The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1873, Page 4

4 ‘THB POLITICAL OONZLICR. | Preparations for the Great Struggle To-Morrow. PLANS AND DISPOSITION OF BATTLE The Whole Ticket—State, County and Judiciary. The eve of the campaign of 1873 in the city ana State presents signs of preparation that promises warm work to-morrow. All day yesterday (Sun- day) the leaders of the political parties who are to take part in to-morrow’s contest were up to their ‘eyes in business. The sacredness of the day was lost sight of in the bustle that always precedes the actual conflict, and last night, as they will again to-night, ‘she leaders passed the watches on the field survey- ang the ground and laying out the plan of battle, posting sentinels, issuing commands, and making such disposition of their forces as their ex- Perience In political warfare dictated. The strug- gle ts an important one, fot alone as to present Teaulta, but as to the condition in which it ‘may leave either party to renew the conflict on & Tuture occasion, Victory always invests the win- ning side with a prestige that is half the battie in ‘the next encounter, and to this extent and on this reliance -the republicans and their Apollo Hall | allies go into the field, with drums beating and flags flying, with ali the pride, pomp and circum- stance befitting the occasion. Tammany, thrice defeated, but not conquered, enters the lists under ew but indomitable leaders, who have thrown the fortunes of the wigwam on the cast, and accept the hazard of the die. Tammany has made a MOST SUCCESSFUL RALLY within the last few weeks, and strengthened her organization almost up to the war maximum of olden times, Political lines have, to a great ex- tent, become again defined, and the old adherents of Tammany in the rank and file are once more hurrying to the defence of the standard under which in years past they fought and conquered. Tho fight of the diferent members of the body Politic against the head, asin times past, was dis- covered to be fatal, and the disaffected members, by the counsel and under the LEADERSHIP OP FABRICIUS KELLY return to their allegiance and to their duties under the old banner, Apoilo Hall and the Custom House republicans, on their part, are moving heaven and earth to win in the contest. Political ostracism awaits the leaders if they fail, The allied leaders are inthe dangerous position of the generals of ancient Rome, who when they lost battles lost their beads; or, worse than that, even in the condi- tion of the GENERALS OF THE ARMIRS OF KUFPFAI-CALCALLI, KING OF THE ASHANTEES, who, when they lose a battle, or even a@ fag, are pelted and booted round the city, treated with every indigaity, drummed or tom-tommed beyond the walls, and then decapitated. O’Brien and Murphy cau hardly contemplate a probable fate | 16— Uke this with any equanimity, and tneir efforts | I~ | and generalsnip, and individual prowess, it may | well be presumed, will come as near to the ex- igency of the occasion, on Tuesday next, as the terrible risk they run demands. Old Probabilities promises a glorious morrow for the encounter. Business will be, to greas extent, | suspended tor the duy and the politicians will have the city to themselves. That wil! not prevent the | thousands who will have a holiday irom enjoying themselves. A waik up Broadway in the welcome brightness and warmth of a November sun is en- joyable and will be enjoyed. The numerous poll- | ing places will present scenes attractive to many, for, even though it is election day, and two great | parties contend together for the inastery, quiet and | grder and public peace will prevail. AT THE DIFFERENT HEADQUARTERS } in all the Assembly districts the greatest entha- | siasm and excitement exist. Details of trasted | men are receiving their final orders—men for the polls, men for the sidewalks, squads of runners w convey intelligence and to bring back reports from booth to booth, and to the headquarters of the generals commanding. The note of preparation resounds everywhere. Tom Morphy bas ordered Gray Surrey to be saddled for the fleid to-morrow, | while John Keily will lead his braves on foot as becomes a Dig Indian. Tom Murphy and Coionel | Chester Anthon will lead the Custom House con- tingents and open the battle at sunrise by a mov ment en echelon upon the booths in the lower wards under the inspiriting War-whoop of Jimmy O’Brien, an Apollo Hall brave, of CHARGE! CHESTER, CHARGE! ON! MURPHY, ON! | Join Fox, a Tammany brave who has bad many | a brush with the Custom House warriors without ever having lost the value of @ fox's brush, is favorably posted to repel the onslaught, and will, | like Hanniba! in his encounter with the young patricians of Rome, reserve his fire till he can pep- | er them right in the face, which will compel the Randsome Arthur and his followers to turn their backs and git. The roar o: battle will then be continuous irom the Battery to Harlem Bridge, and from river to river, at all points of attack | and delence, till the sun goes quietly down behind | ‘he Bergen hills, when both parties will cease firing and the result will be totaled up at Police Headquarters. Below we give 4 {ull list of the candidates upon the State, county and judiciary tickets. THE CANDIDATES, State Ticket. SECRETARY OF STATE. Republican, Rep Tom. and Apols Hall | F 8 thayer. D. Willers, Jr. D. Willers, Jr. COMPTROLL N. K. Hopkins. N. K. Hopkins. Asher P. Nichols. TREASCRER. Daniel G. Fort. Thomas Raines. Thomas Raines. arr0%: B.D. Silliman. _D. Pratt. Dante! Pratt. NEER AND SURVEYOR. ® William B. Taylor. 8. H. Sweet S. H. Bweet. CANAL COMMISSIONER. Sidney Mead. J. Jackson, Jr. J. Jackson, Jr. INSPECTOR OF PRISONS. Moss K. Platt, Mos K. Platt. G. W. Millspangh. County Ticket. suEeBirr. Tammany. Apollo Halland Rad, _ Lik. Republican "wim. C. Conner. Wm. C. Conner. ~ Jolin McCool COUNTY CLERK: William Walsh. J. M. Patterson, Jr Whilam Walsh. SUICTANY-AUPRIME COURT tems, Apotto Hall a: ad, ude Ee Fancher... E. I. Fancher. Tammany. A. R. Lawrence. | 1—Harvey_D. Talcott. | 1-Wiliam B. Ely. | 2-Henry Thorp. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, 1—James Kerr... 2Emngham 7. Brown Cc 1—Bomer Pringle, 2-Obed Edson... 