The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1873, Page 5

Ss APOLLO RATIFIES.| Mass Mecting of the Unterrified and In- dependent Democracy to Endorse the State Ticket at Irving Hall, Tammany Hall Flung to the Winds and Sat Upon. ‘Addresses by Charles W. Brooke, Lawrence D. Kiernan, James D. McClellan and Others. The Tammany Hall County Ticket To Be Slaughtered. Letters from Hon. Francis Kernan, Judge Daniel Pratt, Asher P. Nichols and 8. 8. Cox. The astounding democratic victory in Ohio brought a large and wildly enthusiastic audience to the mass ratification meeting of the State dem- oeratic ticket held by the Apollo Hall organiza- tion last evening in Irving Hall. At about seven o’clock large crowds began to gather in Irving Place, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and among these crowds were some of the most active apd hard working politicians in the city, who all talked death and vengeance to Tam- many Hall. Owing to the fact that the different Assembly districts of the Apollo Hall or- ganization were holding conventions to nominate ‘candidates, the great mass did not begin to pour in until about nine o'clock, when the various dele- gations came on solidly and filled the hall and galleries until there was not any standing room leit. The first man to arrive and go to work was James O’Brien, who seemed to know every one present by name, and then came Senator Thomas J. Creamer, Charles W. Brooke, the great legal orator; Samuel G. Courtney, Thomas Coman, John Pyne, Lawrence D. Kiernan, Francis M. Bixby, Alex- ender Frear, Colonel M. C. Murphy, John McCool, ornelins Flynn, Aldermen McCafferty, Kerr, John ‘eilly, wael Dennis De Courcey, Alexander Wavidson, Captain McClellan and others. The hall Was left in darkness for some moments until the unterrified began to pour in and to give that grand old Bowery stemp which betokens impatience and expectation. All the boys were “red hot,” as they said, for the ratification of the democratic State ticket, and the only mistake made was that Horatio Seymour and Francis Kernan had been an- nounced to speak and it was discovered that these gentlemen had made previous engagements which Prevented them from being present. When the let- ter of S.S. Cox was read, in which he sang the praises of the success of the democratic State ticket in Ohio, the applause was unbounded; and the re- marks of Messrs. Brooke and Kiernan and the assuring promise of Judge Pratt, who wrote that he was hopeful of success in the upper part of the State, brought down the house. The’ resolutions had a good and hearty ring about them, and their absolute endorsement of the State ticket and their denunciation of Tammany Hall exclusiveness caused a ringing cheer to rise from the throats of the horny-handed and robust delegates from the uptown districts. Without all this sentiment, however, lor democratic victory in the State, there was a bitter and unyielding feeling against the Tammany Hall county ticket, and it was can- ‘Vassed thoroughly how the county nominations of Join Kelly might be “knifed” and destroyed. Tne leaters were diséissing the advantage and probability of the nomination by Apollo Hall of John McCool for Sheriff and General Patrick H. Jones for County Clerk, on what is to be called a “People’s” or “Anti-Tammany” ticket, It was asserted that the nominations for Assembly and Senate would not be maae by Apollo Hall until Tammany had first shown her hand, and then that men of good standing and high character would be nominated in each district for the Assem- bly and Senate. One stout-looking Apollo man stated that he was not going to vote for Gonner for Sheriff because he believed that he was a member of the ‘order of United American Mechanics,” and another said that the thing which was going to kill Tammany was her tacit and understood defence of Comptroller Green. The meeting was @ success in more than one sense, but principally in getting ahead of Tammany Hall by being the first organization to endorse the State ticket in mass meeting. The meeting was calied to order by Mr. Francis M. Bixby, who nominated as chairman Mr. Charles W. Brooke, which was acceptee and carried with applause. THE CHAIRMAN Mr. Brooke, then ascended the platform, and, after thanking the assemblage for the honor con- fided in him, addressed them briefly, saying:—We have assembled here in mass meeting to-night for | the purpose of demonstrating by our work that we are still true to democratic principles. The enemies of our organization have séen fit to de- clare that there is in our body a lack of fidelity to the democratic faith, As an answer to this we show, by our presence here to-night, that we are first to assemble in mass meet- ing to ratify and endorse democratic action and democratic candidates. Mr. Brooke closed by congratulating the assemblage upon their purpose oftne evening and assuring them ofa triumph in November. Mr. Bixsy then submitted a list of vice presi- dents and secretaries, which was adopted, Letters were then read from Francis Kernan, Judge E. Pratt, of Syracuse; Asher P. Nichois, nominee on the State ticket for Comptroller, ex- pressing the belief that the result in Ohio, lowa and Pennsylvania are worth thousands of yotes to the democracy, and from 8. 8. Cox, expressing his eer in the results in Ohio, his old State, wiuch ad fought the good tight again under the old ilag. The following is the LETTER FROM FRANCIS KERNAN, Unica, Oct. 16, 1878. +, Chairman of Apollo Hall Democratic have just received yours of the lath inst., inviting me to address a meeting to be held at Irvin Hall, October 18, 1873, to ratify the recent democrati State nominations, thank you for the invitation and regret that T cannot accept. Court is in session here and my engagements are fuch that I cannot leave. Respectfully yours, FRANCIS KERNAN. SUNSET COX CELEBRATES VICTORY, ___ New York City, Oct. 17, 1873, ° My Drar Sin:—For reasons which I have explained to you it will be impossible for me to be personally Present and address your meeting. Tneed not say that I prize the confidence and attach- ment toward myself which your invitation implies. Those who know me, either as a ctyuen or a rep- resentative, know how unfited I am to appre ciate the ‘questions growing out of local organi- zation, All my democratic work has been in ad vocating the supremacy of our principles and in legislative duty. Itis, theretore, a peculiarly agreeable duty tor me to join with any portion of my party in the endorsement oi the splendid code