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MARRIED, Nov. 23 by Rev. J. J. Lyons, THEODORE HERTZ to JES SIE ANDREWS, daughter of Benj. 8. Judah, deceased. [ A. and ] Eliza DIED, On Monday, Bist Oct . WILLIAM HENRY, son of Cleveland Connor, in the 6th year of his age. POLITICAL. S.5. First Ward.Low Taxes and Cheap Rents —Retrenchment and the speedy Enlargement of the Canals.— Regular Whig Nominations .— For Senator—R. 8. Williams, For Assembly—Peter H. Graham, For Alderman—Robert S. Collins, For Councilman—f1at district—Henry Smith, uy 2a a Wn. P. Sell, or Assessor—John Thompson, Jr. ‘or Constables—Solomon Wertheimer and Thos. Scott. For School Commissioners—Joseph Jamison and Walter W. Townsend. For School Trustees—J. G. Morrison, Jonas Bartlett and B. F. Wemouth. For School Inspectors—John M. Griffin, Leopold Lorenz, J. P. PHOSNIX, Chairman Nominating Committee, Joan M. Griffin, Sec. The above ticket was unanimously adopted by the First Ward Whig Executive Committee as every way worthy of the united support of the Whig party. Seen PETER B. VAN HOUTON, Chairman, @s. A. GARDNER, Twos. Copy, 2 secretaries. kes Second Ward Democratic Whig Regular NOMINATIONS, For Senator.....RICHARD S. WILLIAMS, For Assembly... PETER HARMONY GRAHAM, For Alderman,,. AMOR J. WILLIAMSON, For Councilman, .GIDEON CLIFTON, For Assessors, Joseph Manning, Solomon King, For Constables, Edward McGinnis, George Robbing. For School Commissioner, John Hooper, Clark B. Wheeler. For School Trustee—David Decker, Senr. For School Inspectors, George Hermance, Henry Koppleman. For Inspectors of Election, 1st District—Benjamin J. Chambers, James E. Carter, 2d. Henry Rodermond, Wm. D. Johnson, 2nd. Second Ward—City Reform.—At a meeting of the General Committee on Municipal Reform, held on a Thursday evening, the 3d inst., it was Resolved, That the Committee recommend for the suffrages of the citizens of the Second Ward, the ticket headed AMOR J. WILLIAMSON for Aldermen, and ABRAHAM B. MILLER for Councilman. PETER COOPER, Chairman, Thomas R. Waitnnng, Secretary. 3@~ To the Independent Whig Electors of The THing Ward.—There is a vile fraud about to be perpetrat ed upon you by some faction in the Ward, and others personal ly interested by striking out the name of our regular nominee for Councilman, ARCHIBALD COCHRAN, and inserting that of Mr. YOUNG, R. G. MILLARD, Chairman. De Baker, Jr. Sec., of Third Ward Nominating Conven tion. 2@3~ Sixth Ward National Democratic Re- PAVI nomive~tax Nominations, At an enthusiastic and over whelming gathering of the National Veuveretiv Republican Electors of the Sixth Ward held in front of Garrick’s Sixth Ward Hotel, on Friday Evening, Nov. 4th, 1853, the following Nominations were unanimously ratified amidst the deafening cheers of the ‘‘ Working Masses,’’ in the old Stronghold of De mocracy . For Senator—Thomas J. Barr. For Assembly—George Dewitt Clinton. For Alderman—Henry H. Howard. For Councilmen—Eleventh district, John Clancy; twelfth co., James McGowan; thirteenth do., James E. Kerrigan. For Assessor—John Martin. For School] Commissioners—John D. O'Leary, Robert T. Lawler, For School Trustees—Dr. FE, J. M’Glein, John M’Grath. For School Inspectors—Eman Coblenzer, J. Z. C. Farlow. For Constables—Peter Collins, Jacob Hef. For Inspectors of Election—First district, Chas. Neary, Fran cis O'Rourke; second do., Samuel Waddle, Edward Rowe; third do., Francis Mitchell, John G. Phelan; fourth do., Bernhard Renschler, John W. Brady; fifth do., David Riordan, Walter Roche; sixth do., Thomas Connelly, Wm. Robbins. say 7th Ward City Reform Nominations. — The Reform Association of the Seventh Ward, earnestly desirous of perfecting the good work of reform in our municipal affairs, having ppetkee themselves to perform their duty irrespective of all consideration of National or State politics, and with a single aim to restore to our city the blessings of an honest, dignified and economical government; and having required of their nominees a similar pledge, present with confidence the names of the fol lowing well-known citizens of the Ware as candidates to be sup prted at the election on the 8th of November. Confident that the election of these candidates, who have been selected for their high moral worth, experience and ability, the Seventh Ward will perform its whole duty, in the letter and spirit of the amended Charter, the Association urgently solicits for them the support of all good citizens, without distinction of party, NOMINATIONS, For Alderman—WILLIAM D. MURPHY, For Councilmen— 14th District—CHARLES TUTTLE. 