The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1871, Page 3

CITY POLITICS. Republican Ratification Meeting at Coover lastitute Last Night. Letters from Senators Conkling and Fenton. Bpeeches by Horace Greeley, Edwards Pierre pont, William M. Evarts, General Sharpe and Others. Fierce Denunciation of the Tammany Leaders. Notwithetanding the inclement state of the weather there was a large crowd of republicans at the Cooper Institute ratification meeting last night, The ram wos Pouring down in torrents abont olgns Peres o'clock, and the faek employed (> “Tewuate’? the *5rockéts in the open plaza had a very sorry and a very lonely work of it, But few patriots had tne eourage to remain for any length of ume in the same place to witness ¥ THE BLUE LIGHT EXPLOSIONS m mid-air, and even the band, that stationed Itself under the projecting wgis of the big stoop fronting on Astor place, had to give way before the storm and find @ more congenial climate below stairs. However, by hall-past seven o’clock the large hall was well crowded. The gathering was not what was expected, for although all the seats in the main body of the hall | | that the were occupied, there were many vacant seats to the left and right of the stage and ample stand- ‘mg room on all sides round about the cutside row of chairs. Still the gathering was a large one for #uch a night, and what probably was better than a crush of all sorte of people, was that the men who composed it were of the solid, respectable order— men who looked as though they paid taxes and had more than a professional politician’s interest in the qtecussions of the poiitical situation which took place. The walls in the rear of the p!attorm were gayly bedecked with flags and bunting. and on both sides of the stage 9 small portratt of “Franz Sigel, our choice for Register,” was plastered against the , @age. There was VERY LITTLE ENTHUSIASM | i for the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. administration? None of it: and never shall we have. The entiré machinery of the government has been in the hands of these saine mea for some years; have they reformed anything’ Let your plundered treasury, your disgraced city, your oM- cia) robbers, Maunting their stolen millfons in your insulted faces answer. Re-elect them and reforni will high goto its tomb, and fraud and corruption will bold revelry again. Every reflecting man knows this, and every man who votes for the old tieket votes pond ae cen be sheng in ms profes. sions about reform. jow citizens, democyars or Fé ublicans, whichsoever Fou re are brought Ree face with this question’ o pee We may as well lay aside shams and take a square look at the naked reality. We all know the shock- ing facts. Do you bonestly wish to repeal this tnia- mous city charter, turn out the pluadereraaud make an honcat government? You say yes. Well, do you believe that electing the saine old Tammany ticket will bring reform? You know it will not. Then vote @ ticket that will, or cease false pre- tences, and frankly say that you do not want re- form, but like fraud. Snecess of the democratic ticket this fall is Tammany’s success, and every sensible man knows it, We have failen upon strange tues; unheard-of disasters, disturbances in business, commotion in civil affairs, revelauons of gigantic frands by high oficial men, uncovered corruptions which are appailing, the utter annl- hilacion of all power in the people to express thelr will through the ballot box, the discovery that by feaudulent count of votes which were never cast, the very foundations of free government are destroyed, the rule of an oilgarchy, more cor- rupt, more nea More despotic than wad ever Known.—all these, on the Negr cye of a great national ccuu, pronage an approacuing satuté pnparalieled im our history; and as the future unfolds to our vision, the same pecuilar, seil-poised, trusted, silent man who led our armies throngh the Wil@erness will be needed. If this State arate be carried by the republicans this fall, then It is idle to hope for any radical reform. Mere patching up or covering over ore Legislature compromising with Tammany Bali will render the last state worse than the drat. SPEECH OF WILLIAM M. EVARTS. Mr. WiLLIaM M. EVARTS, who was received with cheering, said:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—The crowd of interested ana earnest men Which fills this hall on this inclem- ent night, representing those who are united for the ratification of a State ticket which opposes. a democratic ticket for this State, shows conclusively that it is representative of the live and present issues Of our poiltics, and that you understand euilrages of the ple are needed, 1 am quite sure, gentlemen, that there has been more suber purpose, more thought ia the minds of the people of the United States with regard to their overnment, their institutions and their future po- itical prospects during the last few years than there has been during the last , ninety years of our independence, When we had to coutend with the war of the revolution and of slavery we knew every one of our enemies; but when the suilrage of a great people is falsified we have no means of knowing our ene- mies, and we meet those enemies at a terrible dis- count, There was no retreat at the battie fleld; if he answers to the roll call once he answers until he dies, Now, gentlemen, the two State tickets are before you, and the great and only question between them 8 tbat of corruption and non-corruption, I have no other statement to make, no other question to ash, with regard to the vote you are to give than this of corruption and non-corruption be- tween these two State tickets, This terriole menace auring the meeting, the chief excitement of the | evening occurring when Greeley came upon the platiorm. He was obeered over and over again. Durmg Mr. Evarts’ speech, when he declared the people would put down the Ring corrup- uonisis by “bloody means’ if they could not do #0 by peaceable measures, andl when he threatened that if there was at the ensuing election a miscount Of votes there would follow a fair count of bayonets there was tremendous cheering. The quartet of the glee clu», who sang about “There’s Mutiny in the Army,” created a great deal of laughter. The meeting was opened by Mr. Townsend nomi- mating Horace Greeley as chairman. Mr. Greeley made a short address, atter which John H. White read the following resolutions:— The republican electors of the city of New York, meeting assembled, to their colaborers throughout send greeting :— Resolved, Firt—That we cordial) form adopted and resvlutions passe ‘gan Convention held at Syracnse on the °7th der, Te71, and we recounize in the vital truths therein enw ed the only true baais for an economical, prospero enduring State government. ani nila veeee That we recognize to our candidat ioner, Hopkins, Raines, Barlow, Taylor, ey sud Kirkpatrick—men of integrity and ability, whore escutcheons, personal, social and political, are witnout spot of blewish each and’all eminently qualilied to diac! with zeal and hdelity the important trusts soon, by the dict of the people to be committed to them ; and in the fuil Delief that their election will be of signal beneiit to the great tnterests of our beloved State, and will stay