The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1873, Page 5

CITY POLITICS. A Terrible Flutter in the ’ Political Dovecote. The Grand Conner-McCool Fight for the Shrievalty. A Wew Phase of the Judiciary Question--- Elective or Appointed 2 ‘There is a terrible flutter these days in the polit- teal dovecote, The excitement of the campaign is culminating, and the political birds of each par- ticular “feather are flocking together,” as it is their duty politically and ornithologically to do, There is no doubt considerable “billing” going on, but as to the “cooing,” that 1s another matter, ‘The billing part willeventually, no doubt, pay the endorser of the bills—thatis if he wins in the con- test, and as to the cooing it will be all ‘‘coo-hing” for him, in bush parlance, on the 5th of November next, without a responsive coo from any quarter. The fact is, that the opposing candidates on the rival slates are nearing the inevitable shore like “spent swimmers who ao strive togéther,’’ some to reach terra firma in the shape of good fat offices im the city government, others to be swept away by the undertowand carried out to sea, never more to be again heard of. The present contest is peculiar in this regard, that the candidates them- selves have to do all the fighting, and perhaps it is Jucky for those aspirants ior a place on the slate which the “blind man’s buff” policy of the leaders denied them. In the good OLD DAYS OF TAMMANY SUPREMACY a candidate had to shell out a fixed tariff or ad vaiorem duty, according to the salary of the office, for his nomination, and that nomination secured him his election. All the candidate had to do for a week or two alter that was to go round the wards and treat the boys, and on the Ist day of January succeeding go to the City Hall, take the oath of ofice, hurry home to his jubliant family, receive New Year’s calls and be toasted by his constitu- ents, honorable this and the other. Those halcyon days of politics are past. What with the GREAT REFORM HUBBABOO that frightened for the first time the “great unter- rifled” out of their seven senses, the everthrow of the old victorious leaders, and the loss of patronage that used to pay all expenses, Tum- Many could only trust to the “old guard,” and former prestige in making her nominations, leay- ing the candidates to paddie their own canoes or do their own swimming as their individual finan- cial buoyancy came up to the occasion. Outside of Tammany it was always a sort of scrub race, with the republicans and the outside democratic Partisan strikers to make the most out of the saint, who was not always so saintly but that there was a peccadillo or two to be cast into his teeth, a weak point in his armor of proof that no rivet could close, and which brought him sometimes to his Knees, not for confession or «enitence, but because he was able to play a little game of restitution that couldn’t hurt him, but Pleased somebody else. And 8o the Tammany fights were fought and won, until the Angel of Destruction swooped down upon the Ring and overthrew it, Iv is an accepted maxim that “revo- hutions never go backward;” but it is claimed «there is an effort now being made, and will con. tinue to be made until the close of the polls on ‘Tuesday evening next, to bring back victory to the * old Tammany standard and crush out the revolu- tuon that yave the city into the hands of the foes of Tammany. The dynasty is more than monarchi- cal—more than imperial. Defeats and overthrows, domestic broils and foreign levies are as impotent against it as against the sldughterg! Banquo, and its succession, no doubt, just now, appears in’ the eyes of its opponents as did that of Banquo in the eyes of Macbeth—running back to the “crack of doom’—the 4th inst. ‘This Is all very well for the Tammanyites to assert; Dut while they halloo before they get out of the wood, a dangerous practice, what is Apollo Hall and the Custom House doing? ‘the Murphyites and Apolloites on their part are counting up the cost and the prospect of victory, The assessment gcrew isapplied to every oMceholder in office in every department of the federal government rep- | resented bere in the Custom House, Post Ofice, Navy Yard, Revenue and Collection Bureaus, and federal buildings and judicial offices, just as itis on the Tammany side, and Tom Murphy and Jemmy O’Brien are confident in the success of their ticket. They don’t care a “Continental” whether it is calléd “black and tan” or not, so long as they win; and as there are good men on the ticket they have aright to look for success. That ie the question which the people have to decide, The fight 1s a pretty nice fight, so far as it has gone. There are many advantages and disadvan- tages on either side. Jolin Kelty, like another Sinbad (he Sailor, carries on his back that OLD MAN OF THY SEA, COMPTROLLER GREEN, an appropriate enough name by the way, and who crippled him terribly in the fight and endangers his ticket. On the other hand as a balancing offset, Tom Murphy, the “stratghtout” republican, car- ries Jemmy 0’ Brien, the “ould line democrat,” or vice versa the iatter carries the former; a sort of . election bet done as a joke, no doubt, and which | the principal actors will either enjoy hugely or be compelled to laugh on the wrong side of their jaces in aday or two, The pool was jor a time either way, but lately THE TAMMANY BAROMETER has been rising steadily, indicating “fair weather!” “sieady”—the latter no doubt mean- ing acontinuance of fair, There are, however, no signs of despondency in the camp of Honest Tom inflexible Jimmy, anc they are going tor the Tammany scamp with a Vengeance, What number of democratic braves may be induced to seil their birthright for administrative pottage in this fight remains to be seen; but the late defection of Apollo men, after the bargain and sale between O’Brien apd Murphy, pretty clearly indicates that Tammany will not lose much by the action of her recreant sons. From all present appearances, Paul (fom Murphy) may sow, and Apollo (Jimmy O'brien) may water, but John Kelly giveth the increase—to his ticket, to be sure. One of tne important questions associated with the campaign, but lost sight of in the struggle for ofnlice, is THE JUDICIARY QUESTION, to be submitted to the peopie, and for them to pass upon by their votes whether it shall be elective or by appointment. The HeRaLp has very fuliy represented the views of the most eminent members of the bar and of statesmen to its readers upon this question. Opinion is divided upon it, and where, in matters legal, the jury is in doubt the defendant is entitled to the benefit of that doubt. The elective system is here the de- fendant, and, outside of the doubt to which it is entitied, its strongest appeal to a democratic community should be, Do you doubt yourselves? A Governor, whom my opponents would make the appointing power, must be the chosen candidate ‘Of some party, and an obsequious senate perchance