The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1872, Page 5

THE COALITION CANDIDATES. Grand Ratification Meeting of Liberals and Democrats at Tammany Hall. ENDORSING THE STATE AND CITY TICKETS, Kernan and Lawrence Enthu- siastically Accepted. Speeches by Francis Kernan, Abraham B. Lawrence, James Brooks and Others, THE OUTSIDE MEETING. The Federal Usurpations Denounced. Cheering News for the Liberals from the Country. ‘There were about two thousand persons assem- vied in front of Tammany Hall last night to witness ‘and hear the proceedings of the democratic and liberal republican ratification meeting announced for that time and place. The gtreets were very muddy, the street cars and other methods of Jocomotion have been for days somewhat insumM- cient, there were no fireworks or other extraneous methods of attraction, and there had been an un- asually limited amount of advertising and “billing” for the occasion, and these drawbacks may Ihave affected the success of the meeting. At , @ny rate, the crowd on the street was mot the overflowing, noisy, full-of-ight crowd that Tammany has prided herself on getting together im former times. The people on the sidewalks lis- “tened too decorously to put much enthusiasm into the souls that have been tried by the October times, but for the purpose of a ratification meeting, such things being considered necessary endorse- ments to the promissory notes of the nominating convention, the sign-manual of Tammany and the liberal republicans may be said to have been un- mistakably scrawled across the face of the nomina- tions. In front of Tammany Hall two platforms, lavishly decorated with flags and blue and gold bunting, Were erected, and above them hung rows of Chinese lanterns, with the faces of Greeley and Brown dimly illuminated by the flickering lights Within. From these platforms, which were more profusely filled with policemen than citizens, a distinguished lot of local politicians spoke to the people. Arather disagreeable wind prevailed at the time, and it was somewhat difficult to talk, but mot much more so on that account than by reason of the lack of a fiery, impulsive, enthusiastic crowd to talk to, The speaking outside ceased about half-past nine. Inside the hall and gallery were well filled, all the seats being taken, and the assemblage fringing. pretty thickly the edges beyond, where there was standing room only. There were half a dozen ‘women in the front, who seemed astonished at find- ing no other women there, and a familiar tinge of the Tammany complexion among the hard-looking cases standing in the aisles. But, taken as a whole, there was much more of the gfay-headed solidity of New York in the seats, the gold-headed cane and blue-coat-brass-button gentlemen of the old Jeffer- sonian democratic school, than Tammany probably has been enabled to assemble at her ratification mestings since the days of William L. Marcy. Here, while the decorous element prevailed beyond the average experience of Tammany, there was Qo lack of noise or enthusiasm, The cheers that were given were full of a hearty will, and the at- tention given to the speakers was close and evi- flently interested. When the names of Greeley, ernan'and Lawrence were mentioned the shouts were of the real hot-blooded kind, and hats and handkerchiefs were waved as & supplemental testi- monial to the favor in which these names were held. When the names of Commissioner Daven- port, Hartranft and Simon Cameron occurred in the body of the speeches the hisses were loud and venomous, and on each occasion drowned the speaker's voice. On the platform were Samuel J. Tilden, with his queer pointed chin, chewing something with im- mense satisfaction as he surveyed the crowd; Grand Sachem Schell, grand, gloomy and peculiar, gazing with vacant stare upon the crowd as though he were gazing into the returns of next November; John Kelly, bright and active, his gray- mixed beard and sharp eyes turning about con- tinually, in commendation of the good points of the speakers; Abraham R. Lawrence, compact and handsome, his face and form perhaps his happiest canvassers; Geueral Spinola, with his all-envelop- ing shirt collar; Abraham Hewett, Daniel F. Tie- mann, Henry Woltman and D. C. Birdsall. The meeting was opened by the nomination by John Kelly of Daniel F. Tiemann as presiding ofi- ces. The nomination was received by acclamation: Mr. TIEMANN said that it was now about eighteen years since he presided at a meeting of Tammany Hall. As it is about that time since Tammany elected honest men, he was there again, as they had now begun to do what they did then. Mr. ALFRED T. ACKETT read @ list ot Vice Presi- dente. ABBAM 8S, HEWETT then read the following reso- lutions, after which he referred to a visit of a Special deputy marshal to his house, Le ge | as to the number of persons resident there! in, and to the usual acts of impertinence committed .recently by these ofticials. He said that Mr. Davenport could arrest him ifhe chose for what he had told one of his minions :— Resolved, That we, aecopt and afirm tne platform of Principles proclaimed at Cincinnati and adopted by the jational Democratic Republican Convention at Bait more, and will cordially support the candidates nomi- nated thereon, Horace Greeley for President, and B. Gratz Brown jor Vice President, as men ot principle and proa- Fess, who by their lives have proven themselves to be in sympathy with the democratic spirit of the aze, which recognizes and demands equal rights for all ‘clas-es and conditions of men, without regard to birth, race, residence or party, and is unalterably opposed’ to all military, aristocratic and centralizing encroachments upon the rights of the individual cltizen, purchased by ¢ blood of our forefathers in the Revolution and main- tained by the great democratic party from the time of Jefferson to the present day, when an unscrupulous ad- ministration, ior the first time in the national hist seeks to arrogate to itself the power to invade the sanc! ‘of homes, to extablish an inquisition in the tamily cir and to deprive the municipalities and the States of hts of focal selt-government. solved, That we proclaim our warm approval of the candidates presented by the Democratic and Liberal Republican Ucnvention for State officers; that in Francis Kernan all good citizens can repose absolute confidence, as a man eminently qualified by natural endowments and thorough trainin tor the highest office in the State, ranking in his protession among the first members of the bar, beloved by his neighbors for the purity and rectitude of hi e life, tested by a large and honorable e: rienee public office, or tried patriotism in national ril, of warm and gen- | erous sympathy with the ’ victims of political Oppression xt home and abroad. of untiring energy in performance of duty, and above all so clearly op- posed to corruption in any form, that the people may be