of democratic policy and excellent candidates which resulted tom the Utica Opa ardon we if recentevents remind me that I once lived in Ohio. Although residing im New York city nearly nine years, | am often reminded that T am from Ohio, and to-night | feel a special pride im hailing trom that regenerated State. To-night, as you assem| ¢ democracy of my old home iw Columbiis, with A nor elect. and Thurman jor axsured, making the welkin ring with cheers of victor have tought the good fight, under the old bar with the most gravitying and abundant succes arittin the cloud, through which the dawn breaks in unexpected glor; he veteran and honest ex- enator, Who was jeered at as having come down, from. when hickory Was our emblem, Is the Chiet Magi of that long inisguided Commoriwealth. He brings Chief Magistracy retinement of culture, elegance of ma hers, elevauion of thought and probity ot churacter, His Gistinguished nephew, Judge Thurman, is his parailel in these attributes, so needed in these days of desperate politic ruption. May I be allowed from this lesson of victory to say to the democracy assembled with you to be more than usually wary and coneiliative in ihe selection of can. Gidates for the Legislature this coming week. Let there be union for the sake of Slate issues on these candidates, and especially in view, of securing ior New York wiva Ohio has secured—e democratic United States Senator, Tn cone! . nd Pa Lwere present with you, I would ask that while the democracy at Colambus and in distant Oregon are to-night celebrating their victory, you would send them some old tashioned New York thunder trom the voices and hearts of your meeting. With kindest regards (o you and your brethern, with fo many of whom I have hiad so many delightful associa = Seog = pay, &o., 8. 8. COX, |. Bixey, sa. LETTER FROM HON, ASHER P. NICHOLS, Burraco, Oct. 18, 1873, EM. raat, Chairman, 4c. No 4 Warren street, city of lew York :— im Bin—Your letter of the 4th, asking me to be nt apd ree ‘get pee Goa A yw), reache y ast ee Stepping von, the waln to. leave wo to & professional gemect, sincerely palied DKaReMCDIS wat serious today and to-morrew absolutely deprive me Fac tattcty Yt going October 7, Please accept my vrdial thanks for your pressing imvitation and my Fittwned resrets that’ {cannot respond to your cail in person, Our friends believe that with prover, eseruone, a tnls, perticular, | Juneturg he ticket nominated at Utica can be’ elected aid the substantial government of the State again placed under democratic control. Not only as a democrat but asa candidate | desire such consummation, and aim anxious to do what in me lies to contribute to the gen- eral result. The results in Obio, Pennsylvania, Lowa, ‘Oregon, are worth thousands of votes, aud one and all should press forward to help utilize’ the occasion and cuteh the tde at the flood, Iwill hope at no distant day tohave the pleasure of eting my democratic friends in New York, Ail eyes are «d on your noble city ; give the ticket that naior- ity which so unquestionably belongs to the democracy tiere, and we shall win, Again sincerly regretting that Tcanhot be with you on the happy occasion, and bexg- ing that you will present iny cordial ‘thanks to the Asso- ciation for its invitation, Pbcg you tobelieye me, yours very traly, ASHER P, NICHOLS. 5 LETTER FROM JUDGE PRATT. Syracuse, Oct. 15, 1673. Dean Sin—Yours of 14th inst. is at hand.” It would give me great pleasure to accept your kind imyitation, but pro twill prevent my being in New York in Uine for Your meeting. Our friends in this part of the State ai feel quite contident of the result. Kespee dient servant, ¥. M. Brxny, Esq. beginning to ¥, our aber D. PRATT. Mr. Lawrence D. Kiernan then submitted to the mecting the following RESOLUTION: form Organization of Hall, in behaif and as the representatives of the democraey of the city of New York, heartily the nommmations ma he Democratic St ion at Utica, and commend | to the support of all citizens wi ratic prineiples and in an honest and faithtul ministration of the government of the State. Resolved, That we cordially approve and ratify the nominations of Diedrick Willers, Jr., for secretary of State, Acher f. Nichols for Comptroliér, ‘Thomas Raines for State Treasurer, Daniel Prat: tor Attorney General, Sylvanus M. sweet for State Engineer and Surveyor, Gcorge W. Mblispaugh for Inspector ot State Prisons, and James Jackson, Jr, tor Canal Commissioner, in the’ firm that their administration will be characterized by economy and efficiency in their respective de- integr' partmenis, erage ad, That the platform of pring adopted at the d. ‘a Convention receives cur cordial endorsement, n connection with the high character of the candi: should secure a hearty support and a successtul esult. Resolved, That it is of the greatest importance that honest and etticient State officers should be sustained by # Legislature composed of men ot ter and ability, and to thatend that the democratic candidates tor the Senate and Assembly should be curetully selected and earnestly supported by zens of the State; that to the election of a Legislature so constituted, the eople of this metropolis look with anxious interest for a revurn to cher rights of selfgovernment, & re from the rule ot prejudiced and incompetent m da restoration of the good name and creait of the city by the removal of the cause and the means ot the ruinous and humiliating financial policy by which it is now disgraced, Resolved, That we extend the cordial congratulations of the democrats of New York to their brethren in Vhio who have achieved success in the recent election, and that we look upon the result of that election as a hatbin- ger of coming victory in the Empire State, Resolved, ‘That tie probability that the Democratic State Conventions will in the future be constituted upon a truly representative basis is a cause for congratulation and for renewed contidence in the triumph of the demo- cratic party in this State, Resoived, That no party can rightfully claim to be democratic whose organization is not based upon a prac- tical recognition ot the democratic principle, and that tt ‘would be dangerous to the body politic to rely for suc- cess upon any party machinery so, constituted as to. be under the absolute direction and dictation of a close cor- oration like Tammany Hall. We discluim-any such idea as exciusiveness in politics, and with an unbounded faith tn the people, we are content that they should be heard and that by their voices