The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1874, Page 6

6 JHE PROSPECTS OF THE CANVASS. Wiews of Mr. Dorsheimer, Candidate for : Lieutenant Governor. ——— He Predicts a Democratic Major- ity of 50,000. if tae fair sex bad the right to vote Mr. Dora- Jheimer, of Buffalo, the democratic candidate for entenant Governor, would certainty sweep the tate, for he is probably the best looking candidate ‘gor office in the country. His beauty is of the most manly type, too. Mr. Dorsheimer ts about six feet three inches tall, bas a chest wider than that ofthe Hon. Jonn Morrissey, and a handsome, large head. He wears an ample biack beard, which gives him @ still more formidable aspect. His manner forms a striking contrast to bis gigantic stature, being as gentle end suave as it well can be. The following conversation, held by him with a reporter of the HERALD, on the progress of the canvass, will be found of especial interest :— “Mr, Dorsheimer, what do you think of the prog- Tess of the canvass?” THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. “Tam thoronghiy convinced that we shall carry the State by 50,000 majority. Not counting the city, we shall jast bold our own in the State, so that the majority in the metropolis will be sub- stantially tilat given for the democratic ticket in the State; and it is even probable that we shall come into this city witha slight majority.” “What will the demucratic majority in this city ber”? “The lowest calculations of those who have wtudied the fleld accurately place it at 40,000, This, however, is generally regarded as a low figure, as the democ:ats bid fair to win a most splendid vic- tory im the metropolis.”” “ow do you account for such achange since is729"" “{n 1872 a large number of democrats voted for General Grant, or abstained altogether from vot- ing, and these will now vote the democratic ticket. Then there is great disaffection in the re- publican ranks, which is owing to a variety of causes, In the first place the bad financial cond)- tion of the country, the universal stoppage of the industries and the lack of work felt so keenly by thousands, are all laid at the door of the repubil- cam party and its administration. THE THIRD TERM EFFECTS. “ Then there is a considerable disaffection which has been produced by tne third term discussion. The people have become alarmed at the danger of B continuation of the preseat national régime, and this sentiment will uot fail to tnfluence the State election. Then there are the well founded com- plaints against General Grant’s administration, which is so thoroughly identifiea with the repub- lican y, on the score of specie ment and the uses of the civil service. rant ougnt to have given us spe payment, say the | aig and he ougbt tu have done his best to re- orm the sbameiul abuses in the civilservice. A great many iree traders, who are thoroughly tired of the present régime, will also vote the dem- ocratic ticket, Now, take al! these elements and you will easily understand how we can roll up @ majority of 50,000 in the State.” THE WORK OF THE DEMOCRATS. ‘Is there no disaffection m the ranks of the de- mocracy 1”? “No, none whatever, except on local tickets. The democratic gain tnroughout the State will grow out of our perfect unsnimity and out of the great disaffection in the republican ranks. think the democracy of the State wiiluniold its great strength of 18¢8 and 1670. The canvass is carried on with very great activity in the State. There is not so much speaking as there \s good work in organizing and in the distribution of documents. Of course, we have not the money which the republicans are able to spend, but have to rely mainly on our strength of organization and the influence of papers like the HERALD, who assist us greatly in this campaign.”” “How avout the German voie ?? “In Buffalo the democratic tcket will receive a larger vote irom the Germans tnan it has ever re- ceived before. The liberals in the wi ro part of the State support the democratic siate with great heartiness. In Buffalo the repuolicans are quite cowed and offer to trade off votes ior their candidates. ‘Ihat naturaly proauces great dis- affection among the other candidates. In fact the Semocracy is inthe condition ofan army which bas already commenced its retreat.” DIX’S RE-ELECTION. “Do the people consider Dix’s re-election as equivalent to an indorsement of the third term?’ “Most undouvtedly. he gubernatorial eiec- tion, balf way between the Presidential election, always indicates the public sentiment in regard to the national administration, and the people fee) as though they were admuistering a well- merited rebuke to General Graat ana _ his régeme in deieating General Dix. You must piso not forge: tnat the Western victories have encouraged us greatly and spread consternation among the repubiican ranks. have received the best news from every part of the State, more especially trom Chautauqua, Niagara, Alleghany, Erie and the counties ynerally which compose the Eighth Judicial district.” ‘This terminated the interview, Mr. Dorsheimer finally assuring the reporter that neither he nor Mr. den intended to speak at the meeung to-night. THE LIBERAL DZMOCRATS. Meeting of the General Committee—Re- ports from the Various Districts—Sena- tor Creamer on the Situation—Enthausi- astic Premonitions. A meeting of the General Committee of the liberal democrats met at Irving Hall last evening. There was a very large attendance and all seemed to be very enthusiastic, and Mr. Creamer was cheered as he entered the hall. Mr. Creamer on taking the chair sail that this organization would decide the question of who should be next Mayor, but work was necessary for the purpose. Tue question of the Registership he considered was already assured, and Mr. Hayes might be considered as @ man already beaten by their candidate, General Patrick H. Jones. (Applause.) It nad beea Stated that the liberai democratic organization was in sympathy with the republican party and that they would run hand in band togetner. But what is the trath? A promivent republican had told the speaker that one of the Tammany Jeaders had agreed with the republicans to throw over the whole county ticket if the republicans would vote for James Hayes for Kegister. This Was the bargaining of Tammany. Every man who would have charge of the baliot boxes from this organization on election day would be approached between here and there. Gentlemen who pretend to give us their support only to sell us out will find them- selves inuch mistaken i! they think they can do so. There are only two or three of them, and they are known. The dodge of Tammany has been to be- little us and to make people believe that we amount to little. They will make the pool selling so that our candidate for Mayor will appear the lowest in the pools, and so aa to influence the peeple. But the contest will not be between Mr. Wickham and Mr. Ottendorier, but betweea mr. Ottendorter and Mr. Wales, This week will de- cide the question, and some people littie imagine the vote that Mr. Ottendorier will have. Three-fourths of the repubucan Germans Will leave Wales and go for Otiendorier. No maa Was more anxious to Pave another man run in- stead of himself, He did not seek the nomina- Hon. Six thousand to eight thousand republican Germans will go trom the republicans to us, aod this will make @ difference of from 12,000 to 16,409 votes to them. Tammany caicalates toat by being on the State ticket will help them through. While We disagree with many on State matters, on that of municipal reform many will leave tus re- publicans to vote with as, Ten thoa- wand republicans will forget ther dary to their party and will join ns to sustain ime credit of the city, id added to this the sagpert of maw Organizations which are against Tamummemy wil heip us atiy. It is Sad to say that there le # cima of men Who always go with the winning ae. Kae We should not allow anybody to underrate sm, ont keep up confidence. You hear n Wickham, and ail we can do paged loon 4 it that our ballot boxes are openly rotected on election day. it is . Think that we can't raise the money tn eases We bi all the money we wan’. | warn a ow who have been in consultation with lammany that tney are watched. Ii theyare not wits a Jet them leave the pall. Only @ coward wean enter here for the purpose of selling us oat, we only want fairness, and we demand it. Tre majority of the democracy in this city are in favor of our cause, A'ter Mr, Oreamer had spoken reports were re. ceived from the several districts in the city. Many of these reported that they would nov rua canui- dates where the republicans were in tne ascend ancy. Many others reported that it was certain the liberal candidates would be elected fur Uon- gress, Assembly and other offices. ‘The reports were received with great applause, The tolowing joenge was received from the Gene- al Comadttee of Me First Assembly district, re- mamng sneir sea’@ from the General Committees o: the liberal democracy. This paper bere the sig- natures of o0 less than sixty-nine members of the committee :— wae Ost: 4 1076 To the Hom. Taowas Oneawen:— 4 miticg of the People's Linerat Bemocrau® Oreaateacon for the First Assembly district, hereby tender their res- reasons :— nization upon tne tons as such for the follo strong "aud repeated assurances ot framers that sed y would be streagth has so called reform party. deceived, that led and mu resentat Cin dene eee Ba nee re mosoese A dem ir os 4 Ocratle orgauisation which at this time controls or {a- vorsan uation with a working aud tent in its results wish these remarks ana condemning the bybrig nomi- nation of Oswald Ottendorfer and Patrick H. Jones Weak invention to strengthen the republican ca We retire from the party Known as beecot my ng hp ci 01 tion. Very resi A cbe- Gata PHOS. oMITH, Chairman, Micnaet McCaw, Ep: Fresearmice, "| Secretaries. And sixty-six other members of the committee. Mr. Creamer, in mentioning the reception of this letter, said that the committee headed by Mr. Thomas EK. Smith had already been expelied by the organization. ‘Tne politics 01 the First ward had always been a mystery, and, as it was known that Tammany had given this committee its price, their presence was not wanted in the or- ganization, because they were false, and he hoped these gentiewen would now go over openly to Tammany, whicn had boughs them. Toe Chairman went on to urge perfect organiza- tion for the election, put that im no case would candidates be supported who bargained with other parties for other offices. He would not in any case consent to being sold out. Alter some routine business it was decided to adjourn uowl Thursday. The meeting tnen ad- Journed, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. Meeting of Representative Bodies at the Chamber of Commerce—A Favorable Vote Anticipated. Yesterday afternoon a joint meeting of commit- tees of the Chamber of Commerce, Importers and Grocers’ Board, Butter and Cheese Exchange, Cheap Transportation Association, the German Property Holders’ Association and the Union League Council of Political Reform was held at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce to determine what means should be adopted for the printing and dis- tribution of ballots, so as to insure the adoption of the constitutional amendments. On motion of Mr. John F. Henry the chair was taken by Mr. Royal Phelps, Mr, J. W. TovugsEB, chairman of the Committec on Ballots, in response to the imquiry of Mr. Phelps, stated thata plan had been determined upon to the effect that a ballot shoutd be inclosed in an envelope to every registered voter in the city with the indorsement of the Chamber of Com- merce, a8 well as that of the other bodies in favor of the constitutional amendments. The expense, he said, including printing, postage and directing, would not exceed $811 20, The report was unani- mously adopted. Mr. ERLANGER, who represented the German Independent Citizens’ Association, explained the necessity Of having the amendments printed in German as well as in Engiish, so that the German voters coald at once grasp at the importance of the amendments proposed. On motion of Mr, Hgnry it was resolved to send the ballots to the Brooklyn voters, and at the suggestion of the Chairman it was agreed that the expenses should be defrayed by the bodies repre- sented at the meeting. Several suggestions were subsequently made in reference to the distribution of the ballots throughout the State, the argument having been put forth that many were disposed to shirk the re- Sponsibiliity of voting ior the amendments, owing to the amount of local patronage which might be ‘Withdrawn from interested parties. Mr. GkorGE OPDYKR thought that the meeting should confine its labors to this city and not med- aa Fs the distribution of the ballots trough tue tate. Mr. W. C. CLARKE, of the Board ot Trade, called the atreotion of the meeting to the importance of the fact that very few people thoroughly under- stood the nature of the ameudments proposed. He oe @ public meeting to enighten the voters. ‘The CHAIRMAN differed entirely from the views entertained in reference to the necessity of a pab- Ne meeting. A public meeting was the very last resort, and should be held only on great occasions. The matter was very simple, anc he presumed that tue voters of New York would appreciate the im- portance o! the proposed amendments; if not, it ‘was their own fauit. They certainiy nad safficieat tume bejore election to open tneir eyes. The amendments would prove a benefit to the people of the city, and he could not believe that Tam- many Hall was going to oppose them; but, if so, it would be done only by @ Jot o1 dirty hangers on of the institution—! liticlans who worked for themselves and no! else. In fact, it was absurd to imagine that the amendments would not be carried by an overwhelming vote. Under all the circumstances, therefore, he thought there was no use in irightening the citizens by & public meeting on the subject. Mr, Oppyxe intimated that the Tammany organ- ization had printed the whole amendments tor distribution, wita the exception of two which had been crossed out. He hoped he was in error on this point, but the fact of omitting two important amenomerts would amount to a negative vote. Mr. Beers, of the Council of Political Ketorm, informed the meeting that the people throughout the State had been thoroughiy supplied with bai- Jos, and that responsible officers o1 both political parties had tnterested themselves in their distri- bation. There waslittie doubt of an overwhelming vote for the amendments, It was subsequently resolved to invite the Board of Trade and the Proauce Excaange to co-operate With tne