the extrava- gance and profligacy which now distinguish it, we hereb: pledge ourselves to use every honorabie effort to secure their triumphant election. Trird—That the “Ring democracy" of this city has been seated and found to be made wholly of brass and base inctai an ignoble counterfeit of the viest sort. In ‘ways that are dark” it has uo peer—everyth.ng it touches ft poliutes. Tis record is one of peculation and dishonor. It has imposed apon us enormous taxes, ostensibly for the maintenance and eupport of the civic ‘government, but tn return there- for it hax given us the worst ‘governed city in the world. It has created a multitude of sivecure offices, enuowed with iarge sala! in order that ite unecr: lous und favored partsans night A upon and leh from the public treasury. it has countenanced and abetted wholesale trands upon the elective and screened and protected the violacors thereof from mishmeat, thas attempted to corrupt the J p the moral integrity of the people. In a wor ed recreant to every trnst confided to it, and ought te t be, huried from power and consigned to an oblivion nat dishonor, That we have abiding faith fo the wisdom, firm. patriotism of President Graut and his trie and lors; and we point with just pride to the eon- fidence which his administration has inspired, both at home abroad, and to the fact that by its prudent and economt snagement our national faith and eredit have been vert unimpaired, one public debt greatly rednee ', the ings of a lasting peace have been assured, and tue fand has been made prosperous and happy. ‘That the perpetuity of our form of government unty of the elective franchise, and we brand aily it by fraud as enemies and traitors to the State approve of the plat- he Union Repubit- ry ant those who would tbe land, and more dangerous wnd more to be detested than she meabest footpad that infests the purlieus of our city. S ath—All hail the voice of the people as proclaimed in the recent Bate elections | The golden gates of the Pacrfic echo bavk the victorious shouts of the Pine tree State. Pennayl- Olio and Iowa have thundered forth their verdicts, ¢ harbingers of victor, 5 in 1872, ‘The Kmpire +, now held in thraidom svlely by gigantic frauds perpe- trated upon the ballot-box, must and ‘shail be redeemed, au the faithless and unworthy a who now rule its desti- nies must_be hurled from place and power, and consigned to the peaceful shades of private I LEITRRS FROM SENATORS CONKLING AND FENTON, Mr. CHARLES 8, SpeNcER then read the following | letters:— UTt0A, Oct. 23, 1871, GENTLEMEN—To speak to the honest, courageous citizens New York, who believe, as i do, in thy unity and destiny the republican party, would bea privile.e and an honor which I reluctantly forego. On the evening for which your ratification meeting ix proposed I am, however, to rpeak in another ltr, where no such array of orators will be as will gather at Cooper Institute, Assurances ns ot New York are to which have occupied them too long, and which, bringing peril to our cause, are treason In the emergency before us. The meeting’ will, Mt feaaid, bea reunion of all republicans who set principle und pure govermntnt aboye personal feelitizs and bold the advancement of the party, in its career of ure.uiness, para- mount to the exaltation of the overthrow of individual me bers, Rest assured that No one more than mysel/ can rejoi in 4 consummation so wise, so patriotic and so plainly righ! Since the honr of its formation Lhave ever labored in the repuoitcan party, never doubting the rights of humanity, and, therefore, never doubting the usefulness or the’ suc: eens of the party which upheld them. Mistuke in some instances i may “have been, wronged sometimes by those It trusied it has been; but its glory and its promise ure fmtnutable to the fact that {thas | to the exigencies it has been required to co tx summon to a great work of reformation in our owu State; itis called Apon to eradicate the most hideous aud terrsiying conspiracy of plunderers and xocial destroyers of which we have any Knowlecge. For such @ party, at such a juncture, signalled to go forward by an ennobiing past and beckoned by an im: erilied future, to be baffled or detained by trivial bickeri: 10 arrest the uplifted arm of public justice and to cover th enemies of society with a shield. Rather let re snot only, but republicans aud democrats ety of New York, unite in sinking tentions and ele honest men of parties Lo public trust, Such a Teaching good. It will exll_ back to the duties of thousands who seem almont to have forgotten th ernment and their obligations to it. ‘none, after looking for years at our great cit; es ‘ot its best men, With {aces babituall affairs, pase by he opted the despairing is unsuited to (he maintenance of repuplicas ‘com main Voth Institutions. This is the tme to dispel this fatal apprehension, The gibbet on which official sin ie gow to forfeit ite existence will do only a briot and vengetnl office unless it awakens the consciences of those whose neglect left the door w arded while thieves: pices entered im. If the better elements of New mnbined and stirred to activity the election Of votes wilt not be such mockeries as tn pre In the actual presence of the futelligence an t f mitinon people the manipulators dare not do ne batore. assurance of a fair election je wil) bring mamany the country, Laat year T assed many ‘ings in didesent portions of the State, aod everywiere tie some obstacle was found. Tt was ttled” that majorities suficient to elect local ehieketas were a toe vequirea; (that go atier wrbet majesty for the ticket ‘he rural (ins give, tuer would be falsely counted down on Mai Island. duced frauds in New York ereovel 49,000 repupiicane di who ponper, and nothiug will ‘and noth Minpany in the State As palnabie ! # thal the peop! ity mean to Lave 90 iw a fair vote an if chieve all; the firel and republtcans, and inc nity among efterwade united the clty between repybli- cane and all other mers waereve: the emerge Trusting ting ll usher in a fra ol good feeling and of yoo | works, Eremakn your | oe sete, = Ms ROSCOE CONKLIN( CHARERS S, SRNCER, Haq. and others, Committee, &e. ‘ JAMPSTOWN, (ct. 17, 1871, My Dra Sim:—1 am in receipt of your letier inviting me n° speak at the Cooper Jostituve ratilication meeting, 2th bs be effective batore x political ansemolage requires & rie ich TF min very sure ldo nat postess. | ‘aire been Jed to regret my inability to benefit our party in th ‘a difection. | For many yeurs past | bave made but one wat a a i political campaigu, and iat re wi te shergpt, § Mervies watchs be Te not trust’ myse| et no om” Mall surpaes me in earn, iain our pe, nciples faistrate, ie trinmpl of Integrity aud jusuce In she ad tion of governmem. Hoping for the bent renuh from the meeting, mud for the success OF Our cause and Heke! I remain very truly yours, Hop. CHARLRAS. SPENORR, praca ny cet SPERCH, OF JUDGR PrERREPONT. Judge Piorrepout. was the frst speaker. Daring bis speech he said:—> Ii the Rochester tickéy Melected, doea any tai expect reiorm! Have we vad yeform under that tive franchise, | in mass | ; the hmit you ave going to do about it? i | Whue ) To Tun F | People has | pay upon our liberties and our honor will have to be met as slavery was met; and, depend upon it, this people will suppress this corruption either by peaceabie means or by blood, (Loud cheers.) There is nothing that deserves so deep a curse or 80 Swit aretripation as the crime of corrupting the saf- frages of the people. The peuple who do thls cor- Tuption tell us tn so mauy words that they repeat and repeat, that they will and count and cheat you out of the suffrage. They say what are you going to uo about ivy You are going to exercise the Suffrage, and see that nobody corruvts or defies it, Vo you mean really that noboay is to rob you of your suifrage’ If itcomes, gentlemen, to a mis- count of votes there will have to come a fair count of bayonets. Well, tiey say still that all this was said Jast spring, and “‘we must prevent the passing of this mniquitous scheme, and the scheme passed all the same, You have resolved and you have made speeches, These men have got the power and they willgo onali the same."’ Well, gentlemen, if we nad not begun in the spring we shoula have not been here in the summer, and we should not have carried the city a8 We shall in the autumn. Weil, “What are you going to do about it?” was the tone very freely used; but now It 1s changed to i op Is 1 the penivenuary or js it the scoraful punishment of tue prison, or is it to be the redemption of the money that was stolen’? That is the question now. In opinion what has beeu called — the government of the city and the State of New York has been nothing mue than a combinauon of instramentalities for the pur- pose of forming organizations to rob and ruin te State. Now, some people like that, and there are some people who are satistied to say, “Well, Tweed is snarper than the rest of you.’’ Now, gentlemen, we have yot w & vombination of human affairs whicn Providence will it is that state which as “wickedness has got rich and kickeu.’ corruption that sin our midst bas had no paraiiel in any despotic government. There bas not a des- potic government existed during the last hundred years that conid aye done what these despots of rain have done, We have heard about politictans feathering taeir nests, and that we must expect that politicians yi featuer their nests, We are the re ex, The w cl to supply them with (Laugheer.) ever knew & goose who complained of being plucked? and Who ever cared Wf the goose did complain? (Cheers and laughter.) Well, (ois summer it was found out that they nad not feathered thelr vests in the ordiuary way, but that they had taken out of the pubiic cotiers larwe sums; where it was gone, how it had gone and where tt had been divided nobody knew; all that they did know was that 1 was gone. There were brave men of the press, brave men of the poet who are greatly to be honored, and who, if not honored now, will be re- membered as the greatest benefactors the people ever had, They dit not wait for the suffrage; did” not wait to ask. ‘The; did wait for permission of the Ring. not ut they de- manded from their fears and from their terrors that had taken possession of the Rig that the Treasury should no longer be in their hands, aod Andrew H. Green—(loud cheers)j—a democrat always, and a democrat now; an bonest man always, and an honest man now; a /eariess man always, and @ fearless man now. He holds the treasury by the deciara- tion of the people, Who made manifest their will, These citizens did not stop ther ‘hey thought they might as well have a little law, and that they might do some good in that direction, and they had the Attorney General’s authority to nominate aay associate counsel they might suggest, and they suggested Mr. Charies 0’Conor— Goud — chi }-Who wields lus power by the will of the people. Well, you see, the peopie can do something; but all this can be undone by the sudrage of the people on the 7th of November. Ring can say to us, “Well, sense of te people, and it is agamst you.’ lf so Mr, O*°Conor stays there no longer. Mr. Green «oes not remain. I wili venture to say that, in the figures m tne newspapers in the morning, you will see, probably, the name of | nied, the robber who has been robbing you; and a rob- bery that would not be committed under any des- potic government, You will see that the plunder 1s m the power of the robber; that you were 1 have contributed my share; you lave contre buted yours. here were three persons appoinved to audit claims; they audited them afver @ fashion, and they amounted to six millions of dollars. The county had authority to raise tis money on revenue bonds and these bonds were sola to honest parties, and these +ix millions were put into the treasury to the debts of the public, and all this mouey was drawn out in the shape of war- Yauts subject to the order of these people. ‘Three mijhon five hundred thousand dollars of this $*,000,000 was deposited to the credit of a suborai- vlerk, @ Common agent of the public pinn- Of this $8,500,000 $952,000 Was drawn by him to the credit of William = M. Tweed and deposited in his (Tweced's) bank. (Hiss Now, the only way of repaying ihis money is by you aud | paying it over again b: taxes; and it will revain, too, in Mr. Tweed’ pocket. (Hisses.) Wasl wrong when | said that there was no despotic government within the last handred (oe, that could have done this thing’ ('No."’) If ithad been done the people would have dragged the despot, bis courtiers and his family from power, But you will choose this man to be your Senator forthe making of your laws. (‘*Never, ) Ile goes among his followers and is re- with rapturous applause, if this man is elected the finger of scorn of the world will ve di- rected to us. I wish it to be understood that every man who fails (0 do his part to prevent the election ot this man is & party to his crimes and 1s an accessory after the fact. (Loud cheers.) 1} don’t care who is, whether uve lives in Filth ave- nue or in the Five Points, he is an accessory to his crimes, (Cheers.) Mr. Kvarts concluded very elo- quently by stating that he knew whereof he apoke When he said that the two parties in Europe— the lovers of liberty and the haters of u—were jooking to the endeavor of the New York people to shake themselves free rt Which Was menacing the county. (Leud and ntinued cheering). al Sharpe afterwards addressed the meeting, was brought to a close by the singing of the “siar-Spangled Banner.” Sixth Senatorial District. WOR OF THE HERALI I respectiully request the publication of the iol jowing facts relative to the Senatorial campaign in the Sixth disiriet:-= A report, emanating from a certain political quarter, Is in cireuiation, which might have a ten- dency fo misrepresent me unless contradicted. Said report is to the effect that Lam a “candidate in the imerests of Tammany Hal, being supported b; meeps furnished by & certauw ee of- ficial in (hat organization, ni tat I do no! dniend to remain & ndidate inst that oxgauization until the closing of | the { hereby empbatically contradict the fore- going réport, aud take this opporiunity of stating, that { have never received any ald or assistance financially, sein any public oficial in or outside of Yammany Hail, and wever intend to seek such, As regards “being i the mterest of Ta ny Hall,’ 1 most emphatically deny this. Laving received the unanimour nomination of the united retorm party of the Sixth distaiet, ana