Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-11

=, lHk ONSLAUGHT OF the Mayors ALDERMAyt
boDT,GuARD UPON THE s'STAR THE reader will
nho elsewhere In our local columns, to-day a full
report OF the very foolish concerted attack made
oy the Mayors Aldermanic body guard, upon the
correctness Of the Stars reports Of CORPORATION
proceedings We have little 70 say In snswer TO
Aldermen McNerhany, Moore, Ward and Clark
In tnat connection. Since reporting the proceed
ings or the Board In person, we have resigned
that duty wholly to one of the Stars corps of
competent reporters; since when. not half dozen
times year do we, personally, see any Alder
manic copy or proof before it is duly spread be-
fore the Stars readers. Our Instructions to the
reporter In question, as to all the gentlemen whose
iaoofs with tine pen are employed to make up the
Star as 1t appears to the public, are, simply,
" nothing exteEuate, nor aught set down In
malice" That they are carried out with rigid
hdelty, as well as praiseworthy ability, is proved
by the unprecedented and never tagging popu-
laritv of the Star at home Thus its Uniform Cir
culatiOn in the District of Columbia is perhaps
SIX times as large as that of any other District
newspaper, and Tar larger In proportion TO popu-
lation than the circulation of any other lie wspaper
anywhere in the world; for 1t is taken regularly
In almost every house in the District in which
any newspaper is regularly read.
The rigid 1mpartiality and correctness and the
completeness of its reports, further proved by
the fact that out of all the members Of the Board
of Aldermen-all of whom, with single excep.
ton, are political friends Of the Mayot-but four
there are who find the slightest fault with its
course in connection with Corporation affairs;
and, more especially with its reports of Corpora
ton proceedings. With the exception of ex-Cap-
tain Clark-who, il possessed of more brains than
just sufficient to lead him to scratch himself
when itching, is credited by his fellow members
OF the Board with the possession of no more than
enough to induce him to cough when the Mayor
or Alderman Moore or Alderman McNerhany or
Alderman Ward sneeZes-it is by no NEAR
wonderful that the Mayors clique are filled with
great dissatisfaction at the manner in which the
Star is conducted; for it will be remembered that
this community owe to the Star, in great part,
the defeat of the original Water Works bill
under which, had it passed, the Corporation
treasury might have been robbed Of thousands
on thousands by the well known band Of specu-
lating outsiders who VIGOROUSLY seek cover in
the City Hall, under the ample folds of the
Mayors long coat-tails.
An additional reason why the clique in question
may never be satisfied with aught the Star does
exists in the fact that through its columns the $500
transaction for getting the late Captain Easily re-
moved from office was first aired, in concealing
which from the due comprehension of the public
Alderman Ward took so conspicuous a part
which transaction, by the by was further aired
not long since by eX-A Alderman Mohun, who is
said to have given to MIR. Berry paper amount
Ing to certificate Of the truth of every word of
the original allegation. So long as the people of
the District of Columbia shall remain opposed
to the prOpriety of brokerage in their bread at the
price OF S5O, or at any other price, it is Of
to be presumed that Alderman Ward will continue
| unable to perceive any fairness whatever in the
stars reports OF. or course on, anything.
Again we have to say that the fact that after
fuenCe us more than once to consent to having
committals Of embryo aldermen to the watc house
under the charge of the semi of helpless
or offensive street drunkenness struck from the
police reports brought to the Star office for publ
cation, we put stop to Indulgence in that charac-
teriStic amusement by declaration in answer to
the last petition for such favor from the Star,
that thereafter it might never be calculated upon
and by carrying out that declaration, is another
good and sufficient reason why the Stars reports
are viewed with horror IN the Mayors clique.
| In continuation. We have to say that nothing
| short of the full publication of all Alderman
Moore fancies to write out after having delivered
himself of one of his dull, prosv and confused dis
sertatlonS upon corporation affdirs--for his pro-
pensty to scribble officially is quite as notorious
as his propensity to sabbls I'D minimum in the
meetings Of the board-will satisfy him with a
newSpa per report OF has speeches. so remarkable
Tor dead Inonotony of dullneSS, not even relieved
by the 'beady froth Characterizins. The decama-
zion Of Alderman McNerhamv SO as to make that.
at times ''card'' for the newspapers as that Of
Orator (Pop) Emmons was, in his day
But we bdye already devoted too much space to
this dldermanlc tempest in tea pot. Our apology
to the Stars readers for doing is sense of lust
indignant on ganst the Impotence of these scant-
lest posi- BILE patterns of great in setting up to
quarrel with the authors of all their aldernanic
reputaton-the Stars reporters
IT is hard enough for those gentlemen to be
compelled, for the sake Of the ctys reputation TO
put them into English to gloss over their cease
less efforts in the way of making oratorical asses
Of themselves, &c. &c, without being forced for
the sake Of good-fellowship, to submit to gross
and unfOunded imputations upon the fairness of
their reports from those who are really most in
dehtcG to their f0rbearance in the discharge of
their duties