various committees selected to carry out the views oi the meeting. The Chairman read a letter from Mr. W. Butler Duncan, indorsing the objects of the meeting. The foliow.og gentlemen were appointed to carry the action of the meeting mto effect:—George Opdyke. representing the Chamber o! Commerce, a8 chairman of the sub-committee; Jonn F, Heary, representing Chamber oi Commerce; Harvey Far- rington, representing Importers and Grocers’ Board of Trade; . P. Baker, representing Cheap Transportatiun Association; M. Elinger, Tepreseniing German Independent Citizens’ Asso- ciation; R. S. Doty, representing Butter and Cheese Exchange; G. W. C. Clarke, representing Board of Trade; W. Lewis, repre-enting Proa- uce Exchange; F. B. fhurber, representing Chamber of Commerce, secretary of sub-committee. ELECTION OF ALDERMEN AT LARGE, Corporation Counsel E. Delafield Smith has sent to the Police Commissioners, In response to a note from that Board, his opinion that in the coming election Aldermen at Large are to be voted for on separate tickets, as follows :— Candidates for the offices of Aldermen at Large of the city of New Yorc, created by chapter 615 of the Laws of 1874, must be voted tor on tickets separate from those Reaciog the 8 Of candidates for the offices of District Aldermen, sepatate trom all other tickets. And it i uty of Department to cause Poiice the provision of separate boxes for the reception of tickets for Aluermen at Large in that city. The act having omitted to provide for an indorsement of tickets tor Aldermen at Large, it is recommended that they de indorsed with those words. ‘This decision ts accompanied by lengthy quota- tions from the Election laws, and a full argument on al the questions which had been raised in ref- erence thereto, It will nodoubt be accepted by the Board as correct law, and a separate box wiil peprovided to receive the votes for Aldermen at ge. THE LIQUOR DEALERS’ INTEREST. Candidates for Assembly To Be Required to Give Pledges. The quarterly meeting of the New York Liquor Dealers’ Protective Union was held last night at Masonic Hall, Thirteenth street, Aaron Herzverg, the President, in the chair, ‘Ihe minutes of the preceding meeting being read, abvut Mfty new mem- bera were elected. The report of the special com- mittee appointed Lo investigate the accounts of the Treasurer and Financial Secretary was then presented and adopted. It shows the total re- cetpts to be $18,406, and the expenses $16,323, | waving @ balance tn hand of $2,076, The propriety | of ootatning pledges from the different candidates the Assembly in the various districts to sup- port the liquor interest was next discussed, and * ‘er considerable devate it was finally resolved et @ Commitee ould oe appointed by the for each Assembly district, with weervetions for such committees to call merr"lege in their districts of ail liquor dealers who were memovers of the or lon, at wuich ‘ey ©eeuld pledge themselves not to jorse any ‘witde + who would not pledge bimself to sup- dor’ ee wastain the interests of the liquor trade, a) elem yt Was made to secure an indorsement ‘y “# eaion of the democratic State ticket; vit iit, after gome discussion, was deemed aly aad = unwis jor the reason might tend to tne we vow to the ranks of Governor ven it Waa now wellknown that it had be- | come devected therefrom, It was also atguea ‘0a inasmuch a4 he State candidates were ready pledged to sustain the eighth plank of the Syracuse platiorm, any further acuon was un- called tor, The election of oMcers of the union was set Soon Crate 12 and 18, the polls to remain one toe Me 0 TT ’ tag toen sdpouraeae” M, Cachday. The meet COZANS CAN'T BB OOZENED. New York, Oct, 26, 1874, To ras Eprron oF THE HeRALD:— Your political review im yesterday’s paper con- tained @ statement of my intention to withdraw from the canvass a8 & candidate for the Assembly 1m the Fourteenth Assembly district, which I hope ‘ou Will do me the tavor to correct, as I intend to be ‘@ candidate for that position unit the close of the polls on election day. Reepoesaniy ay “WHO'LL CHANGE OLD LAMPS FOR HEW*" To THE EDITOR OF THE HBRALD:— as you are keeping your readers informed of the political situation it will no douvt interest you to know that orders were issued on Saturday by Mr. Andrew H. Green, Comptrolier, to ali the employés of bis office to support the Tammany canaidates for city offices. I say these orders were issued. This may be de- nied on technical points; but the truth is that the instructions amounted to orders. Mr. Earle, who ts simply a tool of the Comptroller; Mr. Whittemore, who does his small jobs; Mr. Storrs, Connolly’s old confidential deputy, and other toadies of Mr, Green, gave out the wishes of their master, and these are under- stood to be law in the Finance Department, where hal the Offices are held as political sinecures. if Mmr. Green’s effort to elect the Tammany nominees shoula succeed, a singulur repetition of political history will_ make itself apparent in New Yor«. The bosom friends of the new combination, Green, Tilaen, Wickham, Kelly both im bumoers and in position, remark ably similar to the one deposed from power two years ago. Green will be the Connolly of the old holding the keys of the city treasury. Wickham will be the ooligt g Mayor in = of the generous and genial 3 Ketly will joom wy) new ‘bog’? in portly proportions as th of the Wigwam, filing toe seat of the temporarily eclipsed Tweed; I1iden will play the churacter of the courteous and convenient Governor at Albany, once so aptly personated by the retired Hoa- man, and rien ple onda m ill replace Sweeny’s poweriul braim. We shall have made a new ring in place of the ola ring: but will the city be beneficed by the change? That is a question lor the voters to decide, and their votes next week ior Jonn Kelly Tilden, Jobn Kelly Wickham and John Morrissey Hayes will announce their verdict. SENTINEL, A REMARBABLE CASE, ——_+—___ The Influence of Mind Over Matter—A Wife Preserved from Viol by a Bedridden Husband—Relapse and Sud- den Death. MINGAUT VALLEY, N, Y., Oct. 26, 1874. On Saturaay last an itinerant pedier entered the house of James Tolip, living near this place, ‘and proceeded $o display his wares to Mrs. Touo, despite her assertions that she did not wish to buy anything. Mr. Tolin was confined to his bed and had been so confined for many years, being 80 crippled with rheamatism that it had been long impossible for him‘to leave his bed unless carried from it. After showing his goods, and Mrs. Tolin not buying anything, the pedier commenced a conversation, in the course of which he learned the helpless condition of Mr. Tolin. Finally be made an _ insulting proposal to Mrs, Tolin, and she indignantly or- dered him to leave the house. Instead he ap- proached her and seized hold of her, saying, with an oath, that she was in his power, as her husband was as good as dead. Mra. Tolin, being a delicate woman, ran screaming into another room. The pedier followed her, and, before she could escape by the door, caught her again. A desperate strug- gle ensued between them, and Mrs. Tolin was thrown violently to the floor by the powerful vil- lain. Mr. Tolin nad been ali the time a witness of the struggle, lying powerless in his bed. At the sound of his wile ialling on the door, however, ana. her frantic shrieks for aid, he seemed to be endowed