16th ‘“* —JAMES B. HOLMES, 1éth ‘ —A. V. HENDRICKS, Assessor—ABRAHAM 8, W. VANDEURSEN. Constables—J. M. WAIT—J. VAN BRAKEL. School Commissioners—JOHN GRAY--JOHN HAGADORN ** Inspector—A B. DENIKE. Trustee—CHARLES ROBERTS, A full ticket, including Inspectors of Election, will be pub lished in due time. ABNER CHICHESTER, Chairman. Justin C. Morton, Secretary. see Tenth Ward.---Independent Candidate. For Alderman. DAVID MILLER. hes Tenth Ward.—For Councilman, 26th District, ELIAS COMBS, Manufacturer of Masonic and Odd-Fellow Regalia and Jewels, has been unanimously Nominated. Mr. Combs is in favor of the Amended Charter and a reduction of taxes. He was one of the first to advocate the adoption of the amendment, when other men were indifferent as to the result, Mr. Combs is widely known, and favorably so. We trust that his friends will not neglect to vote for him on Tuesday next, rep Tenth Ward Regular Whig Nominations, —In pursuance of the directions of the g¢ General Commit tee, the Whig Charter Convention assembled at Kellinger’s Ho tel, on Saurday Avenue, the 15th October, and after making several nominations, adjourned. The Convention again met pursuant to adjournment, on Thursday evening, October 20, at the same place, and completed the nominations for the Ward, as follows, viz. For Alderman—WM_ W. OSBORN. For Councilmen : XXVVth Dist.—Horatio Reed, XXVIIth Dist.—Samuel F.. Bartol, XXVIth Dist.—Elias Comb. For Assessor—J AS. GRIFFITH. For Constables , Henry F. Hofman, Geo. W. Young. For took Commissioners : Edward A. Frer Jacob Raynor, F. ¢School Inspectors : Isaac Walton, Robert H. Field, For School Trustee—Peter 8. Titus. JAMES H. BARR, Chairman, Geo. W. Youna, Secretary, ka@ Tenth Ward,—Regular Democratic Re publican nomination. QT DISTRICT. For @ouncilman, NORMAN McLEOD, Rae 10th Ward—Regular Democratic Whig nomination— 27TH DISTRICT, ‘or Council, SAMUELF, BARTOL. At Ras Eleventh Ward.—At a meeting of the Democratic Republican Charter Nominating Committes, held at the corner of Avenue C and Fourth street, on Wednesday, Octo ber 19th, 1868, William D. Hicks was appointed Chairman, and William Cummings, Secretary whereupon the following ticket was unanimously nominated : For Alderman, JAMES R. STEERS, For Assessor, LEWIS DINGEE, For Constables, HENRY DREHER, LLOYD BRYANT. ‘or School Does CHAS. T. popch” ‘EDEDIAH MILLER, For Teena For Trustees, J. H. STEARNS, JAS. H. BRENNEN, J. ANDERSON, Jr, WILLIAM D. HICKS, Chairman, W. Omuurnns. Secretary, aS City Reform, 18th Wards=At smeeting of the 18TH WARD CITY REFORM ASSOCIATION*, calle ursuant to the recommendation of the Metropolitan Hall Re form Committee, of which Peter Cooper is Chairman, held a the Church N. E. corner of 22a street and 4th Av., October 14 1853. PETER COOPER was called to the chair, and Henry Day chosen Secretary. A committee of four from each election district was appointed to nominate persons for charter and school offices. At a subsequent meeting the committee reported, recommend ing the a ticket, which was unanimously adopted . CITY REFORM OMINATIONS, 18TH WARD. For Alderman, DANIEL D. LORD, Lawyer, For Councilmen, Sith District FREDERICK R.MATHER, Lawyer, 56th District WILLIAM M. AXUER, Lumber Merchant. For Assissor, H. MASON DIKEMAN, Painter. For School Commissoners, CHARLES H. SMITH, Lawyer, ROYAL PHELPS, Merchant. For School Trustees, A. B., NEILSON, DAVID B. KEELER, ALEXANDER M. LAWRENCE. For School Inspectors, JAMES W. GERARD, ANDREW A. BREMNER, Yor Constables, ROBERT WELCH, HENRY BISHOP, For Inspectors of Election, Ast. District—WILLIAM 8. BADER, CHARLES G. MURCH, 2d District —FRANCIS O DORR, ELIAS P. NEEDHAM, 3d District -SAMUEL A. DEARRE, JAMES A. JOHNSTON. 