The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1875, Page 7

FRANCE. —_——-—___ WIRE IN THE ARSENAL AT BREST—THE WORK O¥ THE CHANNEL TUNNEL TO BE COM- MENCED—THE SINKING OF THE SHAFT ON ‘THE FRENCH SIDE. Panis, Oct. 21, 1875. A Gre has occurred in the arsenal at Brest, which caused damage to the extent of $200,000. The work of sinking a shaft to the depth of 100 amotres will be begun next week on the French coast, near Calais, This will be the preliminary of operations ‘upon the Channel tunnel. RE MINISTRY TO CONSIDER M. ROUHER'S AJAOCIO SPEECH—THE LEFT TO MOVE FOB A os f Panis, Oct, 21, 1875, Itis stated that the recent speech of M. Rouher at Ajaccio will be made the subject of a discussion in the Council of Ministers to-morrow. Assoon asthe Assembly meets the Lett intend to move that the date of dissolution may be fixed, hoping thas to procure a vote hostile to M. Buffet. APPLICATION TO PROSECUTE ROUHER FOR AT- TACKING THE PRESIDENT, Lonvon, Oct. 22—5:30 A. M. The Xcho this morning has a special telegram from Paris which contains the following:— “It is rumored that at the coming session of tho Assembly an authoriation will be asked for to prose- cute M. Rouher for attacking President Machahon and ‘the constitution.” SPAIN. SHARKEY ARRIVED AT SANTANDERB—THE CORTES TO BE CONVOKED. Mapuip, Oct, 21, 1875. Adyices from Santander announce that the regular ‘mail steamer from Cuba has arrived there. Sharkey, the murderer, who was a passenger, came ashore, A royal decree convoking the Cortes will be issued dmmediately. ENGLAND AND CHINA. WONCESSIONS BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT— CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORT CONCERNING THE SHIPMENT OF POWDER BY ENGLISH MERCHANTS, Lonpoy, Oct, 21, 1875. * The English Foreign Office has received a tele- gram from Minister Wade, dated Shanghai tho 18th inst., in which it is said that the guarantees obtained from the Chinese by be British in the recent negotiations, include the des- patch of a mission to England, bearing an apology for 4he Yunnan outrage and a safe conduct to Burmah for tthe Commissioners of Inquiry. This telegram also ‘confirms the reports previously published that ship. pments of ammunition have recently been made from Wondon for China, and that Mr, Wade had informed the Foreign legations that he had in- sisted upon a better observance of the treaties regard- “ng taxation and trade. “ONSER FRITZ.” Bexuuy, Oct. 21, 1875. Prince Frederick William has not yet arrived at any decision in regard to his visit to the Philadelphia Ex- @ibition next year. BAVARIA. Monica, Oct. 21, 1875, A royal decree has been issued, adjourning tho Bavarian Diet until further notice. SPECIE FOR NEW YORK. Lowpox, Oct. 21, 1875. The White Star line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from Liverpoolto-day for New York, took out £31,000 terling. ‘Three thousand dollars in specie were sent to Now ‘York by the steamer City of Berlin, which sailed to- @ay from Liverpool. THE FLOODS IN ENGLAND. PWURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DAMAGF DONE— THE VALLEY OF THE DON TURNED INTO A LAKE. Lonpox, Oct. .22—5 A. M. The morning Echo of to-day has additional and inter- esting details of the late floods. At Sheffield the dam- ‘age was very serious. The valley of the river Don forms a lake half a mile wide, and fully fifteen miles long. Many collieries and iron works have ‘been flooded. By reason of their consequent stoppage ‘thousands of operatives have been thrown out of em- ployment. Accounts from the valleys of the Wye, Severn and Clun stave that those rivers have also risen to an unusua height, whereby great damage has been (antailod. PERU. @HE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION—RIOTING AND BLOODSHED IN LIMA. Lua, Oct. 17, 1875. The returns from the Presidential elections are gen- yerally favorable to Sefior Pardo. The elections in this wity were attended with serious riots, Several persons ‘wore killed or wounded, SAN FRANCISCO ELECTIONS. THE CITY AND COUNTY ELECTIONS YESTERDAY— OBLITERATION OF PARTY LINES—TRIUMPH OF REPUBLICANS ON THE SCHOOL QUESTION. San Francisco, Oct, 21, 1875, The election yesterday is the cause of general rejoic- ‘@ugto-day. The press is elated with the result of the ‘people’s voting outside of the party. The only candi- dates on which strict party lines were drawn were “Carr, the republican, and Fitzgerald, the democratic mominees for State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, Carr was elected by a handsome majority, and 4n his election the division of the school fund was n. The judicial elections were a perfect triumph for the boy in spite of strong combinations to oust judges ‘hose fidelity had made them the terror of evil ‘doers. (They were, with one exception, all re-elected. This city has elected Davis, Louderback (police), Maurice | ‘Blake (original), M. H. Myrick (probate). S. ¥. Wright, | (county), K. ¥. Morrison, Samuel McKee and W. P. angeriield, District Judges. Politics wore utterly ignored, Democrats voted for Tepublicans and republicans voted for democrats, San ‘Francisco feels very proud, and the outspoken are re- joicing that rich scoundrels, as well as poor rasgals, can dealt with by the Judiciary here. AN UNINTENTIONAL MURDER, ‘THE SON OF MAJOR HICKS SHOOTS A STEADY, S0- BER SCOTCH ENGINEER, MISTAKING HIM For A DESPERATE CHARACTER—COMMITTAL OF HICKS TO PRISON, Scranton, Pa., Oct. 21, 1875, ‘This afternoon a young man named E£. L. Hicks eur. rendered himself before Esquire Leach, of the First ‘Ward of this city, on a onarge of shooting Mr. Archt- bald Anderson, a peaceable citizen, while on his way ‘home to Greenridge, last evening, Hicks states that tt ‘was about 9:30 o’clock when he met Anderson ata place called Tripp's Ravine, a lonely spot, on the out. ‘skirts of Scranton, and fearing he might be adesperado, ‘he drew his revolver andfired. The ball entered An- derson’s right side, and passing downward {n an oblique direction penetrated the bowels and lodged in the left hip. Neither of the men spoke to the other prior to the shooting. Anderson died this afernoou in great pain. He had beon employed Wor the past six years as ton ged at the Diamond Mine, in this city, and was a sober, industrious Scotchman, ia