they should command. Mr. KIERNAN, having concluded the reading, ad- vanced to the frout of the platform and said he felt pleased to see so large an assemblage here to- night to ratify the nominations of the democracy of this State. The democracy of the city of New York was divided, but this gathering for the pur- jose for which they had assembled here assured im that, no matter how the democracy might be divided on local issues, they were united on gen- eral issues and on the principles of true democ- racy, a8 well as in the effort to wrest the State from the hauds that. now con- trol it, (Applause.) It was to be regretted that the democracy of this great city and of this great State could not be united, and that they could not feel harmonious on the whole platform of men and of principles. There were 80,000 or 90,000 demo- cratic voters in New York, who, he was proud to say, Would act as a unit on the State ticket. But he was proud to say that there was a majority of these democrats who, while anxious to act in har- mony with the honest democrats of the State, had yet resolution and honor enough to refuse to act with the arrogant clique that assumed to dictate matters to the whole democracy of the metropolis, (Applause.) They desired no more display of arro- gauce from Tammany Hall, and 1T WAS THIS RESOLVE that had divided the democracy of New York city on local issues, though they were united on State issues. In order to more fully be able to fight the battles of the independent and honest democracy he thought it would be better it our State and mu- oe elections were separated, and in this way the local issues of the city would hot be so likely to be swallowed up in tue greater issues of the State and lost sight of. Then no “hall” should dictate, and the trae democracy could—as they would this fail—vote honestly and discriminatingly for the honest candidates of any hall. (Appiause.) He owed no slavish allegtance to any. hall—Tammany or Apollo—(applause)—and thought it would be better for the people in its general results if they were boti pushed out of existence. Then the democrats of the whole State might fight again the old battles of the uonest democracy on the grand- est platform of principles ever framed bv man. (Appiause.) Then, indeed, they might emulate the exainple of Ohio and redeem our State from the misrule which had been fastened on it. It was no stretch of the imagination to say that the democracy of this State could without an effort wrest back the control they had lost with honest union and honest auministration in the ranks of their organizations. The democracy car- ried the State against Grant by a majority of 25,000 for Governor Hoffman; in 1869 Homer A. Nelson was elected Secretary of State by a handsome majority of 20,000 votes; in 1870 they re-elected Hoffman by 33,000 votes, and this, he thougnt, would show to any rational mind that the democratic party can, when united and with proper candidates before the people, OBTAIN AND HOLD CONTROL of the government of the Empire State. (Applause.) It was true we were defeated in 1871 by a large majority and that in 1872 Grant carried the State by the enormous majority of 53,000; but all ths was owing to the lack of harmony in the councils chiefly and by the corrupt acts of this same Tam- many Hail in New York city, whieh again seeks the control. Looking at the vote of the State for 1968 as compared with that of 1872, he found that while the republican vote had not increased to any note- worthy degree the vote of the whole democracy had fallen off by 44,000 votes, showing conclusively that alarge proportion of the honest democrats had refused to come out at all. sut he felt assured that history was not again going to repeat itself in that for this fall. (Appiause.) The de- mocracy had neminated this fall for Secretary of State a gentieman who was thoroughly fitted ior that high office by experience, education and integrity—Diedrich Willers, (Applause.) We had nominated tor Comptroller of the State Asher P. Nichois—(applause)—a gentleman who had been always an unflinching democrat, and who, by his sterling ability, had placed himselfin the front rank of the party. And, in like manner, all tne other positions were to be provided for by men of the soundest ability and honesty of mind and pur- pose; and he believed that with Nichols and Raines and Wiliers and Jackson the democracy of the km- pire State could MARCH TO VICTORY WITH THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE on tue 4th of November next, (Applause.) And they had glorious examples fresh before them. Ohio, by prudence and wisdom in her councils, has been again won back to her old democratic al- Jegiance. (Applause.) lowa, long lost to the dem- ocracy, is again within her folds, and distant Ore- gon, too, was wheeling into line. (Applause.) With these examples, wort! many votes to us, aud with our State ticket of candidates, there is no reason why this great State should not be redeemed this fall and again stand in the foremost line of the ad- vancing column of States to win the battles ol the democratic faith and stand out for the whole regenerated Union. (Loud applause.) He woud close by calling their attention to some of the local issues Which should attract attention in the coming contest, and which should be consid- ered as oJ vast importance in this election, There was, he said, at the present ume in New York a larger amount of poverty and suffering than had been known in mapy years, a share of which was, no doubt, due to the recent financial panic; but a sull larger amount or it was due to the manner in which the State government was administered. The State government had been characterized by an almost suicidal parsimony, which had even affected every branch of domestic life, and was largely due to the fact of the State government NOT PUSHING FORWARD PUBLIC IMPBOVEMENTS, so as to give public employment. Mr. Kiernan closed With an eloquent peroration, urging the democracy to stand shoulder to snoulder in the great batue for the redemption of the State in November, and was greeted with a round of ap- plause. Me then moved the adoption of the reso- Jutions, which was carried, Mr. JAMES D. MCULELLAND Was next introduced, and i ie did bah tet ali that had been asserted in reference to this organtz claimed that the democracy was sult credited LOYAL TO ITS PRINCIPLES AND TQ THE STATE, (Appiause.) He desired to dissent trom the state- ment of Mr. Beebe, the Chairman of the state Com- mittee, that in 