sure of the whole power of the State berg used to secure the punishment of the corrupt men who have plundered the public funds, and to compel them to disgorge their ill- gotten gains. We also cordially endorse the other nomi- Hations upon the State ticket, Chauncey M. Depew tor Lieutenant Governor, Samuel 5. Cox tor Member of Con- Gress at large, of Etios C. Brooks for State Prison In- spector, of John F. Hubbard, Jr., tor Canal Commissioncr, as men Who have been repeatedly tried in public offic and never found wanting in «bility, high sense of duty, and faithful service to the interests and rights of the people. Resoived, That the Key-note in the ‘and generation is the thorough ret n of abuses which have crept into munteipal as well into national yov- wnment during the civil trom which the nation oeen so happily delivered. that the democratic and Mberal repubiican parties stand pledged, as well by their declaration of principles as every dictate of Jag: , to persevere in the sacred duty of driving irom power all incompetent and dishonest officials, whether they call themselves democrats or republicans; of restoring the public finances to a healthy condition, and of limiting taxation to just and reasonable objects of expenditure, for the purposes and according to the meth- ods contemplated by the Constitution of the United States and of the State of New York; and that our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to Mr. Samuel J. Tilden tor the noble work of reform which he initiated, and which he was enabied to carry into effect from his sition as chairman of the State Lemocratic Committee, the aid ot Kernan, Seymour and other patriotic men throughout the State, whereby the government of this city was rescued from the disgrace into which it had fallen, and from the tnenvial rule whic, was impend- ing, and this ancient hail in which we are assembled, fancy of tne enprine(pied poltdcal eaventurers elo hal ands of the cipled political adventurers who had fan the past glories of the demecratic party to olitios of our day achemes for the plunder of the public treasury. ved, That the work of reform thi oa Ty as lectende ere al hana te must be , didate NuW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ui £4 : i a ae a a Fy = 4 Bf # ghee apt ey 2 icenlde £352 sese0s ice reat office of Chief pleted, 4 to exactions and such needed im- es" will advance the prosperity metropo! Resolved, That we deem it a matter of the deepest pub- lie concern to secure an hot administration of justice, without which all private enterprise is in vain, and all 00d kéry: that following yy the nominating the candidates so nominated to be eminently it, in point of learning, rectitude, experience and love of justice, for the important positions for which bags been respectively named :— Sustice of the urt—William H, Leonard. Por Judge fine ‘Superior Court ©. 8 ‘ames C. cer. For City Ji inning 8. Bedford. For District harles Donohue. Resolved, That the candidate for Coroner, Henry Wolt- man, has a record of public service and private character which entitles him to general confidence, and that his nomination is hereby ratified. Resolved, That the ticket nominated for Aldermen is hereby ratified and recommended to public approval and support, as com) of men who in their several locali- ties have commended themselves to the good opinion of their neighbors and are believed to be capable of dis- charging with fidelity and ability the responsible duties of legislation for the city government :— George P. Bradford. Patrick Lysaght Jeremiah Kennefick, ¢ Robi ea,” orge W. Plunkitt, Edward Gilon, Robert McCafferty, Richard Flanagan, Thomas Shells, William Salmon, Frederick Zimmer, Nicholas Seger, John Reilly, James Me: William T. Ashman, Resolved, That we denounce all corrupt bargains be- tween political organizations, whereby the public good is ut in peril for individual profit, or to gratily unscrupu- Yous Dersonal ambition; ‘and that we pledge ourselyes, as the only organization in this city which is in em thy with the domocratic party of the State and of to adhere firm! th inion, rn principles of political justice which have driven from Tammany Hall the men who ve its fair fame, und now, under the leadership of their former ally and present candidate for Mayor, aro strtt es inaugurate a war ot ¢! 88 uns! e foundations of social order, and as the inevitable result of his success _ restore the reign of fraud and corruption from which we have so recently been emancipated. SPEECH OF MR, KERNAN. Mr. FRANCIS KRENAN was received with tre- mendous cheering. He said:—It gives me great pleasure to meet you to-night. Only five weeks ago I had the pleasure of bobs | with you in this hall, and we then opposed the platform of princi- ples of the Cincinnati and Baltimore Conventions, and we ratified these nominations, Since that time, in accordance with your wishes of that committee, I have been speaking daily in the cities and towns west of Albany and on the northern and southern boundaries of this State. It gives me eat pleasure in giving to you evidences of their determination to reak down this great administration ring. The meetings have been held in large numbers and there has been a great manifestation of enthusiasm. Never before have I seen it so marked as on this occasion. The at mass of the democratic party are earnest and determined in the election of the liberal republican candidates, and it shall not be their fault if they are not elected. I have also addressed meeti in the large republican counties of the interior of the State, a eee. body of earnest men and how greatly mistaken they were on the election of Grant, and that they will, with their democratic brethren, vote for Greeley and Brown. We are profoundly meee that the administra- tion of General Grant has failed to do its duty. The democrats and the republicans of the interior send greeting to you that we shall have a restoration of local self-government in this State. This great reform party says that we cannot afford to have the ten States of this Union made bankrupt. This administration is so cor- rupt that it has wh regardiess of the wish of the people. am gratified to find that there is aroused wherever I have been the old fashioned notions of the duty of the Governor of the people, Heis bound by the office he holds to give to the people equal rights, equal protection, whosoever he may be, in the commonwealth. Fe)- low citizens, you must al) know that this admunis- tration has used its power takeep down trodden the main part of the white population of the South. We learn that the government of the ten States was so corrupt that despite ef its power it could not carry Georgia. Now throughout the interior States the ‘great muss of the democracy are determined to support Greeley and Brown. Your republican government, when administered with ability, is the strongest government in the world, and it can