The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1872, Page 5

ROSSA RAMPANT. Fils Protest Against the Elee- tion of Tweed. The Potition He Sends to the Legislature—Re- peaters, Falso Registers and Illegal Votes— Charges That Will Require To Be Substantiated—How Will the Whole Thmg Work? We publish below the petition of Jeremiah ® Donovan Rossa, which will be laid before the Committee on Privileges and Elections 1n the Senate at Albany to-morrow. it will be remembered by most of the readers of the HERALD that Rossa con- ‘ested the seat for Senator of the Fourth district of | New York witn “Boss Tweed at the last election, and that he was defeated bya majority of over Swelve thousand. In the subjoined petition it will be noticed that Rossa alleges Tweed won the day through fraud and ehicanery, and he brings forward strong testimony | © prove that at least six thousand votes which | were registered in favor of his opponent velonged by right to him: that Tweed, through his emissaries, eaused an enormous number of votes to be frandu- Jently registered, his partisans voting early and often with a vengeance, Aliens and unqualified citizens were allowed to vote so long as they stuck by the great Sachem oy tne lately demolished Tam. many Wigwam. These persons who were fairly en- Utled to vote, and wio wished Rossa for their representative in the Assembly, met with obstruction, aunoyandk, and in many eases personal violence, while those who dia manage to deposit their ballots had their votes utterly nul- uflea by the action of the inspectors of the boxes, who took care either to destroy Rossa’s Uockets or tarn them over to his opponent. Of course, all these allegations require to be substantiated, and ity ds highly probable that this herculean task wil never be accomplished. Possession is nine points of law, and, doubtless, Wiillam M. Tweed, who knows this fact so well, will chuckle and inquire “what is going to be done about iv’ whon he reads ef this modern edition of the “Lamentations of deremiah.” Petition of Claimant, To THE HONORABLE THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF New Youre :— The petition of Jeremiah O'Donovan Roesa, a citizen and @lector of the State of New York, and a resident of the city and county of New York, respectfully shows to your honor- able body :— ‘That ho was at the late general election held on the 7th day of November last duy and legally elected Senator from the urth Senatorial disirict of the State o New York, in the lace and stead of William M, Tweed, to WI the certiti- Bate of election authorized by law has been issued. ‘That your petitioner ciaims his right toa seat as auch Sen - ‘tor on the following ground: First—That he received a majority of ail the votes cast, if a ca ‘and return were made, Secoud. at ‘g¢ number of votes were polled for the said Wiliam M, Tweed, and counted for him, which were yoted by aliens, minors, non-residents, persons not qualiied to vote, persons voting more than once, aud iu many in- stances a8 many ag lorly and fitty times, by persons voting m false, assumed aud fictitious names and upon the names ef other electors, ail of which, to tue number of upwards of mx thousand votes, your petitioner claims should be deducted from tue vote of said Tweed, Third—That the conduct of the registration, prior to the election, was marked with the utmost violence and fraud throughout nearly the whole of said district. ‘That thousands of names were falsely registered by repeat- rg and by mspectors of election; ‘That ou the day of election the polling booths from which your petitioner's tickets were furnished were in e great part Of the diatrint destroyed, and violence and intimidation were Universally practised to’ overawe challengers, and to prevent a free exercise ot tue bat ld of sudrage. ._. That with few exceptions the Inspectors of Election were men of no character, generally holding positions under. the aki Tweed, or bis friends, and removable from their offices ‘at bis pleasure, ‘That the canvass of votes was in most cases merely a pre- tence, the number of voteato be allowed to said Tweed and yur petitioner having been previously agreed upon between Jospectors, That the persons legally authorized by your itioner to be present at the canvass of ballots for the office Senator in said district were, almost without exception, riven from the polls or excluded by the poilee, oF ‘arrested jocked up by police magistrates on frivolous pretexts, in the to OF sald Tweed. aie terest . Fourth—-That the result, as declared by the Board of County Canvassers, was as follows:—For William M. Tweed, yy i , 6,937; for Anthony Miller, 268. ery large number of votes, to wit, upwards ‘allowed (etho sald ‘Tweed, Miller TA Bans ,000 votes, ‘were cast for and ought to be counted for your petitioner. Wherefore your petitioner prays that an invest! be ordered by your honorable tunity may be the truth foregoing allegations and to vindicate his right to represent baud district in your honorable body. ‘And your petitioner will ever pray. Ly: Davanron eo H O'DONOVAN ROSSA. Guo, W. Lyon, 't Of Counsel. New Yous, Dec. 80, 1 bod nae anaes ance ly, to 8 en at op- entabll of the m. tye ~~ Statement of Claimant. To THR COMMITTEB ON PRIVILRGES AND ELECTIONS OF ‘THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK:— Jeremiah O'Vonovan Rossa, of the city of New York, con- troverting the right of William M. Tweed to aseat in the Benate of the State of New York as Senator from the F ourth Benate district, and claiming the seat as Senator from said Benate district, In conformity to the requirements of a reso- lution adopted’ by your committee, January 25, 1871, at Al- bany, hereby show: ‘First—That the said Fourth Senate district 1s comp: the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Sixth Assembly districts ‘of the county ot’ New York, being the frat seven and the Thirtecuth and Fourtenth wards of the city of New York.— ‘Serond—That the said Willam M. Tweed bas for several years past been a promineat democratic politician in eity of New York, possessed of great influence and power, and commoniy credited, in connection with @ few perso and political friends, with the control of the city and county vornments, werpat by the exertion of such influence he, in Apmi, 1870, Deing already a member of the Senate of the State of New York, received the appointment of Commissioaer of Publio Works, which placed him at the head of a department in the city government created by the Legislature of 18/0, and Vested with the care and custody of the elty property, the onstruction and maintenance of ‘public works and butid- ingt, the repairs of sewers, paving of streets, removal o/ en- cumbrances, collection ‘of assessments, supplying of ‘water and charge of lighting the pubilc streets and avenues, tc., &c. That immediately upon nis ap- pointment, for the purpose of adding to his influence and Power, of enabiing him to maintain bis hold upon the Conduct and management of city and county affairs, and especially of retaining and strengthening his political power in the Fourth Senate district, he procured legisiation direct+ {ng the performance of public work amounting, in various departments cuntroiled by him and bis personal and political friends, to an axgregate, durlug the years, 1870 and 1871, of upwards Nis000000. ‘That auch” work being entered upon, the aaid William M. Tweed, in the Department of Pub- He Works alone, employed, at the expense of the city of New York, a large numbet of residents of said clty— svobh number shortly prior to the election of November 7, 87, being not far from three thousand five hundred men, ‘while at the same time there were employed in the other de: partments vefore referred to upwards of six thousand per- fons, That through the use of thia patronage he caused many hundred residents of the said Fourtu Senate district to be piaced upon the pay rolls of his own and other depart- mens as officers, enzineere, painters, policemen, firemen, teachers, mechanica and iaborers, the number of such per: sons being largely increased & abort time priorto said election of November, 1871. That mary of said persons performed no aut! 8 whatever Dut were placed on said rolls and appointed to thelr positions for the sole purpose of advancing the Nitical fortu of sald Witiiam M, Tweed, by carry- Primary elections, and nominating nverest, and by the perpetration of frauds franchyse, the fotimidation of voters and return and declaration of votes, "That by reason of the vast patronage which he commanded faerery departinent of the city and county government and 1a influence upon legislation he was enabled to use, and in every posible way at and before the sald election did uae, ‘all the machinery of the sala government to secure his elec- tion to the Senate. That the granting, withholding and revo. cation of licenses, the admyistration