of my feilow cituzens M_pULIIC Meeting assembled, | intend to remain @ from this tyranny, and he urged them to avoid the | | | candidate for Senator of the Sixth district (opposed fo Tammany Hall only), until the closing of the polls on the 7th day of November next. ea MARTIN NACHTMANN, w YORK, M¢t. 25, 1871. Adjourced Tammany Assembly Conventio: Four adjourned Assembly Conventions of Tame many Hall were held las! ening i the Btevants, Seveniéenth, Eignteenth and Twentieth districts, In the Eleventh district the Convention met and adjourned unti! to-morrow evening. The Eighteenth District Convention apppotnted a conference com- Tolttee to endeavor to unite all the outside organt- vations in the district on one candidate and ad- journed until Friday. Jerome Buck received the nomination of the Seventeenth District Convention, before whom he appeared and was received with much applause, le In @ few words stated his pleasure at being their nominee, and pledged himseif to support the democratic party and the interests of the Twenty second ward to the vest of his ability. He is a strong man, and will no doubt be elected. The Twentieth District Convention nominated John Brown, the last incumbent, and on his declin- tng, William Hitchman, who last year represented the Twenty-first district, reeeived the nomination, Senator Henry Genet, who was present at the meet- ing, made a brief address, STATE POLITICS. eaten Me toe od ae ae . Kaviord E. Churcl’s Opluion of the Situas tion—Hopefal Look for the Democracy— Fenton Likely to Cause a Republican Dee feat—itepublican Bolt im the Twenty bh Senatorial District. NiadaRAa Farts, Oct. 25, 1871. In a conversation with Sanford E. Cnurch to-day he spoke confidingly of the democratic party elect- | ing their entire State ticket tnis fall, owing to the apathy of the people in the rural districts and the | lukewarmness of the friends of Senator Fenton, the latter, he thinks, being in favor of giving the | State to the democrats, and cites es an instance the combination of the Fenton republicans of the Twenty-ninth Senatorial district with the demo- crats to defeat the regular republican nominee, George Bowen, for State Senator, and a strong sup- porter of Conkling. The Democratic Senatorial Convention, which met reaeeraay at Albion, adjourned in the eveping until Tuesday, October 31, without making any nomination. ‘The only business being done was the appointing of a committee to consult with the Fen- ton republicans. the 38ist the sore headed republicans and democrats assemble in joint convention and nominate a candidate for State Senator. The most prominent name men- tioned is that of Henry A, Richmond, Governor Church thinks that tho present rulers of the city of New York should give way to new men—men who possess the confidence of the peopie. WESTCHESTER COUNTY ASSEMBLY NOMINA- Tl NS. The democratsof tne Third Assembly district of Westchester county met in convention at Peekskill on Tuesday, and nominated Coffin S, Brown as & candidate for member of Assembly trom that dls- trict, William Meade, a former nominee, having withdrawn from the canvass, Willtam W. Niles has received the republican nom- | ination tor member of Assembly in the First A: sembly district of the county avove named. RICHMOND COUNTY DEMOCRATIC NOMINA- TIONS, The usually quiet little vHlage of Richmond, Sta- ten Island, was besieged yesterday by politictans of | every grade, who gatiered for the purpose of wit , nessing the transactions of the Richmond County Democratic Convention, which was held at the County Court House. There were fully five hundred persons present, among others Senator Frost, Judge Metcalf, Assemblyman John Decker, Supervisor 8. R. Brick, Jr,; Samuel Barton, Jud.e T. P. Kilpatrick, Sherif Wynants and @ host oi others. Mr. Barton was appointed chairman, and after cailing the meet- ing w order Judge Vaughan reported the proced- mgs of the Senatorial Convention lately held at Jamaica, which was acc+pted, The following ticket was unanimously adopied:— Assembly—Thomas Gwynue, County Judge—Judge Metcalf. 4 ' The | mM accd c ‘we have taken the! msult on account of color? Let | | 4 ! you will see | ei taxed also to get it’ there, | sioners were already seated, i | respects as good as those of other persons. Justice of Sessions—John Meban,. District Attorney—S. F. Rawson. Coroners—Drs. Lee and Tappan, Superintendent of Poor —Philip Benaer. At the close of the Convention the General Com- not have; for | mittee held a mecting, the business of which was of has been described | @ privaie nature, SENATOR SUMNER, Letter to the Colored Convention in Columbia, SC, The Massachusetts Senator on Sccial Equalisy— The Great Boon for the Colored Rage Their Rights in Schools and at the Ballot Box— Sharp Thrust atthe St. Domingo Job. WASHINGTON, D. C., O71, 25, I8TL The following letter from Senate, sumaer was read at the convention of colored “nen at Columbia, , on Monday:— Boson, Oct, 12, 1871. Dean StR—L am glad Usa our colored fetiow ef ng are to have A Convention of their long as they are exciuded from rights, or auy Way, on account of color they will naturally meet together iu order to find a proper remedy, avd since you kindly invite me to communicate with the idk cheat Lmake bold to offer a few biel sugges- ons, In the first ploce, you must at all times insist upou your rigtis, aud bere | mean not only these atready accorded, but others stil denied, ali of which are contained in equality before the law. Wherever the law supplies a rule, there you must insist upon equal mghts. How much remains to be obtained you know too well in the experience of iife. Can a respectable colored citizen travel on steamboats or railways or public conveyances generally withou leutcnant Gove: nor Dunn, of Louisiana, describe his journey from New Orleans to Washington, Shut out from proper accommodation in tue cars, te doors of the penate Chamber opened to him, aud there he found that equality which a ratlroad conductor had de- Let our excelient iriend Frederick Douglass relate his melancholy experience, when, trom the dinuer table where bis brother Commis- You know the out- rage, I might ask the same quest.on with regard to hotels, and even common schoors. A notel is a legal institution, and so is a common school As such each must ve for the equal benefit of all. Now, cau there be any exclusion from either on account of color? It {8 not enough to provide separate ac- commodations for colored citizens, even Wf in all Equality 1s not found m an equivalent, but onty In equality. Jn other words, there must be no discrimination on accoant of color, The discrimination is an insult and a hindrance and a bar, wich not only destroys comfort and prevents equality, but weakens all other rights, The right to vote will have new security when your equal right in public conveyances, hotels and common schools 1s at last establisned; but here you must insist for yourselves by speech, by peti- | tion and by vote, Heip yourselves and others will heip you aiso, The Civil Rights law needs a sup. plement to cover such cases. This defect has been apparent irom the beginning, aud for a long time 1 have striven to remove it. I have a bul for this par- pose now pending inthe Senate, Will aot my col- ored fellow citizens see