The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1871, Page 3

| "RIATR AND CITY POLITIES "The Administration and Anti-Administra- tion Fight Throughout the State. State of Partics—Tho Great Senatorial Contest— Fresh Tammany Complications—Mat. Bren- man on the War Path—The Reformers and Their Ticket—Fight Over the Reg- isership—The Judiciary, Senatorial and Assembly Nominations. ‘Tire political campaign is fairly entered upon, aud abe excitement in connection therewith is at its | areatest height. Throughout the whole Stave parties aze im @ ferment. The results are so doubtful that sonfidence is at a discount, and none can tell what election day may pring forth. There is consequently 80 crowing in advance, but a general shakiness all ‘round. The republican party, with all the apparent advantages it has haa in opening the contest, does @ot exhibit mach of that esprit de corvs wich not ‘anirequently is a guerdon of success, Even the tri- ampus ia Pennsylvania and Obio have added little to ‘he cause here, ana more is hoped trom the bug- ear of reform and Tammany disorganization in the ‘city than from the strength of the republicans them- selves. The Conkling-Fenton fight is still fariously waged in the interior of the Stave, and more sacri- ficea are being made to mere partisanship than was ever made for party proper, or for principle. Not- withstanding the cloud thut lowers so ominously over the house of Tammany the prospects are that will command a majority in the lower House, amd make a close rum for the Senate. Tre opposition to Conkling and Murphy is rather on the increase, and every effort wili be made to de- feat the administration party in the coming fight ler the Senate. fhere ig no doubt but the demo- erate will carry their State ticket. There is a policy 49 & new quarter at work favoring this reauit. The Fentonites will not absolutely fight the ticket, they preferring to compromise on it fora democratic ote for o Fenton candidate for Senator in republi- tan. districts, This the democrats are willing to do ter the popalarity of Fenton m the rural districts entirely overshadows that of his rival, Conkling, whose alllance with Murphy is greatly against him, Besides Fenton has long been looked upon asthe ablest republican organizer and leader in tue State, and on that account the President's policy in throw. jag him overboard and bowstringing ail his friends sad adherents who held office at the opening of the present administration has been universally con- Semned. Country politicians have more time to dis- suse the isolated acts of public men than have the politicians of the city, and consequently they keep jonger in view any selfish or treasonable departures from party fealty. Thus it 18 that Conkling’s affilia- don with Murphy has brought down on him a great feal of odtum and lessened whatever popularity he possessed as an out and out supporter of are publican edmuniiration. These country politicians will not brget that Honest Tom was a Tammany democrat; What his sudden “turn about and wheel about’ was ‘Bot irom a truly patriotic desire vo aid the govern- ment in its struggie with rebelion, but, as they eharge, that selfish motives were the mainspring ef his action in this regard, and therefore his patronage unaer the government 1s considered mis- placed and does injustice to well tried and life-long republicans, The considerations that detract from ‘he popularity of Conkling in this tight increase the popularity of Fenion, who throughout, has shown him-el! a good administration man, but’ one who, alter seeing his party rigut on the main ques- tion, can dispose of his personal opponents in a very summary manner. To this latter onject him- seli and adherents throughout tne State are turning their attention in the present contest. THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE FEUD tontinues, and while Fenton Nas always disclaimed auy de=ire to control the federal paironage, he has been greatly “ried” at the distinction made in favor ef Conkling and Murphy as against him, and the vaturai result to be expeciea thereirom in tne im- Mmolation of all nis friends that held office under the administration stance those two came into power, e enmity existing between these two Senstonal gladiators has extended throughout the whole fepubitcan party of the State, and bias fair to | sounteratt to the prejudice of tne party in the present campaign all the advantages that might naturally have been expected from the Tammany dtsruption. The Senatorial contest is that 1n which Fenton ts most interested. fhe Senators elected this fall will vote uext year fora senator to fill Conkling’s place, which will bevume vacant In Murch, 1875, and (o prevent his re-election by even a republican Legislature is the sbject of Feuton’s manwuvres now im advance, The Custom House alliance has no: been favorabie wo Conkling beyo.d enabling him to control some of the federal patronage and to uphold honest tom wo his policy of invoiving the whoie party in ai wmextricable muddle. THE TAMMANY PARTY im this city is getting more and more hopelessly yomplicated, it present appearances are to be trusted. It was not enougt that all the Tammany so.eheads should go to loggerheads with their old atrons, but we sce that a big Ingun that carries more scalps ut his belt and has mere wampum tn bis Wigwam at the pregent moment than almost any ouher Of the chiefs, joins the soreheads and turns Mis tomahawk upon those who enriched him and Mis Mumerous tribe, Mat brennan comes oot with a war whoop and goes over to the remnant of the young braves who suffered such fire overthrow at Albany last year, all because another Tammany chief contests the supremacy of the Sixth ward with him. Judge Dowling, the [Sand Sixth warder, threatens Mat with extermina- ; but Mat, with his tanumerable tribe of rela- tives, all fat office-holders, defies him to the combat, end the war is tnus carried into Tammany itseif. Wat's defection Is the all-absorbing topic of the day, but it must be said that the comments on the Gheriff's attitude against Tammany are not at ail + complimentary to him, he and nis family for a long ume having enjoyed a lion’s share of the fat ofaces im the city unuer ‘Tammany, THE REFORMERS, The Ledwithites, O'srienttes and Ben Wood- ites, ond the whole tribe of Seventites, with the poe fend at their back, are jubilant at the detec- Won of Brennan. They are already singing peans of victory in anticipation of a successful result of the campaign. In all the wards they are actively engaged in preparing for the contest, and the pros- pect 18 thatafuil Ucket will be nomimated in the senatorial and Assembly districts, FOR REGISTER they have nominatea General Franz Sigel, on whom will combine