The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1875, Page 6

6 Zand ran to the channel before a terripre northwest. galo—the worst Captain Young paid he ever saw. CAPTAIN YOUNG'S JOURNAL, The following are some interesting extracts from Cap tain Young's journal:— Peet Srrarr, Sept, 1, 1875. We are in a deep bight in the ice, Al! southward one sk across from side to si Fitzroy ules lio:'s Strata packed close, The spring tides d away, and there # no hope of getting fur- wasn, for the winter bas already set | accompai@ment of gules, sleet and | anow, and the new ice 18 rapidly forming on’ the waters. { Tam very joth to turn back, and ani struggling om agunst hope, wf even to reach Bollow's Straits, where ¥ id hold on in comparative security longer | could poseibly do here. To remuin in our present position im Peel Strait is out of the ques- tion as well us purposeless, We are bow being beset, und once beset are tmpr winter without @ harbor and in a position which would leave us powerless to accomplish anything. From this ition we could merely tollow by sied in the spring the footsteps of that veteran explorer, McClintock, to King William Land, under the same couditions, with out hope of (urther result, and in that case we shoulda! the ship not being released next sun vobably ending o successful voyage in @ disaster, not omit this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to my oilicers and crew, who al this critical riod of the we were only tuo anxivus to pusir forward, and d equally with myself their disap- | pointment at the sudden arrest of ‘our progress, and | this crusher to ull our hopes of making the Northwest Passage Ulis season, | Surteuser 3 1 Weare running back uncer reefed sails out of Peel Btrait, The perature is twenty-six degrees® with | aqua We stop to sound occasionally the un- | explored « on Which no ship has ever been kn evening of the 4th w stone Island, the tem) 4 to twenty-four degrees, As we appr rmous pack Which lies close to us on our por and Unreatens completely to cut off our retrew i Just see at intervals between the snow storms a stnail thread of water, perhaps haifa mile wide, and 1 determined to run a race against tine with the and try to puss Cape Rennel before it impinged completely ou the land by the action of the | northwest gale that was blowing. It , in fact, our ae ee fag airy ony fe ee , for + _ John K, Hackett and District Attorney Ben- esitated or stood back tothe south t we should >] 3, i certainly have been. shut.in for the winter, and pushed | 2m! K. Phelps. Such s® coalition as ‘on with the fast increasing darkucss' and gloom | the latter, backed by the support of an ofthe coming winter night. “It was a dreadful wight; | independent press, fostered by an enthusiastic public gale, with hail and and we threaded our way in the dark, the white glare of the pack on one band, the gleam of the snow-clud land on the other, being our only guide. Once only during the night a solitary starshone Out for hali an hour, giving the helmsman @ point for the direction of the ship. As the wind increased the temperature fell to eighteen degrees, Fahrenheit, and the spray'frozo over the ship as it 4 by ‘mid- night our decks were full of ‘snow, which whirled up im dlinding drifts from the eddy winas out ofthe sails, We could from time tw time judgo our progress along the coast by the excellent de- scription of Ross and McClintock in their spring journey. Thus ut ten P. M. we passed the deep gorgo which separates the limestone from the red sandstone formatiou—a curious geological feature of the coast. By midnight we were off Cunningham Inlet, and by three A. M. we were just in the position | bad so long dreaded. The ice pack had already impinged on Cape Rennel, leaving uot the slightest passage, and our Progress in this direction was stopped. . Suddenly a Bnow storm that had been beating down:upon us for the whole night abated and disclosea the htgh, precipitous cliffs hanging immediately over us, presenting a most ghostly appearance, the horizontal strata seeming like the huge bars of some gigantic iron cage, and stand- the wind increased to a violent sleet and blinding drift { } ing out from the snow face. In, fact, it was the skeleton of a cliff, and wé® appeared to | be in its very grasp. For a few minutes only we saw this apparition, and then all was again darkness. We barely had room to round to between this cliff on one side and the pack on the other, and then hastily ranged about, seeking some escape. Most Pprovidentially, afier three hours of intease anxiety, a élight movement in the pack was reported from aloft, giving indications of a weak place inthe pack. The ship was instanuy turned in that direction, and even- tually we weded in forcing her through the weakest place in this nip, now our only hope, which was already Fapidly closing again with the formation of new ice. Sertemper 10, ‘We have just passed through a gnie with the temper- ature down to twenty-eight degrees, and we were iced over all, for the Leavy seas beat upon us and froze as they fell upon our sides and decks, and the Pandora be- came one huge icicle, Anchors, shrouds and rigging ‘were one solid mass. It became a serious question how Jong we could have manauvred the ship had the gale not abated. We had run out of Lancaster Sound, beat ing up to the Carey Isles, where I determined to make a further effort to tind some record of the Alert and the Discovery by searching even every island of the group in detail, and failing im that, at all hazards to make @ dash for Littleton Island, feeling how anx- fous the iriends of the expedition would be to hear news Of their passage through the dangers of Melville Bay. In thisd was fully supported by all my officers, who sparen the importance of obtaining some tidings of expedition, We reached the Carey Islands on the 0th of September, beating up all the way against a Strong norilierly wind, and nally reaching the group in the mids: of violent snow storm. The sea here, and as far as could be observed to the north, where the action of the wind was felt, was quite clear of ice, and although icv was sull rapidly forming in still water 1 think I could have been able to reach as far north as Littleton Island. This time we hove to off the Southeast Isiand, on the top of which we percetved a cairn. The island, instead of presenting a view of bare stones, wus now covered with a white mantle of snow, which bad completely changed its appearance. It was some 700 (vet or 800 feet high, and yery steep, but the SLOW served a8 & means ,of ascent ina place where otherwise it would have been impossible to get up. | Lieutenants Lillingston and Baynan went ashore and for haif an hour we watched them climbing up the steep face of the mountain. At last they reached the cairn, where they remained only a few minutes, for we goon saw them Tapidiy descending to the water's edge. In a few minutes they returned with a tin tube con- taining a packet addressed to the Adwiralty, evidently left by Captain Nares, The Pandora was how moving homeward, and recrossed Melville Bay without inci- dent, and’ finding it perfectly ciear of ice, with a heavy rolling sea, which is quite unusual in the bay, we reached Disco on the 20th of September. where we re- mained until the 24th, recruiting. We in departed and had a favorable passage down Davis Straits, but en- counterea very heavy weather and violent gales in crossing tho Atlantic, the ship being battened down for five days, aud reached Portsmouth on the 15th. AFRICAN TRAVGL. Dr. Gerhardt Rohilfs, the celebrated Africin traveller, ‘will deliver a lecture, on his travels, on Thursday night, November 4, at Steinway Hall Dr. Robifs has had showered upon him distinctions by all the crowned heads of Europe, aud he has fuirly earnea them, bir RA UI ER THE SCHOOL TEACHERS’ TAX A CLEAR RECITAL AND EXACT CHARGE AGAINST TAMMANY OFFICIALS. To tne Evrron or tua Herao:— Acommun jon was sent by us to your office on Tharsday evening, 28th inst., which has since appeared fm several of the newspapers, In the World of this “morning (20th) appears what purports to be an official denial of the statements made tn our letter referred to above, signed “Edward L. Donnelly, Treasurer of Tam- many Hall” We send you berewith a reiteration of the facts in the case. In ® commanication in the World (his morning, signed “Edward L Donnelly, Treasurer of Tammany | Hall,” he refers to @ letter signed by “Male Principals,” | which appeared in the News of Friday, the 29th inst, and, after reciting that “this is a grave charge,” that “every word of this accusation 1s untrue,” and that “the charge has no foundation in fact,” he states that | | i} “4 is only a weak invention of the editor of the News | to injure the Tammany Hall organization.”’ We agree perfectly with Mr, Donnelly as to the grav- Ry of the charge, but we disagree totaly as to the trath of his other statements, and we desire to reply specific- ally to this hasty, intemperate and illogical communi- cation of Mr, Donnelly, Mr. Donwelly either did or did not take the trouble before rusiiug into print to make inquiries into the matter in ail (ho Assembly districts of the city. If ne did not do so, he must be considered as publicly stating as trath t he does not positively know to be trud Ifhe did investigate, he would have found that all our Btatements were pertectly true, and that policy, if not fegara for truth itself, would bave dictated silence on his part. in either view of his position Mr. Donneily appears to ue to stand in an unen je light. ‘he district in which the ussesement of one per cent was levied is the Fourth Asse district, or Seventh ward. The collector is Mr, Timothy G, Sullivan, a gen- tleman whom We al! know to be the authorized collector of the Tawwmany General Committee of the Fourth As- sembly district. Mr. Sullivan, on We: ay, the 27th inst, the day upon whieh he notified u the amount demanded, stated that the list of parties assessed wad Prepared by the Tammany committee of the district, Bamely :—Mesers William Collig. Philip Collings and cL —f___—_—— THE CAN What the Political Pros- pects Are. JOHN KELLY IRATE. ' The Press Denounced by Him as a Dis- | grace to Civilizat’on. TAMMANYITE LIBERALS IN A ROW. |The -Proceedings at the Meet-_ ings Last Night. Two days more and the real contest before the ballot box for the political control of this city takes placs. ‘Thus will conclude a short and vigorous campaign. Usually we have at least three weeks of active prepara- tion before election day, after the nominees of ail par- ties are placed before the people for their suf- frages; but this year the Tammany, anti-Tammany and republican forces did not complete their tickets unt! a few days ago, The result hae been an extremely sharp and vigorous campaign on both sides, There are really only two parties to this contest, one under the absolute leadership of Mr. John Kelly, in Tammany Hall, and the other composed of the people’s combination party, organized by the large mass of independent voters and the honest working classes, headed by Recorder opinion, its ranks swelled by the indignation of thou- sands of workingmen and by desertions daily from the camp of the enemy, must positively win the battle on next Tuesday, TAMMANY’S TRICKS. Ceaseless efforts have been made during the pas, week by Tammany Hall to turn the tide so surely and suddenly threatening to swamp that organization. | Meetings have been held nightly in all the wards of the | elty; speakers (nearly all of whom are office-holders) have been engaged by the hundred, and the force of oratory brought to bear upon the citadel in which public indignation is entrenched, There is no disguis- ing the fact that those efforts have done some good to the cause of Tammany. The speakers, in the main, pandered to the lower instincts of hearers. They introduced rehgious topics, bringing forward a pamphlet issued by the Republican Con- gressional Committee in Washington, in which a state. ment was made that the Catholics were engaged in a | erusade against the free schools of the country, and | tried to saddle the burden of this attack upon the peo- ple’s party of this city because some republicans are on | the ticket. But they forgot to mention the fact that several republicans hold places in the city government | by and with tho consent of Tammany Hall. So this vulgar appeal to religious prejudices by the paid orators ot Tammany will be very likely to have little effect, The sober, second thought of the democratic voter will bring him back to consider as to the safest sido on which to cast his ballot, An intelligent | examination of the issues will show him that the fight is between a “King” dictatorship under Mr. John Kelly and a free city government under the untram- melled direction of the people themselves. Know Notning or proscriptive ideas cannot be dragged into the | canvass, The history of the Know Nothing party proves that democrats and republicans alike were equally responsible for its monstrous doctrines. An attempt to resurrect this long-baried corpse will only tend further to destroy the political ghouls of Tam- many who nightly during the past week have bellowed | over those long forgotten subjects. THE OUTLOOK VOR THR PEOPLES PARTY. According to all indications the chances of success for the people’s party in this city have steadily ad- vanced, notwithstanding the great efforts inaugurated by Tammany to decry its leadership and principles. The pamphlet business has been freely resorted to. Thousands have been stricken off and distributed to the voters. Some of those pamphlets make personal attacks upon Recorder Hackett, Sucha virulent and un- manly method of defaming a candidate must defeat the very ends sought to be attained. The people love fair play and do not relish this one-sided and treacherous method of strikingrat a candidate. The manifest in- justice of the charges and the manner in which they were placed beforo the public have aroused sentiments of enthusiasm for the candidacy of Mr. Hackett which must jusure his election. Since then many of his friends of the Bench and the Bar and the respectable citizens of New York have come forward and testified their appreciation of his eervices, The people intend to clect him again, and thus strike down the “oue man” dictation which undertakes to make Judges as Aldermen are made, to control the Bench as Legislatures have hitherto been controlled by Tweed and Company, and to again render the judiciary of the metropolis a thing of scorn, as it was when the *Ring’’ controlled and directed many of its decisions. THE PROBABLE VOTE of the city has been get down at 130,000. Nearly be 145,000 ha n registered. This year 21,000 moro votes have been recorded than that of the last off- 1873, What docs this indicate? Certainly areawaken- ing of the people. ticket. An aroused public sentiment against Tam- many's dictatorship will send to the ballot-box many voters who bave hitherto stood aloof from politics. There are others who for years have voted the Tammany ticket who will now record themselves agninst the blundering obstinacy and iron rule of its present leader. Against the independent German elements the republican vote of about 42,000 and the workingmen’s opposition, how is Tammany going to run inthis fight? Some of the leaders say, ‘We have thorough organization in the machine, and we shall spend thousands of dollars in doubtfal districts to carry the election. Nearly all the laboring classes can be bought, Those whom we do not directly control by patronage and promise of place we can bring over by the expenditure of a tew dollars. ”? This is adanyerous experiment to try, There is not the slightest doubt, however, that it will be resorted to, But the honegt, bard working classes of this city can- not be #0 easily purchased. Only the rowdy element ready for bargain and