1870 the democracy had furled the flag of their party and stood upon the plattorm and was merged in the Hberal republican party. In that year this organization went to the State Convention as democrats and found its doors closed against them. It was true there were local issues here, jor there were corrupt men in the democratic ranks in this city, those who dared not admit the delegates of Apollo Hail to the floor of tae Con- vention to allow ber to plead her cause, and if any one was responsible for that and the disunion which resulted among the democracy of the State it was John Kelly & Co. By @ packing of the Com- mittee on Credentials they excluded Apollo Hall, and Apollo Hall withdrew trom the Convention. But did Apollo Hall withdraw from the democracy of this State or irom her fealty to the democratic party? I think not, and our presence in council as democrats nad demoustrated our fealty ever since as it demonstrates itsell here to-night, We make the claim here to-night that Apoilo Hail is the only democratic party in this city at the present time, and we have resolved that it shall be kept true and undefiled. (Applause.) Ever since its organiza- ee has been a iree and open council, and with- at its ONE MAN POWER OR ITS CORRUPT CLIQUES nd rings, [te deliberations have been open and maturalization headquarters by the wi above board. On the other side what have we? One of their general rules gives the Committee on et es the power, when they deem it expedient—which means when John Kelly sees fit—to annul and revoke the action of the district organizations, and within the past forty-eight hours its power has been felt im the Fourth Senatorial district, Again we have seen how the proiound body of sachems of Tammany Hall refused even to allow the Tammany General Committee to occupy the ball when they learned the action of the General Committee would not be in harmony with the views of the sachems. What sort of democracy is that which in its secret coun- cils thus overpowers the will of the majority? Apollo Hall has pledged itself to the support of legislators who will sustain action for THE RYWOVAL OF ANDREW H. GREEN. (Applause.}" 4. position has been made by Apollo Hall to Tatiwany, bet Tammany dared not accept the offer; for Green's rea.) would throw out the tr’.~°~ -f John Kelly and thus sacrifice the last remnant of Tammany’s patronage, (Applause) But Tammany must be destroyed this fail, (Loud applause.) tell you, my friends, 1t will be a ter- rible contest, and ‘the battles of 1870 and 1871 will be as nothing compared with this, and it will be conducted under the lead of men of honesty and great public purpose like John McCool; o1 tact, ability and candor like ‘Thomas J. Creamer, aud ol the energy, industry and organizing ability of James O’Brien. (Loud applause.) He closed by urging all good democrats to work for the cause until election day, and then to vote for democrats and democratic principles, Calls were then made for Senator Creamer, Samuel G. Courtney and General Burke. ‘The CHAIRMAN stated that Mr, Creamer had been present in the early part of the evening in the body of the house, but had been compelled to re- tire through temporary indisposition. Messrs. Courtney and Burke did not respond, and with @ jew words of apology from the Chairman for the absence of exp speakers, who, he thought, however, could scarcely have covered the ground of the campaign more eloquently than they had already done in their letters, the assemblage was dismissed, THE CRY FOR REFORM. pode Gate Meeting of the Council of Reform of the Eighteenth Ward—The Question of Ju- dicial Reform—The Sense of the Meect- ing in Regard to Comptroller Green. The Municipal Council of Poiitical Reform of the Eighteenth Ward met last night in Oriental Nall, Eighteenth street and Third avenue, Mr. Joseph Haight, Jr., in the chair, and Mr. Tuomas McDowell acting as Secretary. Mr. SAMUEL J. GLASSEY delivered an address, in the course of which he said the Judiciary of the State would never be pure and free of all corrup- tion until the system of electing judges ~as abolished. Some people thought the jucges were selected by the voters, but the fact was, the selection was made by a caucus and not by the vote of the people. The vacancies had always been Med by appointment of the Governor, and these judges were invariably superior in character and ability to the judges elected by the people. Nearly every judge who had been appointed had proved himself worthy of THE TRUST REPOSED IN HIM, and had been promoted toa higher position. No man was fit to go upon the bench who wanted to go there. see GLassEy then offered the following resolu- tion :— Resolved, That this Council recommends the adoption by the people at the ensuing election of the proposed amendments to the constitution of this State providiny for the appointment by the Governor, subject to cou- firmation by the senate, of all judges. Applause. Mr. J. B. VARNUM sald, with great vehemence, that there never was a worse piece of demagogi=m than the resolution passed by Tammany denounc- ing the system of appointing Judges by the Goy- ernor. (Applause). They would have to fight on this question with Tammany Hall. He referred them to the Cardozos, Barnarda and McCunns, which had shown them the blessings of the delec- tive system in this city. (Applause), Mr. EK. H. JENNY supported the motion. He said the judiciary of this State would be raised above the standard of that of any otuer State if the peo- ple would but return to the old system of appoint- ment by the Governor. The resolution was then adopted unanimonsly. Aresolution was then passed asking all. the members of the Council to persuade their iriends and acquaintances to register next Friday and paturday. Mr. Berry declared emphatically that no one should vote jor a rumseller, aud moved that this Council NOMINATE MR. JOSEPH B. VARNUM for Assemblyman. Mr. Varnum said, immediately, that he would have to decline the nomination. ‘ne motion was finally deferred 1or one week. Mr, NELSON LUCKEY made a speech defending Comptroller Green. He had asked Comptroiler Green whether the charges preterred against him were true, and Comptrolicr Green had assured him they were not. He moved to vote him the thanks of the Council. Mr. JoHN W. DUKE said it was an outrage that Comptrolier Green had reduced poor, honest, workingmen’s families to the verge of starvation. (Approbation.) Mr. Green had deferred payment of many claims for months, and had used the money, meanwhile. to make a