the German vote, backed wit the reformers’ and repubiican vote. ‘This presents & fair prospect for the gallant General. THE TAMMANY NOMINATION ties between the Big Judge, the present incumvent, and Justice Snandiey. The latter is backed by the powerrut aid of Boss Tweed, while the Big sudge wiil have the no less powerful influence of Peter Busmarck Sweeny. There is a sort of general sym- pathy for the veteran officenolder, but that goes only @ very stort Way as against the regular nom- gee of the party, and the chances are that Shana- ‘ey will get the nomination. FOR THE JUDICTARY. The reformers and republicans have renominated sx-Judge Barrett for the vacancy in the Supreme court, and Judge Charles P. Daly for the vacancy in the Common Pleas, For the other vacanctes in the Superior and Marine Courts the present incumbents will, in all (ital be re-elected without oppost+ Hon. Tammany is holding back in regard to the vacancy in the Supreme Court, no person being yet gamed by the leaders in connection with it, THE SENATE, Tammany has nomiuated a full ticket—-the old in- tumbents being all renominated, with tion of Senator Creamer, in the Sixth, who volun- tarlly withdrew from the contest, [His successor on me many slate is Alderman Woltman, a Ger- mau; but he will be opposed by another German, aominated by the reformers, in the person of As- bet Ua ag Martin Nachtman. This will bring out the whole strength of the German vote, the men being equal ia ability and ftness for the omice would be a test how far the Germans go for the re- formers and to what extent they still cling to Tam- many. in THM FOURTH DISTRICT Senator Tweed has received the Tammany nomina- ion. O'Donovan Rossa, who has withdrawn from the contest of Register, has entered the field against tue Boss, Me will be supported by the Custom House party and the Roosevelt wing of tne re- formers, in THE FIFTH DISTRICT Senator Norton, the popuiar ‘Thunderbolt,’ has been renominated. Itis suid his election will be contested by a strong man from the ranks of the reformers, ut as yet uo one iy named. in THE SIXTH DISTRICT tCreamer’s) Woltman has got the Tammanyjnomina- Gon, while the reformers have put forward anovher German—Martin Nachtman. The fight will be Ger- @an throughout. in THE SEVENTH DISTRICT Senator vradiey is in the field as the Tammany nom- inee. He 1s oppused by ex-Sheruf O'Brien. The contest here will ve a severe one, the partisans of re wens Me Every san UIne, yale the friends of an Confident tial he wi triumphanuy carry the district. ‘MB EIGHTH DISTRICT. Senator Genet has been renominated by Tam- many, and will no doubt be re-elected. ‘the retor- ae a nee ASyDawed thelr man. It will be ditt. 0 © 1 Gene a o popula contest @ district where looking over the whole field it a) Taumany will secure the wuote Sehulurial Uekek SSEMBLY, Amore thon usual amount of inserest attaches to the excep- | made, members—tHenry Hughes, of Fitth district—has declined the nomination. In the First district Nicholas Muller has got the Tammany nomination. Mr. Muller is very popular m the district, and has ever been a faithful adherent of Teramigny, h never §=holding any office under The Democratic Union (Roose- veit) have nominated James Healey in opposition, In the Second district James Dunpiy ts the Tam- Many nominee. First time, in the Third di ict James Hayes has peen re- nominated. He served @ previous term with credit to himeelt and bis constituents, In the Fourth district J. J. Blatr—a fire commis- sioner—has been renominated, In the Fifth district Henry AHughes—nominatea for the first time—has dechned. In the Sixth district Timothy J. Campbell re- the Legislature for nominated. Remarkuble in nothing but a penchant for moving to adjourn, from which he was dubbed the “tireat Adjourner.?? In the Seventh district James Reilly nominated for the first time. In the Eightn district Sylvester E. Nolan nomi- nated—a new maa. In the Ninth district William G, Bergen nomi- nated——a new man. In the ‘{'welfth district W. W. Cook renominated— ; known in the Legisiature as the “Great Pie Bater.”’ { {m the Thirteenth district Richard Flanagan re- | nominated. In the Fourteenth district John Tyler Kelly re- batch of the “young bloods” of the dis- ri in the Fifteenth district Alexander Frear re- nominated—Charter Allck. In the Sixteenth district James Irving renomi- nated—the great ‘-strikist." In the Nineteenth district Thomas C. Fields (the Tobustious), wi 3 The above list comprises all the nominations yet min chs Twente district th De ie mo tae have nominaved Abraham Dowdney ONO? In the Twenty-first aistrict the Dem have nominated donn Baim cad jocratic Union jext wee! nominations will be mad the contest opened in earnest, made and KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. A Glimpse of the Ficld—The Nominees Thus Far. The clouds which have been banging over the political horizon of Kings county since the com- mencement of the present campaign are beginning to clear up, yet not to an extent sufficient to reveal the silver lining. Those who have been waiting and watching with considerable anxiety can scarcely discern the rea! position of the opposing parties at the present time, though there are many who pre- tend 10 know every move which 1s to be made upon the political checker board. Only a few months ago it was averred there would be no opposition whatever to the regular ticket, but THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY have defiantly fupg out their banner and are mar- shalung their hosts for the approaching contest. Their strength as yet has not assumed any alarming proportions, yet their banner 1s al- ware @ refuge for the dissatistied and disap- pointed to to. tid Tarely succeed in de- Seating the regular candidates, but they always take the matter very philosophically. They appear to be satisfied that they have done their duty, end never take the disuppointments seriously to heart. They have made their city nominations, and their ticketis headed with Martin Kalofeisch for Mayor. As the Mayoris anxious to be re-elected for another term, and as he ts not positive that he will receive the nomination from the regular organiza- tion, he is not averse tw being sandwiched upon the the tickets of the Young Democracy, the reformers and the laxpayers. The contest promises, as the campaign progresses, to be more lively than was at first anticipated. This fact has become more evi- dent since the two factions of THE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION have in the most conciliatory manner, alter all their wrangling, agreed upon one ticket, and put forward for candidates gentiemen who are weil known in the community. The repubiican party have always been in the mimority in