The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1875, Page 3

‘shall prevent and render impossible their recurrence, substance, ~ of either party will be defeated at th —— REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION, | The Meeting at Cooper Union Last Night. | with the party i so absolutely CANAL REFORM.) Senator Roscoe Conkling on | the Warpath. | \ THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. John Kelly and the Tammany De- mocracy Denounced. | In response toa call of the republican party of New York for an assemblage of voters at the Cooper Union, last evening, to ratify the nominations made by tho republican organization in this city and State, an im- mense concourse of citizens, with their wives and daughters, met in the hall, There were po bun- | ners or other decorations, At cight P. M, | there were at least 3,000 persons present, Among tho prominent gentlemen on the platform wore | Elhot C, Cowdin, George Bliss, Thomas Q, Acton, John | H. White, Chester A. Arthur, Thomas Murphy, George Btarr, Joel W, Mason, Howard Potter, Samuel Minnes, Wilham T, Graff, Frank A, Horne, Colonel Bullard, | Wilson Berryman, William A, Darling, Benjamm K, Phelps, Hugh Gardner, Aldermen Morris and Billings, | Pelice Commissioner Disbecker, Professor Clark, Hamil- | ton Fish, Jr.; Judges B. T. Morgan and G. E, Kasmire, | Postmaster James, General Hillhouse, Colonel James C. Pinckney, A. B, Cornell and others, ‘The meeting was called to order by Mr, Charles 8. Spencer, who nominated as chairman Mr. Sulem H. ‘Wales, who spoke as follows :— SPEECH OF MR, WALES. Treturn my sincere thanks for the honor conferred | fn calling me to preside over this large gathering of my fellow citizens, ‘The sight of so many in- telligent, thoughtful men, met tonight to take counsel together, is both inspiring and assuring. We aro here t6 ratify the nominations of the republican arty for important State and city offices, and what igher evidence can be presented of the purposes of | this party to secure able und honest men to fill those varied public trusts than to find the honored names of Beward, Merritt, Spinner, Danforth and Phelps among its fordmost standard bearcrs, We aro. not here to apologize tor or to gloss over whatever faults or errors may have been committed by republican admimstra- tions, now covering a period of nearly sixtocn years. | Woe point to a gradual though sure reduction of the bur- | den of national debt and | OPPRESSIVE TAXATION; | and now that signs of returning prosperity are visible on every hand it becomes us to study well, not only | the canges which have led to this temporary depression of our industries, but at the same time to ad- dress ourselves, ' with hope and courage, to | such measures ‘of sound and honest finance as We aro not hore to yilify those who are honestly op- | Pored to usin this campaign, | We can accord to the | overnor of the State our warm approval of every and | Hil measures that tend to arrest and panish all the | ues who plunder the people of their hurd-earned | ‘c Inust endeavor to secure a Canal Board and a Logislature that will work and legislate WITHOUT ¥RAR Ok PAYOR, to drive out every remaining Festige of corruption and fraud. To this end I trust that all doubtful candidates polls, and that hone other than ‘good men and true’? Will recive tho | support of the people, The great cry comes up to us from all quarters of the land—Reform! reform! re- | form! Reform in the nation, reform in the State, re- | form in the city, refurm everywhore. This must be the | Puubbolett of the campaign, and whosoever stands in he way of real reform should go under, to be heard of | bo more in our political life. SENATOR CONKLING’S SPEECH, ‘The Chairman then introduced as the next speaker Benator Roscoe Conkling, He’ was received with tu- multuous applause and spoke substantially as follows :— Montesquieu declared that he wrote to make others think, not to show how much he thought himself, In the spirit of the great Frencbivan, I appear belore you to-night, There is but one inquiry before us now, It is, shall the men and the agencies proposed Uy the ono party or the other be adopted by the people? [In the first part of his speech Senator Conkling in- juced statistics in support of an argument intended b len foiiteracy, and circulated tn wumphiets through the State, was, in fact, instituted y Governor Dix.) sekne up next the question of canal reform he Bard :— A republican Legislature, counselled by Governor Dix, adopted amendments of the constitution which bave imbedded “canal reform’? in the fundamental law, where it cannot be rooted out, A republican Governor and Legislature did still other things. They carefully scrutinized and ent down appro- priations and supported the State officers in putting a stop to expenditure. They did not ereate a cominission at pay of $80 per diem—$20 a day for each of four Commissioners—with clerks, stenog- raphers, agents, engineers, a hired house and other | appliances. Very likely it would have beon well to do 80. Donot understand me to deny that it would, Whether money will be saved by such a commission, however, remaing to be seen. The litle book of fables already referred to asserts that restitution | lias already been made of a sum greater thun the cost of the commission. Allusion must bo made to $12,000 paid to the State by one Bennett. No other sum has been paid that we hear of, and snrely it eannot be seriously pretended that $12,000 or 324,000, much larger sum, will pay the expenses of. the ssion, One good, at least, will be done by the | proceeding; it will call attention to matters which many men have labored for years to obtain audience , for. But Govervor Dix did not suggest a commission; Governor Tilden did suggest it, and republicans in the Legislature at once responded and created it, and armed the Governor with plenary’ powers. A SUBJECT OF PARTICULAR INTEREST, Fearful of dwelling too long on the subject I still feel that apology is not needed for discussing before the | wople of this great motropolis the interests of the 200 miles of canals owned by our State. Surely | fow things in our public affairs are of more import- ance. ‘The Erie Canal has brought untold wealth to | this city, and bas done more than we always remember | to build’ up its opulence and its power. This urti- ficial river bears a volume of traffic three fold greater than the river Rhine, ranning as it does | through seven sovercignties in the heart of Europe. New York bas been, and should be still, the em- porlum and receptacle of the yast trade ‘and com- merce of which the Erie Canal is the best chanuel, But much of it is shpping away, The sea eud of | the canal is blocked by want of elevators and ter- | minal facilities, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Montreal are draining off through other channels the sea-going products of the West. Grain and other bulky freights are handled more cheaply at these other ports than here. ‘This is a satffect which needs at- Yention, and interwoven with it, of — course, Js the preservation of the canals themselves. ‘The canal is the only sure reliance against combinations to Yaise freights, A wator-way {x cheaper than a railway for bulky commodities, and the Erie Canal, ranning parallel with the Eric and Central roads, is during seven months of the year their Competitor, and is the one power preventing such high Fates of transportation as will drive to other routes a Be of the commerce due to us. This matter should e watched more closely than ever now, because ol a luw which lust winter made its way’ through the Legislature and recoived the signature of the Gov- Sruor, Before this act came into being the statutes expressly forbade any consolidation between the Erle And the Central