may confirm his acts and you are powerless to remedy the evil. The Tammany Fights on this gTave question is to preserve and continue the evective law, while on the other hand Apollo, from its alliance with the republicans, must necessarily favor governmental appointment. This is also a question which touches upon the relative claims of either party for public support at the polls. in another column of the H¥RALD will be found @ report of a meeting ol eminent jJawyers on the discussion of this very question, the general sentiment of which was in favor of 7 THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM. ‘There is very little to add to our previous report of the general situation-—touching the tickets and the candidates for office. ‘the candidates them- selves are individually fighting a party fight and it must be conceded that it is a costly luxury. The Peter Funk organizations, which at other times sold themselves to leaders and candidates, THE POLITICAL BOUNTY JUMPERS, have not much of @ show this time, altiough one or two so-called “organizers” may friehten a pie- thoric candidate out of a pile, but beyond this their occupation is gone—except as downright workers, x THE TICKET OF CANDIDATES of either party is good, and, perhaps, there ts not @ name on either ticket that could be jairly seratched “for cause.’ The men have put theni- selves fairly and squarely before the people—an honest and trying ordeal—and no case bas been made out against any, on one ticket or the other, that ajury of honest men would be bound to con- sider. So the candidates one and all go now be- fore the peopie, representing, politically, to be sure, their claims upon their party, but not ashamed upon their merits as citizens to put themselves upon their country and to be tried by their peers— the voters of this great city, The great struggle js DOW upon THR SNRIEVALTY. Tammany puts forth ite best representative man for thay office; Apolo dali and the Custom House. t forth their best man. and » good man, but, un- tunately, nota rep efentative man in a politl- cal sense, a8 the ca" idate of the alliance. Mr. W. ©, Conner held onice before—that of County Clerk—and Mr, fonn McCool was formerly Kegis- ter of the Cicy and thus both men, having held offices of ‘ust under the people, now come seek- ing the, one prize, and both willinz to go again be- fore che people upon the strength of their party begkers and their past record. Mr. Conner has in , thts fight the prestige and the support of a party intact, weakened perhaps by defections, by apathy on the part of some and by the open hostility of others, but still in- tact, as @ party § militant, secking to be the party triamphant in the fight. Mr. Conner’s friends claim, assert, in fact, that the inuendoes circulated against him of early political aMilations of & peculiar nature, are untrue. His opponents wouid like to draw him into print, but that “weak invention of the enemy” his friends most sedulously guard him against. They say that he remembers the General Scott campaign—“tue hasty plate of soup,” “the you Irish brogue” and “the sweet Ger- man accent,” and that he will not write a letter, much less a book, to make his enemies happy. So he goes into the fight, as Mr, McCool dues, to win if he can, but to make u straight, square fight, if it win or lose. His opponent, Mr. McCool, accepts the challenge— With that stern Joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel, and their friends are rallying around them, mak- ing this the most Interesting hand to hand fignt of the Can pag It is conceded by men of both parties that as this ticket noes the whole ticket of either party goes—that is, if CONNER WINS FOR TAMMANY in his own candidacy he wins for the whole ticket, and therefore upon this the whole rally is made, The Conner and McCool fight ts the all absorbing topic in political circles all over the city, and it must be said that the candidates themselves are doing their level best for victory, McCool is work- ing like a beaver, and, ifdefeated, he may console himself with the reflection— It is not in mortal to command success. He may do more—deserve It, THK COUNTY CLERKSHIP TICKET. Here also the Tammany candidate appears to be the favorite. If the Apollo Hall defection did any good whatever, it seems to have done it with malice prepense against its allies of the Custom House Bnd for the good of the very party tt sought to ignore, Mr. William Walsh and Mr. Patterson are the opposing candidates, The former, like his as- associate on the Sheruf ticket, was early in politi- cal life, and his acts—“are they not written in the Capitol}??? Enough that they do not give his oppo- nents an opportunity to use them against him, and that mav be considered proot of faithful services in the past and an assurance of honest services in the future? Mr. Patterson, the republican candl- date, a very worthy man, is new, however, before the people, he never having held any prominent Position in city politics. THE JUDICIARY. The very best argument that could, perhaps, be advanced by Tammany in support of its democratic principles and in favor of election by the people of all the higher and more important offices in their gilt May be seen in its ticket of candidates for the Supreme Court. The candidates—Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence and Charles Douohue—constitute a ticket that would go @ great way to sustain any party, while they themselves could win upon whatever ticket they are placed should they choose to run outside of party jines. Mr. Lawrence's splendid canvass for the Mayoralty last year and the popu- larity he then showed he possessed brings thm into the front rank of the public men of the day, though still a young one. His election is assured, though that election may have the effect of with- drawing nim from allfuture political contests in which he might look, {f not for a more substantial or responsible sphere of action, yet for one which to a young, able and ambitious man would preseut even greater inducements than a seat on the bench. Mr. Charles Donahue, his associate on the ticket, presents all the qnaltties to be sought for in a judge. He never was a iene and never a patos: The latter he could not be from that very innate sense of justice which distinguishes him. His long experience in the Courts and of the law ruing the Courts, his analytical mind, trained in the consideration and argument of most important aud intricate cases, ft him in @ especial manuer for the high office of a Judge of the Supreme Court. The candidacy for the Superior and Marine courts presents nO new feature of interest, The candidates must stand or fall with the ticket. Scratching fora personal favorite gn either side will avail nothing in these cases, and as the Tam- many Supreme Court ticket goes the whole ticket will go; as the republican ticket goes for the higher ofices so goes the balance of the Judiciary ticket. THE SENATORIAL TICKET, John