Kings county, yet when they have put men upon their tickets who were acknowledged ior their worth as honest, upright citizens, not bound particularly by the ties of etther one party or the other, they have been successful. ev have made their nominations, and thetr ucket this fall is most acceptabie to the Party. Their city ticket Is headed py Postmaster Samuel Booth for Mayor. Mr. Booth served one term as Mayor, during 1566 and 1867, and is now upon is second year as Postmaster, He never was a prominent politician, and says he does not desire to be buund now by any party or clique. THE REGULAR DEMOCRACY have delayed their nominations this year, believing that it would be more economical to wait until the last thing, From the time the nominations are made the candidates are bied by the strikers, and this they desire to avold as iar as possible. There is ‘@n Indisposition also to divulge the names of par- ues Who are to pe nominated, yet they are pretty. Well known, The primaries are-to be held on ‘Tnes- day, the 24th, and those who are now In dount as to whether they are slated for certain positions will soon Koow their tate. Ex-Mayor Powell will proba- bly be the non. mee for Mayor. The nominations, 80 tar as made, are as folows:— Young Denocracy. Senator—2d Dist 3d Dist. County Judge... Supervisor County Treasurer. Dintrict Attorney. County Auditor. Justice of Sesalons. 1 district, Wilbur Maben, district, WES PCBESTER COUNTY NOMINATIONS. At a County Convention held by the republicans of Westchester county yesterday the following nomi- nations were made:—For County Judge, Silas 1D, Gifford; District Attorney, Daniel C. Briggs; Justice of Sessions, Myron B. Silkman; Superintendent of wo John Kuester; Coroner, Charies Bren- necke. ‘the democrats of the Second Assembly district of Westchester county met in convention at White Plains yesterday and nominated John Hi. Cornell, of Rye, as their standard bearer in the approaching election. Wan DEPARTMENT. ) OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasaineron, D. ©, Oct. 21—7 P.M. s Synopsis jor the Past Twenty-four Hours. ‘The area of high barometer has moved southeast- ward and is now off Cape Hatteras and quite low barometer apparentiy prevails in Canada, where the pressure has fallen very rapidly to-day. South- westerly winds, increasing to brisk at some places have prevailed on the Middle Atlantic and on the lakes, northeasterly winds in the Soutn Atlantic States and southerly winds jrom the Obio Valley south and westward. The temperature has risen from the East Atlantic westward to the Mississippi. Cloudiness has very generally increased and light rain or threatening weather is reported from Southern Plorida and at some points m the Ohio and Missoari Valleys, Probabilities, The barometer will probably contunue to fall, and cloudy weather, possibly with rain, prevail on Sun- day from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley and Mid- dle States. Brisk southwesterly winds will probably be experienced for a short time on ihe lower lakes and East Atlantic. Southerly winds with threaten- ihg weathér will probably extend eastward into Illl- nois, and westerly winds with pleasant weather on Lake superior. ‘The Weather in the City Yesterday. The rotlowing record will show tne changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in coim- arison with the corresponding day of 1 Iidieaved by the thermometer at” Audnut’ Phuc macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— 1870, 1871. 1870, 1871, 54 64 last year. Average te last year, * Weekly average pa: EUROPEAN MARKETS. LONDON MONRY MARKET.—LONDON, Oct. 11:90 P. M.— Console clowed at 92/4 for money ana’ 9 count, United States tivetwenty bonds, old, 18878, 92; ten-forties, Fania at 511, Abo, LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, Oct. o1— 1:40 FM. The cotton market closed heavy, Middhng to: lands, 9344. ; middiing Orleans, qd. The salen of the day were £,000 bales, Including 2,000 for speculation and export. ‘Ihe for the 90'¢; 186ba, | tentiary Extraordinary for the peopie of the “Big | Saw him off down the bay, and yelled at him trom the ‘he began upon the pusmess that was doubtless | ing back the lapel | feed us on pro: enipments of cotton from Bombay to the 13th ina faat report have been 13,0) bales. despa MARKET.—.LIVERPOOL, Oct, Livenvoo. PRovision per bbl. for fine Westera prime ‘1—1:30 P. M.—Pork, 470 mess. Liverroon Propoow MARKFT.—Liverroor., Oct, 1— Even a £3, Lingees 0/) closed at £34 We ing — THE DOUGHTY DOWLING. History of the War in the Sixth Ward. Interview with the Irascible Joe—Brennan and the Chief Justice Sealping Each Other—How the Judge Was Euchred, and, in Turn, Had the Battle Against His Rival— Caught Stuffing the Ballot Box— A Mormon Family of Brev- nanites in the City Pay. BRENNAN DARE NOT BOLT The inhabitants of the Bloody Sixth ward are up in arms. An attempt, they say, has been made to put the hood or political black cap over their heads, and that efforts are made by the light- fingered gentlemen who formerly stood at the helm to direct their concerns to throw pepper in their eyes, 80 that their rights could be the more easily Placed beyond their reach. There is not a magnate, froya the steel-coated, irrepressible Stacom, who every day treats the malefactors of New York to hard discipline and diet, that warrants them “fit for hunting,” down to the gallant pet captain of the Sixch precinct, who smiles as mever man smole before him, and who can remove lus hat at Imaginary friends as often as any man living—there are none of the ordinaires put who are go excited and determinately pugnacious that they scarcely know which side travels uppermost. To employ the strong phraseology of Baxter street—and tais 18 all within the family circle—they have their ‘‘back up”’ so high that it will take 500 federal supervisors of election and all the powers of Tammany’s pacific | eloquence to get 1t back into its proper shape again. Around the City Prison, which is a kind of rallying | point for the affectea and disaffected, caucuses | innumerable gather and dispense with the rapidity of clouds that seem to stay for a second and then scud away again before a breeze. ‘Tim Campbell, as genuine a weight as ever hugged the wheels of any political machine, and Nick Muller, who is @ severe contrast, and many others, have been lending ammunition to the stalwart Sixtn warders to carry on the excitement. . WHAT'S THE MATTER? is the question naturally propounded. ‘The matt is not a trifling one, if the cause as set forth be taxen for gospel. Mat Brennan answers that the ward is | try it; if he dia be would lose all—everything he mer ramparts and took fuil possession without wast- img a cariridge, While the people