resist the world in arms. (Cheers.) Let it be Sa and it is the weakest government in the world. If you would have prosperity and peace among your people you should not turn out the men who have been faithful to. their trust in the government. The man who attempts this will be denounced, but it be with Charles Sumner—(cheers)—with Trumbuli— (cheers) — with Carl hurz— (cheers)—and men like them. Why the, administratian will par- don men out of State prison to give their creatures who aspire for office a good chance. When you do your duty in electing honest men you willleave the record W: ea children that those were the men who did their duty for their country’s good. Iam not inclined to follow the advice of the Bour- bon democrats, and say that Horace Greeley is an honest man, at any rate. If he has said many hard and unjust things you know that he has, time and again, repudiated in his own paper, a party paper, any man of his party, either at Albany or in Congress, who has been found to be corrupt, and who was using his office for personal ends. We are to watch, we are to stop the power of this administration, to enable men to possess the full privilege of exercising their _privi- lages. When Germany, that liberty-loving people, made an _ effort for liberty, Horace Greeley was ever ready by voice and pen to support the struggling millions and to beat down the aris- tocracy. When the Irish people endeavored to ob- tain a voice in the government of their own affairs the pen and voice of Horace Neh) was on their side. Horace ies was on the side of all these people, living in whichever part of the globe the: may. is whole life has shown that, if elected, we shall have an administration that shall give liberty to the people. The story of the misgovernment of the South read by any disinterested man without regard to party would be enough to show that the present govern- ment should be deposed. I appeal to the love of Sees. for the government of this country, which has its glory in the civil and religious liberty to every citizen, to give his vote in favor of honesty and uncorrupt practices and vote for Greeley aud Brown. (Loud cheers.) Why, where are we now? Vhy, it s attempted to crush out the virtue of the ballot box. 1s there an honest re- publican or democrat who believes that there was an incorrupt eiection in Pennsylvania? (No! no!”’) Why, by the power of corruption liberty was over- thrown in its very citadel, as it were. In this city of New York, let it be understood that if any man has committed any wrong here there must bea @ proper authority obtained previous to his arrest. if i am_ arrested for crime I am entitled to @ speedy examination. Yet I learn that Mr. Heinrich, one of your own citizens, was arrested, and on his counsel asking for a speedy trial, What was the answer of this man Davenport ? Listen to it, you men of New York:—‘Let me say that I shall give the time to this trial that can Spare.’’ Will you submit to this’ Ifyou will, it is a gross, shameful invasion of your rights. Cheers.) What will they not do if they io this in your own city of New York’ The man who sells his vote sells the right of his neighbor. The time has come when honest men must stand around the ballot box and stop corrup- tion or we must give uD this glorious Republic. it will be overthrown if the citizens can be debauched by money to cast their votes. Mr. Kernan closed by urging the voting of the entire ticket, so that x. | they might win or be beaten together. That ticket meant reform and the giving of joy to all honest men, (Loud applause.) MR. LAWRENCE'S SPEECH. Mr, ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, on coming forward to address the Hai | was loudly applauded. He said that aiter the able and exhaustive speech of their candidate jor Governor on State and national issues he could not say much; but as he was candidate for @ Clete pe office he wished to sti to them, as he had said before on other occasions, that he supported Horace Greeley for President. (Cheers, and a Voice—“Jemmy O'Brien will not say that.) ‘They had heard much said about the evils of the city government, which, he believed, arose from too much special legislation. Act after act had been passed, and when the special pleader sat down to examine them he found it hard to un- derstand them. What he desired, was that when a man tn office wanted to know what his duties were he should be able to find it in the charter without going to any other source, If they reduced the law to a simple code the city of New York could take care of herself and go on and prosper. (Cheers.) Mr. Kernan and the gentleman who read the resolutions said that they would resist the unjust intrusion of federal officers, and if he was elected Mayor of New York he would, as far as in him lay, resist all unjust a; ssions upon the liberty of the people. Ci eers.) If they stood by him he would stand by them. (Cheers.) There Was a body in the city which sought to be a reform body, but which was formed of nine-tenths of Grant republicans, who never endorsed any genuine retormer. The men who professed non- partisanship endorsed Grant republicans; but this bubble would he burst on the Cheers.) Mr. Lawrence con- cluded by saying:—‘Asking you for your support as the only democratic and liberal republican can- for the ofMice of Mayor of this city. I will 5th. of November. ‘nominating a ticket in that way, ask you toexcnse me from any further remarks this evening, as I have been talking @ good deal of late.” (Cheers.) ADDRESS OF MR. JAMES BROOKS. Mr. James Brooks cam action of Commissioner Davenport and said he gave notice from that eifone that if any person at- tempted to invade his domicile he w see it out a of the poorest man in no date, Tonia to doso, Yet what had they he case of at the miller at Potsdam. The miller’s windmill Bone Nt re it Frederick haa *not dared tonvade. 16m vade miller’s lye! had not dared to do what Davenport had done to one of their fellow citizens, (Immense cheering.) They were not to be terrified by federal threats. (Cheers.) The ballot, not the bullet, was the remedy—(cheers)—and they would use that remedy effectually on the 6th of November. (Cheers.) SPEECH OF MR. ISAAC H. HUNTER. Mr. Isaac H. HUNTER (colored) was the next speaker, it must be apparent to every man present that Ulysses 8. Grant did not own every person of African blood m the United States—(cheers)—and on the 5th of November it Would be seen it a large proj ion of the col- ored People sympathized with the citizens of the North their effort to remove Grant from wer that he had so _badl used in kee) @ government of soalawans | carpet-baggers over the Southern States, ( rs.) Grant, in order to perpetuate his power, had at- tempted to annex St. Domingo, but thro the efforts of Uharies Sumner that scheme had been defeated. (Cheers.) Georgia and Virginia would not ages Grant, and many of the black people, North