with SUPERNATURAL POWER. Under the influence of that power be sprang from the bed he had been unable to leave tor years, Seizing @ heavy crutch that siood near the bed, he rusned into the room where the strug- gle was going on. Mrs. Tolin had succeeded in re- gaining her feet, put the pedier had grasped her aground the waist, and was enaeavoring again to throw her. Mr. Tolin entered vhe room, the siugular spectacle of a bedridden cripple hasten- ing to the delense of his wife seemed to paralyze the scoundrel, and he stood staring a8 if in a trance at the approach of the husband. Mr. Toiin, nerved by unnatural strength, brought the crutch down over the head o1 the pedier and ielied him like an ox to the floor. Tne next instant the excitement and superhoman effort that had supported the husband leit him. With @ shriek, that told of the imtense agony of the relapse, be clasped bis hand to his forehead and dropped to the oor and almost INSTANTLY EXPIRED. Mrs, Tolin succeeded in setting the body of her husband back in the bed and then started for assistance. She was dbliged to go over a@ mile beore she was avie to obtain any. When she returned with several neighbors the pedier was gone. He had recovered conscious- ness ana fied, leaving bts pack in the house, When the news of the attempted outrage and the tragic death of Mr. Tolin spread throughout the neighborhood, the moat intense excitement prevalied, Squads of men started in every direc- tion, searching for the pedier, but as yet he has not been found. In the present feeling, if he falls imto tne hands of the populace, that he will be lynched there is not the slightest doubt, NEGRO MURDERING NEGRO. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury in the Lynching Case at Holly Springs, Miss.— Discharge of the Prisoners. HOLLY SPRINGS, Oct. 23, 18 74, On October 7a number of negroes broke jail in this village; and, to do so, murdered one Hill, & guard, anegro. Three of them were engaged in if and were recaptured, two taken back to jail and one to the Penitentiary. Tuose taken to the jail were taken out by an armed mob oi negroes, shot, Mutilated and buried. The mob called for ail the negroes; but the incarceration of the other in the Penitentiary saved his life. uver 150 witnesses (white and black) were examined, und the Coroner's jury sat nearly two weeks, and yesterday rendered a verdict. The verdict was that “The parties lynched were shot to death on the night of October 7, by an armed mob, part of whom were Jonn Owen, Columbus Perry, Eli McClotchy and Btll Hughes, and other negroes unknown to the jury; that the jailer and his guards were guilty of gross neglect in nut taking proper precautions, aiter sufficient warning of the mub’s intentions to murder the prisoners, and in disregarding the posi- tive orders of the Sheriff to deposit the keys of the jail where they would have been inaccersiole to the mob; that the Sheriff took all the precautions he believed so be necessary, and that there is and was general indisposition to testily as to any facts which might jurnish any clew to the discov- ery of the perpetrators o/ the crime.’’ Gol imoug Perr; eee contessions acknowledg- ing his presence &nd recogaition of three others, ‘who were tacarcerated. Petitions for writs of habeas corpnos were filed before the Court, but continuances were granted irom time to time, at the request o1 the Curoner, lest the revelations consequent upon hearing them might put parties who migut be tuculpated by the evidence on their guard and induce their fight. lt the Coroner's jury returned their ver- ict, and soon alter the habeas corpus cases were pyen u Perry was @ petitioner in one of he cas aithough not in any one that was heard, a upon being examined, with the puEpose of incuipating those on trial, Natiy con- tradicted his testimony beiore the Coroner's jury, and, as the State had no testimony but his, the prisoners whose cases were under considerati were discharged. Perty will be rearrested for perjury, and | learn that one other party, whois a prisoner, can be held through prool independent of Perry, as he had admitted that te was present at an attempt to lynch the prisoners tne night be- fore, which attempt Was irustrated by tne pre- caution taken 10 deposit the keys of the jailina sale in town, 80 that the mob could not enter, and intended to aid in @ further atiempt to consum- mate their purpos THE OROOKEB MURDER IN QUEST, The inquest touching the circumstances attend- ding the death of Alvert E. Crocker, the young ward politician who was stabbed with a shears by the Italian barber »’Ambrugia, on Jay street, on Wednesday last, was commenced before Coroner Jones yesterday. There was a large number of spectators present, among whom were the aged parents of the deceased. {ne prisoners, D'Ambragia and Antonio Piemonti, were in at- tenuance, begs St ooege by counsel! (Colonel Rober Johnston). William Brennan, the frst with called, testified as to his having prevailed upon deceasea and his companion scholl to leave the barber's shop, in which they had been smashing lurniture and mirrors, and that they were goin: away up the street, when Crovker fell down, an D'Ambrugia came up and stabbed him three umes while prostraic, ‘ihe other witnesses examined were Mra. Ward, who testified to having seen the Italians porsue the deceased and nis comrade, Owen McHale testified as to the distarbance, & ortion of wall he witnessed, but novhing new, further than h realy been published, was elicited. The inquest will be resumed to-day. KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRACY. Mass Meeting at the Academy of Music Last Night. Speeches of Ex-Senator Murphy, Hon. Francis Kernan and Ex-Governor Seymour. The Administration and a Third Term Denounced. The democracy of Kings county turned out en masse last eveuing to ratify the ticket—State, As- sembly, Congressional, county id olty—pus in nomination within the past few days. The place of meeting was the Brooklyn Acaaemy of Musio, and the building was filled, Uteratly, from pit to dome by the most enthusiastic audience that bas assembled in this vicinity since the opening of the campaign. With- out doors, on Montague street, pyrotechnics, rockets, bombs and other noisy illuminative and explosive works filled the air, while » band of music lent its aid to enliven the scene, The Stage of the Academy was arranged so as to rep- Tesent 8 forest scene, and the hunters alter place and emolument thronged the boards to excess. At eight o’clock ex-Governor Seymour made his appearance On the stage, which was the signal for rapturous applause, the band striking up “Hau tothe Chie,” Mr, Rowe, President of the General Committee of Kings county, came forward and in @ few well chosen remarks, nominated for obair- man of the meeting BX-SENATOR HENRY C, MURPHY. The nominee was duly accepted by the assem- biage, and on taking the chair spoke as to the duty of the party in the present election. He satd the people of this State will be called upon to express their opinion in the selection of oMcers of the general government in their treatment of an independent government—the government of Louisiana—which had been coerced. He said the papers of to-day tell of military officers who are making @ political raid throughout the State of Louisiana, and that the people are fleeing before tne armed horde for