endorsed the men I named by upwards of six hundred votes his bands received the handsome vote of 114, Whea we had got throagh TIM BRENNAN AMBLED UP and said, ‘Well, I guess you never made a bigrer mistake. Do you think I’m goin’ to sign the ac- count? Not much,’ and he went away. But we Nad it ratified and they are ‘busted’ up like a tor- pedo and their weak fragments are nowhere—they haven't enough ammunition in them to kill an ear- wig. “Brennan has veen a long time in the ward, has he not:”” “He's been in the ward about twenty years and has maile over a militou and a quarter of dollars, He lives in @ mansion up to the rate of between ubirty and forty thousand dollars a year, fares sump- tuously. every day and arrays nis wifé in scarlet and fine linen. But he’s leechy—he sucks and ©) ge. give, and the biood must come and does come. tell you the people see how things are going. L am true to my standing, sir, but | won't be a mes- be ribeiagend back and forth; I’ not go in for @ | “(gut it is rumored he is about to recede from the | old Wigwam?” “He! he | he! laughed the Justice, and nodded to | & blonde lady who was passing, I'd like to see him. | wee Would become of his family? He's got a FAMILY IN THE PAY OF THE CITY and State than Brigham Young has in Salt Lake. They are not confined to sons or brothers, Tney commence at cousins, stepsons, great uncles, small uncles and even grandfathers, The ramificavions | are endless and extend to every office drawing pay from the Treasury. Every nephew or sister’s or | cousin's husband, going back until the line of re- lationship is lost in a fog, is placed in power and lives out of the taxpayers. Some of them are com- petent. but a good many of them are damned in- competent, and draw their pay, while they exhaust | thetrresources at faro or lounge away their time before the chief hoteis in the city, for all the world like the old Romans, or he has bolted from Tammany, as I have stated.’” “Bolted |? and here a wild expression took pos- session of the Judge's features, tis mustache began operations again, ana he jerkea a lump of some- thing into his mouth. He looked jong and anxiously, them said, with great vehemence, “HE DAKE NOT LEAVE TAMMANY, What would become of the line of ancestors and the family pay rolly Moreover, if he were to, what about his own business? His bilia must go before the Boara of Supervisors before he can get the pay for his department, but they are so enormous that unless he remains ia with them he can’t get them to pay his bilis. He knows it; he knows it. He dare not ever had.” “What about the home ruley’? “Yes,” tittered he, “home rute—that was started while I was in ire‘and. They want home rule; so dol, They claim to have American representatives; so dol, They pretend to want honesty; | want it and will have it. There's the whole of the story, and the meat in the eggsnell.”” Saying this he descended from the stoop on which he had been standing and went on his way. THE PROSECUTION OF TAE “RING.” his own, goods and chattels, soul and body; he has “ran iv? on his own hook for many a year, scalped many an Indian who has ventured there from the general Wigwam, and his representative furor reached Such a fearful height that he could brook no rival, permit no opposition, accept no mandate and believe nothing that was not quoted from his own chapter, or brought from his own de- pository. Ifhe bends to nature he refuses to bend to any opponent as gracefully—he will break first, like a brittle piece of steel, “I am in the ward longer than any man in the city who has a place,” says he, apd, in true imitation of the frog ana the bull story, believing he was Tammany Hall complete, instead of a wing only, he has blown himself up until he has exploded by spontaneous combus- tion. Some dme in June last the only opponent whom Mat considered as worthy of bis stéel went to Europe, and as everybody knows, while the cat | 1s away the mice get a chance; so Mat took occasion to assert his rights as Mipister-la-Chief and Plenipo- } Sixth.” WHEN JUDGE DOWLING RETURNED to the judicial bench as “Chiei” Justice of the Spe- | cial Sessions he found that in the grand display made by a good many of the pretended enthusiasts wno padaie boxes of the steamers that accompanied him, were in reality the men who, under the guise of triendship, took occasion to apply the boot to his departing form. While, with their lungs extended, they shouted “1 live Joe ” thelr hearts curser and prayed for baptism for the thiet’s terror, after the order of total immersion. He came back, how- ever, to tind he had a marshalled host drawn up 1 array against him by the party for “home rule” as they had inscribed their motio, The contending parties met and wrangied. “I nave worked all my life for Tammany,”'says Mat. | \ Important Meeting Yesterday of the Prosecutors NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OUTOBER 22, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. FIRE IN THIRTY-SIXTH STREET. A BLOCK OF BUILDINGS BURNED. Breaking Out in the Basement—Miraculous Es- cape of the Tenement Houses—Fury of the Flames—-A Night of Horrors— The Firemen Injured. As if in emulation of the great fires raging in the West, and the one that has just consumed Chicago, | @ minor conflagration, though one entailing a con siderabls loss of property, occurred in New York shortly after three o’clock yesterday morning. originated in the basement of the building at the rear of 414, 416, 418 and 420 West Thirty-sixth street, ana swept round to the adjacent houses with a wonderful rapidity. Owing to the quantity of wood . in the workshops at the rear of these buildings the flames were fed until they had reacted A FRIGHTFUL EXTENT. ‘The first house consumed was the property of Mr. John Redmond, and is a total loss, It was insured for $10,000 m the Washington, Atna, Hamilton and Hardord Insurance Companies, The place was used as 3 cabinet ware manufactory, and was occu- pied by A. Lavenbeim. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an overheated furnace or by Spontaneous combustion of oil, rags and rubbish of an inflammable nature that were lying in one of the corners of the place, The superin- tendent of the estabitshment, Mr. Benjamin Hart- man, who was likewise a partner m the concern, Was the last person that left the factory on Friday night and then he had been down into the basement, but saw nothing that would lead him to sappose | there was any danger of a fire. To make the matter still more sure he cautiously went about the place and examined everything, for he felt a sort of indescriba- ble foreboding of danger; but what gave rise to the feeling, or what the coming trouble was likely to be, he had no means of ‘ascertaining. He leit the house at nine o’clock, and then everything ap- peared to be safe, but at hall-past three in the morning the tongues of flames had burst out ana were sweeping around on all sides. A two story frame building, No, 414, also the pro- perty of Mr. Redmond, was damazed to the extent of $1,000, It was @ workshop, frouting the factory on Sixteenth street. As the flre merely touched tt on its course the damage to the tools and machinery within was very slight—only about $200, Another two story frame ouilding, belonging to Mr. Redmona, and which was used as a turning shop, was dat $100, and $3,000 worth of prop- erty It contained was injured, The two story frame building occupied by J. D. Clark as @ brass foundry and finishing shop was damaged $150, and the stock was iujured to the amount of $300, They were insured for $1,000 in the Andes Company of Cincinnati. at Mr. O’Conor’s Office—Plans and Opera- tions That Are To Be Made Pub‘ic. It would seem that the legal wariare against the | “Ring” is to be continued to the bitter end, and | that, alter all, be witerview had bythe Reform Committee with Governor Hotfman, last week, is not to be unproductive of astonishing results. Yes- terday alternoon, at a late hour, Mr. Charles O’Con- or, William M, Evarts, ex-Judge Emott, Wheeler Peckham and Mr. Samuel Tilden held a meeting in an office located in the same building as Mr. O’Con- or’s to consult about THR PLAN OF ACTION | that should be followed in the forthcoming prosecu- tion, The meeting was held with closed doors, and it is anderstood the decision that may be come to by the gentlemen whom Mr. O’Conor has asso- ciated with him to carry out the campaign will not be made pubiic until the very day when the suits are to be commenced, A HERALD reporter had a brief conversation with Mr. O’Conor on the subject yesterday while the meeting was in progress, during which he stated that it was desirable just at present to keep from the press the discussions or rather the proceedings of the mecting that was then being held, and of all other meetings that may ve held, until everything had been arranged satisfac- torily to make the opening of the suits proot against all obstacles that might be thrown In their way, When the sals worl? be begun he could not say, ‘but he felt certain that the public wovla NOT HAVE LONG TO WAIT. ‘The four story brick building Nos. 417, 419 and 421 West Thirty-fifth street, the property of Sarah leit standing but a portion Of the front walls. ‘Che fire bore down on this side of the block with a ter- rible force and eat up all before it. ‘This house was occupied by Palmer & Embery, wiio were also cabinet ware manulacturers. They sustained a damage of $23,000 but are partly insured, The butiding 18 also iasured, but only for a gmail amount, Next to that house was @ three story and base- ment brick building, which was the property of Wiliam Bradley, This house was also gutted and destroyed to the amount of $6,000, But tt is in- sured for that amount in the Bowery, Park and Mer- cantile Insurance Companies, ‘The first floor of this hcuse was occupled by John Hows as a residence, and his furniture was injured to the amount of $100. $ 'Yhe second floor was occupied by James Irving, who sustained a loss of $125. ‘The third floor was occupied by Charles Fisk, and he was damaged $200, Iho fire took in the entire centre of the block and gutted it, the front walis on both strects peing the only things standing, with the exception of the litte workshops on ‘Thirty-sixta strec It took the greatest efforts on the part of the fire brigade to CONFLNE THE FLAMES tothe middle of the block in which they had started and prevent them {rom sweeping along the streets, for on both sides are large tenemeut houses occue pied by numbers of famihes, and if these had been touched the consequences must have been irightfal. ‘The gapger was the greater as the houses on Thirty-sixth street are wood and old, looking as i they were ripe to biaze away at the first uppor- tunity, When the second alarm had been sounded on Saturday morning, and the flames had begun to show themselves above the burning buildings, the througout — the | greatest alarm was spread neighborhood, Men, women ani children rushed out of bed and hung in the windows. j watching the flame ana waiting to see if tue de | structive element was going their way. Nuinbers of It is understood that Mr. Tilden is busily engaged | oters were more cautious, and started into. the in collecting evidence, and that he has already suc- | Streets With all or the most valuable portion of their ceeded in getting a great deal together that may be “Yes,’’ replied Joe, ‘out a good deal more for | yourself, and quite forgetful of your {rrends.”” “I made ‘you what you are, anyhow,” said the former, “You never made any one but yourself,” mutters the antagonist, “but your own nest you’ ve feathered 10 a grand tune.” “Pil have the ward, and carry all my men in it, too,” Brennan continues. “Not « 1 know the ward in which I was born,” says Dowling, “and now go at it, and I'll whip you out of your boots.” At nls the giants have allowed the contest to stand until two weeks ago, and to all outward up- bearances the HORIZON OF THE SIXTH WARD for two months past has been clear and the course of aifairs well defined; but beneath the surface there has been @ hell, @ holocaust, a smouldering, Internal heat which was realy to burst forth at any moment and destroy altogether the old landmarks. The pressure of affairs at the City Hall was the lever weight that kept the superheated steam from escaping for a time; but at length @ crack has been started, and ‘the machine so cleverly arranged by one party has been utterly demolished by the other, “is rélovent ma maison, mais démotissent ma per- sonne,”’ sald the Justice after he had returned—ii must not be forgotten that he remained more than a week in Paris this year—“will they? If they rebuild my house J’, keep my person intact. ceé droler’ And Joey inangurated a club, or nis iriends did, and true enough, Mat nas béén whipped and Joe's men ali nominated for the regular tickets. so com. menced the fight between “Big-hearted Mat’? and “Long-memory Joe,” and so it has progressed, and endea in the latter’s favor, a fact he cau never lorget. Hear what he saith :— JUDGE JOR DOWLING INTERVIEWED, The Judge was taking his customary promenade along Broadway yesterday, dressed up as superbly as ever, and donned in a suit purchased by special coutract from Miles, of Bond street, for “tirty suiling.”