4th District—JAMES N. TRIMBLE, EDWARD D. DELAMATER, i Nominated without distinction of party, each of these men stands pledged to a thorough and energetic REFORM, WITH A SINGLE EYE TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST, TO NOT VOTE FOR THE PARTY NOMINEES WHAT EVER YOU THINK OF THEIR HONESTY OR CA PACITY !! . It is enough that they are nominated by a political caucus un der the same old system which has given rise to the reckless ness and increasing prodigality manifested in the doings of our Common Council, the crowning achievement of which is mani fested in the following brief announcement from the Comptrol ler’s report for 1853 : Taxes Of 1853,... 0... .404 veesey. $5,069,050 05 1 Taxes of 1852. el 8,380,511 05 2 Increase in ore year e: + see oes -S1,683,539 OO! T Besides 40 thousand dollars deficit over 250 thousand already spent this year for CLEAN Streets ! 1! first is enough, that, if elected, the Party Nomineea must obey Party Law, or be proscribed forever by their Party. A party Candidate must obey the law.—TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS, and an attempt to resist it, would be forever fatal to his eee aspirations. The Reform Candidates are pledged to reform, and ask no un ware The Party Candidates are pledged only to their political pity. It is a question of DAILY BREAD—of estilence and famine, or life and health, and plenty. Root out the poison in the body Sone, before it eats longer into our vitals. Vote, then, the y form Ticket. High and Low! Rich and poor !1 Whigs and Democrats !!1_ Let us make common cause for this great public gond. Discard all political nominees, whether they stand fair as honest men, or whether you have known any, as heretofore in office, voting away for nothing the public franchises, or not! VOTE FOR NONE OF THEM! LET THE FLAG THEY CARRY BE FATAL TO THEIR CAUSE !! Pou present opportunity go by, and farewell forever to RE « 2 If the political nominees are successful, it will be an endorse ment by the people to all the old abuses and to all the new that will be sure to follow. Reform must come now, or it must come never. By order of the Executive Committee. PETER COOPER, Chairman of the Eighteenth Ward Reform Association. Henry Day, Secretary. * F. SKIDDY, JOHN PULLMAN HENRY J. SANDFORD, CHAS. H. SMITH, AARON VANDERPOEL, WM. WOOD, THOMAS McCLELLAND, SIMEON BALDWIN, HENRY DAY. ANDREW A. BREMNER, WMP. MILLER, FREDERICK FAUCET , ANDREW THORP, F. MATH, JAMES M. TRIMBLE, MARSHALL PAPOON, ROYAL PHELPS GEO. W. BROWN, SAMUNL ©. PAYSON, THEO. CRANK, Executive Committee. Se ey~ Nineteenth Ward Regular Democratic Republican Nominations. For Alderman—ANSON HERRICK. For Councilman—18th District—THOMAS PEARSON. For Assessors— William Denecke, Francis Twomey. For Constables—James Foihemus, John Glinn. For School Commissioners—Thomas McSpeden, James C. Rutherford. For School Trustees—Dennis McCarthy, John Eagan, Stephen M. Drews Severn D, Moulton For School Inspectors—Jeremiah Towle, Terrence Farley. Inspectors of Elections—First District—Dennis Flynn, Thomas O'Riley. Second District—Edward S. Parses, John J. Brown. Third District—Richard Flynn, Edward Linton- DENNIS McCARTHY, Chairman. 4 John Eagan, John McCormick, John L. Brown, Jeremiah Towle, Wm. McManus, Dennis Turbeday, Vice Presidents, James Rexp, Joux R. Cunninclam, Secretaries. Edward Linton, Reform! Reform!! Reform! ! !--Superior Court Judges —To the Independent Voters of the City and County of New York. JOHN DUER ROBERT EMMET, The present Judges of the Superior Court, are candidates for re election—but are proscribed by certain members of the present Common Council, for their decision Against them in the case of the ronda Rail Road, all those who are not swayed by that sly influence will cast their votes for those men who fearlessly car ried out the laws of the State, : th tana DODO . : 4a5-Tenth Ward.—Regular Democratic Whig Candidate for Councilman, 28th District, ELIAS COMES’ Manufacturer of Masonic and I. C.0. F. goods, 244 Gréind et. a ce gn S. To the Lleeters of the Third Ward,— Having been placed in regular nomination for the office of Al derman of this Ward, I deem it proper, in view of the assaults that have been made upon me, to submit a brief statement for your consideration. You are well aware that, for the past year, it has been the fashion in certain quarters, to exhaust the dictionary of its lan guage of abuse, and to apply the fragrant f@ariand to my name. Though penny in a decided majority, and not responsible for the action of the Board, even