saiety to the canebrakes and swamps to escape from the government which should give them protection. This infamous transaction ought to make the bluod of every honest man boil with indignation, and todetermine by his vote ana his tnQuence through the baliot box that the State of New York would on Tuesday next give expression to his disapprobation. He hoped that New York would array herseli beside Onto and Indiana. He urged the importance of electing the Assembly candidates, who im turn would elect Senator. Democrats should upite in .the election of an undivided ticket, and he warned them that tnere are mul- liomnuires in the fleld seeking election to the Legisiatare this year, and endeavoring to distract their vore in order tnat the present co:rupt dynasty may be continued. The SECRETARY next came forward and read a nist of vice presidents and the following resolu- [ons :— Resolved, That the democracy of Kings county. re- announcing their undying fidelity to the principles of the democratic party, as taught by Jetfersor and en- forced by Jackson, indorse the platform adopted by th tare Convention’ at Syracuse, and pledge anew their support to the doctrines of a sound currency, of the re- ights of the staies, of local seli government, of served Fr: hostility to Cwsarisn or a longer occu) xy ol the ree office than that enioyed by Washington. of a restoration of the southern States to cod savern- ity in ment and real union, and of honesty and int the administration ot focal, Si ‘national offices. Resolved. That in the names and characters of samuel J. Tilden and his associates upon the state ucket we recognize appropriate champions tor the maintenance and entorcement of these great Lidge and woe pledge them our heartiest co-operation and support, acs olved, that our county, city and other local candi- dates are justly entitled to the support o1 all democi =| and should receive the undivided vote of the party am all good clilzens. Kesolved, That Kings county, catching the tidal wave and iollowing in the wake of Indiant and Ono, will roll up 12,00 majority tor the democratic ticket. Senator Mugray put the question on their adop- tion, and @ loud, ringing and protracted vote in the affirmative was given by the audience. SPEECH OF FRANCIS KERNAN. Mr. FRANcIs K&RNAN Was then introduced, and was repay applauded on coming to the frout of the stage. He said it gave nim great satisfaction to be there on that occasion to unite with the citizens of this great and grow'ng city of hali a million o1 people, and in pledging with tiem his earnest mtention to unite in doing all in his power to achieve a glorious victory in the election on needy, next. He was glad to be able to express with them his approval of that terse and ringing piat:orm of syracuse, which they wiil endeavor to carry out from one ocean to the other. Two vears ago, he said, he was honored as betag the Standard’ bearer of the democratic party, and though the result was not favorable to their anticipations in that campaign, he had never had one unkind feeling toward any citizen of this State. He now wanted every man to give his earnest support to the ticket dow in nomination, and tor ms part ne would endeavor throughout’ his lie to repay the debt which he owed the grear mass of men who labored with 80 much zeal for the success of their candidate tn the last gubernatorial campaign. With an uprignt and honest support of the candidates victory would be certain in this contest. He aid not think that the best interests of toe country would be subserved by approving President Grant’s course of government. Thus far his second term—the second term of Mr. Grant—had not been fraught with success, and we certainly would not, by our voies, say we would have a Vhird term. (Cheers.) He did not, in thus ex- pressing himsel!, appeal tothe men of his party alone; for while we differ with each other on party bases as to the action nec rf ary tor our- ves, We Must unite in correcting abuses in the ystem of our general government. He contended that the republicans had been faise tu tne pieages contained in its platiorm, and appealed to the business man as to the maoner ta waici the civil service reform hai been viviated. He asked them 1! their business and affairs had not suffered because of the uniai.hful discoarge o1 the duty of the adimtoisiration. He arraigned the administra- tion for its vaunted and bogus economy, and charged the sufferings of the, idle workmen, tne slience ot the factori-s and worksnops, aud the deaa-lock on capital to the mismanagement of the udministration. The failuie to reach a specie basis in our currency, though ten years had elapsea -ince the war, was @nother evidence of the incapacity of the present government. He called General Grant severely to task jor carpet-bagism and its attendant misfortunes in the South, and urged the people to denounce the measures which nad for so long & periee crippled the life and energy of the great States oi Louis- fana, the Carolinas and other States. Let the ver- dict of the ballot be such as to say, “Gentiemen, instead of talking about @ third term, ;ou had better behave better or we will take measures to put you out before the end of your second term,” (Cheers.) GOVERNOR SEYMOUR’S SPEECH. Ex-Governor Seymour was the next speaker, Cee ha fgrward was loudly cheered, As = as tLe Spplause had subsided pe apoke as ows :— In the pending political contest the financial question is prominent, it concerns the interest of labor and capital, it touches the securities held slike by the rich in their banks and by the r in their humble investments in our savings inks, It affects the humor and the credit of our country. I propose to speak upon this foRic on this occasion, and to show the action an 8 attitude of eac! ry in our State with regard to it. 1am not only willing that the electors shall be erned in their choice of candidates by question as to which of them have in the mst consi:teat, the most steadiast ana aoe, moat bold way contendea jor @ financial icy which would alike tend to uphold the in- rest o1 labor aud the honor of our country; but, moore than that, | insist thac it is their duty at this time to make this @ leading question (o be decided op the coming third day of November, Betore I enter upon the history of party aciion upon this subject 1 wish to say a few words to the commercial and business men of the cities of Brooklyn and New York. I hold them in tie oigh- est regard. Never before have tuvse en- gaged in commerce, in arts or in the varied forme of industry playea @ part so important in promoting the civilization and prosperity of @ great country. In @ good degree on this Continent they have done the work that elsewhere tas been supposed to be only within the scope of governmental powers. It can be truthfully said that the conduct of those affairs which concrol the advance of our country in wealth and greatness are not directed in legis- jJative halls or execuulve Chambers, They are conceived in counting roows. Ihey are worked out by the enterprise of private individuals and by tue skill of our works.ops. Our railroads equal in length all tuat have beea constructed in the world besides, They surpass in their cun- nection and their combined operations more than the most power/ul monarcnies of Europe have veen able to accompush in this respect. Tnrough these and similar