of justice, the prosecution of criminals, the execution of police duties, were all madi ervient to ‘the one purpose of rendering im- possibie the defeat of Mr. Tweed, and" so zealoua were hin jenda, Diacemen and tools in his service, that for time prior to and until the last ele nelther prudent nor safe th fret to manifest in any manner opporition to eald Tweed oF friends. ‘The shoulder bitters, gamblers and thieves overawed bonest men; political opponents were in many inetances severely haniied; warrants were tssued by police magts- trates withouteven a devent pretext; the primary elections Of his political opponents were un With his supporters, And» nominating couvention held. by the friends of ihe claimant was broken up and for a time dispersed by the sup- porters of said iweed. ‘That 40 eflicacious were the means adopted, and so confl- Gent was said Tweed of iis complete success, that ina pub- lie speech made at the time of accepting his nomination be viicted hia re-election by @ majority of 32,000, and declared Fiat he “would be satistiea with nothing less,” althouen be well knew that there were not near that number of legal iu Senate district. stances no honest election could be d nove was had, supporte red away from ma and oppression, and that for tue purpose of voting, r deterred from casting their nd that no full or fair expression of their choice was jowed to the people of the district wipirdcThat the statement set forth in the preceding ebarge, respecting the condition of affairs In the Fourth Sen- district belng true, the claimant further charges that each &nd every of the various acts and duties heretnatter speci cally charged as committed respecting the redistricting of the various warde in said Senate district, the appointment of in- spectors of election, and poll cier ‘the conduct of regisira- tion and of the election and canvass ot votes, the conduct of election officers, the police and Police Mactstrates, and the treatment of voters, challengers and watchers, were cach nd every of them done, and performed at the instigation of, or in the interest or on bebalf of, and for the benedt of sal Wiliiam M. Tweed. Foursh~That the Mayor of the city of New York needlessly Fedistricted portions of said Senate district, and with a view fo constising legal voters, changed the boundaries and num- bers thereof. in many instances he grossly and inex. cusabiy vioiated the provisions of section 3 of chapter 672 of tbe Laws of 1871, which direct that in any redistricting the Work shail be #0 done as that “each election district shall contain not more than four hundred electors, taking the vote Of the preceding election as a basis.” Fvii--That at the election of November 8, 1870, two per- fons in each election district in each ward in sald Fourth Benate district wi declared to have een elected to serve Im thelr respective election districts as mapectors of election for the term of one year; that all of said persons repre- sented the pariy having ‘the political majority, in the ily, of New York (the emocratle party), of which Wiiiam m. Tweed was, ai the election of November 7y 18% 1, the candidate for Senator in said Senate district. an’ 2'—That on the th day of December, 1570, the Mayor of he cay of New York did, by, proclamation, appoint for each Secon district in wad ward in said Senate district an Sikiihonal inspector of glection 10 serve ae such for Period of one year. such persons were that | to have | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET tween the Mayor and said William M. Tweed, one Henry Smith; one Lannigan, one Thomas Muiigan, ene James McLaren, and other perso ming pudlicans, but holding oftces under the sald William we or mal and political triends, were, in del ance of law, j ‘and fair dealing, appointed to such poale Hons fa the laterest of sald Tweed and his friends, and with ‘& view of evading and preventing that wise and proper scru- tiny of the acts of the majority of the Boards contemplated by, and for, in the law, Scenth “That, with hardly an exceptio ws were deciared to have lected th here Pomona. set forth, did not qualify within the time ne AO did a ye of ny caine and appointed inspectors so qualify, whereupon in the mon’ Of October, 1871, the sat Mayor of the cliy of New York ap- Pointed persons to fill the vacancles so exi ‘That many | of said last appointea ns did not qualify, and that | Rumbers of those who did were willfully and wi ‘ully per- mitted or forced to rengu, and thefr piaces flied by the ap- pointment of other persons still more pliant tools and willin, ‘liam M. Tweed. That throughout sal | Senate district the Inspectors of Election who actually days of registration and the day of election or no sianding or position the community; of them were under Indicment for crime; that contr law, some of them resided out of the ward in an for an election district of which they were appointed and served, and that the Page proportion, of them were men who, at the instance of said William M. Tweed, held piaces of profit in the city or county government, and mainly relied for the aay ort of themselves or those dependent upon them | Mpon pol patronage dispensed or controlled by sald Tweed, That many of said persons wrongfully held said } places, and without giving any equivalent for the compensa ion received by them in’ said positions, and that, at the in stance of ‘weed, a number of the Inspectors of Election were, at the time of their appointment to such office, or a short time prior thereto, placed upon the pay roils of the De- partinent of Public Works and 0} partments of the city or gounty government, Exghth—That the poll clerks in the respective election dis- tricts throughout the said Fourth Senate District were se- lected and appointed with like intent from among the same class of persons as were the inspectors of election as svt forth {n the preceding charge. Ninth—That throughout the said Senate district the places | selected and designated as places of registration and pqjiing places were designediy located in the worst portions of the Tespective election districts, were small and incon- venient of meeting ‘and were wholly unfit for the purpose for which they were selected, by reason of thelr surronndings, thelr inadequate nicans Of Yngress and eeress, and their bad and defretive light, all of which con- tributed to deter and prevent legal voters from visiting the pols screened the ulegal acts of rept juall- ie ot that man: rs and other unq) «1 persons, and rendered trauduient practices on the part ine) of election and poil clerks easy of perpetration idiculs of detection. enth—-That there were registered in the said Fourth Senate district, and in each ward and election district mn sald Benate district’ prior to and for the election of the said 7th day of N vember, 1871, such number of persons pears in the fol- wing Mtatement, which is a copy of a certificate from the | Bureau of Elections, the original of which is in the posses- sion of claimant's counsel :— BUREAU oF mop Crty AND Counry or New Yor, (Brown Stone Building, corner Chambers and Centre sts.), NEw York, Jan. 80, 1872, Mr. Joun I. Davenrort:— yotes reglatered for the election of November 7, 1871, in the Fourth Senatorial District of the city of New York :— Ward, Footer. I ¥ Free, as ape pears by the records of this olllce, Respectfully snbuttted,- JAMES TURNER, Clerk Bureau of Election, ‘That the claimant's counsel has caused the names of reels tered persons upon the copy of the registry books, on file in the office of the County Clerk of the oonuty, of New York, for the districts in which no books were rece!ved at the office of the Bureau of Elections, to be counted, and finds the follow- ing to be the number ‘appears by said copies, viz. — Seventh ward—Third Election distric Seventh ward—Tenth Election disirict Fourteenth ward—Third Election district. Fourteenth ward—Fourth Election district. 348 in the above certifi. ‘iets in said Seventh and ration of the Seventh ward is shown to be 7,542, and of the Fourtecuth ward 4,147, making the total registration 1s said Senate district 82,483. Hivenih That the names of persons applying for regis. tration were not entered by the Inspectors of Klection in the poem? f books as they should have been, but were taken ‘upon slips of loose paper, by which plan errors were liable to occu was afforded, That the names of thousands of persons who Were not entilled to register were knowingly and wrongfully registered by the inspectors in said Senate district; that hun dreds of persons were allowed to and did register in different names, and many times each in the same and in more than one clection district; that the names of hundreds of persons were placed upon the registers by the Inspectors of Elec- tion, no persons bearing said names app. before them or applying for registration, and sald names being purely fictitious or assumed, or the hames of persons dead or other- ‘wise unqualified for registration. Twelfi—That the whole number of votes polled in said Senate district, as returne! and canvassed and declared by the Board of County Canvassersof thé county of New York, ‘was 28,609, divided as follows :. For William M. Tweed. For Jeremiah O'Donovan ios For Anthony Miller. 