? It Was shortly after one o'clock. As le Was in the neighborhood of Canal street he was met by a representative of the HERALD, to whom, aller holding out the three fingers of Nis left hand, uppermost in his pericranium, “You heard of the row in the Sixth ward between that man and myseli, I suppose? said he, turow- of his coat over his right and displaying to fuil view the red neck - ig"? diamond pin, b but what's the matter between yourself and Brennan?’ demanded the reporter, “Matter!” commenced the Judge (with a weil feigned expression of mability on lis part to be suf- Neiently explicit). “Why, we've got a man there who wanis to own us, run us body, soul and baggage Where he pleases. He wants to larm us out like children wno have netther mother nor father, pro- berly speaking, give us miik like sucking pigs, ses, give us nothing and a glass of water to wash it down with, That's whav’s the matter,” and he champed at a toothpick until his black mustache went up and down ike the lever on a steam hammer, while his features bespoke of savageness Which even fis muchuess the bear could not withstand. ed i, Judge Jommenced it! Why, there’s @ man who lives away upin Bioomingdale road, seven miles away, up in Bariem, and comes limpw’ down tere tothe sixth ward and claims to represent it. How does he represent it? Well, he sends nis fore and after down and they drink rum and chew tobacco, carse ail good government ana dance the devil’s horupipe on the stoops of the people’s houses.” Sawing the atmosphere with the knov on his right arm, he con- unued, “but we've caugnt him im the snap.) “in what way have you trapped him ?”? “Well, Miiteli you. You know that he’s had a fac- tion running ali over the .ward for a good many months, Lougit to say, perhaps, under the ward, tor they are either LIK MEPHISTOPHELES’ BELL RINGERS, grave drigging beneath, or elye like Mother Carey's chickens, up 80 Ligh you can’t see them or beyond gunshot range. As I was going to say, matters came to a head, and the omer night we had @ primary election at the corner of Pearl and Centre streets, Weill, I had the men there whom [ thought the ward would like to support, and he bad his own gang around the ballot box. ‘lim Brennan, his brother, ana two others were there as oMeers of elecuon. i Went up and demanded to lave the ballot box opened. ‘I guess not,’ sald Tim; 4f any one touches that sacred imstrument while [ am avound Wil let him Know it. Now you just go to work and mind your own damned business and Ii! mind mine; wo keep off the ‘“balley pox.”? Well, I refused wo allow an election 1o goon with such a state of atlairs; besides I have reasons to know how the insuie of the oven worked, and T opened the box against ail (he crowd. GREAT CREATOR ! WHAT DID I DISCOVER? No less than three hundred ballots wiien had been put down through the hole ana had not had tume toseparate, There they were, a nice nest, and When [ took them up tuey hung together like thieves in a cellar or tae scales on the sea serpent’s back. They were like children; they couldn't we and they couldn't deny it.” i x “What happened then’ Was there a fant?’ “There was a peaceful fight, and we beat then Sraight up and down, overwhelmed them, carried the sorts at the biunt end of tie musket, stormed shoutder, ; Purpose, and it ts pretty certain that he will make no rather startling even to those who now think they have heard about all the ‘‘revelations’’ that could possibly be made concerning the frauds charged agaist the city authorities, COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY, it Is said, will not be consulted by the legal gentie- men who are to assist Mr. O’Conor, nor by Mr. O’Conor himself, and that 1 ts quite likely he may be the very first Seflor who will be proceeded against, it 1s well known that Mr. O’Conor ts de- vermined to do his whole duty in the campaign, so faras Mes in his power, while vested with the authority of the Attorney General for this special compromises with any person or persons for the sake of getting evidence against others, as he is under the impression that he and his associates are now in possession of ample evidence to make the suits that will be prosecuted end in a triumph for the prosecutors. What bothers the assoctated | worldly goods, and were bard at work the moment | when the fre was put out replacing their house- hold gods. All in the vicinity fee! that they have had’ a lucky eseape, and the enure population is correspondingly gratetal. If that fire had broken ont on the night betore, or, in fact, any night for the past three, nothing could Nave saved the street, or at least the wiock, from one avenue to another. ‘The only accidents or casualties that occurred were to two of the firemen. One of them broke ms leg through having to jump off the building as the fire one was severely injured through falling down wiih @ flooring that gave way. FIRE IN NINTH STREET. At a quarter to nine o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the four story brick tenement house 382 East Ninth street, which was occupied by Jonn Kane. The fire was caused by some clothing taking tire from a stove. Damage, p Insult ance. The building was damaged $25, aad was insured in the Bowery Insurance Company tor $8,000, Mrs. Kane was serlously burned about the head and arms, but is now doing weil. At ten o’clock yesterday morning a fire occurred In the building 247 East Thirteenth street, occupied lawyers just now is, what is the best way to begin by the Society for the Protection of Homeless Boys. the prosecuting business, and just what that will be | The acctaent was caused by adefective fluc. ‘The they have not as yet agreed upon. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Areward of $3,000 haa been offered for the cap- ture of William J. Slauson, confidential clerk of ‘Thomas P, Simpson, contractor on the New Jersey Midland Railway at Frankin Furnace, N, Y., who disappeared on Thursday, October 12, 1871, after re- ceiving $30,000 In currency irom the banking house ol George Opdyke & Co., 25 Nassau street. The money Was paid Slauson between tie hours of half. past three ana four, to take it by the ten minutes past four train on the Morris and Essex Ratiroad, from the toot of Barclay street, to Wateriov, and thence by the Sussex road to Frankim. The money was putin a smal! leather travelling bag, marked on the outside *Simpson,” and carried by Stauson trom the banking house at the time mentioned above. The reward 1s offered for the recovery of his body—dewd or allve. Slanson was about twenty-seven years of age, five feet nine inches tn height, with sandy goatee, light brown hair, blue eyes, pale complexion, peculiar expression of eyes, as though absent-minded; sium build, looks consumptive and weighs about 125 pounds. Had on when last seen a black n hat, singe breasted biue Chinchilla overcoat, mixed green and black Cheviot coat and vest, slate-colored pants, with black siripe and weit on tie