roads, and forbade the directors of one to be directors of the other. Here was a partition built between the two to make them rivals, But the Act of last winter is an act of repeal, and now the same men may be the directors of both roads Freight com. binations have {ree course now, and unless combina- tions were intended {t 1s not easy ‘to see the purpose of this legisintion, ‘This gives us new reason to be wary of hostility to the canals, GOVERNOR TILDEN’S POWER, When democrats assailed the Goveruor, republicans Mood by him, and voted him extraordinary powers of various kinds. He asked power jo remove State Diliciuis. It was given him, and given him by repub- lcans, and he has nover used it, He asked au- thority to appoint an inspector of public works forth with. This power was givea him, and the oilice Freated; and there it bas stood, vacant for six months. Republicans and thoir conventions and press have ull encouraged and supported the Governor im avery movement for reform, This ix ag it should be; but why vote down the party unstained by the frauds And conspicuous everywhere for its earnestness in Bhastising and eradicating them? The Inst report of the commission, just out, makes more puzaling than ever (he non-action of the Governor under the law em owering him to ramove delinquent officials, Un less §=6f )=6misconceive the common sense of the whole matter, a man must be stone blind who does not ee that it will be a good Ubing to put some republicans in the Canal Bourd now, and let them and the demo- crats who will still be there and the Governor ail watch It is said the best of men bear watching. nor makes up his mind which of his trusted friends to make Inspector of Public Works, bh too, will be another fasting democrat to waten the re- pudiicaus. But donot let us have iball on ote sida the language which ased to be so dear to our friends ‘on the other side, “Give us a change."’ ‘The speaker here took up and discussed the charges made against bim Lo the effect that in his late spooch at Albany lie had accused Governor Tilden of insincertty and bad libetled John Kelly. He contended that the re- Someent Speech in reyard to the Governor had boen | railway | | | “9088” KELLY OVERMAULED, In referring to the other case, as against John Kel! hho said:—Now, as to the chargo that the “reputabl L | confreves.”” Wt | wielded in this commanity, | justice. | junct to the court, and especially it he be Mr. Kelly has been glandered by tho assertion “that a new Tammany Ring has blossomed out in practices less flaring, bat as certainly hurtful and dishon- est as those distinguished Tweed and his observed that this remark does hoi name Mr, Kelly, How came the World to know that when vou “Tammany Ring” you mean “Mr. Kelly?" arver tis introduction the name of Mr. Kelly by a great paper it cannot be improper to con- sider him as repr ting the new Tammany Ring, and vo inquire whar noted orgunization is now doing rules—the party rb of reform, Mr. otherwise is known which now masquerades in the Keily’s past career as Sheriff here, and no reference to it by me is needed. Tho things Mr. Kelly hag done, and ia yet attempting, in so far as they by the public and enter into this canvass, are fit matters for public discourse. He is the great power la the democratic party, aud his action in that regard it be ignored. He made the dele- gates, sixty-three im number, who went to Syracuse and nominated the State ticket now seeking your suffrages. In this list among others, the names of Mark Lanigan, Thomas J, Campbell, Henry Woltman, Thomas 0’Cailahun, Hugh H. Moore, William H. Quincey, Patrick Lysaght, Henry Hughes and William Cook. I forbear to state the particulars given me of the avocations and HISTORY OF THESE MEN, but I mention their names in the hope that some of you will make them the subject of inquiry in order to: seo whether they incarnate and represent the reform and moral sentiment of this populous and Christian city. Should you tind them out please decide for your- ives whether the new birth of democracy is better than the old. Come a step nearer to the present mo- ment. A judicial election is to happen in ten days, the Like of which cannot occur again in fourteen years, For fourteen years the die is now to be cast’ as to the depositories of much of the judicial power to be For six years still other judicial officers are now to be chosen. A Judge of the Superior Court, Judge of the Common Pleas, who often sits in the Supreme Court, a Recorder, and a Judge of the Court of Genoral Sessions, are to be chosen for fourteen years; a Surrogate, two Judges of the Marine Court, and uine Civil Justices are to be elected for six years. It will be long before you will see again at any one election such an aggregate of places on the Bench to be filied; and, from the richest to the poorest there is not one soul on this island whose rights o| life, liberty, and property may not be weighed in the balances these judges ure to hold. Coki blooded and hardened indecd ‘must be the gamester with the political dice-box who does not fecl some compunction in staking such & matter on the baser tossings of the game, TAMMANY’S JUDICIARY. Mr. Kolly has made the solections for which the Tammany democracy shall vote; he has also cast out those for whom Tammany 18 not to vote, He has at- tempted to remove from the Bench Mr. Hackett, the Recorder, a life long democrat, who has been a terror to criminals because boldly and with industry he has smitten them with the heavy hand of Why was this done? Does any man doubt that if Mr, Kolly had felt that he could rely on Mr, Hackett for his own purposes he would ‘have had him renominated, insted of braving public sen- timent for the sake of securing some one else? Who has Mr, Kelly nominated for Recorder? I do not mean to speak of Mr, Smyth with disrespect—far from it. [have no warrant for doing so. But why was Mr. Smyth made to supersede Mr. Hackett? Has he had long judicial experience, so as to be fitter for the place? He has, t believe. never appeared mm judicial station, What'hashe done that he should displace Mr. Hackett? He has been, I am told, the counsel of the Liquor-dealers’ Association, and. his partner is the counsel of Mr. Peter Bs Sweeny, ‘These things do not prove that Mr. Smyth may not become a good Recorder, but they shed light on the motive and object of his nomination, ill will to Mr, Smyth, | hope you will elect Mr. Hackett, ‘Yhe republican party will support him, not because of his polities, bat because of his fitness, and because the proceeding t him 18 unwholesome and ominous and ought to be rebuked. Who has Mr. Kelly selected for your newly-created Judge of General Sessions? Mr. James C. Spencer, who, as 1am told, in 1870, subseribed $500 toward setting up’ A STATUR TO MR. TWERD in the midst of the city Mr. Tweed bad robbed! Why was this done? Fortunately, here again, republi- caus find opportunity to rise'above party, and do a thing right for other reasons. Colonel Gildersleove is Tunning—the hero of Wiunbledon—and Mr. Kelly may find him a tesm too strong to be beaten even by Tam- many. Who has Mr, Kelly decided to retain for Judge of Common Pleas? An oflicer not unknown, though somewhat overshadowed by the late County Clerk, who first grew famous on the flood of fraudulent ‘natu- ralization which flowed out from him; and next from his connaaiens ante and post mortem, with tho late Mr, Watson, If the Recorder was to bo changed, might not Mr. Kelly, if only to avoid appearing in- vVidious, have given you “a change” in the Common Pleas also? District Attorney is an important ad- je, honest und tried, like Mr. Phelps. Mr. Kelly has selected for this place a gentleman wholly without experience, it is said, in the things which the office exacts.” M Timothy J, Campbell ia among