sale, Herein lies the only danger Yor the people’s party, and it is worthy of being looked into, | watching, however, and vigorous application of the Jaws governing bribery at elections will avert this threatened danger. was the terror of the election. votes wore cast throughout the city, Fourth wards alone 3,000 more than this district was legally entit must not be repeated. been passed affecting sich case they are properly enforced, anda the result. In the Sixth and votes were counted dito. Those Let the offieral fair election will be HISSING “MY CANDIDATE,” The reception which Mayor Wickham received at the Tammany fatification meeting of Thursday night has been since the subject of much speculation. His Honor was twice vigoronsly hissed by nearly the entire au- dience. Considering the ‘“boSom friendship” hereto fore existing between this gentleman and Mr. John Kolly such a course on the part of the Tammany co- horts waa, to say the le remarkable. One yes Mr, Kelly'stood up in Tammany Hall and ann William H. Wickham as “ny candidate” for the Ma alty, just a¥ he insisted upon Frederick Sinythe as his nominee for Recorder in spite of the universally ex- ett, Both conventions have swallowed his candidates, They feel now that they were deceived in Mr. W: bam. Will they again leave themselves open to a simi- lar deception in the selection of a Recorder? The bal- Faward T. Fitzpatrick, To the insertion of our names, we understand that the last named but to no effect. We are S Tespectively of Grammar School | (9, 12, in Madison strect, and No. 31, in Monroe stroct, | fe Sent the letter of the 20th ist. wo the Lally News | ication, and it was published verbatim. W the letter on our own motion, and w Out solicitation or adviee from any person wt ever. It was simply our honest and indignant prot against what we considered eithor an inavilt or a threat, | ‘and it originated in a desiroto reject publicly, with tio | soorn it deserved, any attempt to introduce politios {nto gar pablic school system. When we reflect that, | on account of our action in this matter, we may be vis. at the hands of the Tammany maguates, if succes With all sorts of annoyances in our positions, we oleae foel gatistied that we have proferred that rather than lose self-respect and manhood, or | wo ten ay public schools into + posta ofa mere appeudage to a . Respectfully, SORN S. DELANEY, Principal Grammar Sehoo! No, 12, HENRY P. 0'NEIL, Grammar School No, 31. Prineij Naw Yora. Oct, 00. 167 lots of Tuesday next must solve the problem. ‘A RUMORED SPLIT PETWEEN KALLY AND WICKITAM, The politicians have been busy for the past two « with rumors as to a decided split between Mayor Wick- ham and John Kelly, It is too bad if “my candidate,’” who was so exalted by-our latest political “boss” one year ago, bas turned against the power that made him chief executive of New York, This Is only another proof of the political downfall which threatens Tammany on the day of election, It is also a striking evidence of the weakness of the “one-man’’ power which under | takes to manipulate Judges, police commissioners, may~ org and the hundred other important officers making 1p the government of this metropolis, ‘The principal foun- dation for thove statements as to a Wickham-Kelly im- brogtio are fo d upon the speech of Tammany's Park Comuiomioner, Mr. Joseph J. O'Donobue, at a polit- ical meeting on Friday might, In which he vigorously at- tacked the Mayor. ‘Then there is the very uneourteous Feception already 1 to of Mr, Wickham at Tam- many’s ratilication. Knowing ones allege that both atiacks were arranged by Mr, John Kelly as the preliminary stroke in sending @ Honor from the council boards of mina y. A reuresentative of the Hknacp valled uoon Mr, Wick- VASS. | their | Every increased vote may be put | down beyond question as one in favor of the people's | A careful | A few yeara ago the “repeater” | Thousands of illegal , pressed popular opiaion in favor of Mr. John K. Hack. | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 1875.—Q ham Tote afternoon to ascertain his position on these ics, but the gentleman was as dumb as an oyster. He did not, apparently, wish to converse upon such delicate matters, and, while denying nothing he admitted nothing. Under such a condition of aflairs ‘an alliance between the Mayor, Comptroller Green and Governor Tilden as against Mr, Soin Kelly, would not be a far-fetched speculation. In fact, this coali- ition is already authoritatively hinted at, Tammany re- quires brains to conduct her battles, She bas cast aside, by a blundering and stilf-necked policy on the part of Mr. Kelly, magnifleeit opportunities, Gover- nor Tilden is not averse to taking the helm and steering the organization out of the breakers. Her defeat next Tuesday would cause anew reformation, scattering to the four winds the present organization, TAMMANY’S LOSS THE PEOPLE'S GAIN. One of the most conclusive proofs of the breaking up of Tammany Hall as a strong politieal orgunization is the recent secession of members of the General Com- mittee, This is not confined to any particular district, but extends throughout the aniieg city. In the First, Second, Third and Fourth districts they resignations have been Jarger than anywhere else, This action re- sults from the fact that those Assembly districts are located in the Fourth Senatorial district, where the Fox and Morrissey struggle goes on with all its bitter- ness, The resigned members are among the most in- fuential politicians in their localities, Then we have disorganization in the Seventeenth and Twenty-first. Mr. James M. Sullivan has le(t the latier. Tnis gentle- man is one of the most imfluential citizens in the upper part of the erty, He is a wealthy contractor and em- ploys a large number of workingmen, He was elected to the Assembly two years ago from the Twenty-first district, beating badly the regular Tammany candidate, He afterward joined Tammany Hall, but has become disgusted with its present management, and now le what he considers a sinking ship, Those disaffections will very materially assist Mr. Francis M, Bixby, the anti-Tammany and republican nominee for Senator of the kighth district, as against Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, Tammany’s choice. Although Mr. Nicholas Muller and a number of nis friends on the committee of the First district have Promised loyalty to the Tammany local ticket, yet it 18 with much difficalty that they were whipped into the traces. More resignations are expected from this dis- trict before election day, A bitter political antagonism has always existed between Mullerand Fox. The former now heads the First District Tammany Commit- tee and is the any nominee for Assembly; while Fox, residing in the same ward, is the Tammany caudi- date for Senator. How these hitherto entirely opposite elements can meet and work together on election day seems tobe an unfathomable mystery to the inhabitants of this quarter of the city. MORKISEY VS, FOX, The canvass of John Morrissey against John Fox for the Senatorship of the Fourth district has very mate- rially strengthened the chances of the former during the past week. A spirit of genuine enthusiastn in te cause of Morrissey has taken hold of the large masses of workingmen who inhubit this section. They feel grateful to the anti-Tammany candidate for his cham- pionship of their rights, and their fealty cannot be shaken, Morrissey cannot be beaten by {air means, as eight voters outol every ten in the district to-day ex- press themselves in favor of him. ‘Tbe large meetings eld in all parts of the district during the past week fully attested his popularity. In the Seventh ward the ovations have been pafticularly noticeable. This ward was the headquarters of William M, Tweed for @ number of years, and crowd that ran the machine under his auspices now control the polities of the district, This is another evidence of the peculiar ‘reform’? ideas clalmed