murderer, Hicks, is twenty one years of age, and {a ason of Major Hicks, a highly respectable resident of ‘Wyoming, and an extensive farmer and stock raiser. | Hicks was committed to Wilkesbarre prison, and was romoved there this afternoon, = + A FASHIONABLE WEDDING. Woxersparer, Pa,, Oct. 21, 1875, The marriage of William W. Curtin, son of ex-Gov- ernor Curtin, to the only daughter of Judge Harding, took piace in St, Stephen’s church to-day. A recep- @ion was given at the residence of the bride’s father after the ceremony, There was an extensive display Of presents, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OUTOBER 22, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasmincton, Oct, 21, 1875. ANTICIPATED TROUBLE IN THE CABINET FROM ZACH CHANDLER'S APPOINTMENT—GENERAL COWEN’S HEAD TO BE REMOVED—A WAR WITH BRISTOW AND JEWELL PROBABLE. ‘The appointment of Zach Chandler to the Secretary- ship of the Interior is going to breed trouble, if not dissension, in the Cabinet. Had the ex-Senator been willing to let matters stand as they are in the Interior Department, affairs might have gone on with smoothness for the time being at least, and the day of trouble been indefinitely deferred. But the determination which the veteran ex-Benator shows to have the head of General Cowen, Delano’s Assistant “Secretary of the Interior, means war between Chandler on- the one side and Bristow and, perhaps, Jewell on the other. Gen- eral Cowen was strongly pushed for the place of Secro- tary of the Interior by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, but the President suited his personal pleasure and appomted Chandler, who is a third termer and a warm supporter of Grant. Chandler packed his valise and went West to-night to bring back his family to Washington. When he re- turns he will make the fur fly. His alleged choice for Assistant Secretary being Third Assistant Postmaster General Barber. The inference is taken that he is going to make out a Michigan slate, especially as he was known to be in consultation almost all day with Judge Edmunds, the present Postmaster of Wash- ington. It is understood that General Cowen and Indian Commissioner Smith have, in accordance with the usual courtesy in such cases, tendered their resig nations to the new Secretary as a matter of form. THE REPORT OF THE RED CLOUD COMMISSION TO BE DISSECTED—HOW THE MEMBERS OF THE RING ESCAPED—AN <INJURED CON- TRACTOR ON THE WARPATH, The Red Cloud Committee's whitewash is likely to be sullied again. Samuel Walker, formerly clerk and acting secretary of the Indian Commission, is prepar- ing a statement which will seriously damage the credibility of the Red Cloud Commissioners’ report. He will sustain Professor Marsh by docu- mentary proof, some of it written by Agent Saville and supposed to be beyond the reach of his accusers. A singular fact has just come to light. Two or three weeks before the report was fin- ished a man holding an important and confidential position in the Indian Ring told a friend that Bosler and the other members of the contracting ring would escape without censure, but’ that McCann and the other contractors not in the ring would be severely dealt with. The prediction has proved trae in every particular. McCann is writing a statement showing up the Investigating Committee, while mem- bers of the ring are preparing for Congressional in- vestigation. Contractor Bosler, Mr. Delano’s friend, came down from Carlyle, Pa, last night, and has been in commanion with his friends here to-day. THE NEW SECRETARY AS A ROMANCER. Mr. Chandler not only tells good stories about squirrels, but he has shown himself an admirable ro- mancer in a political way. He says that when he left Michigan for Washington he had no more idea of being invited to a seat in the Cabinet than he had of going to heaven in a chariot of fire. This is probably accounted for by the fact that he came to New York in the last week in August and had a secret inter- view with the President, who was then at Long Branch. Delano’s letter of resignation was then in Grant’s pocket while he arranged for the ex-Senator to succeed him, Then Chandler returned to Michigan, and when he came East with the President he had no idea of being invited to the position. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasnincron, Oct. 21, 1875. ALABAMA CLAIMS—ACTION OF THE COURT OF COMMISSIONERS. In the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama Claims to.day judgments were rendered as follows:— Case 556, Jeremiah Ludlow, of Bridgehampton, Mass, for loss of personal effects, &c., on the Isaac Howland, $2,260; caso $30, Charles E. Sprague, of Warebam, Mass., for loss of personal effects on the Highlander, $253; case 404, Lorenzo Fisher, of Philadelphia, for Joss of photographic apparatus, &c., on the Talisman, $1,722 80; case 835, Charles H. Tripp ot al., for the loss of the Kingfisher, outit, oil, &c., $9,600, to be dis- tributed among the several owners. The following cases were submitted :—Case 339, Fred Adams vs, United States; case 339, Samuel Flye va. United States; case 348, Louisa M. L. Michon, of New Orleans, vs. United States, for loss of goods on board the Electric Spark; case 1,175, Joseph Booth et al. vs. United Sgutes, for loss of goods on the Electric Spark; case 220, William Sale vs. United States; case 349, A. D. Crocker, administrator, &c., vs. United States; case 1,197, Daniel Howard vs. United States; case 355, Christian H. Matzon, of Baltimore, vs, United States; aso 352, George H. Tay et al. vs, United States. DMPROVEMENT OF MAIL FACILITIES THROUGH- OUT THE SOUTH. Postmaster General Jewell had a long conference to- day with Colonel Thomas A. Scott, who came here at his request to arrange for giving the department all pos- sible facilities on the railroads controlled by the latter in the South and Southwest with a view to still greater despatch in the distribution and connections of mails in those sections, Colonel Scott acquiesced in Governor Jewell’s suggestions, and promised to extend all the facilities that may be desired. A DECISION ADVERSE TO THE BIGHT OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD TO MINERAL LANDS. The Acting Secretary of the Interior has affirmed the decision of Commissioner Burdett in the case of