0 En mond ir, SEE armatrene COUNTY. Harris H. Beecher. county. Guibard. TY. * John D. Langdon, GoW. Tomlinson (Temp.). ‘Alonzo H. Farrar. pouty. *George W. Phillips. countY, Benjamin J. Bassett. Mathew Grifin, 1—Henry Lawren 2—Peter F. Messick... oo) Henry M, Kingman DEI 1—James Champers. 2—Lemuel Sines... 1—James Mackin.. 2—Benjamin 8. Broas. x 1—Patrick Hanrahan... 2—Joseph W. sinith. 3—Henry C. Doyle 4—Henry B. Eldred... 5—rrauk M. Thorn.. si Gardner Pope. Baker Stevens. ¥ UNTY. i -James W. Steele. YRANKLIN COUNTY, sees Moan P, Badger. IN AND HAMILTON. ohn Sunderlin. OUNTY. - Horatio 8. Lockwood. Hamlin B, Maben... oe. JRPFRRSON 1—George W. Green. ba 4—Jacob Putnam... “dohn J, Allen. ‘Charles Condit David J, Pillswortt, 7—Stephen J. C 8—Fred W. Kalbieisc George C. Sohn MeGroarty.. ohn Vakey. Lxwis Cou! NTY, John Merrick............+ .*Sidney Sylvester. LIVINGSTON COUNTY. tJonathan B. Morey. DISON COUNTY. *idward C. Philpot. :Henry W. Carpenter, A. Goss. jower. neu. Bennett. 1—Andrew McCoy... 2—Edward J. ‘Brow a. mo 1—S. Hatch Gould... 2— — Jobn $—John Borst... *Leonard Burritt. MONTGOMERY couNTY. tissac S. Fros --..-Martin Ly Stover. YORE counrr. Dist, ‘Tammany. ‘Apollo Hall, 1—James Healy -Thomas Burns. 2-Wm. Thomas Wild. 4—James Ryan arles Keally. $—George L. Loutre! rthur J. Delaney. 6—Matthew Edward A. Bla! 7—alfred Wi rge W. Clarke. ti 9—a. J. Matthewso! 10—Louis C, Waehner. 11—Oliver P. Buel 12—Francis Murray 13—Joseph H. Horton. 1¢—Jonn Murphy... 15—Joseph Blum 16—Peter Woods. '7—andrew Ble: 1$—Henry McCabe 19—James T. King. ‘Lawrence Kiernan. VT, O'Callagan. 2lJames ¥. smith, ‘Joba W. Smith, “Henry W. Genet. Republican, £ ze ze au 8—Frederick Wugel, J. .George Scherman. $e. M. Traphagen George B. Dean, Jr. 1—Loais C. Waehne ; —= h- - Knox McAfee. SSS tL Southworth. 1s—Stepben D. hath hw - . Charies Sc! William 8, Murray. ‘orge P. Bradford. ernard ae Alexander Martin. David Babcoc: William Haw, Jr. coustr. ‘Artemius W. Comstock, 2-Elton T, Ransom Orville C. Bordwelt 2-George W. Cleveland. S—Harvey 8. Bedell..... ‘John Mi. Whipple: ONONDAGA COUNTY. 1—Thomas G. Alvord. *William H. H. Gere. award Connell, Temp. 2—Mathias Britton. George Barrow. 3—Charles Simon Daniel BES Temp. “Jonn 1. Furbec! Y. V. Nottingham, Temp. ‘Stephen H, Hammond 2—Charies E. Shevard... Onan 1—James W. Miller. .. 2—Charies B. Wood.. +Asahel Byington........... Oswxco county. Timothy Sullivan. George B. Sloan. Willard Johnson .Christopher D. Walkup. Hugh D. Mellen........... Justus L, Bulkley. SWEGO COUNTY, -..¢William W. Campbell. 2isJohn Cope, PorNAM COUNTY. -Hamilton Fish, Jr. OUNTY. Prince. Saxton Smith... 1—Fred. A. Lawrenc -*L, Bradford 2—*James M. Oakley Henry C. Johnson. BENSSRLARR COUNTY. 1— - og . - 2-J. Knickerbocker Robert Dickson. 3—Jacod M. Whitbeck. Charles Fenton. nica Stephen D. Stephens.. « William Knapp. ca 1—Edwin D. Dodge 2—Charies N. $—Bosweil Hopkins. % 1—George A. Ei 2 ss sa ot sGeorgs Wes ... SGeorge 3. Bi scukNectaby covxry Arthur W. Huater..........*Danlel P, McQueen. ScmOWARix COUNTY John B. Hoag. is TY. ... Jonas Dillenbeck. SCHUYLER COUNTY. Jeremiah McGuire ...¢Harmon L. Gregory, SENKCA COUNTY. Wilham C. Hazelto: Isaac N. Johnson. sri counTY. . Charles K. Miner. . Charles F. Haughton, SUFFOLK coURTY. or eeeee: Nathan D. Petty. B. V. Reeves, Temp. SULLIVAN COUNTY. *George M. Beebe.. . «Charles T, Kilbourn. Thoda coustr. Isaac 8, Stanclift...........\Jerome B. Landfield. TOMPKINS COUNTY. Charles W. Bates. »W. L. Bostwick. William Hanford, Temp. ULSTER COUNTY. «Robert &. Snyder, james H. Brown. Lacius Lawson. rt. tcheller. 1—Stephen D. Shatt 2—abram Dudley Wilson J. Terry. 1—M. A. Cummings Peter Gill 2—Hiector Abeel.. 3—John D, Wintield kN COUNTY. ¥ Austin W. Holden ... ‘Joseph Woodward. WASHINGTON COUNTY. a Alexander B. Law. 2-Emerson E, Davis....... Jobn Hall. John J. Wing, Temp. warn cousty. 1—Emory W. Gurney.. John ©. Hough. = assert Joseph W. Corning. WESTCURATER COUNTY. 1—+William Cauldwell., 2—John H. Cornell. SB, Gedney Lompkins ‘ WYOMING R. C. Mordoff. * ¥ George W. Spencer. *amherst Wright, Jr. W. Husted. county. ‘Samuel W. Tewksbury. atks Contr. ) "Morris B. Finn, “Members of the last House +Mombers of preceding Legislatures. C.H. Van Brunt, A. R. Lawrence. SUPERIOR couRT. Alex. Spaulding. Gilbert M. Speir. Isaac Dayton. ©, L, Monell. THY MARINE COURT, H, &. Howland. R. D. Hateh CORONERS. Richard Croker. Cornelius Flynn. Henry Woitman. Michael Cregan. Authony Kickhoff, A. Willmann, ALDERMAN, * Chas. Donohue. Gilbert M. Spetr. ©. L. Monell. David McAdam. Davis 5 Henry Alker. i ee Heury Alker. Richard Croker. Henry Woltman. A. Kickhoft, Edward Gilon. Geo. Opdyke. Edward Gilon, .. CONGRESS—SIZTH DISTRICT, ‘Samuel S$. Cox. J. Wadsworth. Samael 8. Cox. Senatorial. Dist. Dem. Rep. Fed. I= Abraham G.thompson JobnA Ring. 2-John W. Coe. ...------.. John C, P S—John C, Jacobs. on F: Henry, . John Fo A ye <Jonn Fox... organ Jones, | S—Vincent 6. Ki James W. Booth, ing aw Charles P, Sh re George Hencker, Jr. Robert G. Cornell. Walter 8. Pinckney. 12—Roswell A, Parmenté 18—Jesse 0. Rayon 1¢-Jacob H. Meceh.. S—William Youmans, Jr. orne W. Schuyler eorge W. Cuyier. 2%—Wiltiam Johnson. 2i—George B. By S—Jarv ord Willlani, by Woodin ‘DeWitt G. Parshall (Ind.) Nestor Wood worth. ALBANY COUNTY, Fed, Frederick Schi Richard B. Rock. .. flenry A, Dwight “Waters W. Braman, decker. aa To-myBROW'S Y age ~—] Tom Scott on Triai=The Fight Against Comm im Jersey City. The momentous struggie during the latest session Of the Legislature of New Jersey between the rail- road monopolies and the people of that State is to be renewed at the ballot box to-morrow. In every county the raiiroad issue has been introduced in the nominations, and in many cases the adherents of Tom Scott were rejegted. The issue is fairly placed before the people in Middlesex between Jarrard and Letson for Senator, the former, @ republican, being the avowed and tried supporter of Tom Scott and the latter his most unrelenting enemy, In Mon- mouth county George -W. Patterson, who inflicted such havoc on the ‘fom Scott brigade in Trenton, is making @ canvass unprecedented for the enthu- siasm with which he is received in every district. George is the pioneer of the Grangers, and his banners