that those im power shall no longer postpone this essential sateguardy Surely, here is an object worthy of effort, Nor has the republican party done its work until this ts estanlisned. [s 1 not berter to establish ail our own peopte in the enjoyment of equal rights be- | fore We seek to bring others within the sphere of | our institutions to be treated ike Fredenck Douglas was on his way to the President from St, Domingo? Tt is easy to see that a small part of the means, the | energy aud the determined wili spent in the expe dition to St. Domingo and In the prolonged war dance about that ‘sland, with menace to the black republic of Hayts, would have secured all our colored Jellow citizens im the enjoyment of equal rights, Of this there can be no douvt. Among the cardinal objects in education which must be insisted on must be equality, side by side with the alphabet. [t isin vain to teach equality it you do not practice it. It is in vain to rectie the | great words of the Declaration of Independence if Pad do not make them a living reality, What is | jeason without example’ As ail are equal atibe , ballot box sO must all be equal at the commen school, Equality in the common school Is the pre paration for equaliyy at the ballot box; therefore do | ut this among the essentials of education. ) nasserting your own rights you will wot fall to insist upon justice to all, under which is necessarily | included purity im the government, Thieves snd money-changers, Whether democrats or republi- cans, must be driven out of our temple. Tammany Halt and republican sei/-seekers must be over thrown, There should be no plave for either, | Thank God good men are HOW coming to the rescue, Let them, while uniting against corruption, msist upon equal rights for all and also the suppres sion Of lawless violence, Wherever it shows itself, whether im the Ku Kiax Kiem outraging the South ore het undertakings ootraging the vlack repadlie | of Hay. ‘Yo (hese inestimable objects add specie payments and you will Lave & platiorm Which ought to be ac. cepted by the American people. Will not our colored fellow citizens begin this good work? Let tiem at the same time save themselves wnd save the country, These are ony hints whieh 1 supmit to the Convention, hoping that its proceedings wiil tend especially to the goou oF the colored race, Ac~ cept my thanks aud fest wishes, and be eve mi Jaintully yours, CARLES SUMN within | sight of the Executive Mansion, he was thrust back | THE MUNICIPAL «MUDDLE The Committee of Sevent Their Hands. | Suits Instituted Ag:inst Wil- liam M. Tweed. CHARLES 0°CONOR INTERVIEWED He Thinks the Boss Must Disgorge $3,500,000 | and Possibly Answer a (iimi- nal Prosecution. ‘Tilden’s Search in the Broad- way Bank. What He Discovered—Alleged Evidences of Fraud and Forgery of * Keyser’s Accounts. The Committee of Seventy seem to Lave arrived ‘ atconclusions at last and have commenced pro- ceedings against Wm. ‘Tweed, as will be seen by the following affidavit, made* on Tuesday last, by | Samuel J. Tilden, who has investigated his account | in the Broadway National Bank: City and County af New York, ss.—Samuel J. Tilden, being duly sworn, deposes and says that, happel casually in the oitice of the Comptroller ; of the city ot New York, he was consulted by Mr. Andrew H. Green, Deputy Comptroller, and nis counsel, as to the notice proposed to be given to the National Broadway Bank in respect the alleged forgery of the signature of Keyser & Co. as endorsers of certain county warrants; that goon after tnis deponent was requested by the said Green to make some investigation in the accounts ol the said bank; that deponent noticed on the back of the said Keyser warrants pencil memo- randa of E, A. W. or E. A. Woodward, which he supposed had been made thereon by the teller who received the deposits, and was led to examine the deposit account of the said Woodward, to sce if the Keyser warrants could be identified; that the method of examination adopted was to take a transcript of the deposits as entered on the ledger, and ten to | decompose the entry of each deposit into the items | of which such deposit was made up, by a reference tothe deposit tickets whicn had been preserved, and to take a transcript of the debits in the ledger, aud then to decompose cach entry which Was formed of more than one item py ref- erence to the blotter kept by the bank; that | deponent traced transactions from the account of the sald Woodward invo the acccunts in the sald bank of Ingersoll & Co., and Andrew J, Gar- vey, and at last into the account of William M. | Tweed, to eacii of the said accounts; that the aeponent cun- strncted the schedule marked &, 1 the complaint in unis action, and wrote every word and figure in the same, except the footings of the several col- umos, vyerylying each entry by personal in- spection of the transe ipts made up from the books in the Comptroller's office, and entries upon the warrants, aud with the tran- scripts {rom the books of the National Boadway Bank and trom the said deposit tickets, or verify) | the same py their being called off by George j Smich and P, W, Rho oe whe assisied ube said de- ponent; that deponent ci the éufrics purporting to come from the books in the Comptroller's ofice to be compared with the origimal books of record in said office, and the entries purporting to come from the books of the National Broadway Bank vo be compared with transcripts from the entries on the said books, and in both cases the said tran- scripts with the originals, and believes that each and every entry in the sald schedule is correct; that deponent has personally examined the deposit luckets embraced within the period includea in the said schedule left with the \ | howing and caused the same process to be applied | We | deposits of the said Woodward and the said Tweed; that depo- nent examined the deposit tickets of the said Wood- ward and the said Tweed, mentioned in the said | Arthur £. Smith, a hat this deponent, schedule, in connection with bookkeeper of the sald ban! in examining the tickets of vhe deposits of the sail Woodward, became familiar with the handwriting of the satd tickets, and was informed by; Sinth that it’ was. the "handwriing of the said the said Elbert A. Wooiward; that deponent noticed, iu examining the uckets left with the deposits of { Gontained { the said Tweed, whih deposits are im the said schedule, that tbe pandwritin Of cho Kad 1eKets ACCOM anyLig the deposits es Tweed '2 th me handwriting with that of the «ekets accompanying the ae- } posits of tha Said Woodwar apa this deponent | very believes that the tickets a be correct; tat deponent has procured a printed of said Board, which contains the message of Mayor 1 | Hall to the Supervisors, under date of August 16, 1871, and apparently delivered to them August 23, | | 187\; that copy 1s annexed hereto and marked No. | 3: that deponent has heard read by Charies O’Conor | the compiaint in this case prepared by him; that as | to many of the statements of fact thereia contained | they are true as to deponent’s own knowledge, ai that deponent has Investigated in respect to all such statements of and 1s satisfied that ¢ true. SAMUEL J, TILDE: Sworn and subscribed before me, this 24th day of October, 1871, EpMUND ELMENDORY, Jr, Notary Pubile, New York City Accompanyiug this affidavit are volammons tran. seripts from the Comptroiler’s books and thuse of the Broadway National Bank, in which the Ring | made their deposits. Itis claimed that these tran. | scripts identify the parties who drew money from mau Woodward and the coutractor Keyser, claims that fifteen of the warrants paid by the bank are forgeries. The wanscripis cover the period from May 5 to September 1. 