Fox leads in the Fourth Senatorial district. For a time discontent prevailed among the de- mocracy of that lower region, but things look brighter, in fact erfulgent, tor a victory for “John,”’ the pet of all the boys and girls from river to river. Morgan Jones struggied to the front for a while, but itis aquestion whether he will stand the brunt—not “binnt—of @ canvass to the end. In the Sixth district Mr. Jacob A. Gross goes in to win. It is claimed for nim that for that particu- lar district Tammany could have selected no stronger? man. ‘This is Creamer’s old district, rincipally German, and they feel a pride In send- ing a representative of their own nationality to represent their interests in the State Legislature. Mr, Gross 18 young. and energetic, and has prac- tised himseli in legislation in drawing up bills which the solons of Aibany have from time to time adopted and passed into law. In the Fi(tirand Seventh the fight gocs bravely on between the candidates. In the Eighth district a change is noticeable. Alderman McCafferty is steadily going to the front. The Mooreites are Wavering in their allegiance, fearing that in a tripartite Oght—such as rages in the district—the republican candidate, Pinckney, may slip in. McCafferty has endeared himself to his constituency up there a his efforts to reduce the assessments and his Gght thereon with the oes that control the city bnances at the pres- ent day. THR ASSEMBLY TICKET. In noticing the candidacy in the First Assembly district in a previous article, 1t was crroneously, and, by inadvertence, stated that Mr. Daniel 4 Kennedy had withdrawn in favor of Colonel Burns. Mr. Kennedy, on the contrary, contemplates a vic- tory on the ‘ath of November next, In the Fourteenth district Mr. James Daly has got the Tammany and Apolio Hall nomination, and bids fair to give his republican and German oppo- nent @ hard tussle for it. FOR CORONERS. + The Tammany ticket is conceded to be the strongest that could be made. Mr, Richard Croker heads it, and that is almost in itself a guarantee of its success, independent of the popularity and qualifications for the office of Mr, Heary Woltman and Mr, Eickhof, REMARKS, As before stated, the prospects now are that the whole Tammany ticket will be elected on Tuesday next. The Democratic Shibboleth now is, ‘*fam- many in the fight, right or wrong.” The speeches at the ratification meeting the other night, and the letters of lie-long democrats Like Seymour, Blatr, Kernan and others, pledging their devotion to Tammany, and the withdrawat from the Apoljo Hall organization of Creamer, Courtney and Wood, has had the effect of dispelling the clouds of preju- dice and personal antipathy which tor a time rested upon the ticket and upon the cause, Itis felt that the alliance of Apollo Hall with the Cus- tom House republicans invelyes not only defeat, but political dishonor, which conscientious dem- ocrats cannot and will not submit to for the saké of a few disappo.nted leaders, It is, at all events, certain that the Heath Oder is up, and the betting upon tne candidates upon tts ticket has jumped iar ahead of anything that is offered on their opponents. THE JUDICIARY. Meeting of Members of the Bar in Favor of the Elective System of Selection. A small but significant meeting was held at the Astor House yesterday afternoon, Its object was to discuss the judiciary question. From the reso- lutions passed by the Bar Association many will pe led to suppose that tb have the judicial branch of the government appointed is the wili of the legal profession generaily, but the tenor of the speeches and resolutions made and passed yesterday will speedily dissipate this false impression. At two o'clock several members of the Bar, in- cluding Mr. Gideon Tucker, ex-Surrogate; Mr. Thomas W, Clarke, ex-Judge Supreme Court; Mr. Tomiinson, Generai Levi 8. Chatield, ex-Attorney General; Mr. John C. Spencer, ex-Judge of Superior Court, were assembled in room 41, and on motion of Mr. Tucker ex-Jndge Clarke was appointed Chairman, with Messrs. Godirey and Harnett as Secretaries, Mr. Tucker was the first speaker, and in his re- marks he branded the attempt to amend the con- stitution of 1846 as an outrage and an insult to the intelligence of the eople of the Empire State. He was followed by Mr. C. Schaffer, who, having practised under both the judiciary systems, was prepared to gpeak of the results of his experienc ‘which was greatly in favor of electing the sud On motion of Judge Quinn, Mr. Tomlinson and Mr. Tucker were appointed a committee to draft resointions embodying the sentiments uttered by the speakers, The following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, were the result of their ‘That in the opinion of this meetin to the system of appointment of th State would be a retrograde im upon the intelligence of the people. , Resolved, That the experience of the past justifies the members of the Bar in recommending the system ot an elective judiciary as the safest and surest means of preserving the integrity and purity of the Bench, Aiter the reading of the resolations the meeting adjourned sine die, POOL SELLING ON THE ELECTION. epaarataintlasaasibe If the attendance at the pool rooms, corner Broadway and Twenty-elghth street, last evening, can be taken as an indication of the political feel- ing in the city, the election excitement bids fair to be conspicuous by its absence. There was but a small gathering at the rooms during the evening, and but few politicians of any note were on hand, and even those Who did put in an appearance . NEW YORK H | instruction to be promulgated throughout the de- were mere lookers on, taking no active part in the buying, - The bidding was anything but spirited, and, taken ull together, the bids did not amount in the aggregate to over $2,400, The pool seller, how- ever, Was in the best of spirits, and exerved him- self, regardless of consequences, to infuse a Jeel- ing of excitement among those whom he had to deal with, Hither the stringency in the money market ora general misgiving tiat the result of the election would turn oupto be far different irom what the wiseacres in the democratic camp be- Heve it will be prevented any very eXtensive in- vestment by the knowing ones. The pools sold were as [ollows and at the lollowing rate:— SHERIFF, Conner......... - $100 100 85 70 100 McCool . oe. 35 36 20 20 35 Majority of 10,000 for Conner— Ten thousand majority. 100-100 95 Under 40,000. ........0008 oe 80 80 1% COUNTY CLERK, Walsh... . 100 100 Patverson 60 55 SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, Gross... $100 | 100 100 Hencken . 