4 a 220 For Lemuel Bay 258 Blank, 27 cd 10 f, 4779 aim ant. That the following statement is a copy ot # certificate of the Bureau of Elections now in possession of claimant's counsel, and seta forth, district by district, the vote as re- turned, canvassed, estimated and declared TOTAL BY WARDS. Beater Defece Ward. Tired, Rovea. Miller. Banyn Blank, ing. tives be 64 1020 eae 146 21 - - 7 ys Pn, ed =- = a 642219 o— 9 2 1 1454 MR 8 16 8 0a 192 - 8 inf 940 15 — B 993 1,237 w 80 1,331 "63 19 6 Total 18.705 6,927, 2485 258 ‘Total number of ballots canvassed 28,508 Tweed over Konsa.. se i I do hereby certify that within i ue Cop’ the oficial retarn of the votes cast at the election held on the 7th day of November, 1871, in the Fourth Senatorial district of the city of New York, on file in this ofiice. JAS. M. TURNER, Clerk Bureau of Elections. Orrrox OF BUREAU OF ELECTIONS, CITY AND CooNTY oF New York, Feb. 6, 1872. Thirtrnth—That of the nine wards m said Fourth Senate district it apoears by the saia returns that the calmant re- ceived the majority of the votes in the Second and Fifth, and ¢aid Tweed the majority of the votes in the remaining seven wards. Fourteenth—That the claimant alleges and charges that thousands of fraudulent and illegal votes were, on the day Of election, cast in said Senate district tor the said William M. Tweed, and very generally thronghout the whole of said district ; bat deponent especially ch: throughout the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh wards and ina large oumber of election districts in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards. Fifteenth —Thi 8 Of repeaters, led by men who had held or were wolding positions in the pubilo service under said Tweed and his personal and poiltical friends, traversed the greater portion of said Senate district and openly and Tepeatediy voted at the same polling place and in distriet after district for the said William M. d wore aided and abetted tnerein by the Inspectors of Elections. Sixterh—That very generally throughout the sald Senate district, but especially throughout the First, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Fourteenth wards, both upon the day of regis- tration and upon the day of election, the challengers of ihe Tepublican party, duly and lawfully designated to be present At the respective polling places in the sald Fourth Senate dis- trict, were interfered with and molested, their challenges not recognized, tl maclyee nies bi) beaten and in many caape arrested And Imprtoned. | And the lafmant charges nol only the Inspectors of Election, but the police officers and men, allowed, connived at and aided and abetted in 80 treating sild chal h— Thal era, me of the police justices sitting in said rict—-notably Police Justice Dowling—actin, terest and on behalf of sald William M. Tweed, Of the State of New York refused bail for said challengers, in instances releasing them from confinement and custody only upon the explicit promise, forced from them, that they Would not return to the poiling places to which they bad been assigned and from which they had been wrongfully taken. vighteonth--That throughout the day of election fraud, vio~ lence and Intimidation were practiced throughout the’ sald Senate district, but more expecially in the First, Fourth, Sixth and Seven wards, and in portions of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards; that legal voters were coerced into cast- jog their ballots for said William M. Tweed, or deterred from voting for the claimant. That the reception of voles was designediy conducted in such manner as oftentimes to prevent any person from obtaining such pariculars of Dames, persons, challenges and other facts as would enable the claimant to makea full and complete statement of the facts upon which he relies to substantiate hia claims, ‘That bailota bearing the name of the claimant, and presented by electors, were changed by the Inspectors of Kiection and ballots ‘containing the name of sald Tweed substituted therefor and deposited in the ballot boxes; that in instances the ballot boxes were atu el fed with ballots ‘never cast by any that at night, when the canvass of the votes cast red upon, the watchers duly and lawfuily appointed Were driven from the polling places, beaten rested, and in moat of the few districts in which they were allowed to be present they were not per- mitied but were prevented from witnessing tne canvass. ‘That the canvass of votes cast for Senator thronghout sald Benate district, and especially throughout the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh wards, and in many districts in the First, ‘Third, Thirteenth and Fou nth wards, was a shan; that in fact and in jaw in scores of election districts tn sald Senate dis- trict no canvass of the votes was made, the result arrived annonnced and determined being arrived at by corrupt an fraudulent agreements and understandings between the can- vassera—ihe Inspectors of Electien also acting as can- vassera—and no count whatever being bad or made, ‘That the canvass and return of votes, and the estimate and deiaration thereof by the Board of County Canvassers is wholly false and fraudwent, and it In nowise agrees with the facts, while in the greater number of election districts in the naid Senate d'strict the canvass of votes as declared does not and cannot be made to agree with the poll lists. Ninteenth—That since the election, and especiail the assembling of the present Legislature of she New York, the intimidation of electors herein net forth as prevailing in said Senate dist: the election has been continued, to tent does the sooting prevail amot ersonal violence an Leeds ed of Joss of work and injury to usiness, that the claimant has experienced great difficulty in obtaining, even from his {riends, staternenis of facts as to ogeurrences in their Fay hae ‘ection districts on the days of registration and the day of election, aud within their per- sonal Knowledge, or respecting various other material and important matters, that in consequence thereof the claimant fs unable, in a large Dumber of election districta in Senate district, to as specifically set forth his charges as he desires to do and otherwise would do, but the claimant and his counsel are p of & vast mass of information re- speeting the sources from whence facts may be obtained when your honorable committee are able to hold wessions 10 the otiy of New York, which your claimant prays may be at anearly day. That the clainant proceeds to further de is charged by him in various speciiied election districts {1 the several wards in aaid Fourth Senate district, as far ne he can practicably 80 do at this moment, ¥IRST WARD, THIRD ELECTION DIsTRICT. That in this district the canvass, votes is wholly fase and ft yours dectat for Assembly being 181, while the poll list contains the names ‘of 129 persons, every one of whom is shown to Lave voted an Asseindly ticket, ‘That the total number of votes canvassed and returned for Senator Js 120, while the poll book shows 121 persons to have voted the Senatorial ticket. FIPTH ELROTION DISTRICT, ‘That in this district the canvass, return and estimate of votes is wholly false and trandajeat, the toral number of Yotos declared to have been cast for the candidates for the Oflice of Secretary of State being 168, while the poil list con- pares te narnes OF Dut 196 persone young the general tleketj that the jotal number of votew canvi ‘and returned for aince tate of reviously Sre- The following is a statement showing the number of | *, omissions were made, and an opportunity for fraud | istered in eaid election districts, as | 79 | Senator is I hile the poll book shows that but 148 persons Foted whe Souatertal tekee the total number of votes canvassed and revurned for Senator ina, rie the poll iat shows thot but Gab persous voted the 7 THIRD WARD. canvass, resurn and estimate of Totes for Senator 1s’ wholly false and fraudu- t, and the claimant charges that no count was ever made of the votes for Senator; thai the total number of votes can- assed aud retturned for Senator te as follows:— papi Diets » rm ere O° How + SU 108 ‘That the total number of persons registered, as certitied by the Bureau of Elections and shown in the copy of said cer- titteate herein previously set forth, was 300; that the total number of names on the poil list is 320; that the total numver of persona shown by the poll lists to have to voted « Senato- r ticket is 287, FOURTH WARD. FIRST ELECTION DISTRICT. phat, Michael | Suerry, « the person duly appointea y the republican’ party, in accordance with the provisions of section 10, chapter 183 of the Laws of 1870, to act as achallenger in thia election disirict, was not only not protected by the Inspectors of Election and the police iu the performance of his duty, but that when, while discharging bis duty, he was assaulted’ and beaten by nen whose right to vote he honestly doubted, and whom he knew to be voting upon the names of other per sons, sald Lnspectors allowed and permitted sald Sherry to be arrested, and the police oflicers prevent did arrest sald Sherry and keep him away from the polling place during a great portion of neither an In: 1n canvassing t ted so to do ontrary Lo peo: dt April 5, 1870, 8 amended by chapter 672 of the Laws of 19/1, and contrary to the law in such cases made and provided. That the canvass, return xnd estimate of votes is wholly false and fraudulent, the total number of votes declared to have been cast for’ the several candidates for Assembly being 806, while the poll list contains the names of 809 per- sons, every one of whom is shown to have voted an Assem- bly ticket; that the ( yal apmber of votes canvassed and re- turned for Senator Js 287, while the poll book suows 84 per- #on8 to have voted # Senatorial ticks SEOOND ELECTION DISTRICT, That in violation of section 8, chapter 573, Laws of 1871, the Mayor of the city of New York, in redistricting the Fourth Ward, wilfully refused to alter or change the boundaries of this district, but in face of the fact that at the precedin, election the registration therein was 97, and the vote 4¥ allowed the boundaries of said Qistrict to remain the same, ‘That on the days istration but one inspector was present and acted duri eater portion of the time. That the names of fully two hundred persons, not qualliied yoters In suid district, were registered. That the canvass, return and estimate of ‘votes cast therein fs wholly false and fraudulent, and claimant charges that no count was ever mado of the votes cast; that the total number of votes canvassed and eturned for the several candidates for Assembly is as fol- Ws ist. Dunphy Lecashy Rive Tosa, Peace a0: 3 That the fora punter, of voles canvassed and returned for Rossa, Miller, Total. 4 Lj 1 iinber of persons registered, as certified by the Bureau of Elections and suown {n the copy of said cer titleate herein previously set forth, waa 692. That no poll DOOK of votes cast in sald district of the day of election has ever been filed in the ollice of the County Clerk of the county of New York as required by law. That the claimant ts pre- pared atihiethme to thow 138. votes cast in this istrict for him, and Le charges that he received not leas than two hun. dred votes in the district. THIRD ELROTION DIGTRIOT, ‘That the polls in aid district were opened a quarter of an hour before the time designated by law, and a large number of votes were, during said time, received by the Inspectors of Election ; that one of said Inspectors, on several occasions during the day of election, copied names from the registry books, and immediately thereafter leit the polling place and went upon the streets; that on each occasion following Bin return to his post of ‘duty a crowd of repeaters entered, und giving the names of registered persons other } than thelr own, voted thereon by the connivance, aas | and knowledge, and under the protection of said inspectors of election and the police, That the voles of chulienged per- sons were taken by said inspectors, who refused to oiler oF administer to suid persons the oath required by law, That the watcher was not protected in his rights elther uy the auld inspectors or the pollee, and was not allowed to wituess the counting of the baslots. That the ballots in the Seuate box were not canvassed at the time or in the manner required by law, a portion of tae neral ballots Leing canvassed and then lad one side, the mbly ballots then canvassed, the canvass of the remalne der of the general ballots then made, aud then the Senatorial ballots couate’. ‘That the canvass, return and estimate of votes is wholl false and fraudulent, the total number of votes declare: to have been cast for the several canaidates for As sembly being 262, while the poll contains the names of 215 persona voting the Assembly Licket ; that the total number of votes canvassed and returned for Senne tor is 208, while the poll book shows 269 persous to have voted the Senatorial ticket. TOURTH ELECTION DISTRICT. That in this dictrict’ the canvass, return and es- timate of the Senatorial votes 1s false and fraudulent, the total number. of votes declared to have been cast for the several candidates for Senate being 201, While the poll list contains the names of but 239 persons vot ing a Senate ticket. FIFTH ELEOTION DISTRICT. ‘That in this district a person who waa neither ctor of election nor a poll clerk took partia canvassing the ballots cast for Senator, and was permitted #0 to do by the inspect- ors of election contrary to sections 13 and 16 of chapter 188 of the act passed April 5, 1870, as amended chapter 572 ot the of 1871, and contrary to law ia case made ‘and provided. SIXTH ELECTION DISTRICT, ‘That in this district the canvass, return and estimate of the votes cast therein is wholly false and fraudulent, and claimant charges that no count was over made of the votes cast for Senator; that the total number of votes canvassed and re- | turned for Senator is as follows :— i} Dist. Tweed. Rowan, Miller. Total. ecssscsahs re) 13 68 248 ‘That tne total number of person: tered, as certified by the Bureau of Elections and shown in the copy of said certificate herein previously set forth, is but 234, and the total number of names ov the poll list fs but 315, NINT FLEOTION DISTRICT. That in this district the challenger of the republican party driven out of the polling place, at or near the hour of noon, while in the discharge of his duty, and subsequently was arrested and taken before a Poitce Magistrate und de tained for hours. ‘That voters were intimidated, and the designated to watch the canvass was reiused entrance to the polling place, ‘That the canvass, return and estimate of the votes cast therein 1s false and fraudwent, and as showing how said can- vase was conducted, and the accuracy of the count and re- turn, the cialmant ‘cites the fact that the total number Uf votes canvassed and returned for Kegister of the city and county of New York is 247, while the total number of per. # Fegiatered, as certiiied by the Bureau of Elections and shown in the copy of sald certificates herein previously set forth, is but 46, and the toral number of names on the poll Net is but 233, of which only 237 are shown to have voted the “general” ticket. ; TENTH ELECTION DISTRICT, That in this district the canvass, return and estimate of the votes cast therein is wholly false and fraduient, aud Claimant charges that no count of the Senatorial ballots was ever made. That the total number of votes canvassed and returned for the severai candidates for Senator is nal the total number.of persons entered upon the poll list ls 72, of whom 262 aro shown by sald poll list to have voted the Senatorial ticket, TWELFTH EL. ION DISTRICT, ‘That'in this district the inspectors of election took the totai number of votes cast for Senator, as shown by the poil books, and then without counting and by mu'u ave the claimant 28 votes, Anthony Miller 3 vote the remainder (171) to Wiiliam M. Tweed, that In said district he received p number of votes; that the same statement as to the manner of conducting the canvass fa true as to the Assembly box. THIRTEENTH ELEOTION DISTRICT. That in this district the canvass, return and estimate of the votes cast for Senator js faise and” fraudulent, the *toial number of voves declared to have been cast for the several candidates for Senator ve- ing 265, while the poll book shows 268 persous to havo voted the Senatorial ticket. _ #IVTH WARD. THIRD ELECTION DISTRICT, ‘That in this district the number of votes canvassed and returned for the several candidates for Senator is 26, while the poll book shows but 235 persons to have voted the Sena- torial ticket, SIXTH WARD. BROOND ELECTION DISTRICT. ‘That in this district the challenger of the republican party and the person designated by the claimant to watch the count were both driven from the polls; that the challenger Was assaulted, beaten, arrested and detainea in enstody un- til near four o'clock in the afternoon ; that a large number of votes were deposited in said district by repeaters and by per- sons who refused to take the statutory oaths when challenged; that one of the inspectors in said district atufed the Senate ballot box with yotes for William M. Tweed; that the votes cast for Senator were never counted, pnt by mutual consent Of the inspectors the claimant was