if it had been erroneous, I have been posted with a bitterness and severity, which, while it in some stances may have proceeded from ignorance of the facts, in others, is directly traceable to personal grudge and malignity. But I will ask you, my constituents, to look back over this un paauered scene of libel, and remember if you and any particu charge that has been brought against me. My assailants, with great ingenuity, have hidden behind such as Pro positions and insinuations, as to avoid the responsibility of de fence. Only one man, go far as I have heard, has ventured upon a specific charge, and being held to a prompt accountability, a jury stamped his unfounded slander with their verdict, which verdict, upon a satisfactory acknowledgement being made, I afterward canceled and eurrendered without payment. It is very easy for an accustomed and skillful libeler to speak of bo dies of men in a collective form, and to deal in eneralities, in such way as to accomplish his ends, and avoid stability. But when a man’s faceed faithfulness comes up to be tried, the question arises ; at isythe, specific thing he has done which should condemn him? Let him not be tried by vague rumors, started and promulgated by interest or pique, but upon authentic facts. No man has dared to say, that I have receiv ed any moneys or other thing to which I was not justly entitled, or that I have been bribed to vote for or against any particular measure. No man shall say so with impunity, without, at all events, having an opportunity to prove his charge. With the solitary exception above referred to, and punished, the only in stance of specific pent has been that contained In the pre- Sentment of the Grand Jury, of some few months tines. Now, if there were proof enough before that secret inquisition to show that I had committed any offence, they neglected their duty in not finding an indictment. If there was not proof enough, they violated their duty in presenting my name. But, it turns out, that that Pepe ees 80 far as concerned myself, was never found by the Grand Jury at all, nor was the state ment, referring to me therein, authorized to be included. The presentment was taken home at night, by a member of the Jury, to be copied, and the clause relating to myself, inserted by him without authority, from motives well understood by him and me, and pepasite the next day, as the presentment of the Jury; when, in truth so far as I am concerned, it had never been found by, or even read to them. Yet it was freely published to the world, and diffused wherever steam could carry it, while my card of contradiction—satisfactory I think, to every man who read it— could not have the privilege of appearing, even in an inconspic uous place in the same columns, without the payment of the usual advertising fees. It is true, that during the time I have represented your will in the Common Council, many exciting questions have arisen, on which men have differed; which have caused much acerbity; but upon which, nevertheless, it was every man’s duty, whose posi tion required him to act upon them ; if he held decided views thereon, freely and boldly to express them. Prominent among these questions has been that of city railroads, and, more espe cially, that of a railroad in Broadway. Entertaining very clear convictions upon that subject, I have never hesitated toa ow them on all proper oecations, and act Upon them whenever. In the discharge of my duty, it became necessary. I was an earl friend of city railroads, and especially of one in Broadway. Ht was apparent to me, that the form of our island—the narrow tongue of land on which the largest portion of ihs wholesale busi ness is concentrated—the great distance between the places of business and of residence—the Seon, trade and travel crowded into our streets—the blockades which daily occur in our chief thoroughfares, continually becoming more and more formidable and annoying, would render a system of railroads, that great modern improvement in locomotion, Boreny, indispensable to the comfort of our city. It was quite natural that so great an in novation should awaken, at first, a strenuous opposition, and perhaps it was not unnatural, as the fact has been, that the most active opponents should be