and South, would vote for their old frien and true statesman, Horace Greeley. (Cheers.) Though Gating guns might be brought around the polls on the 5th of November by federal authorities, they would cast their votes for the whole liberal and@ democratic ticket—for Horace Greeley, Francis Kernan and A. R. Law- rence—(cheers)—and on the 4th of March they would go to Washington to welcome the old white hat to the White House. (Greatcheers.) On that day they would know no North, no South, no East, no West, but the only question then would be, “Were you an American citizen.” (Cheers.) Gen- eral Grant had said during the last four years “Let us have peace,” but the only way he had illus- trated it, as far as the speaker could see, was by bn ates ia ona piece of anything he could take hold ol. (Great cheering.) With honest Horace __ Greele; m the White House there would be jusfice and _nonesty in the administration. His heart beat in unison with the general sentiment of the nation for amnesty and- reconciliation. His arms had been wrapped up in an old white coat, but he had never ‘dipped his arms, elbow deep, into the public treas- CITY POLITICS. The Coming Close of the Political Con- test and Its Present Aspect. meyer for Mayor. ood The Custom House Compact and the Pros- pects of the Rival Candidates. The Congressional and As- sembly Tickets. A week and a few days only intervene to bring us to the 5th of November next, on which day the electors of the city of New York shall not only de- cide, so far as their votes may go, who shall be the next President of the: United States, but by the same vote shall say who skal) be our next Mayor. ‘The Presidential question is one of paramount im- portance in the broadest view that may be taken of Rational politics. The Mayoralty canvass is of a more intimate and, to a considerable extent, im- portant nature to the citizens of New York. TAMMANY HALL, under its new dispensation, has failed to dispense that relief which as @ political dispensary it was hoped it would have prescribed for the curing of the evils with which old Tammany was afilicted. In the multitude of counsellors it has been said that there is safety. This Scriptural axiom has not been sustained by the action of the great Sanhedrim, which has been floundering about like a whale for the last eighteen months in the ef- fort to get rid of their Jonah, and in the last days por their most painful parturition brought forth a “Havemeyer.” Had the Seventy—or the moun- tain in labor, as they have proved themselves to be—brought forth their mouse it might have ury. (Immense cheering.) They looked to the State of New York to urge on the great tidal wave that would deposit Horace Greeley in the Presi- dency. Inthe State of South Carolina, owing to the vernment Ay Grant scalaw: the luna- tics in the asylum had to be supported by private contributions; and he hoped such a thing as this would never come to pass in the State of New York. The blacks and the whites would shake hands over the bloody chasm. (Cheers.) turned out to be a respectable Mayor; but they al- lowed, in their political senility, the opportunity to go by in which they might have proved their devo- tion to the cause of reform in our municipal gov- ernment, There was a double mistake, and “re- form” might have exclaimed, “S4VE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.’ But the question now discussed in political circles The proceedings of the meeting terminated shortly alter eleven o'clock. The Outside Mectings. ‘There were two stands erected on either side of the main entrance, from which various gentlemen delivered short speeches. At the one on the west of the door Aaron Westervelt acted as chairman, aud speeches were made by Colonel F. Leavor, Colonel Willis, Algernon 8, Sullivan, Isaac H. Hunter (colored) and others. THE REGISTRATION. The following are the details of the registration yesterday and on previous days in the various dis- tricts of the metropolis :— oes, 8.) Oct.16, U scared fetiata Total, 2,556] 1,641! 1,866] 985] 6,548 2. 2,330) 1,307) 1,116} 733] 5,486 3, 2,159} 1,238 868) 672) = 4,987 4 8,278; 1,783} 1,375) 849) 7,285 5. 3,046) 2,019) 1,338} 1,034] 7,437 6 1,815) 1,017] 747] 5,190 7 1477| 1,244) 1,070) 6,087 8 2137] 2,186] 1,580| 8,780 9 1,971] 1,354) 1,049) = 7,773 1, 1,550] 1,198} 6,466 1,919] 1,703) 1,143) 7,562 71,6401 1,203| ‘858! @,219 1,802] 1,155) 883) 6,637 1,235] 1,085, 801] 4,917 2,404] 1,468] 1,183] 8,122 1,913; 1,621; 1,123; 7,001 2,794] 2,101| 1,459| 93925 1,940} 1,505) 987 7.256 1,204) ‘eo1| 650] 4,081 2888] 2,282| 1,717] 10,469 2,773) 1,959] 1,440] 1,073 TotiAs, 1872..| 57,474] 89,038 30,137} 22,101 148,810 eae Zov. 1. | Nov. 3.) Nov. 4. Totals, 1871..! 23,736! 68,080! 37,223] 23,553! 152,692 Decrease from 1871, 3,782. GERMAN REFORM GENERAL OOMMITTEE, Endorsing the Apollo Hail Nomina. tions—Almost a Political Row. The German Reform General Committee mat last night in Germania Assembly Rooms, and by their action gave the lie to the boasted German love of fair play. After emptying a keg of lager and puf- ing away numerous cigars the Committee, at nine o'clock, was ready for business. Mr. Lewis Levy occupied the chair as President, and Mr. A. Man- heim as Secretary. A little preliminary confab washadas to the propriety of conducting the business in English or in German. The matter was compromised by the Secretary reading the minutes of the previous meeting in English. From these it appeared that they had endorsed James O’Brien for Mayor, hence there was a strong probability that the delegates would go the entire Apollo Hall ticket. The minutes were adopted, whereupon a committee of three was appointed to nominate a secretary for the German business. They reported Mr. Adolph Mehr, who was elected. Then came the real business of the evening—to nominate county officers and a judiciary ticket. The President, at some one’s sug- gestion, wasabout to appointa nominating com- mittee, but his appointees gave dissatisfaction to several delegates, for it looked as if the gag was to be applied to the minority. After some speeches and motions it was finally resolved to appoint a committee of one from each Assembly district. The President then selected his men from a list before him, and all the hand the meeting had in the ap- pointment was for the delogates to answer “here” as their names were called. Opjection was made to some of the nominating appointees, but they were rushed out to an ante-room, when, after a few minutes, they returned with substantially the Apollo Hall ticket as follows :— For Supreme Court—H. R. Anderson, Josiah Suth- erland. « For Superior Court—O. R. Hunt. For District Attor' W. C. Whitney, For Coroner—Dr. Adolph Kessler. For Aldermen—F. Gehrman, James Fitzgerald, D. H. Koehler, J, Van Schaick, J. A. Manheimer, J. E. Walsh, Thomas Coman, 8.8. Lewis, Mehrbach, Peter Gilsey, William Joyce, P. Culkin, C, Barkhardt. Mr, BLASCOWER and