private enterprises great States have been founded in our Western domains. THE BUSINESS MEN OF OUR COUNTRY have thus, jor practical purposes, extended our territory éod strengtueney our national power to that degree that the cuntroversies of Euro,ean nations with regard to their territorial boundari sink into comparative insignificauce. The ente: prise and activity Of Our ciizens have engaged as in peacelal contests with Kurope waic unparalieled in the hatory of nation contes|, ior a series of years, we have taken each year more than threé hundred thousand )rison- ers—not of war. but of peace—who come to us, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874—QUADRUPLE -SHERT. LS DOt araggea ‘Dot gladly arraying themselves banpers aud swelling the ranks of our citizens. Never beiore has there been guoh @ movement of the human race. How won- which tuese results are tne Tye at ney, with directions that @ Kinsman or friend. shail v6 16 from some obscure hamlet in the interior of Europe. At once this order ts taken u and osrried along the line of our railroads to thi great city. From bere i¢ crosses the ocean. In Europe it searches out the person for whom it 1s sent, i¢ takes him in charge, carries him beyond the limits of bts country apa of the tangdeas waich alone he can speak. it bears him safely through regions in which he is unabie to hold conversation with 8 fellow man, It waits him across the ocean. Is South. ties) aloegiour sellrohas ‘shoussndy of miles into the interior, and it pisces him upon our boundiess prairies, upon tne very section of land whicn has beea marked out for his use. This, and other things like this, hag iiited up commerce and industry and euterprige into a dignity and honor never before known. inall these achievements they have no aid from governmen’. On the contrary {te policy nas deen hostile to taeir purpose. Lt has destroyed our shipping, embarrassed our rail- roads and crippled our commerce by unequal and unjust sysiems Of taxation. More than this, on the very day when they have wrought out such ‘and results for our country we have the atart- ing revelation that the great merchants and busiuess Men who are thus wielding more than ordinary governmental powers have been the victims 01 @ degrading sssiem of TAXATION AND PLUNVER. We have the cunession that for years they have beeu the terror stricken victims of spies, extortioners and robbers. 1 need not re- call to your minds the eventa of tne last few years to prove the truch of these us sertions, You kuow the truth better than I can express it, Withuut doubt much of this wroug is due toa bad administration of public affairs, but toils is pot the great underlying cause, nor shall 1 dwell upon it ior the purpose of assaiing my political opponents, I wisn in respectiui but in earnest terms to charge that those wio have suf- Jered from these outrayes are most to biame tor their existence, If the bu iness men of our coun- try Dad been true tu themselves, 1 they had faithiuJly periormed their duties as electurs, tne evils wid aangers that now afflict und tureaten them would have no existence. If they had felt that the violation of the rights of others was a wrong that they were bound to resent and resist, they Would not oow themselves be the victims of like results and ouirages. It is a aot that ull men should bear in mind Jor juture guidance, that THOSE WHO GAINED W84LTH BY ry from our business men were tralued 1a hans of Plunder and lawlessness eliher in other portions of our country or in otuer tlelds for tueir enter. prise in our own States. If, wien these men were Piuncertug the helpiess South, our vusiness men, lnstead of belog cunsenting witnesses, had bold, lulted their voices with indignant protest agaiust tiese acts taey never would have been hunted down by these same packs that barassea and ropbed the cunquered south, and who turned irom its exhausted fields to seek in the commercial cities of the North richer spoils gud more ampie piunders, A iew years since two commercial journals in the city of New York, waich puvlished a financial statement that was talsely imposed upon tuem, and wuich was at once corrected be.ore uny one could be misied, were seized by armed men and held by force, without & Warrant 1 law and without even a charge that they had couimitted au offence for which tue. could be arraigued beiore a judicial tribunal. And this was doue in @ spot far removed irom tae scenes of war, im a city woere tne macmnery of justice was im undisturbed operation. Had tuigs pveen done in the city vi London there Would have gune up from its merchants such an lndignhaut protest as would have shakeo the throne itseli i tue wrong bad not been speedily rigated. ‘the business men in this community were unmoved or were consenting Witnesses, and retribution comes upon tuem in the form of tue meanest ofliviais, who seize their books and tueir papers, paralyze tbeir busivuess, and, perchance, amuse themselves with reading the sacred or secret Currespondence of iamilies or of irtends, ‘Those Wuo are nos wailing to be robbed must not be siuleut and inactive when rovbery is perpetrated elsewhere. Ii cannot be that iaws aud rights will be respected in one part of our Union when toey ure trampled uvon in anyther section. Let Us 100K wt TH# FINANCIAL CONDITION OF OUR COUNTRY and see how iar tue negleci of political duty has caused the distrust aud embarrassment which now paralyzes our,industry, You all say that there can be no prosverity where the nouor of our gov- eroment 18 not sacrediy guarded. The credit of our country is now somewuat shaken. Li it shoud be overthrown we suall be overwhelmed witn dis- grace aud disaster. Wuuld this peri! now over- Nang us if at all times our citizens had veen awake to tne necessity Of checking the first movement towards repudiation? Some years ago the interest of tne inaebtednuess of tuts Siate becime due. It bad borrowed upon favor- able rates gold and silver, which were used to Make those ciaunels of commerce which have given us sO much of our Wealth and prosperity. As Governor 01 tis State I sent repeated messages to its Legisiavure, imploring it to pay this interest, not in @ debased currency, but 1u money as good ag that we nad received irom thé lender. 1 pointed out uot oniy the dishonor but the damage to the credit ‘of the State and nation ti this was nov done. This prayer was unheeded. I then appealed to the business men, to the banks, aud other moneyed tustitutions of the State, to save its honor. I urged upon them tne importance not only o! keepiug up the public credit, but the public morals; that @ failure to do tuis wouid in tue end react ruinously upon them- selves, NO response was made to this appeal. Our citizens looked calmiy on while the CREDIT OF THE STATE AND NATION received this suameiul biow. That act has cost the people of this country more than $100,000,000; and to-day the state ot New York, with all its weaivh and population, cannot borrow money upon toe same terms wwhich are yielded to emailer States which kept their credit untainted St tue time we sudered ours to be dishonored. 