allowed 34, Anthony Miller 42, and the remainder (30) were fraudulently councéd for Willfam M. Tweed; that the claimant has at this tine knowledge of more than thirty-four persons in who voted for him therein, and he charges that return and estimate of th and fradulent; that the total number of Senatorial vote eanvassed and returned is as follows :— Dit Turd. Rowe. Millers Scattereng. Toll. 3. Ee 5 389) That the total numper of tered upon the poll book is Bertone whose names, were en: ), ut the poll book shows that but 375 voted the Senatorial ticket, ‘THIRD ELECTION DISTRIOT, ‘That tn this district the person designated by the claimant tolwatch the count of the Assembly ballots was wholly pre- vented from seeing the canvass thereof, and the undersigned charges that said canvass was wrongfully and fraudulenuy m ie. FOURT! FLECTION DISTRICT, That in this district during a great portion of the day of election but one inspector was present; and the claimant charges that frand was extensively practised In the reception of votes and in the canvass of ballots. SIXTH ELFOTION DISTRICT. That In tins district both the challenger and the watcher were driven from the poila, the former being assauited, beaten, arrested and detaived in custody uotil about tout o'clock In the afternoon, and the latter being refused admit- tance to the polling place. NINTH ELECTION DISTRICT, That in this district there was no count of the ballots cast erein for Senator, and the claimant charges that the and estimate of votes cast therein as deciared 19 ta fraudulent, That the person designated to watch the canvass was un- able to witness the proceedings in reapect thereto. EIOUTH, TENTH, ELEVENTH, TWELFTH, THIRTEENTH AND FOURTERS SH ELFOTION DISTRIC The claimant, to each of t! charges that the reception of votes and estimate of the ballots 1s wholly ‘raudwent. And as to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Four. teenth districts, the claimant further shows the followin facts, viz. i—That an Inspector of lection in the Fourteen Hlection " district, who, until a very recent an ince the discovery and ‘exposure of frauds and corruption in the civil administration of the local attairs of the chy of New York, held @ position under said William M, Tweed, and was be yn the pay rolls of the Department of Public Works, jary of #100 per month, for which he rendered little if any service—a man whore principal if not gambiing—not on y allowed men in gangs, to be repeaters, to vote in the district in electidn ollicer; upon scores of names not ty ing nis poiling place In charge violation of law-—placed himselt at the head of » gang of re- Beaters, some cizhteen in number, visited with sald gang the ightn,’ Eleventh, ‘Twelfth ‘and Thirteenth Elec. tion districts, and with the connivance of most of the inspectors therein, procured and caused said men to cast from one hundred to one hundred and fifty votes in each of said districts, That when the in- spectora in some of said districts found it impossible to even pretend to look for names upon the registry, Fo fast were the Ave gang offered, their said leader practical n of the poling place by jumping bebing th sevning calling therefrom, in rapid rt jon, the names of gegistered persons ivtng the votes of Lis men upon sald names, and depositing such votes in the ballot-boxes. And the claimant farther shows, that Inthe manner ao de scribed, and in other fraudulent ways, on the day of electi din’ false counting and returning the vote there were returned and declared in the al Of said Sixth ward for said Wililam M. Tweed, as dep, believes and charges, and to eubsiantiare which he ia pre- pared to present much proof, at least one thousand more Votes than were legaily cast in aid district, ‘And the claimant further shows that In the above men- tioned districts the national government, about the 12h day of October, 1870, and again about the Ist of January, 187, took a most thorough and accurate census of she popu on, ®eybopsin of the former and the compleve original details of an which he was an not their own, but leav- pector—itself a one of the regrate the latter of whieh are now in the possesmon of the claim- ant’s counsel, and show tne bags S=io~ + wing a as71 y 1870, Jun. 871. Total population of present Tenth ‘di en 304 Total males natives, naturalized and aliens— ‘twenty-one years of ageand upwards... Total population of present Eleventh ‘distclet ¥ . 1.063 Total males nal naturalized and “aliew wenty years of age and uj Total population of preseut twelfth dis- 1 y' ol age and upwards. . ‘Piel pepalation of present ‘Thirveenth lens—twen- » 459 Dati ty-one years of age and upwards Tole ulation of present Fourteenth a7 Total males—natives, naturalized and aliens- twenty-one years of ave and up’ . 19 And the claimant further shows that it appears by there- turns and declaration of the Board of County Canvassers as certitied by the Bureau of blections, that there were pane Daaid district for the several candidates for the office of Total... ; Total... oad Total ‘popuia'ion male Total maie population, ii and female +1306 and over... f ‘Total registration Total male population, 21 Thirteenth District ‘and over 147 Tweed ‘ Total registration 39 Rossa, Miller... Eleventh District, eed. and over. Total registration. Fourteenth Dik Tweed. and over... 249 Total registration Br Total maie’ population, 21 and over... Total registration. 1870, ‘Total population of above districts...... 5,458 ae a Total wales—natives, naturalized and aliens—twenty- tion district, that fo violation of Laws of I871, the Mayor of tricting the Sixth wi the boundaries of th apter O73, of the York, in’ redis- d, wilfu'ly revused to alter or chango istrict, but in face of the fact that at the preceding election the registration therein was 63 and the vote allowed the boundaries of said district to remain the ‘same; that about one hundred and thirty names were placed upon the registry in this dis- Iwiet “by one of the Jngpectors of election, mo person, asthe clamant charges, bearing any of said names ap- pearing or applying for registration; that the canvass, eatimate and return of votes cast in said district, 1s wholly falne and fraudulent; that the total number of voles canvassed and returned for the reveral candidates for Senator was 430, while the poll book shows that but 429 persons voted the penatorial ticket. And the claimant further shows as to the Tenth Election district that the canvass return und estimate of the votes cast therein is wholly false and fraudulent; that the total number of votes canvassed and returne: for the several can- didates for Senator {# 35, while the poll book shows that but 854 persons voted the Senatorial ticket, ‘Aud the claimant further shows as to the Eleventh Etection district, that the canvass, return and eatimate of the votes cast therein 14 wholly false and frandulent; that the total number of votes canvassed and returned for the several can- didates for Senator ta $44, while the poli book suows that but 883 persons voted the Senatorlal ticket, ‘And the clalmant further shows as to the Twelfth Election district, that aningle gang of eight men entered the polling place { sald district on one of the days of registration and without leaving the room registered thirty-one names, And the claimant further shows as to the Fourteenth Election district, that while the registration tn said district, 8 appears by the recoris of the Bureau of Election, was but 824, the total number of names appvaring on the poll list is nut the total vote for the several candi tates for Senator us canvassed and returned I 375, while the poll book shows but 386 peraons to have voted the Senatorial ticket, That in said district nota vote 4s allowed the claimant, although he 4s now possessed of (acts showing # large number of voles to have been cast for him therein, SLVENTH WARD, it charges specitically as to this ward, that the of votes cast tn each of sald elect ‘raudulent, hat tn each of the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth Tenth, Fourteenth, Beventeenth and Nineteenth ileeavn districts of this ward the claimant is able, at this moment, to produce many moro persons who vowed fur the claimant than there are voves allowed him, That as tothe Fifth Election district the claimant further shows, that by the canvass and return of votes polled it ap- pears that the total number of votes cast for the several can- didates for Senator was 482, while the poll book shows that ch and every elec: turn and n districts was, but 452 persons voted the Senatorial ticket. And the claimant further shows, to the Seventh Elec. tlon district 8, chapter 67: Laws of 1t71, the Mayor of the city of New York, in reais- trieting the Seventh ward, wilfully refused to alter or change the boundaries of this district, but, in face of the fact that at the preceding election the registration