30 30 35 SKVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, Ledwith $100 «150175 Everard 80 80 90 A lew pools pular vote as be- tween Lawrence for Supreme Court and Conner Jor Sheriff. The oids were in favor of Lawrence polls w larger vote than Conner at the rate of $40 7. In the French pools Conner was sold at the rate of three to one against McCool, The pools on County Clerk were about even, and Lawrence and Fancher were the two favorites ior Supreme Court. The Apollo Hail men were present at tue selling in greater numbers than the Tammany people or the republicans, but they invested but jittle money. Solomon Mehrbach, however, took several poois, taking the odds against the Tammany candidates. There was considerable private betting among the politicians, the favortte titbit ol the general Wagering being on the question of Conner’s get- ting 10,000 majority. The Tammany men seemed to be confident that he would’ get at least 12,000 Majority, but they refused to beteven that Walsh would get 5,000 majority. No attempt was made by (re ee sellers to sell any poois on the result ip 1 Dtate, KINGS COUNIY POLITICS. —_—— Complete List of Candidates Nominated for Judiciary, City, County, Senato- rial, Assembly and Aldermanic Pos! tions. i The subjoined is a complete list of the regular republican and democratic nominations of Kings county, for whom the electors of Brooklyn are to cast their ballots on Tuesday next:— supiciary. _ Repubtican, Democratic. Jolin Winslow.....Jasper W. Gilbert -Dwight Johnson. ..John W. Hunter, county. B. Duteher......William Barre. - Nelson Sbaurman.George G. Herman. Supervisor at L'rge John R. Jurgens. George L, Fox. Offce. Supreme Court. Justice of Sessions. Barnet Johnson. te | Ly Com’r of Charities. John L. Ryder. Bernard ida Dia. — Republican. a ee) Democratic fo, 2-John ©, Perry... John W. Coe, 3—John F. Henry. John C, Jacobs. ASSEMBLY. 8—G. ©. Bennett. o! 9—John Oakey . john MeGroarty. *Kndorsed. . Wards. ALDERMANIC, rards. 1—Ripley Ropes... Morris Reynolds. 5—John Oarrhart. ‘William Col! ip 7—A. 8. Rowley, Ed. Fr: Van Wyck Powell. G. B. Forrester. l—E. B. Fowier,. 12—No nomination. 13—Demas Strong MJ. H. Dierek: 15—J. H. precinct, and carefully supervise and instruct your om. fers in the pertormuiice of iherr duties: you W the most competent graphic instruments du of the canvass: you will promptly transmit information to the Central Ofice of all disturbances and arrests that may occur daring the day. 2, You will be held responsible for the prompt and safe smission beiore sunrise of the prescribed number of lot boxes to each election district in your precinet, anid that said boxes are properly labeled and inspected, and that they contain no ballots betore .he polls are duly opened, and that they are-properly placed in one cot- tinuous row, with the glass sides lacing to the front, and that the provisions of section 23 of the Election I&W are fully complied with, 3A sufficient space mast be kept clear of all persons f the polls are located to polls without inter ruptio: tizens will be formed in one line in the order of their arrival atthe polis, preparaiory to depositing their votes. The police must (ake orders from the “in- ectors und canvassers of election” for the prese flon of the peace and protection of eitize ey a arrest and convey to the nearest station house ali <dis- turbers of the public peace and violators of the Election aw. 4, The police foree must remember that they are not the agents of any poltical candidate, faction or party, and that manifestation of interest or conduct to the ad- vantage or prejudice of any candidate, taction or party, by any member of the department will be followed by immediate dismissal therefrom. 5. Inasmuch as the right to challenge Is the inherent right of all voters, therefore, all challengers must be protected in the discharge of that duty, whenever and ‘wherever they pay dente to exercise it And yon will allow citizens to be present at the canvassing of the Yotes, but under no circumstances will the citizens be Permitted to interfere with the canvassers in the dix Charge of their duty. 6 The enforcement of the law prohibiting the sale, or exposure for sile, of intox! liquors ot any descrip- tion, amd the closi'g of all drinking saloons within. the prescribed distance from the polls, and of section 26 of the Election law of 1572, is strictly enjoined. The slight- est evasion of duty in this respect will be followed by se- vere penalties, : 7, It is tobe hoped that the conduct of the’ police (on not only this very important occasion, but at all times) will be puch as Lo deserve the confidence and respect of all good citizens, Their attention is directed to, sections 13, 14, 23, 24 and 26 of the Election law uf 1872 They will report to their respective captains the names of all can- ‘vassers Who may refuse or neglect to canvass the votes, @x provided by law and Instructions of the Board ol Elections, to wit:—first, btate; -second, Seuate; third, Assembly, &c. held strictly responsible for the faithful execution of the letter and spirit of this order, and a rompt compliance with the provisions of the Kiection jaws. By order of the Hoard. JOHN 8. FOLK, Superintendent of Police. WESTCHESTER COUNTY POLITICS, A Fierce Partisan Struggle for Office . Tactics of the Opposing Hosts. During the past week the political cauldron throughout Westchester county has been bubbling madly over the fervent partisan heat evolved by the friends of rival candidates, who have “placed their armor in order,” preparatory to measuring swords on Tuesday. Although unusually brief, owing to the late date at wnich both sides pre- sented the names of their candidates, the canvass has been marked by much biiterness of feeling. The State Senatorial contest, around which, toa certain extent, may be said to centre the fate of the entire local-ticket, has, it ts generally con- ceded, been already decided, excepting the indis- pensable formality of depositing the ballots. From present indications it would seem that a majority of the voters in the Ninth Senatorial district still prefer to entrust their interests to Judge Robert- son rather than try the doubtful experiment of placing them in the hands of his inexperienced competitors, The struggle for the Snrievalty, second only tn importance to the Seuatorship, has elicited no in- considerable amount of rancor, and gives promise of some spicy revelations of a fraudulent nature which may porsibly engage the attention of the next Grand Jury. Charges have been publicly made, printed and circulated, which place John Bussing, the democratic candidate for Sherif, in an unenviable light before the people, inas- much as they ,impute to him transac- tions, in minute detail, setting forth gross irregularities in office durmng his term as Sneritl, which expired in January, 1870. Apart from this, however, there are infuential democrats in many éfihe towns who have always been dis- ‘satisfied with the nomination of Bussing, and have been working day and night to deteat him. If his H. Snyder... 16—M, J, Petry...... 1/~flerman Cottre!. 19—J. H. Zindel. 2—C. H. K, Smii te Rogers. 