the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. the Mammoth Blue Gravel Company. This important decision {is to the effect that mineral lands do not pass to the Central Pacific Railroad Company by virtue of its grant; but the timber apon the mineral lands within its ten miles limit is granted to the road, except so much of it as is necessary to support the improvements of mine owners thereon. + CROOKED WHISKEY. A SENSATION AMONG WHISKEY DISTILLERS—A GENERAL PLEA OF GUILTY OF FRAUD—PRES- IDENT GRANT'S RELATIVES SAID TO BE IN- VOLVED. Cincixnatt, Oct, 21, 1875. The Gacette’s St. Louis special says that quite a sensation developed itself to-day in the fact of every distiller and rectifier, excepting Jouitt & Co, pleading guilty to a number of counts in each indictment, and permitting de- fault to be entered in the sum of several hundred thousand dollars, including one lot of 1,200 barrels of whiskey belonging to Ulrica & Co., and another of 600 barrels, owned by Quinlan & Co. “The evidence against Jouttt is eaid to be conclusive, but his confession of | guilt is held back because he claims that the officials dare nov proceed against him, as his partners are relations of the President, Casey, in particular, of New Orleans, is the party alluded to, ‘There are probably no less than thirty different par- ties who now stand convicted, and whose term of pun- ishment is in no case lees than two years’ imprisonment and $10,000 fine, and some of them may be sentenced to six years and $20,000 fine. ‘Though the attorneys for the defendants, as well as those representing the government, deny that there has been any compromise in the whiskey cases, here it is generally believed that to-day’s Proceedings are in accordance with an understanding whereby the defendants agree to pay reasonable pecuniary fines and abandon their claim to all whiskey and distillery prop- erty under seizure, and the government consents to Stay further action and save the parties from the pen- ae oa imprisonment by Presidential pardon or other The defendants to-day entered a formal abandonment of the property under seizure here, the value of which will aggregate nearly $1,000,000, which the govern- ment gets. Tt is considered certain that all the indictments against tho distillers and rectifiers will be dismissed within a few days, those against the gaugers and reve- Bue agents remaining on the docket Wr tevure wial, FAILURES IN MEMPHIS, Mexpnis, Tenn., Oct, ‘21, 1875. A petition in bankruptcy was filed this afternoon in the United States District Court by Carroll & Karr, at- torneys representing the Now York ‘editors, against J. J. Wiggins & Co,, hatters and {1 The abit bo i oa iach inet J.D. Will. ies are about $40,000, ‘A similar potition was also filed a jams, clother, Main street, by his fans Si Boa t, by ‘ew York creditors, AMUSEMENTS. A VON BULOW REHEARSAL, Boston, Oct. 21, 1875. A very singular work was rehearsed to-day by Von Bilow and the orchestra, It is a Ruasian concerto by 4 pupil of Rubinstein, named Tschaikowsky, and has never yet been performed in. public. It is of singular construction, full of surprises, and withal bearing evi- dence of a master mind in its effective movements. The concerto in E flat, by Liszt, which will be one of the features of the concert to-morrow night, and the magnificent concerto in G of Beethoven, were rehearsed over and over again, until one would think that the pianist never would be satisfied. Bilow isa hard tauskmaster, and herein shows conscious art. Less ar musicians would not be so particular about detail; he believes in aiming at perfection in bis drill of the orchestra, He has wretched materials to work upon, but he works nevertheless to make something geod out of them, “THE LILY OF KILLARNEY” AT BOOTH'S THEA- ‘TRE. Sir Julius Benedict's romantic opera, “The Lily o Killarney,” based on the story of the “Colleen Bawn,”” was sung at Booth’s Theatre last night by the Kellogg Troupe. The work has not been often sung in this country, and its production last night was something of @ novelty, which served to bring together the largest audience of the” present season of English opera The music is light and sparkling, and if without the brilliancy or verve of the French school, it is replete with the pastoral simplicity of English ballad melody. The play loses much of its dramatic force in the opera and it is only the melody which saves the piece trom becoming tiresome. Few works have so many airs suited to the popurar taste, and while the opera does not take high musi- cal rank, the frequency of its arias win for it a success which it could not otherwise obtain, Like the play, it is capable of very effective stage set- ting, and the scenery and appointments last night were better than on any previous occasion. So excellent was the presentation of the piece in this respect that it is to be regretted that the tragic drowning scene at the close of the second act should have been almost de- stroyed by the slowness of the action. Musically the success of the company was not what could have been desired. Almost without exception, the arias were sung with a sense of woariness on the part of the artists, which sometimes communicated itself to an audience determined to be pleased, The exception to this was the serenade and duet in the first act, “The moon has raised her lamp above,’ which was sung with good effect, the orchestra for once being in accord. As a rule, however, the orchestra was too loud and the horns completely’ drowned the vocalization, Miss Kellogg as Kily O'Connor sung well, as sho always does, but the rd/e is unsuited to her, and she was com- elled to struggle against incompatibilities. Miss eaumont as Ann Chute was accepfible, and she received a well merited recall for her rendering of the solo, “Let not suspicion in my breast’? at the close of the first scene, Miss Annie Montague, who took the part of Mistress Cregan, has gained in confidence, and consequently in power, since her first appearance, but she still shows so much of the amateur that we are not prepared to speak of her as an artist. Mr. Castle’s Hardress Cregan was a fair performance, but hardly equal to his own standard of excellence, while the Danny Mann of Mr. Carleton greatly exceeded expectation. The part was