few hundred dollars outof it. (Applause.) Mr. Jenny said Comptroller Green had never raised his voice in tavor of municipal reform. He held on to the various positions which gave him the ean to conclude arbitrary coutracts, from which the city might be suffering tor years and years to come. He asked the Comptroller to re- sign his position as commissioner jor a new fancy prison in order that the Tomos might be turned into a depot tor Commodovre Vanderbilt, (Enthusi- astic applause.) Mr. James WILCox asked Mr. Luckey how much Comptroiter Green had paid to Mr. Hawkins ior lobbying purposes last year, at Albany. (Appro- bation.) Mr. Luckey said he did not know. Mr. JENNY said the commissioners for the new city prison were ali the personal Iriends oj the Comptroller. After a heaved debate Mr. draw his motion, and the meeting adjourned till Saturday next. REFORM ASSOCIATION. The Executive Committee and the Conference Vommittee of the Reform Association held a meet ing at the Everett House last evening. Ex-Judge Thompson presided. Several conierence com- mittees from other organizations were received and their wishes duly considered. it was an- nounced that the names most likely to receive the united support of the several parties in opposition to Tammany are as iollows :— For Sherig—jolin Foley. For County Clerk—Myer Stern, Henry Clausen, Jr. For Supreme Court—Judge Fancher, Ex-Judge Leonard, James M. Smith, A. R, Dyett, Alexander Spaulding, R. W. Townsend, James C. Carter. ‘For Superior Court—James W. Gerard, Jr. ; Judge A. A. Thompson, Judge Spencer, Charles Tracy. For Marine Court—James M. Sheehan, W. R. Nichols, Charles M, Hall, A. M, Petshaw, William A. Boyd. For Coroners—William T. A. Hart, Dr. Hannon, Dr. Hoeber. For Alderman—Peter Dolan, John B. Shea, Thomas J, Crombie. The meeting, Which was largely attended, ad- sour to meet on Monday evening next, at eight o'clock, A Tammany Judicial Nominee Declines. Mr. Henry H. Anderson, a Tammany nominee for a vacancy in the Superior Court, has addressed a letter to the Chairman of the Tammany Conven- tion, declining the honor of a nomination and the prospect o! a seat on the bench, “Professional en- gagements,” Mr. Anderson states, stand in tie way. THE CITIZEN FACTORIES. “Civis Americanus Sam”’=—The Process of Naturalization—fhe Law’s Par. tiality. The manufacture of free and independent citl- zens of the United States from the crude European material does not seem to be progressing with any especial degree of celerity this fall, notwith- standing the fact that a closely contested election wiil be fought at the polls in the course of three weeks, The general Bureau of Naturalization at- tached to the Court of Cummon Pleas has seldom transacted so little business as has been done this fall, and the naturalization committees of the democratic and republican organizations have scarcely anything todo, The Tammany Hall Naturalization Committee has been in session dur- ing the past ten days, over a lager beer saloon, at No. 6 Centre street, and up to noon yesterday had procured papers for but 530 applicants. The Re- pndlican Naturalization Bureau is at No, 17 Centre street, ina little 7 by 12 room, at the rear of a lager beer dispensary. The committcs here had been in session a week and had sided oily 250 foreigners in grasping citizen sovereignty, and business =was still dull at both places. The majority of the subjects Naturalized at their committee rooms have been Germans; and one reason why the business transacted is so light is, doubt because the whole thing 1s ro in the intere: the respective political organizations. The gene- ral ae of operation seems to be that the appii- cants shall be recommended or sent to ti ~ commit- tees or by members of them. f course a member of a ward committee takes very little interes! in candidates for th pr ve Of votin: earl arias, unless they have ait Luckey had to with. | "SEW? ‘YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1873.—QU inkling which way the individual means to vote when he shall have become invested with citizen: shi nd as @ consequence the sphere of their usefulness 18 much contracted through this in- terested motive. Where a candidate comes to the bureau endorsed or recommended by the ward committee the bureau “puts him through,” free of charge. They will, however, undertake the process for any applicant who presents himself, provided he is in possession of the necessary legal evidence to sustain his clam to the distinction of Geena’ but he must pay all requisite fees himself, ‘There seems to be aratner unfortunate restric- tion in the act of Congress which conferred upon individuals, for “service during the war’ and hon- orable discharge from “the army,” the right of of citizenship naturalization, ‘The law inferen- tially excludes from such privilege individuals wo served in the navy during the war. Whether Congress intended ‘the law to bear this construc- tion of exclusion against a class of the nation’s defenders, or whether it was an oversight resulting from hasty and imperfect legislation, does not appear; but that the law is so construed isafact. ‘he assumption was very natural when the law was passed that the privilege conferred by it was intended as a mark of gratitude or favor towards aliens who had been either ardent, im- pecunious or brave enough to expose their lives ip the national defence. Now it does not seem quite honest to distinguish. so closely be- tween men who grinned at a bomb- shell or dodged a .cutiass gush on the deck of a ship and th Minié balls or fenced with L terday a young who faced volleys of yonets Onshore. Yes- eared at the Dem cratic Naturalization Committee’s rooms and de- sired to obtain his papers on the ground of having served forty-two mouths in the avy, and was in- formed by one of the committeemen that he will have to wait two years, first making a declaration of intention,” All the oficials connected with the various naturalization ofices likewise informed the reporter that service in the navy does not entitle the sullor to citizenship, as is the case with te soldier, From another source the reporter learned that the registrars in thet n election district of the Fifteenth Assembly district, ‘f'wentieth ward, have during the past two days of registration this month reiused to permit citizens to register upon production of certificates of naturalization issued by the Supreme Court of this connty in the fall of 1863, They were excluded on the ground that all certiicates issued by that Court at