The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1875, Page 8

8 ——— CITY POLITICS. Aspirants and Their Chances of Nomination. * A QUADRILATERAL CONTEST. Two Democratic Factions Versus Two Re- publican Factions. ‘The local canvass has been opened by both parties with a good deal of earnestness, and from this time for- ward the politicians in the various Assembly districts will have their bands full in getting mid of the undeni- able aspirants for place, position and comfort at public expense, in order the better to pave the way for the ‘particular PATRIOTS whom the leaders are anxious to nominate, with the apparent approval of a grateful constituency, Though there are as many would-be candidates for the various Jocal offices as there are election districts inevery Assem bly district, and quite as much eagerness on the partofthe | small fry to be recognized right or wrong as on the part of the ward leaders themselves, the men whom an in- scrutable Providence for some reason permits to rule at caucus and primary will not have anything like the trouble of former years in picking out the individuals of their choice. In years past every person who held an | - ¢ NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEE concent W the'antl-Tammanyites, nowever, only 15,000, | which would make a grand total anti-Tammany vote { of 56,000, The combined vote last year of Wales and Ottendorfer, when they ran for Mayor against Wick- ham was 61,179, only 8,892 less than Wickham's vote. The vote cast for Jones for Register, who was the can- | didate of all parties against Tammany, was 71,107, being | 1,036 more votes than Wickham received. Of course | the Tammany calculators, while conceding to the re- | | reygeoned this year a larger vote than they cast | jt year and @ much smaller vote to the anti Tammany democrats than was cast tor Ottendorfer, take | it for granted that the Tammany ticket will poll fully as | _— ‘@ vote a8 was polled for Wicknam—nawely, — 000, This way of putting it, by cutting off 14,000 votes from Ottendorfer’s total and ceding 3,000 increase to the republican vote of last year, leaves a clear mar- | gn of 11,000 votes for the laborers who may carry out | their threats to vote against Tammany because of the | reduction of the wages of the laborers in the city em- | ploy. But, taking this calculation as the most hopeful | one the Tammany leaders can make for themselves, if | they should be mistaken about the strength of the op: position vote, and the Von Shaferites an all the anti-Tammany — factions full vote ag was cast for (ttendorfer, iscontented laborers’ vote be over 11,000, the Tammany ticket would meet with certain defeat, The anti-Tammanyites contend that they will polla larger — vote than last year—fully 35,000, some of them say- | but the Tammany leaders believe this is hardly possi- | | ble, as Ottendorfer’s personal candidacy last year took | away from Tammany hundreds of German votes which are always with Tammany asa rale, and which, with | Ottendorfer as a mere unit among the other workers in | the districts against Tammany this year, will naturally | YALL INTO LINK AGAIN, as of old. Besides, they add that the Germans, as a class and irrespective of politics, have again begun to | watch the movements of the ‘politicians who are opposed to the selling of liquor on Sunday, and | the fear that tho republicans, to appease the | | temperance element, will make the Sunday law more | stringent if they get into power, is having its natural | Steck "Tt may be, therefore, that hundreds of German | republicans will vote for the democratic candidates on | | this ground alone. This vote of itself the Tammany people believe would be sufficient to turn the scales if the contest should be a close one, which they assert it | and the ears ago and come out of the fight with a handsome jead in the count. But it is said that some democrats are anxious to put JENKINS VAN SCHAIOK in the field as an independent candidate, who is willing, so they say, to run and spend his money freely in a legitimate way to secure his election. If there are two | democratic candidates in the tleld Booth’s election will be acertainty. In the Sixth it is now conceded that Assemblyman James Daly will get the Tammany nomination. Mr. Klamroth, a School Commissioner, is spoken of by the opposition, as wellas Mr. Hugel, a well known resident of the district, How Mr. Klam- roth, who has not resigned bis office of School Com- missioner, can be a candidate, when the State Consti- | tution expressly provides that no person holding a city the office for or county office can run local unless he resigns his before the election, is rath there js but little danger of a candidate in tho district, In the Seventh Jamos Everard will, in all probability, ran on the anti-Tam- many ticket, and be opposed by James 8. Thayer. Legislature 100 days 4 | Everard was beaten two years ago by Ledwith, and as | should, poll as | Thayer is considered a much stronger man than Led- | with, politically, Everurd stands a chance of being | elected to stay at home once more, provided LEDWITH, | whose Assembly district is in’ the Senatorial district, does not, out of revenge for his treatment by Tammany in putting him off the General Committee, make a dead set on Thayer at the polls, with his personal followers, who are many, In the Eighth there is very little struggle for the nomination and itis more than probable that Senator Moore will be renominated if he wants tobe. He was the first member of the Legislature last year to force the rapid transit question in dead earnest upon the Senate, and it was his bill which drew forth the Gov- ernor’s bill which is now a law. There is, however, some little feeling in the Senatorial district over the question of bis renomination; but it is purely a geo- raphical difficulty. The ‘Twelfth ward, it seems, as bad the Senator for the past fourteeca years, and the lower districts are naturally anxious to have their turn. Yet the politicians of the lower districts contend that this pang the real grievance itis better that Moore should be renomi- ted, as, having already served one term, he will at the will not be, Unquestionably {t is not whether the can- didates should be men of weight and character or whether the republicans coalesce with the Von Shafer- ites which is just now giving the Tammany leaders the greatest concern. is the probable stand of the workingmen on election day. They claim and with a good show of reason, that it ts to the demo- office under the city or county government considered it | ‘8 part of his vocation to turn up once a year as a candi. | Gate for something, but the amended constitution has | put an end to all that, and the very fact that not one of | the hundreds who hold fat offices in the city bas had | the courage to resign his place in order to take | cratic workingman’s faterest that he shpat Yow for chances Tammany, from whom he always got work when it was ro for a nomination of some kind shows that | Tammany, rons rather than to elp to elect republi- the holding of public office by ward politicians has at last become a pdenoficial thing for the people, ‘8 least at election time, in that \t keeps out of the race | for State offices a certain class who aro . A DISGRACE TO POLITICS ‘at their best. Por this the amended constitution is to De thanked. During the past week the leaders have been more than usually active, and the workers have aoe . ad in Deen engaged day and night in the laudable task of than the Pope of Rome himse je republicans and sounding the doabtfu voters aod escertaining oo far ag | $e, AuM Tammany democrat undermand, fal wel the possible what inroads the oppositionists have made | ally have denounced the reduction of the wages of the blicans have begun | city employés, and how it has given rise to a general Pugin para syed ee ap 4 foar among them that even those who are not in the oe eee uy to 6 any of | city employ will during the winter be seriously affected the local offices are to be captured from Tam- | by the policy of the city departments being adopted by many Hall it is high time they exerted themselves | private employers and contractors; and they have not my , been slow to make the most of it. In fact they have e little, Like Tammany, the Custom House “regulars” | Diu" i the principal charge against Tammany have a faction fight on their hands, and it has happened as un organization, and while carefully ‘con- that, time when their hopes of a holy | cealing the fact that even at the rate of Seon Ay er bind fs eaadt the uae riniaie | $1 60a day the city laborers are paid more than labor- organizations were at their highest, a determination is expressed on the part of republican soreheads in every district to oppose the machino as at presentrun. How oPily ‘way bebind to crush out these malcontents is now, of course, a | A TECHNICALITY OF RULING matter of as great concern with the Custom House | when the Clancy resolution met the question squarcly. In every district in the city the feeling against Tam- leaders as the much talked of juncture of forces with | 1,5) on the part of the laboring classes 1s “unquestion- cans, who will, if elected, bend all their efforts to place republicans in the places now held (or to be held in case many wins and gets a chance to make work plenti- ful in the winter for the laborers) by democrats. Yet, even while arguing to show that the workingmen as a class will be ‘all right” on election day, they seem to be afraid lest they may be ‘misied” by the op- ition, and Tammany, as an be ager te made to suffer for a te of afar that she had no more hand in bringing about of the Tammany General Committee when, rather than openly declare against the reduction, it slunk in a cow- the Von Shaferites. Revolts in the repub- | ably very bitter, and no amount of argument thus far lican ranks have been quite frequent of | Set bare baa the ae effect upon them. | What makes the situation @ more dangerous to Into years, but they differ from revolts qyammany in this is rey rie ‘afled in the democratic army in one very important particu | laborers have meas a old formed themselves lar, which is that while as a rule the demécratic rebels, | into clubs, whieh co captured before election day | dy the old time methods so well known to the local who have no hope of office, keep up their opposition till | DYiiicang; so that antil the very day of election, it the close of the polls on election day, no matter how | may be, the a chiefs hye pp good in a state of dismal their prospects may be, the republican ‘‘kickers” | trepidation as to what extent all the bitter talk will be Jose heart quite suddenly before the polls are opened, | manifested by anti-Temmany ballots st the polls. If thanks to the inducements that are always heid out In the enemy of the poor man and the devotee of the the nick of time by the oily Custom House managers, swallowtail can avail, the vote cast by the workingmen ssi sia tend ‘ ix tho "Neleiea Tammany will bea large one. But the general who know from long experience in tho business that opinion of the politicians on both sides who are willing the main object of the leading opposition spirits 1s to | to look at the situation calmly is thas the bitterness of get taken care of at government expense. The coming the laborers will have spent tiself entirely in strong lan- canvais will be, doubtless, no-exception to the general | Stage UY élection day, and that, sstiaiied that they csa- ‘not better themselves by voting against Tammany, they Fule, and itis safe to predict that, with the exception of | will voto the regular ticket straight. Indeod, this hae 3 seems to be the opinion of some of the leading repub- re nyo iy: : ” bi sn ibs mb | licans, who poob-pooh the idea that they can expect strong weer to his craft that @ recom | ny very great adbesion to the coalition on the part of Ciliation seems impossible, there will not be a | men nine out of ten = hae ved oo the trouble sing! even to examine any other than a Tammany ballot on ie republican rebel of any note in the fleld against | Cy cticn day. In order to make assurance doubly sure, the Custom House the day before election. Still the however, and as an offset to the resolutions of the Anti- | mon-action of the sub-committee appointed to do cer- | Tammany peme € romcyo omy he their votes, the tain things to bring about harmony in many of the | Tammany Gen mminitiee will, doubtiess, some time this month, take a bold stand on the question and place Aiscontented districts has created a very bad feeling | the reapousibility of the reduction of the laborers! among those who were once in the government employ | wages where it properly belongs, even if by doing 80 ‘and who are now arrayed against their successors om | \hoy wil have to Nes some mrong language about men the principle that the “ins” have no rights which the , “M°We4 by ‘bemuives Das yin es, “outs” are bound to respect, ands heavier dose than aged asa gene of course, the politicians of both parties are working as hard as beavers to ‘eiael of tie Peiens paleonage cute may be RANE BERN y Oo toe tangles in which almost every district is sary to revive the drooping spirits of ‘ somewhat mixed upas to two or more of the local THE PLACE HUNTERS candidates, ana the — yer eg oR with them | lies in the selection to made of the local candi- and make them meet for repentance. As totheanth | a) "such as Aldermen, Civil Justices, City Judge, , Tammanyites themselves the history of past oppo- | Recorder, District Attorney, and Surrogate, the pipe lay- sitions to the Tammany rule has shown that : ase, eeraie 2 fe while some of the soi disant leaders always have an eye | ft of candidates for the Senate an = od Seth Galhchiieey ih woastcbe cake te to be | bravely on. It is known to them all that Gov. ing and ‘plowing and counter plotting for the bene- ernor Tilden is anxious about the Senate especially, taken in and done for comfortably by the regular or- | and that every effort ought to be made to carry all the ‘ districts. Since last week prospects that this ganization, there is really in the rank and file a deep- | A wil’ be seaned En ae deca seated feeling against Tammany, which even the back- | gry much better than they were, although it would Sliding of an Assembly chief here and there cannot ut- | seem now that there will be two democratic candidates terly destroy. This was shown in 1873, when O'Brien, | nthe field in the Fifth district, which will be a very h hi serious matter for the democrats in such a close dis- with no patronage at his back asalever to the move- | trict, The district, however, in which there wiil be ment he inaugurated against Tammany, was abe to the /iveliest contest, and which is just now affording poll over 30,000 democratic votes, and, later, when | th@ leaders a fruitful theme for discussion, is the Ottendorfer obtained 24,000. However, the patronage test between John Fox, Nicholas Muller and T. J, sop to-day is just as attractive to the majority of Campbell for the nomination had only begun to attract | the attention of the district alone; but the placing of the leaders of the outsiders who break out | siiier onthe State Committee in liew of “Billy” Periodically against Tammany as it is to the | Walsh John Morrissey’s friend, gave a new phase to third rate wire-pullers and their followers, who, because | the political outlook in the district, which put all the they are within the charmed circle of the Wigwam in- | Witepullers in a state of perfect fluence, are loyal to the core to whatever policy ‘Tam- BEWILDEREREZ. many sees ft to adopt, the best proof of which ig | _ It was believed at Syracuse that Fox was anxious to found in the fact that a’ large proportion of the men | St ou the commities, so when Muller won the prize pte Bog edie’ natn any were once | sonal defeat for Fox. Others, friendly to Fox, con- many of the | benders in the diferent wards In. the new movemens | tended that Muller was put on the committee in order Against the Kelly régime to-day were a year or two ago | only too glad to be known ag Tammanyites. And were | the wheel to take a sudden turn before the election of 1876 and the present office holders be given A GENERAL CONGR, they in their turn would doubtless take their places