those picked ont, or picked up, to be Civil Justices, and Mr. Campbell is cer- tainly not an unknown man, ‘THM TWO BOSSES COMPARKD. Do you ‘remember that possession and control of Judges and courts was a leading policy of the Tweed dynasty. Is there anything in all. these moves on the judicial chess board which. reminds you of the haleyon days of old Tammany? Do not these blossoms look as if they might mature into fruit of the old flavor? Do you see any other signs to remind you of bygonedays? Mr. Zaesd eae set lore a ren es hen it was necesary.to to 30,000 to the count, Picuids coast anes ae ats The Police rs NOW appoint the oilicers of oloction, But suppose they so far torget their allegiance as to make the appointments as the law says they shall, and suppose they even go further, and recklessly select men who will count the votes just as they are cast, then what? Why, the people would de- cide the election themselves, in place of hav- mg Mr. Kelly decide it; ‘and what kind of an election would that be for Tammany Hall? Why, it would be worse than no election at all. If you are Umprisoned in dangers, you yourselves carry the key, ‘Tho time of deliverance is in the ides of Novem- ber. Let this great city be wise on that day, and from the hills and yales of the State will roll down majori- ties to meet you which will make the State, whose in- terestsand whose honor are so dear to us, the fortress of honest money, of reviving prosperity, of tree schools and of genuine reform. “PREE SCHOOLS. ”? I say the schools of the State are to be for no race, de- nomination, class, creed nor sex. (Wild applause). isco from your Tesponse that they are to be maintained by | the just taxation of all for the benefit of all. (Applause). 1 see that you approve the action of the Republican State Convention in writing the words “ Free Schools’? on our banners. (Applause.) The eloquent speaker chained the attention of his vast audience for nearly threo hours, his salient points against the opposing political party being greeted with enthusiastic applause. His allusions to the school uestion, and the announcements of the names of John Hackett and Benjamin K. Phelps drew forth tidal waves of cheers and wild hurrahs, RESOLUTIONS. The following resoluuions were then adopted and the mocting adjourned Pirst~The republican electors of the city of New York, in | mass meeting assembled, hereby approve, indorse and roat- the platiorn of principles adopted by the Republican | onvention held at Saratoga ou the Sth of September, 1875, id in the vital truths therein contained we recognize the nly true basis for # sate, prosperous and economical State government. econ! Seward, Spinner, Merritt, Danforth, Cornell Ives, men of integrity, ability and without tai ouch oxpectully fitted to discharge the important trasts soo! verdict of the people, to be committed to thom: and ledge ourselves to give them, one and all, & cor- Hest support, and to exert ‘ourselves, in ever ionorable way, LO secure their triumphant "hird-—We ten Convention for the excellent teket put in nomination for Judiciary and county officers; a ticket nou-partizun tn Its character, and composed of gentlemen eminently qnaiified for the diselrge of the duties of the oftices for which they have boen sélected, und we pledge to them, eweh and all, a hearty and united support. Fourth—The democratic party in the S wherever it hax sway, shown iti fidence of the people, and when by of apathy or ac dont, ithas gained & temporary success, the people have invurinbly limited its power and duration to a single torm. he hypocritical ery of C Reform, ithas succeeded in reducing the income derived from the , in the city and worthy of the co cunals at the rate of thirty per cent per annum, while the | expenses incurted in their inanagemont have been increased in the same ratio. In this city, although the “new Ring” does not as yet hold vigils in Ludlow street or recreate in foreign climes, it has ved recreant to every wonfided to it, debt of the city an taxes have enormously in- have been created, the Fite free public York, which strengthe form’ of yovernment, “mas awed and untrammelléd by conditions, sect, creed, nation piliny: jzth—Ali hail Ohio, Towa and Nebruska! In those jew- elled Statoy inflation, repudiation and spoliation * made Themselves air into which they yanished.”” New York, thanking and heeding her brilliant sisters, will in November next “yo forth and do likewise. . TWENTIETH ASSEMBLY DIS'TRIC! ‘The Twentieth Assembly district ropublicans held a grand ratification meeting last night of the whole ro- publican county ticket, at Brovoort Hall, East Fifty- fourth street, Tho meeting was very large and most respectable in its composition, The mecting ctl four thanks to the Republican County | | | jelds, Rdward’J, Shandiey, Timothy | | Nineteenth district, nominated Anthony Feehan last i ize in our candidatos for State officers, | Was. presided over by Mr. William ©. Reddy, who | introduced Colonel Gildersieeve, He was received with prolonged cheering, and made a short speech thanking them for their’ suifrages . and pledging him- self, if lected, to do credit to his con- stituents, — Chale Crosby was the next sp w of the candidates as nated both by the republicans and the demverats, Tho mames of Hackett and Phelps were geceted with tumult- uous applause, Several cS eee others ulso spoke on the JOHN MORRISSEY INDORSED. Tho anti-Tammany workingmen of the Fourth Sen- atorial district held a mass meeting in Rutgers square last evening for the purpose of indorsing the nomina- tion of Hon. Joun Morrissey for Senator. Mr, Joseph Muller presided and several secretaries were elected. Mr, Morrissey was introduced and addressed tho moot- ing. Ho suid that the nomination had sought him. and not he the homination, but that he had accepted it and woulll adhore to that acceptance, and do all within his power to win, As Mr, Morrissey continued with his speech his remarks were greeted with a shower of stones, lumps of coal and bricks, all thrown from the outs | John ©. Without | candidate for the Assembly, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, skirts of the crowd, Several of tho Chinese lanterns were broken, and finally the missiles fell so fast that Mr. Morrissey left the stand. Major Montgomery thea addressed the mocting He had spoken but » few words before he was assailed in a similar manner a8 Mr. Morrissey had been. The confusion had now be- | come 80 great that the policemen, but few of whom wore present, were powerloss to quell it, aud the meet- ing broke up 'in great disorder. TAMMANY SOCIETY. The members of Tammany Society held a special meeting in the Wigwam on Fourteenth street last evening, with Grand Sachem Augustus Schell pre- siding. The only business tranasacted was the elec- | tion of about sixty new members throughout the State, | including all the members of the Democratic State Committee. There were also a few now members elected from tue city, among whom were General William F, Smith, Police Commissiouer, POLITICAL NOTES. To-day is the last on which citizens can register. The | registering offices are open from eight A. M. to nine P. M. The members of the John McNally Club of the First ‘Ward met on Thursday night and decided to support John Morrissey for Senator and John Robinson for Al- derman. i A mecting of the Cassidy Independent Fifth Ward | Association was held on Thursday night, at which it was resolved to support the democratic State ticket | nominated at Syracuse and the peoplo’s ticket for the city and county. There were but few applications for naturalization yesterday, notwithstanding that it was the last oppor- tunity before election, ‘A Workingmen’s ant!