that time were fraudulently and illegally granted, It nay be of benefit to these registrars to know that there is no power In this land which can constitutionally reject those certi- ficates on that ground, unless fraud can be actu- ally proved, and that the certs te must be absolutely accepted as the eyidence of its own validity and of the rignt which it confers upon the person to whom it was issued. If any man, or any oficial representing public authority, challenges such a document for fraud the burden of proof rests with such challenge™, just as much as the State 1s bound to show tha’ a man indicted tor murder did actually commit tue crime with whicn ne is charged. It would never do simply to charge a man with an offence and make him prove in the first instance that he did not commit the offence. Any citizen hose papers are thus rejected has @ summary legal remedy by mandamus proceeding, aud should enlorce it if be values his citizenship. “STATE POLITICS Ex-Governor Seymour Nominated tor Assembly. Urtca, N. Y., Oct, 18, 1873. The First Assembly District Democratic Conven- tion of Oneida county to-day nominated Hon. Horatio Seymour as its candidate. Assembly Nomination, Orange County. Newsure, N, Y., Oct. 18, 1872. The Democratic Convention of the First district of Orange county has nominated for the Assembly Ohauncey M. Leonard, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of Newburg. Assembly Nomination in Buffalo. BUFFALO, Oct. 18, 1873, Tae Democratic Convention of the First As- sembly district nominated Patrick Uanrahan for the Assembly this aiternoon by acclamation, A Farmer Nominated for Assembly. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1873. B. H. Bailey, a farmer of Ridgebury, received the republican nomination of the Second Assembly district of Orange county to-day. THE STATS GRANGES, Convention of the Granges of the Mis- sissippi Valle: KEOKUK, Iowa, Oct. 18, 1873, The Convention of-the Executive Committees of the State Granges o! the Patrons of Husbandry, representing the States of the Mississippi Valley, | which bas been in session here the past two days, | adjourned sine die yesterday alternoon. The Con- vention was heid with closed doors, and only a portion of the proceeilings aave been made public. ‘The following resolution, reported yesterday by the Committee on Agricultural Statistics, was adopted :— Resolved, That we use our best efforts to establish, or cause to be’ establisied, in each and every State or the Union, a system of agricultural statistics ‘by which we can gt exact information of the average of the princi- is, the ttnount of live stock in the country, the quaiity of the produce and the number of animals oi ¢ach Kind for market. RESTITUTION. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, Member of Con- gress, Returns His Back Pay to the ‘Treasury. Hon. Ellis H, Roberts, Member of Congress from the Twenty-tirst district of this State, has written the following letter, which explains itself:— New York, Oct, 18, 1873, Hon. W. A. RICHARDSON, Secretary o1 the Trea- enclosed please find certificate of the Sub- ‘Treasurer at New York of the deposit with him to tue credit of the Treasurer of the United States of the sum of $4,427, which I desire to cover irrevo- cably into the treasury. This sum is the amount which a law of the last Congress gave me as back pay a3 a member of that body. Absence from the country since March has delayed my present ac- tion, but | make haste upon landing and belore reaching My home to carry out my Original par- pose with reference to the money. Very respect- fully, &¢., ELLIS H. ROBERTS. FIRE IN THIRTEENTH AVENUE One Man Killed and Two Others Sce- riously Injured—Estimated Loss About $50,000. A fire broke out in the first and second floors of the building Nos. 1,2.3and4 Thirteenth avenue a little before two o’clock yesterday morning, that caused a damage of abont $50,000, Messrs. Hawkes, Camp & Co. occupied the premises. In a very lew minutes after the flames started the entire build- ing was a blaze of fire. The warehouses were used for the storing and sale of hay, and this inflam- mable material was quickly on the way to cou- sumption. An officer of the Ninth Pre- cinct police was the first to notice the fire. He rang an alarm, and several engines were at the scene in a few moments. A second alarm brought a reinforcement; but, owing to the headway the fire had obtained, nothing could be done with it for some time. The pecuniary loss incurred by the fire was small, but @ valuable life was sacrificed to it and two others were placed in imminent danger. How this hap- pened whiie s0 many policemen and firemen were onthe spot is yet to be made clear. Not long since @ poor helpless widow lost her life at a fire, and tne circumstances attending the case appeared to cast grave doubt upon the attention and watchfulness of the firemen employed on the premises. Now another victim ts offered, and itis to be hoped a proper investigation will be made to bring out the ie ae matter, t 1s the duty of the police to keep people away from the neighborhood of the fire; both the police- men and firemen are responsible, and, in the in- terest of others, itis sincerely to be desired the ‘ailt Will be settled on the proper shoulders. The ree and easy let-things-take-their-own-course method of the police at fires ts too well known to cali for commen’, but the firemen ought certainly be able to keep a lookout that no citizens ace in the vicinity of dangerous walls or where they are liable to accidents. For their own sakes, too, this watchfulness ought to be kept up. They are just as likely to get injured as any oue else, and ojten more so, for their bravery aud daring often lead them to take desperate chances. It appears that Mr. Archibald Ostrom, who was the overseer of the Washington Ice Company, bad hs skull crushed in by a falling wall during the progress of the fire and Was almost instantly killed. When the premises occupied by the ice company took fire Mr, Ostrom busied himself in saving his own and his employers’ property, then in the tce sheds. He had tuken out @ carriage belonging to himself, and was in the act of removing one belong- ing to Mr. M. G. Leonard, president of the com- pany, when the firemen and others raised the cr; of er, but before Mr. Ostrom could escape irom bis perilous position the brick wall crushed in the tce shed beneath which he stood and killed him almost immediately, The body was removed from tne ruins to the Charles street police station, and