1 implore the business men of this State, in view of the imstances which I have cited of the evil effect of vneir negiect of political duty in the past, that they will give mea patient hearmg while I shail saow irom the recurds which of the candidates are entitied to their suifrages, in view o! the positions wnicn they have heid and now hold upon the great fingucial issue invoived in this election, We vave seen What (rigntiul evus fail upon those who allow tneir party prejud:ces to blind their eyes to the Wrong uoings of their political irienda, At tne last bone hy Congress a project was brought ior- war INFLATE THE CURRENCY and thus to continue and tucrease the evils of an uncertain, fluctuating standard of value, When this project was checked vy the veto of tne Presi- dent tuere was a iceling of reliel in all business circ.es; Dut Luis very relief wuich was given by the Presidential velo telis you how uncertain had been the tingacial policy of the administration during the eigat years which have elapsed since the ciose of tue war. In ail that long period we have had witd excesses in speculation, uncertainties in business tranesotions, irauds, corruptions, deialcations, because this gov- ernment had not # bvid, clear nnanctal policy. it has only Dow reached the conclusion that @ devased currency is a species o1 repudiation of the puoiic faith, It has only now learned the truth, which was uttered to me vy an uptutored Andiau teu years ago, when he complained tuat our State was cueating bis people by paying with @ debased currency the annuity that Was due to them ior the lands we hau bought. Iasked him, as 4 laid @ biil belore him, it that was not a dollar? His eyes flushed as he indignantiy answered, “It says it is @ dollar, but it @ lie; it ts only bar @ dollar.” It has taken this administration ten iin to learn qu this simple truth And now cinims great merit for its positions, and it clamordusiy demands your support, and charges that the elec- tion of the demucratic State ticketerould tend to the repudiation of the national credit and the de- basewent of our currency. Before you are carried away by these appeals or, perchance, by your po- tical are 1 beg you will look at the record made by Mr. Tilden and his political associates upon this subject, first duty of the men in power ac the close of the war was that of RESTURING A SOUND MONEY and upholding the national saith. Lacking the courage to do its whole duty, it attempted the miserable compromise of “good credit and bad curipney.” } proposed to be honorable in its Geaiings with the bondholders, ant Sysponoravie in its dealings with the billholder, thé laborer, the pensioner and the business man. For ye 1b clung to this tatai system, so ruinous to industr; and morals, and at the same time placing tne bond- hoider 10 @ light so odious that it gave birth to what was known as the greenback theory, This heres: Was the legitimate and inevitable resuit of tuls policy. It woutd never have had an existence if they had adopted the policy of Mr. Tilden aud his friends to this State, wach demanded good faith alike for the bilinoider as well as the dondunoilde! woich held tat there could be no good national credit without @ good national currency. The question how ertain class of our bonds should be paid was raised severai years since. It did not divide parties, but it made a difference of opinion among members of eaca party. Thaddeus Stevens—at the time the financial leader of the re- nblicao party in Congress—and o:her of its prom- inent men held that tuey were payable in cur- Tency, ome of the dem cratic members were of the same opinion, On the other hand, members ot both parties resented this conclusion. The highest moral ground taken by any repubiican organization Was, that these bonds should be paid in Specie; but no sentiment was expressed, no proposiuion was urged in favor of luting up our currency to @ level with golu—thus piaciog the bop ihglders in the odious position of @ favored class. They leit the whole of the rest of the co: munity to suffer univer the evils of a debased cur- rency. They enabled those wuo were in lavor of paying these vends in currency to chaige that \nere Was an unjust discrimination made against the laborer and the pensioner. Now, what POSITION WAS HELD BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. in this State, under the lead of Mr, tilden and his associaies? To show bow clearly, how boldly «nd how compreheasive,y they avait with this qucs- tion, not ouly as AINSst Loe position Of the repuo~ lican party, but ayainst their own political iriends in other States, 1 will read literal abstracts from the language held in the democratic State conven- tions irom the close of the war down Lo this time. AS af back as 1:64 It Was Lhe }Oucy Of the repub- licana to do what they are now trying to efect— to tum away our attention from this floancial question by a-peals to passion and prejudice, The toilowing extract (rom an address Braver tas been, annercd to. 1 igang’ Sc vetem ry ous in exact terms their eforts at this pd a Another evil to the North, growing ont of the of firing the minds of our people with hatred « Every tinss of our ciuzens, All aimit that our iuflated currency and ite shifting v cause of waste and extravagance. We have reason to fear eviis will Frow ynel they bring us to financial ruth, While there is danger that the Dlown up until tt bursts and thro fobs, banking and. OREFOAAY. into wt ainat it and i taken up with. schemes ramen’ upon the 6 t this government fails to olders of the national conds Rational currency this Union will be in extreme peril and we shall pay the penalty of neglecting our own affairs ij stant states. to mecdie with the home concerns of dis. Seven years ago thi at the Democratic Convention ene” in eu I tenders upon the he low credit of the act that men do uot believe Our good Lies If it is repudiation to t 18 repudiation to keep it debased by 0 plans to keep our country in dis- Again, this LANGUAGE Was HELD and bis friends six years since s— aheansie’ Iris clear toevery tho ani honor wiil Bot adint efoad baving wokings ot currency for any length of time. We must have a uni- form curren pe aul clnases. There is out one ques- good or aniformly bad t” Are woto lores the bodnoluey take bad money, or are we to give to labor and busl- ness good money? Are we toheve an of value for all, or is industry, enterpri: to be perplexed and disordered by a a Piatt eee Se source, then itis clear that all Classes shot jomin's common effort to root out the poli bercinehy worded ley which sheds such At this time the business of our count: = ressed, commerce 1s paralyzed, and labor sattore: OCR consent tals state of aifairs isdue to ou stand: and morality want dis- tall these VICIOUS FINANCIAL SYSTEM and debased currency. i the administration eight years ago, at the close of the war, had heeded the words and waruiogs of Mr. ‘' would this deep distress be now felt in our land’ This intelligent audience knows that we should now be n the enjoyment of unrivalled prosperity ifthe mea in power had done their duty, Since the close of our civil war the two leading Powers 0} Europe bave been involved in a flerce, gigantic struggle. Yet in Germany and in France the peeps are not wronged aud oppressed by a de- ased currency, Our affairs have been 80 mis- managed that, although our resources are so vast and varied, although the best wealth of Europe in the 1orm of intelligent labor has been poured into our country, we are now sinking from pros- perity into commercial distress, Labor is aM cted. ‘here is gloom and anxiety in the homes