23—F. B. Fisher. %—John Dreyer 25—Robert Hill, Outside the mayoralty the great interest would appear to center upon the registership, upon which a close vote will undoubtedly be polled. Mr. Dutcher, the republican candidate, the present Commissioner of Pensions for New York, is a very popular man anda very active worker, while his oppouent, Mr. Barre, has @ record of twenty-seven years of service in the Register’s department upon which to base his claims, He has been twenty yeurs deputy in the ofice for the chieftainship of which he now aspires. A very thorough canvass is belng made uiso of the respective wards, much arc piaance being attached to the result which will give support to the Mayor in event of the suc- cess of either party in obtaining @ majority in the Common Council. In the Sixth ward Supervisor James Naughton has received the independent nomination of the democrats, Who oppose the “regular” on the ground that the primary was illega!. The Twelfth ward has two strong democratic independent can- didates in the person oi Messrs, Hart and Donovon. The total vote registered in the twenty-five wards of Brooklyn this year is 66,607, being a de- crease of nearly 10,000 from the registration of 1872, The probability is that the vote this year will snow a lalling off of from 6,000 to 8,000 as com- pared with the registry. A, Connolly, H. M. Searnes, J. 0. Wright. rge Brown, yrooman. THE BROOKLYN REPUBLICANS, ns Mass Meeting at the Academy of Muiic Last Night—Praises ef One Party and Denunciations of the Other, The republicans of Kings county had their last grand rally at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night, A Drummond light ‘outside and the dis- charge of a number ol sky rockets served to attract attention to the meeting and induce the lukewarm to appear and manifest some little enthusiasm, if they did not have it at heart, Spedick’s American Brass Band certainly proved an excellent auxiliary, Mr. Lorin Palmer called the meeting to order, and ex-Judge Van Cott presided, He spoke of the object for which they had assembied. This ‘was the last and only general meeting they would have before voting upon the Various questions at issue, He then referred to the new charter, which was, he said, one of the best they ever had. It abolished all the commissions and gave the people the seli-government for which they had been seek- ing so long. It would be a great misfortune to the citizens of Brooklyn should the democrats get control of the municipal affairs of the city. It would put the Mayor atthe head of thirteen de- partments of the city government and give him the power to suspend any officer of the city until the Common Council had passed upon the case. These things were not pleasant to contemplate. We would have the worst possible municipal govern- ment the sunever shone upon. Give them the Mayor and the Common Council, and then they had the unit Of power and the unit of patronage to manage in the interest of the party. The speaker then gave a little history of the candidates for whom: they were about to cast their votes. When the name of Mr. Hunter, the democratic nominee, was mentioned there was loud appiause, Sigismund Kauffman was next introduced, and begged them to use the short time left them in securing the election of the candidates on the re- publican ticket. They must send John ©, Perry to the Senate again, for it was to him they were in- depted for the very excellent charter of the city. They had other officers to choose, and he hoped they would select those who had been nominated by the republican party. They should by all means elect Mr. Silas B, Dutcher as Register and vote for the appointing of the judiciary by the Governor, and then smail-iry lawyers would have to takea back seat. A series of resolutions endorsing and ratifying the candidates upon the republican State and city tickets were offered by Mr. Joun Allen, the Secre- tary, and adopted. Ex-Governor Woodford was the next speaker, He said:—What the State needed and what the city needed to-day Was a man with brains large enough to know the right; who was wise enough, true enough and possessed a will strong enough to give them a good government. This canvass hardly touched the Dational affairs, but it did Very seriousiy, more seriously than they realized, touch the tuture ol the city of Brooklyn. The speaker then referred to the canal system which De Witt Clinton had given to New York and which William H. Seward had enlarged. ‘Uhey stood to-day upon the turning } point of the great commercial interest, and he ap- pealed to them to vote for men who would carry out this great enterprise and make New York the great controiling centre, Alter speaking of the candidates for local offices he bid them good night. Remarks were also made by’E, B. Hall and others. THE POLICE ON ELECTION DAY. ~+ Yesterday the Superintendent of the Brooklyn Police caused the subjoined important circular of partment for the guidance of the police at the polls, on Tuesday nexti— GENERAL ORDER NO, 4 success has not been guaranteed by the leading republicans @ woeful disappointment 1s in store for the friends of the ex-Sherif on the morning aiter election. Itis extremely probable that the ne nterase of the county democratic ticket will be elected, ‘There is little visible public interest taken in the canvass.for Assemblymen. in the First Assembly district ex-Senator William Cauldwell, who seems to have a decided penchant ior legislation, is the democratic candidate, with the chances of election in his favor. The contestants in the Second As- sembly district, on the republican and democratic sides respectively, are Amherst Wight, Jr, wno represented the district at Albany last winter, and John HK. Cornell, who ran for the same office in 1871 and was deteated. The republicans have carried this district by a close vote for the past two years ana they will leave no effort untried to achieve another victory on Tuesday. Of the Third Assembly district it may be said that James W. Husted holds its constitu- ency, as it were, in fee simple, as there is not even a backwoodsman in the entire district suficientiy verdant to accept @ nomination against him with any wore patriotic intention than that of “making a stake” out ofit. Mr. Husted, therefore, goes to Aibany again for his sixth termin the Lower House Of the State Legislature, A CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION GOES “BEG- GING.” Boston, Nov. 1, 1878. ‘The Democratic Committee of the Third Massa- chusetts district, failing to find a cand.date who is willing to run for Congress, have reported it inex- pedient to make @ nomination, They gave the names of nine gentlemen to whom the nomination was. tendered, POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS. papain Tne name of the republican nominee for the Legislature from the Twentieth (New York city) district is David Babcock, not Daniel Babcock, as frequently misprinted, Ex-Assemblyman John Oakey is a candidate for Assembly, on the republican ticket, for the Ninth Assembly district (Kings county). Mr. Oakey is now counsel to the Police Board of