have tue simple’ inscription, “Down with Monopolies |" In Jersey City the public attention is altogether absorbed, not by tue monopoly issue, but by the question whether the people are M% to choose their own rulers, Tne republicans are responsible for the “commissions” that have robbed Jersey City right and leit and heaped up a load of debt now amounting to $12,000,000, The democrats did Dot steal so badly, but they were more corrupt Between these two parties, then, the people have not much choice exe an independent candidate is sommeaten hee Assembly, as tn the Fourth district, in the person Dr. Laldiaw, @ gentleman of unquestioned invegrity and ability. Taxpayers of voth parties, diaguaved witb political cl tanism and determined to weed out political hacks and bummers, iorced him to accept the nomination. In the First district, George H. Farrier, ropublican, and , 4 McGil democr: are the andidates for mag ees on ol. Nathan insists that he is regular democratic nominee, In the Second rict, which contains an over- whelming democratic majority, Patrick Sheeran is the nomipee, and will certainly be elected. In the ELECTIONS IN JERSEY, pis jo kgey fog poten th i bf hd re} eouean ALLEGANY e party but of the vonia al is John D, re 2 Seta Te Blaine nT OPT Blaey. i calleo, The demoeratic nomination bas gone begging, for the democracy tn the district is demoralized. ‘Tho honesty and respectability in the party are too insigoificant for public recognition. L. B, Ransom, @ gentleman of un- blemished reputation, is willing, however, to carr! the democratic standard as “the man in the gap.” In the Fourth district the reguiar democratic candi- date is A. McDonnell, the republican candidate A. G,. Bennett and the republican candidate No. 2 Edward Phelan. The taxpayers, with Laidiaw at their bead, are, likely to enter the homestretch The constituents of the Fifth have to tw Com! (republican) and Hasiam (democrat). In the Sixth little Archie Brown, & most popular and enterprising youn, dawyer, has been selected by the democrats, an: the party cou!d not have made a better nomination, Against him is Richard 0. Washburn, whose career during the late session was most honorable. There will be a lively fight in the Seventh district, James Curran is the democrat and Major Hart the republican. The Germans have resolved to fight the battle, however, not as Americans, but as a German pari? and ip their manifesto they state expressly that ii avery Ger- man'’—not every American citizen--does his duty Mr. Rabe, the German candidate, will be elected. ‘The nonunees in the Eighth district are both good and troe men, James K, Selleck (democrat) and Alexander Jacobus (republican). There are few re- pudlicans in Hudson county more popular than nek and few men with a better record than Sel- eck. THE STATE ELECTIONS. New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, Virginia, Texas and Mississippi — Memoranda. New York State. Election for Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General and Commissioner, Inspector of Stace Prisons, Justice Supreme Court (Third district), members of the Legisiature and county and other local oMfcers. Majority for Dix (republican), for Governor, last year, 53,451. In the Mayoralty election in New York city Have- meyer (administration and reform) had 5,898 majority over Lawrence (democrat). Massachasetts, Election for Governor, Member of Congress from the Third district, member of the Legislature. Majority ‘or Washburne (republican), for Governor, last year, 74,274 New Jersey. Election fora portion of the State Senate. Ma- jority for Grant (republican), for President, last year, 15,200; majority for Parker (democrat), for Governor, in 1872, 5,979. The election in Passaic county is for Senator, Assemblymen, Sheriff and Coroners. For Sheriffm the democrats have nominated John Hopper; the republicans, Adam Carr, and Andrew Denom is ranning independent. Tne Assembly candidates are:—First district, David Henry (democrat), Charles D. Beckwith (republican) ; Second district, John P. Zeluff (democrat), George Barnes (re- publican), Richard Van Houten (temperance) ; Third district, Gerrit Planten (democrat), G. A. Hooart (republican). The predictions are that Jona Hopper, David Henry, George Barnes and G, A. Hobart will be elected, There is no oppo- sition to the republican candidate for Snerif—John Alien, present incumbent, IWinoi The election in Illinois is principally for county and other local oficers, although there ts more or less of State and national interest involved in the contest. The majority for Oglesby (republican), for Governor, last year, was 40,690, Wisconsin. The election in Wisconsin ts for Governor and members of the Legislature. The majority for Grant (republican), for President, last year, was 18,520; majority for Washburn (republican), for Governor, in 1871, 9,379. ki Minnesota. Election for Governor and members of the Legis- lature, The majority for Grant last year was STATE POLITICS. Apathy and Discontent Among the Republicans. Sure Gains All Round for the Democracy. The Workingmen and the Financial Panic. MonTIORLLO, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1873. There probably never has been since the close of the war a political campaign so barren of all ex- citement a8 the present campaign has been thus far, in the interior of this State, and yet, J venture to say that not even the canvassers sent out by the two parties to “ieel the public pulse” in every nook and corner of the State have as yet been able to make up their minds as to what the result of the election on Tuesday will be, taking the ‘State as a whole, It has been my duty during the past few weeks to make myself as well acquainted: with the political affairs of each county and ais- trict as was possible, andin the prosecution of that purpose Ihave come across and derived in- formation from the active workers of both parties in cities, towns and villages from the ex- treme yestern portion of the State to the very borders of New York city, and I must confesa that I am to-day almost as utterly unable to indicate with any degree of certainty which party will carry the day as when I first set foot in Chautauqua county preparatory to my