYoRALTY.-The publication Of the
resolutions adopted by the Convention which
nominated Mr.. Berrett as the candidate of the
anti-Americans, is, we learn, producing q
good effect upon the minds of the MEM
bers of the American party. Our political
friends are not made Of the stuff whereof dogs
are created, and they do not seem inclined to
click the hands, of those who assail them, -
We hear on all sides, amongst Americans,
that fixed purpose exists, to resent in a.
proper spirit, and in the surest manner, the I'M
suits conveyed in the base, reckless and slam.
derous resolves Of that Convention. This is as
it should be. We would fain hope, nay, we
firmly believe, that no man calling, himself an
American, by party designation, will hesitate,
in view of those resolves, to cast his yotepand 9
to use his personal influence, in such manner
as to defeat the nominee ola Convention which
outraged truth and belied history in the. shame
less. resolves to which we refer. We are glad
to find, moreover, that scarcely any difference I,
of opinion exists amongst our friends, as to the
mode of successfully opposing MIR. Berrett. asl
1t is towel known to admit Of dispute, that
since 1866, the American party IN this city is
weaker, as compared with the foreign or anti
American party, than it was in that year. 1T
is estimated that some three hundred Is Amer {.
leans" have been obliged, within the past two :,
years to migrate elsewhere to obtain subsist-
enoe. Dismissed from Office and from govern
ment employment, on account of their Ameri-
canism, they have sought employment where
tits less criminal than it is in Washington to
avow American principles. The places Of
these Americans have been during the same
period filled by foreigners, thus changing the
relative strength Of parties here, some five or
six hundred votes. To bring out an g Amer 4
lean" candidate for the office Of Mayor, under
such circumstances, would be invite the for
eign party an easy triumph, TOR, whilst there
is some disaffection in the camp of our enemies,
experience in the past has proved that all the !
rival factions will promptly and theoretically
unite to defeat an " American" nomination. y
We cheerfully assent, therefore, to what we
understand to be the general opinion of our
american" brethren, which is that no Amer
lean nomination of Mayor should be made, but
that our friends should form balance Of
po1er party at the ensuing election, and select
from amongst those gentlemen whose names
may be proposed as independent or citizens
candidates, that name most likely to unite the
highest vote in opposition to the nominee of
the foreign party. .a'i
Wedo not mean to say that this course should
be adopted without regard to merit and quail
fication, but on the contrary, an eye should be
had to the selectinfof gentleman whose opin-
ions are strictly conservative, and whose ener-
gies would be mainly directed to the suppress
sion Of riot rowdyism, and rascaiity, which for
months past have made the city Of Washing
ton the most dangerous, because the most dis
orderly city in this Union. '1 ".A
American" as we are in all our opinions,
and anxious as we are for the success Of
American doctrines, we think that at the pres
ent juncture of affairs in our ill-governed city,
the safety of our persons and our property de-
mand that we should unite upon any resolute,
well-intenioned and conservative candidate
for the mayoralty, without regard to his being
a member of our political organization, for the
purpose Of overthrowing that other organiza-
ton, which for two years past has "rln riot"
in this Metropolis. We could not and would
not support any man for the mayoralty who
has endorsed or who can be made to endorse,
the calumnies uttered in the resolutions above
referred to--nor, on the other hand, will we
require such candidate, at the present crisis to
ayow himself an advocate of our distinctive
principles. We simply ask that he be quail
fed for the station-.tfrm IN his purposes-
Independent In his politics-dnd not an aUoo-
cd enemy Of our doctrines.
We were much gratiied some weeks since,
to observe that the editor of the States" was
an advocate Of an independent or citizens
candidate for the mayoralty, and opposed to
political or partisan nominations but we are
quite apprehcnsive, from recent developments
in that Journal that the editor Of that paper can
be induced TO sustain no man for the mayor
atty who is not of his political faith. Our
reason for this opinion is found in the fact that
Mr.. Richard Wallach, who was invited TO be-
come candidate by some seventy odd prom
inent gentlemen, majority Of ohom are
Democrats, has been assailed in the columns of
the Estates" as having been Nominated in
Know Nothing Councils, and as having "Doted
for the Know Nothing candidate t,oo years
ago" and it has even been stated therein, that
" the leading Know Nothings agreed, on being
defeated at the last mayoralty election, to take
I'D Mr. Walach as their candidatei ~