those, who, disappointed in obtain ing the grants themselves, should cloak their enmity under loud professions of public good. But the necessity of the railroad system has become every day more and more obvious, and many of those who honestly opposed it at first, have since become con vinced that it is a benign and useful policy. A great revolution has already taken place in public sentiment on this subject. Those roads already established are daily arguments in favor of the system—a system now incorporated into the settled and per manent policy of our city. Brooklyn is also following our exam ple; Williamsburgh is agitating the subject; Boston has sent its committee here to investigate the working of this mode of city travel; other cities, in this and other countries, are awakening to the great advantage of the Aerie and it will not be hazard ing much to prophecy, that before many years most large cities liere, and at roads will adopt the plan of city railroads—a plan, to the credit of which this Common Council is entitled, and for which it has suffered such profuse vituperation. What would be the vote this day, if it should be submitted to the poe of our city, whether the rails of the roads, now in useful operetions should be taken up, and the reign of omnibuses restored ? As to my own action, in connection with these railroads, Tam not conscious of having swerved a hair’s breadth from the right line of duty. It is true, I have been placed conspicuously for ward in the legal proceedings taken, to prevent the construction of the Broadway Railroad, proceedings which will delay to our citizens the enjoyment of that road for a year at least. Whilst I entertained the highest respect for the Superior Court—in which for many years I had been, and am still, a practitioner—I could not forget that I had been elected by the people—the same source from which the Judges themselves derived their power—to represent this Ward in the councils of the city. As your repre sentative there, I believed, and yet believe, that it was due to you and to myself, that I should vote on all questions that came up for decision, openly and boldly, and according to my best judgment, without dictation from any source whatever, I thought it but just to your dignity, and my own, that I should conscientiously exercise the legislative powers which your pleasure and the laws had vested in me, recognizing no higher authority than yours and that of the Constitution and laws to direct, forbid or control my vote. Whether I am right or wrong our this question, Ia et to be determined by the Court of last resort. If Terr, I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that our best lawyers, with scarcely an exception, participate in the error of my views. The project that I have started and advocated, of opening Beekmen street through to Park Place, though at first violent ly opposed, now meets with very general approval. But men disagree as to the appropriation which it is best to make of the triangular end of the Park, which will thus be left. My own plan is, to convert it into a general depot for our city railroade, s 0 that the Broadway, the Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth av enue railroads—the Hudson if you please—the various roads whose cars traverse the track of the Fourth avenue Railroad, (and such others, if any, as may be granted) may here have a starting place, and thus to furnish, by means of transfer tick ets, a communication from all our ferries, and from all parts of the city below the Park, to every portion of the city. But I have not space, in this article, to explain the project in detail, I have now referred to it, because (with just as much truth as the other slanders against me) it has been recently alleged to be a speculating scheme of mine. How I am to speculate out of this scheme has not been explained, and I am sure I do not know. The only speculation growing out of it, that I know of, will be the benefit and increased facilities to our city—the organization of all our railroads and omnibuses into a general plan and net work, acting in harmony, to the greater comfort and conveni ence of all our citizens, and the realization of game fifty thou sand dollars per annum, as rent, from said companies, by the or