therein was 498 and the vote 402, ullowed the boundaries of said district to re- main the same. And the claimant turther shows, as to the Tenth Election district, that by the canvass, estimate and return of votes polied it appears that the total number of votes cast for the feveral candidates for Senator was Ol, while the poll book shows that but 403 persons voted the Senatorial ticket. And the claimant further shows, as to the Thirteenth Kiec- tion district, that, by the canvass, estimate and return of votes polled, it appears that the total number of votes cast for the several candidates for Senator was 459, while the poll book shows but 858 persons voted the Senatorial ticket. And the c.aimant further shows, as to the Sixteenth Elec- tion district, that by the canvass, estimate and return of votes polled, itappears that the total number of votes cast for the several Jates for Senator was 489, while the poll book shows that but 259 persons voted the Senatorial ticket. ‘And the claimant further shows that throughout the whole of suid Seventa ward repeating on a gigantic scale was in- duiged in by large gangs of men; that on the day of election the ticket boxes or bootha of th Imant were overturoed and broken to pleces, his ticket destroyed and his boothmen driven trom the neighborhood of the polls; that the chal- lengers and watchers were aystematically prevented from discharging their duttes, provection denied them, und in i} argli ir duth on denied th id many instances they were assaulted and beaten, THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH WARDS. ‘The claimant charges specitically as to nearly every clec- tion district in each of these wards that the canvass, return and estimate of votes cast in sald election districts was and is false and fraudulent. And referring to the Fourteenth ward, the claimant further shows that in the First, Second, Third and Sixth Election districts. of said ward the number of votes canvassed and returned in each of said districts for the several candidate and is in excess of the total number of tes shown by the poll book in cach of said dia- to have been cast therein. ‘The claimant further shows that {f your honorable com- mittee will visit the clty of New York and take testimony as to the matters and facts herein charged, and make full e: amination concerning the same, the statements herein mado by the claimant will be fully established, and such other new and additional evidences as to the irreguisrities, frand and violence perpetrated m said Fourth Senute dis. trict in the interest of, on behalf of and for the beneiit of said William M, Tweed, will be presented, a8, according to the principles and practices heretofore adopte! by the Senate of the State of New York and law in such case made and provided, will clearly establish the right Of the claimant to’ the seat now claimed by the suid William M. Tweed, from which, while holding the certificate of election, he delioerately abscnts nimselt, and at this inost important and critical moment in the affairs ot the city of ‘New York deprives the people of the Fourth Senate district trom any voice whatsoever as to matters of the most vital importance and serious character. 11 of which 1 pestfully submitted. JEREMIAH O'DONOVAN ROS New York, February 7, 1572. ZWEI LAGER! Defeat of the Jersey “Local Option” Law. The local option measure which, as already ex. plamed in the HERALD, seeks to give majorities in wards and townships the power minorities what they shall not drink in the shape of alcoholic and malt beverages, was before the New Jersey Assembly yesterday in relation to the final pas- sage of the bill before that body relating to Camden county. There was present in Trenton a large force of liquor men, the lager brewing and dealing interests of Newark being generously represented, The morning was taken up with 4 discussion on the subject. The father of the bill, Mr. Bourquin, who, odd to state, is a democrat, urged its passage on the grounds that @ majority of tie people of Camden asked for it. He was in Javor ot the majority ruling in all cases, and the people in Camden should be allowed to settle the temperance question tor themseives. He asked the Tepublicans, a8 they professed to be the party of rogress, te stand by tne bill. He, as a democrat, longing to the party composed ol scalawags in the opinion of the republicans, would ask them to pass the bill because it would not mterfere with any other district, It was a part of their inberitance; THE PRAYERS OF MOTHERS and children wouid go up for them by enforcing the moral principle. Mr. HEMMINGWAY, @ republican, opposed the bill, Maintaining that it would resuil in the mcrease of imtemperauce. He thought he was the best judge of his own physical requirements, The bill Was dise crimmating and in 2 oeettent to ali priacipie of a democratic system of government. ‘After a good deal of discussion 10 @ similar strain, the bill was deieated by a 0 VOTE OF 34 TO 25, All the democrats, except Mr. Bourquin and cleven republicans, voted * 1) Pho “yeas’? were :— Kar ton, Bourquin, Carse, Cavileer, Voreil, Fisher, Lear. ing, Letevre, Leslie, Lutherry, Macknet, McDanoids, Mokiniey, Middleton, Niles, Parker, Rogers, Raton, Schenck, Siivers, Smith, ihompson, Toroet, W aive- car, Wilde—25; ail republicans, except Mr. Bour- quin, of Camden. All tae Hudson county memoers voted in te negative. The galleries were crowded to repletion, and on the announcement of the vote applause burst irom the beer menin the galleries, [t was prompuy stopped, however. It is doubdui if any atvempt 18 made to revive the measure, as the sense of the members seems to be that the laws now on the < Statute book, it enforced, are suMcienuy ample to Testrict to a proper degree the sale or use of tatoxt- cating drinks. ‘The Jersey lager mea are etler- vescent over their victory. MINNESOTA, St. Anthony and Minneapolis Untted Under the Latter Name—Reported Loss of th Canadian surveying Party from Duluth. St. PAUL, Feb, 14, 1872. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Anthony were united under the name of Minneapolis yesterday by a large majority in both cities, ‘The severest storm of wind and snow of the win- ter occurred here on Monday night and lasted tit yesterday. The mercury,remained below zero all day, ‘Ihe velocity of the wind was twenty miles per pe ‘The railroads West of this piace are ali biock- aded. itis feared that the Canadian surveying party, under Colonel McNab, and numoering aoout twenty-five persons, which left Duluua in open boats for the north of Lake Superior, about a montana ago, have perished in some storm, They were last heard from on the 24th of January, making for isle Royal, The lake was fll of ice Sag & storm was 1B prevailing, to dictute to | BOARD ur AUDIT. Meeting of the Board Yesterday—Allowance of Claims of City Departments, Court At- taches, Board of Supervisors and Pay Rolls of Public Works and Markets. er ree Te 6 a ASH WEDNESDAY. : How the Day was Observed in the Catholi and Episco; Churches, While in the busy world of gayety and fashion tha seasons bring found epochs for pleasure and excites A meeting of the Board of Audit was held yestér- | ment, 80, too, the Church seizes 1ts opportunitiesy the public continues to increase at each meeting, ana the police preserve order with the greatest dificulty: Should the crowd of attendants con- | tinue to augment as it has done during tne last few | meetings it will become the duty of the Board to consider whether it will not be better for the Board | to hold its mectings in the Supervisors’ room, | which 18 admirably adapted for the accommodation not only of tne Board bat of the public also. { ‘The Clerk, R, 8, Storrs, read the minutes of the previous meeting, Which were approved. CLAIMS OF DEPARTME The following claims were presented by the Chair: | man of the Boara:— ‘Thomas Canary, sprinkling streets, June 1, to Oc- tober 81... $15,000 00 } wiaaan ArtDantast eit at alles ot Racanian Kiar EEOMrar: from August 1, 1871, to Dec 1 for w dera’ to mittees of the Board of Aldermen for Is71 | Patrick Lysaght, for services rendered SI sioner of Sinking Fund for 1871 1,000 00 Insurance gnd Real kstate Journ. roceedites of Common Council Januaty 7, Apri and May 6, 1871 ie + 405-45 NEW YORK SCHOOL JOURNAL, For 100 copies of calendars for Supreme General Term, ordered by County Clerk, Deceinber 2%, 1871 #140 00 Fifty coples calendar, January Mi, 187: ve 2000 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND COBRRROTION, Tradesmen's bilis .. 10,614 45 Bills tor work performed under contract for ' ‘and material furnishe tp 68,055,45 BUREAU OF SEWERS, Cady and Mr. Lawrence reported to the Board e following persons on the Bureau of Sewers were entitled to be paid: Mr. that James Reilly, Augu #108 00 | Norman McLeod. t 108 0 ‘Thomas Brady, September. Wd 00 John M, Seip, September. . 