side, white shirt, white pearl studs, blue undersbirt, oblong red gold sieeve but- tons, red gold chain and an Sores gold Watch, No. 6,215, With the initials “I. H."’ on the bac Has California, and was at one time cashier of at Austin, Nevada, and a bookkeeper ina roker’s office in San Francisco. Information to be forwarded to James J. Kelso, Superintendent of Police, New York. NATIONAL INSURANCE CONVENTION. Fourth Day’s Proceedings—An Early Ad- roment—Marine Insurance Agency and | telligence ONice Rec mended. ‘The Convention assembled yesterday at 156 Broau- way, Mr. Llewellyn Breeze in the cuair. The Von- vention was calied to order at eleven o'clock, when amouon was made ior adjournment, which was of Maine, then offered the following Resolved, That it be recommended to the marine insurance companies to eatadli ew York, or some other conve- nient point, an insurance agency or Intelligence oflee for the purpose of collecting and preserving for reference a record of all maurances effected on marine risks in different f this and olber countries, in order to detect and quard agai attempts to defraud underwriters by undisciosed and thorized duplicate policies on the same riska, pit,mas feferred’ to the Cominitiee on Miscellaneous cininess. Mr. FLACKER, Of Tennessee, took up the solution of that part of the question which showed that life misurance investments realize from two to three per cent less than savings banks. The question 1# the feasibility Of @ uniform standard for all the States. Mr. BACON introduced the Hon, Elizar Wright, who addressed the Convention, On the motion of Gustavus W. SmirH the Conven- tion adjourned wot] Monday morning, ihe session lasting omy one hour. BOLD BURGLARY. On Thursaay night last some men, evidently from New York, went to Woodbury, Conn, and biew open the safe of Waiker & Co. On the same day in the afternoon vt eae to one of the partners of the firm of Curtis & Sons and got the keys of tueir store from that gentieman, on some preteace. From both places they carried of money and vala- ables to the amount of $50,000. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the capture and conviction of he sovbera, damage was trifling. AFFAIRS IN CHICAGO. Unfortunate Tragedy—Prosecating Attorney rosvenor Shot Dead by an Amateor Po- | liceman—Fast for Relief! Diminishing—Aid for Wisconsin Sufferers. CHIcAGo, Oct, 21, 1871. An unfortunate tragedy occurred at midnight near the Chicago University Cottage, on Grove ave- nue, resulting in the almost instant death of Thomas W. Grosvenor, the City Prosecuting Aitor- ney. Mr. Grosvenor, somewhat under the influence of liquor, was chalienged by the University Police while passing along the street. Mr, Grosvenor re: plied in an offensive manner and was shot dead. Considerable excitement exists over the shooting of Colonel Grosvenor. Theodore N. Treat, who committed the deed, is @ resident of Janesville, Wis, and is @ student of the Chicago University. He 1s now under arrest. ‘Treat was a member of the First Regiment of Chicago volunteers, and claims to have acted in accordance witn orders. Judge Blodgett, of the United States District Court, wili leave Chicago for Washington on Mon- day t6 advise with the judicial aepartment of the government regarding the restorauion of the records of the Federal Courts of this district, Mayor Mason has issued a proclamation appoint- ing Sunday, October 29, as a day of fasismg, humilia- tion and prayer. The rumor that A. C. Badger, private banker, had suspended ts confirmel, He claims, however, tiat he will resume as soon a8 he can get matiers into shape, His books and assets were only recovered yesterday from the vault. ‘The reported suspension of the Corn Exchange Bank is unfounded, ‘The receipts from de are larger than the calls for money. Henry Greenbaum, a leading Iraelite and Presi dent of the German National Bank, has received from his brethren throughout the country lineral contributions for the relief of their own and other religious denominations in tnis city. Immediately after the fire the datly applica tions for relief numbered about forty thousand. This number has gradually diminished until there are only about twenty-five thousand applications. | ‘The Sheiter Committce thus lar has recetved about twenty-four hundred applications for lumber for the erection of small houses for homeless fami- hes. About thirteen hundred of these requisitions have been filled. A quantity of lumber has been contributed by dealers and others, To-day Lieutenant General Sheridan, on being It} Heineman, was completely destroyed, nothing being | was gaining upon him too rapidly, and the other | ny Appointed—Applications | | Second heat PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS, LAST TWO DAYS OF THE FAIR, A SHOW OF BEAUTIFUL BABIES. THLE FINALE OF THE TROTTING Vriday was the last regular day of the Kings County Fair at Prospect Park; but the business being unfinished, yesterday was also devoted to the | teri. The attendance, which from the beginning | has been unusually large, culminated in the agsem- \ bling of AN IMMENSE THRONG | which, during all the hovrs between morning and night, seemed continually to grow larger and denser. The club house was so thronged on Friday that there Was little breathing room, and stil Jess space for moving about. Still, it seemed to be ; the positive determination of the unrortunates who Were on foot to lose no moments in idleness, bat in- cessantly to wander about, and to gaze again and again at all the wondrous things exhibited, from the remarkavly plethoric pumpkins, glowing in their warin (ints like MONARCHS OF THE HARVEST, | to the puzzling machines for saving labor and squandering money, which did not fail to be there im charge of their ingenions inventors, whose cuie tongues ran gitbly on in the enunciation of their merits, ‘This economy of oppor. tunity shows how tirelessly haoit overrides the in- fluence of circumstances, even in the midst of a chafing crowd, whose restless weight makes ita torture to exist, In this case it may have been merely the passion of curtosity and the effervescence of good nature which was the motor, but we are @ | \attle more than convinced that tt was the force of atrugal habit of making the most of everything. * We omitted to give a full report of FRIDAY'S TROTTING in yesterday's paper, because the races were not completed, and the interest in them would be stronger when it could be given @ climax by the result which had been ordalued by fate. Before the trotting began on Friday there was one other exti- Ditton which is worthy of especial notice. This was tue showing of candidates for the vaby prize. It was | A BRAVE SPECTACLE, No attempt to count the infantile darlings who Were presented