other delegates spoke against They wanted the General Committee to have the right to object to individuals on the ticket and’ to substitute others in their stead. But Dr. Schultze, Mr. Manheim and others spoke in favor of the report and of endors- ing the entire Apollo Hall ticket from top to bot- tom. Tammany Hall had never done justice to the Germans, and now that they had the power they should m for beating Tammany Hail at any sacrifice. The report was adopted by a rushing vote in which the negatives were not given @ chance to answer before it was declared adopted. Then ensued a scene of con- fusion rarely seen in German gatherings. M Gross, the sergeant-at-arms, was about to ¢, one of the respectable minority for protesting against the unparliamentary proceeding, but there were too many in the minority, who placed them- selves in a hostile attitude to him, and his friends separated the would-be comhatants. Dr, Schultze, Mr. Lessor and others then spoke in behalt of the ticket and in the interest of union and peace among the German political parties; but a great many delegates left the hall disgusted, declaring the whole thing a “fraud,” a ‘sell,’ &c., and de- termining to work against the ticket nominated in whole orin part. Toward the close of the meeting Dr. Gunn, a candidate for office from the Sixth dis- trict, was introduced. He spcke against Tammany, and especially inst James Brooks, for soi Know Nothing opinions of his expressed in years gone by, and after some desultory remarks by others the committee adjourned. THE SEVENTY SAGES. The Final Nominations to be Made on Tuesday. The Seventy held one of their last meetings last night, and the Aldermanic and Assembly tickets were considered, Numerous delegations attended: urging candidates upon the committee for their en- dorsement. Mr. Jackson and others came as a delegation from the Executive Committee of Fifty and urged a number of candidates upon the Seventy. Mr. Rafus Choate said that the pian of the committee would be to nominate a democrat in strong democratic districts, and vice versa, and w upon all who were on their side to work strongly at the polis on the day of election. The final nominations will be made on Monday, or, at the latest, on Tuesday. is} is, is Havemeyer going to be run by the great San- hedrim as the ‘“stratght-out’ republican candi- date for Mayor, or is he in tact only a political scarecrow, that Jimmy O’Brien and Tom Murphy, of the Custom House, with the rattle of a corn- creak, can give hjm wings to fly to other flelds and pastures new? Peter Cooper and the other en- gineers, not excepting the Bresident of Folly Hall, may imagine that the nomination has been made in good faith; but the general belief is that Have- meyer has ‘been A POLITICAL CHATTEL, a thing of sale and puschase, as between the chief of the Custom House and the autocrat of Apollo Hall. It might have been supposed that Tammany Hall’s nomination ofa candidate in the person of Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence—a nomination in every half acceptable to the citizens generally, and which should have commended itself more especially to the Committee of Reform and the Bar Association, pledged to reform in municipal affairs, would have been endorsed by the gentle- men composing these political organizations, Why the COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY have failed, or, as it is charged against them, mitted themselves to be the tools of the Hall and Custom House to say. The Mayoral fig! two ago, is A TRIANGULAR ONE, in which O'Brien, first in the tield, is one; Abra- ham R. Lawrence number two, and, last and oldest of the triumviri, Mr. Havemeyer, who, like old Whittington. of Mayoral cat fame, desires to be t or of Gotham. The political cat, how- ‘ever, has not mewed the prophetic strain that heraids Havemeyer to the chair of the chief execu- tive, unless, indeed, the people of the city anxious tor reform see in him that candidate in whom they can implicitly rely for measures of reform. s TAMMANY’S FIGHT. Tammany, torn by the thunderbolt which fell upon her eighteen months ago, has not yet recovered her place in the councils of tie braves that smoked i pipe of peace or daubed on the paint when ey went on the wi ith. The Nero of reform, more lucky than he of old Rome, who wished that Rome had but one head, that he might take it oif at a single biow, struck off the hydra head of Tam- many by a@ single injunction in the courts, But with the head the spirit also departed, and nothing is left of old Tammany but an automaton that a few manipulators can move this way or that in eyed own interest and in furtherance of their own gain. t THE MAYORAL TRIUMVIRATE. First in the fleld, so far back, indeed that the oldest politician may be excused for not remem- bering it, was Senator James O’Brien. Tammany had fafien in those day’s, andthe Senator, the Ben- jamin, the best beloved son of old Jacob Tammany— not “Yaccup”’ Cohen of that ilk—but of the original Tammany Jacobs, who carried off more swag in his sack than all the brethren put togetner. nator O’Brien espoused the cause of reform, and to-day he is the candidate of the so-called reform Apollo Hall party. The heathen Apollo was a famous per- former on the lyrein his day—how far the new Apolio Hall chief, playing ‘on the Custom House lyre, and to what tune he will play on the 5th of jovember next is yet to be told. The rumor is that in fulfillment of an old political bar- = between the young reform Apollo and honest Tom, of the Custom House, that Havemeyer, who has accepted the nomination of the regular republicans, and endorsed by the Committee of Seventy, is to be thrown overboard, that his name will be scratched off at all the polling places, and O'Brien's name inserted. But here comes in a hitch. SENATOR CONKLING, anxious for his re-election, and impressed with the idea, favors the O'Brien and Murphy coalition. On the other hand all the respectable and non-parti- 880 republicans are avowed and resolute! ry to any republican poppers of O’Brien for Mayor. General Dix has emphatically announced that he will not run on the O’Brien ticket. ‘This is a hicch that does not look so promising for the success of the reform Senator and party-striped candidate for Mayor. ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE started in the Carnie ged ae faith. He accepted the ‘Tammany nomination with the implied understand- ing that he should receive the endorsement of the seventy. When the announcement of the proffer of the candidacy by Tammany was made and ac- cepted by hum the political pulse felt easier. It ‘was supposed that the necessity of the introduc- tion of a third candidate by the regular repub- licans was by Mr. Lawrence’s nomination obviated, and that all sincerely desiring reform would have rallied to the support of the ticket. The regulars, however, have, in the tace of a doubt of their sin- cerity and of the Murpby-O’Brien alleged coalition, at the last moment put forward Mr. Havemeyer. ‘The race is not any tothe swift, nor the battle to the strong, and, no doubt, the trath of this Scriptural axiom will be roven in the 6th of November next, The ex-Mayor of a dozen years ago, with all his supposed strength and nis ancient prestige, will be nothing in the race if the compact entered into with O’Brien is faithfully car- ried out, and he BETRAYED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS, As between Lawrence and O’Brien it would have been a race, perhaps, in which both the contestants would have to do all the running to win; but now Havemeyer bee in the field, and, as is erally believed, to kill off the Tammany reform cai didate in favor of the Apollo Hali reform candidate, the political pool is all in favor of O’Brien. This is a matter, however, for the citizens themselve to de- cide. e as in the case of the petition of the pl benign Jupiter has given them for first choice @ KING LOG AND A KING STORK; but, better still, they have a tnird chance in the person of Abraham R, Lawrence. Let them decide on this point on the 6th November next. Very little is to be added to our previous résumé of the contests between the opposing candidates in the various Congressional districts into which the city 1s divided, In the Fifth district, at present represented by Colonel William R. Roberts, contest has simmered down to almost nothing. Colonel Roberts has re- ceived the nomination ofall the principal democratic organizations of the city, Tammany Hall, Apollo Hall and the liberal my licans. This is, perb: as it should be. interet per- Apolio petty, itis for themselves it, a8 We said a week or thorough reciation of the wanes and require- ments of this, the most important district in the city, commercially ie eminently qualifies Colonel Roberts ior position, and thers ia littic doubt but he will re-elected. Mr. Oliver looks for, and will pro! receive, the nomination of the Tom Murphy party in the district; but this will hardly be so much of a tidal wave of reform, or, what is all the same, of change, as to carry Mr. Oliver to Washington, Mr. tom Murphy him- self not #80 of a reformer. He “wants peace’ and to leave well enough alone—which means Pregident Grant on the whole horse and a fillip ior all the Rolands and Olivers that can dispute over the oyster, the contents of which Le would swaliow himself but for the gallant Colonel, whose sword heretofore has done more than opening political oysters. ‘The fight in all the Congressional and Assembly districts is being with great determination ps a adherents either p tia those who, claiming to fight under the Apolio banner, or the old Tammany banner, or the new reform banner (that mongre! flag that no one can define), stake their tortunes, their lives and sacred honor, are anxious for the result. The contest is near at a close, and on Tuesday next the whole ticket will be decided, THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION. Theodore Tilton Talks on the Great Topic of the Day—Scathing Denunciation of President Grant and Praise of the Typical Honest Man, Horace Greeley. ‘There was a fair-sized audience, in point of num- bers, of ladies and gentlemen, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, last evening, the occasion being the promised lecture by Mr. Theodore Tilton upon that not unfamiliar topic, ‘‘The Presidential Ques- tion.” The lecturer was introduced shortly after eight o’clock by Mr, Nicholas A. Van Brunt. Mr. Tiiton commenced by stating that he had resided in Brooklyn for twenty years; yet he had seldom vexed the public by talking, He had accepted this invitation to speak more through compulsion than through desire, as he feltexhausted from his recent labors, having spoken for seventy consecutive nights in various parts of the country. He trusted, therefore, that the audience would forget the weak- ness of the speaker and remember the strength of the cause, He then proceeded to give his reasons for leaving the republican party with which he had all his life voted and worked. The republican party ask for another term to accomplish the reforms which they admit are essential. From the first day of President Grant's administration he has hada majority of both Houses of Congress at his com- mand to execute his policy. He had only to will in order to do. He was all-potent, all-powerful. The republican party claims to advocate civil ser- vice reform. Why, then, should the President have his nephews, uncles, cousins and his wife’s relations holding office? The speaker held that that party, which, after four years’ control, came before the people and asserte’ that it advocated reform which it had in its power to effect in all these years, did no more nor less than stultify its declarations. The administration had Placed itself on record as a failure, because it had fatled to do that which it had in its power to do. It declares sentence against itself upon the national records. In giving away vast public domains to private corporations of railroad capitalists great injustice had been done the na- tion. One hundred and tifty million acres of pub- lic lands had been voted by Congress under this administration. This land covers au area of ground equal to that occupied by Maine, New Hampshire, fassachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Ohio. The tranking privilege they claim in their plat- form shali be abolished, but could he (the mpeaken) have access to the Post Office at this moment he would show that it was piled up full of campaign documents bearing the frank of republican Congressmen. All that is claimed by Grant’s adherents in his favor for having reduced the national debt, reduced the tax,,the revenue, quieted the indians, harmonized the South and settled the Alabama claims, were false. Grant had no more todo with reducing the debt than anyone among us. He has settled the Ala- bama claims in shame and degradation. He de- manded $400,000,000; he accepted fifteen millions and a half. Mr. ‘ilton dwelt humorously upon the carpet-bag system of the South, and caused roars of laughter by recounting the miscellaneous con- tents of the President’s carpet-bag at Washington. It was filled with the piunde of the country. If he be re-elected carpet-bag government will be continued; if he be defeated carpet- bag government will fall. He did not wonder that Mr. Froude with the exhibit of our national affairs should come to this country expecting to find the sympathy of America with England in her. unjust policy toward Ireland, To those who would say ditto to Mr. Froude, he (the speaker) would respond ditto to Father Burke upon this subject. Mr. Tilton then read a list of the brothers-in-law of General Grant, showing that they held positions as United States Collector, Appraiser, Minister abroad, United States Marshal, Brigadier General and Military