of vur me- chanics. In the face of these results we are clam- orousiy told that a change of ruiers and a return to the economy, simplicity and honesty which once marked the administration of our affaira will be hurtial to our credit at home and abroad! What measures are proposed by the administration for our relief? What hope is held out for a better state 01 affairs? What is said or done to encour- age our workmen or to give confidence to our capitalists? The only light thrown upon the fu- ture policy of the men in power ta that aned by thelr actions in the past, Is there any assurance ol returning prosperity in that? Can we be liited up above THE GLOOM OF OUR SITUATION by travelling 8 downward path? It is said the democratic Victories in the Western States were gatned by those who are in favor of debasing our currency. This is unsair statement, Bue if it were true, wnat then? Are you to strike down those in New York who have boidly demanded an honest currency, and have stood up aguinst olitical friends and foes alike? If you defeat Mr. fiiden you strike down the earliest, the most Tesolute, the most persistent and the most able advocate of @ suund currency. If you take for truth the statements of the administra- tion press, then the record of this fall's election will read in the eyes of the world to the effect that the inflationists’ triumph at the West and the iriends ‘of an bonest currency are cut down in New Yo! Is this the way to uphold the honor and credit of our Sonnteas iil ic Dot strike @ deadly biow at the policy which seeks to place the industry and commerce oi our peopie upon tne firm foundations which alone can support a system of finances which will give bope and bapenncey wo the homes of our laborers and success the en- terprises of Cur capitalists? Bear in mind that you are not only WRONGED DIRECTLY BY A FLUCTUATING CURRENCY, but more and worse than thQt, that it engenders & corruption 1n administration, @ waste of wealth, @ profligacy in power, which, lo the form of per- vading taxation, robs labor o1 its profits and car- ries sufferings and privations into the family cir- cle, and throws @ gloom over domestic relations. Mr. Tilden in 1868 predicted the present state of things. H» said of taxes:—They bear heavily upon every man’s income, upon every industry and every business in the country, and year by year they are destined to press still more heavily unless we arrest the system that gives rise to them. It was comparatively easy when values were doubling under repeated issues of legal ten- der paper money, to pay out of the froth of our growiug and apparent wealth these taxes, but when values recede and sink toward their na- tural scale the tux-gatherer takes {rom us not only our mcome, not only our proiits, but also a portion of our capital, We must arrest this sys- tem, or all that has made this country great and glorious, and that has distinguished it from the empires of the Old World in the beneficent operation of our political and social ‘stem upon the masses of the people and upon the indastrious millions, will have disappeared and we shail remain in the history oj mankind ‘to pointa moral or adorn @ tale.” (Appliuse.) Those who assail Mr. Tilden and bis Iriends not my shut their eyes to the record we have thus displayed, but they sorges ‘heir own history. Who iramed the financial sys- tem under which these evils nave grown up? Who inflated the currency until, by their contessions, they lessened its value more rapidiy than they ine creased its volume? When the Supreme Court of the United States gave the righteous judgment Ubat the man who made the contract belote the passage of the Legai Tender act, whereby he agreed to pay in gold and silver, could not avail himseif of 1t8 terms to wrong nis creditors by forcing a debased currency upon them—who overthrew the decisions which would have gone far to bring us back toa sound hasis? Nay, more, who were the parties which at the last session of Congress did inflate our currency to the amount of more than Jorty millions of dollars? is itafair thing tor these men to say that THE ELECTION OF MR. TILDEN, with his record, will tend to imflation of our cur- Tency or @ violation of our public iaith? For a series of years, in behalf of imdustry and com- merce, we have urged @ sound financial po.icy. Our efforts have been bafiled by the ap- peais of our opponents to passion and Pidgehiges thus turning away the public mind trom a consideration of the great and vital question. Our capitalists inust have currency to enable them to carry out thelr enterprises with success—a currency which is On @ par with that of other civilized nations. Our working men need steady and reliavie work and good pay. They can have nelther while the standards of value shift irom day to day, and they are paid for their toil with dollars which are not dollars. Upon the financial point the democratic party of New York gives novice to its pulitical friends in other States, and to its opponents here and elsewhere, that, as it first demanded a good currency, it will to the last Insist upon that demand, Its purposes are orys- talized into the ‘orm set forth by its State Uon- vention, when it insists upon a “return to specie payments and no step backwards.” Chittenden for Nomination of 8. 8B. Congress. The Third Congressional District Democratic Convention was heid yesterday forenoon at the headquarters, corner of Remsen and Court streets, Brooklyn. James B. Oraig called the Convention to order and Lyman Elmore was chosen chairman. General Slocum in a brief speech nominated 5. B. Chittenden for Congress. The nomination was made by acclamation. The nominee, by letter, ace cepted the honor conierred, and pledged himself pela tha represent the Interests o/ the entire district, A Change in the Republican County Nominations for District Attorney, County Treasurer and Charity Com- missioner. The delegates to the Kings County Republican Convention were called together at one o'clock yesterday afternoon to make important changes m theticket. Alderman Richardson presided. A levter was read from General Isaac 5. Catlin, who last week accepted the nomination for Dis- trict Attorney, pleading inability to accept on the Sars Oi pressure of private business, General Philip 8. Crook, Congressman from the Fourtn Giarrich was unanimously nominated, vice Oathn eciined. Ex-Mayor Samuel Booth was nominated Com- missioner of Charities, vice Alderman Ripley Ropes, the previous nominee. Daniel Maujer, member of the Board of Educa- tion, was nominated tor County Treasurer, in place of Ludovic Bennett, who deciined. MASS MEETING AND PROCESSION IN NEW JERSEY. The streets of Hoboken have rarely been the scene of such brilliancy as was displayed by the democratic thousands there last evening. Odd Fellows’ Hall was crowded to excess and the and streets ior several blu were throng with processionists, arined with ban- wers, torches, rocke 8 und other blazing insignia of democratic principles. The Bedie batteries and organizations, together with numerous com- panies of democratic warriors, under tho patron- ave vi the various county and Assembly distriot candidates, moved to the music of brass oands. Speeches were made by Mossrs, Hardenoverg, Brann, Laverty and others, amid which tne air rent with snows, cheera and “tiers! A display of fireworks took place during a