Treasury, here are many persons, who in endeavoring to reform others out of office, and to reform themselves in, are willing, either in ignorance or by design, to lay at the door of the Common Coun cil, charges, for which that Council is no more answerable than themselves. Thus, great complaint of the Common Council is made, that the streets of the city are not kept in tolerable con dition; whereas, in truth, the Common Council have nothing to do with the subject , this matter having been expressly lodged by the Charter, in a Bureau of the Department of Streets and Lamps, upon whose order the Comptroller pays the moneys for any purpose, and with whose authority the Council cannot in terfere, I know it is not possible for one to stand up fearlessly and per form his duty without incurring hostility from those whose de signs the public welfare may compel him to thwart. Thus, it is not probable that the most active and conspicuous #0 called Re former in our Ward, would have come out from his aristocratic quarters, and devote himself to the subject of eee Reform, if Thad permitted him to raise the street, bordering upon his huge establishment, in such a way as to divert the water and drainage to the overflow of his poorer neighbors. But I felt it to be my duty to protect all alike—to interfere and compel him to restore the street to its proper and equable grade, taking no such advantage as his haughtiness assumed over his ppc and, accordingly, the Reform party, in our Ward, thence forward gained its most active member. During the time it has been your choice that I should serve you in the Common Council, I have assiduously endeavored to reject and advance the interests of the city and Ward. Many projects of my own suggestion have commended them selves to gone favorable notice. For two years I devoted much time and labor to the scheme of rebuilding Washington Market on a scale commensurate with the necessities of the ward on city, and on a plan that would have brought great profit to both. Against much opposition I carried it through, till it was arrested by the veto of the Mayor—a veto which the citizens of the Third Ward now, I believe, unanimously deplore. I have given much time and pains to the extending and completing of the piers of the ward, by which a large increase of commerce has been brought to us, to have caused the building of a bulkhead in front of Washington Market, which has added to the ward game five or six acres of ground, and which furnishes the means of accommo dating the country wagons that throng that section of the city and thus relieved the vast accumulations in our streets. That suggested and urged the opening of Park Place, cent to Col lege Place, and the improvement of Robinson street, for the ac commodation of our merchants, the widening of West street, plan that I originated, carried trough the Committee, and pre sented a somewhat elaborate port upon, I have always been ex ceedingly desirous to effecty #8 being indispensable to the accom modation of railroads in the ward, to the convenience of the fer ries, of the immense trade and travel that converges to that sec tion, and as inviting yet greater accessions of commerce and opulence to the ward and city. I have exercised a general super intendence over Me requirements of the ward, given all parts of it personal and frequent attention; been present and participated with scarcely an exception, at every meeting of the Board, and during the sickly seasons, and as a member of the Board of Health, have not been absent from duty for a day. The labor I have bestowed on behalf of the ward, while it has yielded buts trifling compensation to me, and plenty of abuse, Swaeld, in my profession, have afforded a handsome reward. I should, under other circumstances have gladly resigned these thankless and ruinous labors to a successor, that I might repair a business which has suffered considerably therefrom. But I confess, that after the uvjist attacks above referred to, the sanc tion and ratification of my ward would be very grateful’; and you have chosen 20 Oe me again in pomrasuo, I Monge advisable, respectfully to present to you the foregoing state eteree OSCAR W. STURVEVANT. SPECIAL NOTICES.
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