1870 inclusive, ana the sum | mary reot is as follows:— SUMMARY, Je amount of warranta.......... 5,049,820" iis ves, August 5. 47,744 8 pms $3,001,681 50 of warrants Deposits by A, J. Garvey. T177 As 72 of warranta Deposits vy Woodward. #3, Leas trans- tera from Ingersoll to | Woodward $117,487 49 | Lean trans- fere from to ward $$ 1,101,915 96 of warrante Total 710,913 98 Worants 984,805 19 eupeseads $86,095,209 17 geracll tn bin en: Company, a* avove Totaby.....00.+ 00s Warrants deposited by Inj i Ln Pee rere | Misvelianeous small worrant 3,41 37 | deposited warrant 1 deposited check soli's cheek’ paid’ over to Woodward meted Inger Ingersoll's checks to parties not traced Garvey deposited warrants 41,781,801 6 SUIT 415 ber ttt heck paid over Boll. acest heii - BAI,7 Garvey's checks’ paid’ over’ to Wood. "© WATE) ivecerotivaven Veatipieeses race, WARS 9,615 69 793 Us Garvey's cheeks to parties not traced, ndwarel deposited WarFANLG......... ward deposited checks from Ingersoll ward dapositel cheeks from Garvay 089,715 76 317,487 49 AM7T OL 3, 1 | ‘over t leposited in W. ecks, di oodward’s handwrittiy. 932,458 50 Woodward's checks to parties not traced. . ...#3/649,195 76 William, edd ayetan mn M. ‘Tweed rece pany, a# traced ... M, Tweed reeelved from Woodward, as ived 'f Mr. Tilden and assistants, on a careful investiga- tion and analysis, have developed tie following resulta, Which are to be used In d suit against Wil am M, Tweed and others, Hall, Tweed and Connolly were autnorized by an Act Of 1870 to audit Claims against the county which might be found due. Mayor Hall, at the one meet- ing of such Bourd of Audit moved # resoimuon as follows:— Resolved, That the County Anditor collect from the appro- propriate committees of the Board of Supervinore all bills Nanilities auuinet the gownty, incurred prior (0 April Sy companying the de- | and ex-Deputy Comptroller Storr posits of the said Tweed’ are in the handwriting of | Pani the said Etbert A. Woodward; that deponent also + copy of certain minutes of the Board of Supervisors, | x ‘ purporting to be issued by Josep B. Young, Clerk } who | i | | | uud that their notes cannot be collected. | { | | | 1971, and amounts now dne thereon; - ne of the name be the gr Te the same by the said Board or ite appropriate committees, On certificate of Clerk or Premdent, and that thereupon the sald fete aoe ‘annex the rouclier to the appropriate blanks ature, as directed by th ee y the section aforesaid, and Auditor Watson, now decease’, annexed cer Uneaten Of BuOWaNce to claims amonvting in | the aggregate to more than six millions of dole | lars, Fatal objections appear in every part of these transactions, Ley it sumice, however, to state this much:—Warrants or checks on the bank for claims mainly originating in the noted Inger- | soli, Garvey and Keyser affairs, were issued to the | ate amount of $5,759,458 68. Ingersoll and Garvey may have retained for them. selves portions of this vast sum, but it Is certain that of it $3,532,054 26 went to the credit of an account kept by Woodward. ‘This Wood- Ward—a& mere deputy clerk—-was the general distributing reservoir of this great mass of { Public plunder, He deposited to Tweert's credit in j the bank $932,858 60, and divided the batance among persons hot yet ascertained. Tweed’s share, | however, is distinctly craced to hin. Tho tabular statements show that upon tht | issue of these warrants for payment the pro- | ceeds were immediately distributed as above stated, That is to say, the «ustribution was in every instance, on the very seme dav, with an ex- ceedingly small number of exceptions, where one oF two days intervened, Thus, out of one single set of connected transac: , Hons, Tweed’s share was over $900,000, Tweed’s Dilemma—Hle tk to Disgorge Mr. $3,500,000, { 8 THE HORTON HEROES. BUTLER AND He Delivers His Anti-Treaty Lecture in Boston and Has the Horton's Crew on the Plat- form as Frightfal Examples, The Horton Exploit from Bat- ler’s Standpoint. Boston, Oct. 25, 1871, What General B. F, Butler thinks of the escape of the fishing schooner E, A. Horton from the British authorities and the subsequent lionizing of the crew by thelr townsmen at Gloucester, has become & subject of great imquiry among the people in this vicinity, The General has so persistently pat him- self forward in the somewhat anomalous position of acting as A STRONG PARTISAN OF THE PRESIDENT and the administration, besides being the head and front of the opposition to one of the most imapor- tant of their acts—the treaty of Washington—that his words may generally be supposed to have gress weight with the public. He has set himsel! squarely Mr. Charles O*Conor, Who represents the State At- | in the matter to-night, There need be no dount of torney General here for the prosecution of the mu- | the course which he will pursue in the fature. nicipal defaulters and pecolators, has opened & | His renarks were expreascd tn the form of a State oMice in the same building wherein his own | jecture upon the treaty, the same tn point of #ab- lawo Mfices are located, in Wail street, and. h: is dally | stance which was delivered at Philadelphia last in communication with counsel and witnesses, pre- | week, but with numberless interpolations, which Paring documents on which to base his suits, An evening paper yesterday announced that he would j formally commence criminal suits to-day against | Mr. Tweed. A reporter of the HERALD called at his oMice and held @ conversation with Mr, O’Conor substantially as follows:— | Reporter—Mr. O’Conor, an evening paper has | announced that you intend to bring criminal suits | against Mr. Tweed to-morrow; 1 desire to make some inquiries in relation thereto for the HERALD. Mr. 0’ConoR—I don’t know about my criminal suits being commenced, But I can tel! you that under one little chapter iu @ civ.l suit we can re- cover from Mr. Tweed THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED which would make quite a hole in his estate, REPORTER—Do you intend, then, to begin a clvil | suit to-morrow ? Mr, O’CONOR—Now you ask me a question which I cannot answer. I have already done what lintend to do immediately. RerorTRR—Would such suits as you Intend to bring disqualify Mr. Tweed from being elected to the State Senate, as he anticipates? The evening papers think lt would. Mr. 0’ConoR—I don’t know that it would. A man might be in State Prison and be elected to office, But | think it would ey largely affect the votes of | respectable citizens for him. THOUSAND DOL- RePorTER—Haye you documentary evidence to | convict on civil or criminal suits ¢ | Mr. O’CoNOR—I think we have, Revortgr—When do you expect, sir, to begin your suits ? Mr. O’Conor—Well, that! cannot say anything about at present. Your question would imply that 1 had not yet done anything. You understand the work has been divided and one man attends to oue case and another to another, and tt would be im- { possible for me to say now What has been done, Mr, O’Conor being pressed to go, the reporter thanked him and retired. 