-Tammany campaign club, | organized in thy Thirteenth Assembly district, number- ing upwards of 300 voters, has indorsed the people's candidates, Mr. Edward J. MeGean was nominated for Civil Justice in the Seventh district by the people’s party last evening. Mr. MeGean accepted. The Ant-Tamimany Assembly Convention, of the evening. Aclub of young independent voters met at No, 168 Madison street last night and indorsed the People’s Ticket, Much enthusiasm was displayed at every mon- ton of John K. Hackett’s name. he club also de- termined to support Bryan Reilly for Alderman and . Sullivan for Assomblyman. ‘The Ninth District anti-Tammany Assembly Conven- tion met last night, at No, 83 Eighth avenue, and nom- inated Peter Mortimer for Assemblyman. The Ninth District Tammany Assembly Convention mot Just night, at No. 499 Hudson street, and uominated Dr, Benjamin F. Vosburg for Assemblyman. J There was a mass mecting of the Filth Assembly district anti-Tamimany democrats, at No, 80 Vandam strect, last night The speakers indulged in fierce de- Bunciations of the corruption and yenality of Tam- many Hull, and called emphatically for purity in mu- nicipal affairs and the removal of those abuses whic had rendered corporate government in New York scandal aud a shaine throughout the world. The Tammany Hall democrats of the First Assembly district met list evening at No, 72 Greenwich street, William H. Burns in the chair, for the purpose of m: dorsing the nomination of the Hon, John Fox for Sen- ator, Col. Jonn R. Fellows, Peter i. Olney and others aldressed the meeting. The Tenth Assembly District Republican Convention last evening nominated Joseph Hoffman, Jr., as their ‘The Tweltth Assembly District Anti-Tammany Gon- vention met last evening at No, 625 Fifth street, and nominated Mr. John Monk, by acclamation, for the Assembly. Mr, Monk soon after appeared and in a short speceh accepted the nomination, ‘The anti-Tammany workingmen of the Sixteenth Assembly district held a mass meeting at No, 287 avenue B last evening. Resolutions were adopted de- nouncing ‘Tammany Hall and its reduction of the wages of* the workingmien, and pledging support to tho nominees of the anti-‘Tammany party. Addresses wore made by Dr, Gibson, Giles P. Marvin and others, In pursuance of a call issued inviting “all who were in favor of taking an interest in thoir own affairs,” about 500 persons of the Sixtoenth Assembly district gathered at the corner of First avenue and Twenty- second street last evening,” Mr. William H. Schooloy was elected Chairman. Tho anti-Tammany county ticket was unanimously Indorsed. For local officers the following ticket was adopted:—For Civil Just William H. Kelly; for Aldermen, Francis E, Pursell and Edward Brecks, and Lawrence KE. O’Brien for As- semblyman, REGISTRATION. The third and next to tho last day of registration closed yesterday, 44,941 voters having registered. ‘The total registry thus far is 113,584, showing an increase of 9,837 as compared with the three corresponding days of last year. ‘Tho following table shows tho rogistration of each day in each Assembly district :-— Necond = Third Daj Da: 1,468 1,95 T2u4 1,550 077 1373 1/688 2}952 1,532, 2,020 1225 1,578 1,223 1540 18 2)703 1s 2}200 14 1,837 16 1,978 1, 1,309 Ur 1.980 1,156 1,280 1,916 2444 2/008 2}280 2644 2/860 1,858 21028 1 1,205 2 9" 880 | 54 | Totals.......s0e00+-81,011 87,632 44,041 Total registered first three days in 1874. 103,747 ‘Total registured first three days in 1875. 113}584 Grand total registered in 1874,......4 146,218 Increase this year over the three correspond- ing days in 1874... dosice pace: HOSt THE EVANGELISTS. ARRIVAL OF MR, SANKEY IN BROOKLYN— THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THR SERVICES COM- PLETED. ‘ Rev. Ira D. Sankey, the great singing evangelist, arrived in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon and went to the residence of Alderman John French on Clinton avenue, whero he will be entertained during his sojourn in the City of Churches. In the evening he attended a meeting of the Committee of Ar- rangements for the revival services which was held at the rooms of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- elution, at the corner of Fulton street and Gallatin place, ' He expressed much pleasure at the flattering prospect of success before him, and commended the committee for the careful arrangements they have made to assist him in the work of saving souls. Rev, D. L, Moody will reach Brooklyn to-day. During his stay in the city he will be a guest at the residence of Mr, McWilliams, on Carlton avenue. Atthe Rink building on Clermont avenue, the ar- Tangements for tho reception of the revivalists and their hearers are complete, Chairs to the number of 500 have been placed in the immense auditorium, hich will be illuminated by six hundred gas jets. Tho preparations have necessitated an expenditure of about $8,000. The initiatory services will take place to-mor- row morning. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, as previously announced, Messrs, Danford Knowlton, of No. 94 Front street, and Isaac Odell, of No. 93 Wall street, sugar experts, appointed by Collector Arthur and the Secro- tary of the Treasury, met the Auditior of the Custom House, Mr. S G. Ogden, in his private office. The latter ‘mentioned gentleman, it may be remembered, represents the government mitcrests in the pe tion of drawback on bard refined sugar. ing was siinply held for the purpose of organization. ‘The hearing of witnesses, the discussion of technical matters pertaining to close sugar refining in this and foreign lands, the statistics of iinports and exports of gar, the differential gold premiums on duty paid and exported sugars, the expediency of leaving the draw- back at the old rate previous to the 9th inst, and the | different standards of sugar are among the subjects that | will be discussed by the two experts and the Custom | House officials. Collector Arthur has promised to afford the committee all the facilities in his power to arrive at a speedy solution of the notty point, ‘The Collector has already caused to prepared full statistics of the sugar trade for the fiscal year, Which are to bo submitted to the committee. Owing to the varying qualifications of different re- tineries for refining more or loss closely the question promises to be one of no easy solution. Last evening ir, Ogden stated that the cormmittee had received their letters of appointment from the Secretary of tho ‘Treasury, and had now organized as a committee by holding their initial meeting. THE RRCKNT SEZURES, No receipt has yet been given by the Custom House officials for the sniuggied goods seized by Colonel F. B. Howe, Special Treasury Agent, nor will be pending Judge Van Vorst’s decision and tho settling of the question of State and federal authority, INSPECTION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHT: REGIMENT. , The Twonty-cighth regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., was in- speoted last night im the armory, at the corner of Bus! wiok avenue and Stagg street, Williamsburg, by Captain | ©. D. Maxwell, mspector of the Fifth brigade The regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Fred. W. Obernier com- manding, mustered 360 men. Previous to the mspoc- tion the’ regiment was reviewed by acting Brigadier Gonerai Joseph Burgess, commanding the Filth brigade, A dress parade closed the exercises. Major General Dakin congratulated the command on ite much improved appearance, | though the two counties can ab OCTOBER 23, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Political Affairs in the Twenty- fifth Senatorial District. | SENATOR WOODIN IN THE TOILS. How the State Tickets Will Fare ‘n Cayuga and Wayne Counties. : THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. | Moravra, Cayuga county, N. ¥., Oct. 20, 1875. The independent