Brooklyn, They must be in @ shocking bad way Mm some parts of Georgia if the following hea@tng to a po- litical article in the Quitman Independent can be | trustworthy :— The itinerant Deviltry—The Mammoth Frand— The Grand Combination of Pickpockess and Gam- blers—The South’s Greatest Enemy—Another De- acroying Angel—A_ Rust and Canker Upon the Morais of the Country—The Boll Worm and Cater- pillar Upon the Financial Interests—And Last, but Not Least, the Destractive Cyclone. Mayor Pierce will probably have no competitor for Congress from the Third district of Massachu- setts since the withdrawal of Colonel Greene. The Cincinnati Gazette (republican) insists that General Butler has a grand scheme in embryo for presentation to the next Congress for the relief of the Southern States, involving the assumption or endorsement of the debts of those States. The democratic canvass in Hamilton county, ac- cording to the Cincinnati Enquirer, cost only $8,200. It thinks the democracy got a good deal for their money, It was a “bad deal,” however, for the republicans, for they could not turn up a single knave in their pack. It is proposed to erect the “State of Chicago’ out of Cook county, Illinois, Joliet, where the Illinois State Penitentiary is located, opjects, and proposes to inaugurate her own commercial and social improvements, A Boston paper suggests that all electors who decline to vote should carry a bailot box on their backs for three months, A Virginia paper recom- mends that the women in that State should give them a “box on the ears” for a similar negiect. A FORTUNATE DISCOVERY, The Murderer of John Murphy Identi- fied im the Person of a Prisoner at the Bar. About fourteen months ago two men, named John O’Keele and Jotin Murphy, met in @ liquor store in the vicinity of Thirty-sixth street and Fighth avenue, After drinking to excess both men became quarrelsome and afterward came to biows. The fight was ended by O'Keefe striking his antagonist on the head with a club, frac- turing his skull, and causing death in a few, { eighteen months old anda grandchild of ex-Gov- minutes. O'Keefe was arrested. On the Corone .f | emor Wells, was (ound oUt in the Wood, some halt ae MRC: CL Grey ine aatie Oe | Same irom the house, and near the spot where the w ue Ay 4 i ol te P vat ie ced in | foul deed was perpetrated, The intant was the niece aeeady. The case, However, wos noe 7.4, rom | of the ledy and child of Mumford Wells, te eldest to terminate here: The District Attorr #ermitted | son of ex-Governr Wells, the verdict of the Coroner's jury w one, and the witnesses of thg’ tragr moned before the Grand 46 an unjust ae e or hen a2" ry, by whom | horrid deed of infamy. Itis said here that whe 90 nt Cee pags ttenerut ¥ wad Yound | Colonel Deklyne was (nformed of the outrage he reas appreher get eck, “Cattant was issued | smiled and said his troops were up here for gr? pare erdon, bY’ he in some man-| ior a higher |purpose than arresting men per ntaer, #f the “action of the Grand | for such @ petty oifence. Antoine is believed to wor a All efforts of therpolice to effect his | have sent these Creatures up here to give the no recapto e since failed. few days ago a | groes ® chance of revenge, and one of thein fol’ Woman appeared before Judge McQuade at the Orrice or tum Curer oF Power, Ory oF Brooktyy, ) « Coaxen Court AND Livinaston Steers, Brooxury, Noy. 1, 1873, ) Cartan — PReemct Sin—the tollowing order ix hereby promulgated for the informa tiot jirection of the Police Departine c whale at the poils, on Tuesday, the ath ah November. sin as ft Si: 1, You will take special precaution for the pr eac : ire PT es@rvation ace, and order the Whole torr ¢ nqny yaar mig the ry will irequent ly visit (he several po 1 Urrem Police Court and ‘The warrant was entrusted who on Friday arrested the accused, yesterday locked up for examination, Later 1 the day Devective Riley, of the Central OMmece, visited the Court prison and identified O'Keefe as The prisoner is now the murderer of Morphy. confined ip & coll w Police Headquarters, ne tele: ants to take charge of le. gthe day, and until the close sty thought AY were sum- preferred a charge of avandonment against her husband, John O'Keete, to Officer Robinson, He was ERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. WASHINCTON. The Redemption of 62 Five-Twenties. WASHINGTON, Nov, 1, 1873. ‘The Treasury bas just issued the seventh call for the redemption of five-twenty bonds of 1862 as fol- lows :— : TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Nov. 1, 1873. By virtne of authority given by act of (tre approved July 14, 1870, entitled “An act to author- ize the refunding of the national debt,” | hereby give notice that the principal and accrued interest of the bonds herein below designated, known as as five-twenty bonds, will be paid at the Treasury of the United States, In the city of Washington, on and aiter the first day of February, 1874, and that the interest on said bonds will cease on that day—that 1s to say, coupon bonds known as the third sertes, act of February 25, 1862, dated May 1, 1862, as follows:—Coupon bonds, $50, No. 10,01 to 10,600, both inclusive; $100, No, 30,751 to 34,000, both inclusive; $500, No. 15,801 to 17,600, inclusive; $! , No. 36,001 to 41,000, inclusive— total, €4,500,600, Registered bonds, $50, No. 1,376 to 1,410, inclusive ; $100, No, 10,301 fo 10,560, inclusive ; $500, No. 6,101 to 6,300, inclusive; $1,000, No, 25,001 to 26,650, inclusive; $5,000, No. 1,901 to 8,100, inclusive; $10,000, No. 10,101 to 10,320, inclusive, Total, — $500,000, Grand total, $5,000,000, Of ‘the amount outstanding em- braced in the numbers as above) $4,500,000 are coupon bonds and $500,000 are registered bonds. United States securities forwarded for re- demption, should be addressed to the Loan Divis- jon, Secretary's ofice, and all registered bonds should be assigned to the Secretary of the Treas- ury for redemption. WILLIAM A, RICHARDSON, Secretary, Red Representatives at the National Capital. The delegation of Owe Indian chiefs who have been here for several days had another conference with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs this afternoon, ‘They have agreed to sell half of their reservation, acres in Nebraska, the purchase of which was provided for by the last Congress, and they in- timate that they are willing to sell the remainder and emigrate if a suitable reservation is given to them elsewhere, A delegation of sixteen or eighteen Arrapahoe and Cheyenne chiefs have arrived here for the pur. pose of arranging for a change of the fines of their reservations, wishing to surrender a large tract of land and take another im the Indian Territory. They had a preliminary talk to-day with the Commissioner, which, as usual, con- sisted on their part of aceremontal expression of their opinion of the matter and their satisfaction at being allowed to visit the Great Father. Vhe Weekly Currency Statement. The amount of fractional currency received from the printing division for the week ending to-day was $978,800; shipments, $264,600; shipment of notes, $217,000; amount held by the treasurer as security for the circulating of notes, $297,852,100; Jor deposits of public moneys, $15,834,000; national | bank circulation outstanding, $348,350,949, Specie Payments in Washington. Since Tuesday the Treasurer’s office has paid out $2,100 in silver coin. The “Double Standard” Objected To. forthcoming report to the Secretary of the Treas- ury, will take a strong ground against the restora- tion of the douple standards of gold and silver coin, A Railroad Examiner Appointed. The President to-day appointed Isaac H. Stur- completed portion of the Texas and Pacific Rail- Way, some 300 miles in length. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, cess as Rip Van Winkle at the Ulympic. “The Geneva Cross” still holds the stage at the Union Square Theatre. When it is withdrawn it is likely it wil! be succeeded by Mr. W.S. Gilbert's fairy comedy, “The Wicked World,” in which Miss Ciara Morris may appear. Mr. Edwin Booth appears at Booth’s Theatre to- morrow evening in his well known impersonation of Hamlet. His engagement is for only four weeks, in the second week of which he will appear as Richelieu, and subsequently in other parts. Mr. Lester Wallack has been’ filling his theatre during the week with houses as good as almost any previous week in the history of the theatre. “She Stoops to Conquer’’ will hold the stage six nights longer, when it will be followed by *-Ours.”* “Under the Gaslight,” Mr. Daly’s earliest local drama, which was first produced at this house, will be played at the Broadway Theatre during the week. Mr. D, H. Harkins takes the part of Snorky, Miss Minnie Walton plays Peachblossom and Miss Marie Gordon appears for the first tune in this city as Laura Courtiandt. The piece seems to have more life in it than any of the local dramas of our stage. It will be played for only a week, Miss Carlotta Leclereq's engagement as Mercy Merrick, in Wilkie Collins’ play, “The New Magda- len,” beginning on Monday of the week following. “Round the Clock’ has been running a week at the Grand Opera House to good houses. This piece last year ran to a better business than any play produced on the New York stage. It retains much ofits previous popularity, and the reduction of prices at this theatre helps to swell the number of people who witness it. So far “specie prices” have proved excellent policy, especialiy as in the pres- | ent hard times many persons are able to sce per- | formances from which they would otherwise be de- } parred, “Round the Clock” retains the stage for be produced, Atthe Academy of Mus! rnani’ and *bravi- ata’ will be repeated on Monday and Wednesday evenings respectively. “Les Huguenots” is au- nounced tor production on Friday evening, with Mme. Nilsson as Valentina, Mile. Maresi as Mar- ghe: di Valoix, Miss Cary as Urbano, Signor Campanini as Raoul di Nangis, Maurel as San Bris, Signor Del Puente as ers and Signor Nannetti as Marcello, The cast is a strong one and cannot fail to attract a large audience. Verdi's not yet arrived. There is little regard among actors at the pres- ent time for the sacredness of contracts, aud we fear there is equally little regard for their obliga- tions on the part of some managers. One theatre was disappointed in its leading lady by the extreme bad faith of the actress; another engaged a lady already under contract to a rival manager, and an- other aliowed an English actor of reputation to embark for America, though it was known in this city before he safled that the management would not be able to redeem their promises, And we even hear of actors and managers writing other actors and managers down in the press. With many excellent artists and attractions, it seems as if we have indeed falien on evil times. BRUTAL OUTRAGES IN LOUISIANA — State Troops Break Into a fie use and Violate a Widow and Hy Daughter. NEW OF ¢ans, Nov. 1, 1873, A letter from ex-Judge, Merrill, dated Colfax, Grant parisn, October 99, says:—‘In haste and with feelings of horter | write to inform the public of the action of thr, Metropulitan Police, sent here The d lady Gnd her daughter ‘of seventeen ets, were taken out, and, horrible selate, Violated, Neither of the found until late on Sunday afternoon, t the tectfon of the United States, to 0 nt now, riter that he had a rig 0 Shoot any W inet. I said to him that these and not United States troops, «| H ‘n | the Colonel had said at a negro ball, fore, that he wanted all the colored 2 and’ see nim; that now they cou soldiers,” comprising about 80,009 f The Director of the United States Mint, in his | geon, of St. Louis, Commissioner to examine the | Mr. Robert McWade has met with very fair suc- | } that need neither | tite. another week, when “A Flash of Lightning’? will | 5 THE HERALD AND THE NORTH POLE, [From the Cincinnati Times, Oct, 27.) WONDER LANDS FOR MB, BENNETT. We have to suggest to the New York Hera.p that if it purposes expending further men and material in geographical explorations there are fields vastly more interesting and profitable than that of the North Pole. We have received abont all the information from that country that the world desires, The dip of the magnetic needle has been explained on a basis that renders the belief in “Symmes’ Hole’ no longer necessary, and Mr. Bennett and his yiceregent Stanley can- not hope to penetrate by that route to the bowels of the globe, The theory of a happy island, supported on the apex of the Pole, whereon lives St, John the Evangelist, togethergwith @ peo- ple of fayish manufacture, is also exploded, It never had any particular support outside of Northern Russia, and the geographical ideas of that region have not been found to be strictly accurate. Moreover, we have learned tat men will freeze up there; that ships will get crushed by the ice and that a diet of sedi oil and tallow candles is not conducive to physical com- fort or the regeneration of the world, There are sO many wiser and more brilliant things that Mr. Bennett could turn his hand to. It bas never been conclusively settled that the other side of the moon is noc inhabited, -ince the other side of the moon has never been turned toward um It was suggested by & savant some time since that the inhabitants of the other side, if in- habitants there are, must irequently climb up to the edge of the moon and look over at this earth. If we were to erect, he further proposed, some im- mense geometrical figures in different parts of the earth the moonites, lovking through their spy- glasses, would doubtless observe and understand them asa@ signal and reply in the same manner. Here there is agreat opportunity for the super- fuous energy of Mr. Bennett, Again, the most powerful telescope yet pro« duced presents the moon to the observer as the average unaided eye would present it if something over ten miles of. Of