3 A legal member of the Committee of Seventy was also interviewed on the same subject, but he had | very little information to give, save in relation to | the grounds of action of either civil or criminal suits whica may be begun agatost Mr. Tweed and others, He believed that both classes of prosecutions might be instituted against Mr. Tweed for fraudulent cis- position of iynds entrusted to his cave as a public onicial, and for CRIMINAL PARTICIPATION Witt OTHERS in defrauding the city treasury and to recover the sums spectiiel in the indictments found agatnst him. Criminal suits will probably be begun in the moog courts in the same manner and very Hkely b: the same party as in the case of Mayor Hall. Ball will, of course, be asked and given, and Mr, Tweed’s election will go on, doubtless, as if nothing had happened. Bat when the republican and reform Legislature raeets that body will decide upon the qualifications of Mr. Tweed and others to take seats with them, And the man of “Tne Seventy” thought that Tweea's chances then would be very slim indeed. ‘The fact that the Committee and counsel have legal evidence against ‘Tweed to convict and recover they believe, however, lo be conclusive, | | = THE BOARD OF APPORTION. MENT. or The Transfer of Apprepriati for Iutercst— The New Court House Money. Shortly after one o’clock the Board of Apportion- ment inec at the Mayor's oflice. ‘There were prese! Mayor Hall, Deputy Comptroller Green, j Sweeny | Alter the usual | iveen oifered a | routing had been disposed of Mr. prepared the sehedule F annexed to the complaint; | Tesolution as follows:— | t the summary of the results deduced from the | Resolved, That transfers of appropriations for interest on schedules A aad E annexed to the complaint 13 cor: | city devt be and (he same are hereby made as follows: — ! rect, and truly Topresents Tie disposttion oF tite war- | To interest on elty improvement stork, 1869 + BUS,528 | Tunts and the collection of their proceeds, so far ag | Croton Wate Main stock <0... oe | it purports to represent the same; that deponent | 4Wonarynen Parks tmororemens . | caused the statement of the county tabilities, | Xyceamen Fund vontn, BS | | marked Schedule A in the complaint, and No. 1 in ‘: sain | the aifidavits, to be made, and believes the saine to Total . = DB11,223 From the following a Interest on City Park { Oit Mu i 15,750 | aha | #911223 matter the re- | After some slight discussion on tly solution was adopted, A communicatton was received from the Commis- { had made two requisitions for $300,000 each; that | only one had been complied with, and if the Board \ did not appropriate the money they would be ob ! liged to stop the work. ‘This matter was referred to the Comptroller, with ower, Alter some further routine business the joard adjourned Removnl Court Attendants and Clerks. Deputy Comptrolier Green yesterday made some | the city, and clearly connect Mr. Tweed with the H further removals of attendants on (he Superior Court of Common Pieas, as well as of unty Affairs, CHICAGO AFFAIRS. Court and rks in the Bureau of C | cle Bauks Ruasing Smoothly—Insurance Come paoies Paying Losses—Failure of the Proe posed Political Millensiam—Failure of an ranve Company—Relief Fund Receipts, OHICAGO, Vet, 25, 18TL The banks are running smoothly, They have but few calls for loans and deposits are abundant, Many Eastern and foreign insurance companies are paying their losses promptly. ‘These funds fur- | nish our merchants with money to purchase goods, and capitalists who are preparing to rebutld, | The gram and five stock markets are orisk, | ‘There is a8 much doing as there was before the tire and in lumber much more, Mechanics are wauted, almost eve! » | Carpenters, masons and | y other class are tu demand at good wages. { Potter Palmer Is pushing up his new grand hotel | a4 [asi as possible, ‘The combination of the two political parties for the next city and county election has not yet been Jully consummated owing to the large number of candidates and the diversity of views of those en- gaged in the work of combining. ‘There is no diver- fy, of feeling im regard to the nomination of Medill for Mayor, Gage for City Treasurer aye Jameson tor Judge of the Superior Court. They are all Popular, General dd alae State Auditor, nas flied a bill in the Cirenit Court for the dissolution of the Repub- hie Insurance Company of Chicago, on the ground 1,817,467 #9 | of insoivency aud mismanagement of its anairs by the directors, It has been ascertained that lis as- seta amount to $1,133,000; its risks Outstanding, $14,090,000 lts losses by the recent fire, over $4,000.00), and its stock notes, $5,792,500, It is ale leged that many of the stockholders are tusolvent, bore special reference to the condiuon of affairs to-day. Music Hall was crowded with interested lsteners. CAPLAIN HARVEY KNOWLTON, OF THK HORTON, ; and the six men who composed his crew being ranged just back of tne lecturer in chairs along the stage. They were fine, stalwart, muscular men, these toilers of the sea, with faces rull of determina- tion and eyes that seemed to fash defance at all who dared to oppose their desire for freedom and the enjoyment of the rights of American citizens, General Butler's address commenced with the assumption that the British Commissioners had cireumvented the Yankees in the making up of the provisions of the treaty, aud that the latter had timidly conceded every disputed point because they were a(raii to have a war with Great Britain. This was the key note of bis whole discourse which he hammered upon often with numerous citations frou: history and their consequent lines of argument. ‘The past record of Great Britain, he said, warrants the assumption that the representatives of that nation will TAKE AN ADVANTAGE wherever they can gain, and it ts only the fact that the provisions of their treatv have uot yet been made final and irrevocable—because they have to await the ratification of both houses of Congress— that hides their intentions of to-day. Tuey are do- ing right, | suppose, if I may beueve the evidence of British newspapers, edited by what the members of the nt excursion party called “English Yankees.” The General here took oc:asion to refer bitterly to some of the newsvaper comments upon his lecture since it was first brought be fore the public. The criticisms of the New York = Trivune, he sald, were dictated by @ poor floolish dolt, wnose Christmas comes on the first day of April, and other editors were served up with like sauce. They have asked me, he continued, | Why tain waruing the people against the provisions of this treaty’ T'li tell you why. Bevanse tt retards the progress of the annexation of the Canadas, which must sooner or tater surely come, and because its passage would run the business of my constitu. ents on Cape Ann, and the fishermen of the United States, Thatis why | am doing this, when f might otherwise be lolling in an easy chair, or hopnobbing and drinking wine with some English tord, if I TOADIRD TO THE BRITISH NATION, Since my