capitally conceived and acted and sung with dra- matic force and vigor. Even asan acting part the char- acter of Myles na Coppaleen, which Mr. Boucicault has made his own, and which last night was assumed by Mr. H. 7. Allen, was fecbly done, and the rest of the cast require no commen. The opera is to be repeated this evening and at the matinée to-morrow. MADAME GODDARD'S PIANO RECITAL. Mme. Arabella Goddard gave one of her piano re- citals at Steinway Hail yesterday afternoon, to an andi ence far too small for an artist of her reputation and abilities. The distinguished artist played a fantaisie of Schubert, op. 78, variations from Becthoven’s op. 36, a fantaisie of W. F. Bach and a Chopin waltz, In all of these pieces she displayed her well known qualities, and the entire performance may be summed up in the phrase—brilliant but cold, She was assisted by M. Sauret with the violin, and Mr. Tom Karl sung two songs—Hamiiton Aide’s “Morning and Evening Star’ and ‘‘Eily Mavourneen. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Edwin Adams is playing in ‘Clancarty,’? Tom Tay- lor’s drama, in St. Louis, “La Fille de Madame Angot” will be sung for the last time at the Lyceum to-night. @ The “Postilion of Lonjumeau’’ will be sung at the Academy of Music on Saturday afternoon. The favorite opéra bouffe, ‘Giroflé-Girofla,” will be sung at the Stadt Theatre for the last time this evening, with Mlle. Geoffroy in the title rdle. The Benevolent Order of the Elks will take a benefit at Booth’s Theatre, October 28, and ‘Romeo and Juliet’? will be played, Miss Kate Claxton appearing as Juliet for the first time, ® Edwin Booth’s appearance at the Fifth Avenue ‘Theatre on Monday night will be a more than usually interesting event because of the late accident which threatened to postpone his engagement indefinitely. He will play Hamlet for the first time in New York for two years, and his performances are limited to twenty-three nights ana four matinées. “Mr. Barry Sullivan has been interviewed by the Bos- tou Times, and when asked if he really thought there had beon a conspiracy against him replied:—“Yes, sir; it has followed me everywhere, even to this city. They seem to be jealous of a stranger among them instead of welcoming him, which would be the courteous course for them to pursue. American talent is always wel- comed in England, and no actor there would con- descend to let his prejudice lead him into unfair treat- ment ofa foreign artist.” We doubt that Mr. Sullivan is supported by facts in making this statement, Ameri- can actors have not invariably received fair treatment in London, and there is no “morbid feeling of jealousy” of him in our theatres. Perhaps Mr. Sullivan confuses the criticism of the Boston press against him with con- spiracy, and as he says he has not read one of those criticisms he is not likely to be a very good judge of its character. John McCullough, who 1s playing Richelieu and Vir- ginius in Chicago this week, describes the last appear- ance of Charlotte Crampton, who died in Louisville of yellow jaundice a week or two ago, in her fifty-ninth | year, She performed the Queen to his Hamlet, and he | araws the following vivid portrait of the dying ac- tress:—“She was dying, nay, was almost dead, at the time. Her limbs were rigid and her features so con- tracted that only the eyes and lips moved. Her disease made her face a dark saffron color; she looked almost as dusky as Othello, and her eyes, dilated and with something fearfully weird in their expression, posi- tively froze one’s blood. She had to be led to the en- trances, but, once on the stage, was completely herself except for that dreadful rigidity which marked her as in many réspects already dead. Yet not a line or even a word of the part did she miss, In this, her last appearance before her beloved footlights, she was as perfect in her lines as when in the prime of her career, only the mobility, the ease, the motion, were lacking, but these were things of the past and had their being im the fulness of that vital spark which was fast ebbing away. When her last scene closed and she passed from the stage through the entrafice, one of the ballet girls made a movement to assist her down, the steps that led to the | dressing rooms, The kindly offer was rejected with a dignified gesture and with eyes fixed in death, fea- tures rigid and limbs nearly paralyzed, the once fa- vorite actress slowly dragged herself from the theatre forever." EVENING WEATHER REPORT. Wan Derarruest, Orrice oF THe Carry Siaxau Orvicer, Wasmivoron, Oct, 21-7:30 P.M. Probabilities, For the laker, the Upper Mississippi, the Lower Missouri ana tae Ohio valleys, falling barometer, warm, partly cloudy weather and southwest to southeast winds and possibly light rain in the Upper Mississippi Valley. For Tennessee, the Gulf and South Atlantic States, northeast to southeast winds, falling barometer, warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather and occasional rain near the South Atlantic and West Gulf States, t For the Middle and Eastern States, stationary or fall- ing barometer, southwest to southeast winds and warmer, clear and partly cloudy weather. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in compart- son with the corresponding date of last year, as indi- cated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Herap Building :— 1874, 1875. 