to be the ruling spirit of Tammany’s present management, At the lirst Morrissey ratification meeting held at “Tweed Pla stones were thrown at Morrissey and the meeting broken up by a Tammany gang, conduct has reacted in Morrissey’s favor. The people recognize the same power in this exhibition of terror- ism _ as ts evident in the attempt to contro! the’ Bench in the interest of a political clique. THE SENATORIAL AND ASSEMBLY CONTESTS. During the canvass the Hexato bag called attention | to the nature and character of the contests going on In the different Senatorial and Assembly districts of this city. A great deal depends upon the Class of men sent to Albany next winter, The present standard of legis lators must be improved to prevent the bargain and sales which have so frequently disgraced the proceed- ings of those bodies at their annual gatherings. A greater-part of the important legislation passed upon every session affects metropolitan interests, Great care should therefore be exercised in the selection of candidates, Unfortunately, many of the Tammany nominees are not fitted either by position or educa- ‘tion for the places they seek, The republicans xpect to carry six of the Assembly districts, nd are working like beavers, as they know how important it is to secure a majority in the Assembly. But their minority representation in the last Legisia- ture did not militate much against republican influence, as the antics of the “responsible majority” completely destroyed any intluence which the democrats miglit wield. In the Fifth Senatorial district Senator Booth will run against Mr. Sidney P. Nichols. This gentleman was elected last year by some 2,200 majority. How- ever, Tammany Hall is making vigorous eiforts to elect Mr. Nichols, aud the machiuery of the party is at work night and day to accomplish favorable results, Mr. McClelland is running as the anti-Tammany candidat Mr. James Daly’s candidacy in the Sixth Senatorial district Is backed up by Governor Tilden and Mr. Os- Wald Otteudorier, Mr, Casper Bauden is the rgypolican nominee. ht Mr. James W. Gerard fecls confident of success on the Tammany ticket for Senator of the Seventh dis- trict. He is opposed by Mr. Joseph A. Monheimer, the anti-Tammany candidate, and Mr, jaia Launbeer on the republican tieket, ‘A warm canvass is going on in the Kizhth Senatorial district between Mr. Francis M. Bixby and Mr. B. P. Wheeler, This district is compose tion of the city on the east side and includes Harlem, It is a large section to travel over, Both candidates are engaged in making a personal canvass, and meetings have been held nightly during the past week. With the bitter opposition at present exhibited against Tam- xcellent many and its candidates Mr. Bixby has an eof election. The Nineteenth ward (1 mbly district) is part of the Eighth S The republiedns have here nominated for Assembly Mr. J, Albert is very strong with the German and voters ol his section. Last year, althoug democratic district, Mr. Jacob Hess, i elected over Mr. 0. L, Stewart, who is again the candi- date of Tammany Hall Mr. Hess is running on the republican ucket for Alderman at Large. r. J. F, King 1s the Tammany nominee in the Nino-s teenth Assembly district, He is opposed by Mr, Richard H. Green, and a close contest 1 pated. Tn the : the contest lies between Alfred Pell, Jacobs, satt-Tammany, and . A. Peabody, Jr., repub- ican, LAST DAYS OF THE CANVASS. To-day and to-morrow are the last hours of the can- vass, Every possible effort that can assist the Tam- many ticket will be made by the adherents of thas or- ganization, The people's party must not be idle in the Meanwhile, The registry lists have been freely made use of by Tammany Hail to flood the houses of voters with docarments and tickets. It would be well for the opposition to see that their tickets are in the hands of every voter early on the morning that they may not have to reproach themselves with carelessness or neglect when the battle shall bave been lost and won. JOHN KELLY ANGERED, THE PRESS DENOUNCED AND THE TAMMANY TICKET EULOGIZED. | sembly district held a muss meeting last evening In Glass Hall in Thirty-fourth street, near Third avenue, Hon. Jobn Kelly wos the ffrst speaker. He said that | Questions have been brought ito this canvass having nothing to do with it; that the old know nothing party spirit of thirty years ago was being the republican party in their efforts to make religions matters issues in the campaign; that | they accused the Catholics of anything to gain control of the school fund, when in reality the Catholics loved this country and its institutions as dearly as anybody did; that the press of this city on these issues, were attempting to crush Tammany Hall, and, said the speaker, “if Tammany " Hall ‘is to fall, when it does fall you may bave cause to fear for your iberties.”” Mr, Kelly then said that John Morrissey, as Bixby afd other unti-Tammany can: ies ought to be condemned and defeated entering into an tmboly alliance with the republican party. He nekt discussed the question of the reduction of the laborers’ wages, stat- ing that the reduction was made in spite of the earnest protest of Tammany Hall and of himself, He then de- nounced the present criminal judicial adminietration of | the law in this connty, saying that Mr. Phelps and Ree corder Hackett were unfit to hold their offices, Mr. Kelly said the with but few of this city and county, lions, is w@& disgrace to free and. civilized Tie press of this city 18 controlled by personal motives, and the men who | are atthe head of the papers and are so controlled Mr. Kelly Ought to be driven from the community.’ 1 majority concluded his remarks by predicting a la for the Stale and county democratic tick TAMMANY HALL. BOSS KELLY DEFENDS HIMSELF AND EULOGIZES MIS CANDIDATES, The Tammany General Committee held « meeting yesterday afternoon, which was quite largely attended, Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt presided, and, it having been voted to dispense with the usual preliminaries, Mr John Kelly arose for the Committee on Organization, Mr. Kelly said that all preparations had been made for the election on Tuesday next, the electors for each Aa- sembly district having provided the necessary funds and tickets, Tammany ilall has been careful to com- ply with the requirements of the law, and by funds he meant money to defray the neces sary expenses of paying the men who were detailed to guard the purity of tho ballot box. What tho enemies of Tammany have donc he could not say, but there were rumors that their opponents had mar preparations to import a large natber of men from other cities to vote early on the names of legally reg- istered citizens (n spasm of virtuous indignation here ran through the bull). The leaders of the anti-Tam- many party are men who will do anything; they bave for yours corrupted the young men of this city and time bas had no influence upon them, The registration is vory large, and you should all instruct the men in vour resoective districts to vote early, You know | nearly the same | But this | of the upper por- | ‘atmmany; Michael | Tuesday next, #0 | The Tammany Hall democrats of the Elgbteenth As- | revived by | some of the men who are running for office against us and you Know that they will leave nothing undone to defeat ua THE WICKED PRESS. The daily papers, with few exceptions, have bitterly opposed our nominations, and have particularly di- rected their attacks against me. They are filled with misrepresentations daily, out I think that within the last few days they have become convinced that their denunciations have only added numbers to the party, and now their chief cry is that John Kelly isa dicta- tor. In rebuttal of that charge I would simply say that I bave advised as to the nominations; im no case have I fuiled to consult the members of the several districts, We ha and that is the kind of influence that I all have used. You