among those who now decry the Tainmany tribe as a | band of thieves and rovbers. Tweed, in his day, with | ‘fnlimited means and power, knew how to to all opposition before election day, and was transplanted to different fleld’ of usefulness his have been wont, ina limited degree, to follow Bis pacticaion licy, and cling so faithtully that tho many people, who were never anything else and | tonsequently were never appointed to office, have often | been loud in their complaints. ‘The best ‘way,’ they swere wont to say, ‘‘to get well taken care of by Tam- | many is to got up an opposition.” Now, the present | attitude of Tammany in her bold defiauce of the demo- crats who are organizing for ber defeat, in her declara- tion of “no compromise’’ with rebels, does not wholly spring from full confidence in ber own strength as | much as from the circumstance that, though even so willing to weaken her opponents by gathering their leaders into the common fold ofthe faithful office- holders, she bas not the enticing means to satisfy ‘THO HUNGRY OUTSIDERS, which were once so effective, if not with all their follow- ers at least with the controlling spirits of the opposition. ‘The fact is, le cago business with her this year ‘das been more tela s op — rgony ~ Vo herself the cock 0 ¢ elec- | Senet taae and Wick! from tbe very pany she | Point of fact, was opposed to the peculiar method adopt- found herself tle@ hand and by the refusal of the | @4 by it to injure Fox as a competitor for the nom- Governor to joim hands with tho Mayor and | tation. Tt is said that three Assembly districts ae & Gad ‘of the republican office. | 1p the Senatorial district informed Mr. Kelly tho very holders. Senawhilo hel promises to pay, made | day the committes of the First district took the action before the last election, became due and thore hag | It did that they wore unanimous for Fox as their nom been no way of meeting them; andthis state of affairs, | inee for Senator. If this be so, Fox has a majority of With, but tte eeeins “emine to-aay just the same, | tbe Senatorial delegation already, although it may be It is casy to perceives therefore, why 00 efforts are be- | tbat the effect created by tho resolutions of the First ing made by Tammany to conciliate the outside leaders | district committees may produce a change in the head- with promises for this and that office. She has scarcely | Quarter mind which may result in achange of names. enough to go around among those whoare onthe in- | At all cvents it is now settled that Mr. Kelly will not side already, and even when final ‘shall be | interfere to influence the nomination one way or the made of the stock of officers she has om hand and in | other, aud s0 if either Fox or Muller or Campbell gets tive there will be so many disappointed ones the place be will have to get it on his own merits and forr out in the colt that ie wil require the utmost tact -. on the part of the leaders to keep them in the traces. Still, in the opinion of the Tamman} the ‘indications at present are mot wack as to show any very — danger to Tammany from the oppositionista, While it is undeniable that they will poll s large vote, there are but few, even among the most sanguine of themselves, who have any idea that Tammany can be ag except in the per- sons of two or three candidates. [t is true that the Dpposition leaders point to the defeat of Hayes last ear as a conclusive argument that @ stroug pull alto. | this time by the joint forces of the republican: will rout all the Wigwam’s local Fox's nomination for Senator and Muller's withdrawal from the Senatorial contest, with the certainty of bein again sent to the Assembly, would follow as a natural consequence. But the developments of the past tew days tend to the belief that the contest for the Sena- instead of looking upon his being on the State Committe as a peace offering to the other contestants, regaras it more in the light | of a coign de vantage, where he can with all the more certainty of final triumph arrange his plans of battle for the final struggle. This was made evident the other day to even the most doubting Thomas among the politi- en the General Committee from the First Assem-. ‘ict (Fox’s own dustrict) passed a series of reso- Iutions denouncing Fox and recommending Muller for the nomination. These resolutions have very naturally created a great deal of : BAD VEELING, and will probably more than anything else prevent any- thing lke a reconciliation between the opposing fac- tions, The situation, therefore, now appears to be that if Fox should be nominated for Senator he will demand & reorganization of the General Committee of the First Assembly district, as his friends contend that it would be utter folly for him to run against Morrissey or any with fire in his rear, as a general committee against | certainly be. AN ENGINEER IN POLITICS. Should the struggle for the prize be really lett be- tween the three without outside interference, and no district but the First has as yet in real sincerity com- mitted itself, the contest will be an interesting one. Fox is quoted as one of the most skilful wirepullers in the Muller is s sharp, shrewd and activ of no mean qualities as an effective , and Campbell bas bad long experience as an Albany lawmaker and a leader |p politics, Left to themselves the lookers on in the scramble will ind a good deal of instruction, But no matter which wins the nomination it will be only the beginning pandidates; but Hayes’ defeat is by no means acrite. | of the : the opposition have rion to « by in the onloaiesions for the coming elec- | their watchful eyes set om the district and Hon, say the Tammany men. Hard as he was | they expect to gain a victory despite any candidate Tain. pressed by the denunciations of the news- | many Hall may favor. Morrissey has not said as yet is the general belief of the | that he will rin, but if he does not, whoever is put in iticians that bad any other man than General | nomination will be his personal representative, will be ones been his opponent and Tammany had remained | 80 looked upon in the district, and will be backed by | ers in the employ of private parties, they have kept | before the eyes of the enraged workingmen the action | hard work and a constant denunciation of Tammany as Fourth. Before the Convention at Syracuse the con- | there were many who looked upon his success as a per- | to smooth over the difficuities im the district, and that | torial nomination is as bitter as ever, and that Muller, | of the strong candidates of the anti-Tammany party, | | him in his own Assembly district would, if consistent, | It is held, on the other hand, that Maller | took no part in the action of the committee, and, in | faithfal to him he would have been elected. There was have pri ruin, The lesson administered by Hayes’ defeat, however, was @ salutary one, and the Tammany men declare that aso rosult their candidates for local offices this time will be men of such standing ue that if Tammany is faithful to her- come out all right, no matter her; and generous ‘Thase will what combinations are mado against jm arguing this way they are enough Wo give the repui an element, even in Tammany, secrotly arrayed against him, and "ay wihont any other drawback, would | od all his (riends and opposed by all his political enemies | with | district, Strange to aay, the Tammany people contend Uhat the Tammany candidate will have @ ‘walk over’ | inthe district, while the anti-Tammanyites assert that he will bo defeated by at least 10,000 votes. In the Fifth district Senator Booth is slated for a re- nomination by the republicans, and up to a few days 0 the democrats grutulating themselves over | a‘prospective victory with Sidney P, Nichols as their nominee. tho republicans are concerned, that, with a strong man in the field as their candidaie, the democrats might by bard work overcome the republican malority of two the power that Tammany can throw into the | Things are so mixed in the district, so far as | expiration of bis second be ineligible for re-election, it not being the practice in this city to elect a Senator for a third