1874, 1875, BAM... GO| 49 3:00PM 60 ORM OO ORM 65 D4 62 OP Mile, 60 WH Ce! Swe 56 Average temperature yesterday. +. O1% | Average temperature for corresponding date kat year... ways THE POLITICAL FIELD. ACCEPTS. JOHN MORRISSEY He Announces that He Is “In for the Fight.” Recorder Hackett’s and Mr. San- ford’s Acceptances. The political order of battle is now made, the divis- jons of both armies are arrayed, the Tammany and anti-Tammany banners and pennants aro fully dis- played. With the exception of a few conventions that have adjourned in scattered districts to come to a bet~ ter agreement on some man or men, the field is clear, and every gun is pointea and ready for election morn- ing. The political managors have not had time to eat their meals for the last four or five days, so arduous have been their efforts, THE ENTHUSIASM FOR RECORDER HACKETT. Neyer before in the case of a candidate for public office has there been such heartfelt enthusiasm and earnestness manifested by the hardworking masses as is seen in the energetically expressed support of Recorder Hackett, His election is assured by a large majority, Recorder Hackett, in tho following manly and straightforward letter to the Chairman of the Re- publican} and Anti-Tammany conventions, has signified his acceptance of their joint nomination :— THE ;CORDER'S PLATFORM, New York, Oct. 16, 1875. GENTLEMEN OF THE Repvaiican-Democratic AND DEM- OORATIC-REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL CONVENTIONS :-— I am profoundly grateful that I should be re- nominated by conventions whose delegates represent each of the great political parties, and who were chosen upon a free and unbiassed basis of popular representa- tion and unfottered action. When elected I shall hope to render some return for such a mark of public conil- dence by carnestly endeavoring to deserve tt. I fully appreciate how often, under imperfect or deceptive information, or under the imperative necessity of rapid action, I have, during my nearly ton years’ career as Recorder, Sinking Fund Commissioner and Supervisor, committed mistakes of judgment. Yet I believe that the warnings and experience from each past year have been laid to heart during the succeeding one, and thus aided me in my renewing wishes to serve my constituents by protecting their security of life and property. The mark of popular confidence from the two ‘conventions is the more gratifying, | be- causo during my threo terms of office I have re- frained from participation in local politics, and because I have officially outlived all previous political afillia- tions with the Stuyvesant, Mozart and other indepen- dent organizations, and ‘therefore have become un- Profitable to the mere partisans of to-day. | Hence, I ad no right to expect a partisan nomination, and I did not ask it A public officer nominated as I am will, when elected, owe nothing to clique or faction, and cannot incur partisan debts for subsequent pay- ment, even if he were disposed to liquidate such obliga- tions. 1 accept with theso assurances your joint nomina- tions for a fourth judicial term, andl have the honor to remain, Most sincerely and faithfully yours, JOHN KETELTAS HACKETT, ‘THE ACCEPTANCE OF CHARLES K. SANFORD. Mr. Charles K. Sanford has issued tho following let- ter, addressed to the Chairman of the Democratic County (Anti-Tammany) Convention:— Dear Sir—In reply to your favor of the 19th Octo- ber, inst, informing me of my nomination by the “Democratic County Convention’’ for the office of Jus- tice of the Superior Court of the city of New York, I beg to say that I accept the nomination with a profound senso of the responsibility thus incurred and with many misgivings as to my own qualifications for the exalted sphere of duty to which your partiality would assign me. Permit me to express my high appreciation of the honor you conter and to assure you of my earnest desire to justify your choice. If elected | shall keep in view and strive to adopt the illustrions examplo of those distinguished jurists by whom the Bench of the Superior Court has heretofore been graced and adorned, and in whose hands the administration of justice has been without reproach. In view of your pointed and significant reference to the vital question of issue in the present canvass, 80 far as citizens of New York are concerned, permit me to add that I am in full accord with the sentiments upon which your organization was prompted and perfected. I eve in popular government, in universal suffrage, in the right Gf the people to choose their own rulers and magis- trates, and I abhor every scheme and device, open or secret, whereby political power is sought to be concen- trated in the hands vf an individual for the oppression of the masses, or to their exclusion from full participa- tion in the exercise of all political rights. Again thank- ing you for the honor you have done me, | wish you success in your efforts to mnake the city government of pee lela a eet wen of the Log for the people an e people.” Very respectfully yours, se a CHARLES F, SANFORD, To THe CHaiRMAN Democratic County ConvENTION, New York, Oct. 21, 1875. MORRISSEY ENTERS THE LISTS, Yesterday afternoon, after a siego which has lasted nearly two weeks, John Morrissey surrendered to the earnest and incessant importunities of his friends and consented to be a candidate for Senator in the Fourth Senatorial district in bag “gers to John Fox, the Tam- many Hall nominee. He announced hig final deter- “mination to run in the words:—“I had to do it; it couldn't be helped and I am in the race.” PACTS FOR JOUN FOX. To a friend, Mr. Morrissey said in relation to his con- sent to run as a candidate for Senator:—‘I differ from the present managers of Tammany Hall in principle, because I think its management is such as to thwart the best interests of the people ana it must work in- justice. 1 oppose Tammany because it prefers citizens of New Jersey to citizens of New York for the highest place in the gift of the Mayor; I further oppose Tam- many because it permits its officials to draw large sal- aries when at the same time it reduces the wages of the poor iaborer. I oppose Fgnrmee d be- cause I do not betieve in dictation and proscription, T oppose Tammany Hall because it is controlled by a one man power, And I shall stand by the anti-Tamma- ny nominations ard heartily support them. I feel en- tirely satisfied that the ticket will sweep the city from one end to the other. I am im for this fight ‘I will, unpleasant as itis, standin the breach for Senator, not because I desire a seatin the ate, but to aid in overthrowing a selfish and proscribing combination,” Mr. Morrissey also stated to a friend that he would not vote for any candidate on the Tammany ticket, The following letter of acceptance, drawn up by Mr. Gratz Nathan, aud submitted to anti-Tammany leaders, was signed by Mr. Morrissoy yesterday aiternoon. It gives his public views in acceptance of the nomination. “IN POR THE FIGHT,’ To tis Execrors or tum Fourta Senators. Dis- ‘Trier :— Lhave observed that in many places in the Fourth Senatortal district bills have been posted on which m: name appears as a candidate for Senator, and