subsequently, bY per- inission of Mr. John T, Toal, the body was taken to the late residence of deceased, 743 Washington street, where Coroner Kessler was notified. A peut was inom and in the afternoon the vody of Mr. Ostrom was taken to his native place, Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, for interment. The Pe ge in the cage will take place in @ few ‘Tne loss upon the property is estimated at about $15,000, upon the pauaiag ‘$26,000, and upon ma- cuinery about $19,000, i were insured, bat in senscniciion win not nin atsnoe inte tae hola inves cause Of the isaster on Monday, sec eam ADRUPLE SHEET. GA tien, Noh cin Gefrs er. Die Pferde -Ausftellung. Mngarn und seine Frenden, Uusfichten fiir Delphia. Phila: Hachtoeber der Panigque. Wien, 23. September 1873, Ftaliens Kinig in Wien, Bictor Emanuel von Statien war hier; er war dev dreifigite von allen Diajeftiten und Ming lichen Ooheiter aus allen Ldndern Curopas, weldie fic) gur Ausftellungsjeit eingefunden und deren Reihefolge nod) nicht ihr Ende evvetdt hat. Die militérvijdhen Knafterbirte Wt Oefterveidhs qlaubten den militavifdyen Suftinct des finig fidjen Gaftes vidjtiq verftanden ju haben und man hatte demyufolge hauptiidlic) in jenen Par thien der Weltausftellung Borbevettungen zur Empjang getroffen, wo allerhand zur Zerfdynet- terung des menjdlidjen Lcibes beftimmte Er- findungen auggeftellt find, mweldje vom Krupp’s und des Sahrweden Finipong Riejengeldiits in ab- fteigender Scala hundert und aber hundert Arter von Hinterladern und Jagdgewehren, bis gunt zierlic)ften Colt-RNevolver hinab, umfaften. Wher Victor Emanuel madjte auf Sdritt und Tritt cine Brejdje im die officielle Borjorge. Er liek RKanonen Kanonen, Hinterlader Hinterlader fei und eilte im Bicjac, mit fdharfem Wuge diejen oder jenten Gegenftand vow Kunft- oder gewerb- lidem Sutereffe erjpahend, durd) die zahllofen Tranfepte. Bald war eS cit Suwelenfdmud, bald eine Porjellangarnitur oder cin feines Nippsftiid aus Bronze das feine Aufmertiamfcit feffelte. Cin Compliment fiir Ocfterreid. Auf diefer im ftrammften militivijehen Ge- fdwindfchritt unternomunenen Wandering madyte er einmal vor einer grofjen Figurentapete Halt, weldje die Figuren der Austria und der Italia in einer Stellung wies, weldje viel Uehnlicjfeit mit einer — verfihmlidjer Umarmung hatte. Er fagte: ,,Der Mater, der dies gemalt, ift jwar fein grofer Riinftler, aber er ift cit quter Staliener, denn er hat die wahren Gefiihle der Nation jm Unsdrud gebradt.” Ob das mehr als cin Hhdfifdes Compliment bedenten follte, — dag liegt, um mit dem alten Somer ju reden, im Sdhoofje der Gatter. Bis jett ift ibri- gens nod) fein Object mit der Notiz verjelen : pUngetauft von Sr. Majefiit dem Kinige von Mtalien.” Ueberhaupt haber fic) die fonightchen und fronprinzlidjen Potentaten im Puntte des Antanfs nicht befonders angeftrengt. Sfabella tauft fid Othello. Pitant ift e8 jedoch, dafz die durd) die pipftliche Tugendroje ausgeseidnete Crtinigin von Spa- nien, Sjabella, fid) cine aus weiffeftem Wlabafter und fdpwarzem Metall componirte Biifte juge legt hat, die Niemanden anders darftellt als Othello. Es ift die Apotheofe der Crferfucyt. Die | iifte ift cin Meifterwerf. Momente dargeftellt, wo er Desdemona’s Tajdjen tud) gefunden und bei diefemt Anblice ihm eine fcwere Thrine von dem argwihnifd)-diiftern Auge quillt. Wher was foll dele Biifte in dem einjt fo viel umworbenen Goudoir der fpanifden Konigin von ehedem ? Die grove Pferde- Ausftellung. Victor Emanuel hat das Hauptgebiude nur einmal, dagegent die Zuthat, die internationale Pferde-Ausftellung, yw weldjer das auf dem un gebenven Lervitorium verjamimelte Publitum durd) cine cigens angelegte Pjerdebahn befirdert wird, dret Mat befucht. Witf der PBferde-Wus- ftellung find herrlidje Exemplare aus aller Herren Vanden, fiinfhundert an der Bahl, vorhanden, aber fein etiziges englifdjes! Sohn Bull hat von Haufe aus ficy, fosujagen, vor der Ausjtet {ung verftedt. Bictor CEmanuel erftand ein Paar pradjtvolle Falbe mit pechfdpwarzem Hin tertheil, dent volfsthiimltden Glauber nad) das Havatteriftijde Wbseicjen cines hodjadligen Stammbaumes. Anhaltend ftarfer Fremdenbefud. Miihl weht dex Herbftwind mitunter fdjon aus dem alpenhogen ,, Wiener od),“ aber vierzig Tau- fend, fiinfjig Tarfend, fiinfundfiebenziq Taufend, fo lautet noch immer die taglide Verednung de8 Fremdenbefucdhs auf dem Weltausftellungsplate, oder vichnehr im ,,Fiirftenthun Sdwar;-Sen- born,” wie der Voltsmund fic) ausdriidt, um einen paffenden Namen fiir die Unfehtbarteit des innerhalb jener Zaunpfihle WUmadtigen ju fin- den. Wien felber hat fic) evidhdpft in den ver- gangenen fiinf Monaten, Cs ftellt fic) mv nod) an det Sonntagen eit. Bu den Wodhentagen fendent die Provin; und das Ausland ihre Cohor- ten. We Hotels find geriittelt und gefdpiittelt voi -Enthufiasmus der Ungarn Gs find mir Faille befannt, wo mngarijde Bauern-Familien aus grofer Entferuung, vor der tiirfifejen Grenge her, fid) jum dritten Dale auf den Weg gemacht haber, unt fidh fatt ju feben und auf dem Plage, dev fiir fie fo viele unerflir lidhe Mixatel enthilt, fid) ohne Rite ficht auf den Koftenpuntt fatt yw trinfer. Das gefchieht vor Allert in der ungarifdjen Csarda, dent am fiid- weftlidjert Eingange auf cinem die Weinfeller bergenden Cleinen Hiigel erbauten Weinhauje, Zigenunermufit und ihre Sauber Dort jubelt und weint die Zigeunergeige bis gur etlften Ubendftunde, und wenn die Melodie des ungarifden Nationaltanzes, d¢8 Csarda’s, ertint, tanjt das + junge Daguarenvolt unt die flafdjenbeladenen Tifde im helen Lidhte des Herbftmondes, Sie find die beft- bejahiten Diufitanter dev Welt, diele Bt geuner, Auf ihrem Sammelteller haufen fic) die Bantnoten, DMehr als cinmal ereignet €8 fid) in foldjen Abendftunden, dafe cin tvein- frbblidjer Magyare dent braunen Ordjefter hundert Gulden surwirft und fid) einen Csardas beftellt, oder ein Betydr dal (Qiuberiied), oder das herzergreifende Rephiilj fecském (meine fliegende Schwalbe), vor Alem aber dent ungari- jden Sturmmarfd, de Récozy. G8 gehen Glaubhafte Gefdhicjten um, die da befagen, dafy ander Grundeigenthiimer, der viele hundert od) fdhtoeren Weigenbodens fein eigen nannte, Hab und Gut in Gejfdjenten an muficivende Bigeuner verfdjwendet habe. Diefe ungarifdhe Cearda bat fit dev Eriffuung der Weltaus- Othello ift in dem | 5 ftellung bis jett fiber fecjshunderttanfend Flas fdjen Ungarwein ausgeldintt, vom theuerfter Tofayer und Bijdhofswein bis sum etwas jinere lichen Czdmébrver, dex des Bauern Keble ergitst. Mannidfattige