Secretary at the White House, Indian Agent and Judge and general Office Broker in the District of Columbia. An Irishman in Brooklyn when asked who he would vote for for President said he “would vote for & man small.” Senator Sum- impeachment against President Grant for nepotism, personal government and gift taking. To each of these charges it had been answered, ‘That is nothing.” The time may come when, if the question be asked, have we not a military dictatorship? these defend- ers of a corrupt administration will respond, “That 1s nothing.” hat we wish is an administration, not of power, but of law, wherein the people rule the ruler; where dishonesty and treason shall not be countenanced, He then traced the issues of the “liberal” cause in a succinct, glowing and impres- sive manner, eulogizing the venerable and pure statesman who bore the standard of government reforms. The platforms of Cincinnati and Baltimore were the guides which would lead to victory and a purification of national life. The nomina- tion of Horace Greeley by the democratic party was the tenth wonder of the world. The singular bond of union which unites tne democratic and “liberal” parties was explained alone upon the round that “they were brothers, I presume.” [t an alliance to maintain a perpetual and un- broken union of all sections of the country—to bind these States in unity and peace. Would this alliance had been made twenty years What woe, misery and unavailing tears would have been saved! ‘this alliance has not come too soon. It has only lingered too long. It didn’t date at Cin- cinnati or Baltimore. It came in 1856, when Kansas was accepted into the Union as a free State through democratic aid and sympathy. Had it not been for democratic party aid we should have had two re- publics instead of one. Their joint help accom- —— the suppression of the rebellion. The tour- enth and fifteenth amendments would not have been adopted but for their help. In 1872, in the ful- ness of time, the entire democratic party joins with the republicans again in effecting the great cause of purification and reform. The republican irty had outlived its usefulness; it would now be jaid on the shelf, He scouted the assertion that the ‘liberals’ would pay the rebel debt. Never! until the “crack of doom.” Then rebel scrip would rish in the wreck. They had been charged with insincerity. Was Sumner or Greeley insincere? No! Were war democrats insincere? No! The men who marched to battle would be faithful in peace. The Southerners: were, in his opinion, the most sincere of any of us in this move- ment, as they have more af stake. Voting for Mr. Greele, proved her sincerity. The republicans he had @ jaunty way of flinging disloyalty at the South. Ifthey were disloyal then he would indict that party for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, as they had re-enfranchised the South. Mr, Tilton refuted the charges made that Horace Greeley was destitute of administrative ability, His success in the Presidential chatr would be strikingly that of a business President man. There is notanother man in the Republic that would make fewer blunders in thirty years’ occupancy. of the journal.st's chair than he. € are told that he walks among rogues. So does every man that walks in acrowd. As to his dress, why he dresses as well as President Grant, and he spills less wine on his shirt bosom. If Ben- amin Franklin or Lincoln were gentlemen, then lorace Greeley is a Pgs Mr. Greele: will give an administration worthy of the high [aha of trust and honor; for he stands to-day be- org. our people as the typical honest man. His elec- tioff would settle forever the great political idea of litical equality. The speaker then eloquently jefined the meaning of this term, eliciting frequent applause, We live under a military régime. The 60,000 office-holders pledged to the two term polic: dare not discuss the question. They dare not criti- cise the government, which was so corrupt that “the man in the moon held his nose as he passed over Washington.” National harmony and univer- sal amnesty were the great incentives tu the suc- eas of the cause of the coalition movement. Lib- erty, equality and fraternity is the policy, and “Let bygones be bygones.” ‘The Liberal Headquarters. At the Glenham Hotel headquarters the compla- cent hopefulness that has survived the storms of October still prevailed. One happy view taken of the Pennsylvania defeat is that the outrageous frauds in the election there are having a reaction- ary effect upon honest republicans, who cannot stomach an administration that has the stain of it upon its skirts. It is belleved at the Glenham, con- sequently, tl Many republicans will or have Phe a for Greeley in st at the result in nneylvania, at the outlook is more hopeful than it was before October. Secretary Scrotton, of the Colored Liberal Republican Com- mittee, visited the headquarters yesterday and announced that he was receiving news daily of colored accessions to the liberal ranks. In Brooklyn there has recently been organ- ized a colored Greeley cab numbering sixty men, and another In Pesident Ag aggregating thirty-four, Mr. Saunders, the colored orator, is doing yeoman service in North Carolina, where he is overwhelmed with engagements to speak. An address to the colored has been red by the Colored Liberal Coatitioss and will be issued at once. The Republican quarters. Mr. H. A. Glidden was in charge of the Fifth Ave- nue headquarters yesterday. Among the visitors Higgins, of Wilmington, Del.; L. Casa Carpenter, of South Carolina; E. "A. Storrs, of Chicago W. HL. Painter, of Washington. A num- re" ber of cheering letters were received Yom arious parts of the country, 5 | POLITICAL MURDER. Cutting Down an O’Brien Banner in the Fourth Ward. One Man Killed and Several Oth- ers Seriously Wounded. ACCIDENT TO A PRIEST. Affectmg Scenes at the Park Hospital. en MORE MURDEROUS WORK EXPECTED. Last night @ sanguinary drama was enacted in the Fourth ward, resulting in the death of an inno- cent man, while several others were badly injured. The usual infernal exploita of the swamp gang and other desperadoes of a similar dye, who infest the neighborhood, pale by comparison with last night’s bloody work. Indeed, the malice which prompted the act has few, if any, parallel cases in the history of the political strife of this city, The following are the facts of the case. as ob- tained by our reporter:—At the corner of Roose- velt and Water street there was to have been AN O’BRIEN-COMAN BANNER RAISING, and from the popularity of these names in the war4 a large concourse of people had gathered, expect- ing to hear speeches and watch the pyrotecnical display incidental to such occasions. At the street corner just mentioned there was a Tammany Hall banner suspended, and a good deal of ill-feeling was exhibited at the coming close proximity of the two banners. However, all went on apparently