zig- zag tours through the various counties, on my way homeward. Tnis is certainly rather an un- Pleasant condition to be placed in, after all the pains I have taken to be abie to arrive at a definite conclusion as to the final result; but facts, they say, are stabborn things, and that things political are considerably mixed all round 1s a fact that has stared me out of countenance in every district Ihave visited. A GENERAL STATE OF UNCERTAINTY, Yet I do not by any means desire to be under- stood as saying that there are no ‘old time” in- dicatiéns, as the politicians call the changes of front made by individual voters in ‘off years,’’ which point to the success of one party over the other. I found, to be sure, general indications and plenty of them, which I might give as reliaple if I were to put confidence in everything that the various republican county committee chairmen told me, and which go to show, you know. that the democrats were never g0 democalized as they are now; and the other side of the story [, of course, heard told time and again, with all the usual embellishments, in districts,where I pretended, for purposes of my own, to pin my faith entirely on the statements of the democratic county wiseacres who are allowed to pull the local wires, But what makes both sides more than usually to be disbelieved is the conf- dence with which each side announces that “there is no doubt about the thing at all.” Indications ofacertain kind, then, as to what the result will be are plentiful enough, but indications that point unerringly, and upon which a person who cares for neither one party bor the other can place full reliance, there are absolutely none. And yet, if there has been nothing of the old time campaign spirit manifested in any part of the State whith might give me a clew as to which way the political current was setting, there is one thing which attracted my attention in almost every town I have been in, and which may in all probability turn out to be after all one of the surest indications of how an election may be carried by non-activity; I refer to the apathy everywhere manifested by the repub- 20,694; majority for Austin (republican), for Gov- ernor, in 1871, 14,974. Maryland. Election fora portion of executive officers and one-third of the State Senators. Majority for Greeley (democrat and liberal republican) last year,927; majority for Whyte (democrat), for Gov- ernor, in 1871, 15,135. Virginia. Election for Governor and members of the Legis- lature. Majority for Grant in 1872, 1,814 Tex: Election for Governor and members of the Legis- lature. Greeley carried thé State last year by about 20,000, Memoranda for the Elections To-Morrow. With che exception of Illinois the.elections to- morrow in all the States named will have an effect upon the composition of the United States Senate after the 4th of March, 1875. In the State of New York the Senators to be chosen to-morrow serve for two years, which will give the upper branch of our Legisiature a voice tn the selection of Unitea States Senator to succeed Senator Fenton in 1875. The State of Mississippi is in an unfortunate muddle in regard to her election, which had been fixed for to-morrow, and although the act may be regarded as illegal it is not improbable that votes will be cast for State oMcers, which will involve a question of State sovereignty or State lunacy, that may call for the arbitration of Congress, in wnich event, Congress being largely republican, that body will, no doubt, decide in Iavor of the faction that stands the Ormest by the party and the adminis- tration. SUNSET COX CALUMNIATED, An old attack upon Mr. S.S. Cox, who is the democratic and liberal republican candidate for Congressman in the Sixth district, has been re- vived by his enemies. In 1850 Mr. Cox, in his visit to Rome, made some observations in regard to the Catholic Church which he afterwards published on his return in his book of travel. In the politi- cal Campaigns of 1868 and 1870 the passages re- lating to the Church of Rome were boldly garbled and circulated among yoters in order to influence them against Cox. The same trick is again resorted té, and would be an outrage if it were pertysttea to be continually perpetrated without Yeing stigmatized as the basest kind of deiamation. The following telegraphic despatch ffom Bishop Rosecrans, received by Mr. Cox in 1868, should dissipate edectually all of these cal- umnies :— } ToS. & Cox, 13 Twelfth street :— he charge of Know Nothingism or hostility to Catho- tr utterly false. Hes agence #00 fe uerly felet, noseCRANS, Bishop. Ne ae BROOKLYN POLITIOR Division in the Ninth Ward. In the Ninth ward of Brooklyn, tle voters of which are composed almost equally 01 democrats and re- publicans, the field 18 somewhat checkered by the presence of four candidates for Alderman. The regular nominees are Danie! O'Connell t) and R. Van Wyck Powel! also (republican. Twe independent candidates have also been announced, one of democratic and the other of republican sMliations. Mr. James Cassidy, the firs, referred to, was formerly @ captain of the Brook- lyn police, Mr. Charies KE. Davenport, the other, is a private peegenss of some standing, and well ipported by f¢ number of friends, It is imored, however, and is undoubtedly true, as he is @ member of the same political circie, that he bas withdrawn flé onauthorized use of his name rematurely made by his friends, and will give his influence in aid of Mr. Powell, the regular republi- can candidate, whd,.it 18 expected, will the contest, A PATAL FALL About four o'clock yesterday morning @ man about thirty years of age, whose name is un- known, was almost Instantly killed by falling from @ lreight car in Fourth avenue, near Thirty-fourtn street, on which he was riding. Deceased was dressed in brown coat and pants, Congress gaiters and a black cap, Coroner Young was notified to hold an inquest. THR OOLBY HOMICIDE, Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday made an an- topay on the body of Michael Colby, the man who died in the Park Hospitai trom the effects of a stab wound in the chest, inflicted by the hand of James Kelly, in Cherry Street, on Tuesday last, as previ- ously reported. The Doctor found that ‘death re- sulted from plearo-pneumonia and pericorditis following 4 stab wound in the lower side of the chest; the up) artof the left ventricle of the r pears was Shgh y out by the knife, Coroner ton? has not yet Damed # day for ihe investiga- licans. WHAT CAN THR MATTER BE? ‘The democrats, itis true, have been, as a rule, imactive, but then their inactivity has been down- right work compared with that of their opponents; and besides in many counties where I discovered the apathy of the republicans to be absolutely astonishing by the extent of its sleepy influence, I was not blind to the fact that, while pretending to care as little for the election as their antagon- ists, and that on the surface they were as deter- mined to do as little as possible in the matter of Teal campaign work, the democrats were slyly and covertly working like beavers, Indeed, the general want 1 action on the part of the repub- licans in every part of the State surprised me more than anything else connected with the political bern in the various counties; and what gave me additional surprise was t inquiry showed me that this apathy was not simple forget- fulness of party duty on the part of the repub- licans, but deliberate neglect. To put it more forcibly, and at the same time to be nearer the truth, I think I ought to say that this feeling of apathy appeared to be more a feeling of discou- tent with the party than a mere forgetiulness of what the party’s success depends upon—the active co-operation With the said wirepuilers of every republican voter. if, therefore, it should haypen— I don't say it will—but I say if it should happen that next Wednesday the State ticket nominated at Utica by the democrats should be the successful one, and that from dfstricts strongly republican LARGE OCRATIC GAINS, if not here and there local democratic triumphs, are announced, the republicans will have only themselves to thank for their defeat. And yet I make bold to assert that if this should be the case no amount of excusatory nonsense about the vic- tory being of small account—in view of the fact that it was brought about by repubiicans being little neglectful rather than because the democrats were any stronger than the year previous-gwill avail to cover up the real Cause of the disaster, It is quite one thing when a man forgets to vote, but quite another thing when he refuses to vote. It may be stoutly argued that if a voter really desires to upset his own party he has no surer way of ac- complishing bis object than by voting with the 0} posite party; yet, while this may be all very wellin the abstract, it will not sufice to convince the country voter, who doesn’t like to vote with the party which he always as a rule votes agains! that, by refusing to contribute his individual weight to the ee fed of his own side of the house, his own party ts not really rebuked thereby. Some people may call this sort of thing the natural effect of an ofl-year cam , but where the apathy takes the positive form of discontent, in some cases openly avowed, as 1 have often heard it during the past few weeks, to call it the effect of @ rain storm or the hay fever would be just about as plausible. Now, while I repeat that | am not attempting even to conjecture that the dem- ocrats have a better chance of carrying the State than their opponents, I am of the opinion that hundreds of republicans will not (? to the polls this year at all, who as a general thi ne vote taith- fully every year, and who will remain at home, not through neglect, but through a determination to show the party at large that they are not satisfied Ty all (ts doings, yet are not so unfaithful toit as | WILLING TO GO OVER TO THR BNEMY. Itisnot for me to argue whether there is really ause bel this kind of action on the oO considerable number of republicans. art Of au, “«wly to record facts as I find them, Ry auty ts slin, 4 we of Alonnn. and that there is 5 Wepre feos FF srt “sag in the rural districta Ts tent among the republic. smar a a tact beyond dispute. Wher. 8 feeling will beget such @ want of confidence in Qarty be- tween now and election day as to cause “ich a large number of the discontented to remain i] irom the polls that the democrats will be victo- rious, 1s quite another question, and one which elec- tion day alone can answer. ‘The fact of the matter is that in some of the districts—in all of them to a small extent, and in @ few to @ very considerable extent—there are republi- cans who, waile anxious to do their duty as parti- sans so far as they can consistently with self- respect, are unwilling to.be regarded as men who, because they are republicans, are ready to vote tho straight ticket and swallow the good and bad men at one gulp, or to be considered as endorsers of the corruptions at Washington and elsewhere of their party, or corrupt mew petted by it, because they jemselves vote to sustain the party. And the men of this stamp whom [| have met with are not republicans of the liberal stripe, but out-and-out republicans of jy standing. In some counties I came acrosa few who were open in their avowal that they were so disgusted with affairs in the beaded generally that they would not vote at all, In every county [ met with many republicans who refused to say whether they would vote or not, Who proffered no excuse for saying that they were undetermined as to what they would do, ane who as a rule considered It nobody's business, If this state of affairs should remain unchanged uetil Tuesday night can anybody doubt but that there will be # serious Loe off in the aggregate vote of the republican party in the State, not to go 80 far ag to ask if there is not & strong likelihood, should the democrats keep well together, of the falling off reducing the aggregate below that of the other party? THE POLITICAL EBPPECTS OF THE FINANCIAL PANIC. There is another thing which may possibly tell very forcibly against the republicans in the in- terior, although, doubtiess, there are many fair minded me lemocrats a6 well #8 repubilcana, vhat it is unjust that it shouid tell party more than the other. 