I am cred- ibly informed that tickets have been printed and cir- culated with the view on your part of voting for me at the coming election. ‘As you are well aware, I not ‘only have not sought this office, but I have publicly announced that 1 was notacandidate, This announcement was made before any conventions had been held, and, again, after I had been nominated, I decimed to ‘accept the nomination for reasons which I then believed, and still believe, to justify my action in refusing to be your candidate. Since then, however, notwithstanding my refusal, the poople of the district have seen fit to disrogard my views on the subject, and seem determined to regard me as their candidate, ‘The position which I assumed in Tammany Hall in opposition to the one-man power and the arbitrary dictation of John Kelly, in opposition to the attempts, at his dictation, to deprive the people of this city of the right to choose their local officers, and in opposition also to the reduction of the wages of the workingmen, was prompted solely by my convictions of right and justice, and, lest my motives in this regard might be juestioned, I should be reluctant for this reason alone fo onter the Held as a candidate, I cannot, however, under present circumstances, longer refuse my consent tothe use of my name, { canbot permit you to go into this contest with my name on your banners without taking part with you myself. My auty to the cause which you represent demands that I should no longer refuse my active co-operation, and if, as I vertly believe, the re- sult shall be the downfall of the dictatorship which threatens to enthrall for an indefinite period the democratic voters of New York, and the vindication of the Fights of free and honest labor, and, if, a8 a part of this result, I shall be chosen to the im- portant and distinguished office of Senator, I shall en- deavor so to discharge my duties as to merit in some degree the confidence which you have been pleased to express in supporting me for that office. Your obedient servant, JOHN MORRISSEY, New Yorn, Oct, 21, 1875, Last evening Mr. James Hayes, the fast friend of Jobn Morrissey, en; da suit of rooms in the Anson House, and a parlor for reception, and these quarters will be used as a residence by the candidates during the canvass as the hotel is in the upper end of the Four. teenth ward and the upper end of the Senatorial dis. trick The excitement 1s intense in the distros now that Morrissey has entered the field. Bets were offered last evening by the confident adherents of Mr. Morrissey of $100 to $75 that he would carry the First Assembly district, in which Joha Fox was born and has lived all hia life. SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT A public meeting was held last evening in the church on Fiftieth street, near Eighth avenue, under the aus- pices of the Seventeonth Assombly District Republican Association, to ratify the State and county republican tickets. Joel W. Mason presided, assisted by George W. Crogier as secretary, About 500 pergons were pros- ent, among whom were many ladios, ‘The Chairman read ‘the call for the meeting and said that the candidates on the republican tickets were, by education and segial standing, better fitted to represent the citizens of Now York than the nominees of the democratic party, He briefly reviewed the qualifica- tions of the candidates, bestowing high praise upon the nominee for Assembly Yrom that district, Mr. William Fieltat @ lawyer and an old and favorably known res- indit, George F. Whittemore offered a series of reso- ntions, which were unanimously adopted, pledging the Voters in the assemblage to stand by the nouiness of the republican party, Mr. Wm. A. Darling was introduced, and drew strong comparisons between the actions of the demo. ratio politcal ing” iu New York and ite republican 5 @ frequent! e split ang. quently elicited applause by his r. Benjamin K. Phelps, who was expected to addrone the meeting, had been il throughout the day ‘om OVer exertion In court, and sent a | e i inability to attend. ae In response to acall for pecuniary help, some $950 were promptly handed to the Setvecary to bee election expenses. Speeches were made by ex-Alderman Cooper, Wm. . Graff and others, after which the meeting adjourned. THE REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING. A LARGE GATHERING EXPECTED. A grand republican mass meeting will be held at Cooper Institute to-night, to ratify the State and county nominations, The committee having the arrangements in charge met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night, and from the energy displayed in planning the meeting there is no doubt that 1 will prove a success, The different ward organizations are expected to march to the institute accompanied by bands of music and bear- ing Hghted torches, Platiorms will be erected in the square in front of the hall, from which local celebrities will make addresses, Within it is expected that Roscoe Conkling, Attorney General Pierrepont, and other prominent men will hold forth to the satisfaction of their constituents, BROOKLYN POLITICS. BEPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETING AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS—SPEECHES BY F. A. SCHROEDER, REV. B. L IVES AND OTHERS. The republicans of Brooklyn held a mass ratification meeting last evening in the city Assembly Rooms, on Washington street. The hall was well filled, and a military band furnished the music, On the platform were ex-Comptroller F. A. Schroeder, candidate for Mayor, John W. Harmon and Samuel Hutchison, nominees for Charity Commissioners, William Richardson, candidate for Senator, Albert Dag- tt, candidate for Sheriff, Rev. Benoni I, Ives candi date for State Prison Inspector, and others, EX-MAYOR SAMUEL BOOTH was called upon to preside. Upon taking the chair he said it was an encouraging sign to see 30 many persons present while meetings were in progress all over the- city. The meeting, he said, had been called to ratify the nominations made by the various conventions and decide whether they should continue under Ring rule or have honest men for local officials, He thought the people were about to rise up and hurl from power the officials who had been plundering them for the past ten or twelve years, The county and city salary list had reached the great total of $2,300,000 per annum and it must be reduced. He challenged an impartial compari- son of the republican and democratic candidates. A letter was read from Mr. Samuel McLean regretting his inability to attend the meeting and prophesying a republican victory, ‘After the reading of a list of vice-presidents, resolu- tions were adopted indorsing the _ republican platform and State ticket, and demanding retrenchment in municipal affairs. Mr. John W. Harmon then made a brief address. He said that Brooklyn was ruled by one man in the demo- cratic party. When he was a member of the Board of Supervisors the Ring had refused to allow him and his republican colleagues to make a report on public charity. He predicted success for the republican ticket. MR. SCHROEDER was then introduced as “the next Mayor of Brooklyn.’ He was received with great applause, while the band played “Hail to the Chief”? He said that charges had een made publicly in a pumber of democratic and re- publican papers that the city of Brooklyn has been robbed by aband of conspirators. Men high in the councils of the democratic party had been called thieves by name, but they had not seen fit to go into court and seek to have their characters cleared. He believed it would be the duty of the next Mayor to cause an in- vestigation of these charges, and if they were true to have the guilty persons punished. The speaker then defended his record. Their ticket deserved success, and he believed it would have success. He hoped to receive their congratulations at the City Hall on the ‘st day of January, 1876. Mr, Schroeder was loudly and repeatedly applauded. REY. BENONI I. IVES, candidate for State Prison Inspector, said be had come there as a Christian man to talk in a free and easy way of our country and the duty of its citizens. The ad- dress of Mr. Ives was chiefly devoted to national and State issues, slavery and temperance coming in for a good share ot his attention. He was opposed to the democratic party having power anywhere in this country and to elect a democratic President next year would be a calamity which the country could not endure. The public sebvel system, he said, was in imminent danger in the hands of the democrats, and they were seeking its destruction. Ex-Alderman Richardson, candidate for Senator, followed Mr. Ives in a brief speech. The meeting con- tinued in session tilla late bour, and short addresses were made by 8. B, Dutcher, P. W. Ostrander and others. - DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. The Kings County Samuel J. Tilden Club held a large meeting last evening in Sawyer’s Hall, corner of Jay and Fulton streets. Addresses were made by Corpora- tion Counsel DeWitt, Hon. Patrick Keady and P. S. Cassidy. At a meeting of the Twelfth Ward Democratic Cam- paign Club, at Court and Nelson strects, last evening, a large banner was raised. Speeches were made by Sen- ator John C Jacobs, Surrogate Veeder, Corporation Counsel DeWitt aud others. About 3,000 persons were in attendance. ‘Tho Fourth ward democrats held a large meeting at the White House, Jay and Concord streets. Corpora- tion Counsel DeWitt, T. M. Melvin aud others spoke. POLITICAL NOTES, James Daly, the present Assemblyman from the Thirteenth district, was last night again nominated for that position by the Tammany organization. Poter Scery and William Sauer are the Tammany nominees for Aldermen in the Seventh district. ‘The People’s ticket, upon which are the names of John K. Hackett and Benjamin K. Phelps, was indorsed on Wednesday night at a meeting of the German Young Men's Anti-Tammany Association of the Twentieth | Ward. The West Side Association of the Seventeenth As- | sembly district meets this evening at Justin’s Hall, No. 747 Ninth avenue, to tndorse the democratic-republi- can ticket opposed to one-man power. ‘The democrats of the Second Assembly district of Westchester county met in convention at White Plains yesterday and renominated Charles M. Schieifelin, of Eastchester, for member ot Assembly from that dis- trict. W. H. H. Ely was nominated for School Com- missioner. Hon. B. B, Smalley, of Burlington, takes the place on the Democratic National Committee made vacant by the death of Hon. H. B. Smith, of Vermont, ‘The Hudson County Democratic Convention was held at Franklin Hall, Jersey City, yesterday. The follow. tng officers were nominated :—Sheriff, P, H. Laverty; Director at Large of the Board of Freeholders, J. F. Halstead; Surrogate, Robert McCague; Coroners, James F. Gannon, Thomas F, Rowan, B. N. Crane. The German element was totally ignored, and a meeting of Germans was held immediately afterward, at Germania Hall, Newark avenue, to nominate an independent ticket, The candidate of the workingmen, Independent democrats and anti-Custom Housy republicans in the Kighth district for Alderman is Thomas Carroll, a well known and popular young democrat, The First and Second Assembly District Democratic Conventions, of Elizabeth, N. J., met yesterday after- noon. The former nomtinated Councilman John Eagan, and the latter Judge Theodore Piorson. ‘The Third Dis- trict Convention met last night and nominated Corn lius A. Rankel. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE SUGAR DRAWBACK QUESTION—THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT SILK SMUGGLING FRAUDS—TO WHOM DOES THE CREDIT BELONG? Collector Arthur informed a Henaup reporter last eventing that ho had received a modified order from the Secretary of the Treasury with reference to the order of the 9th of October, 1875, reducing the rate of draw- back on refined sugars. The new order recites the fact that the reduction would operate as a hardship if applied to cases of shipment, which may hereafter be made, of sugars purchased for exportation at @ price fixed before the promulgation of said order, in pursuance of valid previous con- tracts, The order is, therefore, so modified as to exempt such cases from its operation. In the adjust. ment of drawback claims in cases of the foregoing de- scription the Collector is called upon to require satis- factory evidence of the purchase having been made and the contract entered into previous to the date on which the order of October 9 