voter has become a terror to the pro. fexsional politician this year more than ever before, and in no section of the State have I obtained better evi- dence of this fact than in this district, ‘The counties of Cayuga and Wayne have always been strongly republi- | can, and it was only but very recently that any eandidate not thoroughly died in the wool according to the ropub- lican process was ever able to secure in either county a respectable support outside of his own political circle. But things have changed greatly of Inte yoars, and al- 8 be relied upon in time of danger to the party to give each a large republi- can majority, the old feeling of sticking to party through thick and thin, no matter who the candidates may be or what the issue, has worn away, leaving at every election day in most of the towns and out of the way places re- mote from the towns a goodly namber of republicans who yoto as they please, regardless of what the wire | pullers may say or the managers threaten. This inde- pendence was not brought about by any great number of republicans in Cayuga or Wayne suddenly falling in tove with the democratic party or any of its pet principles, but differences as to local issues and local candidates wore the first underlying cause; and every politician knows that after one of the faithful gets into the habit, for two or three elections, of voting against the regular candidate of the party for some local office, he soon begihs to look around for himself during a campaign, and does not,.as was his wont, take it tor granted that, because certain candidates are nominated and a certain platform is adopted by his party, he, asa matter of course, must vote with the party, As a result of this sort ‘of independence—made to appear in some 1n- stances, I must confess, more like spite and disappoint- ment at not being “taken care of”—Wayne county has, ever since 1872, been rather uncertain on legislative candidates, and went so far in 1878 as to defeat the two republican nominees for Assembly, and, though giving over 1,200 republican majority for the State ticket, gave Cuyler, the democratic competitor of William B. Woodin for Senatorial honors, a majority of 897. Cayuga up to the present has been less open to the in- fluences of tho ,*discontented,” as the republicans who always go the whole hogon ropablican can- didates call tho independents who won't go and do likewise when they are wanted. But the indications in the two counties just now are that Wayne county willnot have the almost exclusive credit at the coming elestion of doing all the opposition business within the party lines. WOODIN AND IIS CANDIDACY. Enoed scarcoly tell you that Mr. Woodin is again in the field for Senator, but it may be news to some people outside of this district to know that his candi- dacy has given occasion to the independent element among the republicans to be up in arms against him onee more, It may be remembered that two years ago Mr. Woodin was lected by the insignificant majority of 883, This was a fearful fall from the majority he re- ceived in 1869 of upwards of 4,000; and when itis taken into consideration that Dewitt Parshall, who ran a8 @ liberal republican, got 1,796 votes, it is not to be wondered at that the Woodin mon blessed their stars. the day after election that there had been threo candi- dages in the field. What really saved Woodin in that election was not the tremendous aid ho was given by all the. governmont oflicials or the questionable methods adopted in some parts of the district. to level the barriers that were thrown up in his path by re. (poWieans, but it. was democratic aid and trickery. Cayuga county wanted a great many things that year, among others an arsenal at Auburn, for which appropriation would have to be made by the Legislature, and at tho ast moment this was one of the potent arguments used by promi- nent democrats who had their own meat to fry to in- duce democrats to vote for Woodin. His two oppo- nents were Wayne county men, and the idea that neither of them would be of any use to Cayuga county to obtain what she wanted was set forth with such skill as to win over to his side many who had intended to oppose him to the bitter end. Not only this, K.P. Ross, the father of the present candidate for State Treasurer on tho democratic State ticket, and even Charles N, Ross himself, aro said to have, in an under" hand way, given Woodin just that assistance which he needed the most to win, By this assistance, combined with the notion instilled into the minds of some that Parshall, and not Cuyler, stood the best chance of de- feating Woodin, and by the circulation of which im- pression Cuyler’s vote was provented from being greater than Woodin’s, the Senator's return to Albany was secured. But Wayne county cast her vote, -by a good majority, against him, notwithstanding, and there, after election, it stood as a proof that the independ- ents in that county had remained proof against temp- tation to the end. The question now arises, can things be so managed this year by Woodin and his backers as to appease those republicans who came so near defeating him two years ago? Certainly | Woodin as a candidate is now open to the same objections that wero made against him when he ran before, Republicans who are op- posed to him to day tell the samo story as those who foughthim in November, 1873, told then, and they uso thesame arguments they used then. They point to the fact that when, in 1869, he was first talked of as a candidate for the Senate, he pleaded his poverty as a reason why he would not like toaccept the nominationy that he could not afford to give up his position as Sur- rogate of the county—his living, in fact—to go to Al bany and there pay all his own expenses above the State pittance of $300 a year. But he did get nominated, and he did accept, and now he is considered wealthy. “He is not only wealthy,” said an independent re- publican to me in speaking of him, “but he has money to loan now, provided good security is given.” I sug- gested that he might have got wealthy by being lucky iu stock speculations or real estate, ‘‘Well,’’ was the caustic reply, “I believe that was one of Tweed’s an swers as to where he got his millions—that he mado it | in stock, and real estate,’ and he then added :—“A man to speculate in stocks and real estate must have con- siderable money to begin with. It’s very strange that aman ina county like this could become wealthy in three or four years without the cause becoming known to his neighbors, if it was not criminal,” 1t was this style of argument, coupled with the ac- cusation (the two seemed to go together) that Woodin had voted for nearly all the iniquitous measures ‘Tweed was interested in, which was buried at him in the local press and on the stump when Cuyler was his opponent, and it is this style of argument and accusa- tion which is being made now against him, Rightly or wrongly, he was classed as among the five Senators who, Judge Davis openly declared at a public meeting, had been bought up by Tweed, Since the election after that declaration was made four of the five have never come to the surface of polities, and the democrats and republicans 1m this district believe that because they fatiod in 1873 to get rid of the fifth that is no reason ey on should not try again, 1 have mentioned how, by POLITICAL TRICKERY, Woodin was saved then; so it will be'in place to show, so far us lcan from my study of the situation in the district, that the same trickery and means are not likely to be applied this year. It is true that Woodin has “builded well” for success, but whether he has builded better than he knew is quite a different thing. He managed to get the Saratoga Convention fo nominate two men from his district on the State ticket, and, with