term, Thus, they say, they will get their own man in 77; whereas if a new man from the Twelfth ward should be nominated this year they would in all probability have to wait till the close of his second term in 79, The republicans talk of putting either 4. DARLING OR W. 8 OPDYKE inthe field, It looks now as though the latter would be their nominee. The names of the candidates likely to be nominated for the Assembly and the various local oflices have, since the Convention, become less of a mystery than they were before the politicians were able to tell just “how the eat would jump’? at Saratoga and Syracuse, ‘THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP, as far as the republican nomination is concerned, has been the property of Benjamin K. Phelps, the present | incumbent, ever since the campaign was opened, and it ‘ts a generally accepted fact that he will be indorsed by the anti-Tammanyites, the condition being that their candidates for Surrogate, Coroner, | City Judge and Recorder will be indorsed by the republi- cans, It is said ‘that a few days ago the Tammany | nomination for District Attorney was offered to Witham ‘A. Beach, who perémptorily declined baving his name | mentioned in connection with the office, but who, it is now rumored, has the matter under advisement. Peter B. Olney and’ Frederick K. Smythe, both prominent | members of the Tammany General Committee, aro | seeking for the office. Although he has not as yet | made known to any one how he stands as between | ‘Tammany and her opponents, the anti-Tam- | manyites seem to think that if they nom nate Judge John K. Hackett for Recorder he will accept, There is some talk of Tammany taking him up, but it is understood the opposition to him by | ‘some oi the leaders is so great that he will not be ten- dered the pl If he is nominated by the anti-Tam- manyites he is certain to get the indorscment of the republicans, ExJudge GUNNING 8, BEDFORD, according to the present outlook, will be nominated | for City Judge by Tammany without any opposition. | The opposition have not as yet developed a candidate of | any strength for the place, though they are custing | about to secure, it is said, ‘some moderate republican, | an order to give the republicans *no excuse for backing | Out of their contract at the last moment. The Coroner- | ship is being sought for by Alderman Gilon on the Tam- | many side and if Dr. Thomas C. Kuox as an anti- Tammanyite. William H. Stiner, one of the Excise Commissioners, will probably get the nomination of the republicans and the opposition. For Surrogate, the re- publicans, itis rumored, have agreed to indorse the nomination by the anti-lammanyites of either ex-Sur- | rogate Gideon J. Tucker or ex-Alderman Jobn Hardy. | The Tammany candidates are Amasa A. Redfleld and | General Martin T. McMahon, the Receiver of Taxes, with the odds in favor of the former. It ts believed, | however, the nomination will be given to a third party | whose name is to be held back as a piéce de résistance | in the nominating convention. | ‘There is a host of candidates for the Civil Justiceships | and for the places of Judge of the Common Pleas, | Judge of the Superior Court and Judges of the Marine Court, The contest for the nomination in the First Civil | Judicial district lies between the present Justice, Denis Quinn, and William H. Maloney, now Deputy Clerk of | | the Common Council. Quinn ‘will be backed by John Keily, and will doubtless therefore get the nomination. | The anti-Tammany party have not as yet fixed upon their candidate, nor have THE REPUBLICANS, The candidate who will run against the Tammany nominee will doubtless be the nomince of a coalition made up of the republicans atid op- positionists. John Callahan and Andrew Blake are somewhat talked of as the voalition nominees, Charles M. Clancy, the present Justice of the Second | district, will, doubtless, be renominated by Tammany | Hall. William H. Rooney ts after the nomination, too, | but Clancy's hold on the workingmen, whose cause he so fearlessly championed in the Tammany Hall Genera | Committee a few mouths ago, is too strong to be disre- garded by Tammany in such a troublesome district as | Hayes’ will prove this year, and so Mr. Rooney will | bi | may be nominated by the opposition. The republican | vote is so small comparatively in the district that a | republican indorsement is not a very heavy favor to be worked hard for; still it is worth | having. Judge Fowler is strong for a renomination | in the Third, but the knowing ones say he cannot get it | at any price, and that the place will be given to Arthur | J. Delany by Tammany. Another sati-factory candi- | Gate, however, ia Mr. Frank J. Dupignac, who is sup- | ported by the best class of people’ in the dis- | trict. Robert Leake is seeking the republican nomination and Robert H. Pollock 1s likely | | to be nominated by the opposition. A republican i this district stands @ good chance, with two democrats in the field, to get elected. In the Fourth district Oscar F. Bogert or Jobn A. Foley, it is belheved, will get the Tammany nomination, although George H. Langbein and Anthony Eickhoif are doing their best to win, Langbein had the inside track a week or two ago, but | a new deal haying been made as to the Assemblyman to be nominated from the district, his chances have | fallen away. Louis Wachner, chairman of the | Judiciary Committee of the Assembly last winter, will receive the anti-Tammany nomination. There are five candidates on the Tammany side spuken of in the Fifth | district:—Judge Koch, the present Judge; Gilbert | We Alderman Shandley (if he should not be renomi- nated for Alderman), Matthew P. Breen and T. J, Camp- | bell. Aaron C, Anderson is being pushed by some of the democrats in the district. The contest for the nomi- | nation in the Sixth district is between John T. McGowan | and Thomas L. Feituer, with THE ODDS in favor of the former. “Bixby’s McGowan,” John | B., aclerk in one of the police courts, will’ be the nominee of the opposition. Alderman Howland | is to be offered the republican nomination, and , if be accepts will stand a good chance of getting elected, owing to the democratic split in the district, In the Seventh district the repub- | licans will run Walter C. Pinckney. The democratic candidates are Ambrose Morel], Benjamin F. MeCanill, | Max Moses, Jerome Buck and’ ex-Assemblyman John Hayes. The latter will ¢ nomination. He is a law: | having beaten James Haye: by @ majority of nearly 3,000 votes. | 1864, he was elected’a School Commissioner, and then | re-elected, serving in all five years in the Board of Education. The candidates likely to be nominated in the Eighth are Judge Kano, Tammany; James C. Quinn, ‘anti-Tummany, and Frederick publi ‘There are several candidates | The present incumbent, “Tony” Hartman, will be taken up by no party, and the race will be between Henry P. McGowan, who is to be nominated by Tam- many, and the antiTammany repoblican candidate, who is not yet known, It is more than probable that Judges Joachimsen and | Grogs, of the Marine Court; Judge Loew, of the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge Fi the Ninth. Court, will be renominated by Tammany. All’ the democratic Aldermen are candidates for re- election, and they will all have their wishes gratified it | ts understood, though it is believed that Jonn Reilly, instead of running on the Sixth Senatorial district ticket, will be placed on the atdarge ticket, as will Henry D. Purroy, who now hails from the Fighth Senatorial, Th Shiels, in the Seventh ward, is struggling har get iey’s place, but with what chance of success jt would be hard a8 yet to predict, Alderman Simmons, republican, may be | | renommated in the Eighth Senatorial. If he does not | run Assemblyman Jacob Hess stands ready to take his | place. Ex-Fire Commist#ona@ Van Cott, republican, will be nominated for the Fifth Senatorial jr place of Alderman Morris, who will be put on the at-large | ticket of his party in place of Mr. Vance, who will not | be a candidate, ‘THE ASSEMRLY. in all the districts. In the First district it is believed that James Healy Will