1 ave fipenc panig—not, in against one allude to the deed, as ft affected Buchu bankers and stock brokers weeks the wi men now. pend for living on the work they got in raliroad shops, foundries, factories and mills of all descrip- tions have been thrown out of employment during the past few woeks, and everywhere in the State are encountered the sad evidences of the want aud misery that this misfortune nas entailed in Village, town and city alike. I have had ample opportunity-for conversing with many, very many Of the men who have now no work, and with man: who, though Rewipp work, are compelled to wo on half time and largely reduced wages; and I assure you that] was not prepared to find such ® universal feeling of bitterness toward the party in power among them as I did. It may be, a3 | said betore, unreasonable that the men should attire bute their misfortunes to one Legh more than to another when Say were brought about by at least no direct action of either one, yet the republicans belng in power, against them is launched the greatest anathemas, It is the general government the unfortunate men denounce, and, considering ee or yeti leg in nue Legg as naturally & e National republican tt too is made a co-victim of . abi THK GENERAL BAD FERLING, Judging from what I could learn from my conver- sations with them, they believe that a change in our political affairs cainot make matters worse, and that if they should stand by the republican tcket “the men at Washington who ought to give @ halping hana” wonld take It as an endorsement ol all they have done, “the good they have done for us as well as the trouble and misery they might have kept us free irom.” Of course 1 am not wiiling to say that this is the sentiment ofthe majority of the men who are now, with anxious eyes and troubled hearts, looking forward to the winter that is near at hand, when cold as weil as hunger must be met; but, from all I have been able to learn here and there in my short talks with them, I am convinced that a feeling of bitter- ness exists among them against the party in power @t Washington that may prove serious with the republican party in New York if the present dis- tress continues. Thus much for the general pros- pects; and now let me say a word about the feel- 1ng in the country districts on the amendment to the constitution to be voted on whether the judges shall be elected or appointed. « THE QUESTION O¥ APPOINTING JUDGES. When I left New York I was firmly convinced that the adoption of this amendment by the people was @ foregone conclusion, and that the action since taken, I learn, by Tammany Hall calling upon the people to vote against it would find but few re- sponses outside the democratic ranks, I have been totaily undeceived alter travelling among some of the strongholds of republicanism in the interior; in fact astonished to find that some of the very strongest arguments in favor of the elective sys- tem came from prominent republicans, stoutly en- dorsed and backed up by @ strong republican sen- tment. I may be mistaken, but I verily believe that this ameadment will be voted down by a untae Majority, and that republican votes in the rural districts will give it its deathblow. Even in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis and other counties where the republicans are always in the majority the number of the advo- cates of the elective system ,is surprisingly large. ‘The question ts not in the country districts a party one, no matter how peanle in New York city may look at the matter. Indeed, one of the most vehe- ment denunciations of the amendment | have as yet heard was made in Bey preaelioe in Canton by one of the very first republicans of the western Part ot the State, The occasion that drew it forth was the reported action of the Bar Association of your city advocating the adoption of the amend- ment. In Rensselaer county the republicans, led by no less a man than Martin J. townsend, are largely opposed to it and will cast a strong vote against it. One determined supporter of Mr. Townsend's views argues thus:—‘Tne proposed change 1s & very serious one, and it becomes every law-loving citizen to ask himself these questions: Snall I choose my own judge, or shall I chovuse a servant to do it forme? Ought the judge to feel a responsibility to me or to that servant? Shall THK CORRUPTIONS INRVITABLB IN POLITICS be narrowed down to and concentrated in the Executive chamber? Which course is more in ac- cordance with the principles of republican gov- ernment? What reason can be given for the pro- posed change except the ambition of a lew men whom the people do not think fit for judges, but who hope that a Governor might?” This gentle- man bases his opposition to the amendment also on this fact: that although the elective system hax been in operation over CE ahead o! a century, and the people having elected several hundred judges during that time, but two oi them turned out bad, and they were promptly swept into oblivion. Now this is the real argument of the great mass of the rural republicans who are opposed to the amendment. They see to it, as do the country democrats, that good judges are elected in their districts, and they do not think that the privilege’ of electing judges should be taken away from them simply because it has happened that bad men have been elected in some parts of the State. “Had Governor Hoffman,” argues one of the leaders in Jefferson county, “who appointed Barnard and Cardozo, two of the most corrupt and mercenary of the whole lot of city judges, as judges of the General Yerm, possessed the appointing power and Tweed’s Senate the con- firming of his appointees, our whole State judi- ciary, county judges and ail, would have shown a elizhtiul state of things—to have multiplied Bar- nards and Cardozos aud the number of our Court of Appeals judges, Supreme Court pe tard County Court judges and surrogates!” Then, ne adds, “What was to hinder but that they were elective by the people and that I'weed’s sway did not ex- tend beyond the limits of New York city? There is no certainty that other Hotfmans may not be elected Governor or. that other ‘'weeds will not dominate in the Senate and over the Governor,” In my opinion, next Tuesday the people in the rural districts, outside of the big towns, will take a more active interest in this amendment question * than