an impartiality which the soreheads in Wayne county seem duly to appreciate, he secured to each county a candidate, Mr, ‘Tinsley being from Wayne and the reverend Ives’ from this city, The patronage whieh a Canal Commissioner hailing from this district may possibly be able to give proved a tempting bait to the would-be officeholders in Wayne, who felt so bad for two years because Woodin hadu’t done anything for them, aud who opposed him in cousequence, Now they are to give hima hearty Support, and Tinsley, who was among those who did not favor Woodin then, now writes Fim up in his | is da ong rer sah entre amie al will do | will be cast for Charles F. Durston, the democratic | year. jonor to the district, Kven George J, Post, who slumped this county auainst him in 1873, and who used all the old Tweed acengations in his speeches te mare | them forcible, has fallen into line and is running for | | Assembly in the Second district of this county. So it | Will be seen that Woodin hax not been idie, and has very ingeniously suce in placating the meu who mado the inost noise about him when he ran the last time, But bas be put au cud to ail opposition om the part of | all republicans? Before 1 came into the district 1 had an idea that he had from what had been told me by many republicans in other districts. Since I bave been im the two counties, however, I have become thoroughly convinced thal, while he and his frends have won over that class of republicaas Who opposed him two years ago because they wanted polit- teal place and consideration, whieh*Woodin had s6- cured for others, he has not won over those who opposed bitn on general principles of HONESTY AND REFORM. That there is 4 bitter feeling among avery large Duinber of republicans against him is a fact patent to everybody in the district who has ears to hear and eyes to see; and, what is more, there will be more Opposition to him from that source than there was In 1573, Most of the hurtiul warfare against him them on the part of republicans was in Wayne county. In the south towns of Cayuga ‘county a large republican voto nomines. In Auburn, which gave 4 majority for the republican State ticket of 735 the year Woouin last ran and 619 for Dix last year, the republican vote tor Durston will be quite large, and it 18 more than prob- able that if Woodin carries it at all it will not be by over 100 or 200 majority. In the south towns of this county, as I have said before, the opposition to him will be quite » There, for some reason or other, the republicans | who do oppose Woodin are more outspoken in their | opposition than in other parts of the county, Indeed, they make uo boues about it, which is unlike wost of those in Auburn who intend to yote Js opponent, many of whom scem to be afraid to say anything about the way they stand without being questioned closely. However, there is enough of the opposition feeling on the surface to serve as an indication of the reul strength that fs beneath it, I came across ONE STRIKING INSTANCE myself last evening. There were eight republicans in the party, Only one of them declared his intention of voting Toe Woodin, Ho fe a politician and an oifice- holder, The others are men of business and stand- ing in their community, Notwithstanding this opposition and the patent fact that Woodin will find the day after the election that very large republican vote will have ranged itself aguinst him, the democrats have a great many things to contend against to make this opposition successiul, They are, itis true, in better condition themselves than they have been for years. Durston and Ross nover pulled weil together for years, and even as late as two years ayo ‘the former and his friends had Ross put off the State Com- mittee; but since then the diflicuities Lave been bridged over, and now the one as a candidate tor Senator and the other as a candidate for State ‘Treasurer have found it more than ever to their interest to work in harmony. Durston proved his carnestuess at Syracuse by securing Ross’ nomination, aud Ross would indeed | bo ungratelul if he did not do ail he could to have Dur- ston elected, Yet there are always wheels within wheels in politics, which only the few who are in- terested in the way they turn know anything about, and I was assured last evening by a well-known demo- erat, nota resident of this district, but who is thor- oughly posted about State politics generally, that there were “interests” —whatever that way tean—which made Charles N. Ross’ futher and Woodin, a sort of necessity to one another. Suid he:—Mr, Ross cannot aiford to have Woodin defeated,” It is but just to Mr. Ross to add that he says himself most positively that ho will not do anything to aid in Woodin’s election, ‘There are men in ‘Auburn, however, who contend that 88 made & similar declaration two years ago, and ut for his influence used ina certain way, Mr. Cuyler would have been the Senator from the Twenty- fifth district during the past two years, In spite of the ugly feeling against. Mr. Woodin im his own political household the democrats appreciate tho fact that they have an uphill job of it, and that to defeat him all the trickery, arts and appliances of political warfare must be used in the con- test, Though Mr. Durston is a popular young man in. this county, and is making a very favorable impression in Wayne county, where ho has already spoken at sev- eral meetings, there seems to be # growing impression ainong those republicans who are opposed to Woodin that no is not just the man for the raco, though, after all, the best tho democrats could select for general popularity and against whom nobody hasan ill word to utter, GREEN'S FINGER, It fs currently rumored that Mr. Woodin’s hands have been lately strengthened by Andrew H. Green, wno, in conjunction with some of the republican federal ollice- holders in New York city, has raised $20,000 vo. be placed “where it will do the most good” in the two counties, And right here it must be said that it is given out freely in tno district that the New York city republicans consider Woodin’s presence in the Senato next winter necessary to the interests of the party in the metropolis, expecially if Tammany should be de- feated and the Legisiature be republicaa, aud that “all other considerations” should be subservient to this one. I need hardly add that the independent republicans have not taken the bait yet, though one of them laugh- ingly remarked to me ny “{ don’t wonder New York city republicans want ‘Woodin in the Senate, for he knows more about that city thaw all the democrats usually sent from there wo the Legislature pub together, ‘There 1s ove thing that might insure Woodin’s defeat with such a feeling against bim as there is, and that is the presence of a teinperance candidate in the tell, THE TEMPERANCE VOTR is very strong tn the two counties, the best proof of whieh is that this county alone, which gave a republican majority of over 8,000.to Dix in. 1872, by the aid of the democrats has elected a temperance Sherif. This strong temperance vote, then, is worth looking after. The temperance men'offered the nomination for Senator to a well known eg Re man, named Clark, m Auburn, afew days ago, but the Woodin republicans induced him to decline, Since then they have been thinking the matter over and it is now probable that the nomination will be given to Abijah Fitch of this county. Fiteb is rather advanced in years and was one of the party who accompanied the late Mr, Seward in his tour round the world, He was a lite long friend of the dead states- man and it is believed would poll a heavy vole, He has the advantage, too, of being a good stump speaker and could talk water all over the district to his heart's con- tent, ifnotto the comfort of some of his listeners at the