get the Tammany nomination, provi of his General Committee in the John Fox Senatorial cor ganization of the | fight does not result finally in the case if Fox should district, which will doubtiess be the got the Senatorial nomination In the Second’ district William Kirk will secure the | | Tatamany nomination. The opposition candidates talked | of are john B. Carroll, Felix Murphy and Thomas id. | It is now almost a settled fact that James Hayes will not run in the Third district on | au anti-Tammany or on any other tic od that his representative will be James Graves, Tammany bas @ regular batch of aspirants to select from, the most | prominent being John Birmingham, Jobn 'C, Brogan, John J. Slevin and Owen Cavanagh. The odds are said to be in favor of Cavanagh, « The Tammany candidate in the Fourth will be John Galvin, and Charles Reily 1s talked of as the probable opposition nominee, The General Committee of the | district aro enjoying the delights ofa faction fight | ° ind it is more than provable that feorgunized by orders from 4 soon if thé diliculties become too great | for harmonious action on election day | "The Fifth diairict wa very cise one, It was car- to stand aside. Ex Assemblyman Dennis Burns | ubtless get the Tammany | r, and is well known as | for the Assembly im 1870 | Previously, in | ‘Gedney, re- | man, of the Superior | The candidates for the Assembiy are very numerous | ried in 1873 by the republicans, and they hope to carry it again this year, Austin Leake is mentioned as @ probable candidate on the: republican side, but there is an ugly feeling in the district among some of the re- publicans, which will defeat his nomination, in the | opinion of many. It is barely possible that Warren C, Bennett will again be the Tammany candidate, In the Sixth district T. J. Campbell will run as a Tammany candidate tn case he should not get the Sen- atorship Michael Haley will probably be the nomi- nee 0! THR OPPOSITION. It is stated, on what seems to be reliable authority, that the republicans in the Seventh district will nomi- nate Professor Theodore W, Deis of Columbia Col- loge. Whether the gentleman will accept the nomina- tion is not known, though some of his friends think he will There isa later statement that Mr, Dwight will not run but will leave the fleld for Dr, Hayes, the well known Aretic explorer, It is a food sign to find this class of mon taking to politics. The district Is naturally republican, Smith E. Lane may be the Tammany can. didate, In the Eighth district George Stauf will re- nominated by hag sony The republicans seem to be divided between Solon B, Smith and John D, Lanthier. Fredrick Gugel, Jr., will in all probability receive the nomination of the opposition. The republicans mention William H. Gedney and An- drew J, Campbell in connection with the nomination from the Ninth district, with the prospects in favor of the former, The democrats have not yet shown their band. i It is probable that George H. Langbein will bo given the Tammany nomination in the Tenth, in considera- | tion of his getting out of the race for the Civil Justice- ship. Wachner represented the district last year, but is now out in the cold. Ferdinand Erhardt aid Joseph Rheinboldt are talked of by the republicans. In the Eleventh district, which is very strongly re- publican, George Peabody, Jr., now that Knox McAfee 4s not in'the race, soems to be tho republican favorite, Oliver P, Buel wili, it is said, get the Tammany as well ‘THE MORRISSEY NOMINATION, The Twelfth district is as yet rather quiet. John Keenan is seeking the democratic nomination; the re- publicans have not settled on anyone thus fur. In the Thirteenth, a very close district, the republi- cans will, it is said, nominate John McLean, though William Wade is determined to wade as as he can in the Convention, in order to carry of the prize. The democrats talk of William Mulvey, Mr. Rich, William Meade and Joseph Boswirt, Jr. Tammany will nominate Luke F. Cozzens in the Fourteenth. The Sopesinnn candidate has not yet been named, John J, Kehoe is mentioned as a probable re- publican candidate, ‘i In the Fifteenth Joseph Blumenthal, some people be- lieve, will be nominated by Tammany, strange as it may seem. Jobn H. Fietzer and George Hettrick are lookii for the republican nomination, Thomas Costigan wil probably be run by the opposition, ‘The Tammany candidate in the Sixteenth will proba- bly be J. E. Morrison, the chairman of the Tammany District Committee of the district. Either Michael Cro- gan or John D. Ottiwell will be nominated by the re- publicans, and possibly Peter Woods will receive the ‘oppositior nomination. n the Seventeenth the republicans have as yet not decided upon a candidate and owing to the reorganization of the Democratic General Committee the democrats are obliged to been quiet till the Committee on Organization gets throug! with the reformation of the District Committee. Bernard Biglin will probably be nominated in the Eighteenth district by the republicans. Frederick | Wilmerding is elso spoken of by the republicans. The | democratic candidates are “0. 8, Paine, Joseph | MacDonough, Hugh Farrell and Michael J. Murphy. It is believed that Paine will get THR TAMMANY NOMINATION, In the Nineteenth district two democratic candidates are named, Mr. Thomas C. Ecclesine and Mr. Benjamin Fairchild,’ Mr. Fairchild’s past. political associations are not 80 savory as they might be. Mr, Ecclesine is a young lawyer of recognized talent and character. He was formerly in Mr. Peckham’s office. He will honor the district as its representative if it gives him the chance, « In the Twentieth and Twenty-first districts things are terribly mixed, and 1t is quite impossible as yet to con- jecturé who the probable candidates will be. Until the Senatorial question is set at rest nothing definite will be done about the Assembly nominees. FIRST DISTRICT DEMOCRATS. A meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committeo of the First Assembly district was held last night at | Cahill’s Hotel, Park row, Mr, Thomas Foley in tho chair and Mr. Patrick .Kernin, Secretary. After tho transaction of a varigty of routine business the follow- ing resolution was presented and adopted:— Resolved, That Cornelius Flynn is our unanimous choice as candidate for Cogoner, id we ask that he shall be nom- inated by the Gounty Convention. FIFTH WARD DEMOCRATS. A meeting of the Fifth Ward Democratic Club was held last night at No. 28 Varick strect, with Thomas Walsh in the chair, It was resolved that Nicholas Muller be recommended to the voters of the Fourth Senatorial district as the people's choice for Senator of | that district, | TAMMANY’S DISCIPLINE—THE TROUBLES IN THE SECOND AND SEVENTEENTH DISTRICTS—MEET- ING OF THE COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION. The settlement of difficulties in the Second and Seven- teenth Assembly District Committees of Tammany Hall has been postponed until next week. In the latter dis- trict a committee of three has been appointed from each of the contending factions, who are instructed to select a proper body which will harmonize all interests, | Messrs. Frederick Smythe, J. 8. Masterson and Leo C. Dersar represent the Masterson influence, while Messrs. J. G. Carey, Patrick Birmingham | and Patrick Powers are selected from the Coulter side, These genticmen have appeared before the Com- “mittee on Discipline and made statements as to their respective rights, but no conclusion has yet been arrived at. In the Second distriet, composed of the Fourth and part of the Sixth wards, it is understood Alderman Patrick Lysaght will procure the chairman- ship of the committee. His opponent is Mr. Jeremiah Murphy, formerly an Assistant Alderman, Mr. Lysaght’ is said to possess consideruble iniluence in his district, and baving been an active worker for his party for years, as weilas a zealous supporter of the “powers thai be,” the chances are strongly in his favor. At least 80 say Uhose who have the ear of “the “Boss.” The Committee on Organization met at Tammany Hall at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. John Kelly in th pair, There