104 00 Robert Uall, ‘September 104 00 James Reilly 104 10 | John Mabon. 104 00 PAY ROLLS, \ The following py, rolla were presented by the | chairman and latd over under the ruie:— | Attendants at the Court of General Sessions, quar- | ter ending December 31, 1871. ‘ + $10,728 8 | Officers of, Bopgtior Court, quarter ending Decem- | cember 3 Tose ese, se eees 8,687 09 | Omficers of Gourt ot Common Pleas, quarter ond } December 31, 1571, me 9,814 62 | Officers and Clerks of Marine Court, quarter ending December 31, 1871 .. - 14,922 49 | A. Oakey Hail, salary ‘as Mayor, montis of Sep- tember, October, November and December, 15/1 16,665 68 Clerks, Interpreter aud Stenographer of Court of quarter end General Sessions, ing December 31, 7 ; 4,250 00 Novem | ec Pay Roll Commissioners of ~ tober. « 16,424 89. Novembe! Vi041 97 | Decembe: } Repairing and preserving records in County Clerk oitica, September, VET. «+s000. ; City Julige's oitice, September to December ist 8, Dore ons, Novernt Surrogates ofice, September Bvrrogate’s ottice, October. Surrogate’s oflice, November. Surrogate’s office, December. . Clerks of Board 5 Clerks of Board Supervisors, Uctober, Clerks of Board Supervisors, November, 18% Clerks of Board Supervisors, December, 1871 Clerks or Supreme Court, quarier ending De ber 81, I8iL....0-.... Bureau of county otilcers Bureau of couniy ollicers. Jas, B, Sheridan, stenographer, Sept. to Dec John J. Cummins, steno, rapher, Sept. to De J. L, Biondell, stenographer, Sept, to Dec., 1371 J; H, Powell, stenographer, Bept. to Dec..'1b71 Kobert Macklin, sten ¢ Robert Borrynge, ster A. ¥, Warburton, atenographur, Sept. to Physictan to county jail, Sept. to Lec. 31. COURT PAY ROLLS, That the following 5,209 00 A,SHO 83. rolls saiaries and wages for quarter ending January 31, 1871, as follows, be audited and allowe Clerks of Supreme Court Clerks of Court of Com special Resolved, pay for sions ottice Janitors, cleaners, & Board of Snvervisor Legal adviser to Bourd MARKET Ud 00 PAY ROLLS. The pay rolls for September to December of Sweepers and cartmen tor cleansing al Moving garbage from the public markets were oi red to be examued by the Finance Departinent. They were audited and allowed:—For September, 66; October, $2,130 44; November, $1,961 0: Decem- ber, $1,925 37, Total, $8,351 48, SCAVENGER CLAIMS. A resolution was peer ordering the payment of 50 to Middleton Ball, for removal of night soil, VIRE DEPARTMENT. The pay rolls of the Fire Department, ordering the payment of the salaries of the clerks and Com- Missioners Was agreed to, amouuting to $6,941 54. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, The pay rolis of the employes in the above De- artinent were ordered to be paid, amounting to R580 ade A LIVELY PROTEST, The following protest was read and ordered to be placed on the minute: New Yorx, Feb, 10, 1872. Drar Sm—Cn account of the salary lists for the oflicers | of Public Works, which will be proved soon by the Board of | Auait, I take the liberty, as a taxpayer, to protest a any payment that will be given to Mr. Charles Claney. Super- jntendent of Iucumbrances, in the Department of Public Works, becanse ‘aney is. very corrupt and lying ofl- | cer, and also adisyrace to the city government, Any pay ment to hin is injustice to the Corporation. I wlil be very glad to prove it before the Board of Audit at any tin ‘Yo oblige, WREDERIOK Ki $8 Third str The Board adjourned until Saturday, at three o'clock, UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS. The Grand Farade on Whshingten’s Birth- day—Programme of the Procession—An Im- postox Turnout Expected. ‘The order of United American Mechantcs of this and adjacent cliies have made preparations for a graud parade on Washington's pirthday. It 1 expected that councils from the various towns and cities of New Jersey and Philadelphia will unite with their New York brethren in making this the finest parade of the order in this country. A pretiminary parade will take piece in Hoboken and Jersey City. ‘the following circular from the Committee of Arrange- ments will give an idea of we programame:— ‘Tne committee have altered the route of the procession, as follows (thereby making {t miteh shorter) -— Place of formation—Park place, Murray and Warren streets, around the Park, in at east gate and out at wi up Broadway to Fourteeuth street, thenee to Fifth avenw up Fifth avenue to Twenty-third street, thence to Fourth ave- nue, down Fourth avenue to Union square and around Wash | ington Monument; then be reviewed by the Committee of Arrangements, in connection with Natioual and the different State Conpcil officers, and dismiss. The headquarters of the Committee of Arrangements and the Marshals will be at the Astor House, from nine o'clock | | A.M. until the parade starts, at hall-past twelve o’clock on that day. | “"You will also inform the Secretary if you will have music or not, and by what route you wil come and time ot arrival here, "Oue of the committeo or marshals will meet you on arrival, If you know of any Council not receiving this no tice please inform Secretary. Each Counc wil appoint two marshals to take charge of ir Councils on day of parade. tae Rew Vork city, Broosiyn and Staten Island Councils ‘will form themselves at their couneil rooms in time to ceed to the place of formation and be there at time se ast eleven o'clock A. M., on Warren street, right reating on roadway, where the marshals will place you In line of march. You will proceed there aa best suits you; but where any number ef nei's join together to march there you will please notify the Secretary, ao that we can detail an aid to escort you. ‘ The New Jersey and Pennsylvania Councils will take train aariy enough to reach Jersey Ulty or Hoboken between ning and balf-pastten o'clock A, M., where they will be met oy Hoboken and Jersey City Counefis, also by the cormittes or marsbnis, when you wil! proceed to the place ot formation at Park piace and Murray street. ‘The following colored sashes will designate the rank of marabals, &c. i= he Grand Marsbal, red sash; Assistant Grand Marshal, sash; Deputy Marshal, blue saan; Aids, white sash. Committee of Arrangements—President’ and Vice President, red silk sashes and white badge; Secretary and Treasurer, white silk sashes and white badge; members of commutes, blue silk sashes and white badge. ‘The National and the different State Couneil officers will meet at the pariors of the committee, in the Astor i1ouse, New York city, between eleven and twelve o'clock A. M. Any further ‘information required will be furnisued by the Secretary, Yours fraternally, » Re in Hy T, and 8, ‘ AUGHAN, President of the Committee. Secretary of Commiites, No. 8 Col w York city, 1. WATERBURY. Vice President. Witttam H. MATHER, Treasurer. The officers selected to participate in the demon- stration are:— ‘ 3 Grand Marshal, ©. De Garela, of New York; Grand Assistant Marshal, George W. White, Jr., of New Jersey; Deputy Marshals, L, Freeland, J. B. Grant, George Beebe, of New York; Reserves, Jonn W, warver, Jauwes Marshall, A. DeBevoise and B. Van | Riper, THE OAR THIEVES. To Tne Eprror or Tuk HERALD:—~ On my way to the Academy of Music on Tuesday, ata quarter to eignt P. M., I mounted a street car, crowded, a3 usual, opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Vhe rear’ platform was crowded with five or six men, who jostlea and hustled the bassengers as they eutered or camg out. Women and children had the greatest tty in getting through Uns mod of roughs, and the conductor appeared or unable to enforce order. With somo | following was | Ings that filled tt | penance and the holy ecucharist. | mass every morning at five o'clock, at waich a ser- 1. day in the Comptroller's oMoe The attendance of | and commemorates important events and continued the practice of customs which have come down ta us hallowed by the observance of centuries. Among these customs none date farther back than the obe servanive of Ash Wednesday. From the very earliest times the Lenten season has been one of mourning and penitence, ana the Church, assuming its most solemn vesture, shows how it Would exhibit to the faithful the spirit it would inculcate, From first to last of the seasom the most sombre and sad exterior is put on, and all | chants, prayers and ceremonies are expressive of the penitential time. Beginning with reminding the people of their origin in and their final returm to ashes, it continues aay alier day to prepara more eurhesily tor the commemoration of tie Mnak sorrows of the Saviour and of tls death for man, introducing in the ceremonies attendant upon the latter a grandeur of solemn, sad and inspiring: prayer, most beautiful and pathetic, In this country, wherever Catholicity flourishes, the priests of the Catholic Church lose no opportus nity to ceiebrate fiuingty and with the most ape proved rubrical precision