was made, but we Jeel justified im saying in Biblical purase, ‘their name was legion.” An admirer of babyhood would have been fully satistied. The “specimens” were m the most royal of moods, either screaming and plunginy like bad-tempered Pauls, who are inclined to ‘ie! agin’ the pricks’’ (the pins in their dresses), crowmg lustily, with kingly assurance, in the ways of for- | tune, or engaged in that most uafaral occupauon— known to ail our Jorefathers—ol imbibing THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS from womanly founts, or sleeping happily in obliv- ton of all that was nappening around then. | How many kindly glances they attracted! Ladies showed all the irrepressible curiosity of the sex and seemed more home in the contemplation of these singular Hit than ta that of any other sigiits of tne fal ven fell into au ecstasy of Kisses and : ‘They were of course Jar bolder than their masculine companions im | making the acquaintance of the tiny fairy Tivals arrayed together. Sut the latter soon lollowed ip their wake, alter their own fashion, Bar the baby show ended at lust, like all things earthly, and its termination ushered im the more important event of the day— THE TROTTING. Dameels very demurely accepted the arms of their swains and walked or rau towards the spectators! | stands, while the older couples and the detached individuals, who were happy (or unhappy) in their freedom from encumberment, hur. ried on ahead, all dragging and pushing each ovher, or being dragged ant pusied, move or tess fran- ue! , It was an animacng siglit—the great crowd breaking away irom 1ts moorings and rushing along with one common object. !n the comparative calw which followed the second pealings of the bell, and while all were watting With soinething ot breathless suspense for the start, we bad ime to note THR NOVABLE PERSONS WHO WERE PRESENT. Their names are as follows :—H. M, Whitehead and tamily, Jon 1. Socutker and wile, George A. Powers, Dr. 3. in and wife, Alexander Jerrin ! and lady, Arihar Beason apd lady, Charles H. Ray. ‘ ynond and lady, Charles Backman, Hawtey Brown, Judge Stephen J. Voorties, Charles A. Murray, Rovert Rovimson and family, D. P. Gardner ‘ and family, Witham B. tlowiand, Willam Kemsen and lady, the Misses Jackson, Jona Asbton, H. W. | Nichols, HM. V. W. Stekien, A, T. Stryker, J. OG. Wemple aod tam Mr. Luke Daly, Guy Miller, Commodore D. Bergen, George King, Joon Van | Sicklen and family, New Lots; Jacob Van Sickien | and family, New Lots; James Van sickien and fam- aly, Ww ts; Henry Wyckoil, New — Lots; Henry Suydam, Flatlands, Heary Lott and family, j Flatlands; Cornell Suydam, Flatoush N Martin Bennett, Bay Ridge; Kaward Bennet, Bay Kidge: Jonn J. Bennett, Kay Ridge; Daniel Van brant and jamily, Bay Ridge; fsaac Marun and famuy, Bay Ridge; Francis Kirty and family, Bay Ridge; A. Kt. Seet aod “lamily, Gravesend; J. J. Wheeler fun Gra’ David Jones, Gravesend; Adau Sulwell and family, Grav and tamily, Coney isiaud; Courtiand J. Van Sickien, Coney Islana; kvan M. Jonnsv Comptrolier of Brooklyn; C. A. Sprague, City Treasurer of Brooklyn; James Campbell, Thomas Irving, C. P. Chapen, Frank W, Brodie. ‘The following are the detatis of the trottmg as it came off:— PROSPECT PARK FAIR GrounDs, October 20 and 21,—Purse N $1,000, for horses that have never beaten 2:28; 3600 tu the first, $300 to the second and $100 to the third; mule heuis, best turce in five, ip harness. Joun Murphy entered Charley Green... Patlerson entered Dreadnaught. . D. Piller entered g. g tery. M. CO. De ge ot 23 331 o12a4 o233 e ‘Trimble entered b, Major Edvell........ . Cc. Hoogiand entered g, Gray Jack.. see a. Me TIME. Quarters First heat ‘% Vnurd he: Ne Fourth bea 4 Firth heat, 7 Na sixth heal Seventh heat..... bighth heat.... THE 8 Same Day.—Pu No. 8, $750, for horses that | had never beaten |, $459 to the first, $225 to the | second, and $75 to the turd borse; mile heats, best Unee in five, in harness. =, J. Jackson entered b. g. Beppo.... 1 21 3 1 M. W. Bacon entered W. iH. Alien 2121 8 J, H. Whitson entered ch. g. Clareuce. 7 4 3 2 2 Jonpn Murphy entered br. mi. Lady BOGS ..... + eceeccceeecereseees . 46544 8. D. Bruce entered Enigma 5 5 4 Sar D. B. Hewson entered b. g. Ono Boy., 6 3 dis. A. Patterson entered ch, m. Belie of Oneida......- sees 3 7 dis. B, Danlels entered b. mm. Topsy 22.2) ats, M. Roden entered br. g. J. iH. Cole- man..... feeuee wees Gis, . Chambers entered 8.8. Hickory Jack. éreesee rr. John Sp g. g. Ed. Cn ee D, Mace entered g. 8. Plato, TiM Quarte 36% First heat. Third heat Fourth heat. Filth heat . TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. ‘The lovely weather of yesterday caused quite an assemblage to gather at Fieetwood to wiwmess the three trotting contests announced ww take pl the management. SUMMARIRS. FLEETWOOD PARK, SATURDAY, Oct. 21, 1871.— Sweepstakes $300, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, J. McKee’ 4, Murph: H. L. Hoi’ Same DAY.—Match $500; mile heats, best three In five, in harness. officially informed by Governor Faircaild of the state of affairs in Northern Wisconsin, a. once issued orders for the despatch of 4,000 my biankets, 2,000 overcoats and 100 wagons for their reiel. PORES SI HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Complainant and Prisoner Lavked Up Together. Daniel O'Halloran, residing at 442 West Fifty- fourth street, while passing through West Fifty- third street on the night of the 17th inst., avout W. ik. Weeks’ b. g. Eight Belis tit B. Burt's bm. Kitty Crumb: “ 2232 stake of $400; mle heat best three’ in five, in harness, M. Casey's 8, g. Hickey..........661 2 2 0 2} 4. Spian’s b. m. Belle of Orange D. Mace’s HORSE NOTES. A match has been made for $2,000 between the gray mare Sea Foam, to go in harness, and American Girl, to draw a wazon. The race will eleven o'clock, Was attacked by two men, one of whom he yesterdav identified as Peter Furlacher, alias Peter McDonnell. fhe two robbed him of $24 in money and a@ sprit level. Justice Bixby yes- twerday held McDonnell for trial in default of bail, and it having appeared that the couiplainant had “wetuled” with the prisoner or way going to do so, he was also committed t be sent the House of Detention a4 a witness, Compromising cases be- fore Justice Bixby is not allowed, come off over Fleetwood Park to-morrow (Monday), the 23d, and will undoubtedly prove a very ialeresi+ as affair, t 18 stated on good authority that the young Kentucky norse Blackwood has been purchased by some New York parties and is pow on his way North. The price pata for him has not trauspired. ‘The matcn tor $2,000 between American Girl aud the chestnut gelding sadge Fuilerton will be trotted at Fleetwood Park on Saturday. November &