was a full attendance but the Committes on Discipline not being ready to report an adjournment was bad until Tacsday next. No business of any importance was transacted. Chairmen of district committees are instructed that if they call at Tammany Hall they can procure all necessary naturalization blanks, MR. BIGELOW'S RECORD. New York, Oct. 2, 18 To Tux Error ov Tim Henatp:— So much has been said in reference to the politics of Mr. John Bigelow, the democratic candidate for Secre- tary of State, that 1 deem it my duty to say that the | first public meeting held in the city of New York to in- dorse the policy of Mr. William H. Wickham was held at my office on January 7, 1875. Mr. Bigelow was present and took part with John B. Haskins and other | prominent democrats in the movement. Yours truly, | JOHN McCLAVE. POLITICAL NOTES. Political trademark—$. The majority against the Catholics of New Jersey was | only 2,000 on the school clause, Governor Taylor, of Wisconsin, is charged very se- riously with having cheated the soldiers as a bounty broker. The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, discussing the problem of a division of party elements, thinks that it is white | against black and vice versa, in a body. | Joe Brown, of Georgia, once ran successfully for Gov- ernor of Georgia with nearly every newspaper in the State against him. Alexander H. Stephens says that Jefferson did about the same thing. The Ohio democrats think that when Governor Allen is re-elected in tl State the New York democrats will look into their pocketbooks and determine that he shall be president of the United States. Yet Sankey is singing lustily about the ‘Ninety-and-nine,” Parson Brownlow thinks that European holders of American bonds ought to be deeply interested in our | politics, because they are our honest creditors and be. | Lieve that we are an honest nation. General Woodford has been preaching this same doctrine in Ohio, and, in | the main, it is a good doctrine, | Alexander H. Rice, having been nominated by the re- | publicans for Governor of Massachusetts, is coolly re- | ceived by the Springfield Republican, which wanted Charles Francis Adams, That paper does not think that the young republicans of the country should now look | to Massachusetts for example and inspiration. Mr, Rice is considered as a respectable, but not as a great candi, date. After all, the Republican thinks that the nom- ination is a disappointment, It is a disappointment to men who wished that the republican party should be handsomely lifted above itself, and not represented merely in a clean shirt, Of Governor Taylor, of Wisconsin, a writer says that he has known him for forty years, and never un- | til this canvass heard a suspicion suggested as to his strict and scrupulous honesty in every sense of the term, He was a Jamberman in Obio in 1893, and spemy two or three seasons in the Wisconsin pinory in gotting | out logs and lumber, himself helping raft them down the river, in 1862-3-4, a8 the only means then at command to got materials for building and fencing his farm. Io | knows every crook and turn of the stream—every ba island and difficult spot, aud has more practi knowledge of the actual hard labor and dificuities of | pioneer Ife in the West than all his assailanis com. | | bined. His defeat this fall would roinstate every cor. | ruption of the past, and be a staygering blow to honesty | | ‘and reform, | strocts, whore tho population daily increases more and | day | ran, connecting with the Morrisania boats trom Fulton COMPULSORY EDUCATION. THE ORDER OF THE POLICE BOARD PROMUL- GATED YESTERDAY—SMALL RESULTS ACHIEVED BY THE TRUANT OFFICERS. ' The order of tho Police Board requiring police offi- cers to furnish the names of all children of school age to the truant officers, and making the truants lable to arrest at any time, was promulgated yesterday and will ‘no doubt be carried into effect this week, It was high time that this order should be issued, for hitherto the Tesalts of tne Compulsory Education law have been wofully inadequate in this city, It will be remem- ered that the law went practically into effect in March last (nominaily on January 1, but it took the police a couple of months to take the census of the children of school age), and ever since nine officers have been axclusively occupied with the execution of the law, There isa truant officer for every district, mak- ing eight, who receive $1,350 per year; and there is a Superintendent, who is supposed to guide their efforts, and who receives $2,500 a year. A careful examina- tion of the Superintendent’s reports to the Board shows @ great number of -‘cases investigated,” and it appears that most of these cases CHILDREN WHO DO ATTEND SCHOOL and have only stayed away temporarily, and not that particular class of children for whom the law was in- tended—namely, those who receive no schooling what- ever, The truant officers, to judge from the figures of their own reports, have been mainly occupied with re- turning truants to the public schools, and not with bringing new pupils to them. To arrive at the number of the last mentioned class it is necessary to consider only those who are designated in the enumeration of the reports as ‘‘not attending school.” Mr, Kiernan, the Clerk of the Board, after looking carefully through the reports, could only find 865 children under that head. This represents the real work of the truant ofll- cers. According to the report of the Superintendent there were over 7,300 children in the beginning of the year who did not receive the blessings of education, Mr. Kiernan and others well versed in educational matters think that these figures are far too low, There is rea- son to thivk that the census was TAKEN VBRY CABELESSLY BY THE POLICE, and the reluctance with which the policemen did the work was alone sufficient to predict such a result; 15,000 would be far nearer the truth. Of these 365 have deen compelled to attend school. It must be admitted, however, that a work like this is very difficult and must of necessity develop but slowly and gradually, 1n Prussia, where the system of conmpulaord lucation bas reached its greatest perfec- tion, it had also to struggle against many obstacles and showed at first but very insignificant results, Mr, Neilson, the President of the Board, suys the present results have-come up to the expectations of the Com- missioners, Next year he hoped more would be done, especially in compelling the children who work in fac- tories and are otherwise employed to attend school for the fourteen weeks required by law., Nothing has been done this year in this branch of the work in order to give the employers a chance to fulfil the requirements of the law, and to thus escape the fine of $50 which can be imposed upon them tor each neglect. Mr. Neilson says that this penalty will be rigorously imposed next year upon all employers who are unable to show that the children ip their em- ploy have not received the required schooling during this year, DEFRCTS OF THE LAW. One reason why the officers have done so little, and are likely to encounter many difficulties in the future, 4s that the law is extremely defective. Mr, Kiddle, the city Superintendent of Schools, pointed out yesterday ono of its gravest defects. ‘The law says that every child must either receive instruction in school or at home, bat it does not define what schooling at home is, and what certificate shall be necessary to prove it in | the eye of the law. Many parents can evado the law through this omission. It is proposed to supply the deficiency by amending the law during the coming session of the Legislature, and also by increasing the penalties for failure on the of parents and | guardians to comply with it. The expediency of | Such a measure is strongly advocated by the friends of compulsory education, who point to the Prussian sys- tem, which even incarcerates parents and guardians for wilft! and repeated violations of the law. There are many people who say that pecuniary penalties’ will not | reach the poor, who are unable to pay them, and that | compliance with the law can only be attained by