have judiciary candidates to be proud of, The press has denounced me, but it could not belittle them, and 1am happy to state that they will be elected and will discharge their duties un- influenced by John Kelly or any other Kelly. Two years ago we elected six gentlemen, and they will cheerfully bear witness that never did T attempt to in- fluence them, notwithstanding what the editors say. Some editors are governed by private friendships, and the reports of our meetings in their papers are not given fairly. This should not be 60. If ever the liber- ties of our country are destroyed it will be by just sach men, MODEST, BUT THOROUGULY GOOD. I would like to get out of the position which I hold, Tam not agreat man, but 1 am influenced by good mo- tives, and while I am hero I will use all my endeavors to give the State a good government. We nominated and elected Samuel J, Tilden simply for the good of the | people, aud that he might correct the abuses that had become so enormous, He and his associates have begn at that work for a whole year. They have done tll they could, and if they have not done more it was be- cause they have been thwarted by the District Attor- ney. If they could haye had his assistance more of the plunderers of the State would have been compelled to disgorge their booty. The law will probably never reach those men, if they would restore what they have unlawfully taken the mantle of forgetfulness might be allowed to fall over their names, Your can+ didate for District Attorney is one worthy of the posi- tion, Ue will be elected and will discharge his dutie without favor or prejudice, and no John Kelly shall prevent it. All men then will be treated fairly, It is hot so now, I regret to say. Of the men who committed the crimes against the ballot box—offences the most ab- horrent in a government like ours—none of prominence were ever punished. The develop- ments elicited by the Committee on Crime were Startling; there was shown a complicity on the part of officials to let prisoners go or not have them tried at all, As to criminals, Ican only say that of all vagabonds educated vayabonds are the worst, for they know enough to keep out of the meshes of the law. There should be no twenty or thirty years’ sentences for poor men while rich men are allowed to escape. The history of the Recorder’s office for two or three years has been bad enough, but Mr. Abbott says that ‘latterly it has been worse than ever. Mr. Kelly then eulogized the Tammany candidate for Recorder, and predicted that he would be elected on Tuesday next and that Mr. Hackett would be consigned to oblivion, NOT MALICIOUS. Oakey Hall, he continued, has charged me with malice and malignant motives and accused me of having a mastiil’s disposition, There is one thing that I can say, and that is that I have not so bad a character a3 Oakey Hall. The community has judged him, and if ho obtained what he deserved he would probably not be running around loose now, The statement that I wrote to Recorder Hackett asking him for patronago in his court is utterly untrue; I never wrote a letter of such import to the Recorder. All sorts of at- tempts have been made by the press misrepresent me, The gentlemen of the press should have higher motives. They are not fond of taking back anything that they have said, and they will not do so directly; but when our candidates aro elected they will be compelled to confess that, they were mistaken in their estitnate of them. MAKING A TARGET OP COLONEL GILDERSLEBVE. Mr. Kelly then pronounced glowing eulogiums upon the ‘Tammany candidates, and, referring to Mr. Gildersleeve, | said that he was urged for election simply because ho had made some good shots in Ireland. seeks to fill the should have higher qualifications, and wi you have to do is to stick to the reguiar candidates. The people and papers interested against us say that Tammany is disorganized, The assertion is not true. She was never in a better condi- tion than now, and her candidates will win a glorious victory on Tuesday nexé. He regretted to say that pamphlets from the National Republican Association of Washington were being industriously circulated in New York, the said pamphlets being calculated to arouse the | prejudices of the people on religious questions. Ho | urged, however, the scattering of the pamphlets against | Recorder Hackett, of which there were many yet left up | stairs that could be had upon appltcation. - Concerning | the labor question, the position of Tammany Hall has been explamed in & pamphlet, The resolutions there: contained went to the Committee on Organization, and they made areport against the reduction of the Inborers’ wages. Mayor Wic has ‘acknowledged that I knew nothing of the affair and that he assumed tho responsibility. The pamphlet containing these facts should be more generally circulated. As to the laborers, the Eight Hour law is still on the statuto book and it must be obeyed while it is there, If itis a bad law it inust he repealed .as soon as possible. ‘Tam- many Hall is innocent of the reduction of the laborers? wages; the Mayor and others did it They were peoplo newly elected to office, and felt that they must do something to reduce the expenses of the city. mistake, but we are not responsible for it. The law of demand’ and supply, it is sad, will always regulate | | wages, and I have ever held that the government should show the people a proper example of economy, but I have been a laboring man myself and know how hard it is for men with families to get along on such wages as the city pays. They should have good pay, but there should be honest work given to the city for it. Mr, Kelly then repeated his ass of all coinplicity in ing the wages of the laboring men, and again urged the circulation of the pamphlets | containing the Tammany side of the story. ‘A paper was here handed to Mr. Kelly to be read. It was 10 the effect that the Board of Assessment had effected a reduction in the budget for next year of $1,500,000, and the announcement was greeted with applause, ' Governor Tilden, he continued, has by his course shown that economy is his watchword, and all things intimate that we doing our utmost to reduce the public burdens, JOUN MORRISSEY'S RECORD. ‘There is a man running down town for Senator who boasts, I see by the press, that he has always been vic- torious in his contests, (Laaghter,) Well his victories have always been in a different arena, and I can only say in reference to Joan Morrissey’s charges against Mr. Fox, that Hayes, Morrissey’s bosom. friend, voted for all the measures that he accuses Mr. Fox of voting for. How can Mr. Morrissey say Auat he ig and always has bech a democrat when be is now working tg assist the republican party? Here, In this very ia said Mr. Kelly impressively, John Morrissey told me’ that he paid $9,000 for Heckett’s confirmation by the Board of Supervisors. If Morrissey is elected he will hep continue such proceedings Jobn Morrissey would be a disgrace to the position that he geeks to occupy. He calls himself a friend to the Hoes any one here know of his over doing a day’s labor in his hie? y twenty-five years, and I was never aware of his doing any work. Mr. Kelly then stated that the wicked anti- Tadumanyitos were pre that Tarnmany Hall had aseessed tie school teachers for | political purposes was utterly false, (Applause.) EW VOTERS. ‘The report of the Committee on Natnralization was then read, by which 1t appearod that 2,746 voters have been added Co the list in time to vote on Tyesday next, MR, HEWITT INDORSES 118 CHIEF, In respouse to repeated calls for Mr. Hewitt that entieman arose aud said the assertion that John elly is a dictator is an insult to Tammany and its no one but John Kelly could have done the work that he has performed. The city of New York owes to that caluwniated man honors that statues could not ade- quately pay. (Loud applause, during which Mr. Kelly modestly smiled.) He bas