special feasts or com- memoration: But on yesterday, in tue charches im tL there was nothing to mark 1 any strixing, » character of a festival UPON the servicedy, the ceremonies being of the yery sunplest heathy ton, In every church low mass Was sit at @ very carly hour, and, before the mass, the ce ung priest blessed = tha asres with incense and holy water. At the’ conclusion of the mass the faithful came up and > knelt around the altar rails, the — priest ; tien golag to each one, marking the fore; head with the ashes in the siga of the cross, aud while doing so uttering the word: “Memento homo quid pulvus es, et tr pulveren reverteris.” This ceremony was continued at each! of the masses. There was oO music at auy service Itis supposed that the ashes used im the ce | mony were wade from the paling biessed on Painy Sunday. The Episcopal Church also held spectal services yesterday to usher in the forly days fast, Unltkal ‘the Catholic Church, however, the Episcopal Charciy does not make it obligatory on its members to mot tify the body, but leaves to each individual’s ple: ure the amount of tasting to be done. Im ever; Episcopal churen tn the city yesterday special mor! Ing or evenins services were held, eloquent sermon! Sppropriate to the day being 1 many instances di vered. In Trinity church, at eleven o'clock A. M,, ther Was @ (ull choral service, the sermon being preached by Rev, Dr. Ogilby. ne programme was as fol lows:—Processivual Psalia 130; Vente, exghth tone Psalter—Psalins 6, 32, 38: Benedictus, first tone: « Apostics; Anthem, “Lord, tor Tby Tendet Merey's Sake” (favrant); Kyrie, piam song; Hymna, 78; alter sermon, sali 61; Sanctus, plain son flymn 160, verses 1, 2; Recessional, Psalm 77, At three o’clock P, M. another service was held, th programme bvemg—Processional, Psalm 5; Psalms 143; Bonu est, chant; Deus misereatur; I Al, Paalin 77, t. Paul's church, at the morning service, ther rector, the Key. Dr. Morgan Dix, preached, That the musical programme:-—DBenes dicite, Instead of Te Deum; intrott, “end yous hearts and pot your garments; the Miserere, Psainy In the eventug, at ergnt o'clock, a service Wad aigo held im tis church and a sermon preached, WEDNESDAY IN BROOKLY! Opening of n Great Catholic Mission at St. Mary’s Church—Sermon by Kev. Fathed Danton. The season of Lent, opening with Ash Wednese day, was Jtngly observed ia Brooklyn yesterday by the Catholic portion of that community, Th@ attendance at the several churches was very numere ous, and the blessed ashes on the foreheads of mang thousands of the fattiful attested their meritorloug compliance with that beautiful custom which ree minds man that he is ‘but dust and unto dust h@ shall return.” by keeping death constantly before the mina the Christan is reminded of as necessity of being at all times prepared may the penaily of humanity and to keepl hitnselt In spiritual condition vefituing that dread. ful summons before the bar of Divine justice. Th season of sackcloth and aslies, of prayer, lasting, | almsgiving and olner quod Works, Was commence: Mm a spiric replete with a promise of a plenitude of these graces, which alone descend upon the since! who seek for merey and forgiveness. At the Church, of St. Mary, Star of the sea, of which Rev. Eugene! Cassidy 1s pastor, the services were yesterday of am unusually impressive and devottoa-inspiring order. ‘The occasion was t! ORMENT OF A GRAND MISSION thers, men of erudition and learned, eloquence, men whose education aad sell-sacrificing) lives attest the siucerity of their labors tn the vine= Jesus Christ. This’ yard of our Lord and Master, noble band, under the leadersnip of the distinguished Father Damon, are now fairly’ at work in bringing to a sense off their duty to God the hard-bearied and Obes: durate people of Brookiya, who have long) wandered from the patt of virtue and religion oug) upon the lighway of sin and enormities against, God. High mass was celebrated at this church byt the venerable pastor, assisted by a deacon and subst | deacon, at nine o’ciock in the morning, Alter the gospel feather Damon, attired im the black gown, girdle, rosary and cructiix or the order, ascended tha, puipit in presence of @ Compact imaas of Raman bes pews and aisies to repietion, aad t | preached on the parable of the prodigal son, PHE RULES of the mission require that persons should hear two sermons dady and approach the sacraments of ‘here will bo mou will be preach ‘There wili be @ sermon ag half-past cighe o'clock masa, ai three o’clock every afternoon and at hall-past seven o'clock ech eve. ing. The evening services are specially for mea and women whose employment during the day pres cludes their atiendance, Old ladies and chilaren are requested to remain at home wi the evenings, so as not to occupy the spar which, will be required tn the charch for person’ who catis: nob avail themselves of the half-past eight o’clociki A. M. and three o’ciock P, M, exercises. Op Fridays evening there will be @ controversional sermon, upon the necessity of confession, as estaviisned by: God. Front seats in the main aisle will be reserv for the use of Protestants, as |. e missioners aatnat | ably make numerous converts to Catholicity durin 4 they’ sojourn, ‘The tmaissionary fathers wil hear; ly, and will be assisted by several ssiun, Which 13 ior all Carisuans, until next Sunday week, priests. will be contunu STATE HOMBOPATHIC SOCIETY, The New York Association in Session—Sceke ing to Build a Homeopathic Asylum—Dise sing the Subject of Vaccination, ALBANY, Feb. 14, 1872. At the meeting or ihe State Vomnweopatnic Medieal Society to-day the following among otner officers; were elected:—President, TH. A. Houghton, Keesee vilie; First Vice President, Charles Sumner, Ro» chester; Second Vice President, H. L. Hutchins, Batavia; Third Vice Presideat, G. L. Gifford, Hamile ton; Recording sec: ry, i ML Paine, Albanys Corresponding Secretary, FE. D. Jones, Albany; ‘Treasurer, Dr, H. Hunting, Albany. ‘A resoluiion was adopted recommending ahom«te opatiic asylum for the insane to the Legtsiature for, an appropriation. Dr. WALDO called up the subject of vaccination, which was under discussion yesterday, and, after @ fulland free inierchange of views, the loilowing, resolution was adopted:— Resolved, That in view of the fact that Dr. H. Martin, of] Botton {Hithiands, has devoted his time and energies to the propagation of animal vaceine, that this Society eudorses, &nd approves of vaccine virus as furnished by him. The adoption of this resolntion signified that thet Society repudiated the use of humanized virus fom, vaccination Bingodantion was assigned as the place for holde ing the vext annual meeting. The Ume of the meeting will be announced hereaiter vy the Ke- cording Secretary. GRAND DIVISION OF THE SONS OF TEMPER. ANCE, Poveuxrepsix, N. Ys, Ped, 14, 1872, The quarterly se-sion of the Grand Diviston of the Sons of Temperance of Eastern New York, come prising twenty-five counties, was heid here to-day, J. W. Harcourt, G. W. P., presiding, Who re} ; anincrease of membership since last meeting; also that in Albany, Schoharie, Saratoga and Washing- ton counlies ine Order is weak, He stated that the: reports froin the colored divisions were pot fatters ing, all being in @ sickly condition, He called the atrention of tue members to the temperance laws now pending in the Legistature, and urged the fore warding of peutions without delay. Grand Scribe B. Il, Hopkins reported 333 divi-+ sions In existence in the twenty-five counties, with a membership of 13,671 mates and 6,433 femal and twenty colored organizations, with a member~ ship of ¢ ne largest division in the United States Is No, 9, of the cliy of Poughkeepme, has a memversiup of 611. In the general fund the Grand Division there are $1,233 69; in the pugation fund,” $555 75; total, $1,704 44 Although the weather to-day was quite stormy, @ goodly humber or delegates were present from all parts of the State. THE NEWARK SEWER SWINDLE, Captain MeLear, the late inspector of the sewer try Walnut street, Newark, states that he was never offered a cent by Mr. Carlin, the contractor on tha = unwilling trouvle i] forced @ way through them, but at the joor of the opera house found myseif miuus & pocketnook with money and other papers in ite hese feilows | now believe were an orvanizod body of pickpockets working under the sam of inebria~ tion, and the cover of darkness, An overcrowded strees car, expecially at nigh, a corsaialy aspiendid field for their manwuvres. y i STRANGER, sald sewer. He 18 satisfied the work was honestly performed, and that every doliar received from we city by him aad Mr. Carlin was ‘fatthfally earned’? ‘The people of Newark are quite willing to su! { judgment in this and other kindred matters ull 0 meeting of the next Grand Jury, which t expecte to foliow the eXampie set by the Grand Jury Hudson county,