Erholungsplige Das ift der unvergleidjlide Rei; in diefer WAns- fielungs fta dt, dafy mar fid) jeden Ungenblicé aus dem Tunmlt der Sdhauluftigen in cite ge> miithlidle Bedherecte guriictziehen fann, oder in das Duntel des Urwalds, Cin Theil des Wuss ftellungsplages umfaft cine von der YUrt ver- {conte Partie des alten Praterd mit feinen mehr= hundertia}rigen Baumen, wo faunr himnbdert Sadvitte vont indianijdjen Wigwam das alters thiimlidhe fteyrifcye Schanthans fteht, hundert Sdjritte davon eine itatienifeje Reftauration, und abermals in geringer Entfernung, unter fehwar;- gritnemt Urivatdlaube faft verborgen, die glangende Reftauration dev ,,trois freres Provengaux,” wo man am befien und am thenerften jpeift diesfeits und vielleidht aud) jenjeits des Atlantijejen Oceans, Wien und PHiladelphia. Apropos! Theucrung! Wir hier in Wien Hatten die befte Wbjicjt von dev Welt, unjeven Giijften die Haut abzuzichen, aber dev qrofe Bor fenfrad) hat uns qviimdtid) cuvivt wd wir find auferordentlid) bejdjeiden gqeworden, Aber eben fo, wie nod) vor weniger Monaten Wien weger feines foftipicligen Yebeus iiber Gebiihy verfdhrteen war, wird mit Besug anf die in 1876 gu Phil delphia 3m evdffuende internationale Wusftet {ung aud) Hier ein wahres Sdjreckbild von ame rifanifyer Xheuerung Heraujbefdworen, Cs wire gu wiinjden, dag die amerifanijdhe Preffe Diefem Vorurtheil bet Zeiten entgegentrite. Der Orient auf den Wusfiellungen. OHjmehin ijt die Tour von Trieft nach Wmevifa Teine Kleinigteit und time nod) ci iibentviebener Tarif fiir Verpflequng hingu, jo wiirde vow hier aus der Vejuch jehr ifpartic) ausjallen, gar nicht gut reden vor dei ferner wohnenden Vitlern des Orient, weldje jede quvipere Miinze fic) evjt dvet mat angzufehen pflegen, ebe fie von derjelben auf Nimmmerwiederfeher Wbfchied neHmen, Ueber- Haupt halte id) dajiir, das diefer eine cigenthitm- licje Bug, der fic) aus dev geographijden age Wiens zur Geniige evtliivt, mimic) die Betheili- gung des Orients, eben von teiner weiter entlege- nen Stadt wird erzielt werden tinnen, Selbft in London haben auf den beiden Wusftellimgen in 1851 und 1862 die Orientalen der grifeven Ent= fernung wegen fic) nidjt in foldjem Mange her- vorgethan, wie hier in Wien, China und Gapanen vogue, Sie werden lidheln wenn id) Shen fage, dah dic Chinefen und die Sapanefen vornehme lid) mit ihren Waaren des Wieners Liebe linge find. Diejelben haben mehr als einmal ausverfauft. Sm den auferhalb des Hauptge- baudes im Gartengriin verjtedten japancfi- fdjen Bazars war wodjenlang fiir Geld und gute Worte fein einjiger Gegenftand mehr ju haben; aber dicje entidieden fort{drittlid) gefinn- tent Kinder Sapans, weldje fid) i ihrer curopit- fdjen Mleidung vollftindig wohl gu befinden {djei- nen, nahmen den Telegraphen su Hiilfe und haben fi) aus Yotohama neue Schiffefradten vere fchafft. Die Fama ift jedod) boshaft genug be- Haupten ju wollen, dag die Sohne des Wtondes und der Sonne den Kunfigriff gebraudyt haber, bei Wiener Kunftdredslern einen grofen Theil ihrer Scnurrpfeijereien anfertigen gu laffen. Die Baht dev verfaujten japanefijdjen Fader Geht im die Hunderttanferde. Man vert fie) une cin paar fehr gewadhutidje japanefiide Tipje, ale waren fie aus Diamant geidnitten. Wiech ete Beidhen der Zeit, diefe eigenthiimlidje Gejdmads- ridhtung. Der grofe Krad. Gs ftedt cine Art von Galgenhumor in dew Wrenern voit heute, feitdem der ,,qrofe Krad)’ im Handumndrehen, wie td) fchou newlicy bemcrit, Aftienwerthe bis auf Hohe von fieden hundert Millionen Gulden in blanen Dunft anigelijt hat. Shr New Yorfer Krad) aus oe jiingfien Tagen ijt jehr veipeftabel, aber bicibt dennod) weit hinter dev hier erduldeten Ratajtrophe juriid, welde mit einem Lawinenfturze verglidjen werden fam, Indeffen find die Wiener ein elaftijdjes, lebens- luftiges Volt, und fie haben den riefigen Veriuft, fdyon int Gemiiithe itberounden. Aligemeine Erniidterung. Madame Sangiiie—das ,fociate Uebel”-- hat fic) im ihver Ausftellungsjpetulationen fehr ge- tiujdt. Sie madhte die Rechnung ohne den qro- fen Krad. Srwifden dent erften Mat, nad) neune monatlicjer beraujdender Hanjfe, ud dent heuti- gen permanenten Gorjencatarvh—weldy cin Une terjdicd! Damals erfehieren in der Ansftellungs- ramen wahre Bfauenjdvarmte dev auswartigen, ferubergerciften Halbivelt und bildeten in entlege- nen Tranjepten jaft die cinjige Wusftetlung. Heut? ift all der Ganhagel in Sammt und SAhmelz und Seide wie in einem Wirbelwind himveggefegt. Die goldjdjleudernden Barone, find ,,Baar—ohne” geworden und haben ihre Gquipagen yom AUuttionator, die Bapageien nadh dem Bogelmartt, die goldgetben Affenpindyer june Hundehiindler gefdhict, der die tunpertinenter Lieblingsthierden einer impertinenten Sdjduer int fehr abgemtagertem Zuftande jest am Stadte part den Bromenirenden fiir ebenjoviele Gulder anbietet, als vordem Goldjtiide dafiir gegahit worden waren, ; Damals! Ja damals! Humor der Panique Trot alledem hatte dev grofe Krad) nv rwéihrend der erften Wodjen einen tragifdjer Charatter, Spiiter, als Hauffiers und Baijfiers in denfelbem Urbret des Sammers verjanten und ein Bruder Miferable nidjt mehr von dem andern unterfdieden werden fonnte, als dev faire Hiring mit Selterwaffer cin vielbegehrtes Frithjtiic fiir die Erniidjterten abgab und felten ein gutgetici- deter Spazierginger femitifder Abtunft gejeher wurde, der nidjt mit beiden Handen tief-serftrent iit den Weftentafdjen nad) verjfdjollenen Gundertere und Taufenden frabbelte; als das Wort ,,Agio” Diefelbe Wirtung iibte, wie das Wort ,,Sped“ auf Denjenigen, welder fic) gegen die Scetrantheit Wwebrt; ale Sederman nur und am ,,Ulernuriten’ das baare Geld febite, und als endlich honetten Leu tem, weldje ihre Differenzer bejahlen tvollter, Nidhts iibrig blieb, als das Geld ju vertueipen, weil ihre Glaubiger fid) als fociale Flidhtlinge Inapp gemadjt hatten—da war der bife Zauber gebrodjen und man fliidjtete fid) aus Defperation it die Weltansftellung und ift dort genefen. THE IRISH SOCIETIES’ CONVENTION. A Committee on the Investigation of Frauds Appointed. St. Lours, Mo., Oct. 18, 1873, In the Convention of Irish Benevolent Societies last evening she following Committee on the In- vestigation of Frauds was appointed :—Mr. Mc\ hany, of Washington; Thomas J. Daly, of St. Louis; Dennis Dwyer, of Onios George J. Whi OF Phitaderphis; yar Snouglinn of Bastmere} Rev. Ambrose Butier, of Leavenworth, Kausas, an Xortoi meeting. ir passage resolutions thanking the Tetiring oMcers for their services tne newly elected officers were installed and the Convention