purged the judiciary of all the bad mon but one, and be wiil go out on Tuesday next. There is no desire in John Kelly's breast so strong as to be relieved from his present onerous posi- tion, but, if some one of respectability was not found to do such labors the city of New York would be soon as unhabitable as a den of wild beasts, A gentleman then atose, and, stating that he spoke for Mr. O'Donohue, who hiad lost his voice for the good cuuge, remarked that he wished to correct an assertion in some of the morning papers that Mr. O’Donohue had } denounced Mayor Wickliam as no friend of the working. man. He said that Mr. (Donohue had the bighest respect for Mayor Wickbam’s private character. ‘The following resignations were then banded in;— A DOME PROM THK TWENTIETH DISTRICT. New York, Oct, 30, 187! Hon. Jonx Ket, Shatrman of Committee on Organi. zation, Tammany Sall:— The andersigned, havyng become convinced that the orgatization with which w¢ have heretofore been act- ing is being used to further she designs of an unseru- pulous leader, insomuch as to make each and every member of its committee subservient to a one-man power, Which aims at objects undemocratic and impol- itie, hereby teuder to you our resignation, We aiso de- clare ourselves opposed to the reduction of laborers’ wages, the importation of non-residents to fill lucrative yositions under the municipality and the attempts to Bring the judiciary under the iufldence of political au- tocracy, DENNIS LE COURCY, No, 164 Bast Fifty-sixth MATHEW BAIRD, No, streets OWEN MORAN, 3 JAMES MeGOVER: 206 Kast Fifty-seventh street; 9 Kast Fitty-seventh street; No, 202 Bast Sixty-Grst street; PATRICK DONOHUL, No, 244 Rust Forty-eighth street; JACOB FLEISCHAUER, No. 408 East Fiftieth etre: Members of Tammany Hall General Committee Twentieth Assembly district, XO COPDLER OF RGOTISH. To Hon. Jonn Ketty, Chairman Committee on Organization of Tammany Hall I respecttally decline the questionable honor you have done me by placing my name without my consent on the neWly manula@tured General Committee of Tarnmany Hail for the Seventeenth Assembly district, | of me. I should have bad none even had I been your | original and nos your second-hand choice. | _ Surely it yr pliment 10 ask me to assist in your ot tha nichts of the democracy of the @toss asurHAtic UADRUPLE agreed upon proper men for office, | to ‘The man who | josition that Mr. Giidersleeve wishes | It was a | Ihave known him for | ured with all sorts of spurious | tickets, and concluded by asserting that the statement — members. All organizations must have leaders, and — Thave no stomach for doing such work as you expect | SHEET. the Seventeenth district, where I have lived a quarter of a century and, I believe, have secured the good opinion of iny neighbors—it 1s not very complimentary to my position and pride to be asked to aid you in _sub- Verting the prorogatives of thinking, independent men, When such sterling and true democrats as P. I. Power, Mr. Cary, Judge Coulter, Jerome Buck and Franis | Blessing spurned, with merited contempt, your effort to make them coddlers of your intense egotism at the nse of the dearest rights of the democracy. hen you recognize the rights of the Inajosity; when you tolerat freedom of speech and of opinion when candidates are nominated by general choico an not at your arbitrary dictation, and when the grand, old; cborished principles of democracy are respected exemplified by you for the benefit of the county, Mie city and the party, I shall be glad to co-operate with you. But unti! then permit me to romain re- spectfully, but not political pomesohs W. BOCKHORN, Eleventh avenue and Forty- Ocronen 28, 1875. pooen DECLINES: mais HIS MANHOOD, zw Yori, Oct. 30, 1875. Hon, Jou Kussix, Ohairman, of the Gammmisee on Or: anization of Tammany Hall;— Suz—When the Tammany Hall party was reorganized, under the auspices of yourself and other genucmen, afier the fownlall of the Ring, I became a member the organization, and for the past three yeurs I bave beon a member of the General Committee of the Twen- teth district. I then believed ee organization would be conducted upon democrati® principles; that the people would have # voice in @pecting its policy and its nominations, and that itslffiluence would be exerted in fayor of good government and for the protec- tion of the rights and interests of the people at large. Gradually, however, the organization has been losing | its democratic character, unul now it has become a more creature in the hinds of one man, Those who | have resisted or protested against your measures or your arbitrary rule have been expelled from the organt- zation; the rights of the laboring classes have been shamefully abused, and you have placed the organiza tion on the side of injustice to them. ‘The nommations for oilleers at tho coming election have been made at your divtation, and are not such a3 the people would have voluntarily made. A striking instance of this fact occurred,in the nomination of erett P, Wheeler as the canditlate for Senator in the Zighth Senatorial district, A sub-committees was sent to the Convention by the Committee on Organization, to dictate the nomination of a man who was entirely unknown to the members of the. Convention, and that committee, under instruction from ’ you, | foreed themselves on the Convention and remained there until the nomination had been made as dictated by you. I find that there is no harmony or good feel- ing in the Generai Committee of the Twentieth district, and that discord exisis in the place of that good faith and harmony which are essential to successtul results. Inasmuch as 1 cannot support the undemocratic Policy of the Tammany Hall organization, and because believe that by remaining on the Gencraf Committee L would be sacrificing my manhood and self-respect, I hereby resign my position as member of the General Comuilttee of the Twentieth district. Yours, respect- fully, PATRICK ANTHONY, No, 187 Bast Fiftieth street, The meeting then adjourned. INSTRUCTIVE CORRESPONDENCE. ‘ME, PECKHAM’S CHANGBABLE OPINION OF RE- | CORDER HACKETT. Recorder Hackett received a letter on Friday froma number of prominent citizens who are desirous of mak- ing public his answer to the charges contained in the anonymous pamphlet used against him by Tammany. ‘This is their letter:— | New Yorx, Oct. 29, 1875. To the Hon, Jonx K. Hackwrr:— Dear Sir—An anonymous pamphlet of some forty pages, and evidently printed and circulated at great ex- pense, contains numerous es against you. These ‘are more particularly against your action as Supervisor, Assistant Corporation Counsel and Sinking Fund Com- missioner, and they reach back six and eight years, We, and all others who know you, do not need any ex- plahation of the charges, Yet there may be many who might believe the slanders, because they aro not spo- cially refuted, We shall be happy to become the medium of convey- ing to the public any answer you may see fit to make. Very sincerely your friends and servants, Henry Wilder Allen, J. Schuyler Crosby, George H. Palmer, Jaines C. Griswold, Francis Skiddy, Henry A. Smythe, H. A. Johnson, Bredish Johnson,’ Effingham Townsend, William Turnbull, James A. Dunbar. To the foregoing the Recorder replies in the follow. ing words:— | i New York, Oct, 29, 1875. GeNTLEMEN—As you remark, the pamphlet in ques- tion is anonymous. It is issued within three days of the election. Thirty years ago, when a fellow student with the Hon. Francis Kernan, at Utica, in the law office of the late Joshua A. ‘Spencer, and in the days of Marcy, Wright, Dix, &e., &., I learned of my legal and. political preceptors that a public man, and especially upon the eve of an election, wasted his time in answering anonymous at tacks. Iam much obliged to you for your offer, but I will stand or fall by the average personal observation by my constituents of a judicia® record which extends lations on the one hand with men