smoothly, and few dreamt of THE SANGUINARY DRAMA which was about being enacted. The crowd were, for the most part, in high good humor, and jokes were cracked at the expence of the rival candi- dates, due in no small degree, perhaps, to a large amount of whiskey having been disposed of at the neighboring saloons, DARK RUMORS were circulated, however, that O’Brien’s banner would ere long be trailing in the mud, but the bulk of those who heard the angry threat langhed at it and thought it a weak invention of the enemy. As the time approached for the banner of James O’Brien to be thrown to the breeze these menaces, accompanied by scowling looks, became more fre- quent, and a number of people expressed their mind openly that trouble was brewing. A well- known political celebrity was addressing the as- semblage after the banner had been suspended across the streets, WHEN CROUCHING ALONG THE PARAPET two men were seen by the bright glare of the nw& merous lights, their heads were downbent, and, although the houses are far from high, it was im- possible to discern their features. In another minute the roof of the house was invaded by several other men, and in afew minutes there was a loud noise and down came the newly-raised banner, and WHETHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN a chimney to which it had been attached. The scene which ensued fairly baMed description—men shrieking and cursing at the cowardly treachery of throwing down the chimney upon the dense throng, while the SHRIEKS OF THE WOUNDED were heard supreme in the terrible moment. The universal opinion was that the chimney had been pushed down wilfully and maliciously. The cowardly perpetrators immediately made their escape by the scuttles on the roof tops, and up to the moment of going to press none of the dastardly crew have been arrested. The police were fortunately soon on the spot and drove back the spectators, who were crowding around the wounded. The first person Somoved from the scene was Thomas Mangin, ry twenty-one, a printer, whose widowed mother keeps a lodging house, at 569 Oherry street, and as fine and handsome a looking young fellow as one would wish to meet in a day’s walk. His back was broken, likewise his legs, while his whole body was a mass of bruises and breaks. As the poor creature was being taken to the Oak street station, the yells of agony uttered by the victim sent a shudder through many a hardened heart, and more than one accustomed to scenes of bloodshed and brutality fed the spot, SLOWLY AND REVERENTLY he was taken to the Oak street police station, where, within the space of a few moments, Dr. Rodriguez, of the Centre Street Hospital, attended with his ambulance, reaady to remove the man to the hospital, but the death tremor was visible, and within a few seconds after he had been placed in the ambulance he expired. A TOUCHING INCIDENT. As he was being taken away one of the priests ofst. James’ Roman Catholic church, situated near Chatham street, pressed furward to give the dying man absolution, and to annoint him, but in the struggling crowd the unfortunate clergyman had his face badly knocked against the ambulance wheel and badly hurt. He was conducted to his home by his friend Mr, James Oliver. ‘The wounded Eugene Sullivan, aged 19, a printer, working at Hart's, at 14 College place. was found to be suffering from a terrible nino d wound, it bein; thought at first that he had received contusion o! the brain. He was taken likewise in the ambulance to the Park Hospital, where it was ascertained that his wounds were not of a fatal chara.ter. His ear, which was cut in half, was sewn up by Dr. Ama- bile, while Warden Brown, aided by his wife, washed the clotted blood which covered his entire head, ANOTHER VICTIM WAS Mary Caffery, a young girl, who was suffering from @ bad cut under the eye, but she was suficiently well to be taken home to her parents’ residence, LIST OF CASUALTIES. Thomas Mangin, age 21, of 59 Cherry street, ead. Eugene Sullivan, age 19, of 347 Water street, sertously wounded. Mary Catlery, aged 8, + Slight wound, and several others who were enabled to proceed home, and deciined to give their names. AT THE HOSPITAL. In conversation with — Sullivan, after his wounds had been dressed, he stated that he was a friend of the dead man, and that they were talking together when the bricks fell down. The body oi Mangin was viewed in its coffin by a large number Of friends; the blood had been washed oi his face and a shroud had been already piaced over his body, The expression of the face was calm, as il slumbering peacefully. WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED, This faction fight in the Fourth ward will doubt- less lead to others, in which it 1s to be fairly ex- pected that all the prominent ruMans and desper- adoes of that fll-famed locality will bear a hand. At midnight terribly bitter discussions took place in the ward on the subject of the evening's sanguinary drama. DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE. capensis, Latest News trom the Veteran Explore: of Central Africa. The following letter has been received by Mr. Stanley from Mr. Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar :— ZANZIBAR, August 28, 1872. My Deak Stanzey—On the 22d inst. I received @ very interesting and instructive letter trom your old friend Dr. Livingstone, dated July 2, 1872, at Unyamyembe. it appears he had heard you had started a party to assist him in his undertaking, and is loud in his praises of your energy and kind- ness. I quote a portion of his letter to me:—“I have been waiting up here like Simeon Stylites on on his pillar, and counting every day, and conjec- turing cach step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall him and no _ unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind intentions vain or fruitiess, Mr. Stanley had got over the tendency to the continued form of fever which is the most dangerous, and was troubled only with the inter- mittent form, which is comparatively safe, or I wouid not have allowed him, but would have ac- companied him to Zanzibar. I did not tell himself go nor did I say what [ thought—that he really did a very plucky thing in going through the Mirambo war in spite of the remonstrances of all the Arabs, and from Ujiji guiding me back to Unyamyembe. ‘The war, as it is called, is still going on. jay not so much in the actual fighting as in universal lawlessness the war engendered.” One of your party—or, at least, @ person calling himself Marorah, who says he accompanied you through your whole tramp, but, after leaving Ujti, was left behind by a tame leg—put in an appear: ance sestereey: Lhave heard nothing since my last with regard to your expedition which left here about the time you sailed, Lassure you, Stanley, the Doctor's letter fe full o! thanks for your kindness towards him, and over flowing with interest and ins Hoping to hear from yor \