went into effect. It is under- stood that this amendment has been brought about by the pressing demands of the merchants, seconded by General Arthur’é indorsement. The experts, whose names have already been published in the Hera, to investigate this matter, will have a room assigned to them in the Custom House, where they will hear the statements of the sugar refiners on the subject. The deliberations will probably take two or three weeks and are to commence in a day or two. STOPPING FASTHONABLE SMUOGLING, Statistics obtained at the Custom House show that In the month of September the amouat of duties paid by 7 passengers arriving from Europe om their baggage amounted to upward of $27,000, against the sum of $16,000 paid by passengers arriving in September, 1874. It 1s also ascertained that fashionable smugglers bring over at present far leas baggage than previously, bei afraid of making talse declarations to the customs oil cials, CONPLIOT OF FRDRERAL AND STATE AUTHORITY. This morning at eleven o'clock Judge Van Vorst will render his decision in the matter of the smuggled goods of Goldberg, of No. 9 Love lane, London, seized last Monday from the bankrupt Lowenstein, of No 441 Broome street, by Colonel F. E. Howe and Mr. Brown, special Treasury agents, Meauwhile the gooda already seized at the Custom House have not been ap- praised, and the Sherif!"s officers and ry have been placed in charge of the remaining @ m nstein’s store, pending Judge Van Vorst's decis- Mr. K. M. Angell is the receiver in bankruptoy, who claims the goods on behalf of the creditors, but the latter's chances of receiving any proceeds from them are remarkably small in comparison with those of Uncle Sam. THN FIGHT VOR THR TWENTY momen, The contest for the moiety of $20,000, in the matter of the seizure and sale of the eight cases of cotton and Silk goods, promises tobe a lengthy affair. The said causes were entered at the Custom House out of the steamship Pommerania, osteusibly by a firm called Freeman & Powell, but ‘really by the notorious Charles Lawrence. The discovery took place in this fashion :— Last September Deputy Collector Phelps learned the fact that a certain Broadway lace house was. sellin goods below market value. ‘This, however, wan ao eve deuce of traud. A number of silk merchants consulted with the Collector on the subject, and he advised them to omploy a detective. This they did, and ascertained that the firm had not for some time back imported any goods to this port, Boston, Philadelphia or Baltimore. THK DETRCTIVES SOON FRACED three cases of corsels imported by Bamberger & Co.—a mythical firm—which went to the suepected firm’s store, The entries at the Custom House were passed by Colonel Des Anges (now in Lud- low Street Jail on a charge of defrauding the revenue), the deputy coliector of the Third division, who had marked the cases for appraisement in the public stores. Nothing fraudulent could be detected, however, in this importation, Iavestigation went on’ til last January, when Des Anges informed Deputy Collector Phelps and Chief Clerk Baich—as he had been so instructed to do— that Bamberger & Co. liad an importation of linem goose and had passed a warehouse entry tor the same. ter on they passed a withdrawal entry, through Lawrence, for the goods, which were the eight cases in question. The cases were watched by customs im spectors and detectives for some days, but Lawrence, Knowing that the “‘gume’’ was nearly up, did pot have them removed. ‘They were subsequently examined, and three of them which had been marked for exam= ination by Colonel Des Anges were found to contain linen goods, while the other five cases, which Des Anges had refrained from marking, were found to con- tain silk goods, which have since been sold for $40,000. Mr. Balch, of Deputy Collector Phelps’ office, was the first officer who discovered that it was Lawrence who made the fraudulent entries, and subsequently tracea over 100 fraudulent entries made by him, The value of silk goods smuggled, through Custom House con- nivance, by Lawrence, is estimated at $4,000,000, A umber of the sinuggied silks wore traced to H. B. Claflin. ‘to whom the credit belongs of discovering Lawrence's frauds is now the apple of discord and the sulject of judicial inquir, A SURE SHOT. THOUSAND DOLLARS A DOCTOR WAYLAID AND SHOT—-HOW TO GET RID OF A VIOLENT MAN—THE MURDERER GIVES HIMSELF UP. Mumrms, Tenn, Oct. 21, 1875. Dr. Ballard, formerly of Texas, but lately residing near Marion, Ark., while riding with a lady yesterday afternoon near his place was waylaid and shot by a man named Andrews, who fired off one barrel of a shot gun at tho Doctor, the charge taking effect in his neck and face and knocking him off bis horse. After falling Ballard asked = Andrews = to_—raise him up, which the latter did into a sitting posture, and then placing the gun near the Doctor's he: jischarged the other barrel, literaily blowing sallard’s head off. ‘Androws then went to Marion and surrendered himself to the authorities. Andrews had been employed by Ballard, aud a few days before Ballard had knocked him down twice. Ballard is represented as having been @ violent man, and had, on Sunday last, waylaid and shot his wife's nephew, Andrew Fraser. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Brevet Major General Wesley Merritt, United Statea Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Benson J. Lossing, of Chestnut Ridge, N. Y., is staying at the Coleman House, Commander Bushrod B, Taylor, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the New York Hotel. Mr. John Davis, Clerk of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Mr. John B. Winslow, General Manager of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Assembiyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer county, New York, returned from Europe in the steam- ship Frisia and is at the Union Sqnare Hotel, General John M. Corse, of Chicago, and Hon. W. C. Maxwell, of England, are at the Gilsey House, Mr. John E. Owens, the comedian, arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rov. Dr. Thomas R. Lambert, of Boston, and Mr. Henry R. Pierson, of Albany, are among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Hon. 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