lecture was written I may state that Gloucester has lost 216 vessels and 1,141 men by the elements, and that ten of these vessels have been seized by British cruisers for alleged violations of the maritime laws. In one instance the steward of @ vessel was arrested and the vessel was confiscated because he attempted, singly and alone, to catch a few fish to cook for dinner. There were other cases of asimilar nature, ‘The seizure of the Horton, which has been talked about so much, Was as groundless as the majority of the accompanying cases, The vessel had a full freight and was lying Ww While the captain and crew went below for their noonday meal. While they were eatung the boat drifted inside of the three-mile tine of boundary, nobody fishing or thinking of fish, and was gobbied up by @ British gunbout. She was taken into Guysboro, N. 8, and dismantied, The captain looked about him for redress, but learning that he could not get it under the Washing- ton Treaty, aud ascertaining also that all of our oficiais were drinking wine with Great Britain, while they ongat to be at work, he concluded to take care of hit He therefore gathered about | him six of the those who mann-d okt [ron sides during the Revolution, and started for liberty and home, ‘fhe result of nis journey 1s well known, sioners of the new Court House, stating that they | When trotted ou It was one of THE MOST GALLANT BEXPLOT SS that bave ever neen recorled since the days of Paud Jones and the Bun Hommie Richard, when the Brit ish lon wea bearded in his dea; ant yet there are newspapers: which advise, first, that the vessel, which 18 our own, be seni back Lo Great Britain 43 a sort of graceful compliment; second, that suc be teft Without papers to rol at the wharf, and third, and the most disgraceful of all, that Captain Knowlton and bis crew be sent hack to Great Britam as buar- glars; and such a proposition comes from the kons of those who were — supposed to haye fougl at Lexington and Bunker Hill, Stand up, men, and let the people ot Boston see What manner of men tt 18 Whom it 18 pro- posed to consign to dungeons iike those of Dart- moor, which are yet fresh in the memories of your fatn n Joneral here turned towards the crew behind ng ae) preconcerted man. cdgment of round Captain Knowl- him, and they all rose, a9 If ina ner, and Bowee thane Foipanes fier round of loud applause. ton stood a litde Mm advance, with & cunning smile upon his lips, woile his associates nervously twitched their buttomioles, in evident wonderment as 10 what they lat done to render themselves the objects of so mxch curiosity. Intelligent as they seemed to oe, ara well drilled tn the purposes tor which they were brougnt to Boston to-night, they exhibited @ shamefaced appearance ttocontront the large assemblage. dat them as heroes, and they bore their honors In ® Moses-like manner, Alter they had resumed their seats General Butler went on with and concluded his address without intre ing any matter outside of that heretofore publisned. Everybody loo! THE PACIFIC COAST. aie! Juurance Companies Restmive Prominent Mormon’s View of posed Bridge Across son falitornia Barsiness—3 Dian Afiaive—i Francisco hay. SAN FRANCisco, Cal,, Oct. 25, 1871. The Occidental Insurance Company, of this city, resolved to-day to resume basiness. The People's Insurance Company are cndeavoring +9 make # Similar arrangeroent, There is much suffering in San Joaquin valley. where tne crops have wholly fatled for two seasons, One thousand persons are needing food, The catr zeus are raising funds for their reef, Bil Russell, another escaped State prisoner from Nevada, Was captured here yesterday evening while endeavoring to ship on a vessel for a foretga port. George Q. Cannon, a Mormon leader, in this city taking counsel on the prosecutions uow progressing at Salt Lake, saya if the convictions continue the Mormons Will burn ail they have and make another exodus, as they did irom Hlinois, Senator Norton, of Thdiana, was serenaded jast nignt. He siarts for home to-day, tis raining in Oregon, A resointion Lo give $3,000,000 of subsidy to a cons pauy to build @ raliroad bridge across the bay from the Alemeda shore to this city was introduced in the Board of Supervisors last night, but not acted upon, Extensive fires continue in the coast range of mountains in Califoraia trom Los Augeles county nortiward, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD. Excitement Among Southern Railroad Men Tojunetion to the Virginia and nd Tennessee and Nertolk ersbarg Kailroads. LyNcrpurs, Va., Oct. 25, 1871. The bill of complaint of James E. Tyson, of Balti More, against the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and Wiillam Mahone, withdrawn in the United States Circuit Court for its president, whitch was the Eastern district of Virginia, was Med here to-day, an’ Judge Bond issued an order for the hear- ing of the motion fur injunction before the United States Circuit Court here on the 16th of November next. Tyson, who 1s a stockholder, owning five shares in the Virginia aud Tennessee Rauroad, prays that the defendant, president ana agent, be restrained Irom carrying out the provisions of an ‘The Treasurer reports the following receipts for the relief of the Chicago poor:— Cash received, $599, 276. Total amount for which drafts have been drawn and to be forwarded for collection, &¢., $396,700, Aggregate receipts, $1,486,956, Of this sum $54,490 have been distributed, the ance remauing on ‘The Committee esti- inate that tey will require $1,975,000 for tue next | act of the Virginia Legislature, consolidat- Cuirty days, re) . tin ing ag with = the PN UrIOlk and = burg road = an the Southside road, under DISASTER ON LAKE MICHIGAN, | the title of the Aanue and Mississippi Katiruad, a having its termini at Norfolk, Va., aad Bristol, Tenn. king of a Svhooner—Five Men Drowned= | Ue further prays that the Virgi nd ‘Tennessee a“ tiess Conduct of a Steam bug Captain, Railroad Company be restrained from tssuing any CHICAGO, Oct. 25, 1871. bonds under tie act of the Virgiala Leg:siacare in . 4 6 a furtherance of the interests o. the Atianue apd ‘Tue schooner Ky P, Messner, of this port, on the | Mississippi Railroad, whjch act the complaint oun inst, during the prevalence of a fleree gale, | #leges to be unconstitutional; thatthey be enjomed Irom negotiating tne joan for $3,000,000, bonds of which amount have been executed and attempted to be sold at a discount of twenty-five cents, and that the defendants be ined irom constructing the Cumberiand Gap Raiiroad, or in any Way foster- ing these roads by the use of the Lunds of the Vir- ginta and Teanessee Ratiroad. struck on a rock on Crave Island, Lake Michigan, and soon tilled. The crew were taken off by a fish. ing vessel. Alter a few days’ effort the schooner was taken off the rock, and while being towed ashore by a tug she filled with water and capsized, i five out of nine on board perished before as: lis motion creates a good deal of excitement in ance oame. it 14 Charged that the tug cut loose | railroad circies and It is belleved to be an eifort of when it became evident that she must sink and left, | some Northern rallroad companies to break up Ma- making no eifort to save the crew on he schooner, home's consuiidatet ive ta Vi gilide