country meetings, most of whom like to “liquor up’” on their way home. Taking the whole situation as it ‘stands now in both counties on the Senatorial question, Tam of the opinion that though hard pressed Woodin will be AN THE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS the democrats have certainly a great deal that is hope- ful Charles 8. Beardsley, J?., who defeated the repub- lican nominee, L. #. Hardy, in the First district of Cayuga county last year, Las been nominated. Beards- ley owed his election then to the fact that G. L. Van- doren ran as an independent republican candidate and got 87% republican votes, which, if added to Hardy’s vote, would have defeated Beardsley by 268, This ime there 18 again a third candidate tn the field In the per- son of H. B, Converse, a temperance man. As he is a democrat he will not be of much benefit to Beardsley, and the chances are almost certain that lis republican fo anes George L Post, will be elected. Post was once the President of the Southern Central and was in- sirumental in having it run through his town, which is a bonellt to the peopl, and they will itis belleved, re- turn him thanks for’ it atthe polls. He was a mem- ber of the Assembly in 1862and 1863, The democrats have nominated 8, Edwin Day in the Second district, aud the republicans John 8, Brown. There is a prohi- bition and granger candidate in the field also, Edwin Marvin, who is quite a popular man. This district was represented by 5. Hussey, repub- lican, last year, who defeated Jerome Fulier by 440 majority. Day's election’ is cortain, The town of Moravia, where he lives, will, it is believed, give him 800 out of its 600 votes; and Scipio, which will probably give sixty to seventy majority for the re- publican State ticket, will give hima majority. The other towns in his district will give him a good vote. In the First district of Wayue the democrats have no:- inated Emory W, Gurnee, wnoom tuey elected in 187: by 285 majority over John C. Hough, republican. William H. Clark has been renominated ‘there by the | republicans, but Gurnee will be elected beyond a doabt; | as will Allen 3. Russell, republican, in tue Second dis- trict. Tt will thus be seen that, even providing that Beards. | ley gets defeated, us mutters wow look the democrats will come out of ‘the fight for the Assembly with a gain of one member, Cayuga last year standing one deino- erat to one republican, Wayne ‘having two republicans, THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET will run remarkably well in the two counties, and in Cayuga county especially, on account of the éandida- ture of Charles N. Rows lor State Treasurer. He will run very jar abead of the ticket in the county; whereas I believe the reyerend yes, candidate for State Prison Inspector on the republican side, and who is also a resident of this county, will run fur behind bis ticket, I find that he is’ personally unpopular and that ho has the double disadvantage of having incurred the hostility of the tefuperance men tor taking & place on @ purty ticket, and that of the liquor interest because he got in the field at all. From | wii that 1 have been able to learn the republican vote in Wayne and Cayuga will not much exceed that of iast ‘The chances wre that it uiay tall below it, us Very littie hard work is being done in the interior by the republicans und correct poll lisis have not been | made out yet in many of the towns. The stay-at-home vote on the republican side will be large, and as the democrats are working in some places like beavers | their gains will be heavy, Quite a number of republi- cans will vote the democratic ticket, and there will be a large vote cast for it by the farmers, most of whom are republicans, Frederick Seward, who was a Cayaga , county boy, will receive a large yove in the county and Mr. Bigelow will be “pasted” out on many a demo- cratic ticket accordingly. All things considered, evea if they do lose the Senator, the democrats of Cayuga and Wayneare pretty certain to emerge from the elve- tion not wholly without sume showing for their and hard work, for the certain eleetion of two de cratic Assemblyinen frum two counties heavily republi- can {8 no small triumph. ‘THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. I may add, by way of conclusion, that in Cayuga and Wayne counties, as in most other counties I Lave been in recently, the public school question ia looming up formidably'as one of the principal features of the cam- paign, It has go suddenly been agitated with any ¢ gree of Vigor aud has so recoutly become one of the main topics ‘Of campaign diseussion in the country towns that one Is hall lod to believe that it is the re- sult of-a general understanding come to after orders | from headquarters to every republican county commit- tov, In most of the interior towns the local republican papers soem content to keop standing ta their columns Such a question 48 this to the democratic candidates for Senate or Assembly :— “‘Are you in favor of @ division of the school fund for the support of separate Catholic schools ?? But in some ot the towns the discussion is carried on with grat bitterness, I huve noticod at overy re- publican méeting L have attended in some of the little | further ado the out of the way towns that a speaker's declaration that the common School system must not be disturbed ak 8 even when the andi ways “brings dédwn the hon sf one rather chary of giving appl uge. The re- sblicans have found that in accusing the democrats of a desire to give way to the Catholic idea of a division of the school fund for the sake of catehing the Catholic vote they are stirring up even the most laggard republican voter, and 80 as the discussion has thts eifeet 1 is reasonable to expect that it will grow in vigor every day {rom now till the elegtion. The democrats, I find, are much put about by the way the republigans inevery district are continually harping on the subject, for as & rule they do not seem willing to regard it a8 a fair ques- tion to be mixed up with the other political questions of the day. But, unfortunately for them, the repub- licans do not consult their likes or dislikes. The effect the discussion of the question hax on the voters gen- erally ix well worth a careful study from this out, and after I have gone through a few more distriets I will bo able to give you the results of my observation on that inging up this question now will hurt us terr!- said a lending democrat of this county to me yes- terday; “it has no rightful piace im the “iasues of the campaign. The republicans know it, but if they get the voters worked up thoroughty about it they will for- get all about administraive reforms, canal frauds and everything else, That's the republicans’ litte game.” And that inay be their little game, after all. LITERATURE AS AN ART. LECTURE BY BAYARD TAYLOR. - ‘The first of a series of lectures in connection with the Young Men’s Christian Association was deliveres last night, in Association Hall, by Mr. Bayard Taylor, on “Literature as an Art.” The hall was filled in every part, and the lecture, which was replete with infortna- tion and frequently enlivened by touches of quiet hu- mor and irony, was listened to throughout with the deepest attention, Mr. Taylor, who was introduced by Mr. Vanderlip, spoke slowly and distinctly and with great impressive. ness, He commenced by reviewing the present state of American literature and the position of American people regarding it. We are, he said, In @ transition state, passing from a period in which recreation and amusement were chiefly sought after to a period in which moro solid mental food and more carnest literary work are required, The frivolity of tone and looseness of style characterizing our national lterature during the past