th vbreat of two or three days’ imprisonment From the ; present state of popular sentiment, however, there is | no doubt that such a provision would, for some time to come, be regarded unrepublican and far too extreme. OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS. i Nuw York, Sept. 30, 1875. To rue Eptror ov tas HenaLy:— In calling your attention to a crying nuisance I hope | to enlist the aid of your powerful journal in order to | obtain a remedy, Is it nota burning shame that inthis | great and proud city of ours there shonld be a lack of | public school accommodation? We all know that the school buildings are badly built as regards ventilation, light, air, means of egress, &c., but when to all these | evils the present overcrowding is added it fils the | measure of our iniquity more than brimfal. In trying | to get my child entered in the primary department in West Filty-second street school Iwas met with « re- fusal for the reason that they were absolutely too full, _ could not possibly make room at prosent. In West | Forty-seventh street it was po better. I was even told there that they had actually 600 more children there thas their = accommo- dation really warranted. Just think of this over- | crowding! What a doloterious effoct it must lave upon the health and lives of our young! What mental | strain upon teachers), I dread to think of any pantc or | any epidemic break¥ng ouk Should not more school | accommodation be at once provided in our uptown | more’ And while new edifices may be built in time | should not the Board immediately rent such buildings | as might answer temporarily? Something should aud ought to be done at once. The law for compulsory education is good and right; but a sufficiency of accom- modation should also be provided for the increase of | scholars, so that the dangers of overcrowding may be avoided, or at least partially mutigatea, Will you bring this matter to the notice of our authorities? CITIZEN, A PRECOCIOUS THIEF, Early in the summer of 187 @ young lad named Nelson Brown made bis escape from a reformatory institution in Connecticut, and, making his way in a_ smail boat across the Sound, landed near Greenport. He was employed in ono of the hotels of that place dur- ing the summer, and in the fall, when the boarding season was about over, he was sent to a place called Sunk Meadow, highly recommended. There he was employed by Mr. W. T. Buffett, and stayed with him during the winter and spring. Mr. Buffett found him smart, but had no reason to suspect him of dishonesty. One morning, in early summer, young Brown was missing. One of the family went up into Mr. Buflews room clear up after break- fact, and accidentally hitting the door of a secretary it flew open, showing that the lock had been broken, and upon investigation it was found that a tin cash’ box containing about $500 was gone. The supposition was that Browa on the previous even- ing, While the family were at supper, stolen up stairs and committed the robbory, which, but for acci- | dent, might have remained undiscovered for some time. It was subsequently found that Brown had made his way to New York by the first train that morning, where be stayed a short time, and then went to Miehi- gan, whence he wrote a letter to one of his former chums at Sunk Meadow. Nothing more was heard of him until a day or two ago, when Mr, Buffett received a telegram from West Haven, Conn., announcing that the thief had been secured, he having ventured back to | | aneighnorhood where he was well known. Mr. Buitett has been over to identify him, and he will probably be brought on requisition to Suflolk county tor trial. A NEW RAILWAY. That section of the New York, Boston and Montreal Railway extending from North Yonkers to High Bridge will be opened for public travel to-morrow, Its iin- portance is increased by tho assuranco that rapid transit will soon be a verity, and the new accessiou to our means of communication cannot fail to be benef. cial to the city of New York und to Westchester county, while its future must be regarded as offering the most flattering prospects, ‘The first train will leave High Bridge for Yonkers to- morrow (Monday) morning at eight o'clock. On its arrival the Mayor and Common Council will be taken on the tram and conveyed over the road. | Five each = =way be trans = & will ferry slip with the Hudson River Bailroad at Kings. bridge for Thirtieth haga ong at High Bridge for toe | Grand Central depot. ‘his arrangement will last | | through the wintor and spring pending foreclosure pro- | ceedings. When these are completed the entire road | will be opened and the public will be accommodated with through tra The equipments aro tirst class throughout, the road is baliasted in the most durable | manner and the engines and cars are new and trom the | best makers. That the new road will be of partica- larly great benetit to Westchester county there can be no doubt, and real estate owners in that county are Jubilant over an anticipated rise in the value of their possessions thereabouts, i The time table by which the new road will be run for the next six months will be weued in a fow days. THE SEIZURE OF A STEAMBOAT, Yesterday afternoon United States Marshal Holmes libelied the steamship Artizan, plying between tkis city and Sandy Hook, at her wharf, pier 8 North River, for liabilities incurred for machinery and supplies fur. nished to said steamboat, amounting to $168, The said vessel is now ted up wt the above-mentioned whart, | ceiver has all the a’ A NEWSPAPER QUARREL. THE DAILY ALTA CALIFORNIA SUED FOR TWENTY-FIVE * THOUSAND DOLLARS — WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE BANK ? Mr. J. W. Simonton, of the Associated Press, and his California partners, have appealed to the law to sustaim their fair fame, which they deem injured by sundry statements issued in the daily Ala California, and have commenced a suit against the proprietors thereof for an alloged libel published in itscolumns, The com- plaint was filed on the 24th of September, in the Fourth District Court of San Francisco, and is in the following form: In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of California, in and for the city and county of San Francisco. George K. Fitch, Loring Pickering and James W. Simonton, plaintiffs, vs. Frederick MacCrellish and William A. Woodward, defendants. City and County of San Francisco,—The complaint ofGeorge K. Fitch, Loring Pickering and James W. Simonton, by John F. Swift, their attorney, against Frederick MacCrellish and William A, Woodward, respectfully shows and avers as follows: — That now and for more than five years past, at said city and county, the said plaintiffs have been and still are copartners #s journalists, and that their business has been that of conducting and publishing in copartnership two daily newspapers, one known and called the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, and the other the Daily Morning Cail. ‘Tho plaintiffs further aver that the circulation of their erg has been large and their profits great, recapita- late the circumstances of the failure of the Bank of California, alluding to it as ‘a great public calamity, causing much distress and alarm in the community.’” ‘They further, ‘upon information and belief, aver that the cause of sald failure of suid bank was the loss of ite capital by the internal mismanagement of its affuirs by its olficers. And these plaintitls aver and show that they have never published any false news or any unjust of untruthful comments, editorial or otherwise, of of concerning said bank or its management, but havo en- deavored to do their duty to the public in that bebalt as independen’ journalists, at all times, without fear or favor.” That they, nor either of them conspired vo. gether or with any person or persons to injure said ank, to produce @ financial panic or to speculate in values or for any other purpose. ‘They charge that the proprietors of the Alta, ‘well knowing the premises, but greatly envying the good name of these plaintifls and their success and prosper- ity. as # jou lists, and especially as publishers and pro- priotofs of said newspapers, the Daily Kvening Bulletin and the Daily Morning Call, and wickedly and ma- liciously intending to injure said plaintiffs in their good name and fame as journalists, and to injure their busi- ness in conducting their said newspapers,” did publish Acertain “scandalous, malicious and defamatory libel” ‘The alleged libel states that Messrs, Fitch and’ Picker- ing remitted large amounts of money to Mr. Simonton “to speculate in siocks und to take advantage of the panic, which they strove to make as disastrous as Bible.’ ‘The Associated Presa despatches, of which wa have complained, urposely used to affect the stock market in ork, and this can be proved. New Simonton admits that his ‘partnors were sending him money at the same time he was ad- vising them that the bank would fail. We believe that he lies when he says that not a word of these-premonitions were given to the public until atter the failure. We recollect that the Commercial Adver- tiser in New York, one of Simonton's recent mouth- pieces, predicted trouble in California two or three days before the failure. We can satis(actorily show that a deep-laid conspiracy was made to break the bank; that the Bulletin and Cadi were the tools of the parties operating for a mutual interest, and if there ‘was one stanch friend of those journals among tbe di- rectors of the bank we can point out the reason of such friendship, and the probable treason that was com- mitted, a8'well as also the motive of it Woe are only getting at the bottom of this great trouble, aud when the truth is told the most damnable conspiracy ever concocted and the most wicked treason will be brought to light. How did Mr. Simonton xnow in May last that the bank was on the brink of failure? If he kuew it, who told him? Ifhe knew it, why did the Bulletin and Call strike at the credit of tho bank? We brand Mr. Simonton as one of the worst scoundre!s that ever disgraced journalism.” And the plainuils further aver that tho alleged libet “got forth, gave out, and imiended to caase it to be publicly suspected and believed by the people of this State, and especially by the patrons and subscribers of said ‘newspapers of the plaintifs, the Datly Bvening Bulletin and the Daily Morning Call, that twese piain- titfs had been guilty of the crime ‘of conspiracy, and that they had conspired together and had attempted to destroy, and had. destroyed the credit of said of California, by the publication in their said nowspapers of false news of and concerning it condition and manage- ment, and had, by such talse news and untruthtul com- ments caused said bank tv suapend,"’ it boing sound and capable of continuiug its business but for such sup- proceedings on the parts of the plainuifs. They further state that they published “‘no false news or unwrutiful comments,” but only what was true and with such comments us were Just, The plaintiffs aiso state that the defendants gave out and intended to have the public believe that the Bus detin and Call had published and spread false news ‘in order to produce a financial panic,” and had con- spired with certain persons “to produce said panic’ iu order to speculate in stocks and values. ‘They claim that they thug have been “‘and are greatly injured in their good name, fame and credit as jour- nalists, and espectally as publishers and proprietors of Said newspapers, the Daily Evening Buletin and tho Daily, Morning Call, and have been suspected by divers citizens of this State, who had no means of knowing the false and malicious nature of the defendant's statements aforesaid, to bave been guilty of the crimes, olences and misconduct charged therein,” and have not ouly suffered pecuniarily, but bave been ae- prived of considerable gains and’ profits which would otherwise Lave lawfully accrued to them in their sad business, and bave been brought into pablic scandal, in famy and disgrsce with and among their neiglibors and other good citizens of this State, and have been other- wise injured and damnified in their said business as publisberg. of said newspapers and in their credit and Standing & journalists” ‘And further, that by said foregoing, wrongful, f Malicious, defamatory and libellous acts and conduct ol said defendants, these plaintills have been damaged in the sum of $25,000, Whereiore plaintiffs bring this suit and demand judgment against said defeudant in che sum of $26,000 ‘and cosis of this action. JOUN F. SWIFT, Attorney for plaintiff. State of California, City and County of San Frat cisco, 8&—George K. Fitch, being duly sworn, says that be is plaintiff in the above entitled action, that bas read the foregoing complaint aod knows the con- tents thereof ; that the sume are true except as to such matters us are therein stated upon information and belief, und a8 to such masters liv believes them to be true. GEORGE K. FITCH. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of — A.D. 187% —Patuse G. Woon, Notary ‘ublic. THIRD AVENUE BANK FAILURE. To rae Epiron or THe HreaLo: Areceiver has been appointed for the Third Avenue Savings Bank. How long is he to be allowed to wind up affairs? John A. Stewart, receiver of the Bowery Bank, which failed in 1867, bas not yet rendered ac- count t stockhoiders Lex, New Youk, Oct. 1, 1875. ROTTEN BANKS AND NON-ACCOUNTING RECEIVERS To tus Epitor oy tux Henaro:— The Third Avenue Savings Bank has “gone in,” to sea common saying, and a receiver has been ap- puinted. How long has that receiver in law to settle up the affairs of the bank? Can he take his own time, like the receiver of the old Bowery Bank, Mr. John A. Stewart, who entered on bis duties of receiver of the latter bank in 1857, aud who has not to this day ren- dered a final accounting to the untortunate stockholders. of that defunct institution, notwithstanding the re- jairs of the bank settled Will the receiver of the Third Avenue Savings Bank be allowed eighteen years or more to realize on the real estate of that bank, the same as the receiver of the old Bowery Bank aforesaid, and thereby eat up the property of the unfortunate depositors in clerk hire, fees, &c. ? ‘This is a great country, all must confess, Well filled with vroad lakes and big ditches. A SUFFERER IN BOTH BANKS. New Yorx, Oct. 1, i875. SHIPBUILDING IN CANADA. [From the Rutland (Vt.) Globe. } It is claimed for the Dominion of Canada that it ranks third, certainly fourth, in importance among the ship owning countries of the world. The list of vessels on the registry books of the Dominion exhibits a total of 6,930, measuring 1,158,363 tons. Of these 634 are steamors, measuring 76,487 tons (with a gross tonnage of 122,896), There are 236 ships (207,107 tons), 546 barks (320,848 tons), 23 barkentinos (10,76910ns), 62 brigs (15,708 tons), 641 brigantines (114,639 tons), 3,785 schooners (230,272 tons), and 1,100 smaller vessels are tered in six out of the seven provinces which constitute the Dominion. The province of Nova Scotia ranks first in importance as regards ship- ing, with 2,787 vessels, measuring 479,669 tons. New Breawick comos next, with 1,144 vessels, 204 741 tons, Prince Edword Island’ has 312 vessels,’ 43,333 tons. These consutute what are termed the maritime provinces and possess more than two-thirds of the tonn of the whole Dominion. The province of Quebec has 1,337 vessels, 218,40 tons—more vessels than New Brunswick, bul of alosser tonnage. Ontario has 815 vessels, 115,008 tons. British Columbia, the Pacific province, has 35 vessels, 3,611 tons, Of the 634 steamers on the registry books of the Dominion 595 aro classified in the following manner:—Paddle, 280; ew, 315; passenger, 232; freight, 79, and tugs, 284. ‘Tho trade of the inland lakes employs nearly half of all hese steamer ANOTHER SAFE HOISTING ACCIDENT. At ten o'clock yesterday morning, as some men wore moving @ safe at No. 2 Cedar street, a rope, to which the block was attached, broke and the block fell on the head of one of the mon, name! Whitmore Terwillinger, aged thirty-five years, of No, 308 West Twenty urst Streot, causing a compound fracture f the skull. The injured man was removed to the Park Hospital by the volice of the First orauinet for madigal care a