and manners, and on the other an official mtercourse with tens of thousands of witnesses, jurymen, complainants and defendan's, policemen, and citizen spectators in general. These views would also be my answer to the specches and in- nucndoes of disappointed or angered practitioner#in the cvurt over which I have so long presided. With great Fespoet, your obliged friend und obodient gurvant JOHN K. HACKETT, THE SWEENY INDICTMENT. In this connection some additional tnteresting corre- spondence is also made public for the first time. The quashing of the Sweeny indictment, it will be remem- bered, has been made use of against Recorder Hackett in the present political struggle. In quashing the in- dictment, which bad been drawn up by Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham and Henry ©, Allen, then an assistant in the District Attorney’s office, the Re- | corder referred, en passant, in his decision to what he termed “slovenly pleading.” This remark rather angered Mr. Peckham, and he wrote next day to the Times a letter to which Recoraer Hackett drew up but did not forward then, a response which will be found below, This is the letter dated December, 1872 ‘That | letter and the one following it will explain what was then done by Recorder Hackett: New York, Dec, 1872 My Dear Mn, Pecknam—My course In life has ever been to endeavor to set myself aright with any person whom I respected, and who seemingly bad misin- | torpreted me I read with surprise your letter in the New York Times of to-day, surprised that you should for a moment have eutertained the thought that I could intentionally put any slight upon you. Whatever may be your feeling toward me now or hereafter, permit me most Sincerely to say that for you, as a gentleman, I entertain the highest respect and hold in equal estima- tion your professional learning and character, and you should believe me that nothing was further from my thought or feeling in penning my opinion to convey | one word of reproach to or censure upon you or your Accept my earnest regret for any annoyance I have un- intentionally caused you Reape a cee truly JOHN K. HACKETT, ‘ours, iM Wuester H. Pecxuas, Zsq., No. 18 Wall sircet New ‘York, Feb, 4, 1873 Wuereer H. Peckna, Esq. :— My Dean Sim—The preceding communication was dratted by me upon the nightol the day upon which your letter appeared in print, and would have been copied, signed and sent to your address the following morn- ing, but that apon reflection I withheld it, as I be- Hieved that you (being offended at a term employed in my opinion), should bave been kind enough to have honored mo with a call and learned if I intended to put any slight upon you, and not without such understand- | in) e aliacked me in anewspaper. Mr, McKeon in- forme ai ast ie Mebane fought | me on the day fol ny jnion to f me CE ALPE. recs | learn my meaning. 1 can on of my regret that we had not chanced to meet, for then, perhaps, no unkind thought would have been enter- tained by you against me, Very truly yours, nf homo "JouN & HA letter next day:— New Yor«, 13 West Fipty-viern Srexer, Feb, 5, 1873. Hoy. Jony K. Hackert:— My Dean Sm—I was very much gratified Ph cspesved afternoon at the receipt of your note of that date. Mr, McK con was correct in saying that I had sought to find you the day your opinion vg oma and, but for quite severe indisposition, should have called at your house that evening. Itake pleasure in meeting your ex- planation in the kind, frank and generous spirit im which it is offered. Giving your opinion the interpretation which I did, I own that jt not only patned but annoyed me. Your uniform kindness and courtesy had made me totally unprepared to expect from you anything but acon- tinuance of the same feeling and demeanor. I aim very glad to acknowledge my error of interpretation, and to | thank you most cordially for the honorable wud mnugna- | nimnous course you have adopted to me. I have the | honor to subseribe myself, very respectfully and traly | your friend, WHEELER H. PECKIAM. This note is dated two months after the time Mr. Peckham now says he discovered that the Recorder had falsified a nolle prosequi. DOWN WITH JOHN KELLY. The democratic citizens of the Fifth Senatorial dis trict who oppose the one man power of Tammany Hall held a meeting last night in Jackson Hall, The speakers were Rufus F, Andrews, Hon. Samuel D. | Garvin, ex-Distriet Attorney; William F. Howe and Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, The last named speaker made an earnest address, in which he appealed to work- ingmen not to sacrifice their principles for a few days? employment—not Me ort down upon their knees and say, “Oh, good lord Kelly, bo merciful to me, a sinner !”? he speaker then road @ letter from John Morrisacy, rogretting his inability tg attend the meeting, In con- i | clugion Mr, Roosevelt’ enjoined upon bis hear. ers the necessity of electing not one or two of their candidates, but fhe whole he's | ticket, “You must,” said “or ow Tammany Hall so flat that she will never be heard dr aguin—you must make an entire sweep of it from be- giuning to end.” James D, McClelland and Colonel over hearly ten years, and during somewhat stormy re- | professional conduct in the matter of the indictment, | In response, Mr. Peckham forwarded the following j cily, or to bid for my encouragement of, you in | Max rieiiih, candidates for Sonator and Alderman | the deep and honing injures you ha fone to | wee pau of the same tenor and the meeting the workivgmen of New York. "An old resident of | Jo DR. HAYES" NOMINATION INDORSED. ‘The following circular has been issued by certain lead ing voters of the Seventh Assembly district:— Wo, tho undersigned, irrespective of party, take ploasiire, as citizens and taxpayers, in strongly Fecom Frending the elvction of Dr tesa. Hay ¢ eminent ‘hretic explorer, for Member of Assombly from the Se¥- enth district. H's brilliant record as au explorer of the ‘Arctic regions; his position as chief of w great army hoepital during the late war; his literary culture; hia ability as a public speaker; his integrity and fearless he-s of character—all should entitle him to the suifrages of every citizen who believes in good government. Theodore W. Dwight, Willtam M. Evarts, John Cotton Smith, J.P. D. Lanier, ©. C, Waite, James Boorman | Johnston, Josoph H. Shoat, Taielaw. Weed, Jumes 0. Smith, J.B, Kiddoo, William ¥, Cary, N. P. Hosack, Ege bert Guernsey, William Detmold, Joel B. Erhardt, An- drew W. Leggatt, A. W. Evarts, Win, H. Lee, F. H. Cossit, Rush C. Hawkins, 8. D, Burchard, John A. C. Gray, J- M. Guiteau, Robert R. Booth, D. D., Luther R. Marsh, Jotun D. Lawson, William Remsen, D. F. Appleton, Edwin D, Morgan, George W. Blunt, Francis A. Stout, Charles W. Griswold, Alvon P, Man, Sinclair Tousey, *. Ronry Burchard, J. M. Bundy, L, A. Dowley, Johm | @ Connor, Jr.; Chnton ‘Gilbert,’ W. M. Vermilye, N. | Denton Smith, William G, Sterling, D. Van Nostrand, Charies Lunier, Williain Page, 8. K. Gifford, Jackson 8 Schultz, Thomus L, Thornell, A. Rt. Wetmore. LIBERAL REPUBLICAN TAMMANY- ITES. Probably the most remarkable meeting ever held in New York was tho “liberal republican’? gathering last evening at No. 1,206 Broadway. The meeting was announced as being intended to ratify the Tammany ticket, and the call gave as the names of the probable speakers Colonel Frederick A Conkling, Benjamin A. Willis, aud others. When eight o’clock arrived some sixty oF seventy people were in the room, Colonel Conkling being the only speaker present, and the well kuowm leaders of tho liberal republicans, like General Coch- rane, Benjamin A, Willis and others, being couspicuous by their absence. A Dr. William M, Strew assumed the presidency, and a Mr. Brown, clerk at the Jeffer- gon Market Police Court, installed himself as secretary of the mecting, Dr. Strew delivered a fulsome eulogy of John Kelly, which was received with evident dis- approbation by the