ten or twelve years he attributed to the destruction of the“ most earnest and enterprising minds of the community during the war. The principio of reform at present infusing ttself int the action of both the great political parties must react upon our literature, causing it to become more serious, more searching in thought and more accurate in style, The highest development of contemporary American humorous literature is to bo found in the sketches and poems of Bret Harte, in which humor rests upon its only true foundation—that of pathos and feeling. A stop lower down wo mect with Mark Twain, whose wit is wholly superficial, without any underlying current of sentiment and thought. Low- est in the scale come those newspaper jesters who Tan sack heaven and earth to find # theme for their absurd- ities, Virtue as wellas degradation, murder as much as suffering, prayer and death, are ‘turned tnto the ghastly materials for their jesting, Notwithstanding the faet that Mrs, Southworth is still the novelist most m demand at circulating libraries, Mr. Taylor was con- fident that the lowest point of ‘literary do- moralization bad reached and passed, A minute comparison was instituted between the great characteristics of English and American speakers and writers. The Englishman ts intellectual in thought and oe in language, while want of ac- curacy marks the Amorican. The one stammers for words to express the thoughts that rush tn upon his mind, the other repeats himself until he finds a thought; the former is staid and dignified, the latter is easy and conversational, During 0 long’ course of ro. porting Mr. Taylor said he found only ope public speaker whose words it was necessary to report ver- batim-—Daniel Webster, The faults of American htera- ture are attributable to two causes—slovenliness im early instruction and carelessness on the part of the public, who do not exact accuraey from their speakers and writers, The remainder of the lecture was taken up with a statement of the laws of stylo and illustra. tions of the theories stated. Cluinay and ditfuse utter. ance involves clumsy and diffuse thought. Hence tho first requisite of a good styla is logical, coherent thought, which comes partly by nature, partly by edu- cation ahd study; the second, capacity of expréssion, involving that plastic power of change only to be gained by study and practice, Moreover, words, to be effec. tive, must possess rhythmical cadence, Thus point waa filustrated by several readings trom eminent writers. The necessity ot study was insisted upon even in a style of writing generally con- sidered so easy as the deseriptive, John Ruskin being cited as the most powerful and beautiful of descrip- tive writers. The highestart is the attamment of the clearest, purest and most qpereerions expreasion, of thought, The beginning and tho ending of the sentence, as well as of the whole work, requtre to be most atten If the starting point and the goal are fixed the course Detweon is likely to be smooth and straight. The lec- ture was concluded by an eloquent picture of the gle- vation conferred upon a man by intollectual attain- ments; but the highest maniiness can only be reached through earnest endeavor and steady development, , THE KRACKOWIZER MEMORIAL, HONOR TO A DECEASED SAVANT AND PHILAN- ‘THROPIST—ADDRESSES BY DR, ALTHOR, RB, F. HALL AND CARL SCHURZ. , Steinway Hall was crowded Jast evening with a fine German assemblage, which had gathered to do honor to the memory of the late Dr. Ernest Krackowizer. On the piatiorm, which was draped with black, sat Rohlfs, the African traveller; General Sigel, Uda Brachvogel, the well known writer; Joseph Seligman, the wealthy banker; Professor Jay, Mr, Carl Schura, ex-Governor Salomon and others, amid a perfect gypve of myrtles, creeping vines, ivy and other plants, After an appropriate funeral march for trom- bones and horns Dr. ¥. Finaser, the President, opened the exercises by dwelling on tho sad solemnity of the occasion and on the.memory of Dr. Krackowizer, so dearly beloved by all Germans. Ho introduced the first orator of the evening, Dr, H. Alt hof, who read a long German address containing 4 minute account of Dr. Krackowizer’s life, tue main features of which have previously been given in these columns. Dr. Althof emphasized the great qualities which made Dr. Krackowizer so a physician, nis pertect self- jon and loving syim- pathy with every paticnt. He said, in conclusion, an- nals of medical selence could probably not show a phy- ian who lent akiudiier aud readier ear to the needy, ‘the destitute aud the suilering. “May bis memory be ever sacred to us,” was the concluding sentence of the oration. r ‘The German Liederkranz now ascended the platform and sang the “Geisterchor” (Chorus of Spirita), by Schubert. Mr. E. J. Hall addressed the andience in English. ‘He heid up Dr. Krackowizer asa bright and pure example of nobility of purpose, sincerity of convictions and sterling manhood, His love for this couytry was that of the most devotea American patriot, and his hatred of all shams was as great as his fidelity to the cause of Hhuanan righty, ‘The Arion Society, the other great German vocal or ganization, sang another beautifal composition of Schu bert, “Pilger auf Kirden” (Pilgrims on Earth). Mr. Carl Schurz read a long German address. He said it was an excellent injunctton that nobody shoald speak tl of the dead; but 1 would be, indeed, difficult to say an unfavorable word of Dr. Krackowizer. Honest and faithful was his heart Honor was dearer to him than all other possessions; no sycophant, but alwayt ready to acknowledge merit in everybody; and ever it the ‘stormiest periods of lite his joyaliy to trathand Justice never swerved. The speaker then dwelt upot | the deceased's many amiable traits, and thought thay his character was one to hold up to the native born cith zons for admiration and emulation. ° The exercises closed with the singing of the “Pik ms’ Chorus” from ‘Tannhduser” by the combineé man societies. A STRANGE SUICIDE. As the Hoboken ferryboat, James Rumsey, was leay- ing the Barclay street slip on her twelve o'clock trip yesterday morning, an unknown man stepped nefy- ously to the front of the boat and said to a passenger, “T] wonder if the water is cold to-night?” The passén- ger answered, “You had better go and try,” Without stranger vaulted over the irov ates on the forward deck and plunged head. fing into the river. Captain St. John, of the Rumsey, made every effort to dud him, but without avail, he passenger to whom he had previously spoke: to catch the unfortgnate man as he was leaping over. board, but Le was too late, It is said by some that de- coased was seen bidding goodby to aman and woman ‘on the boat previously, and that they took leave “of him apparently with a knowlede of his design. "Phe attempts ee yesterday to recover the body prowed unsuccess! 4 SAD ACCIDENT “ Charles Blake, a deaf and dumb, ehild,, four anda half years pli, while playing yesterday, morting among the ruins of Merrill’s hardware , fyctory, . corner ,of South Eleventh and First streets, Willjamsburg,.was auugerousiy injured by being buried beneath’ a portion of the débris. He was severely bruised on the body and his right leg was fractured. ‘ ‘ HE SLAMPED HIS HEAD. Thomas Smith, aged twonty-cight years, a walter en» ployed at the Belmont Hotel, was struck on the head last night with an iron stamp, by Danrel pros durin: an altercation in the liquor siore wt No, 181 Gri streot, He received a severe scalpwound. ¥v pothenceeaniiaeateone-A: <2) = ' A MODEL CITY EMPLOYE. . Mary Finnegan, the alleged keeper of # dance house at No. 806 Water street, was shot in the arm lastnight by John Malledy, a keeper in the ‘Houde Sof during an altercation, Mary's wound is not consi serious, was arrested,