in anything else connected with the election. THE NBXT ASSEMBLY—CONCLUSION. . Now as to the Assembly. The mixed state of affairs in almost every district, and the general a@pathy ol the voters, on the republican side of the house especially, and the reticence of so many who pretend that they have not as yet made up their minds whether they will vote or not, render anything like a prediction a rather daring exploit; but | am satisfied of one thing from all 1 have seen and heard on all sides in the several aistricts, that the democrats are certain of a very handsome gain over their quota of Assemblymen of last winter. Should the hundreds of men thrown out of employment of late, in their bitterness of spirit, cast their votes against the republican Assembly- men, for the same reason 50 bores of them say they will vote againat the State ticket, the democrats will not only have a good gain, but press the re- ublicans rather closely for the constitutional ma- forty in the lower house. Last winter the Assem- ly stood—Grant republicans, 91; democrats, 31; independent democrats, 3; liberal republicans, 3 At the very lowest estimate, I feel convinced that the opposition—that is, democrats and liberal re- townie combined—wiil have @ clear gain of at least twenty-five members over the thirty-one democrats of last year; that is, a solid opposition of flity-six votes. The State ticket may be, I think, fairly set down as in doubt. Whichever party carries it will certainly not have much of a major- ity to boast over. THE MOUNTAIN CROWS. Fourteen Savages at the Grand Central Hotel. Were it not for the terrible din in polities which is 80 prevalent at present the presence of nine braves and five squaws of the Mountain Crow Indian tribe at the Grand Central ‘Hotel, in this city, would prove a very attractive show for the curiosity seekers, These fourteen ladies and gentlemen of the red persuasion arrived in this city from Washington, where they had been to visit the “Great Father,” on Saturday morning. The distinguished visitors are registered as fol- lows:— Mr. and Mrs. Iron Bull Mr. and Mrs. Blackfod! (rig obser and squaw). Mr. and Mrs, bong Horse (big chief and squaw). Bear Wolf and Mrs. Bear Wolf. Mrs. Bear Wolf is @ young bride, having been married only three joP..a8 ago to her consort, Her maiden name was “The Old Crow." Mr. Tinbelly, a brave weighing 185 pounds, who is Unmarried, but is quite willing to be joined in the bonds of holy wedlock, Mr. White Calf, a big brave, unmarried. Mr, Bear-in the-Water, a large and powerfully one en oprave Yery fond of sardines, Welghs tos pounts.” see, 18 198 pounds, d last, but not least, there is “The Old Dog" as he ts called, an unmarried brave, with de- cided and marked fondness for soda water bottles and brass earrings, These iniaps are pary of a tribe who number 4000 sons, an are located An & reservation on the Missou! ver. They have Poon at Washington to have a talk With the “Great Pither,” and when they have overeaten themselves at the Grand Central and oe. to fhe | theatres and the opera they will go back td he Missourt River. Several of the tribe are now saffocing froin indigestion. They are in charge of two Agents and interpreters, and are attired in bidncets and breechclouts, @ costume admirat,’ calculated to display their muscular Gi sinewy frames in this windy November Weather. They are constantly at war with the Sioux nation, and are satd to be a nation of great fighters. In terrific encounter between the two tribes, which occurred on the Big Horn River and Insted six days, there were killed six Crows and seven Sioux warriors, INPANTIOIDE IN BROOKLYN. Catharine Seymour, (The first is a big chief.) & German servant girl, twenty-two years of age, unmarried, was placed under arrest at No. 1,165 Myrtle avenne, at the residence of her employer, Mr. Trangott Macholdt, On @ charge of infanticide, yesterday. Her master lodged information at the Ninth precinct station house to the effect that he believed the woman had given birth to @ child, and search reveaied the fact that she had done so, The body of an infant was found in an outhouse, The girl will be arraigned on & charge of infanticide as soon as her strength will permit, Mary Shepard, colored, twenty-one years of age, Was arrested on complaint o# Dr, Rockwell, on the charge of infanticide, on Saturday evening, at her residence in Sackett street. Sue was Con- vaved vo the Raymogd Strat Jai, NAST’S NEED. Charitable Throbbings of the Na- tion’s Mighty Heart. SAVE HIM FROM THE BLACKBOARD? A Fourth Ward Outfit for the Martyr. New You«, Noy. 2, 1873, To THe Eprror or THs HERALD:— Your sympathetic appeal has not fallen on bar ren soil, but has touched the hearts of those who, Uke the subject of your appeal, have seen more prosperous times, a8 well as the acoompanying contributions better days. We, notwithstanding the prospective hard winter, have, as philanthro- pists, torn from our own scanty stock to envelope the portly frame of our decayed but much abused caricaturist, Below we subjoin an inventory, trusting they will be received in the same spirit they were given in, Truly yours, FOURTH WARD NAST’S ADMIRERS, The above donation includes one pair shoes, one pair stockings, one pair drawers, one shirt, one pee ants, one vest, one coat, one hat, one tooth- rush, one box blacking, one pipe, tobacco and matches, some old newspapers, @ razor and & quill pen. Pointed and Gummy Contributions. New Yorks, Nov. 2, 187% To tHe Epiror or THE HERALD:— - Appreciating the Christian spirit of my brother “typo’s” communication in to-day’s issue, I most willingly devote. portion of the Sabbath, for which the neglected caricaturist was wont to have & great veneration, to the forwarding of my Atle mite to the fund for the relief of the great ex- emplifier of Christian charity on wood. My contri- bution is @ three cent stamp (which I reluctantly part with, because of the truly charitable and noble features portrayen thereon), the proceeds of a “phat take’ I “struck” last week, in-the shape of Wee “cut” of an individual other than a be- £; ‘ted Christian dignitary. rom among the group of Girls and Boys of America gathered around the Fireside, a Devil-in tailor, with an eye to keen frosts in the coma winter, tenders @ paper o/large-eyed needles (: panty. tenecden), ie which te colons all oj a ngs garments against out- it of De- cember. NED HAWTHORN. Contribution from the Brick House Gang. Long Isuanp Crrr. Meeting held Sunday morning, November 2, 1873, at half-past eleven o’clock. The following mem- - bers subsoribed to the fund of Thomas Nast :— John Paul Frier.. «le romcrune B.H.G...... le. With recommendation to vote for WOULD BE MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY. Two Bars of Chalk and Half a Stamp. JERSEY Crry, Nov. 3, 1873. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Enclosed you will find my first half note of tem cents, with two pieces of chalk, which you wil— kindly place to the credit of the successful Nast Testimonial. 1 propose to purchase for the unior- tunate man a burdy gurdy that would help keep the wolf from his door this winter. Showmen may exhibit wooly horses, Fiji cannibals and talk- ing machines, all of which are now nearly stale; but let bim exhibit Nast and his biack! winding up the performance with Mr. Nast in hia ever popular song, “Iam so torn down,” which should be sung in character and in the beautifut garment that was so poceroualy, bestowed through the HERALD. Please let your readers know would small donations of provisions and coal be received. T. O'CONNELL, Is It Want of Sympathy? To tHe EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— Why is it that the leading artists who fllustrate~ viz.,, Darley, Hoppin, Sheppard, Lumley, Fenn, Hyde, Etynge and others—do not come forward in this critical time and help poor Nast? They can- not be jealous of him. Is it because their art different from his? I suppose he is looked upon by them as “‘potboiler” more than au artist. Wish- ing the good cause success, I enclose twenty-five cents. WOUD ENGRAVER WHO WORKS FOR THE HARPERS, A Frenchman Who Wants to Pay the Martyr’s Passage Home. sw YORK, Nov. 2, 1873, M. LE R&DACTEUR pU HERALD:— Ci-inclus dix sous, fruit d’une souscription levée par des Alsaciens-Lorrains pour renvoyer dang son pays Vinfortuné porte-crayon germanique, Thos. Nast, réduit & la misére par son zdle A tra- vailler en Amérique ‘pour le roi de Prusse.’” A Berlin, au moing il pourra étudier sur le vif, in anima oii, le mécanisme du Kaiser- isme, et boo fate de M. de Bismarck la mamere de remplir une caisse vide, presto et franco. Il reste encore quelque chose des milllaras de Vindemnité frangaise dans la be- sace du Chancelier, et celui-ci ne laissera certaine- ment pas dans la misére I’habile artiste doué d’assez de talent pour prouver que le Césarisme est un Gpouvantail pour les imbéciles et les idiots. Bon vent au pauvre méconnu! Que nos dix sous le reconduisent au pays de ses peres et Vaident & se dédommager de la parcimonie améri- caine! BON VOYAGE, "Nast Foresecing His Blackboard Doom. To THE EpiTorR OF THE HERAL Please accept the small mite of fifty cents for the Nast Fund. I do this becanse I think this country should be proud of an adopted citizen of the talent of Mr. Nast. I saw arather amusing drawing of Mr. Nast directly after the election of General Grant, It was a long procession. headed by U. 8. Grant, all in high glee, except Mr. Nast, who brought up the rear witn the words under him, “[t's all Nh Aaa for you; but what am | going ta do now?” Mr. Nast seemed to feel that he had spent his labor for those that woukl be ungrateful for it, A LIBERAL, ation. Ten Cents and a Sug; To rHe Eprror oF Tuk Hegaup Please add the enclosed ten cents to the Nast Fund. It is truly a great pity that genius should ba so rewarded, but it esems his employers playa kind of sharp game on all their employés who help ta raise them to fortune and fame. Unnecessary to mention names. As my contribution is small, per- mit me to offer an advice, which is, that Mr. Nas® araw a good picture of his master on his black- board, and, slung over his shoulders, march through some of the principal streets. By so doing I venture to say 8 great many like myself, always charitable and having such @ iavorable opRoteantty of contributing, willadd their mite. IRISHMAN. New York, Oct, 31, 1873. To T18 Eprror ov THR HERALD :— Iherewith hand you my mite (two cents) for the Nast N. G. Fund. Being an admirer 1, pluck my bump of admiration wag wonderfully tickled last fall by the bald aie @4ring manner in which Mr, Nast, a pov ar ‘om # foreign land, Sa irons CSTE e Les See ene purest Pabliognen—naROe AN AMERICAN: A Dime’s Worth OF Bimple Gratitude, To THe EpiTos OF THE HERALD:— ‘\ I am ao man, and being such it is not strange that I require shaving every Sunday morning. Whiling away the time waiting for a shave one morning during the late canvass, I accidentally raised from the foor ‘The Nast Journal,” which, by the way, the barber furnishes gratis, and waa greatly amused and edifled by @ cartoon from the pencil of the unfortunate Mr. ast, drawn for the purpose, I ores of tickling the vanity of those mable ci izens, his employers, wi yer perm Opportunity to pass of “do- others as they would be dono by.” Re- ig the pleasure | derived from the paper ou Sunday morn, I enclose my “mite en cents), hoping it will be accepted, and that alb republicans will do as much for a fellow creature in distress, JIM SIMPLE. A Sermon, but No Subscription. To THs Epitor ov THe HewaLp:— “amicus,” the friend of Mr. Thomas Nast, who: deplores the injustice done to this wonderful but poor young man of genius, the Gustave Doré of America, by the Harpers and the United States government, only helps to sink him deeper in the estimation of the American people; for many will inquire regarding the antecedents of this man belore and after he came to his adoptea country, ‘They will earn much—more, perhaps, than they may Wish to know, They wiil aiso learn that Nas earned hia bread by becoming the graving tool of! unscrupulous men, Who, Ip return for his work, and having no further use for their tool, sont tia neglected genius to some other quarter, to become again the tool of another party, whose object Is ta create disunion and discord among fhe citizens of the United States. Hoping you will/ nsert this re Ply as ap act of Justice to all varties. I remain, &cy IuoICO.