meeting, He then called upon Colonel Conkling to speak, and the latter delivere able and pungent speech in advocacy of the democratic party, He was frequently interrupted, however, and finally requested those opposed to him to leave the which they did, and gathered outside, ‘near the door, At half-past me Colonel Conkling had finished reading. his address from a printed slip and left Thereupon Mr. HL. C. Leo jumped upon tho platform, being determined | to frustrate the attempt to gag the liberal republicans. He announced his intention of speaking against Kelly and his ticket, when Dr. Strew immediatel, cailed for the police to ‘Put this man out,” A scene of indescribable confusion now ensued, the liberal republicans present all declaring that’ they must hear Mr, Lee, that they protested against police interference, and at once proceeding to organize an- other meeting. Mr. John F. Martin, a Chatham street liquor dealer, jumped down from the platform, crying, “The meeting’s adjourned,” and called upon the door- keeper to put tho ‘gas* out This the lat. ter proceeded to do, but was bodily prevented by the infuriated liberal republicans,” Dr, Strew finally showed to Roundsman Carpenter a receipt for the hall, and the Jatter declared that’ Strew’s will must be done, The baffled enemies of Kelly then dinpereed, with lond and repeated groans for Kelly and Conkling and the Tammany ticket, and enthusiastic cheers for Recorder Hackett and the people’s ticket. And quite a number then went down to No. 490 Eighth avenue, where they organized another meeting, and where Mr. Lee and others made ringing speeches against Kelly and for Hackett SYMPATHY FOR LABOR. A well attended anti-Tammany meeting was held last evening, at Thomas’ Garden, Seyenth avenue and Fifty- | ninth street Mr. Ira Shafer, chairman of the anth ‘Tammany organization, was the principal speaker. In concluding a vigorous and bitter speech, he compli- mented Governor Seymour and Senator Kernan for de- clining to interfere with the city political struggle, | He compared the fat salaries of Fitz John Porter, Police Commissioner Smith, Colonel Harrison, the Mayor's secretary, late private secr ‘tary to Jeilerson Davis; Major Quincy, of the Shoritt’s Office, late Keeper of Libby Prison; Colonel Regnier, late of Alabama, now of | the Corporation Counsel’s Saice; ex-Rebel General | Mansfield Lovell, John A. Boyd, Coroner Croker and | Tom Dunlap with the pitiful pay of $1 60 por day to | men who had fulthfully fonght the country’s battle and | the honest countrymen of John Kelly, who are toiling | for bread on the city works or’ starving while the public treasury pampers such eminent | patriots as those’ ho had named. When | Tammany talks of reform, how is it that New York is | run by creatures of Tweed, by recent rebel officers, by carpet-baggers and adventurers who hang upon’ the will of Kelly, as yesterday they hung upon the will ot | Sweeny? 'A ‘democratic organization such as | is contemplated by our party would = sum: | mon to 1 councils men like Kernan and | Seymour and Tilden and Hackett Thoy would call | forth the honest and maniy soutiment of the party. They would unite harmoniously, stamping out the per- nicious traditions of Tammany Hall, and give us a democracy worthy of the name. In this contest, there- fore, [summon your best efforts. We are in the cra of a victory which I think will be overwhelming and conclusive. I believe that Join Kelly's wer wild come to an end, not because of any special objection to John Kelly, but te the pernicious system which he cherishes and sustains. I want you, therefore, to vote on Tuesday next for every man on our ticket; for the feariess Hackett, for the brilliant Phelps, for the high- toned and chivalrous Sanford, for the best candidate New York ever hud for Surrogate, Mr. Van Schaick; for the accomplished Van Hoesen, for the gallant Gil- dersieeve, for the manly, high-toned, honorable and noble-hearted James Bernard Sheridan, LOOK OUT FOR FRAUDS. A COMMITTER OF CORRUPTION SAID TO BR OPERATING AMONG ANTI-TAMMANY VOTERS. At the meeting of tne anti-Tammany Executive Come mittee, held on Friday night in the Everett Rooms, it was declared by a member of the commitiee that he had been offered $5,000 to betray his friends and his real convictions, and, by a manipulation of tickets, aid in the election of Judge Loew, the candidate on the Tammany ticket, over Judge George B, Van Hoesen, ‘The gentleman who made the revelation also announced that the men who tried to bribe him boasted to him, before he rejected their proposals, that they had cor- | rupted numbers of men connected with ward antt- | Tammany organizations, and they declared that they | were willing to spend an immense amount of money to procure the election of Judge Loew, because they believed tho Tammany nominee to be in danger of annihilation and desired to ward that fate off their favorite. One of the project- ors of an ers in the scheme of corruption is re- ported to be ex-Senator from the west well uta d palidost ove. oN Alas he held the Tightnings of power in his grasp and wna. ever small aspirant for place he struck went down ag the tree before the thunderbolt. ‘The other, it is said, isa wealthy man, who for several terms held alucra- { ve jiged out of whose proceeds he adorned himself so } that he was constantly cheery in face and was hence dubbed ‘Handsome Charley.” ‘The Executive Committee of tho anti-Tammany party was alarmed by the report which reached it, and yes terday issued the following ADDRESS TO VOTERS :— We have aseortained that efforts have been and are hourly being made by tho friends of the candidates of Tammany Hall to corrupt, by the use of enormous sums of money, those who are charged with the duty of distributing our tickets to the voters on election day. It is proper for us to warn every member of our organization of these efforts, We call upon every voter carefully to scrutinize his ballot. Itis the ‘duty of evory member of the organization to see that no frands are practised. We purticularly call your atten- tion toa deliberate attempt on the part of ‘the friends of Judge Loew (without hig knowledge, un- doubtedly), by the corrupt use of money, to have hig lickets surreptitiously distributed from boxes and by our own friends, To permit this would be infamous; ‘ted we call Ups ByeFy member of our ization to sptiry with contempt the proffered bribe, Every mem- per of the organization who shall hereafter be ap- proached with offers of money for the betrayal of his trust, fs earnestly requested to report the fact to the headquarters of the organization at the Everett House, that ie eile party may be exposed and properly dealt wit % IRA SHAFER, Chairman County Committee. ¥. B. HART, Chairman Executive Committee, Oc, 30, 1875, BETTING ON THE ELECTION. A crowd of politicians assembled at Johnson’s poot room last night and speculated considerably upon the chances of several of the candidates in the coming eloc- tion, More business was done upon the county ticket than upon the State, the Recorder, District Attorney and two of the Senatorial districts monopolizing the time of the auctioneer. For Recorder, Hackett had the call ulmost 2 to 1, and for District Attorney, Phelps wag the choice. Morrissey sold m somo instances for as much again as Fex, although there was an eifort made to keep the Jatter well up in the betting. Nichols waa a slight favorite over Booth in the Filth Senatorial dis- trict, and Bigelow was bought to have a majority of 15,060, under that figure also having backers, The fol- lowing are some of the figures: — STATE. Bigelow, with 15,000 majority. 106 Under... % Hackett . 60 myth, 26 Hackett, with 7,000 majority. 50 Under. ss. eee 0 Hackett, with 3,000 50 weeeee seer sees 8 36 DISTRICT ATTORNEY. - 6 126 125 15 8=6135 70 100 =100) «100 od SENATORIAL DISTRICT, 100 «10015 100108 \ . oz ” 50 64 VIPTH SENATORIAL visTRIcT, Nichols. ...... 20 61 Booth ....00 crane 90 mm