course at that distance nothing human or af;human production can be distinguished, and this limit cannot be further de- creased by any new discoveries, because of the in- superable obstacle presented by the refraction of the rays of light from the observed body. But itis well known that a photograph represents a body, however distant, in all its minutest particulars, and it ts, further, another fact that a microscope magnifying many millions of timea is easily at- tainable, Now, placing a minute section of sucha moon photograph under such a microscope, there appears no obstacle to our penetrating all the mysteries of the moon, even down to the smallest rabbit that may inhabit it, were it not for the unfortunate fact that the smoothest surface known to science becomes so rough under the microscope as to obliterate all pheto- graphic impressions that there may be onit. But, while the point of the finest cambric needle be- comes rough under the microscope, it is well known that the point of the tease! (Diapsacus Fullonum) retains its sharpness, however mach magnified, and for that reason is stiil used in raising the nap of woollen cloth. From this fact it occurred, so runs tradition, to a French scientist that nature might also supply a surface that would remain smooth under the microscope. Alter long experiment he lit upon the silk-like floss of the common milkweed .(Asclepias Americanus), dis- covered a chemical solvent which reduced it to a pulp, manufactured the desired paper, took a pno- tograph of the moon thereon and placed it under the microscope. It answered every ex- pectation, and afforded undeniable proof that the moon is inhabited by a queer - race, air nor water to preserve But, owing to the fact that the photograph was tfken when the moon was in the fuli, the in, habitants presented an appearance like that of flies on a ceiling, so that nothing conid be seen of them but the crowns of their heads. The discoy- erer Was so mortified by this mistake thas he feil sick and died, and the secret of his chemical solvent died with him, so that nothing is known of its composition save that phosphor and am- monia entered largely into it. Here, then, is a most admirable opportunity for the researches of Mr. Bennett. Again, it is well known that meteoric matter often comes to our globe irom beyond the sphere of its attraction, and in opposition to all known laws of gravitation. It is easily to be explained, on the hypothesis that some pecuilar chemical, or combination of chemicals, in the earth’ matter, has a strong aftinity for some like combl- nation in the meteor, and draws it toward us through space, as the loadstone draws tne needie. Now, late spectroscopic researches inform us very clearly of the chemicai composition of the planets and the stars. If, therefore, Mr. Bennett or Mr. Stanley should discover some chemical combina- tions for which Mars or Venus has a strong adinity he might ballast a peculiarly constructed | airship with it and travel to those mysterious orbs, | regulating the speed of his descent upon their globes, and nis return also, by the counter use of chemical combinations for which the earth has attraction, Let Mr. Bennett's adventurous mind revel mm the vast increase which such a journey would make to the world’s store of knowledge. There are a hundred other routes that we might suggest, but ¥ will donbtiess occur to the hu HeraLp voya@@urs upon perusal of this ar- ticle. Lilliput and Brobddingnag, for in- stance, have been lost sight of since the days of Swift, and intercommunication with new opera ‘‘Aida”’ will be produced in abouta | fortnight, though we are told the costumes have | by Lieutenant ‘governor Antoine during the ab- sence of Gov grnor Kellogg. On Saturday night last | the house o¢ one of the most respectable widow ladies 0" 4 ted River was fired into near this place. wors were broken open, and the unfortunate sum-, to ladies could be An infant, “The negroes up here all say that it was the sol- diers, and we all believe, if they were not the per petrators, they instigated the negroes to the under the pro- nite te any woman he man he wanted to shoot and hanger od | Bab troops nd he replied that the night be- opie to come 10 as they pleased, as they were under the protection of lus these interesting races ought speedily to be estab. lished. The home of Lord Lytton’s “Coming Race, too, is worthy of extended exploration, and the Fairy Land of Prince Violet is to be found by any one courageous enough to jump into a deep well just as the noon sun lights up its waters. Wwe plead with Mr. Bennett, therefore, not to exhaust his purse and energies on the common-place North Pole while these interesting realimsare yet unex plored, {From the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette, Oct, 28.] James Gordon Bennett proposes fitting out ana Aretic expedition for the discovery of the North Pole, and the Tribune makes this generous men- tion of the man and the enterprise :— Mr. Bennett will undoubtedly equip his exploring party with magnificent liberality, and send it forth upon its dangerous venture filled with character- istic pluck and enterprise. If we may judge of the future by the past, it will probably succeed in an effort which has long bagied the world; but whether it succeed or fail, we mst admire the daring spirit of the typical young American who seems to be going about the,universe in search of hard tasks, that he may have the pieasure and the glory of achieving them, — {From the Detroit Free Press, Oct. 27.) It is announced, witn some little appearance of probability, that Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New Yor« HERALD, proposes to fit ont, on his own account, an Arctic expedition for the purpose of discovering the North Pole. This is certainly & magnificent undertaking for individual enterprise, and will, if successful, win its projector # larger meed of the world’s honor than fell to bis lot upon the discovery of Livingstone in Africa. What it is proposed to do with the North Pole when discov~ ered has not yet been intimated, but it can hardly be doubted tnat it will be turned to some useful purpose if taken to New York. Journal, Oct, 27.) (From the Lafayette (Ind.) James Gordon Bennett is talking about fitting out an Arctic expedition for the discovery of the North Pole. (From the St. John (N. B.) Globe, Oct. 25.) ‘the New York H&RALD contemplates sending out an expedition to discover the North Pole, [From the Savannah Advertiser and Republican, Oct. 26.) Mr. Bennett; of the NEw YorK IgRaLv, encoury aged by his snceess in sending “the right man to the right place” to discover Dr, Livingstone, con~ templates fitting out an expedition to the Nort. Pole. This explains the motives for inquiries which have been made by an intelligent gentie- man in the best inrormed quarters in Dundee, since the arrival of the crew of the Polaria, wit® Tespect to the class of vessels most suitaple for Arctic explorations